Here's the English translation of Chapter 5725:
Chapter 5725: Extra - Qiao Mu and Xuan Huang Defying Heaven: Inheritance
"Quick, quick!" A group of people were busy carrying and scrambling for anything they could get their hands on in the treasure vault.
Nitian ignored their frenzied activity, letting her companions be busy as bees. She herself squatted in front of nine flowerpots in the corner, propping her chin on her hand and meticulously examining the mechanism.
"Old Turtle really put some thought into this," Nitian murmured, then stood up straight and kicked out, sending a burst of energy.
"Zzz—" One of the flowerpots moved along with the gust of wind she kicked out.
Nitian then kicked several more times, the flowerpots crisscrossing, creating scraping sounds as they touched the ground.
"Clatter."
Nitian leaped aside. Where she had just stood, a square-shaped small secret compartment had opened up.
A mechanism sprang forth, pushing out a wooden box carved with dark red mystic patterns.
Nitian chuckled softly, took out the red-patterned wooden box, and murmured, "Since it's hidden so secretly, it must be a precious treasure."
However, similarly, the outside of this wooden box had a very faint layer of spiritual power. It should be a restriction set by that fellow, as a precaution.
The portion of spatial power that Xuan Huang had transferred to her earlier hadn't been completely used up yet. It was perfect for this moment.
So, mimicking Xuan Huang, she used spatial power to peel off that wisp of spiritual power, and smoothly opened the red-patterned wooden box.
Inside the box was an item carved from blue crystal, shaped like an orchid.
A silver carp was embedded within the arched petals, its eyes a crimson red. At first glance, it looked ordinary, like an ornament, but Nitian's heart subtly skipped a beat.
The words Lan Shi Yu (Orchid Stone Fish) popped into her mind.
Hehe, so it was hidden in such an obscure place. She finally found it.
This item had a grand name, said to be a secret realm space, but it didn't look like much.
Suddenly, she felt a heavy tug on the corner of her long dress. Nitian collected herself and looked down, unable to help but smile wryly.
Little Qiao had appeared from somewhere. She was now holding onto one of Nitian's legs with both hands, her head slightly tilted, her round, dark eyes full of longing as she gazed at the Lan Shi Yu in Nitian's hand.
"Like it?" Nitian raised an eyebrow.
Little Qiao nodded honestly.
Nitian could bet that the little one had no idea what the item in her hand was actually for.
Suddenly appearing from her personal space to demand it could probably only be explained by three words: "love at first sight"!
This item was useless to Nitian, and she didn't mind teasing the little one.
So, the unscrupulous fellow crouched down calmly in front of the child, pointed at the Lan Shi Yu in her hand, then pointed at her own nose. "Call me Shishu (martial aunt), and I'll give it to you to play with."
Little Qiao blinked, opened her small mouth, but her voice seemed stuck in her throat. She struggled for a long time without uttering a single syllable.
She tried hard to hold it in, her small face flushed red, but no sound would come out.
Nitian couldn't help but sigh, reaching out to stroke the child's head.
You can't expect a child who has been autistic for many years to suddenly speak, can you?
Compared to the first few days when she was expressionless and silent all day, Little Qiao had greatly improved. Not only was her face round from being well-fed by Xuan Huang and her husband, but her eyes had also become a little more lively.
At least now she would hug legs, whine, and roll around for things. Nitian thought with satisfaction, no longer intending to make things difficult for her little niece.
She smiled and stroked the child's head, placing the Lan Shi Yu in her arms. "Here, play with it."
Little Qiao's eyes lit up, and she excitedly hugged the Lan Shi Yu.
If those vulgar people were to know that the Lan Shi Yu, which their family had treasured for generations, was so casually given by Nitian to her martial niece as a toy, they would probably be so angry they'd spit blood and die.
No matter how you hide it and harbor selfish intentions, many things are about fate, aren't they?
