Chapter 208
He had never imagined that so many people who stole his cubs were actually the result of his own sin. Cloverford felt a little confused for a moment. After noticing the gazes of Huo Youqi and the others, he raised his eyelids and glanced at them, with a flickering light in his violet eyes.
Hesniemen and the others couldn't see the emotions in his eyes because of the light behind them, but they could clearly sense that he was unhappy.
If he is unhappy, they will be happy.
Huo Youqi raised his eyebrows slightly, twirling the two balls in his hands, and walked in to pick up Jiaojiao from the couch: "I must be the first father Jiaojiao recognized."
Jiaojiao blinked as she was being held in the arms. Just as she opened her mouth to say something, Huo Youqi covered her mouth and used his spiritual sense to convey a message: "Don't talk. Play with your Nine Links."
Jiaojiao, who was hearing this way of speaking for the first time, tilted her head in curiosity. Then, as if remembering something, she said happily, "That's how Yuyu talks to Jiaojiao."
Hearing this, Li Yubai and the others looked up with a mocking smile in their eyes. They could guess what Huo Youqi and Jiaojiao were talking about without asking, but they did not ask to get to the bottom of it in this situation, otherwise they might have to owe Cloverford a favor.
Hesnemen stepped forward and handed a small jade figurine to Jiaojiao.
Jiaojiao was holding the Nine Rings in his hands and was a little tied up. After handing the Nine Rings to Father Li Yubai, he took the doll from Father Hesniemen.
The doll carved out of spiritual jade is very beautiful. The small one is only as big as Jiaojiao's two palms, with a pair of sky-like blue eyes that are round like a pair of small beans, and hair like the night sky is tied up with a green jade hoop.
Jiaojiao looked around, her cat-like eyes curved into crescents. She leaned out of Huo Youqi's arms and rubbed Hesniemen's face: "Thank you, Daddy. Daddy is the best."
Hesniemen smiled, with smiles in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, and it was obvious that he was very happy.
He flicked Jiaojiao's forehead with his fingers. His long golden hair fell down as he bent over, covering his profile. His gentle voice was filled with a smile: "You are used to acting like a spoiled child."
Jiaojiao raised his hand to cover his forehead, and chuckled twice with his eyes crooked. Seeing this, Hesniemen couldn't help but curl his eyes and took him from Huo Youqi's arms: "Are you going to see Gu Yufei and the others?"
Jiaojiao nodded: "Go."
With the puppet made of spiritual jade as a medium, Su Cang directly abandoned the host Tao Youyu and instead lived in the puppet's body.
Su Cang, who had entered the puppet's body, was held in Jiaojiao's arms. He raised his hand and poked Jiaojiao's hand. Jiaojiao noticed it and looked down. When she met Su Cang's blue eyes, she said in surprise, "Su Cang, you came out of Brother Youyu's sea of consciousness!"
Cloveford and the others noticed when Su Cang came out of Tao Youyu's sea of consciousness. At that moment, several invisible air blades floated around the puppet. If Jiaojiao had spoken a step slower, Su Cang's newly acquired body might have been declared scrapped.
Tao Youyu, who had always been keeping his presence low, was stunned for a moment when he heard Jiaojiao's words. Then, his eyes widened as he realized what was going on. What was going on?! Was he abandoned by his own son?!
On the main peak of the Tianqian, the sixteen water mirrors hanging in the air, the scenes there are slightly different from yesterday.
In the fairy mountain covered by sea water, a huge monster emerged from the sea, with a head as high as a mountain and tentacles as thick as thighs. Every time it waved, it could sweep away a large number of monks flying in the air with swords.
In the fairy mountain covered with vegetation, thousands of beasts were galloping in the forest. As countless white lights suddenly appeared, a series of embarrassed figures appeared on the square of the main peak of Tianqian. The disciples of various sects who did not participate in the competition rushed forward to help their senior brothers and sisters, and the alchemists waiting on the side hurried forward to treat them.
