Chapter 1393

Oh la oh la oh la!

Mu da mu da mu da mu da!

"Ah ya ya ya — damn it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it, you must have used some trick that consumes immortal Dao potential, a mere big black tangyuan, how can it compare to my thousand-times-forged clam beast? Win for a moment, lose for a lifetime, see how long you can hold out, taste my qi yuan slash!" The lip beast restrained, the third prince raised a single claw high, gathering rotating clam mist.

The fat fish snorted coldly, pressed its belly to the ground, exerted force to spring up, bounced three steps using elasticity, raised both flippers: "Everyone, lend me all your strength. Overthrow the little white worms, I will be the boss, certainly won't disappoint you all, eating well and drinking spicy!"

On the jujube tree, in the pond, on the roof, in the stables — Chishan, unable to move, round-headed, wu long, silly chicken, ta ta kai, Da He Li all raised hooves/paws/fins/flippers in response —

"Damn it, rebelled, all rebelled, traitors, traitors! As long as this prince lives one day, you are all my younger brothers!

Ah!" The third prince struck out in anger, the disc flew out, colliding suddenly with the huge black mist ball above the fat fish's head!

Boom!

Smoke and dust rose.

The grass in the stone slab cracks swayed.

"What are they shouting?" Long Li supported her chin with her palm, crouched guard to the side.

"Can't hear clearly." Long Yao shook her head.

The blue stone slab was two chi square, the wooden clogs' teeth like city walls high and vast. The thumb-sized fat fish and the thread-thin little clam dragon moved left and right, carefully maneuvering, passionately spraying, the buzzing sounds like mosquitoes.

"Didn't the elder go to test Eying sister's divine powers? It's been over an hour, why hasn't she come out yet?" Long Li looked up again.

"Hmph." Long Yao bit a grass stem, sat on the steps, "Silly girl, still hasn't reacted, truly thought the elder and Eying sister went to test some divine powers."

?

"When the empress came, A Fei and the others were still half-human height, but as soon as testing divine powers was mentioned, the elder immediately shrank A Fei and the little clam dragon to the smallest size, just not wanting to disturb."

"Ah, oh!"

"Finally understood, idiot."

"Who's the idiot?" Long Li helplessly, "Isn't this going to take several more days? This kind of thing, really won't get boring?"

""

"Several days?" Long Yao sneered, pinched Long Li's cheeks, making her wail wildly, "How long have the elder and Eying sister not let us wash the bedding? This time less than ten days, counts as the elder being inadequate."

"Hahaha, indeed inadequate now, overdrafting future power, ultimately false, ah, this is my final ultimate move, receive death!"

Pa!

Like a small firecracker exploded.

The illusion flickered, "Big Black Tangyuan" rolled out of the battlefield, rolled onto the foot, bounced at the ankle, then rolled down again.

Long Li looked left and right before finding the wildly swinging tail, gently pinched it as the fat fish rolled onto the toes, about to fall to the ground, like picking up a sesame-filled rice cake leaking filling, stained black on one side.

Wrist shook once, the rice cake sank, stretched and contracted, bounced up and down.

Index finger and thumb lightly rotated.

The fat fish's limbs flung out, the world spun, long whiskers curled, flew out two small splashes of water.

Head tilted back to gaze at the sky, wordless tears flowed first.

Without ancestral shade, truly unable to contend by force?

Sunlight shone through the pale yellow window paper, diffusing into countless light pillars, within the light pillars mist swirled, the mist stirred by indoor wind, curling and spiraling, the curls and spirals wrapping faint fragrance, like dropping perfume onto red-hot copper sheets, steaming and volatilizing, squeezing out to every corner.

Long Eying's body carried a faint fragrance, excitement would make it rich, like blooming peonies.

The tip of the nose lightly rubbed against the chest, gently capturing this fragrance.

The body was soaked with sweat, becoming smooth, becoming moist, becoming pink, no matter how the palms tried, they couldn't grip the thigh, soft flesh squeezed out from between the fingers, Liang Qu could only follow the curve upward to support, soul and body both soaked in warm water, warm and cozy.

"We said we were verifying divine powers — "

Hair stuck to the face, Long Eying slightly opened her mouth, panting heavily.

Separate rooms for half a year, indeed some longing, thus followed the wish, who would have thought so soon, I actually couldn't persist for half a day, completely like a thirsty fish.

Clearly already transformed.

"Startling Dragon Transformation" first layer has dragon horns, increases strength by thirty percent; second layer has dragon tail, increases strength by seventy percent; third layer has greater form changes, strength nearly doubled, height increased by one zhang, though changes are numerous, will have recurved feet, Liang Qu doesn't like much; now fourth layer returns to simplicity and truth, the body can be freely controlled, strength increased nearly four to five times, yet unexpectedly not as enduring as before.

"No, I, I — need to rest, rest a bit, okay — "

Liang Qu startled, released Eying, withdrew backward.

The tense body suddenly relaxed, Long Eying violently lifted her head, inhaled a breath, chest heaved violently, the exhaled breath scattered onto Liang Qu's chest.

"How about lying on the side? More relaxed?"

"Why do you always like this position?"

