Seeing Chong Wu's huge figure gradually disappearing into the lake, Shi Mu couldn't help but feel a little confused.
He pondered for a moment, and when he was thinking about whether to wake up the child, the child in front of him suddenly twitched his eyelashes, and he slowly woke up and turned around.
"Wake up, wake up! Look, Shitou, this little guy is awake!" Cai'er jumped up and down on Shi Mu's shoulder, shouting excitedly.
"I saw it, you don't need to remind me." Shi Mu rolled his eyes at Cai'er helplessly and said.
Cai'er was extremely excited. She fluttered her wings and flew in front of the toddler. She said, "Little brother, you look so cute. How did you get here? Do you want me to take you home?"
...By the way, that thing in your arms looks really troublesome, do you want me to keep it for you?"
"Uh... Cai'er, please be more honest..." Shi Mu was speechless for a moment when he saw this. He stretched out his hand, pulled it back, and threw it over his shoulder.
"Ouch, what are you doing with the stone? It hurts!" Cai'er shouted.
The child did not speak, with a faint smile on his face. He stretched out his arms as white and tender as lotus roots, and sat up from the golden lotus. His pair of dark eyes looked full of aura, which was reflected on Shi Mu and Cai'er.
Look back and forth.
After a moment, he suddenly raised his hands, holding the golden lotus seeds in his arms, and handed them to Shi Mu.
"Is this... for me?" Shi Mu was slightly startled.
The toddler still didn't speak, but his face seemed to smile even brighter.
Shi Mu hesitated for a moment, then reached out and took the golden lotus seeds.
I saw that golden lotus seed, only the size of a baby's fist, completely round, with some fine diamond patterns all over it, but it didn't look like it was carved by man, but like it was made by nature.
In addition to the strong metallic power coming from it, there are also faintly sharp auras mixed in.
"Shitou, look at the Tianlian Heart from before. I have been keeping it for you. Can you see if you can..." Cai'er shouted quickly.
Seeing his drooling look, Shi Mu helplessly shook his head and tossed it, and a golden light flew out from his palm.
Cai'er was overjoyed when she saw this. She flapped her wings and immediately flew over. She opened her mouth and swallowed the golden light. She swallowed it without much chewing.
Then, it flew back to Shi Mu's shoulder, smashed it in his mouth, and said with some dissatisfaction: "This golden lotus seed looks so pure in spiritual power, but it is only average when eaten in the stomach, and it is not as good as myself."
Some of the spiritual materials I found taste good."
In fact, he didn't know that what Shi Mu threw out was just a piece of top-grade metallic spiritual stone. The real golden lotus seed had already been put into the storage ring by him calmly.
"You're such a tough guy, you always swallow your food in one gulp. How can you taste the taste, and you are picky about some of your food?" Shi Mu scolded with a smile.
It's not that Shi Mu is stingy and refuses to give these golden lotus seeds to Cai'er, but that these golden lotus seeds are metallic in nature and are the key to Shi Mu's practice of Nine Transformations Xuan Gong, so he really can't let Cai'er eat them.
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Shi Mu could only decide to wait until some other high-quality spiritual materials were available in the future, and then use them to compensate Cai'er.
After seeing Shi Mu accept the golden lotus seeds, the smile on the child's face became even brighter. He opened his two little hands and stretched out his two tender white arms like lotus root segments, as if to indicate to Shi Mu to pick him up.
This child's behavior was really unusual, and Shi Mu was really unpredictable.
But judging from the current situation, this little guy didn't seem to have any ill intentions. After a moment's hesitation, he reached out his hand to pick him up and placed him on the lotus leaf beside him.
"What's your name? Who are you?" Shi Mu stared into the child's eyes and asked seriously.
The young child just smiled slightly and looked at Shi Mu with a pair of black and clear eyes. He did not dodge at all, but he also had no intention of speaking.
Originally, if the young boy's eyes were averted, Shi Mu could at least know that he was hiding something from him, but instead he looked innocent and didn't understand the words at all, which made Shi Mu a little confused as to what to do.
"Then why did you appear in this Qinglian? What is your relationship with the White Ape Ancestor?" Shi Mu continued to ask.
After hearing this, the child just continued to smile, as if he didn't understand and didn't respond at all.
Cai'er flew down from Shi Mu's shoulder and flew around the young child. She chuckled and said, "Shitou, you've been doing this for a long time. You're such an idiot."
After hearing this, Shi Mu raised his hand and gave Cai'er a chestnut.
"Hey, why did you hit me with the stone? He didn't say anything, so you don't blame me." Cai'er cried out feeling aggrieved.
When the young child saw this scene, he suddenly "squeaked" and burst into laughter.
"Hey, you little brat, it turns out you're not stupid. You actually saw Cai Ye's jokes and wanted to see Cai Ye not deal with you." Cai'er's wings crossed and danced, and she shouted angrily.
"Cai'er, don't mess around." Shi Mu scolded in a low voice.
"Okay, I don't care, I'll leave you with a stone!"
Cai'er didn't really care about a child. When Shi Mu said this, she flapped her wings and flew to the lotus leaf on the side with some resentment. She just looked at the reflection in the pool. .
