Chapter 45: The Abandoned Young Master Long Aotian
What does her mother mean?
Wu Lingnan was shocked and puzzled. What did it mean to just give birth to her?
To be honest, she really thought at first that her mother did this because she was attracted by Pei Ningheng's face. She was also very curious about how her father looked so handsome that he could be favored by her mother.
Wu Lingyue found her daughter's expression very funny at the moment. She smiled brightly and rubbed Wu Lingnan's face again, which made Wu Lingnan immediately angrily condemn her as a mother who liked to play with her daughter.
"What's so strange about this? Do you really think your mother only cares about Pei Ningheng's face?" A mother knows a daughter best. Wu Lingnan's eyes rolled and Wu Lingyue knew what she was thinking. She chuckled, "Your mother isn't that superficial."
But Wu Lingnan dared to bet that her father's face definitely played a role in this. However, after being glared at by Wu Lingyue, Wu Lingnan dared not speculate any further. She humbly asked for advice:
"Then mother, may I ask what happened in the first place?"
Wu Lingyue did not answer. She turned around, and the silver bells on her bare feet rang. The sound was crisp and pleasant in the spacious hall. She slowly walked to the front of the meeting hall, and Wu Lingnan followed closely.
"Well, you're eighteen now, it's time you knew something."
Wu Lingnan almost held her breath. She stepped very quietly, fearing that she would startle anyone with a single word.
"You should have learned in school that the spiritual energy in this world has been gradually declining since five thousand years ago. A thousand years ago, when the spiritual energy was at its most depleted, even a cultivator who had established his foundation could be called an earthly immortal. It wasn't until the past hundred years that the spiritual energy slowly recovered, restoring the conditions that nurtured the birth of high-level cultivators."
"This is also the reason why there haven't been any ascending cultivators in thousands of years." Wu Lingnan continued. This was one of the most important test points in the "History of the Realm", and she naturally remembered it very well. Wait, Wu Lingnan suddenly had an epiphany. For the cultivators in this world, the most important thing was to ascend.
"That's right." Wu Lingyue nodded with satisfaction. "It seems my son has made some guesses."
"Twenty years ago, several famous sects proficient in divination, including the Tianji Sect and the Zhuge Family, jointly issued a prophecy that the first son to ascend the ladder to immortality and open the gate to heaven would be born in your generation."
Wu Lingnan was shocked. She understood deeply what this meant. The gate to immortality was reopened, and there was a way to become an immortal. The major forces that had been stable for a thousand years would usher in a new round of reshuffle. No wonder this prophecy was not widely spread, otherwise the world would be in chaos. Let me ask, who among the cultivators in the world does not want to become an immortal?
However, she still didn't understand: "Mom, what does this have to do with my birth?"
Wu Lingyue chuckled and then brought up another matter: "Do you still remember that before you came of age, I asked you to donate your heart's blood every month?"
Without waiting for Wu Lingnan to answer, Wu Lingyue flicked her sleeves slightly, and a green light flickered at her fingertips. The rumbling sound of the mechanism opening was right next to their ears, accompanied by a dull bang. A high stone platform slowly rose in front of the two of them, raising a cloud of dust.
After the dust cleared, Wu Lingyue led Wu Lingnan up the stairs and onto the circular platform. In the middle of the platform stood a column as tall as an adult's waist. On top of the column, which was the size of a washbasin, lay a simple rectangular stone box.
"The reason I haven't let you refine the Life Poison Gu until now is because of this little guy. This is the most precious treasure of our Five Immortals Sect."
The stone box slowly opened, and Wu Lingyue smiled as she gazed at her graceful daughter, whom she had raised for eighteen years. "Go! This Gu has been nurtured with your heart's blood for eighteen years, precisely for this day. Once you've tamed it, I'll tell you everything that happened before."
Wu Lingnan didn't know what to say. Her heart trembled deeply. Under Wu Lingyue's gentle gaze, she walked step by step to the stone pillar. She looked up and saw a fat white larva lying in the middle of the stone box. There were circles of mysterious golden lines on the larva's body. At this moment, it was motionless, like a specimen.
Wu Lingnan took out a silver needle and pricked each of his ten fingers, forcing out a drop of blood with the most spiritual energy. The blood drop dripped onto the larva and slowly seeped into the white insect body. The larva moved slightly, and under Wu Lingnan's gaze, it slowly raised its head and soon shook its head.
The larvae slowly moved their body to the bleeding fingertips, greedily wanting more, but Wu Lingyue caught its fateful body with her delicate hands. It shook its head and tail and squeaked, but it could not break free from Wu Lingyue's two heavy fingers. Seeing that it could not break free, it stopped struggling and chose to play dead again.
Feeling the vague connection between his mind and the larva, Wu Lingnan looked at the motionless suspended suspended between Wu Lingyue's right index and middle fingers, his eyes flickering as he asked, "...what on earth is this..."
"According to ancient records, it should be the larva of the Holy Emperor Butterfly. It can command all insects and is also poisoned by all kinds of poisons." Wu Lingyue pinched the soft body of the Holy Emperor Butterfly larva. "Don't be fooled by how quickly this little guy backs down. If it weren't for the fact that its own poison couldn't break my defense, it would have attacked me long ago. Don't feed it too much. If it becomes malicious, this Gu will be useless."
"Okay, this larva needs to be kept in the jar for a while. Don't worry, I will tell you everything you want to know." The larva disappeared at Wu Lingyue's fingertips. She smiled slightly, showing her unparalleled elegance.