At this moment, even if you didn't want to give it, you'd have to, hehe.
Nitian glanced at the empty treasure vault.
Her group of companions had long perfected their looting speed.
Moving things was quite fast.
It hadn't been long, and they had already mostly emptied the entire treasure vault, hehe.
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Xuan Huang held the demon eye seed in one hand, looking up at the sun, squinting at the strange seed.
"Junior Sister, this seed really looks like an eye."
Especially now in the sunlight, a slit like an eye had opened in the middle of the seed, seeping out a bit of white, making it look even more like an opened eye.
Xuan Huang involuntarily shivered, shaking her hand and tossing the demon eye seed into Nitian's hand. "It looks rather ghastly. Here!"
Nitian smiled, just about to reach out to catch it, but saw the seed "whoosh" past her. She couldn't even catch it with her hand speed?
Nitian was startled, then subconsciously flung out her chain.
It moved like a dragon, hissing.
The black long chain suddenly wrapped around the demon eye seed.
"Bang." However, it missed. The chain struck hard against the courtyard wall.
Amidst the scattered dust and ash, a fist-sized lump of pitch-black demon eye seed zipped through the wall and rushed outside.
"Little Miss, you've been playing outside long enough. If we don't go back now, Madam will scold this servant again for taking you wandering around and not going home."
The maid held Little Qiao's small hand, half-dragging, half-pulling the mischievous little one over the high threshold.
Suddenly, an urgent cry came from her ear, "Little Bao, get out of the way!"
The maid hadn't even fully reacted when a dark, unidentified object zipped past her eyes with a "whoosh."
With the maid's eyesight, she couldn't see it clearly.
She only felt a gust of wind sweep past her ear, blowing her side hair, along with a lock of Little Qiao's dark hair, all over the place.
"Little Bao." Several figures in the air swiftly flew forward.
More than a dozen winding, coiling iron chains also swished and flew over.
They instantly surrounded the mistress and servant.
The dozen chains immediately transformed into hundreds of protective light shadows.
From afar, Nitian's reprimand came, "Stop it! Come back!"
"Gulu-lulu," the chains wrapped around the mistress and servant coiled back.
Like a child who had done something wrong, they timidly scurried back towards Nitian, tucking their tails between their legs.
"Little Bao..." Xuan Huang leaped forward, just reaching the child, and was about to grab the demon eye seed.
Little Qiao's dark, round eyes stared at the pitch-black tree seed floating before her, her small mouth slightly agape, a sigh escaping her heart.
What a strangely creepy seed!
But then, the seed "whooshed" into her slightly open small mouth. Everyone stared dumbfounded at the mischievous child.
"Don't..." The word "swallow" hadn't even left their lips.
They only heard a "gudong" sound, and the seed, down the mischievous child's esophagus, was clearly swallowed...
"Little Bao!!!" Several adults cried out in alarm one after another, unable to help but look at each other.
They had told her not to swallow it, but she still swallowed it. This troublesome child truly caused so much worry.
A moment later.
Little Qiao was placed on a grand armchair, sitting upright.
Her round, bulging eyes moved flexibly, observing the adults before her.
Her master and the others looked quite displeased; she didn't know why.
"I say, just pour two bottles of emetic down her, make her throw it up, and that's it!"
The person who spoke earlier, catching Nitian's glaring gaze, hastily covered their mouth and gave an awkward laugh.
"There are no changes to her body," Xuan Huang said, sitting beside the child, a hint of doubt still in her eyes.
"Could it have been absorbed by her dantian?"
Nitian crouched down, meeting the mischievous child's eyes. "Little Bao, tell your master and Shishu, do you feel any discomfort anywhere in your body? Is your abdomen distended or painful?"
Little Qiao blinked, then shook her head vigorously.
"How is that possible?" The person who had spoken earlier, holding two potion bottles, stomped their feet.
"Nitian's master's wife couldn't even control this demon eye seed, so how is it acting so docile and not causing trouble inside this little one's belly?"