Gu Yufei and Jin Bingwen were assigned to the same venue. Now their venue is also very lively. When the ancestral home collapsed and the earth shook, the giant python went berserk and swept out a large area of white light with its tail.
Jiaojiao, who was sitting in the arms of Huo Youqi's father, was so nervous that he opened and clenched his hands. Huo Youqi was so happy to see this that he took his chubby little hands and played with them, and even poked the dimples on the back of his hands.
Jiaojiao stared at the water mirror intently, but did not forget to take care of her father. After seeing Huo Youqi poking his left hand, she took the initiative to hand his right hand to him for him to poke and play with.
Huo Youqi was startled, and after curling up the corners of his mouth, he couldn't help but press Jiaojiao into his arms and rub her for a while.
After being rubbed for a while, Jiaojiao held her head in her arms in a daze. The hair that Li Yubai had tied up when she went out in the morning was rubbed all over the place. After a while, Jiaojiao turned over and was about to slide out of Huo Youqi's arms.
Huo Youqi reached out to stop him: "Where are you going?"
Jiaojiao pointed at her messy hair and said, "Go find Daddy Li Yubai to tie it up again."
Huo Youqi looked at Jiaojiao's hair for a while, which required no skill to style and would fall apart at the slightest touch, and said confidently that he could do it too.
Hearing this, Jiaojiao moved her butt and sat upright in his arms. Huo Youqi lowered his head to untie the hair tie on Jiaojiao's head and began his hair-tying journey.
Tao Youyu, lying on the seat for casual cultivators, looked at the palm-sized jade doll in Jiaojiao's arms opposite him with resentful eyes.
The system abandoned him and ran away?
He had lived for so many years and had been active in the novel world for at least fifteen years, and he had never heard of a system abandoning its host and running away with someone else.
Although the system's interface was still there, and there was an IA intelligence to answer his questions, and the system would come back in an emergency, this could not conceal the fact that the system had abandoned him and ran away with someone else, and the most important thing was that it ran away with a three-year-old cub.
Could it be that Tao Youyu is not as good as a three-year-old cub?
This is simply outrageous!
Tao Youyu was complaining in her heart, while Huo Youqi's fingers were almost tangled while tying Jiaojiao's hair, and her brows were furrowed tighter and tighter.
That's not right. This morning, when I saw Li Yubai tying Jiaojiao's hair, it was quite simple. Why does it seem so wrong when it comes to him?
"Daddy, is he not feeling well yet?" Jiaojiao turned to look at him.
Huo Youqi turned his head back: "Just a little bit more."
Huo Youqi was almost half an hour late, but Jiaojiao didn't suspect anything. However, Cloverford couldn't stand seeing Jiaojiao's hair messed up, so he stood up, took Jiaojiao from Huo Youqi's arms, took two steps and handed her to Li Yubai.
It didn't seem like anything when viewed from a distance, but when he got closer, Li Yubai realized that Jiaojiao's hair was so messy that it was unbearable to look at, and it was tangled in several places.
While combing Jiaojiao's hair, he couldn't help but glance at Huo Youqi. There was no emotion in his eyes, but Huo Youqi felt that he would probably have to sleep with one eye open tonight.
The first match of the Immortal Alliance Competition was said to last three days, but it was almost over in the afternoon of the second day.
Two hundred people were taken from each fairy mountain, and there were three thousand two hundred people from the sixteen fairy mountains. Gu Yufei, Jin Bingwen, and Jin Yaoer were all among the three thousand two hundred people.
Jiaojiao put Su Cang on her shoulders and sat him down. She stood in front of Gu Yufei and clapped her hands like a seal: "Brother Yufei is awesome!"
Gu Yufei's brows softened slightly.
Jin Bingwen raised his eyebrows, fanned himself, bent down, and said with a smile: "Your brother Yu Fei is amazing, so your brother Bingwen is not amazing?"
