“Myriad Absorption Spiritual Root…”
He heard Mu Kunrong tsking in wonder not far away.
“I didn’t expect another Myriad Absorption Spiritual Root to grow in his body. Unfortunately, it’s not fully grown yet and needs more nurturing…”
He heard Lian Chengfeng’s dissatisfied tone: “You shouldn’t have injured him so severely. You should have first tried letting him dual cultivate with someone to see if he really has such extraordinary effects as a Human Cauldron, to the point that even thunder tribulation is unnecessary. Now it’s good—we have to wait for him to heal!”
Mu Kunrong laughed. “Brother Lian, why are you in such a hurry?”
Lian Chengfeng’s tone hesitated: “Mu Cheng is Yunzhi’s person after all. I’m afraid that after Yunzhi wakes up…”
Mu Kunrong reassured him: “Brother Lian, no need to worry. The medicine I gave you is extraordinary. Lian Yunzhi won’t wake up so soon, and even if he does, he won’t be able to use spiritual power for a short time.”
Lian Chengfeng sighed: “Sigh, I don’t know if this kid will be angry with me when he wakes up.”
Mu Kunrong said earnestly: “If he’s angry, you can coax him. But if he’s bewitched and runs off with Mu Cheng out of Xiaoze State, your Lian Family will have nothing left.”
Lian Chengfeng: “That’s true… By the way, you said that Myriad Absorption Spiritual Root can perfectly integrate into my body…”
“Family Head,” a black guard suddenly appeared beside Lian Chengfeng. “Young Master Yunzhi has woken up. He’s throwing a tantrum at home, asking where Mu Cheng is, and also…”
“And what?”
“He’s in so much pain that he briefly fainted. The physician diagnosed it as a sign of heart meridian rupture.”
Mu Cheng, who had been utterly silent from beginning to end, suddenly opened his eyes!
His breathing grew uncontrollably rapid, and the iron chains wrapped around his body began to clank. Fortunately, the hurried footsteps of Lian Chengfeng and the black guard as they left masked the noise.
Mu Cheng clenched his teeth tightly, doing his utmost to steady his breathing, not making another sound.
He endured in the darkness.
One by one, he called out through the contract—【Master】, 【Lian Yunzhi】—but received nothing in response.
He began to try sensing his own “Myriad Absorption Spiritual Root.”
Since Mu Kunrong said his spiritual root had grown back, whether fully grown or not, it should be able to exert some effect.
One hour passed, two hours, three hours.
A thread-thin strand of spiritual power was tremulously drawn into his body.
A terrifying smile finally appeared on Mu Cheng’s face.
It worked.
He knew it would work.
After all, he had eaten two Immortal Pills from his master.
But this was still too slow.
Was there any other way?
What other way could let him quickly gain power, let him escape this place, let him go see his master?
His master was injured.
His master was in so much pain that he fainted.
His master’s heart meridian was rupturing.
He had to rush to his master’s side as quickly as possible.
A strange, blurry image appeared before his eyes. Mu Cheng tilted his head in confusion, his face expressionless.
“Clack.”
At that moment, Mu Qinglin unlocked the chains and walked into the prison with a mocking expression.
.
When Mu Cheng twisted Mu Qinglin’s neck, Mu Qinglin stared with eyes wide open in death, filled with horror.
Mu Cheng saw that ugly, viscous black mist separate from Mu Qinglin’s corpse, then twist and morph in the air before stabbing into his spine like a sharp sword!
So disgusting, so disgusting!
Mu Cheng felt nauseous enough to vomit, but his body made no struggle or resistance. Instead, he closed his eyes and carefully sensed the power that the black mist brought him.
He had found it.
He manipulated that power, transforming it into the purest spiritual power to supplement his body, soaking into him like spring rain.
“Crack.”
Mu Cheng opened his eyes.
The chains on his body snapped apart.
.
When he crawled into Lian Yunzhi’s small courtyard, Mu Cheng was already soaked in blood—some of it others’, but more of it his own.
To escape the Mu Mansion prison, Mu Cheng had killed several more people.
But the black mist in those people was not as ugly as Mu Qinglin’s, and the power he gained from them was not as much as from Mu Qinglin.
Thus, after leaving the Mu Mansion, Mu Cheng used most of his spiritual power to conceal his aura.
There was no one else in Lian Yunzhi’s small courtyard. Mu Cheng crawled up from the ground and arduously squeezed out a thread of spiritual power to cast Dust Removal Technique on himself, then walked step by step toward Lian Yunzhi’s room.
Lian Yunzhi’s door was a bit far. Mu Cheng could not help but pause at the window.
He finally saw his master, saw Lian Yunzhi.
Lian Yunzhi had woken up and was leaning pale against the bedhead, flipping through a book.
Mu Cheng recognized that book—it was the secret manual they had found in the Beast Taming Sect.
An annoying person, Fang Tianxin, sat by Lian Yunzhi’s bed.
Fang Tianxin asked, “Are you really okay? I heard your heart meridian ruptured—I was scared to death. The physician couldn’t diagnose the cause either. Your mother said it’s a heart ailment and asked me to come check on you.”
