“Okay, okay,” Di Wu lightly pushed the jade aside, picked up his phone and glanced at the news that Lin Mu had just sent. He wasn’t too surprised.
He replied to Lin Mu with a simple “got it” and let out a small snort, “tattletale little brat.”
Meanwhile, Lin Mu was flipping through the books left by the Old Turtle when he saw Di Wu’s text message. It dawned on him that Di Wu was also an actual tree spirit.
After skimming through the book’s contents, he grabbed his phone and messaged Di Wu asking how he could become stronger.
For a moment, Di Wu didn’t know how to respond upon receiving the message.
Becoming stronger… If one were to ask both Di Xiu and Di Wu about this matter, they truly had no idea.
After all, they were sacred trees that had been nurtured under the essence of the sun and moon. Once they had gained spiritual wisdom and become a monster, they were already really strong.
Their strength was innate.
Di Wu pondered for a while before recalling what some of his old friends did to raise their children. He simply replied: first get beaten.
However, he felt that it wasn’t quite appropriate and added another sentence: you’re still young and have only recently awakened; don’t be so impatient.
If this was a normal situation, Lin Mu would have known from the start that he was a half-monster, and he would still be a little baby. He would have had plenty of time to take things slowly.
Even though the growth period of a half-monster was much faster than that of a normal monster, they still shouldn’t grow as fast as humans, especially if it was a Relaxed Emperor, a sacred tree known for its slow growth rate.
Di Wu flicked Di Xiu on the head, causing him to feel dizzy. However, he could understand why Di Xiu had resorted to that method.
His presence had been discovered and it was too late to call for reinforcements. Naturally, his first reaction would be to hide the existence of his wife and child.
He had put in a tremendous amount of effort to camouflage and conceal his family’s presence, which drained him greatly. So it was perfectly normal for him to collapse.
Since he couldn’t protect his wife and child, it would be better for the one who inherited his bloodline to live their life in ignorance. It was better to be born, live, and die as a human rather than follow in his footsteps.
But things changed unexpectedly. Who knew that Lin Mu, who originally only had a hundred years as a human being, would suddenly take an accidental detour?
Di Wu reached out and took the jade with the remnants of Di Xiu’s soul and placed it in his pocket, then patted him, “there’s a fox spirit there. Although the energy isn’t quite right, it’s probably that fox’s brat. In any case, you don’t have to worry.”
Thinking of this, he felt that it was lucky, really lucky.
The jade turned twice in his pocket.
Di Wu called the monsters who had surrendered to him and cleaned up every bit of his tracks.
After tidying everything up, Di Wu left several imprints in some corners of the room, and after finishing his handiwork, he watched as this room turned into a cage and grinned, “heh, you want to catch me?”
“We’re going.” He patted the jade that remained still in his pocket, scrolled through the information stored in his phone, gave a lazy stretch, put on his coat and slowly walked out of the room.
This was a luxury resort, and Di Wu walked through the gate, got into the car waiting at the door, and drove away, leaving a trail of dust in his wake.
Di Wu sat in the car, turning the phone lazily in his hand. The small piece of jade slipped out of his pocket, rolled around several times, then slowly came back and bumped into him before stopping.
Di Wu was able to defend himself against black omens and violence, and by staying with him, Di Xiu would be able to reduce his resentful energy as quickly as possible.
At the moment, the ugly stains on the jade had disappeared quite a bit.
Di Wu gently nudged him and whispered, “I’m still searching for someone who can cultivate spiritual medicine…”.
Back then, when he came across a human with the last name Tan, he decided to befriend him and try to find someone with this special talent, whether human or monster in disguise.
Little did he know that the first person Tan introduced him to was Di Xiu’s son.
And because of that, he also managed to pull Di Xiu, this unlucky fella, out.
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Di Wu used his strength to rub the jade, “if we really can’t find any, we might have to get someone nearer.”
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And the things that the older generation needed to deal with by themselves, they usually would not go to their next generation.
This was an elder’s most basic self-esteem.
Di Xiu didn’t like doing this.
However, across the years, Di Wu had experience so many things, and felt completely indifferent.
The reason he didn’t go directly to Lin Mu was because he happened to learn about Di Xiu’s situation and coincidentally found him while fishing for his body and soul.
He considered Di Xiu’s feelings, which is why he chose not to take the easiest route. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble searching for monsters that could cultivate spiritual medicine.
