Somewhere in the Black Soul Palace, there is a dark and humid underground with only a little light.
A crack in space appeared, and a figure jumped out from inside.
In the darkness, there was the sound of a huge body sliding from the ground.
Shu Qingmo landed on his feet and looked at the spiritual seed in his hand with interest. The clear and complete insect patterns on it were glowing faintly, and the freshest blood was hanging on them.
His Highness walked over from the darkness and stared at the spiritual seed with his beastly eyes.
"Is this your female insect?"
Shu Qingmo raised the corner of his mouth and turned the spiritual seed in his hand half a circle, "It's a defective product and it doesn't mean much to me."
His Highness frowned, "Then why did you bring it back?"
Shu Qingmo chuckled, raised his hand and touched his hair, turned his wrist to take the spiritual seed in, and walked into the darker depths, with His Highness following him.
"I just didn't expect she could be raised so well."
Shu Qingmo's facial features were hidden in the deep darkness, with only the animal eyes emitting hidden light.
"She? Refers to Ye Guilan?"
His Highness stopped, and Shu Qingmo also stopped. The two brothers looked at each other with their beastly eyes, and His Highness narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I have already said that I would kill her, but you haven't done it yet."
"I also said she can't die now."
His Highness's animal eyes flashed slightly, "If she had died at that time, what happened next would not have happened, and we would not have come here...!"
Shu Qingmo's beast eyes emitted a dangerous light, "You just can't listen to what I say, right?"
Arms, raise them!
"Ugh!"
Shu Qingmo pulled a figure out of the darkness, and his fingers were stuck on the man's slender neck.
A black chain protruded from his body and was fastened directly.
His Highness wanted to speak, but Shu Qingmo's eyes swept over him, and he could only shut up.
Shu Qingmo's hand loosened, but the black chain tightened.
The figure knelt on the ground in embarrassment, and the black chain around his neck shrank tighter and tighter. Shu Qingmo slowly squatted down and exerted force with his palms.
Wu Zhu's face was lifted up by the black chains.
His slender eyes looked at Shu Qingmo's beastly pupils, and his palms trembled slightly.
"What exactly did you say to my brother?"
Shu Qingmo murmured, "You rag, it's already a gift for me to keep you alive."
"Deputy Chief...Sir...I...have...nothing..."
Wu Zhu was so strangled that he could not utter a complete sentence. He tried his best to make a sound to be heard by Shu Qingmo, but he said nothing.
His Highness stood aside, pursed his lips and said nothing.
Snap.
The black chain was separated from his neck, and Shu Qingmo looked at him with eyes full of disdain, as if he was looking at trash.
He continued to walk deeper into the darkness, and His Highness followed him, and Wu Zhu's figure quickly disappeared into the darkness.
"So this hunt failed."
When His Highness spoke, Shu Qingmo slowed down and laughed softly, "It can't be said that it was a failure. I brought back this spiritual seed she raised, which makes me happy."
The spirit seed was taken out again, and Shu Qingmo looked at the insect pattern on it with a little more approval.
"She has done something that even I can't do. This knowledge is enough to surprise me."
The complete insect pattern on it was carefully observed by Shu Qingmo, and the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he seemed to be.
"After all, this is just a casual creation of mine. When I saw it, I didn't expect it to be so well-raised until... the female insect in my body started to sense it."
Shu Qingmo frowned slightly. He had seen Chi Chi a long time ago. At that time, the female worm in his body didn't move at all, but then there was movement.
He stared at the spiritual seed in his hand. This spiritual seed was almost like a cover, preventing the female insect in his body from sensing it.
The cover disappeared and the spiritual seed was exposed before he reacted.
It was all because of the female insect's induction that he was able to accurately find Chi Chi from the distortion and take out the spiritual seed.
As for Wanqi Wujiang...
Shu Qingmo suddenly stopped and lowered his head slightly, "Don't think that I don't know what you ordered him to do. There will be no next time."
The beast's eyes turned slightly and stared at His Highness, "Even if you are my brother."
His Highness was stunned, "I know, I know..."
The coldness in those beastly eyes disappeared. Shu Qingmo admired the insect patterns on the spirit seeds and said in a good mood, "How are the preparations?"
"It's almost there. It's just that some things I wanted to get from profiteers suddenly disappeared. It's not very important."
Shu Qingmo waved his hands indifferently, and a deep laughter echoed in the cold and damp darkness.
"As expected of a profiteer, but it doesn't matter. Once I finish this, we can... start."
For the Xuanhui clan, that day, Chi Chi died in Ye Guilan's arms. She sat holding him for a long time, and finally picked up his cold body.
"Grandpa Elder, can you give me a quiet place?"
Chi Chi's blood stained Ye Guilan's body. Elder Xuanhui wanted to speak, but Ye He gave him a look. Elder Xuanhui nodded, "Follow me."
