Chapter 177.1: Fruit of the Sacred Tree
Mu Ye didn’t speak and simply pointed at the wooden ladder, indicating for her to climb up and see for herself.
The ladder looked pretty sturdy so she started climbing it. When she was halfway up, Mu Ye couldn’t stop himself from reminding her, “Use qinggong.”
She always ended up forgetting that she knew qinggong.
When she gradually got near the end of the ladder, she leaped up and landed on a branch nearby.
“Wah, does this still count as a tree? It’s way too magical!”
Tang Doudou stood on the enormous tree branch. The beautiful scene above her was completely different from what was below her. Rainbow-colored leaves glowed with faint radiance like the immortal trees of the legends.
There were all sorts of fruits hanging in between those leaves. Their colors were all very bright and as far as the eye could see, no two were identical.
“How magical!” She couldn’t help but sigh emotionally.
Mu Ye nodded. “Nan Maner said that these fruits were really good, so I picked some.”
Could he not bring up this subject?
Her tongue was still slightly numb right now!
“Ahem, really? Have you eaten any?”
“I haven’t.” He was worried that she would be really hungry when she woke up so he immediately went down to give them to her as soon as he picked some.
Tang Doudou was speechless. Suddenly, she saw a rainbow-colored leaf drop onto Mu Ye’s shoulder. She reached over and picked it up. “How could rainbow-colored leaves exist? It really doesn’t follow common sense!”
“Perhaps it’s related to the soil,” said Mu Ye.
“The soil?” Tang Doudou was a good child of the new age and knew that the things required for plants to grow were not simply soil and sunlight.
However, she didn’t investigate deeply into this question because the question of how this tree became like this really didn’t have much to do with her. She wasn’t an explorer so she wasn’t that interested in the reason why. Hence, she just gazed at it for a while. Once she looked enough, she said goodbye to Mu Ye and returned to her room to wait for Nan Maner to bring her food.
Mu Ye watched until her head disappeared from view. Nan Maner had mentioned that the medicinal bath was made from these fruits, so he thought they would help her recover. Why did her facial color turn so bad when he brought them up?
Could it be because the fruits didn’t taste good?
He pulled off a nearby fruit. After a moment of thought, he bit down. His cold expression instantly crumbled as a red flush crawled up his neck.
He finally understood why Tang Doudou would make such an expression when looking at the fruits.
Unexpectedly, they’ve already been stuck on this crappy tree for three months.
Filtered sunlight shone through the dense leaves. Tang Doudou was bored stiff as she lay on the tree, counting the days. She then gave a long sigh.
Mu Ye was sitting not far from her, his expression the same as always.
“Hehe, the Alliance Head and the Leader of the Demonic Sect disappeared at the same time for so long. The Jianghu has probably turned into porridge from the disorder by now, right?” Tang Doudou smacked her lips, before suddenly speaking, as she looked towards the expressionless Mu Ye.
Mu Ye nodded. “They’ll think that I took you.”
“Then search the entire country for our tracks.”
“In the end, they wouldn’t find anything.”
“They’ll definitely think that we took each other down! Haha!” Tang Doudou started laughing. After interacting with Mu Ye for these past months, she discovered that this iceberg was actually only cold on the surface. At times, he was actually quite fun.
But it was seriously thanks to her careful guidance!
Three months ago, he only spat out one or two words at a time, but now he was already capable of carrying on random banter with her. She would even see a faint smile occasionally appear on his face.
“Heh, Mu Ye, why do you always have such a serious expression? Isn’t smiling like this great?” Tang Doudou couldn’t help but ask.
Mu Ye stopped smiling and glanced at her. “I don’t feel that there’s anything amusing.”
She still had to decipher his words though. What this meant was that previously, his life was too dull and there wasn’t a time when he was happy at all.
Tang Doudou sat up and knitted her brows. “Could it be that I look really funny?”
Mu Ye shook his head.
“Heh, well, whatever.” Tang Doudou lay back down again and looked at the rainbow-colored leaves above her. “I really miss Xiao Bai, I really want to go back ah…”
Of course, she missed Baili Yu the most. It’s been almost half a year since they’ve seen each other.
She didn’t know if he was searching the country for her or if he already had a new flame.
“Soon now,” said Mu Ye suddenly.
“Soon now what?”
Mu Ye’s tone was serious. His eyes were filled with worry as he looked towards Tang Doudou. “Shen Moru is almost back.”
