I'm bound to the World-Destroying Witch

Chapter 122. A Strange Mother-Daughter Relationship
Xia Feng looked up.

Mu Qingtong, dressed in a black dress, sat gracefully in front of the black and white piano, her eyes slightly lowered as she smoothly played a light and lively piano piece that gradually rose to a climax.

She glanced at Xia Feng with her beautiful eyes but didn't pay him much attention. Instead, her red lips parted slightly to the music, as if she were about to sing again.

Xia Feng's expression changed, and he quickly took out a milky white fruit and roughly stuffed it into her mouth to shut her up.

Mu Qingtong was stunned by this sudden turn of events, her cheeks puffed out like a hamster stealing food, and she stared wide-eyed at Xia Feng.

"Goo-"

The milky-white fruit inside her mouth melted, transforming into a stream of spiritual energy that was rapidly absorbed. The woman in the black dress, her cheeks puffed out, instantly deflated, and she glared angrily at Xia Feng: "You—"

However, to her surprise, Xia Feng moved quickly and forcefully stuffed another milky white fruit into her mouth!
"These are Spirit Treasure Fruits, good stuff!" Xia Feng said sincerely as he handed them to you from his elevated position, "They're all yours~ I'm a good person, aren't I~"

"!!!"

The Spirit Treasure Fruit was large and had a rough skin, but it melted in the mouth. After Xia Feng quickly stuffed it into her mouth a few times, Mu Qingtong soon felt the changes in the spiritual particle structure within her body. Her soul space was expanding, and the spiritual particles were constantly condensing and increasing.

Mu Qingtong covered her mouth and glared at Xia Feng, then closed her eyes to absorb the energy and stabilize her spiritual structure.

Under normal circumstances, if a spiritual master wants to increase spiritual pressure, they can only work day and night to sort out and optimize the structure of spiritual particles in their body, increase the density of spiritual particles, and thus be able to store more spiritual particles in the limited soul space.

The more spiritual particles there are in a limited space, the higher the spiritual particle density and the higher the spiritual pressure.

To give a simple example, each person's soul space is limited, only the size of a 500ml mineral water bottle, with the spiritual particles evenly distributed within the bottle.

If a spiritual master wants to increase the amount of spiritual particles, they need to compress the spiritual particles in the space to free up more space to store more spiritual particles.

The compression process leads to an increase in particle density and pressure.

When the pressure reaches a certain level, the spiritual master will advance and their life level will be sublimated.

Therefore, people often use the stage of 'spiritual pressure' to represent a person's stage of power.

However, spiritual pressure and spiritual pressure amount are not the same concept.

Spiritual pressure represents the rank of a spiritual master.

As for the term "spiritual pressure," it actually refers to spiritual energy, which is the energy consumed when releasing a skill. The higher the level of the spiritual garment, the more spiritual energy it requires.

Later, after getting used to it, people directly used spiritual pressure to represent the energy level of a spiritualist.

After all, almost no one can have the spiritual pressure of a third-order spiritual pressure while in a second-order spiritual pressure state.

However, this can be achieved through the Spirit Treasure Fruit—consuming it can expand the soul space, equivalent to enlarging the size of a mineral water bottle.

With the increased storage space, there's no longer a need to painstakingly compress spirit particles to achieve the goal of storing more.

The Spirit Storage Fruit is a way to indirectly increase the storage of spirit particles.

Many second-generation spirit masters use this method to quickly increase their spiritual pressure, thereby rapidly widening the gap between themselves and ordinary spirit masters.

However, eating Spirit Fruit can also lead to resistance, and it will become ineffective if consumed in excess.

Mu Qingtong's absorption efficiency was very high, with not a single bit wasted, and her soul space continued to expand.

Xia Feng also felt the expansion of the spirit body.

When the spiritual particles that could no longer multiply sensed the extra space, they began to multiply automatically and slowly, much like a small section of a game's blue bar suddenly appearing out of nowhere.

Xia Feng estimated that he could release the C-rank spirit garment one more time.

"how do you feel?"

