Chapter 18 - He was a person with chloroplast now. (1/2)
Lin Mu wondered if Yan Xuanjing was planning to harm him.
He went silent for a while then hesitatingly asked, “really?”
“……” Yan Xuanjing wasn’t quite sure.
The truth was that for monsters that had survived, as well as held some status, in the Great Wilderness, most of it were based on strength. Only a very small number of monsters could go far with their brains or special talents.
Just like Yan Xuanjing. He was beaten up by his father when he was younger, when his father was tired of fighting, his father threw him into a pile of monsters. Besides, monsters who were raised in a battle royale-like manner1Originally: raised like a gu worm. A gu worm is a type of chinese black magic, where you sealed several venomous creatures in a container until only one was left. The term in cultivation stories can also refer to worms that were raised in this manner, but have more than just venomous abilities, like controlling another person with it, etc were in the overwhelming majority.
He emerged from being beaten and fighting, and naturally, he got stronger through fighting, and weren’t like human beings who could actually cultivate seriously and slowly.
To tell someone how to become strong, the only thing Yan Xuanjing could think of was basically fighting.
And at the beginning, they were all beaten.
After his father had fought, it was his mother. After his mother, it was other great monsters that made a visit. Once they were tired of playing around, they simply threw him into the most chaotic part of the Great Wilderness, then just patted their asses and left.
By the time Yan Xuanjing could climb out of there by himself, he was already able to dominate over most of the Great Wilderness.
That was how Yan Xuanjing grew up, and he really couldn’t think of a moderate and regular way of getting stronger.
But indeed, in the Great Wilderness, there were many weak monsters. What was their way of life and cultivation? Yan Xuanjing, who was born at the peak, didn’t know much about them.
He was still young, only five hundred years old.
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Unlike his father who was in his prime, and seemed as if in his eyes, the Great Wilderness didn’t have any secrets.
The nine-tailed fox said, “different monsters have different methods.”
Anyways, as a nine-tailed fox, he emerged out of being beaten up, and it wasn’t any different from animals fighting and hunting for territories.
As for other monsters, for those that gained spiritual awareness on their own would know what to do by instinct, and almost all of those that were born as monsters would have their elders to guide them.
As for those on the outside, there were only a handful who survived.
Even if the living environment of the Central Plains was much better than the Great Wilderness, there probably weren’t many who had a situation like Lin Mu.
Yan Xuanjing thought for a while and said, “think in terms of your blood. How would your father become bigger and stronger, is how you would.”
Lin Mu opened and closed his mouth, “……”
How did his father become bigger and stronger?
…… Probably by drinking more water and basking in the sun.
There is also respiration, photosynthesis and transpiration.
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Lin Mu followed his thoughts and looked at his feet.
He didn’t have roots.
Then he looked at his own hands.
He didn’t have chloroplast.
Lin Mu thought for a bit, and felt that it wouldn’t work.
Yan Xuanjing looked at Lin Mu’s somewhat worried expression, paused for a moment and said, “if you really can’t think of any way, then let’s fight.”
Lin Mu heard his words and looked at Yan Xuanjing, then said with cautiousness, “I don’t have…… a suitable partner?”
The nine-tailed fox who understood the situation stood up.
So Lin Mu endured a beating.
Even if Yan Xuanjing felt hat he had thrown the fight2lost in translation. 放水 lit. release water, is the chinese phrase for throwing a game/match. The full phrase was 水放到开闸泄洪了程度了 he had released so much water to the extent of opening the floodgates so much he had almost thrown in the towel, Lin Mu was still powerless to fight back.
If one wanted to be more greedy, yank the soul of this little brat out, refine both the soul and the flesh, and who knows, some immortal pill could be produced.
Just like him in the past.
Di Wu made a cold snort and took a few mouthfuls of smoke, then crushed the cigarette, “what are you called?”
“Lin Mu.” He paused, then added, “my mother’s surname.”
Di Wu took Lin Mu’s phone and entered his own number, typed the words ‘Uncle Di Wu’, then frowed at the word ‘uncle’ for a long time, then deleted it and dailed the number after saving. Then, he took his cellphone and saved Lin Mu’s number and turned to Lin Mu and said, “give me some blood.”
Lin Mu was instantly alert.
“My soul isn’t complete, I can use your blood to keep awake.” Di Wu took out a white jade bottle from goodness know where and a sharp piece of jade, and his tone became a lot more casual, “just a bottle, don’t dwaddle.” “
“What kind of man wants blood the first time they meet?” Lin Mu pulled back.
“Who are you calling a human?” Di Wu said, unhappy. “If I don’t have your blood I have to kill people ever so often, “if not you can be carried around by me, and use the power of the Relaxed Emperor to keep me calm. If you’re fine with that then I’m okay too.”
Lin Mu froze, “you kill people? How many?”