Apart from a few individuals who were specifically created for spiritual medicine, no one else could compare to the positive impact of a Relaxed Emperor on the land.
“That’s settled,” Di Wu made the decision on his own. “We’ll use this opportunity to retrieve more of your soul and help you recover faster.”
Upon hearing this, Di Xiu remained motionless.
This week, Lin Mu moved his desk by the window at the east end of his office. When there was no work to attend to, he would simply recline in his chair and enjoy basking in the sun.
Because the books given to him by Old Turtle said:
Absorb the essence of the sun and moon, deeply draw in purified water, and after a long time, your mind would open and you will obtain spiritual wisdom. Gain a human form and nine apertures, and after three thousand years, turn into a great monster.
The translation was–
Drink more water.
Get plenty of sun.
After three thousand years, you’ll be a great monster.
Upon seeing this, Lin Mu even thought that he had been deceived.
However, when he asked Di Wu about it, Di Wu confirmed its authenticity.
–In any case, this answer was much more reliable than being beaten first.
Recalling what Yan Xuanjing had mentioned before about different monsters having different cultivation methods. Lin Mu moved his desk in half-disbelief after receiving confirmation from Di Wu positioned himself by the window where he could bask in sunlight all day long.
After transforming into a monster and gaining monstrous energy while encountering various peculiar things along the way, Lin Mu realized that his senses became sharper. His body grew stronger to the point where even as the summer sun intensified in heat each passing day, it didn’t affect him at all.
This is probably what the book meant by the heat and cold not being able to penetrate.
Lin Mu faced the setting sun, his hat was placed on the table beside him, and he was reading a book in the fading sunlight.
The little seedling on his head extended its five leaves under the setting sun, releasing glowing dust from each leaf, resembling the light clusters that fell from the big tree in Lin Mu’s dream.
Lin Mu slowly flipped through several books in his hands. Apart from learning two days ago that as a plant, he needed ample sunlight exposure, there was no other gain at all.
He sighed, closed the book, checked the time, and stood up to leave work.
The work in their office couldn’t really be called busy.
Because offices like theirs existed throughout the country and many monsters from the Great Wilderness would choose regions with suitable climates to settle in. As a result, Lin Mu’s department didn’t have much to take care of.
What’s more, since his monstrous power had increased so rapidly recently, those who came to the office to do business were basically calm and gentle under the comfort of a Relaxed Emperor’s power, and they even spoke in a soft voice.
Lin Mu put on his hat, bought a roast chicken and a cantaloupe from the supermarket in the nearby shopping mall, and rode his small electric scooter home into the sunset.
Yan Xuanjing was again waiting at the door of his courtyard.
He had come here so recently that Milky had come and gone like a shadow.
But Lin Mu didn’t mind too much – maybe it was because this big monster always came here and he had no sense of security, but Milky went to sleep in his bed with him every night.
Being so close to his dog, who acted like a cat, Lin Mu was extremely happy, and since he could hug the dog to sleep every day and touch his fluffy fur, it couldn’t be better.
“I bought roast chicken!” Lin Mu said to Yan Xuanjing.
The cantaloupe was used to extract some juice for the little monsters.
Part of the small courtyard was hollowed out and used as the foundation for the greenhouse. The little monsters were busy every day. Thanks to the small number of people in the village, each family was separated by more than a hundred metres, otherwise they would have noticed something was wrong a long time ago.
These little monsters really liked to drink fruit juice and were slightly repulsed by food. So every day this week, Lin Mu would buy different fruits and vegetables to make juice for them to drink.
Yan Xuanjing looked at the roasted chicken Lin Mu was carrying and gave a modest nod.
The small monsters saw Lin Mu and Yan Xuanjing walk in together and stopped their approach.
— They were very close to Lin Mu, but Yan Xuanjing’s expressionless face was truly frightening.
Lin Mu took the roasted chicken into the kitchen, served Yan Xuanjing sliced chicken, and squeezed out four more cups of juice, only to find that one small cup was missing.
Lin Mu looked at the three little monsters who had come in together, patted a little mimosa on the head and asked, “Where is the little ginseng?
Little Mimosa blushed and her voice was high like a mosquito, “Big Brother Ginseng took some spiritual medicine and went to help Uncle Tree heal his wounds.”
Lin Mu jumped, “alone?”
