Chapter 202: The Queen and her Daughter Appear
She immediately looked around vigilantly, thinking that her daughter couldn't be in this situation for no reason, and someone must be behind it!
"who!"
Zhou Li was extremely angry. While protecting his daughter, he shouted towards the empty surroundings.
"No... not a human."
Zhou Ling finally came to consciousness. She reached out and held her mother's still trembling hand, feeling the real ground beneath her feet. She looked at the anxious looks in her mother's and Da Niu and Er Niu's eyes, and her nose suddenly felt sore, and tears began to fall uncontrollably.
"Don't cry, who bullied you!"
Feeling his daughter curled up in his arms, her body trembling slightly, Zhou Li felt very uncomfortable.
She has always been by her daughter's side. Who on earth could bully her daughter right under her nose!
"No one is bullying me, I'm just... just a little scared."
Her voice was choked and her speech was a little intermittent. Zhou Ling really couldn't express how she felt at the moment. So many people died at the hands of the Demon Lord. She stood in the air, watching helplessly, but could not do anything, could not stop it.
Before, she had some complaints against the Heavenly Dao that had pulled her up to heaven, but now, after seeing those things, she seemed to understand how the Heavenly Dao felt when these things happened.
The deep feeling of powerlessness almost overwhelmed her.
As the heavenly way of this world, it was born with the duty of protection, but because of its own weakness, it had to go through this kind of thing over and over again, watching the creatures it had nurtured enter the stomachs of others over and over again, becoming food, becoming nutrients, and entering the six realms of reincarnation. But in the next life, it would still repeat the same mistakes, over and over again...
The Way of Heaven is not a person. Its existence is a rule and a silent protection.
It shouldn't have any emotions, but after experiencing so many world destructions, perhaps it couldn't bear it and was trying its best to find ways to stop it.
But why does it have to pull souls from other worlds to stop this?
Zhou Ling half-knelt on the ground, pounding her head in pain, her two thin eyebrows deeply furrowed, her face full of difficulty.
Zhou Li didn't know what had frightened her daughter into this state. She only knew that what she could do now was to protect and comfort her daughter.
"Don't be afraid, Mom is here."
The temperature was actually quite hot around the volcano, but when Zhou Li touched his daughter's cold little hands and looked at her pale face, he took off his coat without hesitation and put it on his daughter. He gently held her in his arms, patted her head to comfort her again and again, humming the tune of her most familiar nursery rhyme.
It is said that mothers are the most reliable guardians of their children, but whenever Zhou Li thinks of this idea, he finds it ridiculous.
She is willing to risk her life for her daughter, but now she is weak, so how can she be considered a guardian angel?
Even if you are always with me and guarding me, it is still easy for someone to take advantage of you and your soul to leave your body. Is this a trivial matter?
If she is not careful, the soul will not come back and her daughter will die!
At this moment, Zhou Li's nose felt sour and bitter. Listening to her daughter's barely perceptible sobs, she also had the urge to cry along with her.
"From now on, just eat one meal a day. Use the time you save to practice and become stronger."
Her mother's voice rang above her head, and she suddenly said this. Zhou Ling forgot to cry out of confusion. She looked up in a daze, looking at her mother with a puzzled look in her eyes.
"I'm weak and can't protect you."
It was a very soft sentence. If Zhou Ling didn't listen carefully, she wouldn't be able to hear what her mother said.
At this moment, she suddenly realized that her soul leaving her body had also had a great impact on her mother. "Don't be so arrogant. Didn't we agree that entering Taoism to cultivate immortality is for longevity, and longevity is for enjoying life longer? Now even the daily meals have been reduced, how can you say that you are enjoying life?"
Once you become a cultivator, you won’t get hungry easily. With spiritual power to sustain you, you can go without food for ten days or half a month without taking fasting pills.
"I have to roll it up, otherwise what happened today will happen again. I have to be prepared. I can't just sit there and wait for death."
Zhou Li answered very seriously, with an attitude more serious than ever before.
Zhou Ling swallowed silently and began to feel pressured.
After all, at the beginning, she didn't know what her specific spiritual roots were, she only knew that her aptitude was poor, so she just focused on practicing.
At that time, my mother could easily circulate her spiritual power for one cycle before going to bed, and her progress in cultivation would catch up with hers in many days.
Although she now knew the true situation of her spiritual roots and no longer worried about her future, it had become a habit for her to practice. It had nothing to do with her spiritual root aptitude. If she didn't take some time to practice every day, she would feel itchy all over and uncomfortable.
However, after all her hard training, her progress was still about the same as her mother's.
She was making progress, and her mother didn't stop either. During the year she was in seclusion practicing, her mother also quietly started practicing outside. She was no longer careless about her daily practice, but would set aside one or two hours to concentrate on it.
The same goes for swordsmanship. While practicing and training with swordsmanship, you can even take some time to learn Taoism, which can be said to be three things at once.
But despite this, my mother's daily life was not so stressful. When it was time for dinner, she would clean up and cook. When she was tired of practicing, she also liked to sew a few clothes by hand.
Originally, Zhou Ling was very tense about cultivation, but the relaxation brought by her mother gradually affected her. Although she felt tense in cultivation, her mentality was much more relaxed, just like her mother.
But now, mother feels that she is weak and needs to work hard to become stronger. Then... the only sense of relaxation around Zhou Ling will no longer exist.
Roll up, roll up hard, but this kind of days will not last forever. In the future, when they are strong enough to protect themselves, maybe they will be able to really relax.
Life seemed to have returned to normal. They only had one meal a day, and the food was relatively simple. The mother and son took turns cooking, one person was responsible for a day.
The spiritual energy within the secret realm is already rich, and now that we are in the Twin Secret Realm, which is full of primitiveness, even a place as rich in spiritual energy as the Twin Secret Realm is a small mirror separated from the original stone mirror, so there is no need to mention the spiritual energy within this primitive realm.
In the early morning, when the mist appeared, spiritual energy attached to the mist, accompanied by the first ray of dawn rising between heaven and earth. At that moment, Zhou Ling felt that he had stayed in the spiritual mist for too long, and his hair and eyebrows were about to condense into water droplets. These were not water droplets condensed from mist, but water droplets of the level of spiritual energy turning into liquid!
In this environment, the mother and daughter cherish time to the extreme, and it is no exaggeration to call them masters of time management.
The Hengyue Sword entered the volcano for repairs and has not come out yet, but it is still early before the secret realm is closed, so there is no need to rush.
What is most urgent now is to practice as much as possible while still in the secret realm, in such an environment with abundant spiritual energy.
"Mom, why don't we just save that meal? I still have the fasting pills that Master gave me. They are all top-grade and don't have that much poison."
Suddenly, that feeling of relaxation disappeared. At the beginning, Zhou Ling felt that such daily practice was quite tiring, but the environment he was in now was really unique!
One day of cultivation here can equal more than ten days of cultivation after going out. The benefits are doubled, and the cultivation level can be seen to increase! Who can resist such temptation?
(End of this chapter)
