Hearing Wen Xuan speaking in such a natural manner, Murong remained silent where she stood for at least half an incense. When she finally recovered, the gaze she used to look at Wen Xuan had already changed somewhat.
The first thing she thought about was that there’s a certain spiritual fetus in the cultivation world that’s formed from the combination of the cultivations between two people. It can allow them to break away from biological limitations of producing offspring. This was a legend in the cultivation world. In order to form a spiritual fetus, the two people must be in a deep relationship with high cultivations. Not to mention, there were plenty of other miscellaneous steps in between. Both cultivators would even lose a large portion of their cultivation as the price. There’s practically no one who’d do this. Therefore, despite journeying in the cultivation world for many years, the legend about the spiritual fetus remained a legend in Murong Feng’s eyes.
In other words, if this child was really a spiritual fetus, she would have to reevaluate her opinion on Wen Xuan and Jian Yi.
Thinking this, she focused her attention on examining this infant carefully. With this examination, she instantly noticed that something was off. The demonic energy on the infant’s body, although extremely light, couldn’t escape her eyes.
Matters relating to demons can be big trouble or trivial, but it can’t be easily overlooked.
“Cultivator Wen.” Murong Feng put on a proper expression and said seriously: “The origin of this child seems quite fishy. Please don’t tell lies.”
Wen Xuan didn’t particularly mind being exposed by her. He only smiled and said: “It’s not really a lie. This child’s parents are evil-doers who have died. However, the child is innocent. We couldn’t bear to leave him alone without support so we brought him with us. To say that he’s our child currently is not far from the truth.”
So that’s the case. So it’s their adopted child. Murong Feng finally settled from her shock. Her expression alleviated slightly, but a knot still remained in her heart: “But this demonic energy……”
Wen Xuan shook his head: “His mother is at least a real live human.” Since the conversation already reached this point, he could only explain the child’s family history.
“A mix blood? Such a history is really quite troublesome.” After Murong Feng finished listening, her brows furrowed. She pondered silently for a while, then started examining the child again.
In her mind, this child was just trouble. Originally, she wanted to persuade Wen Xuan to abandon him. But now that she was examining the child again, the child raised his chubby fist and waved it in front of her. His little face was so soft and tender that an area in her heart strangely softened.
For some unknown reason, she reached out and squeezed that little tiny fist.
The child wasn’t even shy with strangers. His little hand opened and grabbed Murong Feng’s hand, very soft.
“Ai.” Murong Feng sighed: “Forget it…… Although this mixblood status is a bit troublesome, it’s not completely hopeless.”
“Are you serious?” This was unexpected good news. Wen Xuan’s eyes instantly brightened.
“This child is still small. The demonic energy seemed to have been carried over from the mother’s womb, very weak. As long as he has no more contact with demonic things in the future, and his meridians are cleansed daily by spiritual energy, within two years, even this little bit of demonic energy will dissipate. By that time, he’ll be no different than a normal child.” Murong Feng said: “But before that, you should still be a little careful. Don’t let him be discovered. Those people obsessed with exterminating demons and eradicating evil definitely wouldn’t talk this kind of reason with you.”
This was the first time Wen Xuan heard of such a thing. It was hard not to feel strange: “Demonic energy can be cleaned this easily?”
“The days of demons wrecking havoc have passed too long ago. Cultivator Wen probably has never encountered this kind of thing so it’s not a surprise you don’t know.” Murong Feng smiled: “Actually, demons originally came from cultivators.”
Wen Xuan really didn’t know. So he was instantly stunned.
He quickly recalled Zhao Feiyu’s demonic appearance and shape. So originally, it was a normal human? Wen Xuan couldn’t help but feel a wave of aversion.
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“Therefore, as long as the demonic energy is not much, recovery is possible.” Murong Feng continued to say: “From this perspective, you can say, it’s a good thing he’s a mix blood between a human and a demon. If he was a mix blood between a human and a demonic beast, then it’d be completely hopeless.”
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Wen Xuan hastily patted the child on the back of his chubby hand. After struggling for a while, he finally made this brat let go.
He gave Murong Feng an apologetic smile and then carried the child back inside his room.
However, Murong Feng remained where she stood, staring at her hand, dazing off without realizing.
In the following days, Murong Feng voluntarily took over the task of cleansing the child’s demonic energy in order to allow Wen Xuan and Jian Yi to focus on their investigation. She’s a golden core cultivator anyways. Doing this thing was much easier for her than for others. And plus, the child was willing to be close to her. At first, Wen Xuan worried for a few days. Later on, he pretty much left all of the child’s usual activities, such as eating, drinking, pooping, peeing, and sleeping, to Murong Feng.
