23.23. The Little Black Flame that is Very Dark

Standing outside the barrier, Mo Jiuli stared at the place where Zi Ye was sleeping, feeling an itchiness on her teeth...

Xiaoshu and Mo Baobao were attracted by the light coming from Mo Jiuli's body earlier and, after waiting outside for half a day without knowing what was happening, they vaguely saw the inside getting dark and bright alternately...

Finally, Mo Jiuli came out, only for the two to find her gnashing her teeth and staring angrily at the inside of the barrier without noticing them...

"Mother, what's wrong?" Mo Baobao asked curiously. Her mother had always been lazy, her face mostly expressionless. It was rare to see any particular emotions...

Now, seeing such a fierce expression on her face, she was naturally very curious...

Mo Jiuli came back to her senses, spotted her daughter and Xiaoshu with their big, curious eyes, and instantly felt awkward...

Could she say that she was despised by her own contract beast...

What does it mean that she's too weak? She had only been cultivating for a few years and had already reached her current level. Was she still weak? Although her strength wouldn't make her an unparalleled expert, she'd still be considered an expert in her own right...

Damn Zi Ye, that guy was still not completely out of his eggshell and was already looking down on her for being weak. It really pissed her off...

And she didn't know who despised low-level Divine Beasts but was still stuck in their eggshell. What was wrong with low-level Divine Beasts? At least they didn't have to stay in their eggshell after being born...

Mo Jiuli thought bitterly...

"You are indeed weak! Divine Beasts are naturally low-level! Even if I haven't completely left the eggshell now, I can still dispose of any Divine Beasts you capture..." Zi Ye's voice suddenly echoed in Mo Jiuli's mind.

"Weren't you asleep?" Mo Jiuli asked subconsciously.

"Mmm, if it weren't for someone constantly thinking about me in their heart, I would have been asleep already..." Zi Ye said with a hint of amusement in his voice before sinking back into slumber...

"Baobao, is your master okay?" Xiaoshu asked Baobao curiously.

"I don't know!"

"Mother, mother, are you okay?" Mo Baobao called out again.

Mo Jiuli finally looked at her daughter and Xiaoshu again, laughed awkwardly, and said, "Mother is fine, really, haha..."

"Mother, who were you talking to just now?" Mo Baobao asked, looking around but not finding anyone.

"Hmm, mother was talking to your Uncle Zi Ye. He is mother's contract beast, and he has just hatched! So, mother was talking to him..." Mo Jiuli explained. She deliberately emphasized the word 'hatched' so the sleeping Zi Ye could hear it clearly...

"What? He hatched? Uncle Zi Ye? Mother, even if that egg is your contract beast, why do I have to call him uncle? Besides, he has only just been born, so he shouldn't be older than me, right?" Mo Baobao complained unhappily.

"Ahem, Baobao, you'll understand when you meet Uncle Zi Ye!" Mo Jiuli smiled helplessly.

She originally thought that the creature coming out of the eggshell would be an adorable little beast, but unfortunately, it wasn't...

Xiaoshu and Baobao curiously peeked inside the barrier, but everything was still misty, and they couldn't see anything clearly...

They didn't pay much attention to Mo Jiuli's words; in Mo Baobao's young mind, Zi Ye was nothing more than a newly hatched little beast...

It wasn't until a long time later, when Baobao saw Zi Ye coming out of the barrier for the first time, that she finally believed Mo Jiuli's words. Moreover, the adorable Mo Baobao greeted Zi Ye for the first time by directly calling him "Husband"...

It scared Mo Jiuli so much that she almost bit her tongue...

Of course, that was a story for later...

Distracted by Zi Ye's matter, Mo Jiuli and Mo Baobao decided to rest directly in the space; they hadn't even set up their tent outside...

Mo Baobao went with Xiaoshu to study some poisons while Mo Jiuli went to her usual cultivation spot alone, carefully examining her body. She found that her meridians were now countless times wider than before...

Moreover, her bones had been broken and reformed, making them much tougher. Her golden bones looked very impressive...

In addition, she discovered a ball of white light swirling around the central location of her Energy Field. She felt her soul power surge into her Energy Field and brushed against the white light. It seemed like a mischievous child who moved a bit but then lay motionless...

It looked as if it was tired and sleeping...

Mo Jiuli carefully sensed it and found that it had no effect on her body, so she left it alone...

Thinking of how her body had been strengthened by the shocking experience with Zi Ye, she wondered how her flames were now. With a thought, a wisp of black flame danced on her fingertips...

Seeing that her flame no longer struggled to burn like before, Mo Jiuli was very happy! Although she didn't know the level of her flame, according to Xiaoshu, her flame was definitely extraordinary...

Because even now, it was still much stronger than ordinary Divine Fire...

Xiaoshu was an Innate Treasure, a Supreme-level Divine Artifact. Even a Divine Fire could not easily melt it. But every time Mo Jiuli refined pills in the space, Xiaoshu would be wary of her seemingly weak, struggling black flame...

As it turned out, the Little Black Flame made Xiaoshu feel a sense of crisis, fearing that Mo Jiuli might lose control and allow it to rampage, burning Xiaoshu...

At first, Mo Jiuli and Mo Baobao thought Xiaoshu was just timid, but later on, they realized Xiaoshu was genuinely afraid of her flame...

It may not look powerful, but it had never affected her pill refining or artifact refining...

Moreover, because of the Little Black Flame, the pills and weapons she refined had higher quality and took less time than those of others...

Now, looking back, after being tormented by Zi Ye, not only did her body become more powerful, but the Little Black Flame also grew stronger, which Mo Jiuli found quite satisfying...

A quiet night passed.

The next day, Mo Jiuli and Baobao had breakfast in the space and continued on their journey of exploration...

In a few more days, they would pass through the nearby Demon Beast Forest and arrive at the Imperial Capital...