Chapter 840 - 275: Si Mo Awakens! (Three Updates)
"Clean it up, so I can gulp it down in one go!"
The monster’s words lingered in the air.
Mu Qingge felt her body suddenly sink, and with a ’plop’, she fell into the spring.
The spring water surged over her, instantly enveloping Mu Qingge in icy coldness. "Damn! What exactly is the purpose of this spring?"
However, before she could react, a tremendous force pulled her out of the water again, leaving her drenched, collapsed beside the spring.
"Cough, cough..." Mu Qingge choked and coughed twice.
The spring water was no different from ordinary water.
"Huh? You’re actually fine!" The monster’s voice sounded again.
Mu Qingge raised her head abruptly, meeting its vulture-like head. "What does it mean by ’actually fine’?"
For some reason, she sensed a bad feeling spreading.
"It seems your body is unusual," the monster said, and a tentacle whipped out, wrapping around Mu Qingge and throwing her back into the spring.
Thrown back into the water, Mu Qingge’s body sank continually; her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose flooded with water, making her lungs feel fiery with discomfort.
"Uh~!" Suddenly, Mu Qingge felt a sharp pain inside her, and couldn’t help but frown.
She felt as if her insides were burning in raging fire, a pain comparable to when she once consumed a tenfold dose of Genetic Transformation Agent.
"What’s happening?... It’s this spring!" Mu Qingge realized immediately.
Right then, stinging pain came from her hand. Looking at it, she saw her hand beginning to rot, but as swiftly as it started to decay, her regeneration ability quickly restored the flesh.
"This is the poisonous spring!" Mu Qingge understood in her heart.
The monster was using the spring to cultivate, knowing it contained deadly poison. Ordinary people would die upon contact, but although she had been pulled out, her repair ability and antitoxicity kept her unharmed, which puzzled it.
Mu Qingge bore immense pain, unsure of the consequences of staying in the spring water.
No matter how strong her body was, she feared she couldn’t withstand this endless torment.
Moreover, even if she escaped the spring, a terrifying beast awaited her outside; there was no escaping fate!
"Better to hide for now!" Mu Qingge gritted her teeth, enduring the ripping pain, opened the Space Gate, and returned to her space.
As soon as she entered, she collapsed on the grass, and the spring water that came with her quickly wilted the grass, emitting a foul stench.
"Cough, cough..." Mu Qingge spat out several mouthfuls of blood-tinged spring water.
The poison in the water started corroding her body, from inside out. Having cultivated the Divine Strategy Upper Volume, her body was exceptionally sturdy, which meant she had to endure immense pain before the toxin was fully broken down by her antitoxic abilities.
Others would die instantly, but she couldn’t die, only suffer!
"Ah—!" Mu Qingge clenched her teeth, not wanting to cry out from pain, yet couldn’t help but scream. She curled up into a ball, enduring the excruciating corrosion and awaiting the toxin breakdown.
The toxins corroded; the power of the Genetic Transformation Agent repaired.
This was a tug of war, most agonizing for Mu Qingge, who felt like a log being sawed back and forth by a jagged blade.
"Master!" Mengmeng came rushing in.
Seeing Mu Qingge’s battered state, she turned pale with fear.
Never had she seen Mu Qingge this disheveled, with flesh and blood exposed, constantly corroded and repaired.
She could even see Mu Qingge’s bones.
"Master, what’s happened to you? What should I do?" Mengmeng anxiously spun in circles, unsure how to alleviate Mu Qingge’s suffering.
"I’m alright." Mu Qingge endured the torturous pain, gritting her teeth.
Her cheeks occasionally revealed skull, eyes bloodshot, veins bulging until they burst, dyeing her eyes red, turning her vision into a scarlet blur.
