Chapter 65 Chapter 65 Heavenly Silkworm
His words instantly made Yun Miao unable to maintain her fake anger. She picked up Xiao Hei and rubbed his furry head wildly.
"Of course I do. I'm not someone who abandons pets easily."
Xiao Hei, as usual, let her rub his smooth fur into a bursting sea urchin head. He swung his tail gently and said in a calm tone, "You just said we were close friends."
Yun Miao: "Ah, pets are friends, and friends are pets, that's about it."
She stopped asking about the secret and just kept it to herself. She walked briskly home, holding Xiao Hei in her arms. But there was one thing she still didn't understand.
Is Chu Beiliang a human or a demon? Did he often go hungry in the past, so he was deceived by a meat bun?
However, Xiao Hei gave an answer that Yun Miao did not expect: because they are the same kind.
He is a human being, but he was not born through normal conception. When he was young, the people who guarded him only fed him fasting pills. But when he grew up, even fasting pills were no longer available for him to eat.
So it’s not that he didn’t have enough to eat, it’s just that he had never eaten any food other than the fasting pills.
However, the reason why he followed Yun Miao was not because of that meat bun, but because he smelled the scent of the same kind on Yun Miao.
"Before you, I've only seen two kinds of people like you. One is like me, lucid and emotionless, and the other is a madman who is insane, unable to communicate, and knows only to kill."
"You are different from me and me. You have a lot of emotions and you are happy every day."
Such a vivid fellow gave him a natural sense of closeness, so he initially followed Yun Miao out, just to observe why she was so different from him? Why was she so happy? He wanted to learn from her and change himself.
But later he found that observing her was itself a very interesting thing, at least much more interesting than burying himself in the ground and waiting for her to sprout.
Yun Miao understood immediately. Her sense of life was so strong that Chu Beiliang became interested in her and planned to write a manual for pseudo-humans to observe humans. However, her personality was so charismatic that the pseudo-humans willingly became human playthings (crossed out), pets (crossed out), and friends.
But that's not the point. The point is... "Did you also pop out of a crack in the rock?"
Could it be that her game character has some hidden story background that she doesn't know about?
"No, I am..."
Xiao Hei stopped talking mid-sentence: "I can't tell you this. Anyway, I didn't jump out of a crack in the rock."
He said that the secret was very important and involved many people, so he couldn't tell her, but other than that he knew everything because they were friends.
Yun Miao: "Okay, since we are friends, I won't ask any more questions."
She'll find out sooner or later anyway.
She changed the subject: "Brother, it seems you don't know that you are Junior Uncle's clone."
"I haven't told anyone else. No one except you probably knows."
Xiao Hei said that he and the original body were in tune with each other, and if Yun Miao needed it, he could ask the original body to use the token to communicate and inform everyone about this matter.
"No. That's all."
An idea suddenly came to Yun Miao's mind, and he immediately asked Xiao Hei a few more questions, trying to find out his abilities.
Xiao Hei was indeed as knowledgeable as he had said before. Firstly, everything he saw and heard was transmitted to the main body, and secondly, the main body could sense his location in real time.
Furthermore, when necessary, the original body could transmit more power to him remotely, allowing him to instantly ascend to the Spiritual Transformation Stage. And in critical moments, the clone could even directly self-destruct, perishing along with the enemy, with the soul returning to the original body.
Xiao Hei said frankly that it would be better for Yun Miao to take him with him when he goes out in the future, as it would be much safer. For example, in the previous secret realm incident, if he was there, even if he could not defeat the group of demon cultivators, he could directly blow up the secret realm through self-destruction and quickly seek help from the sect.
"In short, you're just a Qi Refining Stage demon beast on the surface, but you're actually quite powerful, right? If that's the case..."
Yun Miao smiled brightly: "As a friend, it's not too much to do me a little favor."
*
In the early morning, the weather was clear and the sun was hot. Yun Miao sat lazily on the jujube tree in the yard, hiding in the cool shade.
The main peak is rich in spiritual energy. If you just scatter some seeds of low-level spiritual plants on the ground, you can harvest a bunch of low-level spiritual plants without much care. Before Yun Miao's accident, she took good care of the plants every day and used spiritual power to promote their growth. Naturally, the low-level spiritual plants in the vegetable garden in her courtyard grew better.
