I Bound Myself to a Destructive Witch-Chapter 139 - 122. Mu Shen destroys the world, the true reason?

Xia Feng looked up.

Mu Qingtong, dressed in a black dress, sat gracefully in front of a black and white piano, her eyelids slightly lowered as she smoothly played a lively and increasingly spirited piano piece.

She glanced indifferently at Xia Feng, paid him little attention, and as the music played, her red lips gently parted as if she was about to sing again.

Xia Feng’s expression changed, and he quickly pulled out a milky-white fruit and roughly stuffed it into her small mouth, blocking her vocal cords.

Caught off-guard, Mu Qingtong stood stunned, her cheeks puffed out like a hamster that had stolen food, her big eyes gazing up at Xia Feng.

"Hmm—"

The milky-white fruit in her mouth melted, turning into Spiritual Flow and was quickly absorbed; the woman’s swollen cheeks instantly deflated, and she angrily glared at Xia Feng, "You—"

However, to her surprise, Xia Feng’s actions were quick as he forced another milky-white fruit into her mouth!

"This is a Spirit Storage Fruit, good stuff~" Xia Feng said sincerely from above, as he stuffed another into her mouth, "I’m giving them all to you~ Aren’t I nice?"

"!!!"

The Spirit Storage Fruit was large and rough on the outside, but it melted upon entering her mouth. After Xia Feng swiftly stuffed her several times, Mu Qingtong quickly felt changes in the structure of Spiritual Particles within her body, her spiritual space expanding, and her Spiritual Particles steadily condensing and increasing.

Mu Qingtong, covering her mouth, glared fiercely at Xia Feng and then began to close her eyes to absorb and stabilize her Spiritual Particle structure.

Normally, to increase Spiritual Pressure, a Spirit Master must comb and optimize the structure of their Spiritual Particles day and night to increase their density, allowing for more Spiritual Particles to be stored within the limited spiritual space.

The more Spiritual Particles in the limited space, the higher the density and thus the higher the Spiritual Pressure.

For example, everyone’s spiritual space is limited, like a 500-milliliter water bottle, with Spiritual Particles evenly distributed within.

If a Spirit Master wants to increase their Spiritual Particle, they need to compress the Spiritual Particles within the space, thus freeing up more space to store more Spiritual Particles.

The compression process would result in increased Particle density and pressure.

When the pressure reaches a certain level, the Spirit Master undergoes an advancement, elevating their life state.

Thus, people often use the phase of ’Spiritual Pressure’ to represent a person’s strength.

But in reality, Spiritual Pressure and Spiritual Quantity are not the same concept.

Spiritual Pressure represents the rank of a Spirit Master.

As for Spiritual Quantity, it refers to the amount of Spiritual Particles used when releasing skills; the higher the level of Spiritual Clothes, the more Spiritual Particles it consumes.

Eventually, people got used to directly correlating Spiritual Pressure with a Spirit Master’s energy level.

After all, it’s rare for anyone to have Third-Order Spiritual Quantity under Second-Order Spiritual Pressure conditions.

But with the Spirit Storage Fruit, it’s possible—it increases the size of the spiritual space after consumption.

The expanded storage space naturally eliminates the need to compress Spiritual Particles laboriously in order to achieve the goal of storing more.

Spirit Storage Fruit is a method to indirectly increase the storage capacity of Spiritual Particles.

Many second-generation Spirit practitioners use this method to rapidly increase their Spiritual Quantity, thus widening the gap from ordinary Spirit Masters quickly.

However, there is a resistance buildup associated with consuming Spirit Storage Fruits, and eating too many becomes ineffective.

Mu Qingtong absorbed the fruit very efficiently, without any wastage, constantly expanding her internal spiritual space.

Xia Feng also felt his Spiritual Body expanding.

Unable to further proliferate, Spiritual Particles, sensing the extra space, began to slowly proliferate, a sensation akin to a video game’s mana bar gaining an extra segment.

Xia Feng estimated that he could now release a C-level set of Spiritual Clothes one more time.

"How does it feel?"

Seeing Mu Qingtong open her eyes, Xia Feng asked.

The woman in the black dress looked up and spoke in a flat tone, "So-so."

