Chapter 58
Chapter 58: That Word Cannot Be Said!
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“Bead…”
Lin Muyu looked down at the bead around her neck that was flowing with a faint light, finally understanding why Xiaotao said she had “no name.”
Such a simple form of address really wasn’t as nice-sounding as her Xiaotao’s name.
“Sister Bead, you found a master?!”
The wooden stick beside her suddenly transmitted an urgent voice, wrapped in thick anxiety, just like a little girl whose beloved toy had been snatched away, even her trailing tone was trembling.
Xiaotao seemed not to hear the urgency in that tone, still using that sweet and soft voice to reply:
“Yes, this is my master, called Lin Muyu, she’s very good~”
Her trailing tone was drawn out long, carrying obvious coquettish meaning.
Lin Muyu felt her heart warm from this praise, couldn’t help but laugh:
“I’m not that good.”
“Bad person, big bad person! What method did you use to trick Sister Bead away! Wuu wuu wuu…”
The wooden stick’s voice suddenly took on a crying tone, extremely aggrieved, even causing the main body to start trembling slightly, as if truly suffering great injustice.
“Ah?”
Lin Muyu and Xiaotao inside the bead were both stunned, looking at each other in bewilderment (though a person and a bead couldn’t actually make eye contact).
Xiaotao quickly explained:
“I voluntarily went with master, Xiaomu be good~ don’t cry anymore.”
As she spoke, even Xiaotao’s own voice carried a few traces of grievance, as if infected by the crying.
Lin Muyu sighed helplessly in her heart.
Great, another little crybaby.
And probably a big crybaby raised by the big crybaby Xiaotao.
“Um… I’ll treat your Sister Bead well…”
She had a flash of inspiration, saying this sentence in a ghostly tone.
Who knew that as soon as these words hit the ground, the wooden stick’s crying became even louder:
“Wuu wuu, no! I want to be with Sister Bead!”
“Then you can come with me too, and you’ll be able to stay with Sister Bead all the time, right?”
Lin Muyu curved her lips, her tone like coaxing a child.
“Good! It’s decided then! Take me away!”
Xiaomu’s crying stopped abruptly, the next second she responded decisively, so efficiently that even Lin Muyu was stunned.
Plan successful!
Lin Muyu gave herself a thumbs up in her heart, just as she was feeling proud, Xiaotao inside the bead was already dumbfounded.
She knew Xiaomu’s personality best, stubborn as a rock.
Today she was actually persuaded by Lin Muyu’s few words?
Fortunately that elder had reminded earlier that only one item could be taken, otherwise with master’s ability, she might be able to trick away all the spirit weapons here.
“Then quickly sign the contract!”
Lin Muyu smiled as she rubbed her hands together, just like a bad auntie tricking little children.
At this time, Xiaotao’s ghostly voice suddenly came from inside the bead:
“Master, you’re only at Qi Refining stage, you can only blood-contract one spirit weapon… too many and your body can’t handle it.”
“Ah?”
Lin Muyu immediately froze, raising her hand to scratch her head, the smile on her face instantly collapsed.
She had actually forgotten Senior Sister Susu’s reminder completely.
Doesn’t that mean she can only watch Xiaomu helplessly?
“But I have a method!”
Xiaotao’s tone suddenly turned, obviously rising, carrying a few traces of little pride.
“Xiaotao is so amazing! What method is it?”
Lin Muyu immediately beamed with joy, praising first then asking.
“Hehe, wouldn’t it work if we don’t use blood contract?”
“Don’t use blood contract?”
Lin Muyu blinked, full of confusion.
She had never heard of spirit weapons being able to recognize masters without blood contracts.
“Master, haven’t you noticed that your Wood Spirit Root is very special?”
Xiaotao suddenly changed the topic.
Lin Muyu’s heart skipped a beat.
Special? Could Xiaotao have seen that her spirit root had fused with water and earth spirit roots?
“It is very big! Bigger and wider than those disciples’ spirit roots in the illusion.”
Xiaotao’s words made her breathe a sigh of relief.
Fortunately she only saw it was “big,” didn’t discover the fusion secret.
If people could easily know that her spirit root could fuse attributes, she might be captured for thorough research!
Since even Xiaotao didn’t notice, then besides Su Wanqing, probably no one else knew, right?
“But what does this have to do with signing contracts?” Lin Muyu pursued the question.
“Since you’re both wood attribute, why not try a spirit contract? Just bind part of your spirit root with Xiaomu.”
