CH 56

Not even taking half an hour, Su TingYun’s hands returned to normal, and her mental state also recovered. This recovery speed was much faster than recovering on her own.

Big Bai looked both tired and unhappy. It curled into a flat lump and laid on the shore without any intention of moving. It obviously looked so small, so how did it stuff the skin into its skin, and where is it stored. Sadness waves traveled over, however Big Bai did not have any intention of harming her. Although Su TingYun could endure those feelings, she more or less was somewhat influenced, but it was not too hard to endure.

Su TingYun did not place too much attention on Big Bai, she turned her attention onto the silver leaves. Firstly, she took a wooden stick and poked it once or twice, and the result is nothing had happened.

Su TingYun continued experimenting, she took a silver leaf and threw it into the water. After entering the water, it immediately turned back into a silver koi fish and started swimming. The fish looked vivid, just like a real one, Su TingYun stared dumbfoundedly at it.

Su TingYun carefully picked up a silver leaf and inspected it. She realised that it was not actually made out of silver, but she could not determine what material it was made of. Su TingYun’s knowledge of the cultivation world was only limited to heaven jade pavilion’s library bottom floor, so not being able to recognise it was normal.

Turning it from side to side and giving to a few more glances. Then Su TingYun used her mental energy for a closer inspection and found out that the leaf had some engravings. Su TingYun thought for a moment, then switched into Li XinMei’s body. After using the universal formation eyes, she realised that there were large amounts of formation carvings. Su TingYun lacked the slightest knowledge for formations, so even if she had used the universal formation eye, she would not know what formation it is, she would only know the location of the formation.

Su TingYun destroyed the formation located on the leaf, then she threw it into the frost pool. This time, the leaf did not turn into a fish, it quickly sunk towards the bottom of the pool. This means that the leaves were really dense? The few leaves in her hands did not weigh too heavy, they were just right. What if they were burnt?

Su TingYun snapped out of her thoughts and brandished her pill flame and burned the silver leaves after gathering them. This could be considered as burning your enemies when you see them, so Big Bai’s mood improved drastically when it saw this. The brightly lit flame’s light landed on its body which made its body take on a reddish colour, the tiny depressions on its body also became more obvious.

After her mental energy was restored, her pill flame’s strength had increased. She melted the silver leaves into a liquid, then used mental manipulation and her pill refining techniques to shape it into a ball. When she finished, she placed the ball on the ground and took a deep breath as rest. She had only taken her eyes off for merely a few seconds, but when she looked back, she saw Big Bai happily playing it like a ball.

Big Bai did not have any limbs, so it used its head instead. This caused Su TingYun’s heart to beat in her throat.

Oh no, a fresh shoot had just grown on top of its head, what if it turns itself bald again!

Big Bai used the rest of its time to nurse its injuries, and the things Su TingYun did daily were more or less the same. Nowadays, she had the freedom to roam the forbidden horizon, she also went around to check if there were any medicinal herbs. The pill furnace GuHao created was made by laying down rocks. Su TingYun did not dare to use GuHao’s furnace as she was afraid that there were residues of the poison. She just copied GuHao’s furnace layout and created a brand new one, she even refined some pills with it.

Su TingYun was simultaneously cultivating and taking care of both Big Bai and the purple tongue grass. In a blink of an eye, ten years had passed. Su TingYun had broken into building foundation stage from refinement stage. In order to not let Xiao Mei lag too far behind, she even used Xiao Mei’s body and cultivated. However, her medicinal pills did not have any effect, and on top of that, Su TingYun was also scared of facing the extreme pain then cultivating using Xiao Mei’s body to cultivate. She also did not want to injure the meridians that had been healed. Therefore, progress was not fast. In ten years, her cultivation only broke through one level.

During the duration of ten years, the purple tongue grass had spread everywhere, and there was a layer of animal fur that had been placed in the cave. In the beginning, Su TingYun still held reservations on plucking the leaves of the purple tongue grass, but after realising that no problems arisen, she continued to harvest them. Since then, her quality of sleep had improved, so she decided to continue using the leaves of the purple tongue grass as the material of her bed.

Sadly, the largest purple tongue grass that grew here only had a height of one chi. None of them could grow as large as the one she raised at the pond.

Within these ten years, Su TingYun had also been frequenting the frost pool. She realised that it was not feasible to use Big Bai’s dead skin. Firstly Big Bai’s mother was something she could not touch whenever she wanted. Secondly, she was not an artifact refiner. She could not turn the skin into a treasure which could protect her and not leak from a crack. Just as before, the ideas would not follow through.

However, Big Bai who is alive can.

There is a mysterious space within its stomach, it could swallow everything inside it. Su TingYun had once sweet-talked it into swallowing her inside it. Not only was it not uncomfortable, it was extremely comfortable. It was the same as the time she had received treatment for her hands.

Therefore, it is feasible to let Big Bai swallow her before they go into the frost pool. However, it seems that Big Bai had received a shock from the experience at the frost pool, as it refused to enter the frost pool again. If Su TingYun were to give a stronger stance, Big Bai would fall out with her. Demonic waves would become visible, which Su TingYun could not guard against.

However, on this fateful day ten years later, the once frightened Big Bai actually personally requested to proceed with entering the frost pool.

The reason was not because it wanted to exit the forbidden horizon, instead it was because the silver ball was turning smaller after rolling about, and its body had grown bigger. The ball could no longer satisfy it. It needed to enter the frost pool to collect more silver koi fish and then let Su TingYun refine it into a larger ball.

