Chapter 188 Substitute Lu 12
Chapter 188 Substitute Lu 12
"Who are you? You are the only one here, who else can speak? That great eunuch in the cultivation world has already run away. Hey, you are so stubborn. Ah Si has been sealed, what's the point of you guarding here? You might as well live a good life. At least one of you has to survive, right?"
Xiao Yu looked around blankly. The mermaids were more sensitive to scent than any other species, but now, he couldn't find the person who was talking: "Who are you? Why do you know Ah Si and me? Come out. Otherwise, I will be rude."
Xiao Hong was silent, blinked, and then realized: "You can't hear me talking."
"I can hear you."
"Oh my god, how can you still hear me!"
Xiao Yu frowned: "Who are you?"
"Who am I? Who am I?" Xiao Hong had never dealt with a residual soul before, so he was a little nervous. After a moment of panic, he finally found a reason: "I am Ah Si's father!"
"Asi's father?" Xiao Yu frowned slightly, looking completely unconvinced.
Xiao Hong pretended, "Back then, our clan encountered a disaster. In order to save Ah Si, I used all my spiritual power to infuse him into his body, and only then did I get him out. The snake egg had a weak aura, and I thought Ah Si would not hatch, but I didn't expect to meet you. Please allow me to say thank you."
Xiao Yu was skeptical: "Then the voice in the head that Ah Si mentioned before is you?"
Hongzai blushed but his heart remained calm: "Yes, it is me." Since Xiao Luzi was not there, he, the boss, had to take the stage himself.
Remnant soul, please accept my protection. I will make sure to raise you plump and healthy, and let them see my powerful strength.
Xiao Yu seemed to have seen a savior, and his eyes lit up: "Since you are Ah Si's father, do you have a way to save him?"
Xiao Hong didn't expect Xiao Yu to have such a request. He might be able to find some connections by taking Ah Si to the underworld, but it would be difficult for him to get the person out of the formation. "This formation was left by the ancient gods. Although it is so old that it doesn't have much power, it is not something that a remnant soul like me can break."
"There's nothing you can do. Is Ah Mi already dead?"
Ah Hong would be able to answer this question. He did not see Xiao Luzi coming back from the underworld, which meant he was not dead: "I can still feel Ah Si's faint breath. It is very weak, but it still exists."
"He's not dead, he's still here." This is definitely the best news Xiao Yu has heard in a while: "He's still alive, I want to stay here with her."
"Hey, Ah Si is at least a fire attribute, so he can still survive in this formation, but you are a water attribute, if you stay here any longer you will really meet the King of Hell."
Xiao Yu didn't care: "I have to stay here to guard him. What if Ah Si wakes up? I have to stay here with him. Even if I die, I am willing. I owe him this."
Xiao Hong rolled over in anger. Ah ah, why didn't this make sense? How could he protect a fish that was stranded?
After thinking it over again and again, Xiao Hong finally used her ultimate move: "It doesn't matter if you die, but what about the child in your belly? Do you really want Ah Si's only bloodline in this world to die with you two?"
"What child?" Xiao Yu subconsciously covered her belly: "I have a child in my belly?" How is this possible! Ah Si is a demon beast, without the blood of a god, how could the two of them have a child!
In order to reproduce, every mermaid has the potential to have a baby, but even so, babies are hard to come by among the mermaids. Everyone can give birth, except them.
But now, Xiao Yu was told that he was pregnant with a child, and the child was A Si's.
"I am pregnant?"
Xiao Yu was shocked to feel the changes in the spiritual energy in his body. Behind his dantian, in a warm room, there seemed to be a tiny dot the size of a sesame seed. If he hadn't investigated carefully, he might not have been able to find it at all.
"Is this a child?" It's so small, not even as big as a polyp!
"Yes, your child." Although Xiao Hong said so, she was not optimistic about the child. The bodies of the mermaids were too fragile, and Ah Si was the descendant of the dragon, so his body might not be able to bear the child.
But Xiao Yu smiled, and gently placed her hand on her belly, and smiled softly: "I actually have a child, and it's Ah Si's. It's really fate, I had clearly decided to die with him. Now I have a child."
