Chapter 262: Chapter 262: A Billion Points Bloody
Having eaten and drunk her fill, Yu An went inside with Mo Yan to talk, holding Little Serpent in her arms. Meanwhile, Mo Yan stayed in the kitchen to continue mincing meat and frying meatballs.
As the saying goes, a day apart feels like three years. According to Little Serpent, he and his Female Mother hadn’t seen each other in thirty or forty years.
"Female Mother, Female Mother, Zaizai missed you so much~"
Little Serpent threw himself into Yu An’s arms and refused to let go. At this moment, no one could pry him away from his Female Mother’s embrace!
Oh, except for his little brother.
The Zaizai all got along very well, and since the adults needed to talk, Little Serpent and Little Wolf went hand-in-hand to play in another room.
"Little brother, let me make this clear, Female Mother is sleeping with me tonight."
Little Wolf nodded again and again. "Okay, big brother. I won’t fight you for her."
Yu An smiled, pressing her lips together. After the two little brothers had left, she took out the ripe Nirvana Fruit.
"Uncle, this is the same kind of fruit that Beast Father ate before. Please try eating one and see if you can recover."
"Oh, and this is Divine Spring Water. You can consume them together."
Mo Yan and Han Xiaoyun glanced at each other, and both could see the excitement in the other’s eyes.
Han Xiaoyun took them but wasn’t in a hurry to eat. Instead, he first asked, "An’an, where’s Xiao Li? Didn’t he come with you?"
Yu An paused for a moment before saying nonchalantly, "Uncle, there were still some things in Winter City that required my attention. I was in a hurry to find Mo Yan and Little Serpent, so he stayed behind to handle them for me."
Han Xiaoyun breathed a sigh of relief. "I see. When you didn’t let Xiao Li out just now, I thought..."
Han Fengyun immediately snapped, "You and your jinxing mouth! Can you just shut it? Don’t curse Xiao Li!"
"What do you mean, curse? I’m showing concern! Concern, you hear me!"
The two of them started bickering again. With an expressionless face, Mo Yan slapped each of them once, sending them out of the room.
Outside, the cringe-inducing sound of skeletal bones clattering apart could be heard. Mo Yan closed the door and smiled at Yu An. "Alright, let’s get back to our talk."
Little Serpent took Little Wolf to his room. Just as the two little ones were chattering away, Little Serpent suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice.
He thought he had misheard, so he asked Little Wolf if he’d heard it too.
"I heard it, big brother. The one speaking is Uncle Divine Stone."
Prompted by the Divine Stone, Little Wolf quickly explained its origins to Little Serpent.
"So you’re saying it wants to teach us how to cultivate our spiritual power? Does Female Mother know about this?"
Little Wolf thought for a moment. "Female Mother knows Uncle Divine Stone exists, but as for whether she knows he’s teaching me how to cultivate... I don’t know."
He hadn’t even thought of that. ’At the time, I just figured that since Female Mother knew the Divine Stone was in my body, it must not be a bad guy... er, a bad stone.’
Little Serpent frowned thoughtfully. "Little brother, if something like this happens again, you must tell Female Mother first. You can only learn from a stranger after she gives you permission."
"Let’s go. We’ll go ask Female Mother right now."
Little Wolf agreed with his big brother, so he hopped off the stool with Little Serpent and they headed for the door. This made Little Stone anxious.
It had no ill intentions, but it had done something to wrong Yu An a long, long time ago, so it always felt a bit guilty when facing her.
"Hey, Zaizai, you don’t really need to tell your Female Mother. This uncle has no bad intentions."
Little Stone tried to persuade them earnestly. "Don’t you want to master a peerless divine technique and give your Female Mother a huge surprise?"
Little Wolf’s eyes lit up. He reached out to tug on Little Serpent’s sleeve, clearly tempted.
But Little Serpent was unmoved. "No. Female Mother said we shouldn’t talk to strangers."
He looked at Little Wolf. "Little brother..."
Little Wolf immediately fell in line. "Big brother, I won’t talk to it anymore either!"
Little Stone: "..."
