Chapter 429: Let Your Mom…

But no matter how many times the corpse worm split itself, it was still evidently weak. Ye Wenxin sighed as she watched, saying, “I really don’t know who would still support me and walk with me through the thorny path after I’ve become like this.”

Ye Wenxin envied the corpse worm’s unwavering loyalty to the Jiangshi King. Long Qingyue stepped a bit closer and smiled. “There will be someone.”

Ye Wenxin laughed and said, “I thought you’d say, ‘Isn’t that exactly what we are?'”

Long Qingyue’s smile became even more mysterious. “That person could be anyone, but it won’t be me.”

Ye Wenxin was used to such remarks from her. She took a few steps forward, hefted the Jiangshi King over her shoulder like a sack of rice, and said to the corpse worm, “Let me handle it. Where do you plan to take her?”

Although the corpse worm had managed to strike a deal with Demon Lord Gu Qingcheng, that didn’t mean others would spare the Jiangshi King. The corpse worm glanced around a few times before it reabsorbed its other clones, spread its wings, and flew through the air to lead the way.

Ye Wenxin and Long Qingyue followed closely behind until the sun rose, and they finally reached their destination. The first rays of sunlight shone down, making the surrounding ice flowers look even more beautiful.

The ice-blue flowers were in full bloom and exuded a faint chill, but when bathed in sunlight, they appeared exceptionally beautiful. The corpse worm seemed quite pleased, and then gestured for Ye Wenxin to set the Jiangshi King down.

Ye Wenxin did as instructed and saw the corpse worm open its mouth again, emitting a sound similar to a baby’s cry. In an instant, more corpse worms emerged from the ice flowers, each holding an ice flower, and began carefully placing them around the Jiangshi King.

After a few moments, the flowers surrounded the Jiangshi King. A few corpse worms started digging a pit and then tossed the ice flowers into it. Ye Wenxin couldn’t understand what they were doing, but then she heard Long Qingyue explain, “They’re making a bed.”

“A bed?”

“Ice flowers can replenish Yin energy, but normal people can’t withstand them. Only the corpse race uses ice flowers as a healing bed.” While Long Qingyue was explaining this, Ye Wenxin watched the ice flowers melt in the pit and quickly form a thick layer of frost around it. At the same time, the ice flowers on the Jiangshi King froze her. It seemed that the corpse worm, seeing that the Jiangshi King was under control of the talisman, intended for her to rest underground.

After a while, the corpse worms had arranged the ice bed and placed the Jiangshi King inside. They continued to cover her with ice flowers, which melted one after another to encase the Jiangshi King completely.

Even without a seal, these ice flowers would not melt for a thousand years.

By then, Ye Wenxin would have long ascended to immortality, and like Celestial Master Zhong, she would find someone to foist the Jiangshi King’s matter onto.

Just as Ye Wenxin thought this process was coming to an end, she noticed a gap left in the ice bed large enough for the corpse worm to fit through. She saw the lead corpse worm instruct the other corpse worms with a few gestures, seemingly intending to slip through the gap and hibernate alongside the Jiangshi King.

Ye Wenxin was stunned. Compared to the Jiangshi King, this corpse worm was the true romantic. Regardless of the corpse worm’s feelings for the Jiangshi King, the scene struck something deep within Ye Wenxin.

“Actually, corpse worm, you can stay behind and wait for the Jiangshi King to wake up before seeking her out,” Ye Wenxin called out, trying to persuade it. The corpse worm glanced at her, wiggled its body slightly in response, and then, without hesitation, crawled through the gap.

The other corpse worms covered the gap, completely sealing both individuals inside the ice chamber. Ye Wenxin looked on, speechless, as she saw the corpse worm lying yearningly beside the Jiangshi King in the ice chamber, its eyes filled with tenderness.

That tenderness had long transcended species. Perhaps it was love, or an emotion even more profound than love, something Ye Wenxin was still incapable of experiencing.

She sighed, watching as the corpse worms continued to work hard, then picked up a handful of sandy soil to help bury both the corpse worm and the Jiangshi King underground.

Ye Wenxin sighed again, though she wasn’t even sure what she was sighing about.

Long Qingyue also helped with the task, and the surrounding corpse worms even attentively handed her soil. Long Qingyue smiled gently, scattered a handful of dust over the ice chamber, and said, “If you can’t hold onto sand, then just let it blow away.”

Ye Wenxin looked at the dust in her hand and eventually placed another handful. After a while, they filled the gap, and the corpse worms began to disperse, returning to their original places.

Ye Wenxin looked at the stark new soil and began transplanting the ice flowers onto it. But the ice flowers were so cold that, just handling a few made her hands turn red with frostbite. Long Qingyue rested her chin on her hand, seemingly reminiscing about long-forgotten past events.

“To be honest, I’m still quite surprised you would become a villain,” Long Qingyue remarked all of a sudden. At a time like this, the most notorious woman in the world, and the top demon lord, were reminiscing about old times.

“Is this not my nature? After all, I’m an individualist—all for one, before one for all,” Ye Wenxin said as her hands shrank back from the cold. She found the ice flowers particularly taxing.

Long Qingyue noticed her discomfort, and her eyes glowed red. In an instant, the corpse worms returned, pulling ice flowers from a distance and piling them up in front of Ye Wenxin.

Long Qingyue’s expression was relaxed, but her gaze simultaneously controlled hundreds of corpse worms. Ye Wenxin continued planting the ice flowers silently, until the entire area around the ice coffin was covered.

Even so, her hands were still red from the cold. She tried channeling her qi to warm herself, but it had little effect. She thought briefly, then called over the furballs, feeling somewhat better as she leaned against them to ward off the chill.

“Ice flowers can’t be touched directly, you need special gloves… If you’re this cold now, you’ll probably stay cold for a few days,” said Long Qingyue, whose face carried some curiosity upon seeing the furballs again, and she wondered where Ye Wenxin had gotten them from.

When she tried to touch them, however, the furballs disdainfully avoided her. Even though they were different from Ghost Mother in nature, Long Qingyue could still sense the same kind of emotion in the furballs’ eyes as that of Ghost Mother.

“Come here, let me pet you.” Long Qingyue suddenly became impatient, and another flash of red passed through her eyes. The furballs merely squinted their eyes, then snuggled even closer to Ye Wenxin.

Rather than saying Ye Wenxin was doting, it was more accurate to say that these furball daughters wanted her to dote on them.

“It’s useless. These furballs only like me,” Ye Wenxin said with a bit of pride, burying her face into the soft fur of the white furball.

Long Qingyue felt a bit annoyed, and tried to grab the black furball beside her, the one who seemed to have the best temperament, but she still refused to be touched. Noticing things were about to go wrong, Ye Wenxin quickly said, “Blackie, let your mom pet you.”