Chapter 143
Mingqiao has a very good sleep quality, especially when there are adults around him. He feels very safe and sleeps soundly.
The baby, who was sleeping soundly, was poked on the butt several times in a row.
It was really painful once.
The cub, who was poked, closed his eyes and pursed his lips.
He covered his butt with his chubby hands and was about to cry when he heard a strange, old voice suddenly ringing in his ears.
"Don't cry."
Ming Qiao: “…”
Ming Qiao paused and ignored the voice. He continued to pout and looked like he was about to cry.
"Don't cry, I'm not a bad person."
This voice stopped Ming Qiao again, and the serious tone did not sound like that of a good person.
Ming Qiao's brewing tears were interrupted one after another.
He raised the back of his chubby hand and wiped his eyes.
This time, he opened his eyes.
"Who is it?"
Ming Qiao was surrounded by darkness. He looked left and right, front and back, but didn't see anyone talking.
"Shh, don't make any noise, just follow me."
The voice sounded again, and he was coaxing her, as if he was going to kidnap a child: "I have something to tell you."
Ming Qiao sat up and didn't move.
He shook his little head in the darkness and said in a small voice: "I won't go. I don't know you."
"You know me, and I know you."
The owner of the voice was very patient, but he became a little short of breath after speaking a few words.
Seeing that Ming Qiao didn't move, he simply revealed his identity.
"I am the Ascension Tree, and you treated me to a meal during the day."
Ming Qiao: “!”
Mingqiao's eyes suddenly widened.
He said in disbelief: "Grandpa Tree, you are not dead!"
Big Tree: “…”
Big Tree: "Yes, it's not dead yet."
Although the tree was not completely dead, it was not far from being dead.
He called Mingqiao and asked Mingqiao to come to the roots of his tree.
Mingqiao was still a little hesitant before going.
He couldn't be sure whether the person talking to him was Grandpa Tree.
The ancient tree saw his doubt and after thinking for a moment, he spoke again.
"A few months ago, when your father ascended to heaven, he fell into my tree."
"He had no clothes on."
The ancient tree proved his identity with these two sentences.
Ming Qiao did not hesitate this time.
After all, this tree was probably the only one that recognized that his father ascended to heaven without clothes.
It was too dark around, Mingqiao wanted to light up, but was afraid of waking up the adults.
Gu Shu told him not to disturb the adults.
After hesitating for a while, Ming Qiao's beautiful and moist eyes suddenly lit up in the darkness.
His eyes were tinged with a golden hue.
He revealed his dragon pupils.
The golden dragon's eyes can see even in the night.
The ancient tree seemed to have seen Ming Qiao's golden eyes.
He stared at Mingqiao until Mingqiao walked to his tree.
The old tree was broken in half, and the traces of the fracture were shocking to the eye.
Ming Qiao stood in front of a partially exposed tree root and stretched out her little hand to touch it.
"Grandpa Tree?"
"Yes, it's me."
A little green light appeared from the part of the tree that Ming Qiao touched.
This green light seemed to be responding to Ming Qiao.
Ming Qiao thought the green light was beautiful. He touched the glowing bark and was not angry at being woken up in the middle of the night.
He asked in a soft voice, "What do you want from me?"
"I came to you hoping you could save me."
The ancient tree said bluntly: "I don't want to die yet."
Although he has lived for many years, he still doesn't want to die.
He wanted to continue living.
"My family is saving you. I am too young and I don't know how to save the tree."
Ming Qiao said honestly: "I can only bring you some food."
He had never learned the skills to save people and trees, and he was unable to fulfill the tree's request.
"The adults in your family can't save me. Only you can save me."
Gu Shu pointed out that only Ming Qiao could save him.
Ming Qiao was puzzled by his trust in her.
"I won't--"
"You will."
Gu Shu interrupted him: "Only you can do that."
"Okay."
Ming Qiao gave up the argument and asked him, "What can I do to save you?"
"I want you to go to the netherworld and help me find the heart of plants and trees."
"Now only the Heart of Plants and Trees can save me."
Ming Qiao: “?”
Mingqiao's little head was full of question marks for a moment.
