“Human, why do you attack me?” The Golden Crow’s voice was filled with both arrogance and confusion.
“I have abided by the alliance, guarding the Nine Cauldrons for thousands of years. The human race should also keep its promise and lay down its weapons… Why?”
The only answer he received was an overwhelming barrage of attacks.
The Golden Crow grunted… his strength was recovering, but he had been dormant for too long, and his recovery was slow, not nearly enough to contend with the attacks of the Tribulation Immortals.
His strength lay in offense, not defense, but those Tribulation Immortals were hiding outside the Beginner Realm, casting spells from afar.
He couldn’t attack their true forms and could only passively take the hits.
“Look at him, doesn’t he look like you on the day you underwent your tribulation, getting beaten up?” Jiang Ke’er suddenly quipped.
“Joking at a time like this,” Qiao Xiao Xian said helplessly, “Besides… he might be able to hear us.”
“Uh…”
Jiang Ke’er quickly shut up.
With the Golden Crow’s current recovered strength, he couldn’t melt the incoming magical artifacts with high temperatures, so he took every attack head-on.
He transformed his body into flames, and the flames were riddled with holes.
Although each strike caused little damage, the spiritual energy contained in the attacks caused him immense pain, scattering all the strength he had just gathered.
It shouldn’t be like this.
Even if these Tribulation Immortals’ attacks weren’t weak, they shouldn’t have caused her such severe damage… her physical condition was wrong!
She seemed to realize something.
“Imperial Advisor Yuwen, get out here!”
The Golden Crow let out a mournful cry: “You tricked me into extinguishing my flames, shedding all my feathers, sacrificing everything I had to guard and nurture the Nine Cauldrons, to restore the luck of the Divine Land… but then you set up a restriction, making it impossible for me to ever recover my strength!”
There was still no response from the sky.
“I know you’re watching! Don’t play dumb!”
Still no reply.
The Golden Crow felt disheartened: “So that’s how it is. Fine…”
He no longer resisted, just looked at the sky with hatred.
“Unfortunately, the Great Sun Golden Crow clan is not as simple as you think… Heh, you want me to die here, but I won’t!”
Suddenly, he leaped towards the cliff, near Jiang Ke’er!
Jiang Ke’er felt the surrounding light suddenly brighten.
Even with the obstruction of the dark world, it was still incredibly dazzling!
The Golden Crow was hidden within that bright light, his body obscured by the intense glow, making it impossible for Jiang Ke’er and Qiao Xiao Xian to look directly at him and discern his true appearance.
And the Golden Crow’s gaze turned to Jiang Ke’er, as if penetrating the shackles of space, seeing her and Qiao Xiao Xian who were protected in another realm by the Nine Cauldrons.
The Golden Crow continued to groan, his body pierced by incoming magical artifacts, crackling in the fierce flames.
The flames and light around him grew weaker and weaker, gradually… even revealing the outline of his true form.
“Big bro, hold on!” Jiang Ke’er squinted through his fingers, barely looking at the Golden Crow.
She hadn’t found what she was looking for yet, and the Golden Crow’s defeat was completely unexpected… too fast! There was no time!
And at this moment, the Golden Crow’s voice came to Jiang Ke’er’s ears: [Lend me your ‘Zifang’ for a moment. From today on, you shall be my birth mother in this life. If I recover my strength, I will repay you generously!]
Ah?
What?
What?!
Zifang???
Hey, hey, hey, what are you going to do!
Under Jiang Ke’er’s horrified gaze, the Golden Crow’s body burned away in the fierce flames, leaving behind only a round, golden-yellow small egg.
This egg seemed to have locked onto Jiang Ke’er, flying straight towards her!
“Don’t come over here ahhh!”
Jiang Ke’er was terrified, quickly changing back to her human form and running away!
The Golden Crow egg chased her relentlessly from behind.
Even more terrifying was that the Golden Crow egg seemed to be aiming for her lower body, preparing to find a hole to drill into.