"Amazing." Jiaojiao nodded: "Brother Bingcheng is amazing, and Sister Yaoyao is also amazing, both are amazing."
Jin Yaoer couldn't help laughing: "He really is a good steward, not leaving any one behind."
"Stop joking. Do you think our Jiaozai's title of Master of Water-holding is a fraud?" Tao Youyu squatted down and raised his arm to rest on Jiaojiao's young shoulders.
Jiaojiao, who didn't know what the name of the water balance master was, puffed out her chest and agreed seriously: "Jiaojiao is amazing."
Tao Youyu immediately laughed so hard that he fell down, and then pretended to casually sweep Su Cang, who was sitting on Jiaojiao's shoulder, down.
Jiaojiao cried out, and quickly picked up Su Cang from the ground. After checking and finding that it was not broken, she breathed a sigh of relief.
The naive Jiaojiao and Su Cang, who had never experienced the dangers of the world, thought that Tao Youyu was careless.
Jin Bingwen sighed at this naivety!
The first match of the Immortal Alliance Competition has passed, and the second match will be held in two days. During this period, the cultivators are given two days to recuperate and rest.
Dappled sunlight fell through the branches and leaves. Jiaojiao, standing under the tree, was waving the unsharpened sword his father had given him, practicing each move.
While practicing, he also taught Su Cang who was standing on the stone table.
The sword in Su Cang's palm-sized hand can be described as miniature, only as long as Jiaojiao's finger.
The big and the small practiced very well together.
The wind blew, and leaves fluttered down. One leaf fell on Jiaojiao's head. Hesnemen walked over and reached out to pick up the leaf from Jiaojiao's head.
Jiaojiao looked up and saw that it was his father. He stopped practicing sword skills, turned around and threw himself into his arms, saying with his eyes curved, "Daddy!"
Hesniemen met his sparkling eyes, leaned over and hugged him in his arms: "You just practiced this morning, and now you practice again, why are you practicing so hard?"
Hesniemen, Li Yubai and the others looked down on each other. In order to decide who would teach Jiaojiao, the four of them fought privately for many times. In the end, Jiaojiao drew lots to decide the outcome.
However, Hesniemen guessed that Li Yubai and the others must have taught Jiaojiao a lot of things in private.
He was not worried about this. Even if these three people were unreliable in other things, there were not many people who could compare with them in cultivation.
"Jiaojiao is so good at swordsmanship that no one dares to bully Daddy."
"Bleeding is not good. Jiaojiao is here. There will be no bleeding and no pain in the future."
Jiaojiao raised her fair little face and looked at Hesnemen, her black and white eyes filled with seriousness.
Apparently, during the time in the Dead Zone, Jiaojiao's consciousness sneaked out to accompany his fathers as they grew up step by step. The injuries and bleeding of his fathers left him with a considerable shadow.
Hesnemen paused, looked down at Jiaojiao, and suddenly reached out and pinched Jiaojiao's face, making his mouth pout forward like a goldfish.
His golden eyes held a helpless and uncontrollable smile. "Your father is very powerful now. He walks around in the Canglan Realm with no one dares to provoke him. Don't remember the past. Just forget it."
Jiaojiao shook her head: "Don't forget, remember."
Hesnemen rubbed the back of Jiaojiao's round head, feeling a little sad in his heart. Jiaojiao had accompanied him through the most difficult part of the journey, a journey that was hard and bloody. Once when he was on the verge of death, he held Jiaojiao in his arms, and in the midst of the blood, he could only see Jiaojiao's tearful eyes.
Jiaojiao, lying in his arms, gritted her teeth and said in a stuttering voice with a tearful tone that she would remember all the bad people who bullied Daddy, and when he grew up and became powerful, she would bully him back one by one.
Hesnemen wanted to laugh when he heard the childish words, but he was choked by the blood that surged in his throat and his vision went black.