"Don’t be ungrateful; this is just First-Level Spirit Storage Fruit, but it’s also hard to get, okay?"

"Mr. Xia, I didn’t ask for it, and please don’t randomly stuff things into my mouth in the future, or else I might really get angry."

"Oh, alright, I won’t dare next time."

Seeing the young man in front of her seriously nodding his head, Mu Qingtong pursed her lips in resignation; she knew, although Xia Feng outwardly admitted his mistake, he would dare to do it again next time!

But it didn’t matter, her recent research had made a new breakthrough—inflicting pain on supernatural beings could lead to strength enhancement. Once her research succeeded, she planned to thrash Xia Feng thoroughly, every single day!

With that thought in mind, she once again sensed her Spiritual Space.

Spirit Storage Fruit is indeed good, but it also has a huge drawback—the more you consume, the harder it is to increase Spiritual Pressure.

This is because as the space expands, a larger amount of compressed Spiritual Particles is needed for an upgrade, requiring a more sophisticated and refined Spiritual Particle structure, which seriously tests the talent of a Spirit Master.

Furthermore, if a Second Order Spirit Master, by consuming Spirit Storage Fruit, achieved Third Order Spiritual Quantity but did not advance in rank, his Particle density would remain at Second Order. This would result in weaker defensive abilities—

For instance, if Xia Feng used his six-tailed sharp tailfin to attack a Third Order Spirit Master, he might be blocked by the strong Spiritual Pressure airflow on the surface, causing a blockage. But if it were a Second Order Spirit Master with sparse Particle density, Xia Feng’s tailfin could instantly kill him.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, even second-generation practitioners don’t dare consume too much Spirit Storage Fruit.

After all, the Spirit Storage Fruit can only boost Mana to Third Order, or even Fourth Order, but the defensive capability, spiritual power, and physical condition remain at Second Order, and the difficulty of advancing jumps exponentially.

In conclusion: Spirit Storage Fruit is a double-edged sword, with both advantages and disadvantages.

But for Mu Qingtong, there were clearly only advantages, no disadvantages.

After feeling the benefits brought by the Spirit Storage Fruit, she looked up and said, "In the future, if you have Spirit Storage Fruit and don’t need it, you can sell it to me."

"Those three Spirit Storage Fruits just now, based on the recent black market price, are 30 million each, and I will transfer money to you tomorrow."

Xia Feng was about to say ’we’re all friends here’ but paused when he heard he could gain for free. He immediately stopped.

"Miss Mu, I greatly admire your business acumen," Xia Feng, holding her small hand, smiled brightly with sincerity, "Pleasure doing business with you!"

"..."

Mu Qingtong always felt that his gaze held some indescribable, uncertain implication; though she didn’t know what it meant, it definitely wasn’t anything good!

Her expression slightly cold, she slapped Xia Feng’s hand away, her lips pursed as she spoke softly, "I called you here for important business."

"Oh, what is it?"

Xia Feng followed Mu Qingtong to the couch.

"After the Holy Department took Wen Zaiye’s body back, they didn’t find any useful information on him."

Mu Qingtong picked up a document from the coffee table and handed it to Xia Feng, "But I managed to summon Wen Zaiye’s residual soul using my abilities, and after my questioning, I discovered some things."

Xia Feng took the document.

It was Wen Zaiye’s personal information,

[Wen Zaiye, born in Zone 51, Junlin City, joined Black Moon Church two years ago for unknown reasons, becoming a Black Moon Knight. In March this year, he stole ’Moon God Tears’ and defected, committing multiple crimes during his escape, causing the death of one Spirit Master and injuries to three civilians.]

Xia Feng quickly skimmed through it and saw two entries at the bottom of his confession.

[He Jianzhu, Orphanage]

"The residual soul’s memory is fragmented, it’s hard to get any useful information out of him," Mu Qingtong spoke blandly, "But he mentioned these two words many times."

From the information he had just glimpsed, He Jianzhu was Mu Qingtong’s mother, officially said to have died by suicide, but from Mu Qingtong’s expression, it clearly wasn’t that simple.

This made Xia Feng wonder whether Miss Mu’s future terrifying reign over the Empire, crowned with the title of Destructive Witch, could be due to her mother.

