Chapter 51 Why are you yelling so loudly?
Mu Jianjian felt that her senior brother's words were meant to comfort her, so she pouted and didn't want to talk about it anymore.
"Senior brother, what is it that you want to retrieve, and what does it look like?"
It is a book.
The broken brocade slips were left here ten thousand years ago.
In the remaining time, neither of them asked about the other's identity or cultivation level. Mu Jianjian chattered on about her daily life, while Chi Wenqing listened patiently to the girl's cheerful narration with a doting expression.
In the distance, Wan Xing leaned against the bushes at the edge of the holy land, watching the white-clad man and red-clad girl clinging to each other, a sight that was particularly jarring.
Even his neck, which had been healed by his clansmen, began to ache.
"Xing'er, stop making a fuss." The clan leader's tired voice fell behind her.
Wan Xing turned his head, his eyes filled with resentment and unwillingness. "Father, so in your eyes I've been just being unreasonable all along?"
"Isn't that so?" The clan chief looked at the unruly girl in front of him and suddenly felt a strange sense of unfamiliarity. He wondered when the lovely and charming child he had been in the clan had grown into this. "Can you see everything your aunt and grandmother have done for the Wood Spirit Clan? And what have they done?"
Wan Xing's eyes flickered as he recalled seeing his aunt covered in blood being carried away by his clansmen.
“I want to do it too! But the Divine Tree has never allowed me into the Holy Land. Why can outsiders do it but I can’t? I’ve tried so many times, but it just won’t acknowledge me…”
"Xing'er, many things cannot be forced..."
Wan Xing interrupted angrily, raising her chin to stop her tears from falling. "So many people want to go into the Holy Land. It's one thing for her to be ungrateful, but who is she trying to impress with this 'charity' act?"
After saying that, she wiped away her tears and turned to leave.
——
Before the ceremony, Mu Jianjian made an agreement with the Wood Spirit Clan that she couldn't really stay there for ten or twenty years. After retrieving what her senior brother needed, she would only do her best to help him.
After Granny Wan nodded, she was about to pull out the love thread and wrap it around Mu Jianjian's hand when Chi Wenqing chuckled and snapped it off.
"This..." Granny Wan explained, "It requires pulling out the girl's lifeline and binding it to the sacred tree, so that she can merge with the tree spirit..."
“It’s fine if I don’t feel any emotional attachment.” Chi Wenqing’s words were clear and distinct.
His junior sister's fate was destined to be intertwined with his.
Granny Wan was helpless. If the girl wasn't bound by emotional ties, the ritual could still be performed, but at the same time, she wouldn't feel any ties once she entered the tree spirit realm.
Well, the fact that the girl agreed to go in and give it a try is already the best outcome.
The Wood Spirit Clan's Master of Fate stood around the sacred tree, wearing white paper with strange arrays carved on it. The witch sat cross-legged in the middle, muttering unintelligible words.
Mu Jianjian was still wrapped in the branches that Granny Wan had transformed into, and her body and limbs were still wrapped around her. There was no pain in the depths of her soul, and she gradually returned to peace.
Chi Wenqing stood at a distance, dressed in white, but his gaze never left the girl.
He watched as the girl lying flat on her back gradually regained her composure, and a tender look crossed his eyes.
A figure stopped behind him. "Young Master."
Chi Wenqing turned around and chuckled, "Let's go."
The clan leader followed behind the man in white, his steps firm.
He had some reservations about the decision, but when he saw that the person the once cold-blooded and ruthless young prince cared about was the destined person of their Wood Spirit Clan, his hesitation disappeared.
Perhaps many things were destined ten thousand years ago.
——
When Mu Jianjian opened her eyes again after closing them, she felt herself become ethereal and transparent, entering a place where the world was completely dark.
Actually, she decided to come in not only to help her senior brother retrieve the Broken Brocade Scroll, but more importantly, she felt a force calling to her from within.
Just like when I unknowingly stepped into the holy land while fleeing, I felt a strong sense of familiarity.
