Chapter 14 What about my vast Ming Dynasty? Ye Tianchen: Sitting at home, soul rings fall from the sky?
Ye Tianchen suddenly opened his eyes. Before he could even tell if he was dreaming, a dense red light expanded and transformed into an inverted ring that descended.
Luo Sanpao, who was sleeping under the tree, took off and slowly hovered opposite Ye Tianchen.
"Hold head high!"
A sound like a cow's moo or a python's roar echoed in Ye Tianchen's mind. At the same time, Luo Sanpao, who was opposite Ye Tianchen, let out the same roar. His originally pale purple, round body radiated a sky-blue light and finally transformed into a sky-blue cocoon of light, beating slowly like a heart.
A surge of soul power, like a raging river, flooded Ye Tianchen's body. A phantom that blotted out the sky appeared and disappeared behind him. The pressure of a 100,000-year-old soul beast was released without reservation, causing soul beasts within a thousand miles to scatter and even triggering a small beast tide.
...
"Hey... what about my huge Da Ming?"
Looking at the empty lake, Xiao Wu's fair and rosy face was completely blank.
"Sister Xiaowu, will Big Brother be able to come back for breakfast tomorrow?"
The Titan Ape scratched its head; its walnut-sized brain was not enough for it to understand why its elder brother had suddenly disappeared.
[You fed the cloud-raised pet, the Azure Bull Python!]
"I fed the Azure Bull Python?! Can you even understand human speech? What did I say that meant I was going to feed Da Ming? What kind of assessment is this? You're a complete liar! Give Da Ming back!"
In her excitement, Xiao Wu bounced around on the Titan Ape's shoulder, her little face flushed with anger.
Just then, a familiar aura suddenly emanated from the outer area, instantly attracting the attention of Xiao Wu and the Titan Ape, and causing the expressions on their faces to turn astonished.
"Da Ming sacrificed himself?! Bastard! You big liar! I don't want to raise virtual pets anymore! Get out of my head!"
Xiao Wu felt a surge of blood rushing to her head, and her swollen chest rose and fell.
[A cloud-nurtured object has only one choice; once chosen, it cannot be changed. Forcibly canceling it will result in the shattering of the martial soul at best, and death and annihilation at worst. Do you wish to cancel it?]
The voice in her mind rose slowly and deliberately, causing Xiao Wu's flushed face to freeze abruptly.
"Waaaaah! You big liar! Give Da Ming back! Waaaaah!"
Xiao Wu's eyes turned red at a visible speed, and she burst into tears.
"Who lied to you, Little Wu? Was it that human who made Big Brother sacrifice himself? Come on! I'll teach him a lesson for you!"
The Titan Ape pounded its chest, and as it spoke, it headed towards the edge of the area.
[Since this is your first time feeding a Cloud-Nurtured Item, you are rewarded with +10% Transformation Stability and +1 Soul Power Level!]
"Gah—"
The crying stopped abruptly. Xiao Wu gently raised her tear-filled eyes, her mouth slightly open in surprise, revealing a glimpse of her pink tongue.
At first, she thought it was her imagination, but the next second, she felt that her control over her human form was more stable, and she was one step closer to maturity. Even her soul power increased from twenty-nine to thirty.
The ability to increase the stability of one's transformation out of thin air and enhance soul power without any side effects is something only gods can do.
Although she was still saddened by the accidental sacrifice of Da Ming, Xiao Wu's mind had become more active than before.
If the voice in her mind wasn't a lie, then she was the rabbit chosen by the gods. As long as she fed the cloud-nurtured creatures every day as the gods required, her strength would surely increase rapidly over time. In that time, not only would she be able to avenge her mother, but perhaps even save Da Ming!
"Sister Xiaowu, what's wrong? Should we still save Big Brother...?"
Looking at Xiao Wu, who was once again lost in thought, on his shoulder, the Titan Ape felt that Xiao Wu seemed even more dazed than him today.
"Go, but not to save Da Ming. Once a soul beast is sacrificed, there's no way to stop it. Let's go see that… the human who made Da Ming sacrifice himself."
Xiao Wu's red eyes snapped back to reality. She patted the Titan Ape's shoulder and pointed in the direction from which the Azure Bull Python's aura was emanating.
"Oh."
The Titan Ape scratched its head, then leaped, covering a distance of 100 meters.
...
In the outer area of the Star Dou Forest, the Titan Ape sat cross-legged on the ground, its muscles, sharp and angular like granite, bulging like a small black mountain.
Wearing a pink dress, Xiao Wu sat on its shoulder, her lotus-root-like arms supporting her round face, and her ivory-white legs swinging idly.
The man and the beast moved in unison, their eyes fixed on Ye Tianchen, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed on a tree branch in front of them.
The man and the beast had maintained this position for a whole night. The blood-red ring, which was originally about ten meters in diameter, was now only as thick as a waist, and it was firmly wrapped around Ye Tianchen's body, rising and falling with his breath.
On his right arm, a sky-blue right arm bone was faintly visible, shimmering with a sky-blue light as if breathing.
Enveloped in a sky-blue cocoon of light, Luo Sanpao's body became increasingly transparent. His pig-like, round body had vanished without a trace, replaced by a proportionally smaller figure resembling a sky-blue bull python.
Finally, the 100,000-year soul ring sacrificed by the Azure Bull Python was completely stabilized on Ye Tianchen. His soul power, which was originally only level 10, began to soar, and in an instant, it reached level 20 before finally stopping.
However, in Xiao Wu and the Titan Ape's perception, Ye Tianchen's soul power was still surging, and it would definitely continue to grow after he obtained his second soul ring and broke through the bottleneck.
"Open your eyes when you're awake."
Xiao Wu's clear voice echoed in Ye Tianchen's ears. Knowing that he couldn't escape, Ye Tianchen sighed helplessly and slowly opened his eyes.
Although he had been absorbing the soul ring offered by the Azure Bull Python all night, his perception was unaffected. He could clearly sense Luo Sanpao's transformation, as well as Xiao Wu and the Titan Ape approaching him and sitting opposite him all night.
"Roar!"
The light cluster of the transparent silk membrane finally broke open, and Luo Sanpao, who had undergone a complete transformation and was now a fleshy mass with a dark blue body, resembling both a dragon and a python, appeared before the two men and one beast.
Even though it was far inferior to the Titan Ape that was as large as a mountain in front of it, it still stood in front of Ye Tianchen, its childish voice full of warning.
"Big brother when he was young? No, it's just that we share the same ancestry."
The Titan Ape stared thoughtfully at Luo Sanpao, who was roaring at it.
"Sanpao is back; they mean no harm."
As Ye Tianchen's voice rang out, Luo Sanpao turned to look at Ye Tianchen. Although he was somewhat puzzled in his blue vertical pupils, he still rushed towards Ye Tianchen like a flying arrow, hovering on his arm and staring intently at the Titan Ape and Xiao Wu opposite him.
Ye Tianchen was right. If Xiao Wu and the Titan Ape had any ill intentions, they should have attacked the moment he finished absorbing their power.
Ye Tianchen just didn't expect Xiao Wu and the Titan Ape to appear in the edge area. He originally thought that Xiao Wu's feeding last night was voluntary, but now it seems that it's not that simple.
[end of the chapter]