“If he comes back then so be it. The earlier one dies, the earlier one reincarnates. If one dies sooner, one will be able to avoid the birth-control policy…” said Tang Doudou in a nonchalant manner. However, in truth, she was afraid. She didn’t know what Shen Moru would do to her when he came back. Would he lock her up and drain her blood every day, or would he drain her dry in one go?
“Hehe, you’re rather open-minded.” Shen Moru’s voice suddenly came from above their heads. He laughed in his usual strange way. “It’d save me some effort.”
Tang Doudou sat up and looked around but didn’t see Shen Moru.
“Is sneaking around pretending to be a ghost all you know to do?”
Shen Moru’s ‘jeje’ laughter got closer. “Little girl, don’t think you can act impudent just because I can’t kill you…”
As the last word sounded, Shen Moru’s figure also appeared in front of her. That same instant, his withered fingers made contact with Tang Doudou’s neck.
“Humph, if you dare then just choke me to death right now!” Tang Doudou continued to be cheeky and didn’t even look straight at Shen Moru.
“Hehe, you want to die?”
“I don’t want to.”
“If you don’t want to, then you had better behave!”
She had already heard words like this countless times these past three months. She didn’t pay attention to it at all. “If you want to kill me, do it more straightforwardly. I’ve never seen a man that dawdled as much as you!”
“Hehe, it will be as you wish soon!” said Shen Moru darkly.
He then released Tang Doudou’s neck. No longer minding the two, he went down the ladder to find Grandma Shen.
“Sicko!” Tang Doudou cursed at his back, then looked towards Mu Ye. “How about you do it?”
“I won’t kill you.”
“Aaah!!! If this won’t do and that won’t do, will I really have to accept this fate of being a blood source?” Tang Doudou once again lay down on the tree branch. Her glistening eyes contained a secret scheme. Three months ago, she didn’t have any way to deal with Shen Moru but three months later…
A faint smile appeared on her lips as she looked at the fruits above her.
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira, Edited by ed.L
Chapter 177.2: Fruit of the Sacred Tree
Heehee, didn’t Shen Moru want poison blood?
She’ll let him have plenty!
“Mu Ye, could you help me with something?”
“En.”
Tang Doudou had already gotten used to Mu Ye using ‘en’ to express all his thoughts. She immediately pointed towards the fruits above their heads and said, “Nan Maner said that it was fine to casually pick these fruits. Can you help me pick some?”
Mu Ye knitted his brows. “You want to use these on Shen Moru?”
Tang Doudou lifted her pointer finger as she said sneakily, “Shhh, don’t say it so loud!”
“He won’t fall for it.”
“Heehee, he won’t have a choice!” Tang Doudou gave a devilish laugh. Without waiting to see whether Mu Ye would help, she leaped up and started picking fruits.
She pulled one from the pile she gathered and bit into it. Other than her tongue going numb, nothing else happened.
She looked pleased with herself. Then she glanced at Mu Ye who still looked confused.
This wasn’t a sudden inspiration. She had started crafting this plan since the time she first ate this fruit. Although she looked extremely idle most of the time – when she wasn’t sleeping, she was chatting with Nan Maner or sometimes training the big iceberg Mu Ye a little – in reality she had been squeezing her brain juices dry every day in order to think of a way to safely escape from this place!
What she said about not being afraid of dying were just empty words.
She hadn’t even enjoyed her fill of her wonderful youth, and there was even an exceptionally beautiful seductive yao at home waiting for her to bring him disaster, wouldn’t it be such a pity to die?
Hence, she would go through the broadcast exercises with inner strength added in every morning. After that, she would practice tai chi. These two things not only confused the others but even made them think that there was something wrong with her head. She was the only one that knew that every time she did the broadcast exercises, her entire body would feel extremely comfortable. Her inner strength was gradually becoming more bonded with her body and the symptoms of losing control rarely occured anymore.
As for tai chi, there had been plenty of rumors about it in her era, so it probably also counted as a sort of martial arts?
Hence, she started to practice it while she was at it. She hadn’t expected for the effect to be rather good. Mu Ye found the inner-strength-embedded tai chi very mysterious. He had tried to probe her on what martial arts this was quite a few times, but never managed to get the specifics. On the contrary, he ended up getting several moves fished out of him.
In short, now that she knew a bit of martial arts, she definitely wouldn’t be as wretched when facing those wolves again.
She didn’t harbor hope that this bit of martial arts would be enough to defeat Shen Moru, but she had much more confidence in defeating other people.