Shi Mu asked patiently for a long time, but no matter what he asked, the child either responded with a blank look on his face or smiled a few times, but still couldn't ask anything.
Seeing this, Shi Mu finally had no choice but to give up.
He reached out and caressed the child's head, stood up, sighed softly, and looked around.
"Cai'er, we've been wasted a lot of time here. Let's go back to Qinglan Holy Land." Shi Mu glanced at Cai'er who was not far away and said.
Cai'er, who was sitting beside the lotus leaf, staring at the water and feeling pity for herself, heard this and immediately responded: "Okay, after being away for so long, I almost miss that fat man Qi Feng. By the way, Shitou, our new cave." Is there a spiritual spring? I also want to catch the spirits of the spiritual spring or something."
"There are no spiritual springs. There are some spiritual waterfalls, but you have to go back and find out whether there are spirits or something." Shi Mu replied.
"Hehe, leave it to me! By the way, what are you going to do with this little guy?" Cai'er fluttered her wings a few times and landed back on Shi Mu's shoulder. She glanced at the young child and moved closer to Shi Mu'er. Side, asked in a low voice.
"This child was born on a lotus in the Tianlian Pond where monsters are entrenched. His origin is by no means simple. Since he was transformed from a seed given by the White Ape Ancestor, he must have something to do with it. I think it is better to stay here for the time being. Chongwu and the others will not sit idly by and let's wait until they grow up later." Shi Mu pondered for a moment and said.
After Shi Mu finished speaking, he took Cai'er in the direction he came from and flew away through the air.
As a result, as soon as he turned around, the child suddenly followed him and hugged his calf.
Shi Mu turned to look at him and saw that the child's arms were tightly wrapped around his calf, refusing to let go. His heart moved and he asked, "What, you want to follow me?"
The child still didn't speak, but this time he seemed to understand. He nodded heavily, and the smile on his little face faded a bit, becoming more serious.
"To be honest, my surroundings are very dangerous now. If you follow me, you will also be in danger. If you stay here, Chongwu and the others will take care of you." Young Master Shi Mu shook his head and said.
After hearing this, the child shook his head more firmly and held Shi Mu's calf a little tighter.
"Shitou, I think this little guy is quite pitiful, so why not just take him with you! After all, we have also collected other people's things." Cai'er said.
"That's fine."
Shi Mu felt a little helpless, so he had no choice but to lean over and pick him up, planning to take him back and place him in his cave first.
With a wave of his palm, the Dragon Feather Speedster flashed and appeared above the pool.
Shi Mu jumped onto the speeding car, put the child on the speeding car, turned his hands and took out several spiritual stones and embedded them on the disc at the front of the speeding car. Immediately, a golden light flashed above the speeding car, and a cluster of light curtains emerged, covering the entire
The car body is wrapped in it.
The light on Long Yu's speedster flashed and it flew away outside the sea of fog.
Although Cai'er has lived for more than a hundred years, or even longer, she still has the heart of a child. She was quite dissatisfied with this young child before, but after a lot of back and forth, she quickly reconciled with him.
Along the way, the child didn't care whether he understood or not, but he just kept chattering.
The toddler was playing well with Cai'er. Although he still didn't speak, judging from the laughter he made from time to time, he was obviously very happy.
Cai'er's absence from making noises to Shi Mu really allowed him to have a lot of leisure time, and he could concentrate on controlling the speeding car flying in the sea of fog.
A moment later, after the speeding car flew out of the fog sea, the light on the surface became brighter and the speed skyrocketed again. With a roaring sound, it gradually rose into the sky and flew towards the Hidden Lotus Star.
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East Holy Star, Qinglan Holy Land Main Hall.
The main hall is deep and dark, but it is brightly lit inside.
On the main seat facing the palace door, an old man with white eyebrows sat cross-legged. His eyebrows were lowered and his eyes were looking straight ahead. He was none other than the Lord of Qinglan Holy Land, Master Su Sheng.
On the left and right sides of where he sat, there were four rosewood chairs side by side. Protector Yue who was in charge of the Discipline Hall, Elder Nangong who was good at alchemy, Lotus Fairy and Guan Shanhai sat next to each other on the left side, and the four on the right side
But the chairs were all empty and no one sat down.
Below it, there are more than twenty carved sandalwood chairs along both sides of the hall, filled with people.
In addition to the holy elders of Qinglan Holy Land, among these people there are also several Holy Name disciples of Qinglan Holy Land.
Their cultivation level is only slightly lower than the eight guardians.
And there are three people sitting on the three seats closest to the eight elders, and they are not wearing Qinglan clothes, but Taoist robes from the Lichen Sect.
The leader of the three men was wearing a purple Taoist robe, with short purple beards piercing his face like steel needles, and there was a sharp aura about him.
If Shi Mu were here, he would be able to recognize him at a glance. He is one of the eight temples of the Lichen Sect, the Master of Zhenlei Temple, Ji Wentian.
The two people sitting below him are both saint-level cultivators. One of them has three long beards falling down to his chest, making him look like a fairy, while the other has a ringed beard and dirty Taoist robes, making him look a bit slovenly.