Mu Yanghe, her bones still haphazardly pieced together, struggled to make her way over to Wen Jingshu and continued, “Little Fairy, this isn't some ordinary space, is it? It's a mustard seed space!
“A mustard seed space with immortal qi in the lower realm? Little Fairy, you aren't some Celestial Maiden from a great family who descended to the mortal realm to undergo tribulations, are you?
“No, wait, something is very wrong. How has your mustard seed space even fused with a world foundation?
“Little Celestial Maiden, you aren't trying to create a world of your own just for fun, are you?”
A world foundation?
Wen Jingshu finally extracted something useful from her pile of nonsense and quickly interrupted, “What is a world foundation?”
Mu Yanghe replied, “A world foundation is... well, a world foundation.”
Wen Jingshu was speechless.
Mu Yanghe explained, “Simply put, it's the seed of a new world. Only with a world foundation can a new world be formed.
“If a mustard seed space wants to eventually evolve into a world of its own and form its own Heavenly Dao, a world foundation is absolutely indispensable.”
Hearing Mu Yanghe's words, Wen Jingshu thought back to that vast, white space she had inexplicably entered.
Could that place have been the chaotic origin of a new world?
At this thought, Wen Jingshu couldn't help but feel a bit uneasy.
If she had taken the world foundation, hadn't she destroyed a nascent world?
Other people had heaven-defying cultivation and could destroy a realm with a single palm strike. In her case, she had merely casually taken someone's world foundation and ended up destroying an entire realm...
“Little Celestial Maiden, you possess immense fortune! I've decided—I'm going to follow you for the rest of my life!”
Wen Jingshu: ...
“Don't call me 'Little Celestial Maiden.' I am no such thing.”
“Alright, Little Celestial Maiden.”
Wen Jingshu couldn't be bothered to argue with her. She attached the Shengsheng Bead to a leopard demon beast, hitching a free ride all the way to the outskirts of Cangwu City.
At this moment, thousands of demon beasts had gathered outside Cangwu City. They were desperately trying to charge toward the city, but were held back a hundred meters from the city walls by a transparent barrier.
Countless human cultivators had gathered inside the barrier. They would venture out to fight the demon beasts, quickly store away any they killed, and then retreat back inside the barrier to rest once they were exhausted.
Low-grade demon beasts were full of treasures from head to toe, and many were waiting for this opportunity to make a fortune.
Many demon beasts wailed as they died miserable deaths, yet they still resolutely attacked the barrier.
Watching the frenzied demon beasts, Wen Jingshu vaguely felt that something was amiss.
Mu Yanghe sat casually beside Wen Jingshu, looking outside through the water mirror, and said, “Are lower realm cultivators really so lacking in martial virtue? Why on earth did they steal the child of a spirit beast king?
“The cub hasn't even hatched from its shell yet!”
Hearing Mu Yanghe finally say something useful, Wen Jingshu glanced back at her.
Sensing her gaze, the skull turned ninety degrees, its jawbone clattering as it spoke, “What? Am I wrong?
“If it weren't for the hatred of having their baby stolen, how could these demon beasts be fighting so desperately?
“Can't you all sense such a strong scent of that beast inside the city?”
Wen Jingshu recalled Jinyin mentioning the beast tide. She had said that long ago, Cangwu Island did not have beast tides, and the first one seemed to have occurred five hundred years ago.
No one had ever mentioned a reason; it was simply a sudden, recurring beast tide that began appearing at set intervals.
And during every single beast tide, the demon beasts would attack Cangwu City with this same desperate ferocity.
Could there really be a spirit beast king commanding them from behind the scenes?
Wen Jingshu asked, “What else can you see besides this?”
Mu Yanghe leaned in close to the water mirror, looking as if she wanted to stick her entire head through it.
She peered left and right, staring for a long time before saying, “My eyes are a bit blurry. I can't make out anything else.”
Wen Jingshu: ...
How could she get blurry eyes with those two empty sockets of hers?
Seeing Wen Jingshu's indescribable expression, Mu Yanghe said indignantly, “What? What? Little Celestial Maiden, you can't discriminate against skeletons!
“Little Celestial Maiden, you have no idea how beautiful my eyes are! People used to say my looks were of androgynous beauty, a killer of both men and women! Once I recover my original appearance, you will definitely fall in love with me, Little Celestial Maiden!