When he couldn't hold on any longer and closed his eyes, his consciousness was almost blurred. He subconsciously pressed Jiaojiao into his arms, wanting to hide him, but he was afraid that if he really hid him, he wouldn't be able to get out. What should he do?
When he woke up again, Jiaojiao was sitting beside him, her clothes were in tatters and had been scratched. She had found some water from somewhere and was carefully pouring it into his mouth with a leaf.
Later he found out that what Jiaojiao said at that time was not the childish talk he thought, but that she had seriously remembered those people and was planning to help him get revenge.
Sometimes Hesnemen would wonder how there could be such a... child like Jiaojiao in this world.
The two days of rest passed in a flash, and the second competition arrived amid everyone's anticipation.
At the main peak of the Tianqian, when the first bell rang, the entire Jiutian City suddenly shook violently, and a loud rumbling sound came from deep in the ground, as if a huge monster was rapidly approaching from deep underground.
Jiaojiao, who was held by Cloverford's father, was not affected at all. She was looking down at the ground. When she saw nothing, she scratched her head in confusion and leaned back into her father's arms.
Cloveford touched the back of Jiaojiao's head and looked towards the distant sky with a hint of deep thought in his iris-purple eyes.
Looking down from a high altitude, one can see several deep ravines spreading outward from the depths of the Ten Thousand Beasts Forest. The ravines span tens of thousands of miles and reach the outside of Jiutian City. The cracked ravines are bottomless and sounds are constantly coming from them.
In an instant, the sky above Jiutian City was filled with densely packed cultivators, looking down at the gullies that spread out like tree roots.
Jiaojiao was held by Father Cloverford, and together with Li Yubai and the others, they occupied the best viewing spot.
Hesnemen looked at Cloveford: "Can you see what's going on?"
Cloveford shook his head: "I can't tell."
Huo Youqi was surprised, and looked at the ravine with a deep look: "Rare, there are things in this world that your Tianyi clan can't understand."
Li Yubai didn't care too much about the deep ravine. After failing to kick Huo Youqi down, he snatched Jiaojiao from Cloverford's arms, held her in his arms, and turned away.
The Demon Lord Li Yubai could just turn a blind eye to this matter, but the three of Hesniemen really couldn't do the same.
Cloverford glanced at the direction where Li Yubai left, and after making a mental note of the fact that he had snatched Jiaojiao away, he turned around and jumped into the ravine.
Hesniemen and Huo Youqi also jumped down one after another. Since they couldn't see anything special from the outside, they decided to go in and take a look.
The rest of the people did not have the strength and confidence of these three people, so they could only lead people to check around the ravine.
Tao Youyu and others had nothing to do and decided to join in the fun. Before leaving, Tao Youyu ran to pull Jiaojiao along.
Facing Jin Bingwen and the others' suspicious gazes, which chastised him for bringing Jiaojiao to such an unknown and dangerous place, Tao Youyu patted Jiaojiao's head speechlessly, "With the four great masters' spiritual awareness, if Jiaojiao is in any danger, Jiwang Immortal Venerable and the others will be there in an instant. Therefore, there is no place in this Canglan Realm that is dangerous for us Jiaojiao."
And with these four big guys around, bringing Jiaojiao with them is equivalent to carrying an invincible amulet.
After listening to Tao Youyu's explanation, Jin Bingwen and others actually felt that it made sense.
However, no matter how much fun they had, they didn't plan to go too far after bringing Jiaojiao with them. They just found a relatively small ravine on the edge of Jiutian City and explored it.
Bang!
Bang!
As soon as I approached, I heard noises coming from the ravine.
Gu Yufei was alert and kept Tao Youyu, who was holding Jiaojiao, behind him.
Tao Youyu put Jiaojiao down and patted Gu Yufei's shoulder carelessly: "Don't worry, it will be okay. There are so many people here."