Because no one had picked them for a month, these low-level spiritual plants had grown wildly and almost filled the vegetable garden. It was so lush and green that there was almost no place to step.
However, Yun Miao, who usually paid close attention to the small vegetable garden, was not in a hurry this time. Instead, a little wolf with pure black fur was busy in the vegetable garden. Wind spiritual power surrounded its sharp claws, and bunches of red agate-like fire grapes on the trellis were cut by the breeze and fell slowly into the vine basket on the side.
The mature ruby radishes were also pulled out of the soil one by one. When the wind blew, the mud on the radish roots was shaken off, and the clean ruby radishes were neatly stacked in the vegetable basket.
Yun Miao: "Xiao Hei, I want to eat grapes."
The busy little black wolf turned his head to look at her, and a bunch of fire grapes in the vine basket automatically flew in front of her.
Yun Miao refused to take it and said pickily, "These grapes haven't been washed yet. I want them washed."
Upon hearing this, the little black wolf took the fire grapes to the well in the yard to wash them. As soon as the fire grapes came out of the water, the water droplets on them evaporated quickly, and wisps of fire light spread under the grape skin, making them look even more beautiful.
Yun Miao looked at the fire grapes floating in front of him with satisfaction, and then...
“You also need to peel and remove the seeds.”
If an ordinary person heard this series of difficulties, he would have been angry long ago, but the little black wolf remained calm, and there was no anger on his furry face. As the wind blade spun, the fire grapes were peeled and deseeded, and automatically jumped to Yun Miao's mouth.
"Thank you, Xiao Hei, you are so nice!"
Yun Miao finished eating the hot grapes and smacked his lips: "I'm thirsty, Xiao Hei, I want to drink some honey water."
Then a cup of special mixture of spiritual honey, hundred flower dew and hundred year old spiritual milk floated in front of her.
However, Yun Miao said arrogantly: "Now the hundred-year spiritual milk is no longer worthy of me. I want to drink the ten-thousand-year spiritual milk that Master gave me before."
Soon, a new cup of honey water floated in front of her. She took a sip and said proudly, "This is the taste. This is what suits my status as a famous figure in Xuantian Sect."
Anything related to demonic cultivators was no small matter to the Xuantian Sect, and the sect did not deliberately conceal the information, so within a month, the story of her, Huo Xin, and Tan Xiaobai's encounter had spread throughout the sect.
In the past two days, many people have heard the news that she has woken up. However, because she just woke up and needs to rest, it is not convenient for everyone to disturb her. They only asked Qi Shubai to send a gift of comfort.
Among these people were people she knew, such as Ning Yu, Mo Aotian, Niu Rao, and even Granny Hua from far away in Luohua Town... There were also many senior brothers and sisters she didn't know. At that time, not only Qi Shubai sighed, but even Yun Miao herself realized for the first time that she was so popular in the sect.
Among them, the gifts given by her master were the most expensive and the largest. Perhaps it was because her master had been very busy recently and felt that he had neglected her and felt guilty, so he gave her several gifts.
Finally, all kinds of gifts, big and small, filled up the whole house. Fortunately, her yard had several rooms and her storage bag was big enough, otherwise she would not know where to put them.
Yun Miao first deliberately sighed that being too popular was also a trouble, and then continued to lean against the tree with his mouth lazily open.
"Xiao Hei, the food is too sweet and your mouth is dry. Give me some tea."
"Xiao Hei, remember not to break the grape skins. I'm going to make wine."
"Xiao Hei, that scabby in the corner of the yard seems to be glaring at me. Throw it out."
"Xiao Hei, this tree is too hard. It's not comfortable to sit on. How about you make a swing for me?"
"Xiao Hei..."
"Xiao Hei..."
"Xiao Hei..."
As the courtyard door was opened, Yun Miao's voice constantly ordering Xiao Hei and Lai Gebao's dissatisfied cries immediately spread out, full of summer vitality.
The people heading towards Yun Miao's courtyard paused, glancing at each other, each seeing the confusion in the other's eyes. They remembered Xiao Hei as a dog... oh no, was it a wolf? A wolf swing? What was it made of?