The Golden Crow egg flew extremely fast, about to catch up to Jiang Ke’er in an instant.
In desperation, Jiang Ke’er randomly pulled out a rod-shaped magical artifact from her inventory, aimed at the Golden Crow egg—
“Wham!”
Home run!
The eggshell was unexpectedly not sturdy. With a “crack,” the eggshell instantly split open, and the egg white and yolk spilled everywhere.
“I’m sorry ahhh!”
Jiang Ke’er held her head, collapsing.
She seemed to have personally destroyed the powerful support she had always dreamed of, shattering the Golden Crow’s egg.
But she didn’t want to be a birth mother! The Golden Crow’s appearance clearly indicated it wanted to drill into her belly and get her pregnant… how could she endure such a thing! Giving birth to an egg-laying fox or something… just thinking about it was perverse!
Thankfully, the yolk and egg white of these Golden Crow eggs slowly flowed and gathered, quickly reforming into an egg… Although the eggshell was covered with strange, unreliable-looking cracks, it had at least returned to its original state.
“If you didn’t want to, you should have said something, why smash it?! Damn it!” A phantom of the Golden Crow bird floated from the egg, and she spat out a soul with indignation, “Forget it, just input spiritual energy into it and nurture it regularly…”
After speaking, the Golden Crow egg lightly landed on the ground, motionless.
The immortals outside were baffled.
They couldn’t see Jiang Ke’er and Qiao Xiao Xian and didn’t know what had just happened.
They only saw the Golden Crow transform into an egg, and then the egg flew and flew, suddenly shattering with a “crack”… shattered…
Then it painstakingly reformed like a slime, recovering to its original state in a very disgusting manner.
“…”
In any case, it seemed that the crisis had been successfully resolved, and the Golden Crow that suddenly appeared had been dealt with.
And—a Golden Crow egg!
Although it had been shattered, it was definitely a super treasure that even immortals would drool over; there was no reason to let it go!
Whether used for alchemy or hatched and then used for alchemy… it was a unique and rare item in the world! Who knew what powerful effects it could bring!
So, naturally, they aimed at the Golden Crow egg, hastily manipulating their magical artifacts, attempting to collect and snatch it!
“Finally found it!”
Still startled, Jiang Ke’er transformed back into her fox form, taking this opportunity to finally find what she had been looking for.
A broadcast crystal and the formation carrying it.
Even immortals, without line of sight, couldn’t launch an attack.
But they were able to accurately target Jiang Ke’er and the Golden Crow, meaning there must be their “eyes” planted nearby!
Her original plan was to destroy this vision, turning those immortals into headless flies, and then take the opportunity to kidnap the Golden Crow…
But this Golden Crow seemed to have fallen victim to some insidious trick by that Imperial Advisor, collapsing instantly.
As a result, her plan to cling to a powerful figure was forced to be canceled, and she even almost became the powerful figure for this Golden Crow.
The situation was urgent, Jiang Ke’er didn’t hesitate, telling Qiao Xiao Xian to recall the Nether Cauldron.
Inside the Nether Cauldron, she couldn’t attack things in the original world, and she didn’t know why she could hit that Golden Crow egg… It must be that the egg had some divine qualities.
Leaving the Nether Cauldron, Jiang Ke’er appeared with her head covered.
Before those immortals could react, she swung a hammer and immediately smashed the broadcast crystal!
The immortals outside the Beginner Realm were left in the dark, their magical artifacts instantly losing their targets, while Qiao Xiao Xian took the opportunity to quickly find a porcelain bowl to collect the Golden Crow egg.
She was careful, afraid that the yolk would flow out if she wasn’t careful, as if she was holding not a Golden Crow egg, but a half-price shattered egg from the supermarket due to transport issues.
“Let’s go!”
After smashing the broadcast crystal, Jiang Ke’er and Qiao Xiao Xian quickly fled with the Golden Crow egg, fearing the immortals would recover.