The slightly taller Mimosa nodded, “en”.
Lin Mu looked at the taller mimosa who was blushing and staring at him, and raised his hand to pat the heads of the three little monsters, distributing his favour equally.
He walked back into the house, looked at Yan Xuanjing who was sitting straight and upright as he concentrated on attentively eating the roasted chicken on the plate, and said, “Little Ginseng went to the mountains by himself…”
“No need to worry.” Yan Xuanjing put down the chopsticks in his hand, “there is no danger in the mountains.”
Ever since he threw back all the things the little monsters had given him, all the monsters who were skeptical of the nine-tailed fox’s existence didn’t even dare to look up.
Originally, the god of Qingyao Mountain, who was so worried about the conflict between the monsters, was now extremely lazy, lying on the mountain every day, relaxing and basking in the sun. Two days ago, when Yan Xuanjing went to see if there was any response from the Great Wilderness, he was dragged into a whole afternoon of of card games.
Lin Mu listened to what Yan Xuanjing said and didn’t worry too much.
After all, Yan Xuanjing’s brain wasn’t the type to beat around the bush, and he would not exaggerate anything.
If he said it was safe, then it was safe.
Lin Mu simply put on an apron and made himself a dinner.
Yan Xuanjing finished the roast chicken and watched Lin Mu’s busy back, feeling that the life of this little Relaxed Emperor was really quite monotonous.
During dinner, Lin Mu muttered, “I still want to learn to fly.
Yan Xuanjing nodded.
Whatever Lin Mu said was fine.
Lin Mu had mentally prepared himself, and after eating, he prepared to climb into the room and jump under the beautiful moonlight. As a result, he was carried into the sky by Yan Xuanjing like a little chick.
The fox spirit looked down at the small fried egg-shaped courtyard on the ground, thought for a moment, and felt that this height was about right.
Lin Mu hugged Yan Xuanjing’s neck tightly, staring dazedly at the clouds within reach, and for a long time, he didn’t dare reach out to touch them.
His grip on the clothes tightened and he asked cautiously, “What are you going to do?”
“Throw you down,” Yan Xuanjing said.
Lin Mu heard his words, looked down at the small courtyard beneath his feet and took a deep breath, “okay.
No matter where he jumped from, it was still a jump.
He would just think of it as bungee jumping.
Yan Xuanjing watched as Lin Mu slowly let go of him and threw Lin Mu straight down from the sky.
……
……
“……”
Holy shit!
Holy shit!
Holy shit!!!
Lin Mu’s eyes were closed, the feeling of weightlessness was very terrible, and the wind was like a knife against his body. His entire body had lost its perception, and his entire mind was filled with ‘this time I’m dead’.
Yan Xuanjing was expressionless as he followed Lin Mu closely and dove down, and when he saw that Lin Mu was so shocked that he couldn’t even open his eyes, he reached out to catch Lin Mu.
Surprised, Lin Mu slowly opened his eyes and looked at the ground, which was still quite far away, and was stunned for a long time before he reacted, “I failed?”
“En.” Yan Xuanjing looked at the pale Lin Mu and slowly held him as they descended. He thought for a while and said, “you’re probably not cut out for this.”
On reflection, Lin Mu had too little experience.
In such a critical situation, he wasn’t able to think.
But he had learned to fight very quickly.
Yan Xuanjing held Lin Mu and fell steadily into the courtyard. He searched his memory for other methods to learn flying. As soon as he looked up, he could see the little Ginseng coming back from the outside with a spring in his step. Behind him was a ball of white fluff that looked exactly like the Milky.
Little Ginseng pattered over and opened the gate, bringing the dog in and saying happily, “Lin Mu, Lin Mu, I brought Milky back!”
Yan Xuanjing stared at the pile of fuzz with no expression on his face, and a chill of rejection ran through his entire body, radiating for thousands of miles.
The little fluff felt nothing at all, looked around the small courtyard with great interest, and finally its eyes fell on Yan Xuanjing, walked over to him, sat down and looked up.
— Milky, Daddy’s here.
— Scram!
The translator has this to add:
Now there’s two fluffy foxes!
Oho here comes daddy fox 🤭
Hahahahaha! 🤣🤣🤣 Your father is here Milky!!
lmao the fox dad is here
Thanks for the chapter!
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Senior Milky is here to meet his future son-in-law..