I am Guhuoniao, not an umbrella demon, please do not disturb me.

Now, this is the only road left.

It's worth mentioning that over the past three months, she had almost no time to go to the mountaintop to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but for some reason, her demonic power increased quite rapidly while taking care of the child, almost five times that of cultivating at the mountaintop.

Now that I have enough demonic power, I can give it a try.

Instead of directly injecting demonic power, Bai Qingyu was cautious. She infused some demonic power into the herbs to forcibly enhance their potency before feeding them to the child.

It's okay if we don't feed them.

When the demonic power entered the child's body, the child's complexion visibly became rosy.

At the same time, Bai Qingyu saw something on her head.

It was a small, semi-transparent sword.

An idea suddenly popped into Bai Qingyu's mind.

This child's greatest talent is swordsmanship.

She herself found the idea quite strange.

Could she see the child's greatest talent?

Or something else entirely.

Newbie here, begging for votes! *sobs*

Also, the main character in this book doesn't get married.

Book 1: Chapter 4 The Mother Bird Wants to Transform

Bai Qingyu's discovery did not change the trajectory of life at all; life remained stable and peaceful. The unexpected joy was that after absorbing her demonic power, Xiao Dongqing's vitality became much stronger. When she was first brought here three months ago, she dared not let her eat anything other than breast milk.

Now, the little holly can drink some broth and even eat some well-cooked meat. This is undoubtedly good news, meaning that this winter will be easier to get through. However, drinking milk is not enough yet, as it is too difficult to find a mother deer with a calf in winter.

There is plenty of meat, and she can go out hunting. With her wings, finding meat is not too difficult.

The heavy snow outside the cave had just stopped, and the campfire inside crackled softly, bringing a touch of warmth to the small cave.

Bai Qingyu nestled in the nest, her large, thick, and warm wings protecting her chicks. In fact, her current posture somewhat resembled that of someone incubating an egg.

During her free time at night, she would use her bird's beak to pluck some soft down from her body and stuff it directly into the child's bedding to keep him warm.

In the firelight, the child would look up and stare at Bai Qingyu for a long time, almost every day, without making a fuss or fuss, sometimes for more than half an hour at a time.

This time was different. Bai Qingyu was plucking her own fur and didn't notice that the child opened its mouth and made an "Ah~" sound. She was actually used to the child doing this and didn't pay attention until after the "Ah~" sound, she made another sound, "mua~".

Bai Qingyu paused in her plucking motion, then looked down instantly. However, the child was already tired of watching, so she half-closed her eyes until she completely closed them and began to snore.

The child's sleeping face was so adorable. After tucking a small tuft of downy fur into her blankets, Bai Qingyu couldn't help but ponder something. A child raised by wolves is a wolf child, born with wildness, unable to speak, and living according to the habits of the wolf clan and society. Even if they were to return to human life later, they would not be able to adapt.

What about the children who were raised by the bird demon?

Regardless of whether Holly will return to human society in the future, no one can predict what the future holds.

But you still have to learn the language, right?

Bird demons and wolves are ultimately different; even the most powerful wolf king is nothing more than a wild beast if it does not awaken its intelligence.

Xiao Dongqing is a blank slate right now. Bai Qingyu doesn't want her to become a wild person or a wild child. She wants her to learn and become smarter, and language is an essential skill she must learn.

Of course, the downside is that once she becomes intelligent, she will definitely yearn for the outside world, especially the human world. In the end, it may lead to a separation by death. No matter how cruel the mountains are, they are not as cruel as the human heart. Children who leave the mountains, especially girls, rarely have a good ending.

But that's just wishful thinking. Even if I wanted to teach her to speak, it would be impossible, because I don't know how myself.

If you want to speak, you first need to take on a physical form, right?

However, a demon needs to undergo tribulation to transform into human form, and she is probably still a long way from undergoing tribulation.

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You never know which will come first, tomorrow or an accident.

Last night, Bai Qingyu was thinking about the matter of transforming into human form and undergoing tribulation. This morning, when she got up and saw that the child was sleeping soundly, she decided to go out and collect some more herbs and prepare some food. Winter had only just begun, and the cold season was still long ahead. Spring was at least two to three months away next year.

Herbs are not found everywhere; the rarer the herb, the harder it is to find.

Bai Qingyu flew at low altitude for a long time. The outer perimeter of the Ten Thousand Mountains was covered in snow, so she had to fly further in, at least to a place without snow.

The Ten Thousand Mountains cover a vast area, and the further in you go, the more dangerous it becomes. It is filled with poisonous insects, ferocious beasts, and miasma, and the environment is harsh. Countless monsters hide within it, but it also has a great deal of good stuff, especially medicinal herbs. Countless precious medicinal herbs can be found here.

Besides medicinal herbs, places where spiritual energy gathers will nurture certain special herbs that contain the essence of heaven and earth's spiritual energy. If a wild beast were to devour them, it wouldn't be impossible for it to transform into a demon overnight.

Bai Qingyu flew over a small valley, a place she had never been before. She only intended to collect the herbs and then return. But as soon as she flew over, she sensed something extremely tempting, a kind of intuition, or rather, instinct.

Instinct drove her to descend and see what was in the valley that would be extremely beneficial to her.

Birds and beasts mostly rely on intuition to judge the good or bad of things when they live in the wild; you could say that their actions are driven by instinct.

Bai Qingyu slowed down. As the altitude decreased, the impulse in her heart grew stronger. Instinct told her that this was not a trap and there was no danger. The higher you fly, the farther you can see. Following her body's instincts and the faint fragrance, she looked down at the small puddle in the depression at the bottom of the valley.