Thinking about this, Xia Feng had already formed a soap-opera-like plot in his mind—a plot where the Destructive Witch’s mother was treacherously murdered by the Empire, leading her to harbor a resentful attitude towards the Empire and vow to annihilate it to avenge her mother...

Cough... well, Xia Feng subconsciously felt that might not be quite right.

But if not that, then why would the future Mu Qingtong want to destruct the world?

Amid his doubts, Xia Feng asked, "So, you want to investigate the true cause of your mother’s death?"

"The true cause of death..."

Mu Qingtong paused, her lips pursed as she said softly, "Yes, pretty much."

"Pretty much?" Xia Feng looked at her skeptically.

"Anyway, according to the information provided by Wen Zaiye, He Jianzhu’s death might be related to a certain orphanage."

Mu Qingtong picked up a tablet, swiped a few times casually, and pulled up a map,

"After studying Wen Zaiye’s escape route, I found that he always lingered around Yuanhe Town. Even when driven to desperation by pursuers, he refused to leave, and instead, he went directly into Mi Jia Calamity Realm outside of Yuanhe Town."

"So I checked the orphanages around Yuanhe Town," she expanded the map with her fingers, her voice calm, "There’s only one, Yuanhe Orphanage, which was established nearly twenty years ago with funding from the Purple Sunflower Charity Foundation under Prince’s command."

"Got it, you want me to accompany you to this place?"

"Not too slow on the uptake."

"Hehe, I’ll take that as a compliment."

Xia Feng patted his hands and stood up, his mouth curling, "Then let’s go, I, your lordship, will accompany you to find your mom."

"..."

"Oh right, are we not going to report this to the Holy Department?" Xia Feng suddenly asked.

The woman in the black dress gave a slight smile, "Mr. Xia, I want to investigate He Jianzhu’s affair covertly, I prefer not many people know about it."

"Rest assured, rest assured, I am the best at keeping secrets." Xia Feng made a zip-your-lip gesture at his mouth.

After a brief preparation, the two started driving towards Yuanhe Town.

Xia Feng sat in the backseat, watching the constantly flickering street scene outside the window, his eyes slightly narrowing.

He Jianzhu—Mu Shen’s mother! The Destructive Witch’s mother!

Honestly, Xia Feng was curious about what kind of person He Jianzhu was, to have produced such an extraordinary daughter.

He had actually noticed a detail earlier; modern people generally refer to their mothers with terms like ’my mom,’ ’my mother,’ etc., yet Mu Qingtong directly called her by name, He Jianzhu.

Their mother-daughter relationship was obviously unusual.

"By the way, what about your father?" he suddenly turned his head and asked curiously, as the current head of the Mu family wasn’t Mu Qingtong’s father.

Mu Qingtong’s beautiful eyes glanced faintly, "I don’t have a father."

".... Oh, I see, looks like it’s about to rain outside." Xia Feng turned to look outside the window, intently observing the skies.

No father obviously meant he was dead.

Everyone knows that, in novels, although protagonists and world-destructive antagonists play different roles, they share a similar orphan background; born without love or care from parents, yet they end up on opposing paths...

In the case of Mu Qingtong, this woman was destined to be either the protagonist of this world or a destructive antagonist... Xia Feng’s mind wandered with wild thoughts.

"Oh right, almost forgot." He suddenly took out a Spirit Paper, unfolded it in front of Mu Qingtong, "Miss Mu!"

Mu Qingtong looked up puzzled.

Knowledge was again crammed into her brain in a despicable manner.

"You again!" Mu Qingtong sounded somewhat resigned; this guy always liked to forcibly give her things, flaunting a disdain as if he feared she would advance too slowly.

Extremely arrogant! This also made her very annoyed!

[You forcibly crammed knowledge into Mu Qingtong’s body, you instantaneously memorized the "Rectify Command" Spiritual Particle Structure Diagram]

[After numerous accumulations of Spiritual Particle structures, you have long mastered low to mid-level Spiritual Particle structures effortlessly, and quickly grasped the intricate structure of "Rectify Command"—30%]

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Under Xia Feng’s astonished gaze, Mu Qingtong shockingly memorized and learned it in an instant.

[39%]

[....]

[59%]

The progress was still skyrocketing.

Mu Qingtong’s learning speed was beyond his imagination.