Xuan Huang also nodded in confusion, raising her hand to stroke the mischievous child's head, and gently asked, "Little Bao, tell your master."
"Did you feel where that seed you just swallowed went?"
Nitian rolled her eyes. "She's so small, how could she understand what you mean?"
Little Qiao suddenly began to gesticulate with her hands, moving them back and forth. The adults present watched her, their foreheads lined with black.
"Speak in words!"
The child blinked, her small hands and feet tucked into the large armchair, sitting obediently.
Nitian was speechless. Suddenly remembering something, she took paper and a pen and handed them to Little Qiao.
This child was literate; asking her this way was indeed much better than hand gestures!
Xuan Huang nodded, smiling as she looked at her disciple. "Little Bao, quickly think about it, just draw it simply for us to see."
Little Qiao propped her chin on her hand, tilted her head, and thought for a moment.
Under the eager gazes of the adults, she put her pen down, drew a straight line, then swish-swish-swish, drew something incessantly.
After a moment, she put down the pen on the table, and with her two small hands, picked up the unfolded white paper and held it above her head.
Xuan Huang and Nitian's group all looked over. When they saw the drawing on the white paper, their eyes couldn't help but slightly widen in surprise.
The drawing was really good.
The twelve jade slips in the center were drawn in a tubular shape, with a strong sense of three-dimensionality.
It was hard to believe this child even added light and shadow effects to the jade slips; she truly was a little marvel.
"This is? The Golden Talisman Jade Record in the sea of consciousness?" Nitian was slightly startled and asked.
Xuan Huang took the drawing paper from the child's hand, holding it and carefully examining it.
"This is the Golden Talisman Jade Record? What's that crooked tree at the bottom?"
Nitian reached out, took the drawing paper, and examined it carefully for a moment, then said, "Look, what's drawn below looks like a chaotic starry sky. There's a strange little tree here, and on the tree... look, on the trunk, there's an eye!"
"Could this be the demon eye seed?"
"The demon eye seed was swallowed by this strange tree?" everyone exclaimed in unison.
Little Qiao on the side kept nodding her small head, nodding and nodding, until the group of adults looked at her, speechless.
Until Nitian asked with a wry smile, "You can see it?"
"Is that strange tree growing in this spot?" One of them touched their abdomen, making a funny gesture.
Little Qiao nodded.
Nitian slapped her thigh. "That's it! This little one truly is a marvel. She can even inner-sight her dantian at such a young age. And by the way, there's a tree growing in her dantian!"
Yes, yes, the fact that a tree is growing there is the key.
Xuan Huang's face suddenly changed. She tightly gripped the child's slender wrist, her expression grave. "Little Bao, tell your master, has this tree ever been strange? Does it absorb your essence, energy, or spirit?"
Little Qiao tilted her head and thought for a long time, then scratched her ear. Suddenly, she snatched the paper, and scribbled several more strokes.
After putting down the pen, the two master-sisters looked at it simultaneously and took a long, deep breath.
This little rascal truly has great fortune!
Just by looking at the child's drawing on the paper, the two could roughly guess what it meant.
[That Lan Shi Yu was actually absorbed by the star domain, and by chance, it became part of the star domain, activating a planet.]
"Good child, quickly let your Shishu help you modify the flow of time on this Fish Orchid Star," Xuan Huang picked her up, smiling as she kissed her.
"It will definitely be of great use in the future."
The little girl blinked.
Many years after reincarnation...
Qiao Qiao, having ascended to the Spirit Realm cultivation, pointed at the vast ocean before her.
"This newly opened planet is called Fish Orchid Star, right?"
"Did I ever tell you? The time on this Fish Orchid Star is different from the outside world?"
It's very strange.
Strange and familiar, but for unknown reasons.
Sometimes when I face this sea, I always feel like I'm about to remember something.
That beautiful time...