As for this pile of fruit she had in her arms…
Heehee, of course it was time to bring out her stored cooking skills again!
“Big Handsome Brother Mu, don’t just stand there. Hurry up and pick some more fruits for me. If it becomes too late, you’ll just have to cry!” urged Tang Doudou. Then she slid down the ladder and headed to the little kitchen behind the vine house.
As she passed by the vine house, she saw that its door was shut. She didn’t know what Shen Moru and Grandma Shen were discussing inside. Nan Maner was, as always, sitting in the leaves in front of the house in a daze with her chin propped up.
This girl counted as Mu Ye’s super fan. Every time she saw Mu Ye, her eyes would light up like a hundred light bulbs.
She didn’t have much interest in anyone other than Mu Ye.
Even if Tang Doudou swaggered past right in front of her, she still wouldn’t even lift an eyelid.
Ever since Tang Doudou found out that Nan Maner was sent by Shen Moru and Grandma Shen to watch her, she didn’t feel much interest towards her either. However, when she ran into her, she would still greet her.
“Maner, are you sunbathing?” As she spoke, she started to head towards the little kitchen.
Nan Maner made a languid sound in reply. When she looked up and saw the fruits in Tang Doudou’s arms, she said, “Big Sister-yo, you can’t eat that many of those fruits-yo!”
She hadn’t picked these for herself!
However, Tang Doudou naturally wasn’t dumb enough to tell Nan Maner why she picked these fruits. She gave a mysterious smile, then entered the small kitchen.
The small kitchen was rarely used. Nan Maner and Grandma Shen’s food were sent by the villagers below. Nan Maner was called the Saint Girl by the villagers and Grandma Shen the Saint Envoy.
Mu Ye told her that Shen Moru was a Saint King.
These were all hierarchy ranks within the Seven Great Saint Tribes. The highest seemed to be the Saint Emperor, which was not much different from an emperor. Back then, the Seven Great Saint Tribes governed the world. Each tribe ruled over one region. Later, an unforeseen event occured and after a huge war, the Seven Great Saint Tribes completely vanished without a trace. This was actually the first time they had openly appeared again.
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira, Edited by ed.L
Chapter 177.1: Fruit of the Sacred Tree
Mu Ye didn’t speak and simply pointed at the wooden ladder, indicating for her to climb up and see for herself.
The ladder looked pretty sturdy so she started climbing it. When she was halfway up, Mu Ye couldn’t stop himself from reminding her, “Use qinggong.”
She always ended up forgetting that she knew qinggong.
When she gradually got near the end of the ladder, she leaped up and landed on a branch nearby.
“Wah, does this still count as a tree? It’s way too magical!”
Tang Doudou stood on the enormous tree branch. The beautiful scene above her was completely different from what was below her. Rainbow-colored leaves glowed with faint radiance like the immortal trees of the legends.
There were all sorts of fruits hanging in between those leaves. Their colors were all very bright and as far as the eye could see, no two were identical.
“How magical!” She couldn’t help but sigh emotionally.
Mu Ye nodded. “Nan Maner said that these fruits were really good, so I picked some.”
Could he not bring up this subject?
Her tongue was still slightly numb right now!
“Ahem, really? Have you eaten any?”
“I haven’t.” He was worried that she would be really hungry when she woke up so he immediately went down to give them to her as soon as he picked some.
Tang Doudou was speechless. Suddenly, she saw a rainbow-colored leaf drop onto Mu Ye’s shoulder. She reached over and picked it up. “How could rainbow-colored leaves exist? It really doesn’t follow common sense!”
“Perhaps it’s related to the soil,” said Mu Ye.
“The soil?” Tang Doudou was a good child of the new age and knew that the things required for plants to grow were not simply soil and sunlight.
However, she didn’t investigate deeply into this question because the question of how this tree became like this really didn’t have much to do with her. She wasn’t an explorer so she wasn’t that interested in the reason why. Hence, she just gazed at it for a while. Once she looked enough, she said goodbye to Mu Ye and returned to her room to wait for Nan Maner to bring her food.
Mu Ye watched until her head disappeared from view. Nan Maner had mentioned that the medicinal bath was made from these fruits, so he thought they would help her recover. Why did her facial color turn so bad when he brought them up?
Could it be because the fruits didn’t taste good?
He pulled off a nearby fruit. After a moment of thought, he bit down. His cold expression instantly crumbled as a red flush crawled up his neck.
