Chapter 231: Flowers in Full Bloom, the Ancient God's Problem

"The master asked if you were ready, we can begin."

Seeing Lu Xun turn around, the god slave asked.

"I'm ready."

Lu Xun said in a deep voice.

As his words fell, the Ancient God's towering hand, stretching several thousand li, moved again.

The giant hand instantly arrived beneath Lu Xun.

From Lu Xun's perspective, it seemed as if a huge landmass had suddenly appeared beneath him.

This land was covered with dense gullies, which should be the Ancient God's palm lines.

"Friend, go down."

After saying that, the god slave landed on the Ancient God's palm.

Seeing that, Lu Xun also landed down.

After both of them had gone down, the Ancient God's palm began to close.

Lu Xun looked up, and the starry sky almost instantly disappeared; they were caught in the Ancient God's palm.

"Hum~ hum~"

Space violently trembled.

"Even the Heavenly Dao Eye is restricted?"

Lu Xun originally wanted to use the Heavenly Dao Eye to see what the Ancient God was doing, but upon trying, he found he could not use it at all.

This Ancient God is indeed powerful.

Where it is, it is the only god.

None of Barbara's spells could take effect, and Lu Xun's Heavenly Dao Eye also could not be used.

Of course, this is because Lu Xun's strength is too weak.

The stronger his strength, the stronger various martial divine abilities become.

With too great a strength gap, the Heavenly Dao Eye is hard to take effect.

"It should be walking."

Lu Xun guessed what the Ancient God was currently doing based on the movements of space.

Ancient God... should be walking among the starry sky.

I don't know where it will take Lu Xun.

Anyway, since he couldn't do anything else, Lu Xun's gaze fell on the god slave beside him.

The god slave stood there silently, eyelids drooping, quiet as a corpse.

"He should be of the same kin as the ancient remnant; the ancient powerhouse died, but he survived, and the price of survival was becoming a god slave."

Lu Xun sized up the god slave.

This god slave resembles the ancient powerhouse's remnant; obviously they are of the same kin.

He gave Lu Xun the feeling of not being a soul, but a flesh-and-blood body.

In other words, the god slave has lived from ancient times to the present; no one knows how many years he has lived.

Being able to live this long, the god slave's strength should be decent.

Strength shouldn't be the key; the crucial point is that he was implanted with a slave seal by the Ancient God, becoming its servant, thus prolonging his lifespan.

But living this long is not fortunate.

Just like this god slave, although he is a living being, he gives Lu Xun a feeling of deathly stillness.

His expression was abnormally numb, and his eyes lacked any luster.

As if he had lost all hope.

Perhaps, living like this, he would be better off dead.

His current state vividly illustrates a saying.

Some people are alive, yet already dead.

Perhaps this is also why he remained silent for a long time after hearing Lu Xun say he would rather die than become a god slave.

If back then he had Lu Xun's courage to face death willingly and die heroically, perhaps he would not be living now like a walking corpse.

"I don't know if we can use him as a breakthrough..."

Lu Xun was calculating.

He still doesn't know what problem the Ancient God faces, nor whether he can solve the Ancient God's problem.

As for how to escape in the future, Lu Xun has no definite plan yet.

If, during the escape, he could obtain the god slave's help, it would certainly be easier.

"Friend, I have a remnant soul of your kin here; I don't know if you recognize it."

Lu Xun emitted a directed mental wave.

Upon hearing that, the god slave raised his eyes, his gaze finally showing some fluctuation: "Friend, who are you talking about? Can you let me see?"

"Good."

Lu Xun took out the soul banner and released the remnant of that ancient powerhouse.

"Father!!!"

As soon as it was released, the god slave's expression instantly became excited.

Father?

The remnant left after Lu Xun burned evil souls with Southern Ming Separation Fire turned out to be the god slave's father.

What a coincidence!

Father, wake up, father, it's me, I am thought...

God Slave, trembling and lofty, surrounded the remnant thought, attempting to awaken the other party.

However, no matter how he shouted, the remnant thought remained blank-faced and unresponsive.

Lu Xun, ever since encountering the ancient remnant thought, the remnant thought has awakened three times.

Each time, it made Lu Xun run.

The ancient remnant thought must be too fragmented, so it always ends up like this, breaking off.

Use this; this is a soul relic, it should be useful for your father.

Lu Xun took out a soul relic.

Thank you!

The God Slave showed gratitude.

He drew out the soul power from within the soul relic and infused it into the ancient remnant thought's soul body.

Lu Xun meanwhile stood aside, silently watching.

Hey, do you have any clothes?

Babala spoke again in Lu Xun's mind.

That's right,

She should have turned into human form now, and after turning back into human form, Babala has no clothes on.

Lu Xun took out a treasure garment from his space ring and threw it into his pocket space.