She thought of Granny Wan's words to her before the sacrifice, and carefully looked around, but found that she couldn't see anything.
Mu Jianjian took a deep breath and took her first step.
Her first task was to find the "brocade slip" that her senior brother needed, and secondly, to find the source of the tree spirit's corruption.
"Hungry—so hungry—"
The moment Mu Jianjian took her first step, a tremendous aura surged forth from the depths of darkness, accompanied by a sound.
The sounds were accompanied by a baby's crying and sobbing.
She doubted she had heard correctly.
Why would anyone live in this desolate place?
Mu Jianjian called softly, "Is anyone there?"
"Hungry—I'm so hungry—"
This time the sound was even louder and accompanied by a strong wind. Mu Jianjian finally pinpointed the source of the sound and began to walk in the direction she had identified.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, a glimmer of light finally appeared in the dark world—
The tiny ball of light was enveloped and surrounded by endless darkness, trembling and making sounds.
Mu Jianjian narrowed her eyes, catching a glimpse of darkness peeking out from within the ball of light—
Broken Brocade Notes.
She approached and looked at the wriggling black liquid. Seeing that it didn't seem to want to attack her, she carefully crouched down and reached her hand towards the dark tube within the ball of light.
"Hungry--"
A tremendous howl, filled with despair, surged from the ball of light toward Mu Jianjian. Her soul trembled at the roar, and a violent tearing sensation came from deep within her.
If this continues a few more times, I'm afraid I won't be able to get the Broken Brocade Scroll, and my soul won't be able to hold on any longer.
Mu Jianjian watched as the black liquid entangled the light orb even more fiercely after it made a sound, only showing a hint of retreat when it touched the dark tube within the light orb.
"What would you like to eat?" she tried to communicate with the ball of light.
"Hungry, hungry, hungry—"
Halfway through the ball of light's cry, Mu Jianjian finally couldn't hold back and screamed along with it.
"Why are you yelling so loudly! If you're hungry, can't you just say what you want to eat? This is really noisy and pollutes the air!"
Let's have a shouting contest and see who can out-shout!
Orb of Light: ...
Waaaaah, its mind is so confused. This woman barged in out of nowhere, and now she's yelling at it. Waaaaah, that's so mean!
Mu Jianjian looked at the now quiet ball of light and was about to reach out her hand again when she heard the ball of light emit a childish voice.
"I want to eat something. I haven't eaten anything for so long."
Mu Jianjian felt relieved; as long as they could communicate, that was good.
"What is that?"
"I don't know, but you smell so good, and I'm even hungrier now." The ball of light tried to get closer to Mu Jianjian, but it was entangled in the black liquid and couldn't move.
"What is that black liquid next to you?"
"Waaah, it seems like they've been here for a long time, but they've grown bigger and bigger, and there are more and more of them. I'm hungry and sleepy, and I can't fight them anymore. I'm trapped by them."
The light cluster sounded aggrieved.
Mu Jianjian was speechless. He knew nothing about her, and she didn't know how this little dumpling had survived. "Then can you give me this secret document?"
"No, no, it's been with me for a long time, and without it I'll be eaten by them." The ball of light said urgently, then hurriedly added, filled with anticipation and longing.
"But if you feed me lots and lots of food, I'll get bigger and bigger when I'm full, and then I won't be afraid of this dark liquid anymore."
“But this is the soul space,” Mu Jianjian patiently explained to the little dumpling, “I don’t have anything here—”
Yes, her things are all in physical form, but things in the system space can be retrieved.
With a sense of urgency, Mu Jianjian used her divine sense to explore the space and was pleasantly surprised to find that the branches of the divine tree that had been planted in the ground were actually growing taller and sprouting new buds.
Maybe the ball of light wants to eat the tree leaves of the divine tree!
Mu Jianjian excitedly plucked a green leaf from a branch of the Space God Tree and placed it in front of the ball of light. "Do you want to eat this?"
Unexpectedly, the ball of light let out another wail.
"Waaaaah! You won't give me food, fine, but why did you have to rip my body off?!"
Mu Jianjian: ?
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