Chapter 171 Do You Want a Child?
Sang Luo's face suddenly darkened. Her biggest worry was Xiao Qi. Demonic beasts were known for their violent and capricious nature. How could she leave her child with Caesar with peace of mind!
"No! I have to go back and bring Xiao Qi back. If he really degenerates into a demonic beast, I can't entrust the child to him! What if he goes crazy one day and hurts Xiao Qi?!"
"With your current strength, you can't snatch the child from the Southern Beast Emperor. You might even further enrage him, causing him to hunt you down relentlessly."
Fei Yuan held Sang Luo's hand, strongly disagreeing. "Even a tiger won't eat its cubs. He may be ruthless to you, but he values his offspring highly. He probably won't hurt it. But the worry is that the little snake cub will grow up with him. Over time, it will inadvertently be contaminated with demonic energy, and its personality will gradually become cold and violent, assimilated into a demonic beast… If that day really comes, you and your son will be on opposite sides."
"I will definitely take the child and raise him myself," Sang Luo said, filled with anger. "As for him, I'll just pretend I never met him! We'll never see each other again!"
"Little Luo'er, calm down," Fei Yuan said, taking out a scroll. "I have good news for you. I've successfully restored the Reincarnation Pill's recipe. I only need a few more rare spiritual herbs. You won't have to wait too long."
Sang Luo looked at the pill recipe. "…Haven't you always wanted a child? I'll give you one after we go back this time, how about that?"
She wanted to break through to the Emperor rank as soon as possible.
Fei Yuan looked at her deeply, his Adam's apple bobbing. "Have you thought it through? Are you really willing?"
Sang Luo stepped forward and hugged Fei Yuan, holding his waist tightly, resting her head on his chest.
Fei Yuan felt the warmth gradually soaking his chest, and his heart trembled. He slowly reached out and wrapped his arms around her waist, unable to say a word.
…
Mi Xing clutched his head and fled back to the south in a disheveled state.
Countless black threads connected the fallen head and the severed neck. Plus, he escaped fast enough, and Fei Yuan didn't destroy the demonic beast core in his body in time, so he managed to save his life.
He was filled with regret.
Last night, he took advantage of the night to attack the Western Beast Emperor but was unexpectedly intercepted by Fei Yuan and Lou Tian halfway. It was then that he discovered that the Central Phoenix Emperor's strength had recovered greatly!
He was no match for him at all!
Unless he joined forces with Quan Jin to take down the Phoenix Emperor, this major threat!
But Quan Jin was preoccupied and hesitated to cooperate with him. Mi Xing then manipulated the servants in the palace and, through clues, discovered that Quan Jin secretly cared about that foreign female.
The foreign female not only knew Quan Jin's secretly protected son, but the snake cub also called her 'Mother' on his own. The relationship between the two was self-evident.
Mi Xing sent demonic beasts to ambush them on the way, not expecting to take down Fei Yuan, but thinking of taking Sang Luo while things were chaotic, to threaten Quan Jin to cooperate and join forces with him.
Ahead, a huge vine serpent, hundreds of meters long, appeared, like a dragon or a jiao, shaking the heavens and the earth.
The giant serpent's body was not a substantial body of flesh, but formed by countless black qi. The wings spread behind it almost covered the sky.
A part of its body was burned by true fire, revealing the dense white bones inside.
"Boom!"
The vine serpent circled among the mountains, tumbling violently, rolling down countless rubble, rubbing the injured area on its body.
Its eyes turned completely black, and the evil black qi all over its body was almost out of control.
Mi Xing, holding the blood-stained head in his hands, his eyes lit up. It flew into the air and shouted, "Quan Jin, come with me to kill that dead phoenix! Avenge me— Ah!"
The black snake discovered Mi Xing and, in the next second, soared into the air, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed him, head and all.
The wound on the bone rapidly healed.
Afterward, the vine serpent vanished between heaven and earth, without a trace.
…
After Fei Yuan returned to Phoenix Emperor Palace, he searched everywhere for the spiritual materials needed to refine the Reincarnation Pill.
Several of the spiritual materials were almost extinct, making them extremely difficult to find.