He finally understood why Tang Doudou would make such an expression when looking at the fruits.
Unexpectedly, they’ve already been stuck on this crappy tree for three months.
Filtered sunlight shone through the dense leaves. Tang Doudou was bored stiff as she lay on the tree, counting the days. She then gave a long sigh.
Mu Ye was sitting not far from her, his expression the same as always.
“Hehe, the Alliance Head and the Leader of the Demonic Sect disappeared at the same time for so long. The Jianghu has probably turned into porridge from the disorder by now, right?” Tang Doudou smacked her lips, before suddenly speaking, as she looked towards the expressionless Mu Ye.
Mu Ye nodded. “They’ll think that I took you.”
“Then search the entire country for our tracks.”
“In the end, they wouldn’t find anything.”
“They’ll definitely think that we took each other down! Haha!” Tang Doudou started laughing. After interacting with Mu Ye for these past months, she discovered that this iceberg was actually only cold on the surface. At times, he was actually quite fun.
But it was seriously thanks to her careful guidance!
Three months ago, he only spat out one or two words at a time, but now he was already capable of carrying on random banter with her. She would even see a faint smile occasionally appear on his face.
“Heh, Mu Ye, why do you always have such a serious expression? Isn’t smiling like this great?” Tang Doudou couldn’t help but ask.
Mu Ye stopped smiling and glanced at her. “I don’t feel that there’s anything amusing.”
She still had to decipher his words though. What this meant was that previously, his life was too dull and there wasn’t a time when he was happy at all.
Tang Doudou sat up and knitted her brows. “Could it be that I look really funny?”
Mu Ye shook his head.
“Heh, well, whatever.” Tang Doudou lay back down again and looked at the rainbow-colored leaves above her. “I really miss Xiao Bai, I really want to go back ah…”
Of course, she missed Baili Yu the most. It’s been almost half a year since they’ve seen each other.
She didn’t know if he was searching the country for her or if he already had a new flame.
“Soon now,” said Mu Ye suddenly.
“Soon now what?”
Mu Ye’s tone was serious. His eyes were filled with worry as he looked towards Tang Doudou. “Shen Moru is almost back.”
“If he comes back then so be it. The earlier one dies, the earlier one reincarnates. If one dies sooner, one will be able to avoid the birth-control policy…” said Tang Doudou in a nonchalant manner. However, in truth, she was afraid. She didn’t know what Shen Moru would do to her when he came back. Would he lock her up and drain her blood every day, or would he drain her dry in one go?
“Hehe, you’re rather open-minded.” Shen Moru’s voice suddenly came from above their heads. He laughed in his usual strange way. “It’d save me some effort.”
Tang Doudou sat up and looked around but didn’t see Shen Moru.
“Is sneaking around pretending to be a ghost all you know to do?”
Shen Moru’s ‘jeje’ laughter got closer. “Little girl, don’t think you can act impudent just because I can’t kill you…”
As the last word sounded, Shen Moru’s figure also appeared in front of her. That same instant, his withered fingers made contact with Tang Doudou’s neck.
“Humph, if you dare then just choke me to death right now!” Tang Doudou continued to be cheeky and didn’t even look straight at Shen Moru.
“Hehe, you want to die?”
“I don’t want to.”
“If you don’t want to, then you had better behave!”
She had already heard words like this countless times these past three months. She didn’t pay attention to it at all. “If you want to kill me, do it more straightforwardly. I’ve never seen a man that dawdled as much as you!”
“Hehe, it will be as you wish soon!” said Shen Moru darkly.
He then released Tang Doudou’s neck. No longer minding the two, he went down the ladder to find Grandma Shen.
“Sicko!” Tang Doudou cursed at his back, then looked towards Mu Ye. “How about you do it?”
“I won’t kill you.”
“Aaah!!! If this won’t do and that won’t do, will I really have to accept this fate of being a blood source?” Tang Doudou once again lay down on the tree branch. Her glistening eyes contained a secret scheme. Three months ago, she didn’t have any way to deal with Shen Moru but three months later…
A faint smile appeared on her lips as she looked at the fruits above her.
__________
Credits: Translated by Chiyomira, Edited by ed.L
Chapter 177.2: Fruit of the Sacred Tree
Heehee, didn’t Shen Moru want poison blood?
She’ll let him have plenty!
“Mu Ye, could you help me with something?”
“En.”