Seeing Mu Qingtong open her eyes, Xia Feng asked.

The woman in the black dress looked up and said calmly, "So-so."

"Don't be ungrateful. Although this is only a first-grade spirit treasure fruit, it's still very hard to get your hands on."

“Mr. Xia, I didn’t say I wanted it. Please don’t put things in my mouth randomly in the future, or I’ll really get angry.”

"Oh, okay, I won't do it again next time."

Before meeting, the boy nodded earnestly and obediently. Mu Qingtong pursed her lips helplessly. She knew that Xia Feng was only admitting his mistake on the surface, but he would definitely do it again next time!
But it doesn't matter, her recent research has made a new breakthrough - inflicting pain on extraordinary beings can increase her strength. Once the research is successful, she will beat Xia Feng up, and beat Xia Feng up every day!
Thinking to herself, she sensed her soul space again.

The Spirit Treasure Fruit is indeed good, but it also has a huge drawback—the more Spirit Treasure Fruits you eat, the harder it is to increase your spiritual pressure.

This is because the space is wider, and the amount of spirit particles that need to be compressed for advancement also increases. Therefore, it is necessary to optimize and refine the spirit particle structure to perfectly compress the spirit particles, which is a great test of the spirit master's talent.

Furthermore, if a second-tier spiritual master gains third-tier spiritual pressure by consuming a Spirit Treasure Fruit, but because they haven't advanced in rank, their spiritual particle density remains at the second-tier level, their defensive capabilities will be relatively weak.

For example, if Xia Feng uses the sharp tip of his six tails to attack a third-tier spiritual master, it may be blocked by the high spiritual pressure airflow on the spiritual master's surface, causing obstruction. However, if it were a second-tier spiritual master with a sparse spiritual particle density, Xia Feng's tail tip would instantly kill him.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, even a second-generation spirit wouldn't dare to eat too many spirit fruits.

After all, the Spirit Treasure Fruit can only bring your mana to the third or even fourth tier, but your defense, mental strength, and physical fitness will remain at the second tier level, and it will also cause the difficulty of advancing to the next tier to increase exponentially.

In summary, the Spirit Treasure Fruit is a double-edged sword, with both advantages and disadvantages.

But for Mu Qingtong, it was clearly all benefits and no drawbacks.

After experiencing the benefits brought by the Spirit Treasure Fruit, she looked up and said, "If you have any Spirit Treasure Fruits in the future, you can sell them to me if you don't need them."

"Those three spirit fruits, according to the recent black market price, are worth 3000 million each. I will transfer the money to you tomorrow."

Xia Feng was about to say something like, "We're like brothers," but when he heard that he could get something for free, he immediately shut up.

"Miss Mu, I greatly admire your business acumen." Xia Feng grasped her small hand, his face sincere and his smile radiant. "It's a pleasure doing business with you!"

"..." Mu Qingtong always felt that there was some kind of inexplicable meaning in the way this guy looked at her. Although she didn't know what that meaning was, it was definitely not a good thing!
Her expression turned slightly cold. She slapped Xia Feng's hand away and said in a low voice, "I have something important to discuss with you."

"Oh, what's up?"

Xia Feng followed Mu Qingtong to the sofa.

"After the Holy Department took Wen Zaiye's body back, they did not find any useful information on Wen Zaiye's body."

Mu Qingtong picked up a document from the coffee table and handed it to Xia Feng. "But I used my ability to recall Wen Zaiye's remnant soul. After questioning him, I discovered some things."

Xia Feng took the documents.

This is Wen Zaiye's personal information.
[Wen Zaiye, born in King's Landing, District 51, joined the Black Moon Church two years ago for unknown reasons, becoming a Black Moon Knight. This March, he stole the 'Tears of the Moon Goddess' and defected. During his escape, he committed multiple crimes, resulting in the death of one spiritualist and injuries to three civilians.]

Xia Feng quickly browsed through it and saw two entries at the bottom of the statement overview.

