Chapter 136 Demon Mother Part 1
Zhen Su suddenly parted his lips and exhaled, imbuing the large amount of spiritual energy he had secretly absorbed into his body with the Five Poisons—the five strongest poisons he had collected since entering the small world! He also imbued it with pure, yang energy. For a yin spirit, a moderate amount of yang energy is highly nourishing, but excessive yang energy is extremely poisonous. Therefore, this meant he was about to get serious!
His breath became a gust of wind, and the poisonous gas spread rapidly. The runes in the water's magic array flickered wildly before dimming in the blink of an eye. Zhen Su felt a sense of relief and immediately leaped onto the ground, landing gracefully. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the magic array beneath his feet completely shattered and dissolved into the surging dark river.
On the other side, Lou Lan was not particularly afraid when she first saw the poisonous wind, as she was the wielder of the Sleeping Flower Hammer and confident in her ability to withstand poison. However, she never expected that after the poisonous wind entered her seven orifices, it would directly burn her soul like a raging fire, leaving her nowhere to escape.
Lou Lan's eyes widened. In the struggle, his unfocused tea-colored eyes regained their brightness, and his mind cleared for a moment. But the next instant, he was immediately crushed to pieces by the soul-devouring poison.
"What is this thing?!" The female cultivators were equally puzzled. They only knew that when the poisonous wind struck, their whole bodies ached, a pain that felt like they were being dissolved alive. They could only watch helplessly as their flesh fell away and their bodies became unrecognizable, powerless to do anything about it, and thus felt endless despair.
Seeing the female cultivator in such a tragic state, Lou Lan's madness and desire for revenge reached their peak. He actually resisted the poison mixed with pure yang energy from Zhen Su, expelling scorching black flames from his seven orifices and roaring as he charged towards Zhen Su.
In a flash, he extended an extremely long suit of armor and attacked Shinjuku's nose.
Just at the critical moment, a startling cry that pierced the sky suddenly rang out.
Although babies' voices are all pretty much the same, Lou Lan knew that it was her child making those sounds.
Lou Lan's armor clashed with Zhen Su's crossed arms, unleashing a muffled thunderstorm. Just as it was about to ignite, Lou Lan turned and rushed anxiously toward the direction where the baby was crying.
Shinjuku also stopped, dragging his bleeding arms, and took a step back before moving forward.
A hole punched in the cave allowed a stream of silvery moonlight to shine down onto a green flame ball suspended in mid-air.
The raging ball of yin fire had a gaping hole in its center, and the wailing that came from there was deafening. Shinju noticed that several clumps of scorched earth were floating on the water below him.
The ghost baby has come back to life? Shinju's eyes gleamed.
Lou Lan could hardly believe his eyes. The scene that had haunted his dreams for hundreds of years and replayed countless times in his illusions had actually come true.
"Kua'er!!—" Lou Lan stepped forward and hugged the floating ghost baby.
The ghost baby didn't struggle, its crying miraculously stopped, then it opened and closed its mouth, hiccuped, and suddenly laughed: "Ah, Mom."
Lou Lan burst into tears, tears streaming down her face from her reddened eyes. She covered her mouth, then carefully cradled the ghost infant's head in her arms, protecting it. Even as the yin fire relentlessly burned her, leaving scorch marks, she never relaxed a muscle in her arms, holding it tightly against her skin. "Hey—Mother's here!"
Ghost Silver was also stunned, but after recovering, he quickly flew to Shinjuku's side to examine his injuries.
"It's nothing serious." Shinju wiped the mud and water droplets off his face.
Then he walked up to the female cultivators who were still struggling. They couldn't control themselves anymore, but they were still instinctively jumping back in fright when Zhen Su approached. Zhen Su ignored them, forcibly went up and caught them, and took back the five poisons from their bodies one by one. He then stuffed a few soul-replenishing crystals into each of them so that they could recover as soon as possible.
Some were taken aback, some were doubtful, and some were still filled with murderous intent. Shinju didn't care and turned away, so he didn't see the blackened insect corpses that had accumulated in the turbulent water, drifting slowly out of the cave with the current.
Lou Lan, half-awake from his immense joy, saw Zhen Su's actions and his previously wary heart calmed down. Instead, he silently stared at Zhen Su.
"Can you talk to me now, Miss Lou...?"
While coaxing the ghost baby to play, Lou Lan walked to the shattered stone table and looked at Zhen Su across the pile of stones. The violence around him gradually subsided, and when he looked at the ghost baby, he even emitted a soft light, which was quite different from his previous crazy image.
“Okay,” she said.
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The underworld, the palace of Yama, the King of Hell.
King Zhen had considered many things, but he hadn't imagined there would be this many.
The newly appointed official is overwhelmed by decades of accumulated case files and pending documents. Since they are not unnecessarily neglected, why has he tolerated them piling up on his desk for so many years?
But the King of Poison had no time to consider the implications before plunging headlong into the sea of case files, reviewing and organizing them.
The City God, however, left early after the inauguration ceremony and went back to the City God Temple in the mortal world to "busy" himself.
When Shinjuku was exchanging information with him, he mentioned that at the mine, Shinjuku had personally heard the miners complain that reincarnation was a long way off.
The Tenth King of Hell governs the five paths of reincarnation, but the position of the Tenth King of Hell is vacant. This halt in reincarnation naturally breeds numerous problems, forcing a large number of souls to remain in the underworld, day after day, without hope. But strangely, the ten districts of Fengdu show no signs of congestion.