They ran to the edge of the island, where all the boats had been burned, and the sea was scorching hot.
How to escape became a problem.
They had originally thought that if the sea temperature wasn’t too high, they could summon the aquatic creatures they had previously brought to life to help them escape… but now the surrounding water was boiling, and those sea creatures would probably turn into a pot of seafood soup if they came.
But at this moment, a presence completely unexpected by Jiang Ke’er appeared.
At first, it was just a small black dot in the distance.
That small black dot made a strange “ulu ulu ulu ulu” sound.
From time to time, a resentful human voice would be heard – “Can’t~~you~~freaking~~stop~~now~~~”
“How~~long~~do~~I~~have~~to~~roll~~on~~for~~”
That thing came breaking through the waves, rolling incredibly fast.
It rushed straight towards Hanye Island, and as it got closer, new sounds emerged.
“Oh~~my~~god~~it’s~~burning~~me~~to~~death~~I’m~~going~~to~~be~~cooked~~”
“Quick! Catch it!”
No matter what that thing was, leaving the island depended entirely on it!
Jiang Ke’er swiftly swung her sword, cutting several bundles of dead wood, and then pulled out a large pile of magical artifacts.
With Qiao Xiao Xian’s help, they nailed these dead wood pieces together to form a huge wooden wheel.
The wooden wheel was very light and could easily float on the water.
After briefly testing the quality of the wheel, Jiang Ke’er and Qiao Xiao Xian exchanged a glance and nodded.
They seized the opportunity, pushed off with their feet, grabbed the wooden wheel, and leaped towards the miraculous rolling creature on the sea!
In mid-air, they violently swung the wooden wheel, scooping the rolling object into the wheel, and then locked the door.
“What~~are~~you~~doing~~”
“Help~~me~~”
As the miraculous creature’s body made contact with the wooden wheel, it immediately went from rolling on the sea to rolling on the rim of the wooden wheel.
Its rolling motion, in turn, caused the wooden wheel to roll, so the wooden wheel floated on the sea, moving away through the waves at an increasingly fast speed.
Jiang Ke’er and Qiao Xiao Xian hung themselves on the central axle with sturdy, smooth ropes, dangling steadily like a swing, thus not rotating with it, and even feeling quite comfortable.
Watching the object beneath them diligently running forward like a hamster, full of enthusiasm, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Huh? Dao Yi?”
Jiang Ke’er finally managed to recognize his identity.
There was nothing she could do; this child had been completely smoothed out by society now, and was still spinning at high speed.
If it weren’t for the Lingyun Daoist Temple disciple’s waist token still wrapped around his waist, Jiang Ke’er wouldn’t have recognized him at all.
“See, I told you so!” Jiang Ke’er laughed.
“I just knew it, this kid, he can be a perpetual motion machine!”
“…”
Qiao Xiao Xian was speechless.
“Grand~~aunt~~please~~stop~~your~~divine~~power~~”
Dao Yi pleaded with a trembling voice.
“I can’t do it! I only know ‘Dark Word: Roll,’ not ‘True Word: Don’t Roll,'” Jiang Ke’er said, troubled.
Suddenly, she tapped her temple, and a small light bulb appeared above her head, saying, “How about this, it seems quite tough for you to be rolling all over the world. How about when we get back, I make you a more comfortable hamster wheel, and you can roll inside that for now… Is that good?”
What else could Dao Yi do?
Could he say no?
He would be burning incense if he didn’t have to roll all over the world anymore! Heaven knew how many strange places he had rolled through!
Rolling on the sea, he could still float, but before, he almost rolled into lava, and once he almost got stuck in a latrine!
“Don’t worry, since I caused this trouble, I will definitely take responsibility… From now on, I’ll make sure you’re well-fed and comfortable.”
Jiang Ke’er smiled warmly, making Dao Yi so touched he was almost in tears.
Plan success √
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