While I was chanting a curse, the system said I was Xiao Yan?

It raised its head, its single eye turning towards the Lu Suo.

"you."

Lu Su was brushing dust off her clothes when she heard the sound of the water clock. She paused for a moment, then looked up with a half-smile on her lips.

"Um?"

"Who is that human?"

Lu Suo did not answer immediately.

She lowered her head and continued to brush the dust off her clothes, one stroke at a time, slowly and deliberately, as if deliberately delaying the time. The cave became quiet, with only the pulsating sound of the cursed fetus echoing.

The water clock's single eye stared at her, its gaze filled with impatience. It wanted to lash out but held back, after all, the human in front of it was more familiar with human society than they, as cursed spirits, especially with the knowledge and situation of the world of curses.

She told them many of the secrets of the higher levels of sorcery, which is why Louhu was willing to condescend to "cooperate" with her.

Lu Su finished brushing off the dust, tidied his singed hair, then looked up at Louhu's eyes: "Zen Temple Heavenly Flame."

"A first-year student at Tokyo Vocational High School, and the adopted son of the Zen family."

She touched the scar on her neck, her fingertips tracing its surface lightly: "But... I think he's just a nobody, no need to take him too seriously."

The water clock's one eye stared at her, a hint of suspicion in its gaze: "A nobody? A nobody could hurt you? Could force Hua Yu to lose an arm?"

"That kind of being is a threat to all cursed spirits and must be eliminated!"

Lu Suo's smile remained unchanged, but he tilted his head slightly, and the light in his eyes became deeper and more profound: "It wasn't him who hurt me, it was someone else, that guy without any magical power. He's the real troublemaker."

As for Zen Temple Tianyan…”

She paused for a moment, as if considering her words.

"His strength is limited, his spell power is not great, and his combat experience is not rich. The only reason he can pose a threat to you now is because you don't understand his spells. Once you know their characteristics and find ways to deal with them, he will be no threat to you."

"Besides, his magic isn't very effective against humans, so I can handle it myself."

The vertical pupil of the water clock shifted slightly.

"The only person I truly need to keep in mind from beginning to end is this one person."

Lu Suo withdrew his gaze, looked at the water clock, and pronounced the name word by word.

"Gojo Satoru."

The cave was quiet for a moment.

Even the sound of the fetal pulse seemed to become clearer at that moment.

The water clock remained silent for a moment, then nodded. A complex light flashed in its huge vertical pupil, a mixture of resentment, apprehension, and an even more complicated, indescribable emotion.

"Six-Eyed Techniques and Limitless Techniques".

Its voice was low and deep: "This is indeed troublesome."

"It's not just troublesome."

Lu Suo's voice remained calm, but his tone was a bit more serious than before.

"If we want to accomplish that, Gojo Satoru is the biggest obstacle."

The water clock looked at the lute and remained silent for a moment.

"so?"

"So, we need to wait."

Lu Suo's voice was as calm as if he were saying something perfectly ordinary: "Wait for that opportunity."

The vertical pupil of the water clock narrowed into a thin slit.

"How much longer until the time you mentioned...?"

"Soon."

There was a hint of anticipation in Lu Suo's tone: "That opportunity will definitely come. Until then, there's only one thing we need to do."

She turned her head to look at the two enormous cursed embryos in the center of the cave. The eerie green light of the moss flowed across the surface of the embryos, making the vein-like patterns exceptionally clear.

"Accumulate strength."

The water clock followed her gaze to the cursed fetus, remained silent for a moment, and then nodded.

"OK."

Its voice returned to its lazy tone: "Then wait."

"You've brought the things, haven't you?" Louhu's voice came from behind, rough and deep, with an undeniable certainty.

Its single eye narrowed slightly, and the orange-red light from the crack flickered in the dim cave, like magma churning deep underground.

"I sensed it a long time ago."

Its voice lowered slightly, carrying an barely suppressed excitement: "That intense... allure."

Its gaze fell on Lu Suo's hand. Or rather, on what she was holding in her hand.

Lu Suo looked down at his hands.

Two small crystals lay quietly in my palm.

About the size of a thumb, irregularly shaped, with a warm, milky-white luster on its surface, it resembles a carefully polished piece of jade.

The water clock's single eye stared intently at the crystal core, the orange-red light in its eye growing brighter and more unstable, like a volcano about to erupt.

"Give it to me!" it said.

It wasn't spoken in a consultative tone.

Lu Suo glanced at it, the corners of his mouth curving slightly, but he didn't say anything, and simply tossed the crystal core over.

The crystal core traced two arcs in the air, leaving a warm, luminous trail in the dim light of the cave, before being caught steadily by two hands.

The water clock looked down at the crystal core in its palm.

It sensed that pure, abundant magical energy.

Hold the crystal nucleus above the cursed embryo.

The single eye stared at the two pulsating cursed embryos, then released its grip, and the crystal core fell silently.

The moment the crystal nucleus touched the surface of the cursed embryo, it did not bounce off or reject it. It was like a drop of ink falling into water, creating a tiny ripple when it touched the surface of the cursed embryo, and then slowly sinking into it.

A milky white luster diffused within the grayish-white cursed embryo.

At first it was just a small clump, like a star encased in an amnion, and then it began to spread outwards, into the depths, into every corner of the cursed fetus.

The warm luster became dazzling.

The pulse became intense.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Each pulse was stronger, heavier, and louder than the last, like someone beating a war drum that was getting closer and closer.

The air inside the cave was vibrating, the pebbles on the ground were shaking, and even the rock walls overhead were trembling slightly. Fine dust was falling from the cracks.

The vascular patterns on the surface of the two cursed embryos began to glow, and red and blue colors began to flow inside the cave.

The clepsydra's single eye looked at the larger cursed body on the right. Blue-purple light patterns spread, intertwined, and entwined on the surface of the cursed body, forming intricate patterns.

Inside the cursed embryo, the humanoid silhouette moved.

It's not about turning over or stretching out, but a more subtle and fundamental change. Its outline is becoming clearer, transforming from a vague, ambiguous human shape into a distinct, real body with every joint clearly defined.

You can see the head, the torso, and the limbs.

Blue hair began to grow from the top of her head, slowly, strand by strand, drifting in the liquid inside the cursed fetus, like seaweed swaying in water.

The water clock stood beside it, its single eye wide open, its orange-red light almost overflowing.

"Absorbing magical power!"

Hua Yu stood behind it, his strange face also facing the cursed fetus: "It is growing at an accelerated pace; the original ten years should have been shortened considerably."

It can sense the changes in the cursed embryo.

The aura emanating from within the cursed embryo was no longer the chaotic, unformed aura of a baby, devoid of awareness.

It is becoming stronger, more stable, and more present, like eyes slowly opening in the darkness, or a giant beast slowly rising from deep water.

It will be the strongest of them.

Hua Yu confirmed this deep in her consciousness. She needed no evidence, no reason, just an intuition, an instinct that could only be felt between two spirits.

"Looks like we still need quite a bit of that stuff."

Lu Suo stroked his chin, observing the state of the two cursed embryos, then turned and walked deeper into the cave: "Then I'll leave first to do what I need to do, and by the way..."

"Find an opportunity to create some other trouble for those college students, so they can temporarily focus their energy on other things."

......

"Feed? What's up, Mr. Moth?"

"The director's office summoned me?"