"Wah wah, you still say you’re alright in this state!" Mengmeng cried out, feeling Mu Qingge’s pain alongside her. Knowing Mu Qingge’s body was special, ordinary elixirs were useless; exasperated, she muttered, "That Great Demon King sleeps when Master needs him the most! I hate him! Wah wah... Master, please, tell Mengmeng how to help you..."
Mengmeng knelt beside Mu Qingge, crying like a little calico cat.
Mengmeng blamed Si Mo’s slumber, while Mu Qingge felt grateful. She wouldn’t want that man to see her so ravaged, nor did she wish for him to worry.
Mu Qingge looked at Mengmeng and said, "Mengmeng, help me to the Thunder Pool."
"Master, you’re like this and still want to go to the Thunder Pool!" Mengmeng cried, protesting yet obediently helping Mu Qingge up.
Touching Mu Qingge’s body drenched Mengmeng’s hands in blood, causing her to choke up and sorrowfully cry.
Mu Qingge took a breath, her voice hanging by a thread, "This isn’t the solution. I might not die from poison, but pain will kill me."
Mengmeng assisted Mu Qingge, staggering to the Thunder Pool.
Mu Qingge pushed Mengmeng aside forcefully, jumping directly into the pool.
Upon entering, lightning in the Thunder Pool struck her automatically. The electric pain combined with corrosive agony relieved her slightly.
"Master, what are you doing!" Mengmeng shouted in panic.
Mu Qingge immersed in the Thunder Pool, exhaled lightly and said, "Use pain to relieve pain, it’s a good method. It can effectively divert attention, making time less unbearable."
Mengmeng seemed half-understanding, but seeing a trace of relief on Mu Qingge’s face, she felt perhaps this was a solution, easing her worry slightly.
"Master, do you need Mengmeng to do anything else?" Mengmeng asked, crouching by the pool.
Mu Qingge gave her a faint smile, "Prepare hot water and clean clothes for me."
Mengmeng nodded, turning to run out.
She entered Mu Qingge’s palace, where Si Mo was lying on the bed.
Mengmeng found Mu Qingge’s clothes, stood by the bed watching the sleeping Si Mo, and angrily said, "Stupid Great Demon King, my master is injured like that, and you’re still sleeping!"
After cursing, Mengmeng turned and ran out.
At this moment, Si Mo, lying on the bed, had almost completely recovered.
His Divine Soul entered his own consciousness space and came to the place sealed by Li Yuan.
Si Mo’s handsome features were covered with a thin layer of frost. Looking at the seal marked by Li Yuan, there was still a trace of curse aura left on it.
"A curse? Hmph, today I’ll see what curse you’ve cast!" Si Mo touched his fingertips to his brow, and a beam of dark gold light flew out from his brow, piercing directly into the seal.
In an instant, Si Mo’s eyes narrowed, and a cold smile appeared on his lips. "It’s a Life-sharing Curse!"
His eyes were icy, and in the deep world, there was nothing but slaughter.
"Unfortunately, a curse of this level is useless to me." Si Mo sneered, raising his hand, spreading his five fingers towards the seal, and a formidable power burst from his palm, transforming into a sharp blade and stabbing forward.
"Break for me!" With a stern shout, the seal and curse planted by Li Yuan were shattered. Those sealed memories related to Mu Qingge, everything that belonged to her, surged back into Si Mo’s Divine Soul like a tide.
He stood in place, closing his eyes, feeling everything that belonged to him and Mu Qingge.
At the same time, with the seal forcibly broken, in the Phoenix Heaven God Emperor’s bedroom on the Four Seas Divine Land, a woman carefully adorning herself in front of a mirror suddenly felt a stabbing pain in her chest; her cultivation suddenly rebounded, causing her to spit a mouthful of blood onto the mirror.
"What’s happening! My cultivation..." she exclaimed in terror.
Her fingertips quickly calculated, then suddenly paused, a ferocious look surfaced from her panic-stricken eyes, and her delicate makeup became hideous. "Si Mo, you actually managed to break my seal! It caused a rebound on me, losing a thousand years of cultivation!"
