Chapter 155: Blood Cocoon

The moment the facial features of that light-shadow infant solidified, it pursed its small mouth, as if suckling milk...

With this movement, the previously silent Tree Spirit Light Sea seemed to receive some kind of summons; countless cyan light threads, like a school of fish in the sea, floated up and began to circle and roam between heaven and earth...

That cyan ghostly light, like a predator, frantically chased and attached itself to the red threads between heaven and earth...

Soon, every wisp of cyan ghostly light that rose from the Tree Spirit Light Sea was covered in red threads, and like a crimson blood flow, it surged toward the firmament and poured into the small mouth of the light-shadow infant...

As the crimson light flow poured in continuously, the hollow body of the light-shadow infant solidified bit by bit...

However, the number of cyan light threads rising from the Tree Spirit Light Sea was astonishingly large, and as time passed, the red threads between heaven and earth were gradually absorbed until they were exhausted...

Just as the red threads between heaven and earth thinned to a certain degree, the light-shadow infant's small mouth suddenly closed; the cyan light threads, which had been frantically circling and roaming, suddenly paused as if they had lost their summons, and floated there...

At the same time, the divine statues of the Four Great Wisdom Kings stopped exhaling and inhaling mist...

The operation of the Womb Treasury Sutra had actually stopped!

"What is going on? The divine statues of the Four Great Wisdom Kings have not dispersed, and the time is not yet up; why has the light-shadow infant above the firmament stopped devouring the light threads..."

Duan Rong stopped chanting and forming seals, and stared intently at the horizon...

He saw that above the firmament, next to the star body emitting milky white fluorescence, a crimson infant with a solidified face and a half-hollow body was floating there motionless, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep...

Duan Rong soon discovered that the red threads between heaven and earth, which were like willow catkins, had been almost completely consumed...

Duan Rong immediately understood that because it could not perceive the existence of the red threads, the Womb Treasury Sutra had stopped running!

"I must replenish the Dragon Flame Fat!"

If it were normal cultivation, these red threads would never be consumed so rapidly, but because his cultivation of the Womb Treasury Sutra involved the intervention of the Tree Spirit Light Sea, it was already at a monstrous speed, which led to this astonishing consumption of red threads!

Duan Rong sat cross-legged, formed seals and chanted, exited the Spirit Sea, then put on his underpants, carried the empty wooden basin from the corner of the wall, left the room, came to the large water vat in the courtyard, refilled a basin of clear water, and returned to the room.

Duan Rong again poured some Dragon Flame Fat from the Porcelain Bottle, but this time, based on his estimation of the time, he poured three times the amount as last time.

Looking at the liquid in the wooden basin that was red with a faint purple hue, Duan Rong frowned slightly; he took off his underpants, endured the sharp pain, and smeared this basin of liquid all over his body...

Duan Rong returned to the surrounding space, sat cross-legged on the cushion, chanted and formed seals, and entered the Spirit Sea once again...

Just at the moment Duan Rong chanted and formed seals, the pores all over his body suddenly itched, and he could still clearly perceive that something seemed to be drilling into the pores all over his body, gathering at the back of his head...

As soon as Duan Rong entered the Spirit Sea, he saw the red threads between heaven and earth spreading rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming more and more numerous...

Duan Rong sat cross-legged, chanted and formed seals, and the technique of the Womb Treasury Sutra began to run again.

The cyan ghostly light rising in the Tree Spirit Light Sea began to frantically attach itself to the red threads between heaven and earth again, then gathered into a crimson flow and poured into the mouth of the light-shadow infant; the hollow body of the light-shadow infant gradually solidified...

I do not know how much time passed, but a lifelike, solidified infant body glowing with crimson light was floating above the firmament...

This infant had its eyes tightly closed, its body curled up, and it was motionless, just like a fetus that had fallen into a deep sleep in the mother's womb.

The crimson flow was still continuously gathering toward it, slowly forming a thin membrane that shrouded it...

As the crimson flow gathered, the membrane seemed to thicken bit by bit, gradually becoming a thin cocoon...

Just at this moment, the divine shadows of the Four Great Wisdom Kings suddenly shook, and then bit by bit, they became incomplete and dissipated...