’How were these kids raised to be so vigilant?’
In truth, it wouldn’t be a big deal if Yu An found out. After all, she didn’t remember the past anymore. Little Stone sighed, bracing itself for Yu An’s interrogation.
Just as the two little ones pushed open the door, Mo Yan appeared in front of them and, without a word, pushed them back inside.
"You two stay in here and play. Don’t come out until your Beast Father comes to get you, you hear?"
Little Serpent asked curiously, "Beast Father, what’s going on?"
Mo Yan paused, seeming to search for the right words. "Your grand-uncle is in the middle of reconstructing his body. It’s not something children should see, so you two just be good and stay in here."
’The scene is a little... well, a *lot* bloody.’
His words only made the two little ones even more curious. They exchanged a glance and nodded in unison.
"Don’t worry, Beast Father," they said. "We’ll be good and stay in here."
After Mo Yan closed the door and left, they both simultaneously shifted into their beast forms, opened a small crack in the window, and squeezed through.
Little Serpent coiled himself on Little Wolf’s head, and Little Wolf trotted over to the window of Han Xiaoyun’s room, where he stood on his tiptoes to peek inside.
Little Stone was intensely curious as well, and it simultaneously peered out through both Little Wolf’s and Little Serpent’s eyes.
Inside the room, Han Xiaoyun was sitting in a bathtub, completely covered in blood. Flesh was regenerating on his body even as he continued to bleed.
Mo Yan and Han Fengyun watched from the side, occasionally adding some diluted Divine Spring Water to the tub.
Han Xiaoyun bit down hard on a towel, but a pained groan still managed to escape his lips.
Mo Yan’s face was filled with worry. After enduring a wave of pain, Han Xiaoyun made sure to smile at her. "A-A yuan, don’t worry. I’m fine. It doesn’t hurt... HISS!"
Han Fengyun expressionlessly poured in a bucket of Divine Spring Water. "If it doesn’t hurt, then carry on. Just remember not to make any noise, you wouldn’t want to scare the Zaizai."
The pain almost made Han Xiaoyun pass out, but he didn’t forget to roll his eyes at Han Fengyun before turning to give Mo Yan a few pitiful looks.
Her heart aching, Mo Yan nearly burst into tears. She shoved Han Fengyun aside. "I told you to pour in less! Forget it, I’ll do it."
Han Fengyun: "..."
’That damn Han Xiaoyun is definitely exaggerating,’ he thought. ’It’s just water on his wounds, not salt. How painful can it be!’
The room was a bloody mess, but Little Serpent and Little Wolf weren’t scared in the slightest. Instead, they began to critique who was being more dramatic—their grand-uncle or the beast fathers.
They finally reached a conclusion: "Female Mother was right! The older the ginger, the spicier it is!"
Little Wolf lifted his chin. "But whether it’s Female Mother or Grand-Aunt, they both love us the most~"
His proud little expression was so adorable it nearly made Little Stone die of cuteness.
"Yes, yes, yes! Uncle Divine Stone likes you two the best, too!"
Since Han Xiaoyun was naked in the tub, Yu An stayed in the next room to provide the Divine Spring Water, and Mo Yan ferried it back and forth.
The next time he entered the room to deliver water, he suddenly glanced toward the window where the Zaizai were hiding.
This startled Little Serpent and Little Wolf, who quickly ducked down. Only when they heard Mo Yan mutter to himself that his eyes must have been playing tricks on him did the two of them breathe a sigh of relief.
"Big brother," Little Wolf whispered, relieved, "that was close. Beast Father Mo Yan almost discovered us."
Having seen what they came to see and satisfied their curiosity, the two of them prepared to head back the way they came.
If their Beast Father caught them, they would be in for a spanking tonight!
Little Serpent nodded, and Little Stone had also lost interest. Just as the two boys were about to leave, a scream that Han Xiaoyun could no longer suppress suddenly echoed from inside the room.
Mo Yan assumed he had screamed because the pain had become too much to bear, but only Little Stone noticed that something was wrong.
"Zaizai, get inside, quick! That wolf’s body is about to explode!"