As for Jian Yi. After finally escaping from the little ancestor’s torment, he was so happy he wanted to set off fireworks.
With this kind of working condition, the two people studied the clues on the jade slip even more vigorously. Wen Xuan recorded them all down, divided them into sections, made a list, and then pulled them out one by one to discuss with Jian Yi.
Jian Yi flipped through the list. Who knows what he saw, but it made his expression change subtly: “This……”
“What?” Wen Xuan hastily leaned over.
Jian Yi shook his head and quickly flipped the page: “Nothing. I probably made a mistake.”
Unfortunately for him, Wen Xuan was extremely confident in Jian Yi’s judgement nowadays. Even if he himself thought he made a mistake, Wen Xuan still took it very seriously. Immediately, he pulled the list out of Jian Yi’s hand, flipped to the page just now and studied it earnestly.
What’s listed on this page were locations where extremely pure water objects could be, but for whatever reasons, they couldn’t be investigated fully. They were listed chronologically. The earliest locations were even too complicated for golden core cultivators. Wen Xuan didn’t consider them at all and moved to the more recent locations. Because the Thousand Sunshine Trading Company exhausted themselves on this matter, what started appearing were some abandoned locations that even foundation building and yuan gathering cultivators could explore.
The main focus of Wen Xuan’s investigations was naturally on this portion. Although he was still foundation building, from a certain perspective, he counted as half yuan gathering. Certain places he can still go.
Plus, there were many reasons why these locations were hard to explore. Some had strong demonic beasts. Some had terrible environments. Some were hidden behind hard puzzles. There were also places with a mixture of these issues.
As Wen Xuan read, his finger moved on the surface of the paper. In the end, it stopped at a certain place.
The section that his finger stopped on was a location that he marked before, meaning that when he was organizing everything, he thought this place was rather suspicious and required further investigations. However, there were also several similar marks all over this list. If it weren’t for Jian Yi’s reaction from before, he definitely wouldn’t have cared about this passage so specifically.
This was a small town bordering North Ning and West Ming. Since ancient times, West Ming has been the territory of demonic beasts. In areas like these, there’s often demonic beasts that pass through the border. This place was no different. Several years ago, an extremely powerful water type demonic beast once barged in here, causing chaos all over and wreaking havoc, causing people to sink into a perilous situation. Luckily, there were two high level cultivators traveling through this area. They paid a huge price and finally managed to exterminate this demonic beast.
With the passage of time, the place that the demonic beast wreaked havoc on, now emitted waves of cold air for some unknown reason, turning the entire area within 500 meter radius into a freezer. Ice and snow covered the place without melting all year long.
Such a strange occurrence could be related to the remains of the demonic beast which was triggering the cold air. If this guess was correct, that demonic beast must be very extraordinary. Perhaps it was the extremely pure water type object that Murong Feng needed. However, this was only a guess. Under such unknown conditions, it didn’t gain the attention of the Thousand Sunshine Trading Company.
There were some attempts to explore here before. In addition to the extremely ice cold weather conditions, the low level cultivators from the Thousand Sunshine Trading Company also encountered a maze array and felt strange disruptions in their spiritual energy. After several attempts, it was concluded without doubt that this was a hazardous location.
Wen Xuan’s finger tapped on the paper. He raised his head to ask: “Jian shidi, what do you think?”
Jian Yi’s expression was very peculiar. He looked at Wen Xuan, hesitating for a long time. Then he sighed and said with extreme difficulty: “Shixiong, I can’t say for sure. You should decide for yourself.”
“I think we should at least give it a try, but……” Wen Xuan also hesitated, looking at this information repeatedly. He suddenly noticed something again. Instantly, his eyes lit up.: “Wait! Perhaps this place is……”
He stared at the location that the demonic beast destroyed, calculated the time when the beast was eliminated, and compared the information slowly with what he remembered. Sure enough, it matched up. He couldn’t help but laugh: “So it’s like this. This place, this time. Isn’’t this the demonic beast that shifu and Daoist Master Ye killed? What a coincidence.”
Discovering this truth, Wen Xuan was exceptionally happy: “Since it’s this demonic beast, it must really be extremely powerful. I heard that shifu didn’t even escape its claws back then. After suffering heavy frost injuries, he had to recuperate for a long time before recovering.”
He put away the list, his hesitation swept away in an instant: “We definitely need to take a look at its remains. It’s 99% likely to be what we need.”
As he talked, he glanced at Jian Yi. He discovered that Jian Yi’s expression was exceptionally grave and nervous.
He thought Jian Yi had some different opinions and patiently waited.