"This imperial butterfly larva is extremely difficult to tame. I've taught it for thousands of years, but I've had to seal it in this stone box and never tame it. After painstakingly studying it for generations, I discovered that this larva can only be successfully tamed into a natal Gu worm by feeding it with the blood of a very poisonous person. And this very poisonous person is none other than the legendary Tianxu Poison Body."
"Everyone thinks the Tianxu Poison Body is just a legend. Putting aside other things, no mother could possibly withstand this innate poison. Therefore, even if someone with the Tianxu Poison Body truly existed, they would have died in the womb." Wu Lingyue smiled meaningfully. "But only those of us in the Five Immortals Sect know that this innate holy body can also be artificially created."
Could it be... Wu Lingnan's pupils shrank.
"Yes, if one has the innate extreme yin energy, combined with the secret techniques of my Five Immortals Sect, one can artificially create the Tianxu Poison Body. However, with this innate extreme yin constitution, even if my Five Immortals Sect has searched for people born in the Yin year, Yin month and Yin hour for a thousand years, we still cannot find one. But I never expected that I would meet this genius, Pei Ningheng." Wu Lingyue smiled and stroked her lips.
"But why bother? It's just a bug." Wu Lingnan couldn't help but ask, is it worth it to go through so much trouble just for a larva, no matter how precious it is?
Wu Lingyue smiled, her eyes curved, and said lightly, "If it's just for a bug, then of course it's not worth it. But what if this larva is the key to open the gate to immortality?"
What!
Wu Lingnan opened her eyes wide in disbelief.
"The Holy Emperor Butterfly only exists in the upper realm. In other words, it's not an exaggeration to call it an immortal beast. And the immortal gate requires immortal energy to open!" Wu Lingyue's eyes gleamed brightly. "Why does the Daotian Sect dare to call itself the world's number one sect? Isn't it because they possess the only semi-immortal artifact in the world? The immortal gate can't be opened without them. Otherwise, with this kind of behavior, huh."
A single "huh" says it all.
The words were so clear now. If Wu Lingnan still didn't understand, she would be a fool.
She stood there in a daze, never expecting the truth to be like this. What would have happened in the original world without her? She couldn't help but ask, "...Mom, what if, I mean what if, you had only given birth to Pei Yichen back then?"
Wu Lingyue was silent for a moment, thinking about Wu Lingnan's words, and then said bluntly, "If he is the only one I give birth to, I will also leave him to Pei Ningheng. The Five Immortal Sect's thousand years of accumulation will be spent on this one attempt. If I fail," her eyes were cold, "then it will be my fate. I will go to the Daotian Sect and seize the semi-immortal weapon."
Wu Lingyue has never concealed her ambition. If she cannot become an immortal through practicing Taoism, then what is the point of her practicing Taoism?
"Why? Because he's a boy?" Wu Lingnan was still puzzled.
"No, if he had a Tianxu Poison Body, I would have taken him back to the sect even if he was a boy." Wu Lingyue's crow-feather eyelashes trembled slightly, concealing her complicated feelings. "But the young master of the Five Immortals Sect cannot be a medicine man who is completely incapable of using poison. It would be best for him to stay with the Pei family."
Wu Lingnan fell into deep silence.
The medicine man's physique is extremely rare. All poisons will explode violently in his body, and the pain he feels is ten times that of an ordinary person. What's more terrifying is that the more poisons he can survive, the more spiritual energy his blood will have. It can assist in cultivation and can be used in all kinds of medicines. The stronger the poison, the better the effect. This kind of physique was the first time Wu Lingnan saw it in the classics, and he was greatly shocked.
The Five Immortals Sect could not tolerate the son of a leader who could not cultivate poison skills.
"In fact, I never expected that he could survive the ten months of pregnancy with all the poisons. I thought I was lucky to be pregnant with two children with Tianxu Poison Body." Wu Lingyue sighed, "It's a pity that I prepared double the compensation for Pei Ningheng." What a pity, forget it, just consider it as child support for Pei Ningheng.
Wu Lingnan: ...
She felt that her mother's move of compensation was of little significance, but was extremely insulting, but she did not dare to say it out loud.
But Wu Lingnan clenched her knuckles. Thinking of the past eighteen years, her heart trembled, and the corners of her eyes became inexplicably sore. She tried to hold it back, but still couldn't help asking:
"...Mother...if, if I didn't have the poisonous body of Tianxu, and was just an ordinary person, would you..." still recognize me?
Seeing Wu Lingnan's pitiful expression, almost on the verge of tears, Wu Lingyue raised her hand and gave her another slap on the head, wondering, "Why didn't I realize before that my son is such a stubborn child?"
She patted Wu Lingnan's head soothingly and sighed with sorrow, "I really can't help you. You insist on making me say such cheesy things. Raising a child is such a hassle."
"Back then, I raised you for eighteen years. Even if you lose your cultivation and your physical strength in the future, as your mother, I will still support you for the rest of your life."
"Mother..." Wu Lingnan, tears welling up in her eyes, couldn't help but throw herself into Wu Lingyue's arms. After a while, she said sullenly, "Mother, if you don't go to Daotian Sect, I'll roll on the ground and cry in front of everyone in the sect, hugging your legs."
Wu Lingyue: ...
Good boy, this is how her eldest son repays her
【Author’s words】
At this point, most of the original world's plot has been released.
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