My gorgeous wife Chapter 2278 - 2246: Nine Fruits

Zhu Jiuyin hadn’t even finished speaking before he vanished completely.

He seemed to have disappeared so utterly that Cui He didn’t even have time to react.

Back then, after Cui He picked Little Tu up and brought him home, her parents went missing during a trip into the mountains to gather herbs, never to return. From then on, she endured the pain of losing her parents while taking care of Little Tu.

In her eyes, Little Tu was her own family—and her benefactor.

Even if she had to look after Little Tu for a lifetime, she was willing. So even in that desperate Guan Tou, the first one she thought of was Little Tu, not herself.

Yet the way things unfolded was somewhat beyond her expectations.

How did that fierce-looking man suddenly just disappear like that?

Only after quite some effort did Cui He snap out of it. She grabbed Little Tu’s hand: "Little Tu, let’s go! The village isn’t safe anymore!"

Cui He was a smart girl with a delicate mind, and on the Tianchen Continent the existence of cultivators was no secret.

She’d heard the villagers talk about demon lords and immortals and the like.

At a time like this, even standing outside the village she could hear the screams coming from within.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to help those villagers who had once helped her; it was that at such a time she couldn’t even save herself, so how could she help them?

Little Tu scratched his head and said nothing, just stared blankly at his own hands.

"Little Tu, what’s wrong with you? Hurry up!" Seeing Little Tu motionless, Cui He grew anxious, tugged at him involuntarily—only to find that Little Tu didn’t budge at all. Instead, it was herself, trying to pull him, who stumbled.

"Trying to run?"

Just then, a cold, sinister voice suddenly rang out.

A demon lord flickered into existence before the two of them, his gaze chilling as he looked them over: "Where’s Zhu Jiuyin?"

"What Zhu Jiuyin? We don’t know any Zhu Jiuyin!"

Cui He watched this demon lord warily. Hooked nose, deep-set eyes, upturned, narrow brows—one look told you he was no good person. Nervously, Cui He shielded Little Tu behind her.

"Heh! So that bastard Zhu Jiuyin really did leave?" The demon lord, whose face seemed twisted and misshapen, swept his gloomy eyes over the two of them: "Two pretty decent ’Blood Medicine’. Since Zhu Jiuyin doesn’t want you, I won’t be polite!"

As he spoke, the demon lord reached out again, clawing toward Cui He and Little Tu.

Only at this moment did Little Tu, who had been staring at his hands, seem to come back to himself.

But he didn’t look at the demon lord. Instead, his gaze turned toward that tree not far away—the one he’d been looking at for eight years.

It was a tree whose species none of the villagers could recognize.

And because Little Tu had always been staring at it, hardly any villager had ever really taken a close look at this tree.

Even fewer had noticed that this tree, which had quietly taken root at the village entrance for nine years, had at some unknown time already borne fruits like apricots.

At the instant the demon lord struck, one of those fruits suddenly trembled lightly.

And then... the demon lord disappeared again.

Once more... reduced to ashes, without anyone sensing a thing.

Cui He was still somewhat dazed, unable to understand how that terrifying-looking fellow had suddenly vanished.

While she was still in a daze, she realized that Little Tu, whom she had been blocking behind her, had for some reason suddenly stepped toward that tree.

She wanted to call out for Little Tu to hurry away, but Cui He found that at this moment, Little Tu’s body was suffused with a breath that felt utterly unfamiliar to her.

Little Tu walked under the tree, reached out, plucked a fruit, and put it into his mouth.

And the instant Little Tu swallowed the fruit, Heaven and earth changed.

In that moment, wind and cloud surged, as if endless strange tides had all erupted together.

Even the entire Tianchen Continent seemed, due to some unfathomable celestial phenomenon, to suddenly accelerate its rotation.

Especially around Distant Mountain Village: in the sky above the entire region, a spiral-shaped star cloud formed.

This star cloud not only covered one third of the Tianchen Continent, it even broke through the sky, stretching into the boundless Starry Sky.

Amidst the Starry Sky, infinite Power was being drawn in by a terrifying suction.

At this time, Little Tu swallowed a second fruit.

The star cloud surged again, doubling in size, directly covering two-thirds of the Tianchen Continent.

Panic spread across the Tianchen Continent; people felt that the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and earth had been completely drained at the instant this star cloud appeared. They could sense not the slightest trace of Spiritual Energy around them, as though they had entered an age where the law had ended.

And in Distant Mountain Village at the center, the Slaughter had long since come to a halt.

All the demon lords lay prostrate on the ground, bodies sprawled, unable to move at all.

It was as if any further movement would cause them to be completely crushed by this terrifying Spiritual Energy that had descended from Heaven.

In contrast, ordinary people like Cui He, as well as the surviving villagers of Distant Mountain Village, were completely unharmed.

Seeing these demon lords suddenly collapse and lie motionless, some people screamed in terror and fled the village in haste; others, whose loved ones had been killed, seized their farming rakes and herb-digging hoes and swung them down hard on the demons’ skulls.

These demon lords, whose Cultivation had once been formidable but who now couldn’t muster a shred of Power to resist, many couldn’t even release Defensive True Qi, and their skulls were smashed open directly by the villagers.

Without Body Refinement, no matter how high their Cultivation and how much stronger their bodies had become, they were still just human.

No matter how tough they were, one hoe strike might be fine—but what about ten, a hundred?

Quite a few demon lords who claimed they could roam Vertically and Horizontally across the Tianchen Continent actually died so inexplicably at the hands of a bunch of rustic villagers.

And at this moment, Little Tu swallowed a third fruit.

Countless Dark Shadows gathered at once; before anyone could see what they looked like, they watched these Dark Shadows all surge into that tree which seemed utterly ordinary. Meanwhile, the star cloud in the sky swept across the entire Tianchen Continent and even spread into all the regions around the star system where the Tianchen Continent was located.

Rather than say those Dark Shadows entered the tree, it would be more accurate to say they... entered the fruits.

At this time, there were still six fruits on the tree.

Little Tu did not pause; in one breath, he swallowed all nine fruits on the tree.

Each of the first three fruits he swallowed shook Heaven and earth with terrifying Momentum.

But with the latter six, the Momentum grew smaller and smaller.

Or rather, it grew smaller with regard to the Tianchen Continent—while as for the outer Starry Sky...

The spiral-shaped star cloud had already spread across several surrounding Starfields.

When Little Tu swallowed the ninth fruit, everything came to an abrupt halt.

On the Tianchen Continent, and Amidst the Starry Sky, everything returned to calm the moment Little Tu swallowed the ninth fruit.

And at this time, Little Tu—who had kept his eyes tightly shut while taking the fruits—finally opened them slowly.

Only, the Little Tu of this moment was no longer Little Tu.