Future Beast World: Becoming A Pampered Beauty-Chapter 463 - 402: Going Back Once More

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Sang Luo woke from her deep sleep. Gazing at the familiar ceiling of the Phoenix Palace, she thought, ’I’m back again. This is wonderful!’

Si Ye was asleep, slumped over the side of the bed. A small, red figure leaped onto her lap, crying out in surprise and delight, "Mother! You’re awake!"

Sang Luo picked up Little Zhenzhen. She felt so much heavier; she had grown quite a bit. She was a sturdy little thing, her fiery red fur dazzling to the eye. The two small, tender horns on her forehead had also grown taller and more elegant. They were hard and cool to the touch, like a pair of jade-like deer antlers.

’It’s a good thing she’s not as reckless as she was when she was little,’ Sang Luo thought. ’Otherwise, a jump like that would have taken half my life!’

Sang Luo stroked her little head. "Shh, quiet down. Don’t disturb your father’s rest."

The moment she finished speaking, Si Ye woke up.

"Luoluo!" Si Ye’s red eyes lit up. He was even more excited than his daughter, surging forward to pull her into his arms. He lowered his head and kissed her lips, a kiss filled with intense longing.

"I’ve missed you so much..."

Sang Luo blushed, chiding him gently, "The child is still here."

"She’s seen it plenty of times growing up!"

"Hehe, Mother, Father, take your time talking. I’m going to tell Grand-uncle and the others the good news that Mother is awake!" Little Zhenzhen said as she hopped off the bed and vanished in a flash.

Watching her ever-so-perceptive daughter, Sang Luo didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

After she and Si Ye had been affectionate for a while, Sang Luo finally asked, "How long was I asleep this time?"

She had clearly only been gone for a day, but Si Ye acted as if he hadn’t seen her in a very long time. Sang Luo had a feeling she might have accidentally passed through a Space-Time Tunnel again and fallen into a deep sleep.

"Eleven years and three months." Si Ye looked at her, his expression fraught with worry, yet tinged with a hint of disappointment.

Sang Luo was shocked. "That’s even longer than last time. But I was only there for one night."

Minos walked over. "The greater the span of time you cross, and the longer you stay, the longer you will sleep... The point in time you traveled to this time was likely ten thousand years ago."

"Now that you mention it, that does seem right. When I woke up last time, I was in a Chaotic Burial Mound. The place was filled with the stench of blood and corpses, but I could faintly sense that the Spiritual Energy there was exceptionally dense and pure, even purer than the Spiritual Energy in any Secret Realm I’ve ever seen."

Fei Yuan came over carrying a bowl of medicinal soup. Sang Luo took a sip and realized it was fetus-preserving medicine. She remembered that she was still pregnant with the fox cub and quickly looked down at her belly.

Ten-some years had passed, and her belly had gotten a little rounder.

’The time required to gestate Divine Beast Descendants is so long and tedious. Sleeping through it is actually a good solution.’ Sang Luo couldn’t help but feel a little comforted.

"Don’t worry, Luo’er. While you were asleep, I’ve been using World Energy Crystals to supplement the energy this child needs. You don’t have to worry," Fei Yuan reassured her.

"Okay. By the way, what about Little Treasure? Is he all right?"

"Don’t worry, Little Treasure wasn’t harmed. He’s fine, it’s just... he’s fallen into a deep sleep." Fei Yuan looked at her, hesitating. Knowing he couldn’t hide it from her forever, he finally told her the whole truth. "During the years you were asleep, he also fell into a deep sleep and hasn’t woken up since."

"How could this happen? Little Treasure already knew he was wrong." Sang Luo’s heart ached.

Fei Yuan pulled Sang Luo into his embrace, gently patting her back. "Ultimately, it’s the influence of the Exquisite Heart. After you were taken away by the Annihilation Black Hole, the Demon Lord’s subordinate, He Luan, took Little Treasure. He wanted to install Little Treasure as the new Demon Lord, but in reality, he just wanted to control the emperor to command the nobles—to make Little Treasure a puppet in their hands."

