Chapter 428 - Plucking the Mushroom in the Divine Territory (2/2)

Before he could finish speaking, Yi Qing pursed his lips and picked up the retarded man stiffly. Then, he turned to walk away.

“Wait, Chef! Little Ying… Daddy will be right back. Wait for me, wait for me…”

Yi Qing walked squarely toward the plane tree, refusing to let go of Lonemoon until they arrived right below it. He pointed to the freshly grown red mushroom underneath the bunch of golden leaves. “Important business.”

“I get it.” Lonemoon rubbed his neck, which suffered from a bit of a whiplash when Yi Qing picked him up. Now that Baby Ying was out of his reach, Lonemoon could finally focus on the urgent matter at hand. From time to time, however, he would turn back to glance at the little figure playing with the immortal toy boat. He would even wave and try to get the attention of the toddler, overwhelmed with fatherly emotions. He did not even care that Little Ying did not reciprocate.

He had decided! Once he settled this problem with the small world, he would rush Lan Hua to refine 180 new dharmic artifacts so that Little Ying would have more toys to play with. He was Niu Huayun – how could his daughter only have one toy to play with?

A while later…

“This mushroom is different from all the other small worlds. How should we seal it off completely?” Lonemoon asked in a low voice.

“Master said before that our powers are sufficient,” Yi Qing answered as he furrowed his brow. He guessed, “I think she means that we would have to make use of our assistants’ authorities.”

“Let’s use our authorities to try conjuring an array!” Lonemoon suggested.

Yi Qing nodded. The two of them tried to activate an array together, making use of the assistants’ seals in their bodies. A moment later, they felt a huge burst of energy rush forward. They gathered together this energy to form a strange shape and pushed that energy toward the mushroom.

The next moment, two golden light balls appeared on either side of the mushroom. They began to form the shape of talismans, then multiplied so that the air around the mushroom soon became filled with talismans. Finally, the original two talismans turned into two half-spheres, which traveled toward each other to form a ball around the mushroom.

Suddenly, they shook wildly. Lonemoon and Yi Qing lost control of the two half-spheres. The golden array began to flicker and break apart. Even the talismans around the mushroom lost their glow. Lonemoon and Yi Qing took several steps back.

“It’s not working!” Lonemoon pressed his hand against his chest to try to calm his pounding heart down. He shook his head and said, “Even when the two of us join forces, we can’t control that small world.”

Yi Qing furrowed his brows. They had intended to seal off the small world, like the Godfiend did to the realm beyond realms. They hadn’t imagined that it would be so difficult. Even after activating their assistants’ authorities, they could not do anything to disturb that small world’s position in the plane.

“Chef, I thought that method would work, but it isn’t working at all!” Lonemoon thought for awhile, then said worriedly, “The realm beyond realms was sealed off this way as well, but that’s because it did belong to the plane originally. Otherwise, Shen Ying and I would not have entered it so easily. Let’s think of other methods to deal with this foreign small world.”

Yi Qing frowned even more deeply and replied in a low voice, “But did that small world belong to the plane in the beginning. Apart from isolating it using an encapsulation seal, what other methods do we have that would separate it from this plane?”

Lonemoon fell silent. Out of all the sorceries known to them, the encapsulation seal seemed like the most appropriate. How could they pluck this mushroom from the tree for good?

“Mommy…” Before they could think of any solution, a soft voice sounded from beside them. Something was gently tugging at Yi Qing’s sleeve.

“Master!” They had not noticed when Baby Ying suddenly walked off the mat and toward where they were. She was now raising her head and looking at both of them with her big, round eyes and calling out to Yi Qing in a slightly indignant tone. Yi Qing’s heart softened. He felt the sudden urge to give her everything in the world. “What… what’s the matter?”