Yun Miao stood high and could see far, and soon he saw the three people in the bamboo forest. He immediately jumped down from the tree happily and walked out to greet them.
"Huo Xin, Xiaobai, Shang Mancang, you're here. Come in and sit down. I'll treat you to some fire grapes."
After she led the person into the yard, she immediately turned around and said, "Xiao Hei, we have guests. Please go to the kitchen and help me cook three dishes and a soup. Thank you."
Tan Xiaobai stumbled and almost fell. He and the other two turned their heads and saw an underage black wolf sitting under the jujube tree in the yard, pondering over some wood and ropes.
As Yun Miao's voice sounded, the little black wolf first looked up at them, then stood up and walked towards the kitchen.
Tan Xiaobai quickly grabbed Yun Miao and said, "No, no, no, that's not necessary. Boss, we've already taken the fasting pills, we're not hungry at all."
Shang Mancang was shocked: "Junior Sister Yun, is your puppy so smart? Can it even cook?"
Huo Xin sighed: "Please let Xiao Hei go. He's just a dog. He follows you just to make a living. You treat him like a farmhand."
Shang Mancang touched the golden toad pendant around his waist and said admiringly, "The landlord's farmhands still get paid. Wow, with that calculation, Junior Sister Yun, you're making a killing by raising this dog."
Tan Xiaobai looked over in shock: "Shang Mancang, you love money so much that you even want to take advantage of dogs."
Shang Mancang has lost his previous sophistication and has become more sharp, like a gem that has gradually been cleansed of dust.
She said in a deep voice, "You don't understand. Exploiting everything that can be exploited, even yourself if necessary, is a necessary quality for profiteers."
Yun Miao applauded: "That makes sense!"
Tan Xiaobai also applauded: "Well said!"
No matter what was said, since the boss was clapping, he should just clap along.
Huo Xin: ...Although she likes her two friends very much, sometimes she really feels out of tune with them. And she is thankful for this.
"Stop playing tricks and get down to business first."
"Okay."
Yun Miao invited a few people to sit in the house, and placed washed grapes, honey-glazed meat jerky, various cakes and pastries on the table, and asked Xiao Hei to make tea, so that everyone could eat whatever they liked.
After a moment, Shang Mancang watched Feng carry three cups of tea to the table and couldn't help but praise: "Good dog!"
Xiao Hei looked down at his claws and sent a telepathic message to Yun Miao: [I am clearly a wolf.]
Yun Miao: [A dog is a domesticated wolf. I domesticated you, so you are my one and only canine friend.]
Is it unique?
Little Black's tail swayed slightly: [You are also my one and only friend. ]
"Xiao Hei is so good, I'll give you a chicken leg today!"
Yun Miao was comforted by Xiao Hei's words, and she hugged him and rubbed him.
Although she knew that Xiao Hei was not a real dog, not even a wolf, but a human, the humanity in him was so shallow that Yun Miao often forgot that he was a human.
After Yun Miao put Xiao Hei down, she turned to look at Shang Mancang. She had previously asked Shang Mancang to help her find out information about the Yun family.
Shang Mancang did not hide anything and went straight to the point, telling all the information he had found out.
First, there was the incident where Sect Master Chang split the Yun family's old house with a sword. Although the Yun family's head personally offered apology the next day, Sect Master Chang simply refused to let him in. The Yun family's head waited outside the Xuantian Sect's mountain gate for three days and three nights before reluctantly leaving.
Tan Xiaobai usually looks silly, but when talking about matters with the aristocratic families, he becomes shrewd and his words are sharp and to the point.
"The Yun family has always touted themselves as the number one family in Yunzhou. Perhaps they've boasted so much that even they believe it themselves, and even dream of becoming equals to our Xuantian Sect. As a result, their strength hasn't improved much, but their arrogance has grown exponentially."
"You know, we almost died at the hands of the Yun family. They were clearly at fault first, but the Yun family's Patriarch couldn't handle the cold shoulder he received. It's only been three days..."