Long Eying finally caught her breath, hearing this was quite curious.

Old couple, been together so long, also nothing embarrassing, Liang Qu scratched his temple: "When you lie on your side, the curves you can see are better, from waist to leg, all the way down, especially nice to look at."

Long Eying blushed slightly, also didn't speak, rested for a while, recovered mostly, punched Liang Qu's chest once, propped herself up and turned over.

Liang Qu grinned, immediately pressed close, one arm around the waist, one hand went down to grasp the knee, lifted gently upward —

"Your peach tree isn't — gone? Need, need to graft mine?"

"Almost forgot."

Liang Qu slapped his forehead.

His peach tree let the heart fire burn it clean, fortunately the problem isn't big, this thing can be "grafted", the heavenly immortal couples in the capital are grafted from his peach tree branches, just men and women differ, Eying's planted, grows into a mulberry tree.

Luckily back when he was a Wu Sheng, he found immortals to improve the method, making grafting successful, otherwise starting over, nearly impossible.

When lacking nutrients, the peach tree's growth is a burden, even damages cultivation, now the heavenly water morning dew have all recovered, the peach tree being there only allows better cultivation.

Moreover this thing is a good material, Liang Qu also accidentally discovered, burning the peach tree to make "plant ash", can expand the root sea.

Root sea dried, cracked, contracted, with gaps in between, after being filled with the peach tree's ash, regained moisture, then one soak one expansion, the original space was filled, root sea naturally expanded outward.

Just finished one cycle, exactly cultivation time!

Long Eying waited a long time, also didn't wait for any movement, heart puzzled, turned back, immediately startled. Just now there was still no proper Liang Qu with serious expression, brows tightly locked, then actually sat cross-legged to cultivate.

"What's wrong?"

Long Eying was concerned; thinking of the reason the two had always slept in separate rooms before, her mind involuntarily went in that direction — separate rooms were for nurturing; such flustered panic, could it be————

"The Wei Fruit has met with mishap," Liang Qu said.

Looking inward at his own body, inside his Lower Dantian, the blazing sun gradually turned dim and sunken, presenting every appearance of being about to slant and fall!

Conjecture confirmed, Long Eying's heart sank; she couldn't be bothered to reproach Liang Qu for his rashness, put on her clothes, and silently accompanied him, her heart filled with dejection. Clearly Liang Qu had explained the situation, she knew it all, and also felt that once the Wei Fruit was nurtured there was no need to separate rooms anymore. Liang Qu was young, and moreover a Wu Sheng; it was only natural for him to like being close to her. A great man achieving such grand accomplishments, not seeking pleasure everywhere, was already a top-tier good man in the world. As his wife, failing to foresee possible problems and advise against it, letting things take their course — this was clearly her fault.

"How could it turn out like this?"

Liang Qu's face was solemn.

The Wei Fruit had clearly already been nurtured to completion, he could use half its Authority, his thousandfold Root Sea had also recovered moisture, linked up with heaven and earth, enough to support the Wei Fruit's very existence — how could it become like this now?

Damn it, it makes no sense.

Could it be because it was nurtured from Primordial Yang, so this 【Tian Yuan / Gou Mang】 Wei Fruit cannot leak even a bit, and he has to guard a living widowhood for life?

If it's really like that, he'd rather swap for a different one.

Why did he enter the martial academy back then, why did he catch treasure fish — wasn't it just to live a good life, find a good wife, eat well and drink well?

Where is there a truly crazy evil scientist? However crazy, there has to be a purpose like reviving a wife; pursuing something always has a purpose, either self-interest or altruism. Making him be an ascetic cultivator, he might as well go be a monkey; give the Wei Fruit to Zhang Longxiang — no, Zhang Longxiang has found a wife too, his eldest son is even older than him.

"Wait, not quite right."

Liang Qu stared fixedly at his own Root Sea; after a long moment, a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

The flashing frequency of the Heavenly Water Morning Dew has not increased!

【Heavenly Water Morning Dew Qi: Old dream anew, visage renewed as before, extends life by two cycles, dispels evil filth, washes away all worldly dust.】

The function of Heavenly Water Morning Dew is to be able to constantly "refresh negative states" — of course, not that one refresh eliminates them, it's not that potent.

Rather, it's like scrubbing; whatever "stains" there are, including but not limited to depletion, injury, poisoning————Heavenly Water Morning Dew will wipe them away wave after wave, making the imprint fade more and more until it disappears.

If it were a normal state, the Root Sea wouldn't flash ripples; a slight problem would be slow flashes and slow rescue; a major problem rapid flashes for emergency rescue; or if the Wei Fruit were still nurturing, the azure ripples would always be "cleansing" — but right now it's not rapid flashing.

Then that means————it's not a problem?

Liang Qu suddenly thought of something.

Self-nurturing a Wei Fruit, in essence goes by the Root Sea's attribute, and his Root Sea has an extremely awesome characteristic——

Liang Qu's spirits rose; he grasped Long Eying's fist, pried open her clenched fist, and backhand interlocked their fingers: "Don't panic, what's there to fear? The Wei Fruit is a bastard; if it's gone we'll nurture another, and the situation has changed — not necessarily a bad thing."