But thinking of the curse of the merman tribe for so many years, Xiao Yu became worried again: "Asi is a monster, can I give birth to this child?"
Xiao Hong sighed: "Let's take it one step at a time."
"Well, let's take it one step at a time."
Xiao Yu finally decided to leave this hot place and returned to the yard where he and Ah Si had lived together. Everything in the yard was still there, with Ah Si's scent still lingering on them, but Ah Si himself was gone.
Xiao Yu looked at the house, unable to hide the loneliness in her heart. She stretched out her hand and gently placed it on her belly, talking to the baby inside: "This will be our home from now on. Let's wait here for him to come back together."
Xiao Yu's body was too fragile, or perhaps the genes of the dragon egg were too overbearing. After only six months of gestation, Xiao Yu's body could no longer hold on.
The mermaid, who was originally strong and healthy, became thinner and thinner due to the demands of the embryo. Lying on the recliner, only her belly was bulging high, and there seemed to be no flesh on other parts of her body.
"Oh no, oh no, why is this remnant soul so hard to raise? Lu Changning has raised it for so many lifetimes and it was always well taken care of. How come it is already dying and emaciated as soon as it came into my hands? I won't really raise this fish to death!"
Xiao Hong looked at Xiao Yu who was sleeping almost every day, and advised helplessly: "Why don't you just give up? Your body...can't bear the demands of a child."
Xiao Yu stroked her bulging belly, her pale face full of determination: "No, even if he drains all my energy, I have to give birth to him."
This is the hope of his mermaid clan, and also the blood of A Si. No matter what the reason is, he can't let go of this child.
"This child..." Xiao Hong didn't say the rest, but Xiao Yu heard something strange: "What's wrong with this child?"
"Hurry up and tell me, what happened to my child?"
Helpless, Xiao Hong could only speak: "In our clan, the birth of a child cannot be achieved without the infusion of the energy of the parents. Only in this way can the child grow up normally. But the child in your belly, relying solely on your energy, is far from enough."
"What? I can't protect him?" Xiao Yu understood what Xiao Hong meant: "But I can't. Ah Si was hatched by me."
"Yes, you hatched Si. But the little one in your belly hasn't even condensed into an egg yet! How can it hatch?" Xiao Hong could only tell the truth: "Si is not an ordinary person, and this child is not an ordinary person either. The power required for pregnancy is too great. Even if you are drained, it can't make up for the loss. You can barely carry the baby for six months. If you continue, maybe you won't be able to keep either the big one or the small one."
Xiao Yu sat on the recliner, sweat oozing from her palms. "But, I didn't have any reaction at all in the past few months. It's only in the past two months that I...have a slightly stronger reaction. I think it will get better later."
Xiao Hong said directly: "That's because Ah Mi was with you for the past few months. His aura was transmitted to you intentionally or unintentionally, so you didn't get so tired."
Ah Si is gone. How can a mermaid like him bear the child of the dragon?
Xiao Yu was unwilling to give up: "Is there no other way? I have already lost Ah Si, I can't lose this child again."
Xiaohong saw his determination, and he was unwilling to give up the child. After all, this child was still Lu Changning's child. However, Ah Si was sealed in the formation, and the dragon energy in his body could not flow out at all. Where could he find Ah Si's breath?
Wait, Ah Si's breath. Xiao Hong suddenly had an idea: "Quick, go to the mountain and find that huge tree. Under the tree is the treasure Ah Si gave you. That thing may be able to save your lives."
Hearing Xiao Hong's words, Xiao Yu did not dare to delay and dragged his tired body towards the mountain. Giant tree, what would Ah Si leave for him?
The giant tree is not difficult to find. Under the tree is a lush patch of honey butterfly flowers, which is obviously the work of A Si.
Xiao Yu looked at it and smiled, then he parted the honey butterfly flowers and found the gift that Ah Si had left for him under the flower roots.
It was a string of carefully woven sword tassels. The light blue tassels seemed to be glittering under the infiltration of spiritual energy. Above the tassels, there was a fiery red bead embedded. If you reached out and touched it, you could feel the warmth.
"Is this...Ami's inner elixir?"
Scenes from the past appeared before him.
"Then I'll make a sword tassel for Yu."