"A mortal would wait ten days or half a month to apologize. But he, a cultivator in the Spiritual Transformation Stage, said he wanted to apologize, but he only waited three days. It's clear that he never intended to apologize sincerely from the beginning. He was just forced to apologize to the three of us because the Sect Master came to his door."
Tan Xiaobai guessed that after the head of the Yun family returned, he would definitely curse the three of them behind their backs, asking why they didn't just die. If they died, there would be no more trouble.
"I heard that the gift prepared by the Yun family's Patriarch was quite generous, but the sincerity he showed was indeed superficial."
Shang Mancang first nodded in agreement, and then spoke with a gloating look about the recent situation of the Yun family.
Xuantian Sect is not only the overlord of Yunzhou, but also the moral benchmark of the entire cultivation world, with an extremely good reputation. The Yun family's reputation was not very good to begin with, and now this kind of thing has happened.
Two disciples from the Yun family's side branch are engaging in scheming, even daring to ambush and kill disciples from the Xuantian Sect. The Yun family has stationed troops in Luohua Town, suspected of wanting to interfere with the Xuanxin Mine's business and undermine the Xuantian Sect's influence. A demonic cultivator has appeared in the Yun family's secret realm...
Each of these incidents was already appalling. Now that the Xuantian Sect had twice expressed direct dislike for the Yun family, it only confirmed the veracity of these rumors, further worsening the Yun family's already poor reputation. The other aristocratic families, sects, and independent cultivators they had offended in the past were now frantically adding insult to injury.
Now that the Yun family members in Luohua Town have withdrawn, the Yunsha business has suffered a great blow. The Yun family's old house has been closed these days, and the people inside must be extremely anxious.
After saying this, Shang Mancang took a sip of water to moisten his throat.
"By the way, you said before that the Yun family was probably up to no good and asked me to investigate. I've been trying to get close to the brothers and sisters in the Deacon Hall and the Law Enforcement Hall these past two days. They said that the Yun family probably had nothing to do with the Xuanxin Mine, and that it was all done secretly by a branch called Yun Lujia."
Yun Miao asked if there was anything else strange about the Yun family. Her intuition told her that the Yun family must be hiding a big secret.
Shang Mancang said awkwardly that, like Yun Miao, she hadn't reached the stage of traveling yet, and now could only split her time between the sect and Luohua Town. If the Yun family truly held a big secret, it wasn't her turn to know.
"But... I heard a story when I was chatting with a businessman in Luohua Town."
Yun Miao's eyes lit up: "What story?"
"It's just a little story I told for fun. It doesn't make sense. Don't get your hopes up."
Seeing her like this, Shang Mancang could only recall and describe it as detailed as possible.
The merchant's story said that the Yun family was rumored to have raised a female silkworm. This female silkworm came from some ancient ruins and was an ancient spiritual insect. Every spring, it would give birth to a batch of male silkworms. These male silkworms would spin silk and make cocoons before winter came, preparing to transform into butterflies.
If a male silkworm successfully transforms into a butterfly, it will transform into a spirit butterfly called the Tianmu butterfly, emitting a unique fragrance to lure the female silkworms into butterflies. However, the Yun family reels silk directly every winter, so no male silkworm has ever successfully transformed into a butterfly.
The first step in normal silk reeling is to boil the cocoons. Ordinary silkworms are cooked in this step, but the reason why Yunsha is loved by monks is because it is not only tough but also impervious to water and fire.
It's no surprise that the cocoons of the Tiancan silkworm are equally tough, impervious to water and fire. Furthermore, if the male silkworm inside senses danger, it will release a toxin, which will destroy the silk. A poisoned person will die instantly.
So when the Yun family first obtained the female silkworm, many members of the family died from reeling silk. Later, the Yun family came up with a way to capture mortals to help reel silk, which reduced the death rate of their family members.
Upon hearing this, Tan Xiaobai and Huo Xin both felt that the story was a bit outrageous.
Putting aside the other loopholes in this story, what’s the point of catching mortals if even the monks can’t handle the silkworm cocoons?
Mortals have no power and cannot possibly break open the extremely hard cocoon. Moreover, even if one cocoon can only poison one mortal to death, according to the amount of cloud yarn produced by the Yun family every year, they have to capture at least hundreds of thousands of people every year.