She had lived for 5,000 years, sometimes when sunbathing in the past, she had heard a lot of news from some spiritually awakened birds and beasts.
“Bind using spirit root? Won’t there be side effects?”
Lin Muyu was somewhat hesitant, whether it was novels she read in her previous life or this life, she had never heard of this method.
“Ordinary people doing this would indeed have side effects.”
Xiaotao’s tone became serious.
“Spirit roots are originally the foundation of cultivation, missing a part might very likely slow down cultivation speed.”
“But master, you’re different. Your meridians temporarily can’t withstand the spiritual energy attracted by that spirit root, usually absorbing too much spiritual energy would instead cause saturation, wasting the spirit root’s potential.”
She paused, her voice becoming more cheerful:
“So if you separate part of your spirit root to Xiaomu, not only won’t it affect cultivation, but you can mutually nourish each other with Xiaomu, and in the end it can even feed back to you!”
“Xiaotao, you know so much.”
Lin Muyu listened with her mouth agape.
“Of course! I admire Sister Bead the most!”
Xiaomu beside them suddenly interjected, her tone exactly like a little fangirl.
“Hehe, not really…”
Xiaotao felt a bit embarrassed being praised.
“These were all things I heard from little bird, too bad it hasn’t come back to see me for a thousand years…”
As she spoke, her voice lowered again, carrying faint loss.
“It’s okay, we’ll definitely be able to find it in the future.”
Lin Muyu quickly comforted, though she didn’t know who that “little bird” was, she could feel Xiaotao’s sadness.
“Mm! Since I can come out, I’ll definitely be able to see little bird again!”
Xiaotao quickly perked up.
“Master, let me teach you how to do it~”
“Good.”
As soon as the words fell, Lin Muyu felt the spiritual energy in her body being guided by a gentle force, slowly wrapping around that wide Wood Spirit Root.
She clearly “saw” the spirit root shake its round body in dissatisfaction, as if protesting, but without her permission, it could only obediently stay in place.
“Don’t resist.”
Xiaotao gently reminded.
Lin Muyu replied through gritted teeth: “Okay…”
But the next second, intense pain suddenly struck, and she only belatedly wailed in her heart.
Why didn’t anyone tell her that stripping spirit root would be so painful!
That feeling was like bones being forcibly torn from the body, every inch screaming with pain. Lin Muyu’s face instantly contorted, sweat sliding down her cheeks like broken pearls, even her vision began to blur.
No wonder she had never heard of this method, she really was fearless in ignorance…
“Almost there, hold on a bit more.”
Xiaotao’s voice also carried a few traces of strain, obviously guiding the partial stripping of spirit root wasn’t easy for her either.
She turned to the wooden stick again:
“Xiaomu, don’t resist, or we’ll fall short of success!”
A wisp of pale green spiritual light slowly rose from Lin Muyu’s lower abdomen, condensing into a crystalline small bead, which was exactly the part of spirit root that had been stripped. It tremblingly floated toward the wooden stick.
Xiaomu saw both Lin Muyu and Xiaotao looking strained, obediently opened her mind to catch that small bead, letting it fuse into her main body.
“Done!”
With Xiaotao’s light shout, Lin Muyu could no longer hold on, her legs went soft and she collapsed to the floor, her back instantly soaked with sweat, even her hair stuck to her forehead.
“Sorry >人<, I didn’t know it would be so painful…”
Xiaotao’s voice carried a crying tone, full of guilt.
“I only heard little bird mention this contract method, didn’t expect actually doing it would be so difficult.”
If Lin Muyu had fainted just now, or if Xiaomu refused to fuse, Lin Muyu would have been severely injured, and she would also have been severely injured by the spell’s backlash…
“It’s fine, didn’t we succeed?”
Lin Muyu wiped the sweat from her forehead, forcing out a weak smile.
“Look, aren’t we all fine now?”
Although somewhat frightened, Lin Muyu was still very happy. The spirit weapons that others would find very difficult to obtain, she got two at once.
Moreover, her spirit root had also slimmed down, finally no longer pressing against her spiritual palace.
As soon as she finished speaking, a red-haired figure walked in, it was Luo Chenxi who had gone to select spirit weapons.
“What are you… doing?”
She held a fiery red long spear in her hand, seeing the scene before her eyes immediately froze, her facial expression extremely strange.
From her perspective, Lin Muyu’s clothes were disheveled, her face flushed with an abnormal red.
Most importantly, she was covered in sweat yet holding a wooden stick while grinning foolishly!
“Could it be that you were…”
“Hey hey! That word cannot be said!!!”