Chapter 14: Vital Qi Body Refinement (1/2)
Chapter 14: Vital Qi Body Refinement
Translator: NinetalesEditor: Ninetales
”What do we do with this Senior Sister Qing?” Qin Mu barely managed to get up. He looked at Senior Sister Qing, who still hadn’t recovered from her shock.
”Why don’t we…” Granny Si’s eyes lit up as she thought what to do. She nudged Qin Mu, nearly pushing the exhausted youth over, and mischievously said, ”Why don’t we let her live so she can be your little bride?” You were so cute when you were a toddler, but now that you’re all grown up, you aren’t quite as cute. However, you can have a chubby baby with this young lady. That baby would definitely be very cute as well. After all, granny still adores children…”
Qin Mu glanced at Senior Sister Qing whose head looked like that of a pig. ”Granny, I think I’d rather not…”
Shunk!
”In that case, we should just kill her.” Cripple said.
Unknown to everyone else, Cripple had appeared behind Senior Sister Qing. He stabbed her through her heart, an innocent smile on his face.
”G-grandpa Cripple... w-why did you kill her?” Qin Mu asked, stuttering.
Cripple pulled his knife out, his smile developing a hint of confusion. ”You said you didn’t want her, so she obviously needed to die.”
Qin Mu felt resentful, though not because he wanted to make a baby with Senior Sister Qing. He was just a child of eleven or twelve years after all—aside from these old monsters he saw every day, the people in the neighboring villages were also fiendish existences. It was rare for him to meet someone around the same age as him.
Even without playmates, he still had the heart of a child.
”Let’s go home,” Village Chief declared as he turned his head to look at the ruins in the valley.
”All of us are disabled in some way, so no one can carry you. You will have to walk back on your own.” Apothecary smiled at Qin Mu, then said, ”Ah, that’s right! We prepared the blood of the four spirits. Since you didn’t come home last night, I still have some with me.”
Qin Mu nodded, receiving four porcelain cups that Apothecary handed to him. Drinking the blood of the four spirits, he struggled to walk as he circulated the Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique and digested the power of the blood of the four spirits. While he did that, he also told everyone about the weird things that had happened in the ruins.
Granny Si calm expression wavered. ”Devils and gods? A huge face made of darkness and skeleton maidens? Interesting…”
The other villagers also found Qin Mu’s account interesting, but none of them had any other opinions.
As a result, Qin Mu couldn’t help but ask, ”Granny, aren’t all of you curious about the story behind the ruins?”
Apothecary sighed. ”The kingdom of gods which prospered in the past... was reduced to ashes long ago. Now you tell us that gods’ bones were clattering and dancing in the night. Could it be that they still refuse to die?”
Deaf stared at Apothecary, reading his lips, then replied, ”Regardless of their unwillingness, what reason do they have to exist after already dying? There’s no point in caring about the story of this place.”
”...are you really deaf?” Apothecary asked suspiciously, looking at Deaf’s ears. Forged from snow-white iron, Deaf’s ears were completely metal. They replaced the flesh and blood ears he would’ve had and had even covered up his ear canals.
Deaf plucked the metal ears from both sides of his head. Three-inch iron plugs jutted from the inner portions of the ears. These needed to be inserted into his ear canals in order to keep the metal ears fixed to his head.
”Stab these into your ear canals!” Deaf retorted coldly. ”Then you’ll find out if I’m really deaf!”
Apothecary smiled slightly and kept quiet.
Deaf then plugged his two iron ears back into his ear canals, turned to Mute, and said, ”These ears have been getting kind of uncomfortable recently. I need you to help me adjust them.”
Mute the Blacksmith nodded in reply.
This elderly family left Qin Mu speechless. He didn’t understand how all of them could be so much more interested in Deaf’s ear canals than the ruins.
”Mu’er, there are simply too many mysteries in the Great Ruins,” Granny Si said with a smile. ”Aside from the kingdom of gods in this valley, there countless other mysteries out there. If you spend all of your time thinking about them, you won’t be able to get anything else done.”
As their group walked in the direction of Disabled Elderly Village, Village Chief solemnly said, ”Since you were able to trade blows with that youth’s treasure sword using just a sixteen-inch wooden stick as a knife, it’s clear that your strikes weren’t weak. This experience has helped you improve significantly.”
”Why can’t I control objects like they did?” Qin Mu asked, his heart quivering. ”My vital qi couldn’t fill more than sixteen inches of that willow branch.”
He was extremely envious of the youths who were able to control their swords using vital qi when he couldn’t.
Apothecary shook his head in silence. The vital qi of an ordinary person had no attributes. Controlling objects was impossible for them because ordinary vital qi could not be used to perform such techniques.
As an ordinary human, being able to use his vital qi to support sixteen inches of a willow branch then use that willow branch to fight against a martial practitioner like Senior Brother Qu without it breaking was already a remarkable accomplishment for Qin Mu.