Su TingYun: ‘……’

Since Big Bai was so proactive, how could Su TingYun waste this chance. She kept away all the items in the cave, then she took a look at the clothes she was wearing. In the end, she took a set of plan looking dresses that senior E ChangGuang had passed down to her.

Originally she thought that the dress would be small, but it turns out that the dress was a magical treasure. It could adjust its size according to the wearer’s build. After wearing them, she used her mental energy to look at herself. The results were that they were quite pleasing to the eyes.

Su TingYun’s cultivation had risen by an entire realm. Naturally, she would appear younger. As of today, she looked like she was in her thirties. Her build was still considered large, but she was not as buff as before. She appeared slender now, just like a clothes rack. Her face was long, and eyes were skinny. She could not be considered pretty if compared with her own esthetics, but it was not ugly to the point where it was unacceptable. Her appearance would be pleasing to the eyes if she was looked at for a long time.

However, when she thought of the tastes of the Europeans from her world and those famous models, Su TingYun felt that she might be qualified to walk on the walkways of fashion shows. This was how she amused herself while she was in the forbidden horizon. Within these ten years, she felt some loneliness even with the company of Big Bai. She felt the admiration for senior E ChangGuang in her heart increase.

If she were to meet the man E ChangGuang likes, she will definitely check if his eyesight had any issues.

When Su TingYun exited the cave wearing the plain dress, Big Bai was already waiting impatiently for her. Looking at Su TingYun switch her body and then keep the body it liked into the bracelet, it got even more angry, the two leaves on its head drooped downwards.

It emotionlessly wrapped Li XinMei’s body and then dived into the water. Su TingYun could not feel the oppression from the frost pool. Her happiness, without a doubt, had increased. She circulated her spiritual energy into the universal formation eye intending to give directions to Big Bai, however after a moment, Su TingYun realised that she could not use it for the time being.

For the ball, Big Bai was staking it all, risking its life to charge right into the trap. Soon its body was quickly covered by a layer of fishes. Then Su TingYun shouted, ‘We are almost there, quick, or else your mother would not be happy!’

Big Bai reluctantly swam towards the direction Su TingYun pointed to.

Big Bai had grown a lot within the ten years, the leaves on its head were at least the size of a palm. The colour of the leaves were no longer the light green, it had turned into a darker shade of green. Its body also became stronger as currently, its entire body that was being bitten by the fish was not injured in the least. Although it was making squeaking and creaking sounds which looked really difficult to bear, it was not very painful.

‘Swim forward one zhang!’

Su TingYun gave directions for Big Bai to swim. Previously she told Big Bai that it could bring its mother and leave this place, and playing the ball outside was much more fun. This was the reason why Big Bai was so obedient and listened to Su TingYun’s orders to swim. After swimming for half an hour, they finally reached the real seal of the forbidden horizon, which was in a crevice.

Big Bai swam into the crevice while it was wrapped around Su TingYun. They then crashed into a column of water, which powerful suction force dragged them upwards. At long last, they could finally leave. A smile could not help but appear on Su TingYun’s face. Within a moment’s notice, the silver fishes on Big Bai’s body fell off one after another, but the leaf on Big Bai’s head produced a sharp shriek.

That shriek sounded like true sadness, Su TingYun could feel the pain behind Big Bai screeching.

What’s going on!

Su TingYun froze, the shiny skin on Big Bai’s body peel off one layer after another, the distance between her and the water column was quickly shrinking.

Right at this moment, a layer of black skin covered Su TingYun’s body, tightly wrapping around Su TingYun’s body tightly, leaving no exposed area. Afterwards, Su TingYun tumbled out of Big Bai’s body. When she turned her head to look at Big Bai, she saw that it was being washed away by the column of water while staring at Su TingYun.

Although it did not have eyes, Su TingYun suddenly became aware of something.

It remembered, its memory, it regained its memory! If not, it would never have given her the dead skin as it always thought the dead skin was its mother!

The forbidden horizon was made to seal Big Bai, after sealing it for tens of thousands of years, it had already forgotten how long it had been trapped here. It always felt that ever since it could remember things, it had always been in this dark place, living its life all alone.

If it could leave, it would have left long ago. After countless tries, and suffering countless injuries, it was still stuck here. If not for the extended periods of isolation and getting deceived time after time by the survivors that came to the forbidden horizon, it would not have such a demonic aura. It came to such a point that whenever it saw a human being, it would risk its life and attack them.

Yet, the flow of time was too slow, it was too hard to endure!

It willingly went into a stage of metamorphosis, losing more than half of its cultivation just to avoid the pain of solitary.

Big Bai did not know how to communicate, but it knew how to use emotional waves to express its feelings. It saw its sack of dead skin within the beam of light and the Su TingYun that was slowly leaving, it used its mental energy to lock onto her.

If it had eyes, it would not take its eyes off her.

……

Su TingYun felt indigent, felt angry, felt an emotion similar to being cheated and betrayed, she also felt the heart pain of a farewell.

Tears instantly gushed out, and yet at that moment, the feelings of wrath completely disappeared, only the feelings of reluctance and nostalgia were left.

The rising water column brought Su TingYun to the surface of the ocean. After arranging her things and breaking the surface, Su TingYun saw the blue skies and white clouds that she had not seen for ages.

She came out.

Yet, Big Bai remained in the forbidden horizon.