In a certain resource area in the hands of the Xuanhui clan, Ye Guilan walked in with Chi Chi in his arms.
She carefully placed Chi Chi on the ground, looked at the hollow position of his spiritual seed, and clenched her palms tightly.
After sitting like this for a while, Ye Guilan raised his head and raised his arms.
Fiery red spiritual energy surged out of her body and condensed into a ball in her palm.
"I will definitely take your spiritual seed back, definitely."
Flames burned and jumped in front of Ye Guilan's eyes, falling from her palms to Chi Chi's body.
Ye Guilan took out small boxes one after another. They were full of spiritual seeds.
These are all spiritual seeds prepared by Ye Guilan for Chi Chi. These have been prepared for him a long time ago.
She used herself as an example to calculate the number of spiritual seeds Chi Chi would need in the future.
The level of gathering spirits, the level of seeing spirits, the level of phantom spirits...
Ye Guilan looked at the boxes of spiritual seeds, pressed his hands hard on the ground, and dug his fingers into them.
With great difficulty, he managed to survive until now.
I survived the pain of spiritual seed cleansing and the pain of body tearing.
It was not easy for him to take this step, and it was not easy for him to say goodbye to the past.
There were tears falling from Ye Guilan's face.
She watched with her own eyes that he had come to this point.
"Sister Lan, if I don't give up on myself, don't give up on me either."
"Sister Lan, I will never run away again, I will listen to you."
"Sister Lan, I can hold on."
"Sister Lan..."
More tears fell. Ye Guilan gritted his teeth and dug his fingers deeper.
She could predict how his spiritual seed would be treated in Shu Qingmo's hands.
Even if he snatches it back again, Chi Chi won't be able to come back.
This child who refuses to give up on himself will never come back.
Ye Guilan raised his head with red eyes, looking at Chi Chi who was wrapped in spiritual fire, and suddenly felt a little regretful.
If she hadn't insisted at the beginning, she wouldn't have interfered with him.
No matter how difficult it is, no matter how depressed it is, he will still be alive.
Although he was dependent on others and unhappy, he was still alive after all.
A figure appeared behind Ye Guilan.
Wan Qi Wugui sat in a wheelchair and looked at his daughter's kneeling figure, then reached out and gently touched Ye Guilan's shoulder.
Ye Guilan turned her head, her face full of tears made Wanqi Wugui's heart hurt like a knife.
"mother!"
Ye Guilan rushed over, unable to hold back the pain in her heart anymore, and cried out in the arms of Wan Qi Wu Gui.
"It's my fault, I hurt him, it's all my fault..."
Wan Qi Wugui hugged his daughter tightly, hugging her tightly, and finally fell from the wheelchair and sat on the ground, taking Ye Guilan into his arms.
The warm breath lingered around Ye Guilan, and she couldn't hold back her tears. She didn't want to be depressed anymore at this moment.
Along the way, how many lives have been lost in this game.
Countless people have been tortured, and countless tragedies continue to occur.
Why should we open spiritual seeds and why should we embark on this path of becoming a strong person?
Just to feel more and more pain and separation between life and death?
The hands that never came back gently patted her back, as if she had returned to the first time, when she was lying on the bench, holding the crying Ye Guilan in her arms, who had just been born.
She also patted gently like this, over and over again.
Wan Qi Wugui looked at Chi Chi lying there, his body gradually dissipating little by little as the flames burned.
"Gui Lan."
Wan Qi Wugui called out softly, stroking her hair with his hand, "This child chose you. Has he ever regretted it?"
Ye Guilan raised his head blankly, and Chi Chi's face appeared.
"Sister Lan, I don't regret it."
The mother gently wiped her tears and looked at Ye Guilan with her warm black eyes.
"This child does not regret his choice, and you should not regret your choice of him."
"mother……"
"Don't waver in your belief, we will be with you on this path you take."
The fingers that never returned lightly brushed her cheek, "I will be with you no matter what time."
After a long time, Chi Chi in the spiritual flame turned into a handful of dust.
Ye Guilan helped her mother sit in the wheelchair, poured the dust into the box containing the spiritual seeds, and put it away again.
She looked at the place where Chi Chi disappeared for a long time.
Finally, he turned around and pushed the wheelchair that had never returned to the resource area to the teleportation array. Ye Guilan's fingers clenched slightly, "Mom, dad told you..."
"Well, he died, your father told me."
Wan Qi Wu Gui's tone didn't change much, and he even looked back at his daughter, "I'm fine, silly kid."
Ye Guilan's mouth was dry and he didn't know what to say.
On the contrary, Wan Qi Wugui raised his lips and smiled, turned his head and leaned gently on the back of the chair, sighing softly.
"If I were there, there would be no need for your father to take action."
Ye Guilan stopped at his feet, and Wan Qi Wugui sat there, looking calmly ahead with his black eyes, and spoke softly.
"My brother has died a long time ago. This Wanqi Wujiang should not exist in this world."