“If nothing else, just look at my beautiful bones right now—you can tell that I must be gorgeous, right?”
Listening to her start babbling again, Wen Jingshu expressionlessly controlled the Shengsheng Bead to quickly return to the Sun family's residence.
As she listened to Mu Yanghe's words, she couldn't help but recall her appearance.
To be fair, she was indeed a rare beauty.
But seeing how smug Mu Yanghe was, Wen Jingshu had no desire to agree with her.
Seeing that she was being ignored, Mu Yanghe persisted, “Little Celestial Maiden, everything I said is true! Even though you aren't interested in me right now and don't want me to warm your bed...
“...once you see what I actually look like, you will definitely be tempted!
“Of course, you saved my life, so warming your bed is only my duty.
“I don't mean you have to wait for me, Little Celestial Maiden. If you meet a suitable cultivator to become Dao companions with, that's perfectly fine too. I can just be your female pet or handmaiden~”
Mu Yanghe babbled on and on. It sounded like demonic music to Wen Jingshu's ears, inexplicably making her think of Sui Qi.
Sui Qi had also been trapped for over a thousand years, and upon suddenly seeing a living person, he hadn't been able to stop himself from becoming a chatterbox either.
At least Sui Qi was only trapped in the Divine Ruins, still able to move around and cultivate freely. Mu Yanghe, on the other hand, had been completely unable to move for over a thousand years. With no sound, no living things, and absolute darkness before her eyes, it was a miracle she was only half-mad by now.
Putting herself in her shoes, if Wen Jingshu were locked away for over a thousand years and finally saw the light of day again, she would probably be even more crazed than them.
While thinking this, Wen Jingshu silently blocked her sense of hearing.
She had thrown the four little ones in to keep her company, but unfortunately, this person had absolutely no interest in spirit beasts and only wanted to chat with her.
Forget it. Why bother arguing with a pitiful soul?
Since she was so lonely, she would buy a few servants and send them in to keep her company when a suitable opportunity arose.
She really was a very considerate master.
Wen Jingshu had left without a trace, and no one noticed her return either.
Seeing Wen Jingshu "exit her secluded cultivation," Jinyin explained, “Replying to Miss, this year's beast tide is much larger than previous ones. Today, demon beasts of the fifth-rank or higher even appeared. All of the Sun family's cultivators at or above the Foundation Establishment Stage have been dispatched to slaughter them, and they've even sent out two Soul Transformation True Sovereigns.”
Although Cangwu City had a city-protecting grand array, keeping it active for a single day consumed tens of thousands of top-grade spirit stones.
In the past, the beast tides lasted at most half a month. This time, however, fifth-rank and higher demon beasts had already appeared just five days in, and an endless stream of marine demon beasts was still coming ashore. Looking at this momentum, it probably wouldn't end even in a month.
An elongated beast tide was extremely disadvantageous to Cangwu City.
Faced with this inexplicable turn of events, they could not simply wait passively.
Hearing Jinyin's explanation, Wen Jingshu couldn't help but think of the Hundun Bead she had just retrieved.
Even though Mu Yanghe claimed that someone had captured a spirit beast king's cub, causing the annual beast tides to storm Cangwu City, Wen Jingshu had just retrieved the Hundun Bead when the beast tide's offensive suddenly intensified. If she said there was absolutely no connection, even she would have doubts.
Having thought this, Wen Jingshu went ahead and asked her.
Mu Yanghe replied dismissively, “That's right. Little Celestial Maiden, since you took the Hundun Bead, the spirit beast king sensed that the pressure on Cangwu Island has decreased, so more demon beasts have come ashore.”
Hearing Mu Yanghe casually blurt out the name "Hundun Bead," Wen Jingshu's heart skipped a beat.
She had only thrown her into the Shengsheng Bead, yet she could already sense that she had taken the Hundun Bead?
Wen Jingshu's gaze grew increasingly dangerous as she stared at her. Mu Yanghe, in all her bony glory, said shyly, “Oh, Little Celestial Maiden, don't look at me like that. I know my bones are quite pretty.
“But as a mere pile of bones right now, I really have no way of serving you!”
Wen Jingshu: ...
Serve her foot! What a completely filterless lunatic!
She really wanted to feed her some muting poison!
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