Wanbao Lady

Chapter 213 Alive!

Chong Fan asked a few questions casually, and Chai Gu revealed all his background.

It turned out that what he said to the treasure hunting team was a mixture of truth and lies.

He said that he was a sect disciple who was abandoned in a forbidden area, which was true.

Not only was he abandoned, but his demon pet, the Insect Queen, was also abandoned.

But what he said about the level of cultivation when he first entered the forbidden area was false.

That year, when he stepped into the forbidden area, he was not at the peak of marrow cleansing, but at the late stage of bone forging.

Back then, he was just a menial disciple who served tea and water to the disciples and elders on the flying boat and did odd jobs. He was not even considered an outer disciple.

He was also cannon fodder used by the elders to explore the forbidden area.

There are many cannon fodders like him.

After the incident in the forbidden area, everyone evacuated in a hurry, leaving not only him behind, but also two menial disciples.

Fortunately, the three of them managed to hide in an ancient wreckage in time and escaped with their lives.

However, before the marrow cleansing stage, one cannot practice fasting.

The three of them traveled together, stopping and starting in the forbidden area, but everywhere they looked was black sand, and they were so hungry that their chests were sticking to their backs.

After a sandstorm, two of his companions died and he was the only one who survived.

But my stomach was burning with anger.

Just then, he found himself back at the burial ground.

And the burial ground was the purpose of their sect’s disciples coming here before.

Although no one knew what treasure they were looking for, they dug the burial ground into many holes.

But looking at the dark land below, Chai Gu and Chongmu, whose eyes turned green with hunger, had the same idea in their minds.

The Soil of All Spirits, although it is stained with the blood of ancient monks and monsters, is also known as the ominous land.

But there is no doubt that this is also a kind of spiritual soil.

Being so hungry that they were about to lose their minds, the man and the demon didn't care about anything else and just dug up a handful of dirt and stuffed it into their mouths.

He didn't stop until his stomach was full and bulging.

But what followed was severe pain.

The man and the demon rolled on the ground in pain, holding their stomachs. Their bodies were convulsing, and they were too weak to even scream until they fainted.

I don’t know how long it was, but when Chai Gu woke up, he found that he was not only alive, but also not so hungry anymore!

Not only did he wake up, but his demon pet, the insect mother, also woke up, and even earlier than him. It seemed that she had been guarding him since she woke up.

When the insect mother found that he had woken up, she cried with joy.

But since that day, the Insect Queen has started to behave strangely.

It looked at him from time to time as if hesitant to speak, and sometimes asked him how he was feeling, looking confused and nervous.

It left him confused.

Until about half a month later, hunger came again.

Because of the severe pain he had experienced last time, Chai Gu hesitated as he looked at the Wanling Soil in front of him.

He was struggling internally.

If you don't eat soil, you will die, but if you eat soil, life will be worse than death.

At this time, the insect mother said to him: "Master, let me eat this soil! After I eat this spiritual soil, I will have strength and can lay eggs. When the eggs hatch, you can eat them, so you won't be hungry."

Hearing this, Chai Gu's eyes suddenly filled with tears.

To him, the Insect Queen is not only a demon pet, but also his friend.

He was his only friend in Emperor Taixuanzong.

The only friend who will never despise him or bully him.

He didn't want to continue his survival in such a tragic way.

But the insect mother said calmly: "The concept of family affection between us demons and humans is different, and we insect demons are even more so. Humans only have one child per birth, so they treasure it. But we insect demons can have thousands of children per birth, so we don't care much. In my heart, you, my master, are more important than my offspring!"

After some persuasion, Chai Gu finally agreed to this method.

So, he watched the insect queen gnaw on the all-spiritual soil, watched it fall to the ground and twitch in pain, watched it wake up, and watched it lay eggs.

A few days later, the eggs hatched and he swallowed the little insect with tears in his eyes.

Day after day, year after year.

Every time you chew on the Wanling Soil, it is a torture like torture.

There are more and more spiritual insects in the forbidden area, and they have even learned to eat soil in order to survive.

And Chai Gu never felt hungry again.

Until one day, in this environment with thin spiritual energy, he finally broke through to the marrow cleansing stage and was able to practice fasting, so he stopped eating.

I originally thought that I would be fine once I got to the marrow cleansing stage, and no matter how big the difficulties were, they would not be able to defeat me. After all, is there anything more cruel than starving?

As long as you wait patiently for the right person to come and take them out, you can end this nightmare life.

However, he did not realize at that time that time is also a kind of torture.

There are no companions of the same kind, only spiritual insects.

There is no vitality, only black sand everywhere.

He went through many hardships and dangers, traveled throughout the forbidden area, and even flew high into the sky.

But I found that there was only one exit.

It was the vortex passage they came in through.

But the passage was too dangerous. With his strength, he would surely die if he forced his way in!

He waited and waited, but the so-called destined person never came.

Until one day, the insect mother said to him: "No one comes to rescue us, so we have to find a way out ourselves!"

Chai Gu looked at the dark sky and said, "But with our strength, it's difficult!"

He estimated that he would have to cultivate to the Heavenly Man Stage before he could pass through the exit vortex in his physical body.

The Insect Mother continued, "I can give birth to millions of children by eating the Ten Thousand Spiritual Soil. When the exit in the sky appears, I will let the children fly out from there to the outside world to seek help!"

"But even we can't protect ourselves in the whirlpool, I'm afraid they will be wiped out!"

"It doesn't matter. As long as I have enough children, one or two will be able to escape. I will also continue to train them to eat the Ten Thousand Spiritual Soil to improve their cultivation and increase their chances of survival."

Considering the concentration of spiritual energy in the forbidden area, it would take a long time to reach the celestial stage.

Chai Gu thought about it and had no choice but to agree.

Thus, batch after batch of spirit insects were sent out by the Insect Queen to act as messengers between the forbidden area and the outside world.

It doesn't know whether any of its offspring have passed through the exit vortex, it only knows that every batch of children it sends away has no news since then.

Maybe they all died in the vortex channel.

Maybe he was just arrived in the outside world and was killed by the practitioners.

Maybe it's good luck that has come to the outside world, but no one is willing to take risks for irrelevant people.

Anyway, no one came to rescue them.

They sent messengers to the outside world again and again, but were disappointed again and again.

It was not until a long, long time later that Chai Gu discovered that he was about to form a pill!

He was extremely delighted and shared his joy with the Insect Queen.

But beneath the insect mother's joy, it seemed that there was something else hidden.

He didn't care about anything else and quickly sat cross-legged to practice his skills.

But the spiritual energy in the forbidden area was too thin, and it took ten days to form a crystal.

The spiritual energy that had originally gathered into a cyclone in the dantian also dispersed and rushed around in the body.

It made him suffer like a pregnant woman in labor.

Maybe I'm dying!

He thought so.

Maybe I should have died a long time ago.

Maybe, I'm already dead?

When he thought of this, his body suddenly fell to the ground uncontrollably.

The flesh and blood dried up inch by inch, the skin turned gray, and even the eye sockets became gradually sunken.

After a while, he turned from a living person into a mummy!

Fragmented memories flooded into my mind.

He could not help but stare blankly at the dark sky.

It turned out that he should have died in pain after he ate the Wanling Soil for the first time.

It was only because of his obsession with living, coupled with the spiritual soil in his stomach, that he turned into a living dead man wandering on the brink of life and death!

Only then did he understand what was hidden beneath the insect mother's occasional hesitation to speak and her apparent joy.

That is a deep sorrow.