CH 11

There were not only Hundred Sections here, but also many other colorful insects.

Leaving the alchemy stove for Bai Ze to burn, the old gentleman stepped on his short legs and ran to find the weird bugs, stuffing them into his Qiankun bag one by one. The other two boys were also greedy, so they also ran to catch the insects.

Yue Lao caught two fat worms, brought out a red thread, and solemnly wanted to tie the thread to them, chanting as he moved: “Marriage thread leads, life is happy, looking at each other, three lives are destined.”

When the time came, the red thread emitted a faint red light, which was the power of marriage.

Fu Li looked at the red line on his wrist and thought about how he was also blessed. He looked up at Bai Ze and felt a strange feeling in his heart for a moment. Slightly frowning, he shook his head, closed his eyes and rested his mind, carefully feeling the essence of the sun and moon coming from the red thread.

Bai Ze didn’t notice this and was still working hard to kill the insects. Thinking about himself as an ancient divine beast with the same lifespan as the sky, it was nothing more than being a babysitter in a kindergarten, but it was really difficult for a beast to catch bugs here. Looking back at the children who were having a great time, he held back his breath when he mentioned his chest. Forget it, let’s take the children to labor class.

The two bugs who were tied together by the red thread showed no appreciation, and still twisted their bodies trying to escape from the range of the red thread. Yue Lao got angry and used a red thread to string a few worms into a string: “Humph, you don’t know good from bad, so you two worms will be tied together and have a bad relationship.”

Li Jing didn’t understand Yue Lao’s magical way of playing, he simply caught bugs roughly, and then wanted to scare the girls.

The Queen Mother sat on the stone, looking at the garden full of flat peaches with a sad face. Li Jing quietly climbed up from behind, approached her little by little, then he slowly raised the big bug in his hand, and poked it in front of the Queen Mother.

“Ah—” The Queen Mother was startled, and immediately screamed.

Bai Ze hurriedly looked over, and saw that the Queen Mother, who had reacted, had grabbed Li Jing by the collar and thrown him to the ground and was at this moment crying and beating him. Li Jing threw the worm, pushed the Queen Mother over and ran away.

The Queen Mother was pushed and fell backwards, with her hands on the ground. The ground was turned over, revealing a few sharp stones, which poked the Queen Mother’s palm, and a drop of blood dripped down the fingertips into the black-gold ground, and disappeared instantly.

“Woo…” After hurting her hand, the Queen Mother burst into tears and sat on the ground unwillingly.

Bai Ze quickly dropped the work in hand and ran over to pick up the little girl: “Don’t cry, don’t cry, what’s wrong?”

The Queen Mother stretched out her bloody hand in front of him, crying heartbreakingly. Since becoming a fairy, she had never suffered this kind of injury again, and now that she had become a child, her tolerance for pain was also extremely low. Looking at the dirty and bleeding palm, the more she looked at it, the sadder she felt.

“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, just wash it off.” Bai Ze hurriedly coaxed, hugged the Queen Mother and sat aside, then he snapped his fingers, and a ray of clear spring emerged from the slender white fingers, forming a beautiful arc, as it fell on the dirty little palm.

The water Bai Ze summoned, with its own peaceful power, could soothe the baby’s emotions and relieve pain. The Queen Mother tilted her head to look at the water column, and she stopped crying. The clear water washed away the mud on her hands and the area around the wound, leaving only a shallow gash.

Then he gathered the soft auspicious power on his fingertips, gently brushed it over the wound, and the small opening healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it would soon be as good as before.

“Li Jing, come here!” After comforting the Queen Mother, Bai Ze put on a serious face, and called the naughty ghost hiding behind the tree, “Do you know what you did wrong?”

Li Jing walked over reluctantly with his little hands behind his back: “She hit me first, and I just pushed her.”

Immersed in the child’s education, Bai Ze didn’t notice that the land of Pantao Garden was forming a circle of red light centered on the place where the Queen Mother’s blood had dripped.

Bai Ze didn’t notice, but Tianzun standing beside him did. His little brows were slightly furrowed, and he was staring at that spot tightly, with the palm of his tender little hand facing upwards, his thumb quickly counted between several fingers, then he said sharply, “Get out of the way!”

He didn’t know if it was related to the red thread, but the moment Fu Li opened his mouth, Bai Ze turned his head as if feeling something, hugged the Queen Mother with one hand, and pulled Li Jing with the other, and floated ten feet away in an instant.

With a huge bang, the land cracked, the nine thousand year old flat peach trees were uprooted, and a huge monster shot out from the ground.

“Huh—” The monster kept going upwards, its segmented body looked like a huge bug, each segment had a pair of slender feet, and its sharp and terrifying mouthparts opened, making a piercing hissing sound.

“Centipede!” Bai Ze, as a well-read and knowledgeable divine beast, knew all those monsters from ancient times. This centipede harmed the common people during the prehistoric period, and the common people fought against it. Every time one of its foot was cut off, the foot of the centipede would turn into a small centipede again, and it would live and kill endlessly. Later, the centipede was thought to have been killed.

It was thought that these evil things had disappeared during the war between gods and demons, but they were sealed under the Pantao garden.

“Why did you hide such a thing in the garden!” Laojun scolded the Queen Mother angrily. When he caught this centipede, he was going to use it for alchemy, but the Queen Mother insisted on taking it, saying that it had a more important purpose, but unexpectedly it was locked in the Pantao Garden. It was good now, the formation was weakened, the Queen Mother contributed another drop of blood, completely untied the formation, and the ancient magic insect came out to make trouble again.