"My sword is a spiritual sword, so the tassel must be exquisite enough."
"I found a giant tree on the mountain a few days ago. There should be a place where spiritual energy gathers under the tree. When I'm done, I'll put the sword tassel there to keep it. After a few years, it should be worthy of A-Yu's spiritual sword."
Xiao Yu held the warm inner elixir in her hand, and suddenly burst into tears while laughing: "This fool actually used his own inner elixir to make a sword tassel for me. This is his life. How can he live without the inner elixir?"
Xiao Hong looked at Xiao Yu who was crying desperately while leaning against the tree, and did not disturb him. The strong power contained in Ah Si's inner elixir was enough for him to hold on until the child was born safely. However, can a monster without the elixir really survive?
Ah Si handed the inner elixir to Xiao Yu, and at the same time gave him the power to decide: let him continue to sleep in the seal, or use his inner elixir to save the child's life.
Xiao Yu leaned against the giant tree in despair, his fingers leaving deep scratches on the trunk. Blood flowed down his nails, but he seemed to be completely unaware of it.
"Why do we have to do this? Are we destined to have no chance of reuniting as a family?"
Xiao Hong finally softened her heart when she saw Xiao Yu was about to die. If she didn't say anything, when Ah Si woke up, she would probably see two skeletons.
"Use it! No one has ever walked out of the seal alive."
Xiao Yu was desperate: "But, as long as his aura is still there, I still have Ah Si. If his aura is really gone, I will really lose him."
"But even if you don't use it, Ah Si won't be able to hold on for much longer. He was seriously injured before entering the formation, and now he is unconscious in the formation, suffering from the erosion of the demonic energy. This is also a torture for him."
Xiao Yu's eyes suddenly became firm, and he looked up at the big tree behind him: "Asi is right, this is indeed a good place for Feng Shui. I think it's not bad for me and the baby to be buried here. With Asi's inner elixir accompanying us, our family of three can be considered reunited."
What the hell? This family is planning to go on a group trip to the underworld. Do they all want to die?
"No, you can survive! Your child can survive too!"
Xiao Yu straightened her body, stroked her bulging belly, and looked at the scene in front of her with a loving face: "I can't kill Ah Si. In this case, why don't we die together as a family of three? We'll have someone to accompany us on our way to the underworld."
Xiao Hong's mouth twitched, and the petals were about to fall off. He had thought everything through, but he had never expected Xiao Yu to choose this path. One inner elixir and two lives, isn't that a good choice? But he didn't want to live any of them.
Okay, okay, you don’t want to live anymore, right? I’ll let you die!
Xiaohong exerted force and snatched the inner elixir from the sleeping Xiao Yu.
Looking at the warm inner elixir in her palm, Xiao Hong was quite surprised: "I can actually get it. It is worthy of being Xiao Luzi's thing. I actually got it."
Xiao Yu frowned slightly, it seemed that the child was absorbing energy again. Xiao Hong did not dare to delay, and directly slapped the inner elixir in her hand on Xiao Yu's abdomen. Perhaps it felt the strong energy outside the belly, the child in the belly who had not yet realized began to absorb the golden elixir subconsciously, but in just a few moments, the inner elixir completely disappeared on Xiao Yu's belly.
Without the child's demands, Xiao Yu's frown finally relaxed.
With the help of A's inner elixir, Xiao Yu's physical burden was reduced a lot, and he finally opened his eyes when the sun was about to set. Looking at the sunset in the distance, he was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery.
Looking at his two empty hands, Xiao Yu panicked and knelt on the ground, groping for the inner elixir: "Where is it? Where is it? I was holding it in my hands just now."
This crazy look was hard for even Xiao Hong to accept: "The inner elixir has merged into your body and has been absorbed by the child. Don't look for it anymore."
Xiao Hong thought that Xiao Yu would collapse after hearing this. But no, after hearing this answer, he looked coldly at the horribly damaged honey butterfly flower without any reaction.
"Your child's life is saved."
Xiao Yu didn't say anything, but struggled to get up from the ground. He rushed to the sealed place overnight, regardless of the darkness. The formation was no longer as hot as it was at the beginning, and the seal gradually became clearer, but the vague figure inside completely disappeared.
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