Yes, there are a lot of people here, from all sects, and even demons and evil cultivators.
After these demon cultivators and monsters discovered Jiaojiao, their eyes all moved around Jiaojiao, and then lingered for a moment on the puppet that was pulling Jiaojiao's robe.
Jiaojiao noticed their gazes and looked up. All the cultivators, including the demon cultivators and monsters, instantly withdrew their gazes.
"?" Jiaojiao tilted his head in confusion. He clearly felt someone was looking at him just now?
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The closer you get, the louder the noise coming from underground becomes.
Tao Youyu, who was a little afraid of heights, moved closer to Gu Yufei and looked down. It was pitch black and he could not see anything. The only sound was the sound that kept coming out of it, one after another, becoming more and more rapid and clearer, and his heart beat faster and faster.
Bang bang!
Bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
Feeling the vibration coming from the chest, it seemed that the soul was vibrating along with it.
At some point, Tao Youyu gradually stopped hearing any other noises, and could only hear that sound getting louder and more rapid.
Bang bang…bang bang bang…bang bang bang bang…bang bang bang bang bang bang…bang bang bang bang bang bang…
The sound became faster and faster, more and more urgent, like the rapid dance steps of the most skilled dancer in the abyss, each step stepping heavily on the heart.
Gradually, the sound was mixed with the sound of the tide, and the sound of the tide became louder and louder, almost covering up the strange sound.
The rapid sound accompanied by the increasingly loud sound of the tide made my brain buzz.
In Tao Youyu's sight, black tides suddenly surged in from all directions, quickly spreading upwards from his ankles, quickly flowing over his thighs and waist, and squeezing towards his lungs. The water pressure rose rapidly, trying to crush out all the oxygen in his lungs.
The sound of the tide, as if coming directly from inside his mind, grew louder and louder, urging his breathing to become more and more rapid and short. Tao Youyu was finding it increasingly difficult to breathe, and every violent rise and fall of his chest was demanding oxygen from his lungs.
His face gradually turned purple, the five fingers hanging by his side suddenly bent, the fingertips twitched, his handsome features were distorted, and the veins on the sides of his neck were knotted, as if he was trying his best to squeeze a trace of oxygen from his stingy lungs.
Jiaojiao, who was standing by the ravine, tugging at Tao Youyu's robe to look down, retracted her gaze and looked up at Tao Youyu: "I can't see anything?"
He asked this question but no one answered him. The surroundings were eerily quiet except for the sound of the wind. Jiaojiao blinked and tugged at Tao Youyu's robe: "Brother?"
Seeing that her brother still ignored her, Jiaojiao couldn't help but raise her voice: "Brother Youyu!"
Tao Youyu still ignored him. Jiaojiao felt strange and called Gu Yufei, Jin Bingwen, Jin Yaoer and others one by one.
"Brother Yu Fei!"
"Sister Yaoyao! Brother Bingwen!"
Still getting no response, Jiaojiao frowned, tiptoed and looked up at their faces, but her center of gravity shifted backward and she sat down on the ground with a plop.
Seeing Jiaojiao fall down, Su Cang hurried forward, held Jiaojiao's butt and tried to help Jiaojiao up.
Jiaojiao, who was a little hurt from the fall, touched his little butt, took Su Cang and held him in his arms, then looked up. From this angle, he could clearly see the expressions of Tao Youyu and the others.
Jiaojiao, startled by Tao Youyu's distorted facial features, patted her chest and whispered, "Huluhuulumao, I can't be scared."
Su Cang also patted Jiaojiao's chest.
After coaxing herself into submission, Jiaojiao stood up with her hands on the ground. Her intuition told her that she had to wake up her brothers and the others, so she continued to pull at their robes and raise her voice to shout.
"Brother Yu Fei! Brother Bing Wen!"
"Sister Yaoyao!"
Tao Youyu, who stood there stiffly like a puppet, was getting worse and worse. His face was turning dark red. Just as he was about to lose consciousness...
