Lin Mu wondered if Yan Xuanjing intended to harm him.
He was silent for a while, then hesitantly asked, “really?”
“……” Yan Xuanjing wasn’t quite sure.
The truth was that for the monsters that had survived in the Great Wilderness and had some status, most of it was based on strength. Only a very small number of monsters could go far with their brains or special talents.
Just like Yan Xuanjing. He was beaten by his father when he was younger, and when his father was tired of fighting, his father threw him into a pile of monsters. Besides, the vast majority of monsters were raised in a battle-royal style.
He wasn’t like a human being who could cultivate seriously and slowly, he came from being beaten and fighting, and of course he got stronger by fighting.
To tell someone how to become strong, the only thing Yan Xuanjing could think of was basically to fight.
And in the beginning, they were all beaten.
After his father fought, it was his mother. After his mother, it was other great monsters who paid him a visit. When they got tired of playing around, they just threw him into the most chaotic part of the Great Wilderness, patted themselves on the back and left.
By the time Yan Xuanjing was able to climb out of there on his own, he was already able to dominate over most of the Great Wilderness.
That’s how Yan Xuanjing grew up, and he really couldn’t think of a moderate and regular way to get stronger.
In fact, there were many weak monsters in the Great Wilderness. How did they live and cultivate? Yan Xuanjing, who was born at the peak, didn’t know much about them.
He was still young, only five hundred years old.
Unlike his father who was in his prime, and it seemed as if the Great Wilderness didn’t have any secrets in his yes.
The nine-tailed fox said, “Different monsters have different methods.
Anyway, as a nine-tailed fox, he emerged from being beaten up, and it wasn’t any different from animals fighting for territory.
As for other monsters, those who had attained spiritual awareness on their own would know what to do by instinct, and almost all of those who were born as monsters would have their elders to guide them.
As for the outsiders, there were only a handful who survived.
Even though the living environment of the Central Plains was much better than the Great Wilderness, there probably weren’t many who had a situation like Lin Mu’s.
Yan Xuanjing thought for a while and said, “Think in terms of your bloodline. How would your father become bigger and stronger, is how you should train.”
Lin Mu opened and closed his mouth, “……”
How did his father get bigger and stronger?
…… Probably by drinking more water and basking in the sun.
There was also respiration, photosynthesis and transpiration.
Lin Mu followed his thoughts and looked down at his feet.
He had no roots.
Then he looked at his hands.
He didn’t have any chloroplasts either.
Lin Mu thought for a moment and felt that it wouldn’t work.
Yan Xuanjing looked at Lin Mu’s somewhat worried expression, paused for a moment and said, “If you really can’t think of a way, then let’s fight.”
Lin Mu heard his words and looked at Yan Xuanjing, then said cautiously, “I don’t have …… a suitable partner?”
Understanding the situation, the nine-tailed fox stood up.
So Lin Mu endured a beating.
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Even if Yan Xuanjing felt hat he had thrown the fight so much he had almost thrown in the towel, Lin Mu was still powerless to fight back.
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Yan Xuanjing looked at Lin Mu, who had no good places left on his body and was lying on the ground like a corpse. There was a strong smell of blood around his nose.
Compared to normal humans, the blood didn’t have such a rusty smell. It was the same as his monstrous energy, clean and pure, like grass and trees gently brushed by the warm spring wind, lightly caressing the tip of his heart, leaving a patch of softness and relaxation.
He wanted to get closer to it.
This feeling was much stronger and clearer than before.
Yan Xuanjing took the medicine he couldn’t use from his storage ring and looked at Lin Mu who was covered in wounds and felt that he didn’t know what to do.
Really, too weak.
Yan Xuanjing was expressionless as he murmured in his heart.
Because he was injured, he didn’t use his powers much, yet Lin Mu could be beaten to this extent by relying on pure skill.
“……”
Really too weak.
Yan Xuanjing thought again, looking at the terrible state Lin Mu was in, and started to doubt himself a bit.
It seemed like he was using too heavy a hand.
But the problem wasn’t serious, and the half-monster would soon recover.
Thinking so, the nine-tailed fox took off Lin Mu’s clothes and gave him the medicine.
Lin Mu shivered at Yan Xuanjing’s effortless movements and let out a few weak grunts.
“…… Hurts.”
The nine-tailed fox, who had never waited on anyone before, paused for a few seconds and continued slowly, using less force with his actions.