"What is the Heart of Plants?"
"Can I go to the netherworld?"
"Didn't the passages from the lower world disappear completely?"
Ming Qiao threw out all the questions one after another.
The ancient tree answered him one by one: "The Heart of Grass and Trees is on the primitive continent. Go to the jungle. In the depths of the jungle, you will see the Heart of Grass and Trees."
"The passage between the upper and lower worlds has disappeared, but I can take you down."
"I only have enough strength left to give you one."
After Gu Shu finished saying this, Ming Qiao was stunned for a moment.
"Can you only send me down alone? Am I going to leave my father and mother?"
"Well, I sense the breath of God, the breath of dragons, and the breath of the Zhuling Clan in you."
"I have never seen a cub with blood like yours."
"You can go deep into the jungle and help me get the heart of the plants."
Gu Shu explained why he chose Ming Qiao.
After he gave these reasons, he went on to talk about his promise.
"Help me obtain the Heart of Plants and Trees. When I recover, I will restore the spiritual energy of the lower world to its former peak."
The spiritual energy in the lower world has been restored, which means that Ming Qiao’s beloved brothers and sisters, as well as uncles, will have the opportunity to ascend.
This is a great temptation for Mingqiao.
"I, I need to think about it again."
Ming Qiao did not give an immediate answer. Although he wanted everyone he cared about in the lower world to ascend, he also did not want to leave his current family.
"I'll be able to get back to you a little later."
Mingqiao can't make a decision now, his head is a little confused.
"good."
The ancient tree did not force him to give an immediate answer, but let him leave first.
"You only have three days to think about it."
After Ming Qiao turned around, Gu Shu said one last thing.
Ming Qiao nodded, then continued walking forward with his short legs.
When Ming Qiao returned from the ancient tree, as soon as she lay in Wu Ye's arms, Wu Ye lowered his head.
"Did you finish peeing?"
As Wu Ye spoke, he touched his son's pants, fearing that he would get them wet.
Ming Qiao was stunned for a moment, then he realized that his father thought he had gone to the bathroom.
They were not far from the ancient tree.
Mingqiao stood in front of the ancient tree for a while and then came back.
And the sound of the ancient tree was only heard by Ming Qiao himself throughout the whole process.
As for Ming Qiao's voice, his baby voice was so soft that the adults couldn't hear what he said.
"Daddy, I didn't wet my pants."
Mingqiao kicked his short legs to prevent his father from touching his pants.
Wu Ye also finished touching her.
After he made sure that his son's pants and buttocks were dry, he tucked his son into his arms and patted his back with his big hands.
"Okay, go to bed."
Wu Ye coaxed his son and closed his eyes.
After Wu Ye closed his eyes, Ming Qiao buried his little face in his father's arms.
He sniffed, smelling the scent of his father, and in his heart he was reluctant to be separated from his father.
"Daddy, Qiao Qiao loves you the most."
Ming Qiao suddenly made a confession without any context.
After he confessed his feelings, he nestled in his father's arms and closed his eyes.
And Wu Ye, who was originally looking at someone asleep, suddenly bent down and kissed his head.
"Daddy loves you too."
"Daddy loves Qiao Qiao the most."
Ming Qiao remained silent in response to Wu Ye's response.
However, Qingheng, who was sleeping next to Wu Ye, opened his eyes and glanced at them.
It was the middle of the night, and he really didn't understand why the father and son suddenly expressed their feelings to each other.
Wu Ye met Qingheng's gaze and the corners of his lips raised.
He hugged Mingqiao and leaned his face forward.
“Chirp.”
He left a kiss on Qingheng's handsome face, and whispered: "You are the one I love most."
Qingheng: "..."
Qingheng closed his eyes and pretended that he heard nothing.
In the middle of the night, a family of three is saying, "You love me, I love you," which sounds so silly.
That night, Mingqiao, whose sleeping quality had always been like that of a piglet, suffered from insomnia for the first time.
When he woke up the next day, his chubby face looked listless.
"Qiao Qiao, did you not sleep well, or are you feeling unwell?"
During breakfast, Qingheng looked at his son's little face and frowned slightly.