The moment the divine shadows of the Four Great Wisdom Kings completely disappeared, the floating cyan ghostly light, as if it had lost its summons, suddenly stalled and floated there, motionless like dead things floating in water...

"It seems the time has come..."

As the divine shadows of the Four Great Wisdom Kings dissipated, the previously settled mist spread rapidly, and soon it was floating and rolling between heaven and earth again...

Duan Rong looked at the rolling mist, his thoughts churning, and he walked slowly toward the Tree Spirit Light Sea in the southeast...

Duan Rong arrived at the location of the Tree Spirit Light Sea and discovered that only two Tree Spirits remained there; the rest of the Tree Spirits had been completely devoured by that crimson light-shadow infant...

"Only these two Tree Spirits are not enough for the next practice."

"It seems that if I want to achieve the second level of the Womb Treasury Sutra, I must go to Wild Boar Mountain again."

Duan Rong raised his eyes to look at the firmament, and saw that in the hazy mist, on the Cangqiong, next to a star body emitting a milky white halo, there was also a crimson Blood Cocoon...

That Blood Cocoon gave Duan Rong a feeling of eerie restlessness...

Duan Rong formed seals and chanted, and exited the Spirit Sea!

The moment Duan Rong exited the Spirit Sea, he opened his eyes on the cushion; he exhaled a breath of turbid air, and a heavy look of exhaustion appeared in his eyes.

During the entire process of cultivating the Womb Treasury Sutra, his Divine Soul had to endure the pressure of the divine shadows of the Four Great Wisdom Kings; although he had achieved the first level of the Womb Treasury Sutra and his Mental Power had improved, he still felt heavy and suppressed when facing the pressure of the divine shadows of the Four Great Wisdom Kings.

Duan Rong did not think anymore, put away the Mountain and Water Painting hanging in the surrounding area, climbed onto the bed naked, and as soon as he touched the bed board, his head felt dizzy and he instantly fell into a deep sleep...

Duan Rong slept until dusk before waking up; after waking up, he looked at the sunset on the window and roughly knew the time.

He lay there, calculating when to go to Wild Boar Mountain...

In three more days, it will be the fifteenth of May.

The fifteenth of May is the assessment day for Intern Escorts to become full Escorts, and he must participate.

"Should I just go to Wild Boar Mountain after the assessment?" Duan Rong thought, lying on the bed with one elbow propped behind his head, his eyes flickering.

Duan Rong immediately dismissed this idea; he did not want to drag the second level of the Womb Treasury Sutra until after the assessment.

Better to think of advancing than to think of stopping!

Duan Rong decided to set off now and enter Wild Boar Mountain tonight! As long as he could return before the assessment, it would not delay the assessment.

Once Duan Rong made up his mind, he immediately jumped off the bed, got dressed, hurriedly left the Escort Agency, rented a sturdy date-red horse from the carriage firm, and left the east city gate of Xiangu County as dusk gathered.

Duan Rong traveled through the night, galloping all the way, and arrived near Wild Boar Mountain at midnight; he saw a bright moon hanging over the rolling mountain range, spilling its clear radiance!

Duan Rong led the horse to the home of the old man where he had stored his horse last time.

Duan Rong stood outside the fence courtyard and saw the moonlight spilling silver white all over the courtyard; the wooden door was closed, and he could faintly hear snoring from inside the house.

"Qin Laohan, sorry to disturb you in the dead of night!" Duan Rong stood outside the fence courtyard and suddenly shouted.

Then, rustling sounds rang out from inside the house, the door opened, and Qin Laohan stood at the doorway draped in a coat, looking at the figure standing outside the fence, and said, "Who is it?"

"Don't be alarmed, old man! I am the person who stored a horse here last time."

Qin Laohan heard that Duan Rong's voice was somewhat familiar, and looking again by the bright moonlight, the moonlight was shining on Duan Rong's face; looking at Duan Rong's side, he saw he was leading a horse, and he remembered immediately.

Seeing that the old man recognized him, Duan Rong immediately cupped his hands in a bow and apologized, "The matter was urgent, and I disturbed you in the dead of night; I hope you will be magnanimous!"

(End of chapter)