Long Eying froze for a moment.

Liang Qu observed his internal condition with even greater focus.

The sun in the sky gradually dimmed; the entire Root Sea turned dark, even inner vision couldn't see clearly; just at this moment when he couldn't see his hand before his face, another streak of gentle light rose.

Silver light poured in, like tidewater rushing to the shore, re-illuminating the entire world.

Above the Root Sea, above the Immortal Island Dragon Court.

The brilliant sun shook and transformed, turning into————

The moon!?

Connecting with the Ze Cauldron, light projected.

【Tian Yuan / Ru Shou】

【Authority: None】

【Attribute: Calamity】

【Nurturing in progress————】

"Holy shit!"

Liang Qu let loose a string of coarse curses.

"Hm?"

Long Li raised her head; she seemed to have heard a soothing phrase, but how could it seem to have come from the Elder? That doesn't seem right, does it?

"What happened?" Long Eying couldn't help but clench her palm.

Liang Qu felt the pressure in his palm and fired off words like a cannon: "The sun's Qi can turn to Great Yin, right? Now my Wei Fruit has turned too, and the Authority has changed as well."

Long Eying didn't react in time; turned twice: "That is————"

"Two Authorities!" Liang Qu hugged Long Eying's head and kissed her hard; afterward not giving Long Eying any space to react, he pressed her down again.

"Mmph, mm————"

"

The sun slanted westward.

Long Eying's eyes were dazed.

【Tian Yuan / Gou Mang】

【Authority: None】

【Attribute: Governance】

【Nurturing in progress————】

The moon dimmed again, the sun rose again.

The Ze Cauldron's light flickered; Liang Qu's heart pounded, his pupils trembled.

Damn it, not an illusion, not an accident, it really f*cking————

"I should have thought of it long ago, should have thought of it long ago!"

【Xuan Yong Qi: The rising sun shines on the plains, all things rejoice and flourish. Bathed in sunlight, strength greatly increases, cultivation slightly faster; at midday it is strongest.

The bright moon comes from the east, splendid clouds stir like water. Enveloped in moonlight, strength slightly increases, cultivation greatly faster; at midnight it is strongest.

The sun knows not night, the moon knows not day; sun and moon are brightness yet cannot rise together.】

【Xuan Yong Ba: Sun and moon alternate shining once, undergoing the baptism of solar radiance and lunar splendor once.】

Yang Qi is simply Yin Qi; the two merely require conditions to transform — if one stays close to Long Eying for a long time, it will change, but this change is not fixed; separate for too long and it reverts, yet if it is not merely closeness but deep communion, the change becomes fixed, one shift per communion!

Yang Qi is precisely the core of his Root Sea.

Sun rises, moon sets — the principle of heaven and earth!

Yang, Time Sequence, Xuanhuang, Withered Wood, Heavenly Dew, Size Ruyi; sun rises moon sets, spring summer autumn winter, heaven water withered wood,

Thick earth Size Ruyi, therefore the fused Qi is named "Heavenly Dew", the dew of heaven.

【Tianyuan / Goumang】, 【Tianyuan / Rushou】.

Liang Qu originally thought his own Position Fruit's name was unique, or perhaps Tianyuan and Goumang were two Position Fruits with similar authorities, and the specific development would depend on which one it leaned toward later — he would need to find a chance to experiment, see how to bias it toward one.

The result turns out to be a switch between two modes under the same major condition!?

Goumang, human-faced riding two dragons, called the spring god guarding nine layers.

Goumang is the spring god, also prosperity, also unending generation.

Rushou, stern metal Qi, western land string sea moon.

Rushou is the autumn god, also stern killing, also contraction.

Liang Qu has a certain understanding of what these two names represent.

Goumang rewards the virtuous more, adding blessings and longevity to them;

Rushou punishes the wicked, reducing their blessings and cutting their longevity.

Although never used, Calamity-attribute powers are not lightly used on others either, but just now Liang Qu sensed: if Goumang is "regeneration", then Rushou is "withering"!

The two correspond and mirror each other completely!

Calamity, Governance, Control ————

His heart pounded more violently; for a moment he felt dizzy and blurred vision.

"The Grand Steward said, 'Self-nurturing many' is the middle ————"

Calamity and Governance, both hands grasp, both hands hard.

One can only destroy, one can only build; building is harder than destroying, therefore Governance is a Middle Position Fruit, Calamity a Minor Position Fruit, and the higher "Control", the true Major Position Fruit — by reasoning, would it not be both able to destroy and able to build?

Could what he self-nurtured actually be — the embryo of a Major Position Fruit!?

He didn't just self-nurture a Position Fruit; moreover it's not the worst, not middling, but on the higher end!

Pupils gradually focused; Long Eying brushed aside the hair strands stuck to her forehead, propped herself against the headboard, saw Liang Qu's irrepressible look of delighted surprise, knew the previous "change" must have been a good thing, and was likewise happy.

"Husband just said the authority is regeneration; what is it after the change?"

"What husband?" Liang Qu folded his arms. "Call me Liang Xian!"

"So immortals all like to speak without wearing clothes?"