What he was more worried about was Mingqiao's health, as something went wrong again.
"Mother, I'm not feeling unwell."
Ming Qiao raised his hand and rubbed his eyes: "I just didn't sleep well, I'm a little sleepy."
He was thinking about things in the second half of the night and didn't sleep well at all.
Now he was sleepy but couldn't sleep.
Qingheng reached out to feel the temperature of his forehead, then looked at the rice in his small bowl.
Fortunately, Mingqiao's forehead was not hot and he ate the rice in the small bowl very cleanly.
“Qiao Qiao, eat and go to bed. You don’t have to help everyone today.”
"I don't sleep."
Ming Qiao shook his head, put the empty bowl on the table, and jumped off the chair.
"Mom, I'm going to take food to Grandpa Dashu."
He took two meat buns and put them in front of the big tree.
After delivering the meat buns, he did not stay for a moment to talk to the big tree as he did before.
He left after delivering the gift.
Half of the three-day deadline passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, Ming Qiao never heard Gu Shu talk to him again.
Although Gu Shu didn't say anything else, Ming Qiao's anxiety did not ease.
He was so anxious that he couldn't even help the adults.
He squatted on the grass not far away, scratching the turf in worry.
As soon as he scratched it, One-One-Two-Two poked their heads out, and the two little buds looked at their eldest brother in unison.
Ming Qiao: “…”
Ming Qiao reached out and smoothed out the grass that had not been moved.
After he had leveled the turf, he touched the little leaves of One-One and Two-Two with his fat, dirt-covered fingers.
"One, one, two, two, big brother might have to go out."
Ming Qiao whispered to the two buds, "Brother won't take you with him this time. You must listen to your parents and don't be naughty."
As soon as Ming Qiao finished speaking, both Yayas shook their little leaves wildly.
They are strongly opposing it.
Ming Qiao looked at the unwilling people and felt reluctant to let them go.
He and 1122 have never been separated.
"One, one, two, two. You must be obedient. Big Brother will come back."
Ming Qiao continued to coax.
But no matter how he coaxed her, Yi Yi Er Er refused to agree.
The two buds firmly held their small leaves against Mingqiao. Mingqiao tried to pick them off, but it was difficult to do so.
That night, while Mingqiao was taking a shower, the two Yayas slipped away for a while.
They went to find the adults.
The eldest brother is going out and doesn't want to take them with him, which makes the Yayas feel very aggrieved.
They want to tell the adults and let their eldest brother take care of them.
Mingqiao took a bath for a long time.
He had no one to accompany him, so he sat in the bathtub and slowly rubbed his fat arms and legs.
Rubbing it, he sighed.
He rubbed it again and sighed again.
When he finished his bath with a sigh, he came out and found all the adults waiting for him at the door.
The kid, with a towel on his head, looked at the adult in front of him blankly with a bewildered face.
"Jojo."
Wu Ye, who was at the front, bent down, his eyes level with his son's, and asked directly, "Where are you going on a long journey?"
Ming Qiao: “…”
Mingqiao subconsciously went to look for the two Yayas.
Sure enough, the two babies were sitting on one of their father’s shoulders and the other on their mother’s.
Ming Qiao, realizing that the Yayas had complained, opened his mouth but could not utter a word.
After a long while of questioning by the adults, Ming Qiao drooped his shoulders and confessed what he had been hiding for more than a day.
"I want to go down."
At the end of the explanation, Ming Qiao also stated his own decision.
The result of his consideration was to listen to the ancient tree and go to the lower world to find the heart of plants and trees.
"no."
"Absolutely not."
The adults spoke in unison, with the same attitude.
They didn't agree to let Mingqiao go down.
The people who were originally trying their best to heal the ancient tree, after learning that the ancient tree had instigated their children to look for something, their faces turned livid and they wished they could kill the tree right away.
Wu Ye had a bad temper, and after he said no, he really turned around and left.
“Daddy!”
Ming Qiao knew his father, so when he saw his father turn around, he rushed over like a little cannonball.
He hugged his father's legs and said urgently, "Don't cut down the tree!"