But Jian Yi only shook his head: “I only feel like this place is too dangerous. If we must go, we need to make proper preparations.”
“Of course.” Hearing that Jian Yi only had this concern, Wen Xuan nodded his head with a smile.
Then, he calculated with his fingers. A month has almost passed, it was only a few days away from the end of the after-affects of the secret technique. Since they decided on a target, Wen Xuan went to inform Murong Feng of their departure.
Murong Feng remained sitting in the room at the top of the building. The child was currently placed by her side, curled up inside soft blankets, sleeping extremely sweetly.
“If it was convenient for me to travel, I would definitely go together with you guys.” Her words carried regret.
Wen Xuan heard, and remembered that her fire poison still required him to alleviate. For a second, he felt somewhat distressed: “Is there something I can do to help?”
“Actually yes.” Murong Feng smiled, looking somewhat calculating: “I didn’t really feel comfortable mentioning this myself, but since you offered, I’ll say it bluntly.”
“I’m all ears.”
“Since we have to separate momentarily,” Murong Feng said: “In order for my days to pass a bit more comfortably, I need you to leave something that’s part of your body.”
Hearing these words, Wen Xuan instantly felt cold sweats.
“Of course, it wouldn’t be for free.” Murong Feng crossed both hands in front of her: “You will be very satisfied with the compensation.”
Wen Xuan wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead: “Wait…… before discussing the compensation, what do I have to leave first?”
Murong Feng smiled slightly, clearly looking like she was ready to haggle.
Leaving something that’s part of his body, those words sounded rather terrifying. However, since the two had a rather harmonious relationship currently, fingers or internal organs and other related things that were too bloody were naturally not considered. If he could leave hair or fingernails or something, that would make things simple. Unfortunately, Murong Feng tried and found those ineffective. In the end, Wen Xuan cut open his wrist and left a small bowl of blood.
Pressing down on his wrist, Wen Xuan used magic to heal the injury. He looked at the bright red blood in that bowl with a bitter expression on his face the entire process.
Murong Feng used her spiritual energy and lifted the blood out of that bowl and into the air. Then with a flick of her fingers, the blood began spinning and shrinking before their eyes. Mere minutes later, all of the water in the blood evaporated and it condensed into a red colored jade-like crystal, landing on the table.
“Success.” Murong Feng was extremely happy: “Thank you for your generosity, Cultivator Wen.”
Wen Xuan reluctantly smiled in response.
“What, do you think this trade wasn’t worth it?” Murong Feng placed a storage pouch into his hands: “Wait until you see the compensation.”
This woman shouldn’t be a stingy person. This was probably Wen Xuan’s only comfort.
But he wasn’t in the mood to confirm exactly what compensation he received after selling his blood. Quickly saying his goodbyes to Murong Feng, he returned to his room with a gloomy face.
When he finally remembered this exchange and opened that storage pouch, it was already the night before departure.
When he looked, he was instantly shocked.
Wen Xuan couldn’t stop himself from taking out everything inside the storage pouch and piling them on the table.
This wasn’t the first time he saw these things. The last time he saw them was when he met Murong Feng for the first time.
Those 27 yuan gathering items!
All were present, not one missing. Murong Feng gave all of them to Wen Xuan as compensation. Because Murong Feng had asked him in detail about the items he needed, even the amount of each item was exact this time.
In other words, as long as his cultivation was ready, he could use the items before him and directly enter yuan gathering.
Receiving such a huge and unexpected gift before their departure, this was really a delight. Wen Xuan was so excited that his hands shook. This journey wasn’t safe after all. If he could become yuan gathering at this time, the difference would be extreme.
Thinking this, Wen Xuan naturally had to seize the moment. Immediately, he closed his eyes and quickly entered a cultivation state. In this state, he needed to integrate everything he’s learned so far and immerse himself within all of the cultivation in his body, in hopes of advancing.
Thank You for the chapter (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡
See I was right about her.
I actually feel that the baby also has a pure water root. I don’t know why….
I thought the same! Like maybe she was confused cause Wen Xuan was holding the baby at the time.
Irraaaa aliás tomara que ela fique com o bebê e que ele tenha raiz de água ♥️♥️🛐🛐
Hmm the spiritual fetus sounds interesting..
I’d honestly marry her lmaooo… so friggin badass 😚
Absolutely
Why do I get the feeling Wen has a connection to that demonbeast? … and they just “happened” to talk about human+ demonbeast baby’s in this chapter…🚩..just saying .. 🫣
There’s also the fact that all demonic beasts are scared of him… (I don’t actually know if the reason was already explained and I just missed it)