Such treasure garments, as long as they are slightly more expensive, can basically change color and style freely.

"We should win over this God Slave properly; it might help our escape."

Hmm.

Babala also feels that this God Slave is worth winning over.

Lu Xun naturally already had a plan.

Do you have any other place where I can hide? The Ancient God doesn't pay you too much attention now, but if you truly solve its problem, it will likely scrutinize you closely; your pocket space can't hide from its eyes.

Babala said again.

Other space?

Of course there is.

Lu Xun does have an inner scene cave heaven.

After Lu Xun's cultivation broke through to the peak of the third realm, his inner scene cave heaven also became somewhat larger, with length and width each over ten meters, and height similarly over ten meters.

This caused the volume of the inner scene cave heaven to reach over a thousand cubic meters.

The volume is not large, far less than the space inside some space bags or space rings.

But the space inside space bags or space rings is fixed; if a living thing moves around inside, it can easily cause instability, even rupture.

Therefore, ordinary storage bags, space bags, space rings and similar containers, sellers explicitly prohibit storing living things.

If living things are stored, resulting in space rupture, the seller will not provide after-sales service.

Lu Xun's pocket space used to contain Little White, however, is specially made by Lu Xun using space magic, requiring Lu Xun to maintain it daily.

If it were someone else, who would have this ability to do this?

The inner scene space, however, is different.

Inside, it is equivalent to a small world; living things can enter.

Best of all, it's simple for Lu Xun to provide air or the like inside; he just needs to absorb it with his own body.

"Don't resist; I'll transfer you into my inner world."

"Inner world?"

"Hmm."

"Alright, come."

Babala is somewhat curious.

She has lowered all her defenses.

With a thought, Lu Xun took Babala into his inner scene cave heaven.

Inside the inner scene cave heaven, the Ancient God probably can't detect it, right?

"Such a small place, and you call it an inner world?"

After Babala entered, she was somewhat speechless.

Lu Xun's inner scene cave heaven is indeed a bit too small now.

For her, it's actually fine; it's about the size of a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment, much better than the pocket space.

"She really is a cat-eared girl."

Lu Xun discovered that he could easily observe the situation inside his inner scene cave heaven.

At this moment, Babala transformed her treasure garment into a pure white lace princess dress, the hem layered like blooming white roses, beautiful.

Delicate lace edging entwines her slender neck, making her look as noble and elegant as a porcelain doll.

Most special are her fluffy cat ears on top of her head; the light gold fur occasionally twitches sensitively, revealing a playful nature at odds with her dignified appearance.

Behind her, a similarly colored little tail sways left and right leisurely, sometimes curling, sometimes extending, as if it had its own consciousness, lively.

As a princess, her every gesture indeed bears the elegance of a royal lady.

But her occasionally twitching ears and swaying tail add a touch of wild charm to her.

I don't know which race she belongs to.

Clearly she is a humanoid race, yet she also possesses animal traits.

Could it be the beastfolk race?

「It's just small for now; it'll get bigger later—I'll move more things in. 」

Lu Xun's thoughts moved, and he transferred more things in.

He also specially made a bed for Babara, even moving the bathroom from his space ring in.

That bathroom is a black-tech product; its water tank space has been expanded, holding plenty of water.

「Wow, that's more like it; this princess is very pleased with you. 」

Babara comfortably lay on the soft big bed, stretching her arms out nicely.

She had been a cat for too long; after finally turning back into a person, she wanted to stretch her limbs.

But this movement fully revealed her fiery figure.

Seeing this, Lu Xun felt a bit unsettled.

「Is there water? I want to take a bath. 」

Babara made more demands.

「There's hot water in the bathroom. 」

「Okay. 」

Babara took off her treasure robe and entered the bathroom just like that.

Lu Xun realized he couldn't look anymore; another glance would make him bleed from the nose.

He and Fu Xue had stayed in this Spirit Realm for nearly a month; during that month Lu Xun hadn't gotten close to any woman at all, and his primordial power had accumulated quite a bit.

Besides, Lu Xun isn't the type who would deliberately peek.

Although Babara had taken off too quickly just now, he couldn't help but look a few more times.

But the flowers were in full bloom; if he didn't glance a few times, he'd seem oblivious to romance.

He's also not a normal man.

「Nian, is that you... 」

At that moment, the voice of the ancient remnant thought sounded.

He's better again?

Lu Xun's attention withdrew from the inner space.

He saw the ancient remnant thought's expression become excited, its cloudy eyes full of compassion.

「Father! 」

Shennu was even more excited, embracing the remnant thought virtually.

「Father, I'm truly useless; I don't want to die—I've been implanted with a slave mark by it... 」

Shennu held the remnant thought and began to sob, 'wu-wu'.

「It's fine; just being alive is good, just being alive is good... 」

The remnant thought repeated those four words.