Even if the Yun family was really so cruel as to dare to do this, Xuantian Sect and other cultivation worlds and sects in Yunzhou would not allow the Yun family to survive for so long.
Shang Mancang also felt that this story was pure nonsense. It was probably spread by some hostile force that was jealous of the Yun family's business to scare people. She had seen many such cases of people throwing dirty water at each other in the business world.
The first trick used by the group of thugs who came to her shop to cause trouble was to pretend that they found a fly in her food.
If this were reality, Yun Miao would definitely think it was nonsense, but this is a game, and she firmly believes that a game of a game would not design useless plots, so this must be the clue to the side quest "Exploring the Secrets of the Yun Family"!
So Yun Miao nodded in agreement with others on the surface, but secretly decided to check it out.
*
The sky of the secret realm was still gray, the earth collapsed, cracks crisscrossed, the trees in the forest were broken in half, toppling over, and it was a mess everywhere. Only the open space in the center was cleared.
A simple wooden house stood quietly in the open ground. In front of the house was a vegetable garden enclosed by a fence, where some low-level spiritual plants were planted. It looked very pastoral.
Inside the wooden house, the white-clothed woman, who was recently being pursued by the demon cult, sat cross-legged on the floor, her eyes closed, her chest rising and falling slightly, as if she were asleep, or perhaps meditating. If it weren't for the lack of a soul, this body would be no different from a living person.
Suddenly, the female cultivator in white opened her eyes, like a puppet infused with a soul, and her eyes flashed with liveliness.
Yun Miao, wearing a vest, stood up, walked to the bookshelf with a clear goal and began to look for his target.
Because the ancient ruins belong to the core of the secret realm, when the secret realm was broken and other secret realm fragments shattered, this piece of secret realm fragment with the ancient ruins was lucky enough to survive.
The core of the corpse puppet is the core of the secret realm. After Yun Miao used the core of the corpse puppet to create an external incarnation, it was equivalent to acknowledging the ownership of this fragment of the secret realm by dripping blood.
Although the sect had learned what had happened from Yun Miao and the other two, everyone thought that the core and the immortal transformation had all been taken away by the demonic cultivators, so they didn't ask any further questions.
Nothing can be stored in the causal space, so when Yun Miao is not controlling the vest, he hides it in the house.
During the month when her real body was asleep, she had been busy in the secret realm wearing a vest. She first fulfilled her promise to find all the human-shaped lamps and figurines in the collapsed ruins underground and burn them.
Then he sent all the ashes, blood, flesh, bones and other messy things used for sacrifice out of the secret realm and found a beautiful Feng Shui treasure land to bury them.
Then, after much difficulty, he found Xinyi's dry bones. Because it had been roughly thrown into the well by Yan Wuguang before, and was buried deep underground due to the collapse of the secret realm, when Yun Miao found it, it had become very broken and no longer in human form. However, the dry bones held a piece of dead wood tightly in their arms and never let go.
The huge stump of the pagoda tree that supported the palace underground had used up all its strength. The next second after it grew back into a pagoda tree, it turned into powder and scattered in the wind. So this piece of dead wood was the only remaining remains of the pagoda.
She placed the two remains into the black gold coffin and buried it deep underground in the collapsed palace.
She then began to clean up the secret realm, moving valuable items from underground to the surface like an ant moving house. Needless to say, the value of those pieces of top-grade black gold wall was so great that even a first-rate family like the Yun family couldn't afford such a large sum.
And if the countless dark stone wall bricks and the corpses of ghost-back spiders could be sold, they would be worth a large sum of spirit stones!
However, these were not the most valuable treasures. While searching for Xinyi's remains, Yun Miao also discovered the burial chambers deep within the collapsed palace, which contained many of Xinyi's relics. The most precious treasures in the entire secret realm were also hidden in these chambers filled with burial objects.
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The author has something to say: Yun Miao: We are friends (serious face). Friends should help and take care of each other.
The little black wolf nodded to show that he had learned his lesson, then went into the kitchen and cooked eight dishes and a soup.
Onlookers: ...Don't listen to her nonsense, she is CPUing you!
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