However, after the ferocity, her face showed fear. She fell to the ground from the stool in panic, incredulous: "No! Impossible! To break my seal, unless he has completely recovered." If Si Mo had recovered his cultivation, she could not believe what this terrifying and cold-hearted man would do after what she did to him!
...
In Si Mo’s consciousness, those sealed memories returned to his mind.
He slowly opened his eyes, his amber eyes filled with endless tenderness. However, it was soon replaced by icy killing intent. He whispered, "Li Yuan, you dared to seal everything so important to me. If you don’t die, my heart’s hatred will never be resolved."
"Little Ge’er..." Thinking of his beloved, the killing in Si Mo’s eyes was replaced by tenderness, and warmth filled his voice.
He remembered everything now; he couldn’t wait to see his little Ge’er.
However, in just a few days of separation, to him, it felt like a lifetime.
He was still a bit fearful now. What if during the times when his memory was unclear, he missed his little Ge’er?
He would go mad! He would go crazy! He would wish to kill himself!
The elongated figure on the palace bed quietly slept, suddenly, his tightly closed eyes snapped open, and Si Mo sat up from the bed.
"Little Ge’er." Surveying the room, the memories of the time when he was sealed with Mu Qingge flooded into his mind.
"Hmph! Great Demon King, you’ve finally woken up! My master is almost in agony!" Mengmeng’s voice suddenly appeared.
Si Mo’s lip, which originally held a smile, stiffened abruptly, his aura plummeted, and demonic energy surged.
Suddenly, he vanished from where he was, and when he reappeared, he was at the edge of the Thunder Pool, seeing Mu Qingge enduring the pain within the pool.
"Little Ge’er!" Si Mo leapt into the Thunder Pool, pulling Mu Qingge into his arms.
At this moment, the toxins in Mu Qingge’s body had been completely decomposed, and her body had recovered. However, the previous turmoil left her extremely exhausted, and drowsiness came over her.
Seeing the man holding her, Mu Qingge curled her lips into an extremely beautiful smile. "As long as you’re awake." With that, she fell against Si Mo’s chest, fainting.
...
Outside the space, the monster was still waiting.
It muttered to itself, "After all this time, no matter how special the body is, it should have soaked in the Poison Spring and become my tonic."
A tentacle slowly submerged into the spring, fishing in the water.
However, when the tentacle scooped around, it found the spring unexpectedly empty.
This made the monster’s bald head show a fierce and sinister light.
It inserted another tentacle into the spring to probe. Yet, no matter how it scooped, the spring was empty except for water.
"Could it be, dissolved directly by the toxins in the spring?" The monster pondered.
This seemed to be the only reasonable explanation; otherwise, how to explain the prey’s disappearance?
Wasting such a fine meal made the monster indignant, and it roared in anger. Its roar echoed in the vast cavern, and dozens of its tentacles, seemingly stimulated, spread out their hideous suction cups, lined with dense sharp teeth, looking very terrifying.
The tentacles stretched out from the bottom of the cavern, drilling into holes in the rock walls. It seemed because of Mu Qingge’s disappearance, the monster was dissatisfied and intended to search for new prey.
...
Inside the space, when Mu Qingge woke from her slumber, she found herself wearing clean clothes, lying on the bed embraced by someone.
She blinked and met the man’s amber eyes, somewhat curious about the emotions in his eyes.
She sat up, naturally leaning against his chest, and asked, "How long did I sleep?"
Si Mo sighed helplessly, speaking in a doting tone, "Not long, only an hour."
Hmm?
Mu Qingge sat up straight, turned her eyes to Si Mo, held his face in her hands, and asked with surprise, "Your seal is lifted? You remember the past, right?"
Si Mo smiled at her, covering her hands with his, and asked in return, "Why do you think I’ve remembered? Is there any difference between the me with sealed memories and the me before?"
Uh...