Then he fell into a daze again.

「Father... father? 」

Shennu noticed the remnant thought's abnormality and was extremely worried.

「Don't worry; he's always like this. To recover, it'll probably take time. 」

Lu Xun explained.

「Thank you. 」

Shennu understood and let go of the worry.

「In this lifetime I thought I'd never see my father again; I didn't expect to still be able to see... a friend. I'll remember this kindness. 」

Shennu's face was full of gratitude.

Lu Xun was about to speak when Shennu seemed to sense something, and his expression changed.

「It's coming—quick, put it away. 」

He urged urgently.

Lu Xun quickly took out his soul banner and collected the remnant thought.

Shennu dried his tears, gathered all his emotions, and returned to a blank-faced numbness.

He stood there stiffly, motionless, like a wooden puppet.

Surely,

Not long after, the Ancient God's palm opened.

Lu Xun looked around; all around was dark and empty, this should still be in the Spirit Realm.

The Ancient God simply held them with its palm, then leapt outward forcefully.

「Roar... 」

Just as it leapt out, dense golden runes appeared all over its body.

「I'm going! 」

Lu Xun subconsciously flew a bit higher.

Because the Ancient God's hand also showed countless golden runes.

These runes resembled an ancient script that Lu Xun couldn't read at all.

After they appeared, they began to burn fiercely, bringing endless pain to the Ancient God.

Its recent roar was precisely caused by the pain.

「Look at the master's head. 」

The god slave reminded.

Lu Xun heard the sound and looked over.

He looked and saw an astonishing sight.

He saw that in the middle of the ancient god's head lay a fiery red nail.

That nail almost pierced through the ancient god's head, but it had been completely invisible before.

Lu Xun being able to see it must have been the ancient god's deliberate doing.

Otherwise, with that nail in the center of the ancient god's head, Lu Xun would not have been able to see it.

"Roar!"

The ancient god was still trying to go outward.

However, the farther it went out, the redder the nail in its head became, and the greater the pain it caused the ancient god.

The golden runes on the ancient god's body burned with equal abnormal ferocity.

This made the ancient god seem like a gigantic fire-being.

It was as if a planet suddenly burst into flames.

The surrounding cosmic space was thus illuminated by it.

After rushing out like this for an unknown distance, the ancient god finally couldn't bear it.

It had no choice but to turn around and return to that Spirit Realm.

Strangely,

When it returned, the golden runes on its body vanished instantly, and the nail piercing its head also disappeared.

The ancient god's pain thus disappeared.

"The Master was trapped by the owner of this God-Suppressing Nail, who drew a line as a prison; he has been confined here for countless years. If you can melt it, the Master can let you go."

The god slave spoke again, conveying the ancient god's meaning.

"God-Suppressing Nail?"

This must be the nail in the ancient god's head.

What a fellow.

Even though the ancient god is so powerful, someone actually managed to drive a nail into its head, draw a line as a prison, and forbid it from leaving this Spirit Realm.

What level would such a powerful being be?

"Immortal? God?"

Can Lu Xun's Phoenix True Flame really work against the God-Suppressing Nail forged by such a powerful being?

"The Master said, this God-Suppressing Nail was driven in by the other side when it was small; the other side intended, once the Master grew up, to enslave the Master, but the Master had already killed the other side in retaliation. However, the Master underestimated the God-Suppressing Nail, which has now been deeply embedded in the Master's head; the Master cannot forcibly pull it out, but your flame may have hope of melting it."

Perhaps seeing Lu Xun silent for a long time and thinking he lacked confidence, the ancient god had the god slave relay the message again.

"He retaliated?"

This ancient god is actually quite fierce.

If that's the case, there might be a chance.

There's a chance, but not too much of a chance.

Lu Xun doesn't genuinely want to help the ancient god escape; he's just looking for an opportunity to flee.

"Then let me give it a try."

Lu Xun emitted a mental fluctuation.

Not long after the wave was sent out, the ancient god's big hand moved.

It pinched Lu Xun in its palm and directly placed him above its head.

That head... is even bigger than the moon.

Immediately after, the ancient god's finger flicked above its head.

"Boom!"

The ground shook violently.

"This nail... is really huge."

Lu Xun discovered that he was now standing right on the God-Suppressing Nail.

This God-Suppressing Nail is extraordinarily large.

Its material is golden, looking like gold, but it certainly isn't gold.

Ordinary gold could never leave the ancient god helpless.

"You can try now."

The god slave came along and spoke from the side.

At this time, he showed no abnormality.

"Good."

Lu Xun likewise showed no abnormality, as if he were a stranger to the god slave.

Although in the ancient god's eyes, he and the god slave are just two mosquitoes.

But being a little careful is not excessive.

Lu Xun moved both hands and released the Phoenix True Flame, beginning to scorch the God-Suppressing Nail.