Lin Mu groaned again, “hurts.”
It was strange.
Yan Xuanjing thought.
Before, he hadn’t heard Lin Mu say that it was painful when they fought, but at this moment, he knew what pain was.
Lin Mu was lying on the ground with his head turned to the side. His eyes swept over the green grass and he was confused and in a bit of a trance when he saw the little flowers that looked like little stars. They made Lin Mu suspect that he was seeing the Morning Dusk by the side of the road to the underworld.
The wounds on his body were very painful and gradually began to itch.
Lin Mu gently rubbed the grass under his cheeks, making a few uncomfortable moans. He thought that if his wound could heal quickly, that would be the best, then he became so tired that he closed his eyes.
Yan Xuanjing slowly applied the medicine to Lin Mu’s back, then cleaned up the blood stains on his back and watched as Lin Mu’s back returned to its original smooth state. He noticed that this little half-monster’s skin was white and translucent, even reflecting a little light under the moonlight.
Yan Xuanjing stopped to admire the beauty in front of his eyes, and without any excessive movements, reached out and prepared to remove Lin Mu’s trousers and continue to administer medicine to him.
At this time, a soft cluster of light fell under the silver moonlight. Blown by the night wind, it trembled twice, then shivered against the wind and floated towards Lin Mu. The ball of light rolled around on his back a few times, before jumping up slightly and smashing into Lin Mu’s body.
Yan Xuanjing froze slightly as he watched the group of moon essences grow, his eyebrows raised slightly as he was surprised by the number of these light essences.
Yan Xuanjing could tell what those light clusters were at a glance.
In popular terms, it was the moon essence of 'absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon' — and it was also one of those treasures that monsters could occasionally capture. However, it was extremely rare, and usually only monsters with great merit or good luck could get some.
Yan Xuanjing had used and seen the moon essence quite a number of times, but it was the first time he’d seen so many.
It was almost impossible to call it a moon essence. A stream of light formed from the countless soft and white clusters of light, and like a delicate tulle, they gently covered Lin Mu as he laid on the ground.
As a result, the courtyard was covered in a thin layer of glowing light.
A few small groups were pushed out of the stream of light and moved around in circles. Then they swayed and flew towards Yan Xuanjing, falling lightly on his head and eyelashes like shimmering balls of fluff, and hanging from the body of the great monster.
Yan Xuanjing looked at this courtyard, which was always shrouded in something that made one feel relaxed and comfortable, and frowned slightly, feeling as if he had seen this picture before.
He watched as more and more small clusters of light were pushed out of line and turned towards him with the help of the night wind. With a gust they entered his body.
It was like the moment when the mountain stream broke through the ice, like buds breaking through the ground, like a huge whale breaking out of the water. His internal injuries felt like they were being washed away by something warm, slightly painful and slightly swollen, but slowly and noticeably mending the part he was missing.
Yan Xuanjing stood and watched as the wind he brought with him caused the light clusters to flutter, looked at Lin Mu, and then held the medicine in his hand.
He should have seen this image before.
But five hundred years of memory was too long for him to remember where exactly he had seen it.
Just looking at the light made his heart feel peaceful and warm.
Yan Xuanjing raised his hand, looked at the clusters of light clinging to his hand and clothes, and gave them a gentle shake. The shaken light fell to the ground, and the grass there woke up, sprouting many tender buds one after the other.
Some of them were carried away by the night wind and fell on the newly cultivated spiritual medicine field. As soon as the light clusters went in, the spiritual medicine that had taken more than ten years to sprout suddenly broke through and produced a bright green bud.
Yan Xuanjing watched the field of spiritual medicine for a long time, then turned his head back to find that Lin Mu, who should have been lying flat on the ground, was curled up on his side. The bloodstains and wounds had completely disappeared, and even the clothes he had torn off earlier were sewn together with a fine thread of moon essence.
Even Yan Xuanjing, who was a nine-tailed fox, had never been treated like this before.
When he was young in the Great Wilderness, even during times when he was hovering between life and death, he had never seen such a sight. A great nine-tailed fox, during the many times he was close to death, the sun and the moon had only shed a few essences on him, and they had even been stolen by other monsters standing guard.
“……”
Jealous.