The King of Zhen kept reviewing the documents, but he still couldn't find an explanation for the phenomenon of alignment.
Quite bizarre.
It seemed like he had been busy for a long time, yet it also seemed like only a short while had passed. The number of files on the table, the floor, the cabinets, and throughout the entire storeroom had not decreased by the slightest. What he had at hand was merely a drop in the ocean.
Unexpectedly, a short while later, devastating news arrived: a major riot had broken out in the Black Prison, and more than a dozen infamous evil spirits had escaped. Ox-Head and Horse-Face, who had just returned with hundreds of spirits, were dispatched to the Black Prison before they could even report to Yama, the King of Hell, without Yama's involvement in any of the procedures.
The news that Yilian Village urgently needed reinforcements was something that Ox-Head and Horse-Face tried to report to Yama, the King of Hell. However, they only saw that the other party had agreed, but they did not know that the message was destined to be lost forever.
The King of Poison knew that the matter of the Black Prison had not yet reached the point where it required his intervention, so he calmed down and continued to write and review the documents.
As he was writing the critiques, a sudden, intense pang of fear gripped his chest, just like the ominous premonition he had when he first saw Shinju standing in front of him, knowing that the rebel's pistol was about to pierce him.
The King of Poison tightened his grip on the wolf-hair brush. True Monk must be in grave danger!
Although Shinju didn't summon him, he was still worried about the possibility that Shinju might not have been able to summon him in time, or that he was unable to summon him at all.
Thinking of this, the King of Poison no longer hesitated. He threw down the case file, his eyes flashing coldly, and strode towards the teleportation array in the hall. His figure disappeared from the spot in the blink of an eye.
When the King of Poison arrived at the cave where Zhen Su was, he expected to see a tense scene. However, to his surprise, apart from the female cultivators who were still somewhat wary and gathered behind Zhen Su, Lou Lan had gentle features, holding a ball of fire, and a faint smile on her lips.
Because they had cleared up the misunderstanding and exchanged a lot of clues between them.
When Zhen Su heard Lou Lan's account, he seemed to see the beautiful young girl from the Lingxin Clan standing in front of him.
The Spirit Heart Clan are extraordinary beings born with enormous bodies and two hearts. Lou Lan, an orphan who had been lost, was adopted by the prestigious Lou family of Yilian Village, who gave her the surname Lou and treated her like their own daughter.
Therefore, Lou Lan was very grateful to the Lou family when she was young, and she also secretly fell in love with her childhood sweetheart and future husband.
When they reached marriageable age, the childhood sweetheart ignored several other well-matched young ladies and resolutely chose Lou Lan.
I thought I was about to embark on a happy and ordinary life, but instead, I was plunged into boundless darkness.
After ten months of pregnancy, Lou Lan gave birth to a child for her husband. Overjoyed, she wept for less than half a day. Still bedridden, Lou Lan heard that her child had died.
She had fallen off the bed and crawled on, leaving trails of blood, to find her child.
Unfortunately, she couldn't find the body no matter what she tried.
That tiny body, with its bright cries at first, must have had quite a bit of strength.
Why did such a healthy child suddenly disappear in the blink of an eye?
However, this terrible thing happened three times in a row.
Even a fool should wake up by now.
Someone killed her children! Her three innocent children!
In the fourth episode, she was extremely weak, but she managed to crawl back from the brink of death. She then pretended to faint, deceiving everyone. Using a hidden butterfly, she followed the special powder she had left on the child's bundle and tracked it all the way to the master and mistress's courtyard.
Then, she witnessed a scene that was enough to make her eyes widen in horror, tear her heart apart, and break her guts.
No mother could bear that hellish scene, or the heart-wrenching, helpless cries of her own flesh and blood.
Her father-in-law, mother-in-law, and her husband were gathered around the pot of soup where her child was being cooked alive, chatting and laughing as usual.
However, her precious baby in the pot soon fell silent.
A string in her mind snapped.
She's gone mad.
She didn't really remember what happened after that; all she knew was that she had personally massacred the Lou family.
In fact, she had already noticed some clues and vaguely guessed that the Lou family had done a lot of unsavory things behind the scenes.
It was her obedience and favoritism that indirectly led to her own death, as well as the deaths of her four poor, long-unseen children. Unable to face them, she buried herself alive next to the body of Kua'er.
The Lou family is a cannibalistic tribe that primarily eats people. They spend years searching for food elsewhere, then abduct young children they deem fit and raise them.
Because Lou Lan possessed two powerful hearts, these spiritual hearts were said to prolong life if consumed. Thus, a conspiracy that would last her entire life was sown.
No one expected that one day, she would wake up from the ground.
She became a bound Yin evil spirit.
The underworld officials came to forcibly take her away, but she refused to leave the small courtyard where Kua'er was buried, so she fought the underworld officials to the death time and time again.
Later, the messengers from the underworld stopped coming.
Perhaps because of her strong obsession in life, she still couldn't let go. Seeing all the collateral and main branches of the cannibalistic tribe still living a prosperous life in Yilian Village, she decided to kill them.
The cannibalistic demons were a powerful and deeply entrenched group. She had fought them for over a hundred years before finally finding an opportunity to eradicate them completely.
During this time, she won over the cave girls who had been abandoned by the villagers. Because they had a common enemy, they easily came together and formed an alliance.
The cave women were also a reserve of food for the man-eating demons.
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Author's Note: [Edited] I've made some polishing.
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