Di Wu casually said, “I don’t know. Forgot. They’re all people who’ve died a long time ago.”
Lin Mu frowned, and finally streched out with his right hand, watched as Di Wu held the sharpe piece of jade against his wrist, a line of blood welled up, gathered into a small bloodtrack, and flowed into the jade bottle in Di Wu’s hands.
His wrist was cold and numb, but it didn’t hurt at all.
“Killing people is wrong.” Lin Mu muttered.
“Oh, your heart hurts for the humans?” Di Wu nodded lightly as he finished he words, “that’s true, you’re a half-monster.”
Lin Mu looked at the jade bottle that was gradually filling up, and said, “if you have my blood, you don’t need to kill.”
“You don’t have to worry about this.” Di Wu waved his hand, the gentely brushed against Lin Mu’s wrist. The wound immediately healed without any trace of injury.
The emperor closed the bottle and warned, “you should pay more attention to yourself. Your blood can’t be given to anyone, nor your hair or even your dandruff. Anything on your body, including the clothes that you often wear, can’t be given to others.”
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By the time Lin Mu had no strength left at all, the sky was already dark.
During the middle of the month, the moon was high.
On lights were on in the yard, and the silver grey moonlight lingered on the ground, dispelling the darkness in the courtyard, leaving behind enough light to see their surroundings.
Yan Xuanjing looked at Lin Mu, who had no good places left on his body, and was lying like a corpse on the ground. There was a strong scent of blood around his nose.
Compared to normal humans, the blood didn’t have as much of a rusty scent. It was the same as his monstrous energy, clean and pure, like grass and trees that had been gently brushed by the warm spring wind, lightly stroking over the tip of his heart, leaving behind a patch of softness and relaxation.
He wanted to get close to him.
This feeling was much stronger and clearer than before.
Yan Xuanjing took out the medicine that he basically couldn’t use from his storage ring3That magic inventory ring in cultivation stories, that can store stuff. Some rings have space limitations, some are based on power levels., looked at Lin Mu who was covered in wounds, and felt that he didn’t know what to do.
Really too weak.
Yan Xuanjing was expressionless as he muttered in his heart.
Because he was injured, he didn’t use his powers much, yet Lin Mu could be beaten until this extent relying on pure skill.
“……”
Really too weak.
Yan Xuanjing thought again, looked at the horrible state Lin Mu was in, and started to doubt himself a little.
It seemed like he used too heavy of a hand.
However, the problem wasn’t big, and the half-monster could recover soon.
The nine-tailed fox thought so, then took off Lin Mu’s clothes and gave him the medicine.
Lin Mu shivered because of Yan Xuanjing’s effortless movements, and made a few weak grunts.
“……Hurts.”
The nine-tailed fox, who had never waited on somebody else, paused for a couple of seconds and slowly continued, using less force with his actions.
Lin Mu groaned again, “hurts.”
It was strange.
Yan Xuanjing thought.
Previously, he didn’t hear Lin Mu said that it was painful when they were fighting, but this time, he knew what pain was.
Lin Mu laid on the ground, with his head turned to the side. His gaze swept across the green grass, and was confused and in a bit of a trance when he saw the little flowers that were like little stars. They made Lin Mu suspect that he was seeing the Morning Dusk on the side of the road to the netherworld.
The wounds on his body were very painful, and gradually started to itch.
Lin Mu gently rubbed against the grass underneath his cheeks, made a few uncomfortable groans, and thought that if his wound could get healed quickly that would be the best, then he got so tired he closed his eyes.
Yan Xuanjing slowly applied the medicine on Lin Mu’s back, then cleaned up the bloodstains on his back, and watched as Lin Mu’s back recovered to its original smooth state. He found out that this little half-monster’s skin was white and translucent, and even reflected a little light under the moonlight.
Yan Xuanjing stopped to appreciate the beauty in front of his eyes, and reached out without any excess movements, and prepared to remove Lin Mu’s pants and continue to apply medicine for him.
At this time, a soft light cluster fell under the silver moonlight. Blowed by the night wind, it trembled twice, then shivered against the wind and floated towards Lin Mu. The light cluster rolled around on his back a couple of times, then it lightly jumped up and slammed into Lin Mu’s body.
Yan Xuanjing slightly froze, and watched as the group of moon essence became more and more, and his eyebrows rose slightly as he was surprised by the number of these light essences.
Yan Xuanjing could tell what these light clusters were at a glance.
In popular terms, it was the moon essence of ‘absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon’ — and it was also one of those treasures that monsters could occasionally capture4日月精华. in wuxia/xianxia stories, the characters cultivate by using the energy generated by the heaven and earth and absorbing the essence of the sun and moon. This is the moon part of that absorbing.. However, it was extremely rare, and usually only monsters with great merit or good luck could get a little.
Their effect was very versatile, and almost all physical problems could be solved with it.