[He Jianzhu, Orphanage]

“The remnant soul’s memories are incomplete, so it’s difficult to extract any useful information from it,” Mu Qingtong said calmly. “But he has mentioned these two words many times.”

Based on the information he had just glimpsed, He Jianzhu was Mu Qingtong's mother, and the official explanation was that she died by suicide. Xia Feng roughly guessed, "So, you want to investigate the truth behind your mother's death?"

"The truth about death?"

Mu Qingtong paused, pursed her lips, and said softly, "Yeah, more or less."

"About the same?" Xia Feng asked suspiciously.

"In short, based on the information provided by Wen Zaiye, He Jianzhu's death may be related to an orphanage."

Mu Qingtong picked up the tablet, swiped a few times, and brought up the map.

"After studying Wen Zaiye's escape route, I found that he kept circling around Yuanhe Town. Even when he was chased to the point of having nowhere to go, he was unwilling to leave and instead went directly into the Mijia Calamity on the outskirts of Yuanhe Town."

"So I looked up the orphanages in Yuanhe Town." She zoomed in on the map with two fingers, her voice calm. "There's only one, Yuanhe Orphanage, which was established with funding from the Ziyanghua Charity Foundation under the King's command. It has a history of nearly twenty years."

"I understand. You want me to go with you to this place?"

"Not too stupid."

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

Xia Feng clapped his hands, stood up, and grinned, "Let's go then, I'll go with you to find your mother."

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"Oh right, shouldn't this be reported to the Holy Department?" Xia Feng suddenly asked.

The woman in the black dress smiled slightly: "Mr. Xia, I want to investigate He Jianzhu's matter secretly, and I don't want too many people to know about it."

"Don't worry, don't worry, I'm very discreet." Xia Feng made a zipping motion towards his mouth.

After making some preparations, the two started driving towards Yuanhe Town.

Xia Feng sat in the back seat, looking at the constantly flashing street scene outside the window, his dark eyes slightly narrowed.

He Jianzhu—Mother of the Goddess! Mother of the World-Destroying Demoness!
To be honest, Xia Feng was quite curious about what kind of person He Jianzhu was, that she could give birth to such an oddball daughter.

He had actually noticed a detail earlier: modern people usually refer to their mothers as "my mom" or "my mother," but Mu Qingtong called He Jianzhu by her full name.

The relationship between this mother and daughter is clearly not right.

"By the way, where is your father?" he suddenly turned his head and asked curiously. The current head of the Mu family is not Mu Qingtong's father.

Mu Qingtong glanced at him with her beautiful eyes: "I don't have a father."

"Oh, I see. It looks like it's going to rain outside." Xia Feng turned to look out the window, carefully observing the sky.

The absence of a father clearly indicates that he has passed away.

As we all know, the protagonist and the world-destroying villain in the novel, although they have different roles, share the same birth privileges. They are both born with special advantages, born without parental love, yet ultimately end up on opposite sides.
Mu Qingtong's words suggested that this woman was destined to be either the protagonist of this world or a world-destroying villain. Xia Feng's mind raced with wild thoughts.

"Oh right, I almost forgot." He suddenly took out a spirit paper and spread it out in front of Mu Qingtong. "Miss Mu!"

Mu Qingtong looked up in confusion.

Knowledge was once again crammed into her mind in a despicable way.

"Here you go again!" Mu Qingtong said helplessly. This guy always liked to force her to give him things, with a contemptuous look as if he was afraid that her strength would improve too slowly.

Extremely arrogant! This made her very unhappy!
[You forcefully crammed knowledge into Mu Qingtong's body, and she instantly memorized the spiritual structure diagram of the "Purge Order"]

[Having accumulated countless spiritual structures, you have already mastered low- to mid-level spiritual structures with ease. You have quickly grasped the advanced spiritual structure of the "Purge Command"—30%]

To Xia Feng's astonishment, Mu Qingtong memorized and learned the material in an instant with astonishing speed.

[39%]

【.】

[59%]

The progress is still skyrocketing.

Mu Qingtong's current learning speed is beyond his imagination.

(End of this chapter)