[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-baby-with-daoist-monarch-system":3,"chapter-baby-with-daoist-monarch-system-baby-with-daoist-monarch-system-chapter-43":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Baby with Daoist Monarch System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1332676,1772,"Chapter 43: Section 31: Are They Performing a Sacrifice Ritual?","baby-with-daoist-monarch-system-chapter-43",43,"\u003Cp>\"The Third Gu Huochang Incident...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran narrowed his eyes, the Gu Huochang incident, happening again and again, tirelessly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first time, he devoured eight Gu Huochangs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second time, he was in the Demigod Kindergarten, protected by Yue Realm cultivators, the safety factor maxed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, the third time, he actually felt the process of Gu Huochang’s evolution from nothing to existence—suddenly ghost pollution appeared at the lake bottom, suddenly ghost pollution gathered together! Nurtured into a ghost creature, with no logic or rule to speak of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Absolutely disgusting!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Absolutely bizarre!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No wonder it’s like a stubborn rash, eliminated in one round, capable of resurgence in the next. Ha.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But since you were born before me, let you become nourishment for the Assassin Mantis.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran chuckled internally, using the posture of practicing Mysterious Footwork, he executed a profound body technique, silently deploying the Assassin Mantis into the bushes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The small Assassin Mantis darted through the greenery, disappearing in a flash, at lightning speed, too fast for the guards to notice!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carefully counting, Xu Ran had not used his ace move—the Assassin Mantis, for a full two and a half years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For two and a half years, Xu Ran had been nurturing it with blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood nurturing plus perfection progress, had long brought the Assassin Mantis’s fire and water resistance to a very high level, as for speed and stealth, it had been reborn and overturned!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunting Yue Realm cultivators was easily done, a piece of cake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like now, the Assassin Mantis only took a quarter of a second from taking off to cutting into the water surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more exaggerated, the instant it cut into the water, it only caused a tiny ripple, like a fine needle dropped into the water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a subtle movement, elegantly enough, capable of executing perfect ambush after ambush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Submerging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shift vision!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran halted, moved his thoughts, wholeheartedly controlling the Assassin Mantis, shot like an arrow towards the direction of ghost energy pulsation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The artificial lake was not large.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Assassin Mantis instantly arrived at the lake bottom, where the ghost creature was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw a mass of pitch-black energy body, twisting and writhing, like dough stretching, stretching out a sharp bird-beak, stretching out two vulture heads, stretching out four protruding ferocious giant eyes, stretching out a hunchbacked body like a monkey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its skin rapidly turned indigo, it opened its eyes, a crimson tongue thrust out, expression bizarre and perverse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s actually an indigo-colored Gu Huochang?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I remember the first time I saw Gu Huochang, they were only light gray. The second Gu Huochang outbreak, the news pictures showed them as light blue, didn’t expect the third time they’ve become dark blue...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Undoubtedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These things are continuously evolving and upgrading, their strength also getting stronger!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, compared to Xu Ran, who has been insanely disciplined since birth, their evolution speed is negligible, slaughtered with ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What exactly are they doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Appearing again and again, each time evolving, each time abducting tens of thousands of children, and those children ultimately can’t even be found dead...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran was puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looking at their disorderly behavior, they don’t seem organized. But such large-scale, repeated emergence is too bizarre, always feeling there’s some unspeakable secret.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran contemplated, his newly advanced high intelligence made his mind spin faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of inspiration, pierced the darkness, opened up Xu Ran’s thinking pattern, he suddenly realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could they be subconsciously sacrificing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hiss—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seems it’s indeed a sacrifice!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran took a breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A group of disorderly born Gu Huochangs, relying on instinct to grab children, sacrificed to some powerful life lurking in the dark...the bodies not found also because they were sacrificed!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A logically coherent guess!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran felt a chill, he sensed he had grasped the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it was also at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gu Huochang in the process of being nurtured opened its eyes, full of crimson energy looking towards the Assassin Mantis, fear surfacing in its gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran narrowed his eyes, coldness spreading in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked at me = It wants to act = It wants to kill me = I act first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost at the instant the Gu Huochang opened its eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Assassin Mantis launched an assassination!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bloody blades parted the lake water, sliced through the Gu Huochang that was growing into shape. Gu Huochang’s four eyeballs burst.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two bizarre heads were simultaneously half-shredded, the semicircular heads spinning as they floated to the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ghost energy, more viscous than paint, spurted like from an oil well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Quickly eat it, quickly eat it, don’t waste the good stuff.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Receiving the command, the Assassin Mantis pounced on the Gu Huochang’s body, devouring all the ghost energy cleanly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than a second, the Gu Huochang’s body was completely devoured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of fine details, automatically painted on the Assassin Mantis’s body, meanwhile, the Assassin Mantis’s blades, also acquired a slight metallic sheen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the changes in the Assassin Mantis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran nodded in satisfaction, \"The energy contained in the third batch of Gu Huochang far surpasses the first! Equivalent to continuously nurturing with blood under perfection progress for a month.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well then, should I secretly sneak out of the Demigod Kindergarten and go on a binge?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, the enhancement effect of the third batch of Gu Huochang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had Xu Ran contemplating a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sneak out of kindergarten, one could kill Gu Huochang and cultivate Origami, two could search for the truth of Gu Huochang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forget it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Better continue to observe...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are so many powerful cultivators in Xia Country, it’s not for a five-year-old like me to investigate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Ran shook his head and instantly put the Assassin Mantis back into his pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>",959,"2026-06-05T19:50:37.733Z",1,"novelbin.me","647294fda33dc31080bf324426819e97cd50e23df56752b10ec2afb9e06a3784","baby-with-daoist-monarch-system-chapter-44","baby-with-daoist-monarch-system-chapter-42",775,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbaby-with-daoist-monarch-system-cover.jpg"]