"Later, Quan Jin fought his way back into the Demon Realm and brought Little Treasure back. But Little Treasure was too ashamed to face him, so he sealed off his own heart and fell asleep..."

Sang Luo returned to the Demon Palace and saw Little Treasure, who had fallen into a long slumber.

He was sleeping inside a black spherical barrier formed from Demonic Qi, floating in the void. His sleeping face was peaceful and serene. He seemed to have grown a bit since she last saw him, now resembling a twelve or thirteen-year-old human boy. The aura around him was even more grim and powerful than before, surpassing even Quan Jin!

It was no wonder he chose to sleep. At such a terrifying growth rate, in just a few years, there would probably be no one in the entire Beast World who could be his match.

And under the influence of the Exquisite Heart, he would become an out-of-control weapon of slaughter!

Quan Jin walked over and said, "During his time in the Demon Realm, he devoured hundreds of Demon Kings and four Demon Lords. He Luan and his group originally planned to use the slave seed left by the Demon Lord to control him for their own purposes, but they never expected that even the slave seed couldn’t contain him. Little Treasure devoured the slave seed as well... By the time I got there, he had almost lost control. I had no choice but to put him to sleep. I’m sorry, Sangsang."

Sang Luo shook her head. "There’s nothing to be sorry for. I’m the one who knew too little about a Demon Fetus, raising him as if he were an ordinary child. When Little Treasure was with us, he was constantly suppressing his instincts. He suppressed them for so long that it made him easy for the Demon Lord to deceive."

Little Treasure was young, but he had inherited memories, making him the most mature of all the children.

He realized from a very early age that he was different from his brothers and sisters, and also different from his father and mother.

They were, after all, not the same kind of being.

The Demon Lord used this very reason to brainwash him again and again—telling him that *he* was the one closest to Little Treasure, the kinsman who stood by his side, and that the Demon Realm was where he truly belonged. That was how he tricked Little Treasure into trusting him.

Quan Jin walked up to Little Treasure, and a Platinum Bone Blade materialized in his hand.

Sang Luo’s breath hitched. "What are you doing?!"

Quan Jin placed the bone blade in her hand. "Sangsang, you are his birth mother. You were the one who gave him life. If that day truly comes, you are the only one qualified to take his life back."

As a member of the Demon Clan, he could understand Little Treasure’s desire to devour him. But he could not tolerate Little Treasure developing the desire to devour his own mother!

He would never allow this child to harm Sang Luo.

The reason he hadn’t acted was because he was waiting for her to return.

Sang Luo handed the Ancient Blade back to him. "Perhaps there’s another way. When I used to live in Qingqiu, I saw an ancient book in the Book Collection Pavilion that mentioned a Reshaping Technique. It might be able to separate the Exquisite Heart from Little Treasure’s body."

The two of them made a trip to Qingqiu.

Having not been visited for many years, the courtyard home, without its master to tend to it, had fallen into desolation. The rooms and flagstones were covered in dust and cobwebs, weeds grew from the cracks in the walls and floor tiles, and the Spirit Grass in the garden had all withered away.

Sang Luo went to the Book Collection Pavilion to search for the ancient book she had stumbled upon all those years ago. Quan Jin helped her look.

Three days later, Sang Luo found the book.

The good news was that the Reshaping Technique could indeed separate the Exquisite Heart from Little Treasure’s body. Sang Luo memorized the required incantations and materials, but one crucial item was missing—the Creation Furnace!

Sang Luo retrieved the fragments of the Creation Furnace from her space. The Divine Artifact had been passed down through the world for tens of thousands of years and had long since decayed. After it was used to revive Anubia, it had shattered completely into its current state.

Sang Luo had preserved all the fragments of the Creation Furnace well, not a single piece was missing. However, Lou Xianyue had said that most of the materials needed to repair the Creation Furnace had long since vanished and were impossible to gather.

"It seems I’ll have to leave you all one more time."

Since the materials to repair the Divine Artifact no longer existed in the current Beast World, she would have to go back ten thousand years to find them!