Chapter 478: Chapter 475: 2 Clues
BOOM! WHOOSH!
The Space Storm raged, sweeping through with a powerful, overwhelming force, as if it would destroy the world.
Time and space lost all meaning here.
But whenever the Space Storm neared the figure, the golden cloak would release a peculiar power, deflecting the Power of Space.
"What a Void Gate! What terrifying Power of Space!"
The owner of that figure was none other than Mo Qi!
He touched the golden cloak on his body. If not for this item provided by the Pig Emperor, the Power of the Dragon Vein from the Mountain and Sea Empire alone would have been insufficient to protect him fully.
"Such a country bumpkin," the Pig Emperor muttered while yawning, its eyelids drooping, its face etched with exhaustion.
Clearly, this golden cloak was taking a significant toll on it.
"This is nothing. When you get to the Immortal Realm, you’ll realize that the world you’ve seen and known until now is truly, truly tiny."
Mo Qi’s expression lifted at this, and he said, "It seems you know a lot about this world, Pig Emperor?"
"Of course. In the past, this emperor..." The Pig Emperor subconsciously started to boast, ready to put on a show, but halfway through its sentence, its mind went blank.
It could see intermittent fragments of its inherited memories and feel that it should know a great many things, yet it struggled to see these fragments clearly or connect them.
So in the end, apart from the tiny fraction of inherited memories that had awakened, it was once again completely ignorant.
"Dammit! This damn amnesia of mine!" The Pig Emperor rapped itself hard on the forehead, utterly helpless.
Mo Qi knew the Pig Emperor must have an extraordinary origin. At the very least, a long, long time ago, it must have been an incredible existence.
He just didn’t know why it had ended up in the Mortal District, trapped at the bottom of the Wailing Abyss, passing who knows how many years in a daze.
The most likely possibility was that it had suffered a great calamity and been struck down to the mortal world by a supreme expert, causing its memories to become fragmented and its temperament and Cultivation to regress along with them.
Of course, this was all just Mo Qi’s speculation. He had no way of knowing the truth.
The Pig Emperor’s frustration didn’t last long. It scratched at the sparse mane on its neck and asked, "Mo the kid, are you really okay with leaving Liu Hui, San Pang, and the others behind in the Hall of Envoys?"
Mo Qi nodded and said, "It’s not about whether I’m okay with it or not. This is a necessary part of the process for them to gain a firm foothold in the Martial Arts World. If I handled everything for them from start to finish, they would be ruined."
In the Martial Arts World, it’s better to rely on yourself than on others.
Mo Qi could do his best to pave the way for Liu Hui and the others and provide them with advantages, but their true cultivation still depended on them.
After all, the path is at their feet. If they don’t walk it themselves, how can they experience the scenery along the way? How can they remember the lay of the land?
They would just get lost in the end.
"What about that Ruyan girl and the big boss lady?" the Pig Emperor asked again.
A flash of worry crossed Mo Qi’s eyes, but he still said, "That was their choice. I have the right to interfere, but not the right to decide for them. Besides, I believe in them."
Don’t be fooled by how Liu Ruyan and Niu Kexin usually seem so obedient and gentle around him, like sweet and pleasant little women. Mo Qi knew very well that their pride and ambition were second to none.
Love isn’t about turning the people you care about into caged canaries or hothouse flowers.
Love should be about respect—respecting their choices, and respecting their efforts.
However, Mo Qi wasn’t just blindly respectful; he had already made proper arrangements.
Niu Kexin had received his "rain and dew" twice. The first time was an unconscious feedback during his Nine Transformations into Spirit, which allowed her to achieve a Half-Spirit Constitution.
The second time, they were both conscious and willingly joined in Yin Yang Union. Mo Qi had secretly expended a considerable amount of energy and Essence Blood to clear her meridians and nourish her flesh and blood. Her Half-Spirit Body was already transforming into an Innate Spirit Body.
Her strength would take a massive leap forward.
As for Liu Ruyan, Mo Qi had given her the Heart of Wood from the Heart of the Five Elements. Coupled with her own Void Realm Cultivation, even if it wasn’t enough to dominate the Demon Spirit Battlefield, she would at least have no problem protecting herself.
This was the fundamental reason Mo Qi dared to let Niu Kexin and Liu Ruyan venture out on their own.
"Alright, alright, as long as you know what you’re doing." The Pig Emperor yawned again. It glanced at the utterly monotonous spatial turbulence around them and added, "Mo the kid, we shouldn’t stay here long. This emperor’s Secret Technique can’t last forever."
The golden cloak wasn’t a physical object, but one of the Pig Emperor’s ultimate life-saving measures.
In the past, its power was insufficient, so it couldn’t use it easily.
It had been able to use it only after following Mo Qi around recently, eating a large amount of Medicinal Cuisine, and accumulating power for a long time.
But even so, it couldn’t be sustained for too long.
"I know we can’t stay long. The Power of the Dragon Vein is also being consumed very quickly here. At this rate, it will be completely depleted in less than an hour."
"Then what are you waiting for?" the Pig Emperor asked, confused.
Mo Qi looked helpless and said, "You know this, Pig Emperor. The reason I followed it into this Void Gate, aside from not wanting to get entangled with the people from the Hall of Envoys, was more importantly because I sensed my mother’s aura here."
As he spoke, Mo Qi fiddled with the ring around his neck.
When the Wolf Demon descended, this ring had reacted. Mo Qi had also sensed an aura from the same source as the ring within the passage the Wolf Demon had come from.
"This emperor knows that. So what?" The Pig Emperor was even more confused. ’Since you have a clue, you should hurry up and look!’
"But... now that aura has split in two, leading to two different places in the outside world," Mo Qi said with a sigh.
He didn’t know if he should be happy or upset.
Two directions meant there were clues to his mother in two different locations.
Logically, the more clues he had, the happier he should be.
But he didn’t know which location would have more clues, or which would be more direct and clear.
So he didn’t know which direction to choose.
If he chose wrong, or if the place he chose led to a useless clue, then once he left the Void Gate, he had no way of getting back in.
Unless he could find the Wolf Demon and have it open the Void Gate again, but that was obviously impossible.
At least, not in the short term.
"You idiot! Don’t you have an External Incarnation? Your main body and your clone can each go to one!" the Pig Emperor said, rolling its eyes.
Mo Qi gave a wry smile. "I thought of that, too. But the situations at the clue locations are unknown. If my main body and my incarnation are together, I’m confident I can brave even a dragon’s den or a tiger’s lair. But if we’re separated, I’m worried both will struggle, and I’ll end up investigating nothing at all."
"Are you scared?" The Pig Emperor raised an eyebrow.
Mo Qi smacked the Pig Emperor hard on the forehead in irritation.
"This isn’t fear, it’s caution! At the right times, you should have a healthy respect for this world. Otherwise, if you just rely on brute courage, you’ll only end up dying a pointless death."
The Pig Emperor clutched its head in pain and grumbled, "Tch. After all that talk, isn’t it still just fear?"
Mo Qi: "..."