"I won't cut it."
Wu Ye's face was gloomy, and he said coldly: "I burned him!"
Ming Qiao: “!”
Ming Qiao: “No!”
He held Wu Ye's legs tightly with his little arms, fearing that his father would really burn the tree.
"Wu Ye, don't be impulsive. Let's go find the ancient tree and find out what happened."
Qingheng was also angry about the tree, but he was more rational than Wu Ye.
He grabbed Wu Ye's arm and asked him to calm down first.
It took a long time.
After calming down a little, everyone picked up the cubs and went to find the ancient tree.
When Gu Shu saw so many people coming towards him aggressively, he knew that he still couldn't escape this time.
He sighed softly.
"say."
As soon as Wu Ye arrived, he told Gu Shu with a bad look on his face: "Aren't you good at talking? You talked so much to my son. Now, talk to me too."
Gu Shu really didn't want to say more.
It takes energy for him to open his mouth, and he doesn't have much energy left now.
"I've told Ming Qiao everything I should have said. There's one thing I haven't told him yet."
"What?"
Wu Ye frowned, feeling uneasy as soon as the tree spoke.
Sure enough, the next second, the tree's words confirmed his premonition.
"The lower world needs to be replenished with spiritual energy, and only I can do this."
Wu Ye listened to this, remained silent for a few seconds, and retorted: "No matter how important the spiritual energy of the lower world is, what does it have to do with my son?! Do you think I would let my son take risks alone for the sake of others' ascension?"
In Wu Ye's eyes, nothing is more important than his son.
Qingheng stood beside Wu Ye and had the same attitude as Wu Ye.
Of course, he also wanted the head brother and elders of Cang Xuan Continent to ascend, but if the ascension required Ming Qiao to do dangerous things alone, he could not agree to it.
"You don't care about the spiritual energy of the lower world. Do you care about the life and death of the people in the lower world?"
The ancient tree's tone is still calm.
He faced Wu Ye's violent questioning without any emotion.
As if he was reporting the weather, he used the most ordinary tone to report a piece of news that shocked everyone.
"I think you can feel that the spiritual energy in the lower world is becoming thinner and thinner."
"Have you ever thought about what the underworld would be like if the spiritual energy completely dissipated?"
"At the very least, if those cultivators lose their spiritual energy, they will not be able to make any further progress, and the life span they gained through cultivation will also end."
“They will die.”
When the spiritual energy of heaven and earth dissipated, the first to be affected were the immortal cultivators.
For a sect of immortal cultivation like the Lintian Sect, without spiritual energy to cultivate, the sect would be useless.
And a world without spiritual energy is the most unstable.
Things that grow in the darkness, and natural disasters that come, they no longer have the checks and balances of the monks, the consequences are -
You don't have to think about how scary it is.
Gu Shu's words made Qing Heng's expression change.
Wu Ye sneered and didn't believe it.
“It’s alarmist.”
Flames rose from his palms, and he didn't want to listen to the tree's nonsense anymore.
Although there is not much spiritual energy in Cang Xuan Continent, it is not yet to the point of dissipating.
Besides, even if the spiritual energy really disappeared completely, it would not necessarily mean that anything terrible would happen.
Anyway, Wu Ye was not willing to let his son go through troubles for something that had not happened in the future.
Wu Ye was determined not to let his son take any risks.
Gu Shu didn't say anything more to him, but waited for other people's reactions.
"Without spiritual energy, will the headmaster, the elders, and the brothers and sisters all die?"
Ming Qiao, who came here with his father, asked.
The ancient tree hummed and replied, "Their life span will be very short."
The immortal cultivators return to being ordinary people.
The life span of ordinary people is so short.
Their short lives were nothing compared to Mingqiao's long years. I'm afraid their appearances would slowly fade away in Mingqiao's memory.
Ming Qiao couldn't accept this possibility.
“I don’t want anyone to die.”
Mingqiao twisted her little butt and forced herself out of her father's arms.
He pulled Qingheng's big hand with his small hand.
He knew that his mother had a good relationship with the head uncle and the elders.
Mother will definitely not let them die.
