The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 547 Layers of Scheming, Deeply Terrifying

Wanshipu, the lights are just coming on.

As soon as Lang Jiuchuan entered the door, he heard the heart-wrenching cries of a newborn baby. He rushed over and saw Fu Qi and Jiang Che looking helplessly at the swaddled baby girl. Song Yuedie, who was standing to the side, was eager to hold the baby but dared not touch her. She could only pat the swaddled baby and whisper to comfort her.

"what happened?"

When Fu Qi and the others saw her return, they were overjoyed and said, "Madam Song said she must be hungry. The wife of Manager Huang next door just gave birth to a boy, and she went over there to see if she could get something to eat."

No sooner had she finished speaking than Madam Song entered, bringing with her a chill. She was carrying a food box covered with a thick layer of cotton cloth to keep her warm.

Lang Jiuchuan tapped the baby girl's forehead, and her crying subsided, turning into soft sobs. Her little face looked extremely pitiful.

Madam Song opened the food box, took out a bowl of breast milk, and said, "Although it's only a short walk, it's very cold, and the breast milk might be cold. She's so small, so it needs to be warmed up."

"No need, give it to me." Lang Jiuchuan took the bowl of breast milk, his palm clenched, and the bowl quickly warmed up before handing it to her: "Go feed her."

Madam Song quickly picked up the child, put the bowl aside, and skillfully used a spoon to scoop the food into her mouth. Seeing the child drinking happily, her eyes showed a hint of pity.

Seeing this, Lang Jiuchuan went to her room with Fu Qi and the others to talk. At this moment, A Piao suddenly appeared and said, "I heard you really fell into that old monster's trap. Are you alright?"

His gaze fell upon her pale face, a result of the depletion of her spiritual energy and the backlash from the incantation. His eyes darkened; if his master saw this, he would surely be furious!

"This was indeed a trap set for me. It cost me some spiritual energy and essence, but I couldn't die." Lang Jiuchuan didn't hide anything and said, "Although they wanted to test my strength, they used a child with this fate. I don't know if they chose her on purpose or just made do. If it was the former, even though she's been saved now, her fate will always be a source of trouble."

There were actually many other options to test her, but the fact that she chose to find a child with a naturally phoenix-like destiny made her think twice.

Now that she can bring the child back without any hindrance, is it because Tantai Qing is afraid of her or is too far away to stop her? No, it's because he has enough confidence and power that he can take the child away whenever he wants.

If that's the case, then all my efforts have been in vain, and I've only given him a laughing stock.

This is also why she didn't let Jiang Che send the child back to Wen Yue's side.

She was constantly on guard against thieves, so she didn't have the time for that.

“Only in this way will it be real, and only then will you willingly fall into the trap even if you know it’s a trap. After all, isn’t that child’s condition just like yours when you were little?” the ghost said. “The old monster calculated that you would empathize and would definitely go all out. This is how he tested it out.”

Fu Qi nodded in agreement, looking at Lang Jiuchuan with a furrowed brow that revealed his seriousness: "He understands you very well."

Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory. The Grand Preceptor is too familiar with Lang Jiuchuan, so it is easy for him to deduce her next move and thoughts, which puts her at a disadvantage.

"It doesn't matter. There are always things he doesn't know. He doesn't know about Fengya's existence, which I've never mentioned. As for what happened to me after my death, what I experienced in the Nine Netherworlds, and what I gained, he knows even less. Until the day we're locked in a life-or-death struggle, I certainly won't reveal everything to him." Lang Jiuchuan walked to the table and said, "I'm not afraid of him knowing me. I only regret that I don't know what his true intentions are right now."

Only by knowing what his so-called 'Great Way' is can she better deal with it and break the deadlock.

Everyone fell silent. Lang Jiuchuan lit a stick of incense, staring at the scarlet flame with sharp eyes, and said, "Let's not talk about the distant issues first. This test is ostensibly to gauge my strength, but given his nature, he will not stop at just one idle move."

"You mean the fate of this baby girl?"

Lang Jiuchuan nodded, recalling every detail of Canglan Temple in his mind. He put himself in the position of the Grand Preceptor and thought about how to act. He closed his eyes and said, "Such a perfect bait is wasted just to test my strength. Can't we kill two birds with one stone...?"

She paused, tapping the clock face with her fingertips, her mind racing, her face growing paler and paler.

Apiao wanted to say there was no need to rush, that resting and recuperating was the right thing to do, but Fuqi shook his head at him. They didn't have much time, and they couldn't just passively wait for the other to make a move and be led by the nose.

Lang Jiuchuan suddenly opened his eyes and said, "This child's experience is just like my own. With such a good destiny, his luck must be good. But if he is 'developed', his luck will only be better and he will be more useful. Just like me, I did a lot of good deeds before I died, so that I could better benefit the country's fortune... Fuqi, go and bring the child here."

Fu Qi slipped out and soon returned carrying the child, who had eaten and drunk his fill and was fast asleep.

Lang Jiuchuan unwrapped the baby, examined her carefully, made a hand seal, and ran two fingers together across her brow. He opened his third eye and carefully probed her spiritual platform and meridians with his divine sense.

As she looked around, she noticed a tiny ball of energy in the woman's dantian, so she stopped and sighed softly.

"How was it?" The ghosts were very curious.

Lang Jiuchuan wrapped the baby up again and said, "This child was taken away from her mother. Dao Jicang has been feeding her for the past six months. He must have mixed his own essence and blood with hers, then nourished her with spiritual objects, and then formed a symbiotic contract. Although this contract is evil, she may still receive some Daoist essence to nourish her soul while he cultivates. This is what is meant by mutual support. As for her, she entered the Daoist path by accident."

Everyone immediately understood that the baby girl possessed Daoist charm and could cultivate the Dao. If her meridians were further expanded and nourished by other forces, it would only be easier for her.

"The final step in breaking the bond is to nourish her primordial spirit and essence, which is done with my power." Lang Jiuchuan said with a complicated expression, "It's like using the power of thunder to expand her meridians, only my power is gentler, but it's enough to cleanse her bones and soul."

Her fingers gently stroked the child's fair face as she said, "Having walked on the edge of life and death and been baptized and nourished by powerful energy, her destiny and fortune will only get better and her uses will only become more wonderful. Just like me back then... that old man asked me to help him cultivate a purer and more perfect Phoenix Destiny Body."

Although the person needs to be saved, it's really frustrating!

Fu Qi and Apiao gasped, "What kind of monster is he? How can he be so shrewd?"

Such scheming and calculation are simply terrifying.

“Do you think he might be more than two hundred years old, or even older?” Jiang Che murmured. “How many storms must he have weathered to develop such intelligence? Two hundred years is just a blink of an eye for a cultivator.”

His words were like a wake-up call, and the room fell into a deathly silence.

"No matter what, he's schemed this far, so this baby girl's fate will probably be the same as yours!" A Piao looked at Lang Jiuchuan: "Then sending this child back to her mother will still lead to her death."

Getting something back after losing it is a great joy, but losing it again after getting it back is despair. To give it away or not to give it away is a dilemma!
(End of this chapter)