Chapter 260: The Birth Of Yue Hanjiang

In Peach Tree Village, a man was anxiously pacing back and forth in the courtyard. His wife was giving birth.

The other relatives were also waiting outside with taut expressions. Due to an evil curse, no one in Peach Tree Village had given birth successfully in 12 years. The babies were either miscarried during pregnancy, or died at birth.

It was as if they had been cursed and abandoned by god.

The man was sweating profusely.

It was not until he heard the sound of crying from the room that the worry left his face, and joy filled his eyes.

“Our Peach Tree Village finally has a newborn child!”

“Thank the heavens!”

The midwife quickly came out with a baby in swaddling cloth. After seeing the baby crying in swaddling cloth, the nearby villagers rushed over.

Their bodies had suffered different degrees of damage.

Some of them had wounds on their heads, some had their arms infected by some kind of plant, while others had lost their lower bodies and had to rely on their upper bodies to crawl over.

Everyone had one thing in common, which was that they were living beings who struggled bitterly against death.

Amidst the cheers, an old man with a missing ear suddenly asked, “Village chief, what’s her name?”

The man holding the child in his arms instantly panicked.

He had never imagined that he would have the opportunity to name the child.

“Yue Hanjiang!”

He finally came up with a name. He hoped that this child could live on and become as strong as the Hanjiang river!

Furthermore, the entire village would work hard to ensure she grew up strong.

Yue Hanjiang’s birth brought joy to the entire Peach Tree Village.

There were over 100 villagers in the village, and their faces were filled with smiles. They had brought out all of the treasures in their homes.

They knew that their bodies would not be able to hold on for long.

In this cruel and merciless world, they were simply struggling at death’s door. What was the use of keeping such treasures at home in such a situation?

The blood of a greedy wolf, spider poisons, and all kinds of powder and liquids were brought over!

On the second day after Yue Hanjiang’s birth, they had already gathered all of these things in the village chief’s courtyard.

A large wooden basin was already set up in the courtyard.

The big wooden basin looked like it was made of some kind of wood, but it was not.

It was the decapitated skull of a tree demon, and one could still see the lifeless wooden eyes of the tree demon.

Yue Hanjiang was carried over carefully. Then, together with the middle-aged man, they stood next to the tree demon’s skull. The priests in the village had already begun their preparations.

All kinds of strange and mysterious things were placed in the wooden basin. Finally, the basin was soaked in divine water, turning it dark green.

One could see some Gu worms wandering around inside it.

“Village chief.”

“Are we really going to start the refinement of this Gu worm?”

“Hanjiang is only two days old!”

This was a rather brutal body tempering method, which was to place a child directly in this medicinal bath, following which the medicinal properties of this medicinal bath would condense into a shape similar to that of a Gu worm.

Generally speaking, it was very effective in strengthening children and would allow them to grow rapidly within a short time.

However, was it not a little too early for the baby girl, Yue Hanjiang, who had just been born two days ago?

Normally, only 10-year-old children would be able to undergo this baptism.

The middle-aged man looked at Yue Hanjiang.

The swaddled Yue Hanjiang did not utter a single sound. She just closed her eyes and fell into a state of deep sleep.

The middle-aged man said, “This is also for the good of this child. This child will definitely become a very powerful expert in the future!”

“Soak her in it quickly. Later, I’ll bring her to the Moon Goddess Sea to pray for blessings!”

The villagers worshiped the Moon Goddess. Back in the day, before the curse, they would bring each newborn child to receive blessings at the Moon Goddess Sea within a month after birth.

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The next day.

After bidding farewell to the rest of the village, four adults brought Yue Hanjiang with them and headed to the Moon Goddess Sea.

“We have to be very careful after we leave Peach Tree Village.”

“There are many monsters living in the surroundings which would not hesitate to attack us,” a man said in a serious tone.

The other three people nodded.

The four of them were walking in a straight line along a narrow path. Both sides of the path were covered in deadly sharp thorns that could detect the scent of blood and attack.

In the distance, there were towering trees that were thousands of years old. Each one was at least 100 meters tall.

Yue Hanjiang left the Peach Tree Village at a tender age, babbling as she looked at the sky and waving her chubby arms about.

The other four adults could only smile wryly when they saw Yue Hanjiang’s behavior.

Still, they remained vigilant of their surroundings. Danger lurked everywhere in this world.

At this moment, less than ten minutes after they left Peach Tree Village, a ghost monkey suddenly jumped out of the thorny bushes, trying to bite the middle-aged man’s neck.

The middle-aged man pressed his palm over the ghost monkey’s eyes and grabbed its neck with his other hand, before twisting half of its head off and throwing away the body.

“You first, chief,” the middle-aged man said with a smile.

The village chief sighed with emotion.

He took the ghost monkey’s skull from the other party’s hands and then drank the monkey’s brain as if he was drinking a bowl of fine wine.

After the monkey’s brain was sucked dry, he tossed the skull away.

Nearby, the thorns had sensed blood and were devouring the monkey’s body.

It was quite a bloody scene.

When they traveled further down the narrow path, a giant python crawled out of a stone cave on the side of the road. There were broken bones in the giant python’s mouth.

The village chief frowned.

His fist smashed into the python, slamming it into the ground with a bang.

The python did not even have a chance to resist. The village chief then stepped on the python’s head, crushing its jaw.

He bent over, grabbed its body with both hands, and pulled hard.

The giant python was torn in half.

The village chief took out a small porcelain bottle from the bag on his back and collected two to three drops of blood essence from the giant python’s heart.

Blood essence was a good thing. It was a treasure used to temper the body.

They traveled on for ten days before finally arriving at the Moon Goddess Sea. When they reached the shore, they knelt down.

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