"You saved my life. Without you, I would have died in the second game. I have nothing to thank you for, so I'll just give myself to you!"
Anyway, looking like this would scare my parents if I went home, so from now on, I'll stay with you.
Huang Yu was quite straightforward and interrupted Xia Tianqiong's prepared lines.
"Now that you're a monster, can't you use the power of the netherworld to repair your damaged body?"
"No, my body is still made of flesh and blood. It needs to absorb a large amount of Netherworld power to be shaped into a ghost body."
However, the sculpting process uses the current body as a template; whatever the body looks like now, the resulting monster will look exactly like that, and it's impossible to fill in any gaps.
Huang Yu's voice grew softer as she spoke, and tears gradually streamed down her face.
She was, after all, a woman who loved beauty, and a stunningly beautiful woman who received much attention. It's no wonder she's heartbroken and saddened to see herself like this.
Xia Tianqiong laughed and said, "Don't cry. I have a way to help you restore your physical body. Don't rush to create a ghost body."
"Really?"
Huang Yu's eyes were full of anticipation, and she was somewhat excited.
"Look at that tree, the fruit it bears can help you grow a healthy body."
Xia Tianqiong pointed to the baby tree spirit placed in the corner.
After this strange plant-shaped object was taken into the mirror space, it remained there, looking like a landscape tree.
Xia Tianqiong and Huang Yu walked over, and the group of contracted ghosts silently followed behind.
"This is called the Infant Tree Demon. It can produce a fruit called the Infant Fruit, which can bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded. It has an excellent effect."
While they were talking, he took out fifty taels of gold and placed it on the tree root.
The roots of the Infant Tree Ghost are not embedded in the soil, but are braided like a rope and then coiled into a disc, serving as the base of the Infant Tree Ghost.
As soon as the gold was placed on the surface, numerous slender roots enveloped it, absorbing the power of the netherworld within.
At the same time, a small black fruit appeared on the tree canopy.
As it absorbed the power of the underworld, the fruit grew at a visible rate, gradually becoming like a baby.
"You're growing pretty fast!"
Xia Tianqiong found it very novel and took out another hundred taels of gold, throwing it onto the tree roots.
In less than a minute, the gold turned to ashes again, and the infant fruit grew even larger.
They kept adding gold, using over 1,800 taels in total. The shop assistants nearby felt a pang of regret, thinking that if any one of them had received that much gold, it would have been enough to upgrade them by one level.
The baby fruit under the tree canopy has finally ripened.
The sign of maturity is that the baby fruit's cheeks smile, just like a real baby laughing.
Xia Tianqiong picked the fruit, held it in her hand and examined it. It was as big as a cantaloupe and looked like a baby statue, even the eyebrows and hair were very realistic.
"Eat it!"
He handed the baby fruit to Huang Yu, who didn't stand on ceremony and started eating it right away.
This stuff is truly amazing; after just one bite, I experienced a change.
First, the internal organs move and retract into the body on their own. Then, the severed limbs regenerate, and the body tissues such as muscles, fascia, blood vessels, and skin begin to grow slowly.
The more Huang Yu ate, the faster she grew.
This obviously takes time. Xia Tianqiong found it amazing, but after watching for more than ten minutes, she lost interest.
Instead, I turned my attention to the Baby Tree Ghost.
He continued to put gold on the tree roots, hoping to get a few more baby fruits, as these could save lives and he had to carry a few with him at all times.
However, an anomaly occurred next.
The gold was absorbed, but no more fruit was produced.
Thinking that Xia Tianqiong hadn't put out enough, he simply took out two thousand taels of gold and piled it all over the roots of the Infant Tree Demon.
"Take it away! Do you want to stuff me to death?!"
A childish voice suddenly came from the trunk of the Infant Tree Ghost, startling Xia Tianqiong.
"You can actually talk?"
"Damn it, I haven't spoken in centuries. If I don't open my mouth soon, I'll become the first weirdo in the world to die from being bloated with ghost gold!"
The voice was tender and clear, like that of a baby, but the tone of voice was mature and old-fashioned.
It sounds like a strong contrast.
Suddenly, the roots of the Baby Tree Monster began to wriggle, and then, using its roots as legs, it walked out of the pile of gold on its own.
Xia Tianqiong was both surprised and delighted. This plant-shaped monster could talk and move, which showed great potential.
"Other strange creatures all want more ghost gold, why do you still think you have too much?"
"I'm only at the Fierce Demon level. It takes at least nine days for me to bear a fruit. You've fed me so much Nether Gold that the Netherworld Power can't condense into a fruit. It's just piling up inside my body and will burst me."
"Then why don't you just not absorb it?"
"Nonsense! That's Netherworld Gold! I've lived for hundreds of years and never seen it before. How can I possibly resist now that I've suddenly encountered it?"
The Infant Tree Ghost spoke with great confidence, but upon closer listening, it turned out that it couldn't help itself.
Even if there's a risk of overeating, you must continue absorbing it.
It can't be entirely blamed on it. Having lived for hundreds of years, it usually just eats wild monsters and creatures from the underworld to increase its level, and has never seen any Netherworld Gold.
Everyone knows how good ghost gold is, but it's unaffordable and unavailable.
Now that someone has given it so much ghost gold, it couldn't resist and started absorbing it frantically.
However, given its level, there is a limit to its absorption capacity if it cannot produce results.
For the sake of its own life, it had no choice but to speak up and ask the new owner to take the gold away, otherwise it might not be able to resist and end up choking itself to death.
That would become a laughing stock in the ghost world!
Xia Tianqiong suddenly chuckled and said, "This is your own problem!"
Ying Shugui immediately retorted, "If you haven't seen a woman for hundreds of years, and suddenly a naked woman crawls into your bed, could you fucking resist?"
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