Chen Shi felt a bit uneasy and said, "Godmother, I've taken his gourd, and his Purple Heaven Dao Realm has been destroyed. Are we going too far?"

Lady Houtu sneered, "Too far? The Purple Heaven Immortal Monarch, relying on his status as an Immortal and being beyond reincarnation, is beyond my control and thus searches everywhere for living souls, turning people into Ant Men, Beast Men, Bee Men, enslaving them. He even borrowed the Reincarnation Jade Plate from Ling Mountain, controlling these living souls, making them die and reincarnate, generation by generation, to work for him. We didn't kill him, just took the Purple Heaven Immortal Gourd, which is already sparing him!"

Chen Shi said, "Those Ant Men and Beast Men..."

Lady Houtu said, "With the Purple Heaven Dao Realm burned to destruction, they will also die, and their souls will escape the Purple Heaven, naturally falling into different worlds' reincarnations. In the future, they may be reborn, without being enslaved by the Purple Heaven Immortal Monarch."

Chen Shi thought for a while and said, "Godmother, you're a good person."

Lady Houtu chuckled and said, "How am I a good person? The reason I had you steal the Purple Heaven Immortal Monarch's gourd is because he interfered with reincarnation, affecting my interests. Yet he is precisely an Immortal Monarch, not in the cycle of reincarnation, and I can't do anything to him, so I must use your hand. Without the Immortal Gourd, he cannot survive the Opening Tribulation and is doomed to die within it. I do everything for myself, how can I be a good person?"

Chen Shi laughed and said, "Godmother, though everything is for yourself, the results are all good deeds."

Lady Houtu laughed, "Stop flattering me. You stole the Immortal Gourd, but the Purple Heaven Immortal Monarch is not dead yet. In the future, you might meet him. Bearing this karma on yourself, it's bound to be no good, right?"

Chen Shi looked troubled and sighed.

Lady Houtu was pleased: "I am now also full of evil deeds! Go out and worry, I am feeling a bit tired."

Chen Shi walked out of the Houde Palace and immediately saw Liu Daoist outside the palace looking at him with a fawning smile. Chen Shi lowered his head, clutching the Purple Heaven Gourd, intending to walk past him.

Liu Daoist coughed, his ingratiating look more pronounced, and he said softly, "Your Majesty, about those three pieces of willow leaves, could Your Majesty perhaps..."

He rubbed his hands, appearing somewhat embarrassed to reclaim his magical treasure.

Chen Shi paused and said, "Those three pieces of willow leaves... hmm, it is a problem. I think, Daoist friend's magical treasure still has room for improvement, needs to reach new heights, achieve new realms through innovative actions, thereby using new methods, setting new requirements, achieving new breakthroughs, and reaching new heights. This logic, do you understand?"

Liu Daoist looked confused, watching him walk down the Gao Gang, suddenly realizing, "Where's my Heavenly Immortal Triple Extremes Formation?"

Chen Shi hurried back to the Imperial City and finally breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "The three pieces of willow leaves of Liu Daoist, indeed a problem. I saved my life, but his willow leaves were destroyed, and I must compensate him. But how to compensate..."

He couldn't come up with a solution for the time being, so he decided to set it aside, after all, planting the Wu Qi was still urgent.

He wandered between several palaces, planning to find a secluded corner to plant the Wu Qi and gourd seeds. After searching for a while, he found an empty patch in the Imperial Garden. The Imperial Palace was newly built, and the Imperial Garden was planted with trees and flowers, with plenty of space, not having chosen good trees yet.

Chen Shi chose an old crape myrtle tree a few hundred years old, with its crown trimmed and not yet sprouted new buds.

He dug a hole under the tree, then moved the Wu Qi with its pot over.

A white-haired, white-dressed Can'er with pigtail braids came running over: "Brother, I'm hungry!"

Chen Shi put down the pot, looked at the mulberry leaf on her neck, which had already been eaten.

"Recently the appetite seems to have increased a lot."

Chen Shi was surprised and tied another Fusang Leaf to her.

Can'er squatted nearby, eating the mulberry leaf while watching Chen Shi scoop Wu Qi's skeleton out of the pot, planting Wu Qi and the golden gourd seed together under the crape myrtle tree, then filling in the soil.

Chen Shi poured Dao Spring from the pot and sighed in relief, talking to himself: "In a few days, when the gourd vine grows, it can climb up along the crape myrtle tree."

He imagined perhaps it would be Wu Qi climbing out from the soil, growing vine-like up the tree, and couldn't help but shudder.

"It definitely won't be like that! Can'er, let's go."

Chen Shi called out, and Can'er quickly hopped along behind him, her twin pigtails bouncing back and forth.

Chen Shi noticed that, in this short time, she had already gnawed through half of the Fusang Leaf!

"At this rate, it won't be long before the Fusang Leaves are eaten up." He couldn't help but worry.

"Ever since Lady Houtu had me spin silk, my appetite has greatly increased. Lady Houtu said I'm growing!" Can'er said confidently.

Chen Shi crouched down to study her; this little girl's height only reached his waist, not seeing where she was growing.

"Lady Houtu said I'm going to metamorphose and transform, so I'm eating more," Can'er said.

"Metamorphose and transform?"

Chen Shi was slightly taken aback, not quite understanding the meaning. But being able to eat wasn't a bad thing.

"However, it's also a bad thing. If my Fusang Leaves here are eaten up, how can I obtain more?"

He thought of the Fusang Tree from that day, only by returning there could he gather enough Fusang Leaves for Can'er to metamorphose and transform.

"But, without the Willow Leaf Boat, how can I cross the Dark Sea? Besides, it's hard to find the way in the darkness."

Chen Shi hesitated; this matter still needed to trouble Lady Houtu.

"But for now, there's no rush; the Fusang Leaves will last a few more days. I wonder how the battle is progressing?"

As the True King, these days he was busy running around with Lady Houtu, not paying attention to the battle. Fortunately, his Skull Body was on the front lines, and Chen Shi connected his consciousness to the Skull Body, knowing the battle situation in a matter of moments.

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