Tang Doudou had already gotten used to Mu Ye using ‘en’ to express all his thoughts. She immediately pointed towards the fruits above their heads and said, “Nan Maner said that it was fine to casually pick these fruits. Can you help me pick some?”
Mu Ye knitted his brows. “You want to use these on Shen Moru?”
Tang Doudou lifted her pointer finger as she said sneakily, “Shhh, don’t say it so loud!”
“He won’t fall for it.”
“Heehee, he won’t have a choice!” Tang Doudou gave a devilish laugh. Without waiting to see whether Mu Ye would help, she leaped up and started picking fruits.
She pulled one from the pile she gathered and bit into it. Other than her tongue going numb, nothing else happened.
She looked pleased with herself. Then she glanced at Mu Ye who still looked confused.
This wasn’t a sudden inspiration. She had started crafting this plan since the time she first ate this fruit. Although she looked extremely idle most of the time – when she wasn’t sleeping, she was chatting with Nan Maner or sometimes training the big iceberg Mu Ye a little – in reality she had been squeezing her brain juices dry every day in order to think of a way to safely escape from this place!
What she said about not being afraid of dying were just empty words.
She hadn’t even enjoyed her fill of her wonderful youth, and there was even an exceptionally beautiful seductive yao at home waiting for her to bring him disaster, wouldn’t it be such a pity to die?
Hence, she would go through the broadcast exercises with inner strength added in every morning. After that, she would practice tai chi. These two things not only confused the others but even made them think that there was something wrong with her head. She was the only one that knew that every time she did the broadcast exercises, her entire body would feel extremely comfortable. Her inner strength was gradually becoming more bonded with her body and the symptoms of losing control rarely occured anymore.
As for tai chi, there had been plenty of rumors about it in her era, so it probably also counted as a sort of martial arts?
Hence, she started to practice it while she was at it. She hadn’t expected for the effect to be rather good. Mu Ye found the inner-strength-embedded tai chi very mysterious. He had tried to probe her on what martial arts this was quite a few times, but never managed to get the specifics. On the contrary, he ended up getting several moves fished out of him.
In short, now that she knew a bit of martial arts, she definitely wouldn’t be as wretched when facing those wolves again.
She didn’t harbor hope that this bit of martial arts would be enough to defeat Shen Moru, but she had much more confidence in defeating other people.
As for this pile of fruit she had in her arms…
Heehee, of course it was time to bring out her stored cooking skills again!
“Big Handsome Brother Mu, don’t just stand there. Hurry up and pick some more fruits for me. If it becomes too late, you’ll just have to cry!” urged Tang Doudou. Then she slid down the ladder and headed to the little kitchen behind the vine house.
As she passed by the vine house, she saw that its door was shut. She didn’t know what Shen Moru and Grandma Shen were discussing inside. Nan Maner was, as always, sitting in the leaves in front of the house in a daze with her chin propped up.
This girl counted as Mu Ye’s super fan. Every time she saw Mu Ye, her eyes would light up like a hundred light bulbs.
She didn’t have much interest in anyone other than Mu Ye.
Even if Tang Doudou swaggered past right in front of her, she still wouldn’t even lift an eyelid.
Ever since Tang Doudou found out that Nan Maner was sent by Shen Moru and Grandma Shen to watch her, she didn’t feel much interest towards her either. However, when she ran into her, she would still greet her.
“Maner, are you sunbathing?” As she spoke, she started to head towards the little kitchen.
Nan Maner made a languid sound in reply. When she looked up and saw the fruits in Tang Doudou’s arms, she said, “Big Sister-yo, you can’t eat that many of those fruits-yo!”
She hadn’t picked these for herself!
However, Tang Doudou naturally wasn’t dumb enough to tell Nan Maner why she picked these fruits. She gave a mysterious smile, then entered the small kitchen.
The small kitchen was rarely used. Nan Maner and Grandma Shen’s food were sent by the villagers below. Nan Maner was called the Saint Girl by the villagers and Grandma Shen the Saint Envoy.
Mu Ye told her that Shen Moru was a Saint King.
These were all hierarchy ranks within the Seven Great Saint Tribes. The highest seemed to be the Saint Emperor, which was not much different from an emperor. Back then, the Seven Great Saint Tribes governed the world. Each tribe ruled over one region. Later, an unforeseen event occured and after a huge war, the Seven Great Saint Tribes completely vanished without a trace. This was actually the first time they had openly appeared again.
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira, Edited by ed.L
