Chapter 406: Returning Once More
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Sang Luo woke from her slumber, gazing at the familiar roof of the Phoenix Palace. She was back! Wonderful!
Si Ye was asleep by the bedside. A small, red figure jumped onto her lap, exclaiming in delight, “Mother! You’re awake!”
Sang Luo picked up Little Zhenzhen, cradling her. She had grown quite a bit and felt heavy. Her head was robust and spirited, her red downy fur as fiery and dazzling as flames. The two tender little horns on her forehead had also become increasingly elegant and refined, feeling hard and cool to the touch, like jade antlers.
Thankfully, she wasn't as reckless as she was when she was little; otherwise, if she had jumped on her like that, her old mother would have lost half her life!
Sang Luo stroked her little head, “Shush, keep it down, don’t disturb your father’s rest.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Si Ye wake up.
“Luo Luo!” Si Ye’s red eyes gleamed, even more excited than his daughter. He rushed forward and embraced her, lowering his head to kiss her lips with longing.
“I missed you so much…”
Sang Luo blushed and playfully scolded, “The child is still here.”
“She’s seen it all since she was little!”
“Hehe, Mother, Father, you can chat. I’ll go quickly tell Great-Uncle and the others the good news that Mother is awake!” Little Zhenzhen said, jumping off the bed and disappearing in a flash.
Sang Luo looked at her daughter, who was so perceptive, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Si Ye snuggled with her for a while before Sang Luo asked, “How long was I asleep this time?”
She had only left for a day, yet Si Ye seemed as if he hadn't seen her in ages. Sang Luo had a feeling that she might have accidentally traveled through a time tunnel again and fallen into a deep sleep.
“Eleven years and three months.” Si Ye looked at her, extremely worried, yet also concealing a hint of disappointment.
Sang Luo was shocked, “That’s even longer than the last time I was asleep, but I only stayed there for one night.”
Minos walked over, “The longer the time span you cross, the longer you stay there, the longer the sleep will be… The time you traveled to this time is probably ten thousand years ago.”
“Now that you mention it, it does seem like it. When I woke up last time, I was in a mass burial ground. That place was filled with blood and the stench of corpses, but I vaguely felt that the spiritual energy there was extremely rich and pure, even purer than the spiritual energy of any secret realm I've ever seen.”
Fei Yuan also came over with a bowl of medicinal soup. Sang Luo took a sip and realized it was a tonic for pregnancy. She remembered that she was still pregnant with a fox cub, and quickly looked down at her belly.
More than ten years had passed, and her belly had become even rounder.
The time required to nurture the offspring of divine beasts was too long and boring. Sleep was indeed a good solution. Sang Luo couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
“Luo’er, don’t worry. During the time you were asleep, I have been using world energy crystals to supplement the energy needed for this child. You don’t have to worry,” Fei Yuan comforted her.
“Yes, right, what about Little Bao? Is he alright?”
“Don’t worry, Little Bao wasn’t harmed. He’s fine, but… he’s fallen into a deep sleep.” Fei Yuan looked at her, hesitant to speak.
Knowing that she couldn't hide this matter, she revealed everything, “During the years you were asleep, he also fell into a deep sleep and hasn’t woken up until now.”
“How could this be? Little Bao already knows he was wrong.” Sang Luo was extremely worried.
Fei Yuan put his arm around Sang Luo, gently patting her back, “Ultimately, it's the influence of the Exquisite Heart. After you were taken away by the Oblivion Black Hole, the Demon Lord’s subordinate, He Luan, took Little Bao away, wanting to enthrone Little Bao as the new Demon Lord, but in reality, he wanted to hold the emperor hostage to command the nobles, making Little Bao a puppet in their hands.”
“Later, Quan Jin killed his way back to the Demon Realm and brought Little Bao back, but Little Bao had no face to face him and sealed his heart, falling asleep…”
Sang Luo returned to the Demon Palace and saw Little Bao, who had fallen into a long sleep.
He was asleep in a black barrier sphere formed by demonic energy, floating in the void. His sleeping face was peaceful and serene, and his figure seemed to have grown a bit compared to before, like a twelve or thirteen-year-old human boy. The aura around him was more gloomy and powerful than before, even surpassing Quan Jin!
No wonder he would choose to sleep. At such a terrifying growth rate, it wouldn't be long before no one in the entire Beast World could be his opponent.
And under the influence of the Exquisite Heart, he would become an out-of-control killing weapon!
Quan Jin walked over and said, “During the days he stayed in the Demon Realm, he devoured hundreds of Demon Kings and four Demon Lords. He Luan and his group originally wanted to use the slave seeds left by the Demon Lord to control him for their own use, but they didn’t expect that even the slave seeds couldn’t control him. Little Bao devoured the slave seeds as well… When I rushed over, he was almost out of control. I could only put him to sleep. I’m sorry, Sang Sang.”
Sang Luo shook her head, “There’s nothing to be sorry about. It’s also that I didn’t know enough about the demon fetus. I always raised him as an ordinary child. Little Bao has always been suppressing his instincts when he was by our side. He was suppressed for too long, so he was easily deceived by the Demon Lord.”
Little Bao was young, but he had memory inheritance, making him the most precocious of all the children.
He realized very early on that he was different from his older brothers and sisters, and different from his father and mother.
They were ultimately not the same kind of people.
The Demon Lord used this reason to brainwash him over and over again—that he was the person closest to Little Bao, the closest person who stood by his side, and that the Demon Realm was his home, deceiving Little Bao’s trust.
Quan Jin walked up to Little Bao, and a platinum bone blade appeared in his hand.
Sang Luo’s breathing tightened, “What are you going to do!”
Quan Jin handed the bone blade to her, “Sang Sang, you are his biological mother, you gave him life. If that day really comes, only you are qualified to take back his life.”
As a member of the Demon Clan, he could understand Little Bao’s desire to devour him, but he couldn’t tolerate Little Bao developing a desire to devour his biological mother!
He would never allow this child to harm Sang Luo.
The reason he hadn't acted was that he was waiting for her to come back.
Sang Luo returned the ancient blade to him, “Perhaps there is another way. When I lived in Qingqiu, I saw in the library pavilion that there was a book that wrote about the Reforming Technique, perhaps we can separate the Exquisite Heart in Little Bao’s body.”
The two went to Qingqiu.
After many years of absence, the mansion had become desolate without an owner to clean it. The rooms and stone slabs were covered with dust and cobwebs, weeds grew in the cracks of the walls and floor tiles, and the spiritual herbs in the garden were all withered.
Sang Luo came to the library pavilion to find the ancient book she had accidentally seen back then. Quan Jin also helped to search.
Three days later, Sang Luo found the book.
The good news was that the Reforming Technique could indeed separate the Exquisite Heart in Little Bao’s body. Sang Luo memorized the required incantations and materials, but the only thing missing was the most important item—the Creation Furnace!
Sang Luo found the fragments of the Creation Furnace from her space. The divine artifact had gone through tens of thousands of years of circulation in the world and had long been decayed. After Anubis was resurrected, it completely shattered into this state.
Sang Luo had preserved the fragments of the Creation Furnace very well, not missing a single piece, but Lou Xian Yue had said that most of the materials needed to repair the Creation Furnace had disappeared from the world and couldn't be gathered at all.
“It seems I have to leave you all once more.”
The current Beast World doesn't have the materials to repair the divine artifact, so she will return to ten thousand years ago to find them!
