340: Chapter 340 Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing

After doing all this, Fairy Qingyun was extremely weak.

The light of her Primordial Spirit was like a candle in the wind, flickering.

She slowly lowered her head.

Looking at the tiny, quiet, sleeping baby wrapped in the halo of her Primordial Spirit.

Su Chen.

Her illusory eyes were filled with deep reluctance and maternal love.

She did not have much time left.

Having lost the nourishment of her physical body, traveled across such a great distance, and used her remaining Primordial Spirit to wrap around Su Chen's body.

"Child... my Chen'er..."

Fairy Qingyun slowly lowered her head, and with her ethereal lips, placed a kiss on the baby's tender cheek.

"Your father is a beast, but you are not at fault."

"Mother... can only accompany you this far."

"Live on."

"You must live on, well."

With that final whisper.

Fairy Qingyun's phantom figure shattered with a boom.

The green light spots filling the sky swirled and danced in the cave for a while before finally slowly condensing together.

They transformed into a thumb-sized, emerald-green pearl emitting a warm, lustrous glow.

The pearl fell quietly, hanging perfectly onto a thin red string that had appeared out of nowhere.

It landed steadily on the baby Su Chen's neck.

Looking closely.

Inside that emerald-green pearl.

It seemed that the phantom figure of a woman was still quietly sleeping.

Her hands were folded on her chest.

The cave fell into a deathly silence.

Just at the moment when Fairy Qingyun completely dissipated and turned into the pearl.

The baby Su Chen, who had been sleeping quietly all along.

His tightly shut eyes suddenly trembled.

A crystal-clear tear.

An instinctive tear from this newborn body.

Flowed silently down the corner of his eye.

It hit the green pearl.

Slowly.

Shattering into a scene of sorrow on the ground.

...

A few days passed quickly.

At this moment, Su Chen was staring fixedly at the pitch-black dome of the cave.

If there were someone in the cave right now, making eye contact with Su Chen, they would discover something.

This child before them was clearly just a fragile baby who had just been separated from the womb and couldn't even roll over.

Yet, in his clear eyes, there was a sense of world-weariness that absolutely did not belong to this age group.

This round of investment was completely different from any previous one.

After entering the investment.

Su Chen had completely lost all memories of the real world, the Great Xia, the apocalypse, and even the previous three rounds of investment.

It was as if a giant eraser had wiped away all traces of the past in his mind.

But he had not become a truly ignorant idiot.

Instead, his cognition, intelligence, and logical thinking abilities from the real world were all preserved.

They remained completely at the level of a mature, experienced normal young man.

Precisely because he possessed the clear rationality of an adult.

At this moment, Su Chen felt even more tormented deep down.

He understood everything.

He clearly knew that the light-green barrier on his body.

Was an absolute protection laid down by the mother he had never met, who had used her own body to lure away a powerful enemy and exhausted the last bit of her Primordial Spirit power.

He knew that his mother had dissipated her soul to protect him.

She had fallen into a sleep from which she might not wake for an unknown amount of time.

Or perhaps, she had already completely perished.

He was also clearly aware that outside this hidden cave, deep within the churning Spirit River.

There was a "father" with terrifying strength capable of destroying the world.

Searching for his whereabouts like a crazed beast.

That man did not acknowledge him as his own flesh and blood.

He only wanted to swallow him as a "flesh and blood medicine" to gain the fortune needed for ascension to the heavens in broad daylight.

Once discovered by that man.

His fate would be to leave no bones behind.

"Escape."

"Must find a way... to change something."

Su Chen shouted frantically in his heart, trying to control this body to find another way out, to find a glimmer of hope.

However, reality was as cruel as his ideals were grand.

He tried his best, using every ounce of strength he had.

That tender, frail baby body, whose bones hadn't even fully hardened yet.

Only managed to wiggle with difficulty on the bluestone slab.

Barely rolling over halfway.

This first attempt ended with Su Chen falling back into his original position.

"Waa—!"

Su Chen wanted to curse.

But what came out of his throat was a faint, weak baby cry.

This body was too weak.

So weak that it couldn't even support the energy required for his adult soul to function.

Slowly, despair washed over Su Chen's head bit by bit.

From being born in that terrifying Dragon Palace, to being snatched away by his mother, to being placed in this dark, sunless cave.

Countless hours had passed.

He hadn't had a drop of water.

Intense hunger, accompanied by the chill of blood loss, began to devour his remaining sanity.

Su Chen felt his consciousness beginning to blur, his brain feeling like it had been stuffed with a tangled mess.

His originally clear adult thinking was gradually approaching the brink of collapse under the instinctive protests of this baby body.

So cold... so hungry...

Large black spots began to appear in his vision.

"Could it be... that I have just been born, only to starve to death in this dark, sunless cave?"

Just a moment before Su Chen was about to fall into a deep coma.

"Rumble..."

A dull sound of stone grinding suddenly echoed outside the silent cave.

Immediately after.

The huge rock that Fairy Qingyun had used her last bit of magic to seal the cave entrance with.

Was actually pushed open just a crack by a force from the outside.

Feeling the humid night wind blowing in.

Su Chen desperately opened his eyes, which were about to lose focus.

In his blurry vision.

He vaguely saw.

Two beautiful figures, as unstained by the mundane world as fairies walking on ripples, appeared at the opened cave entrance.

One in white as snow, the other in green as a painting.

By his ears, the voices of two young women discussing with surprise and doubt reached him.

"Sister, that's not right."

"Why is there a trace of spiritual energy fluctuation in this cave?"

"Before we left, there was clearly nothing here."

A crisp, slightly fiery and capable young woman's voice rang out.

"Don't be afraid."

"Xiaoqing, the aura of this array is weak, but the person who set it up probably had a cultivation level only a line weaker than mine when they were alive, likely at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm."

"It's just... it seems they were already at the end of their rope."

Another gentle, soft, mature woman's voice responded softly.