Bang——
An extremely piercing sound of whirling metal and stone suddenly dragged the bewildered crowd out of the black tide from which they were unable to struggle out.
"Cough cough cough... Ugh..."
The rescued Tao Youyu suddenly took a few steps back and collapsed on the ground.
He supported himself on the ground with his hands, coughed violently, and then dry-heaved twice. The sudden influx of oxygen into his chest hurt as if it was about to be torn apart. His entire chest and abdomen churned violently, and a smell of rust rose in his throat. After retching, he took deep breaths, trembling with every breath, and his bloodshot, red, and moist eyes stared at the bottomless ravine.
"Brother, are you okay?" Jiaojiao, holding Su Cang in one hand and a stone in the other, ran to him and squatted down, her black and white eyes filled with worry.
Hearing this, Tao Youyu glanced at him, the corners of his mouth trembling uncontrollably. His gaze fell on the stone in Jiaojiao's hand, and suddenly he realized something. He looked to the side and front, where a purple-gold bowl lay on the grass. Remembering the sound of the whirling metal and stone that pulled him out of the abyss, he reached out and hugged Jiaojiao in his arms. He buried his head in Jiaojiao's small shoulder, still feeling terrified after surviving a disaster. He sniffed and said, "My benefactor, you have completely saved my life this time. From now on, I will serve you like a slave, serving tea and water."
Jiaojiao blinked, dropped the stone in her hand, brushed off the dust on her hands, and patted Tao Youyu's back to comfort him, "Don't be afraid, Brother Youyu, Jiaojiao is here, Jiaojiao is powerful."
"Yeah, Jiaojiao is the best." Tao Youyu's voice was nasal, and she held Jiaojiao tightly and refused to let go.
That moment just now was the closest he had ever felt to death since he came to the world of cultivation.
After the frightened crowd came to their senses, their eyes fell on Jiaojiao, filled with gratitude, suspicion and scrutiny.
Everyone present was not a fool. After seeing the stone in Jiaojiao's hand and the purple gold bowl that fell from Master Lekong's hand at some point, they could roughly guess what had happened.
But why were all of them, who had reached the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages, bewitched, but this child was fine?
Gu Yufei, Jin Bingwen and Jin Yaoer blocked Jiaojiao behind them from three directions, and also blocked the sight of these people.
"Brother, I told you that Jiaojiao had good stuff stuffed on her by Jiwang Immortal Lord, Lingque Pavilion Master, and Tianyi Clan Lord, but you didn't believe it? Now you believe it, right? If it weren't for the many good things on Jiaojiao, we might have been in trouble this time!" Jin Yaoer said loudly.
"Of course I don't believe it. I just think that the devil from the demon clan has stuffed more things in. After all, I've never seen anyone dote on children so much." Jin Bingwen cooperated.
"No way, I think the Immortal Master Jiwang is the one who dotes on Jiaojiao. Jiaojiao was not feeling well that night, and the evil aura of the Immortal Master Jiwang was terrifying. I was so scared that my legs were shaking. In my opinion, if anyone had any thoughts about Jiaojiao, the Immortal Master Jiwang would probably throw that person into the South China Sea to feed the fish." Tao Youyu raised his head from Jiaojiao's shoulder and said.
They had said everything they wanted to say, so Gu Yufei, who had nothing to say, stood silently and firmly in front of Jiaojiao.
Those in the crowd who had some thoughts turned their eyes away silently after hearing this.
Seeing this, those who were grateful to Jiaojiao nodded to Jin Bingwen and others from afar, indicating that they would remember this kindness.
Gu Yufei, who had nearly been tricked, looked unhappy. He picked up Jiaojiao and looked at Tao Youyu: "Can we walk?"
"able."
"Let's go back first and report this to the Lord of Jiutian City. Don't come here for the time being until this matter is concluded."
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