CBGC - ch125.2

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When Su Tingyun wakes up, she senses that something's off with Big Bai. There is an excessive amount of spiritual energy in its body, and it's chaotic, as if it's on the verge of going berserk. She was weak before, but now she feels full of energy, and her primordial spirit hasn't suffered much damage, she just feels a bit disoriented.

Realizing that something's wrong with Big Bai, Su Tingyun suddenly becomes alert. "Big Bai, what are you doing?"

Big Bai is nibbling on a branch of the Divine Tree, and the blue wood is half sticking out of its body, like an extra tail. Devouring the Kunlun Divine Tree branches will indeed help advance its cultivation, but if it absorbs too much at once, it will have trouble digesting it. However, at this moment, it is fixated on becoming stronger, feeling that it's been so useless and it needs to be more powerful. Otherwise, every time it goes out with its Granny to see the world, and if bad people come out to cause trouble and harm its Granny, and it can't accept its own inability to kill those bad people.

"Big Bai!" Su Tingyun's voice is very loud, causing Big Bai to pause its actions.

It lets out a pitiful chirp, its leaf trembling, seeking to be petted and comforted.

Before Su Tingyun fell unconscious, her primordial spirit was forcefully separated from her body. Luckily, Big Bai had swallowed her into its belly. Big Bai's body can act as a natural barrier, and her unconscious primordial spirit went straight into the soul bell. Right now, her spiritual energy is quite abundant, and her primordial spirit has also recovered. Moreover, when the demon Su Moxuan transferred his soul power to the remnant soul of the ring before, her primordial spirit received nourishment due to her connection with the ring. As a result, her primordial spirit has actually gotten stronger.

She is in good spirits and wants to enter Wei Yun's body to touch Big Bai, but as soon as she gets in, the body starts bleeding, frightening her to quickly come back out. This back and forth causes some discomfort to her primordial spirit.

She doesn't know how long she's been unconscious. She then tries to enter Xi Guang's body, but to her surprise, the rejection force is still there.

Su Tingyun feels a bit bewildered. Why did she experience such a sudden and intense rejection before?

Don't tell her that Xi Guang's ascended body can't withstand her primordial spirit, causing it to reject her prematurely? But that doesn't make sense. Although her strength has increased, she hasn't really reached Tribulation Transcendent yet. Is it possible that Xi Guang has awakened? Previously, she said that if the Beauty Scroll is destroyed, she will release the trapped souls inside, and Bai Lu had only laughed at her face. Is it possible that they all voluntarily entered the painting and don't want to be rescued? Or perhaps, it's not that they don't want to, but that they can't be?

It's great that her primordial spirit has advanced, but in the past, when her primordial spirit was weak, she was able possess many bodies and had a wide range of choices. She can even take a stroll using corpses. Now that her primordial spirit has gotten stronger, there are no suitable bodies available. And at this moment, Su Tingyun suddenly recalls the words of her benefactor before she left.

She could use the celestial bones to reshape her flesh and blood.

In any case, her immediate priority is to comfort Big Bai. At the moment, she doesn't have a physical body to touch or hug it, nor cast Spring Wind and Rain to comfort it. Su Tingyun tries to coax Big Bai for a while, but it stubbornly continues to struggle and chew on the branches. They can't truly communicate with each other, and Su Tingyun isn't quite clear about why Big Bai is suddenly acting this way. However, she has a vague hunch in her mind. This time, Big Bai was injured after being suppressed single-handedly by that demonic creature in the Immortal Palace, so the little one is disquieted.

After thinking for a moment, Su Tingyun tells Big Bai that they're going find Little Bai soon. If Big Bai continues to grow in size, it won't be compatible with Little Bai, and might even crush the latter when it rolls over.

In the past, mentioning Little Bai would bring Big Bai great joy. But now, Big Bai doesn't show any special reaction. What could a soul do? Big Bai doesn't want Du Xizhi to approach it either. After exchanging items with the Divine Tree Heart, it has become unfriendly towards said Tree Heart. Su Tingyun is the only one Big Bai is willing to interact with.

Seeing the unhappy Big Bai, Su Tingyun thinks for a moment and begins to softly sing a song. With her strengthened primordial spirit, it is much easier to communicate through spiritual sound transmission now, requiring little to no soul power consumption.

Since Big Bai is like a child, Su Tingyun sings nursery rhymes to it.

From "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," to "A Flock of Ducks Swimming Under the Bridge," and finally switching to the catchy "Little Apple," she sings while tapping her head on a bell to keep the rhythm. The tinkling sound mixed with her singing actually manages to calm Big Bai down for a moment.

She's not expecting it to actually work. Su Tingyun continues her efforts and starts singing "Little Red Riding Hood."

Big Bai's gnawing of the branches slows down, and it joins in with little chirps, following the rhythm...

So, does Big Bai actually have a mouth? It's just that others just can't see it? If it uses said mouth for chirping, it won't be able to keep eating? Su Tingyun silently ponders. Regardless, as long as it can temporarily stop devouring the Kunlun Divine Tree branches, it's fine. She wonders why the Divine Tree Heart was so generous this time, that it was actually willing to give Big Bai so many branches.

Her divine sense catches sight of the flower wreaths and iron balls piled at the base of the Divine Tree Heart's sapling, and Su Tingyun's expression turns the same way as Du Xizhi's earlier.

Who would have thought that the extremely precious Kunlun Divine Tree branches can be exchanged for iron balls and flower wreaths?

Du Xizhi, who's silently watching Big Bai chirping, says, "Uh-oh, Granny's pet has gone silly."