Yan Xuanjing stood silently beside Lin Mu and pushed against the stream of moon essence until the light faded away, the spiritual medicine in the spiritual medicine field had begun to unfold its branches and leaves, and even the grass around it was full of flowers.
Yan Xuanjing bent down and reached out to nudge Lin Mu, who was sleeping soundly on the grass.
As soon as he got close, he discovered that for some unknown amount of time, Lin Mu had grown a small sprout on top of his head.
Lin Mu was awakened by him, looked at him sleepily for a long time, and suddenly gained some energy, rolled up, looked down and checked his body, turned around and looked around, froze for a few seconds, then stammered out, “I, I was beaten to death?!”
Yan Xuanjing’s eyes fell on the small bud on Lin Mu’s head and slowly replied, “Not dead.
Lin Mu heard him, climbed up to turn on the light in the courtyard, and looked around carefully.
Not only was the grass full of flowers, even the potted plants were blooming and bearing fruit, and those that could not bloom or bear fruit looked full of spirit.
“……Something happened here?” Lin Mu asked in confusion.
“En.” Yan Xuanjing nodded, “moon essence fell.”
Lin Mu didn’t know what moon essence was, and listening to Yan Xuanjing’s calm voice with no fluctuations, he felt that this was probably due to the power of the Relaxed Emperor.
He was about to ask if Moon Essence could be used for cultivation when he noticed that the great monster’s gaze was hovering over him.
Lin Mu felt that on the surface, Yan Xuanjing, this monster, had a sullen face and spoke in a cold tone, but the truth was that he was very easy to understand, and he didn’t have the cunningness of the fox spirits mentioned in the legends.
Thinking about it, he raised his hand and touched his head.
With this touch, he touched some delicate leaves, and at the same time, he felt as if his scalp had been pulled.
Lin Mu: ……
Lin Mu: ???
Lin Mu touched his head with both hands and his eyes widened, “there’s …. what?”
Yan Xuanjing replied, “buds of a sapling.”
Lin Mu’s entire body jumped: “?!”
What?
What’s going on?
“Why would my head have……” He stopped halfway, covered his head, and pulled down a leaf. He felt his scalp hurt and grimaced as he looked at the leaf.
It was the Relaxed Emperor’s leaf.
Lin Mu: “……”
Oh great.
He was now a person with chloroplasts.
Lin Mu covered his head and asked Yan Xuanjing, “Do you know …… any way to get rid of this?”
Yan Xuanjing raised his head and was slightly shocked when he heard this question and replied, “Press it.
“?”
Are you monsters always so casual?
Lin Mu hesitated for a moment before obediently pressing down on the little seedling. As soon as he used his power, the seedling acted like a mimosa, closing its leaves and shrinking back.
Lin Mu heaved a sigh of relief.
Yan Xuanjing now knew that Lin Mu’s blood came from some kind of tree.
But he didn’t say anything. Seeing that Lin Mu was fine, he said goodbye.
He had to wait at the entrance of the passage for his father’s letter, also, the Ginseng Baby was still looking for his friends in the mountain.
He didn’t stay with little Ginseng, leaving only two strands of fur behind, so he could probably have found one or two of those alert little monsters.
Lin Mu sent Yan Xuanjing to the gate of the courtyard, and after hesitating for a while, he still asked, “If you are not busy …… when you have time, could you come back?”
Yan Xuanjing understood, it meant he wanted to fight again.
He asked, “are you not afraid of pain?”
“I’m afraid, but I have to work hard.” Lin Mu said, looking at the monster who had a cold expression and revealed two small dimples as he smiled, “it won’t always be me who hurts.”
Yan Xuanjing paused and looked at Lin Mu with an incredulous expression.
This little half-monster was actually provoking him.
How audacious.
“Okay.”
He’ll take it as giving a return gift for the moon essence.
Yan Xuanjing nodded, and the next moment, he disappeared in front of Lin Mu.
Two days later, Yan Xuanjing walked to the entrance of the passageway and walked around. He received a reply from his father, given to him by the gatekeeper who was responsible to registration.
The cursive writing was unrestrained, and there was no concern about his son, no mentions about the situation in the Great Wilderness, and the letter only had a single sentence.
— How did you get stained by Di Xiu’s energy?
Thank you for this chapter! So much to process.
Lin Mu with a little sprout on his head is so cute!! 🤩
Leaves on his head! He’s got leaves on his head!
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Now he can photosynthesis 🌱🤣