"Mom, please let me go. Uncle Grandpa said that I won't be in danger if I go."
Mingqiao insisted on going, and Qingheng's big hand was pulled by him. After hesitating for a few seconds, he shook his head.
The adults all disagreed with letting Mingqiao go.
"I'm going!"
Mingqiao, who has always been obedient, is unwilling to obey this time.
He had a chubby face and acted like a spoiled brat, which was rare.
He rolled on the ground first, but it was no use.
He changed his strategy and acted coquettishly to his mother, but still nothing happened.
Finally, he followed what he had learned from the storybook he had secretly read, found a rope, and tied it around his neck.
He is going to hang himself.
The adults confiscated his rope and continued to oppose him from going down.
The kid, who was unable to be persuaded no matter how hard or soft he tried, finally threw away his job with tears in his eyes.
"If you don't let me go, I won't eat."
"I won't eat any meals. I want to starve myself thin!"
"No, I want to starve myself to death!"
Ming Qiao threatened with tears in his eyes. It was not just a verbal threat, he really didn't want to eat.
When Ming Qiao was on a hunger strike for the second meal, Wu Ye, with a dark face, went to force Gu Shu.
"You can go down, we want to go with Qiao Qiao."
They stepped back and let Ming Qiao go to the lower realm.
But their bottom line is that Mingqiao cannot go alone.
Gu Shu was not impatient or anxious about Wu Ye's pressure. He just replied:
"I can't let you adults go with me. I don't have enough strength."
After Gu Shu finished speaking, under Wu Ye's gaze that wanted to burn the tree, he reluctantly added: "In addition to Ming Qiao, I can send another child."
“This is the limit of what I can do.”
The ancient tree also made its best effort.
Wu Ye now hated him to the core.
"Okay, wait for me."
Ancient tree: “…”
The ancient tree was silent, he thought this was a threat to him.
He curled up silently against the tree roots, feeling that his life was too difficult.
It was not until a day later when Wu Ye really brought him a child that he realized that Wu Ye was not threatening him at the time, but meant it literally, asking him to wait for another child.
The person Wu Ye sent was You Qing, whom he had urgently called back.
No one knew what You Qing had gone through outside. His condition was actually a little off, but he hid it well.
Wu Ye didn't notice anything was wrong with him.
"I leave my two children to you."
Wu Ye was holding one child in his arms and holding another, standing in front of the ancient tree.
His face was gloomy, and he said to the ancient tree: "I want you to promise me that nothing will happen to them."
"If anything happens to them, I'll make you feel like even turning their bodies into dust is a kind way to die."
Ancient Tree: “I promise.”
Gu Shu was so annoyed by this sentence: "Your son will never die."
This tree of his has been working at the Ascension Place for so many years. In addition to taking people to ascend, his premonitions about good and bad luck are also very accurate.
There is no way Mingqiao will die in the underworld in the near future.
Gu Shu assured them again and again, but the adults were still worried.
Shi Ze and Sang Yu, who arrived a step late, heard that their grandson was going to the underworld, and they almost fought with everyone present.
"My grandson can't go. Whoever dares to let my grandson go down, I will kill him!"
Shi Ze cursed and swore, of course, the main target of his insults was the tree.
His reaction was so intense that no one present dared to stop him.
In the end, it was Wu Ye who stepped in and stopped his father from making trouble.
Time passes by little by little.
Ming Qiao and You Qing held hands, and after saying goodbye to their relatives one by one, they reluctantly disappeared in front of everyone in a burst of green light.
"Woo, I miss my daddy and mommy."
"I still miss my grandparents."
"I still miss my grandparents."
"I still miss my uncle and aunt."
"And there are one, one, two, two - ah! Why are one, one, two, two in space? I clearly sent them out long ago!"
Ming Qiao's last utterance was without any sadness or choking, he shouted until he did splits.
The one and two who had been hiding secretly until now were extremely calm when they saw their frightened eldest brother.
They shook Little Leaf and hugged Big Brother comfortingly.
"Rustle, rustle."
The small leaves were rustled by the wind, and two tender little voices also reached Mingqiao's ears.
"Brother, we want to follow you!"
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