Fei Yuan issued a reward of heavy gold throughout the Central Region and also traded with the other Beast Emperors and the Beast Kings of various regions and races, mobilizing almost the entire Eastern Continent to search. Half a month later, he finally gathered enough spiritual materials and went into seclusion to refine the pill.
The Reincarnation Pill was a top-notch divine pill with the power to eliminate the power of rules. Even with the pill recipe, it was by no means easy for Fei Yuan to successfully refine it. The first time, in less than three days, it ended in failure, and all the spiritual materials were destroyed.
Fei Yuan wasn't discouraged. He immediately mobilized his beastmen to find a new round of materials. The thing that alchemists feared most was failure. Each failure allowed him to take one more step on the road to success.
On Sang Luo's side, after returning to the palace, she originally wanted to get pregnant with Fei Yuan's child as soon as possible, but she didn't expect that he would go into seclusion to refine pills all day long after returning to the palace. She couldn't find a chance to do that at all.
When she heard that he had failed for the fifth time, Sang Luo couldn't sit still.
It wasn't that she didn't believe in Fei Yuan's talent and strength. He dared to give her a guarantee, so he must have the determination to succeed, but who knew how long it would be before he really succeeded in refining the Reincarnation Pill.
Sang Luo wanted to reach the Emperor rank as soon as possible and bring Xiao Qi to her side to raise him. With strength, she would no longer fear that Caesar would snatch the child.
The time to conceive Fei Yuan's child would definitely be longer than a year. When she was about to give birth, the Reincarnation Pill would be almost refined. She was in a hurry.
"Noble Female, His Majesty has emerged from seclusion."
"Hmm, the time he emerged from seclusion was seven days later than last time. Did he fail again?" Sang Luo asked, "Let me count, this is the sixth time, right."
The servant was embarrassed. "His Majesty was more cautious this time than the previous few times. He said he wanted to integrate the experience of the previous failures and rest for half a month before going into seclusion again."
Good, that's just what she wanted.
Half a month was enough.
"Where is His Majesty now?"
"Resting in the Serenity Hall."
"Has he finished his lunch?"
"No, His Majesty looked a little tired after coming out of the alchemy room and went to the Serenity Hall to rest."
After the servant left, Sang Luo asked the kitchen to cook a bowl of nourishing spiritual ginseng sweet soup. She changed into a lotus-root pink gauze dress, different from her usual style, outlining her graceful figure, with the snow-white and delicate skin on her shoulders and back looming. She tied a red silk ribbon around her waist that could be pulled open with a single tug, making her slender waist seem even more delicate.
She stood in front of the mirror and admired herself for a while, very satisfied. Any normal male, seeing such beauty, would have his blood pumping and everything would get hard.
She didn't believe that the old phoenix wouldn't be tempted!
Sang Luo carried the hot soup and went to the Serenity Hall.
Fei Yuan wasn't asleep. He was wearing a black and red brocade robe, sitting on the couch, propping his chin with one hand, still looking at the previously restored pill recipe.
He raised his pen again, correcting a few incorrectly deduced passages.
Hearing the footsteps at the door, he looked up. His dark and narrow phoenix eyes fell on her, and a dark light quickly flashed across the depths of his eyes. He closed the pill recipe in his hand. "Little Luo'er, do you have something to ask of this Emperor?"
"I heard that Your Majesty hasn't rested well these days. I specially cooked a bowl of soup. Would you like to try it?"
"Little Luo'er is thoughtful," Fei Yuan said with a smile in his phoenix eyes, but he didn't put down the book in his hand.
Sang Luo had an inspiration, scooped a spoonful of soup, and brought it to his gorgeous red lips.
Fei Yuan took a small sip and hummed softly, "The kitchen's craftsmanship is still so-so. Take it away, this Emperor doesn't have much of an appetite."
Sang Luo choked for a moment, then took out a jar of wine from the space, confidently, "This wine! I really brewed it myself. Does Your Majesty want to try it?"
"You feed me with your own mouth," The smile in his phoenix eyes deepened.
Sang Luo straddled his long and sturdy thighs, first took a sip of wine, lowered her head, and kissed his lips.
The next update will be in the late evening.
The things these past two days are finally over! I can finally update with peace of mind and don't have to rush the manuscript in the underworld late at night.