The moment the centipede appeared, Bai Ze’s hair exploded. He was an auspicious beast of water attribute, and this centipede was a poisonous insect of fire attribute, and could be said to be his nemesis. Back then, he almost died in the hands of this guy, and now he met it again, and there were still a few children around him who needed his protection, what a dead beast!

“Li Jing, tell Nezha to come and help!” Bai Ze knew that he couldn’t beat the centipede, so he turned into his original form and threw the children on his back and started running wildly, calling out to Li Jing as he ran.

Li Jing raised the little pagoda, trying to send a signal to summon his son, but there was a sudden bump, the little pagoda came out of his hand, and fell on the rock with a bang.

Bai Ze had just run a few steps, when he was blocked by a flame poison formation, this was the poisonous fire spewed from the centipede’s mouth, the poison in the fire could corrode the soul, it was very powerful. He hurriedly stopped, turned around and ran in the opposite direction, fighting back while running.

Thousands of years had passed, and Bai Ze’s own mana had improved a lot, even if he was his nemesis, he had the power to fight. But now that he had the children with him, he didn’t dare to throw his hands away and fight, so he could only fight for a way to retreat.

Then he turned into water mist, surrounded the centipede, and layers of phantoms appeared in front of him. The Centipede shook his head, no matter how he looked at it, there were nine Bai Ze running in nine different directions.

The centipede whistled contemptuously, snapped off nine legs, and the broken legs immediately turned into smaller centipedes, and rushed towards nine directions.

Bai Ze had no choice but to turn around and face the centipede clone that was rushing forward, then he raised his claws and drew a water blade. The water blade accurately slashed at the head of the little centipede, like cutting tofu, and when it hit the end, it split the little centipede in half.

However, after the little worm was hacked, the scattered hundreds of worm legs turned into a whole hundred smaller centipedes, roaring with their maws open.

Bai Ze had no choice but to prop up a water curtain with his own immortal power and wrap himself and the children in the water mist with sufficient aura. The little bugs jumped on the water curtain and were drowned immediately, basically unable to pass through.

However, the centipede’s body didn’t just sit and watch the show. When the bugs were killed, it also jumped over by itself. It has been trapped here for nearly 10,000 years, and if it continued to be trapped, it would be completely sucked dry by the peach garden, turning into a worm corpse. It must leave here, and the key to leaving here was to kill the Queen Mother.

When the centipede saw the soft and petite Queen Mother on Bai Ze’s body, it jumped on her like crazy. The water curtain prevented it from moving forward, so it spewed out a raging fire to evaporate it dry. The mist isolated the children from the fire, so it spewed poison to corrode it.

The protective cover formed by the mist was corroded by the venom and quickly shrunk. Seeing that Bai Ze’s tail was about to be exposed, and the venom was still pouring down everywhere, Bai Ze had to transform into a human form to reduce the space.

“Bai Ze, what should we do?” The Queen Mother couldn’t help crying again, she shouldn’t have been greedy back then and kept this evil insect alive.

Yue Lao pulled the red thread in his hand and frowned: “I’ll tie it up with a marriage thread, and you take the opportunity to escape.”

“You have short arms and legs, and you will be eaten before you could wrap it around once!” Laojun curled his lips, then he threw out the alchemy furnace in his arms. He had no mana right now and he couldn’t command his other treasures, so he could only use this alchemy furnace.

The furnace was the most precious treasure in the world. It was not afraid of the centipede’s venom. Opening the furnace cover, he released the real fire of samadhi to surround the insects. The pill furnace grew rapidly, trying to suck the centipedes into it for refining.

However, the mana of the controller couldn’t keep up after all. During the process of growing the alchemy furnace, the centipede had already raised its tail, slammed it away, and it hit the rock together with Li Jing’s small pagoda. The strong wind from the tail swept over and hit Bai Ze’s water mist cover hard.

“Pfft——” Bai Ze’s ability was not suitable for fighting. The water mist mask was formed by his soul. This blow immediately hurt him, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood.

“Bai Ze!”

Bai Ze wiped his mouth and looked up at the sky covered by poison and fire: “The protective cover will be broken soon, you sit still, I will throw you to the end of the peach garden, go outside and ask for help, you know?”

Fu Li’s eyes widened suddenly: “What will you do?”

“It’s okay, I’m an auspicious beast, I won’t die.” Bai Ze smiled nonchalantly, indicating Tianzun should protect the other children, then he folded his hands together, gathered the immortal power in the palm, and spread it out suddenly.

The sudden burst of power threw the children high into the sky. The soft water mist cover protected them through the heavy fire and poisonous rain. With a bang, it was like a small bubble melting into a big bubble, and the water mist merged with the enchantment of the peach garden, isolating the children inside.

“Bai Ze!” The Queen Mother cried out as she lifted the hood and looked at the slender figure submerged in the sea of flames.

Bai Ze closed his eyes and prepared himself for a serious injury, but the expected pain did not come, and a blue light appeared in front of his eyes, followed by a huge roar. A pair of warm arms hugged him tightly, isolating all the hurt and noise.

Opening his eyes in a daze, Bai Ze saw a huge barrier propped up in front of him, and the centipede roaring wildly outside. Then, the enchantment counterattacked back, trapping the fire and the centipede in a ball. The ball was hundreds of feet high, completely enveloping the centipede.

Bai Ze swallowed, turned his neck stiffly, and looked at the person protecting him. The man had clear eyebrows, was unparalleled in handsomeness, and was wearing a blue robe with wide sleeves, fluttering in the wind. In the sky and on earth, there was no one more beautiful than the person in front of him. The most important thing was that this person was wearing the same sapphire crown as Fu Li.

“Fu…Li?” Bai Ze said with some uncertainty.