This small puddle is less than two meters deep, but in its center blooms a bright blue flower that is completely different from its surroundings.

The flower is a deep blue, like glass, and there seems to be a spiritual energy flowing inside the flower stem. The only regret is that the flower is not fully bloomed yet, the bud is half open, but even so, the fragrance emanating from it is irresistible to Bai Qingyu.

She knew she had struck gold. The waterhole in the valley was hidden, and she had to fly so close to see it. Needless to say, there were wild beasts on the ground. As for the irresistible fragrance, Bai Qingyu thought it might be because she arrived at the perfect time, or perhaps because she was a demon, and her demonic power resonated with the spiritual energy of the flowers.

Without any hesitation, it fell down and swallowed the flower whole in one gulp, ignoring the fact that it hadn't fully bloomed yet.

A rich medicinal aroma filled his mouth, and the almost liquid spiritual energy slid down his throat and into his body, merging with the demonic energy within. Bai Qingyu felt a buzzing in his head as a surge of pure spiritual energy surged from his burning abdomen and was then absorbed by his body.

The consequence of absorbing a large amount of spiritual energy at once, especially if one's body is not very strong, is that one will faint on the spot.

Bai Qingyu's vision went black, and she lost consciousness.

Before losing consciousness, I was filled with regret, regretting that I had acted too impulsively.

Fainting in the wild is extremely dangerous, especially with a baby at home who needs to be fed. If she remains unconscious for too long, it could lead to an accident for the child.

The sun sets and the stars are few.

Bai Qingyu, who had been unconscious for a full eight hours, slowly awoke.

The moment she regained consciousness, she instinctively flapped her wings and flew back in the direction she had come from; she wanted to return to her nest.

Only during the journey do I have time to examine the changes in myself.

The changes were greater than she had imagined; the unknown flower directly provided her with more than twice the demonic power of her body.

If she had to describe her feelings, she didn't have any other feelings. She just vaguely felt that perhaps her demonic power was enough to support her transformation into human form.

However, I felt something was missing, like being able to take on a form, but not a complete one.

Please vote for me! I'm doing the splits for you all!

Volume 1: Chapter 5 Successful Transformation, Truly Becoming a "Bird Mother"

Putting aside the matter of transformation for the time being, Bai Qingyu looked at the completely dark sky and regretted her recklessness and impulsiveness. Her unconsciousness not only brought danger to herself but also to her cub. The mountains and forests were full of poisonous insects and wild beasts. If something happened to her, the cub in the nest would certainly not survive the third winter night.

She discerned the general direction in the starry night. Fortunately, she had a good memory and still remembered the way home after being unconscious for who knows how many hours.

Against the night wind, Bai Qingyu flew back to the cave at top speed.

The cave was pitch black, and the campfire that had been lit when we left in the morning had long since gone out. The good news was that we could hear the baby's slightly hoarse cries.

Bai Qingyu felt her heart was breaking; the child's hoarse cries proved that she had been crying for a long time.

She quickly used her demonic power to rekindle the extinguished campfire. The soft orange light once again illuminated the small cave. Bai Qingyu used her broad, thick bird wings to hug the child and gently rock her, while her other wing wiped away the tears on her face.

The effect was immediate. With the warm embrace of the "mother bird," the chicks stopped crying, though their little expressions showed a hint of grievance.

Bai Qingyu stood on one leg, skillfully using her free claws to place a clam shell filled with water onto the table. After the water boiled, she added the wild boar meat that had been prepared beforehand.

It was difficult to cook the pork until tender using only a campfire, so Bai Qingyu used her omnipotent demonic power to infuse it. Before long, a bowl of meat soup with a rich aroma was ready. After the soup cooled down a bit, she carefully fed it to the cub.

The baby is never a picky eater and will eat almost anything. This time was no exception. Perhaps because he was tired from crying and hadn't eaten all day, the baby ate an unusually large amount this time.

However, even with a large appetite, one cannot finish a whole bowl, so the rest was naturally left to Bai Qingyu to finish.

The mother bird provides a sense of security, and her soft feathers are the warmest harbor. After the chicks are fed, watered, and given a dry and comfortable diaper, they quickly fall into a deep sleep.

Actually, this scene doesn't look very heartwarming.

If some cultivators were to witness this scene, they would undoubtedly draw their swords immediately and shout, "Monster, put down that brat!"

A black and white crane-like bird demon, over four meters tall, was holding a human cub in its wings. Its long, sword-like beak was so close to the child. Putting aside the bird demon's gentle, even overflowing, "soft maternal love" gaze, and putting aside the sleeping cub, this bird demon was clearly committing murder!

Bai Qingyu placed the chicks in the nest, but this time she didn't shrink in herself to provide the chicks with maximum warmth in an "incubation" position.

She has something extremely important to do.

That is transformation.

Bai Qingyu has never seen another monster in this world, but there must be one.

Combining her knowledge from her previous life with her experience in this one, her view on human transformation is actually quite simple.

Compared to humans, who are favored by heaven and earth, the cultivation process for demons is much more difficult.

Since Heaven and Earth allow the existence of monsters and allow them to absorb the essence of Heaven and Earth's spiritual energy, there must be a reason for it. In order to restrain monsters, Heaven and Earth created the tribulation of lightning. A monster's tribulation depends half on its cultivation level and half on its karmic obstacles and merits.

The world will not allow demons burdened with karmic obstacles to successfully pass their tribulation. Even if a demon uses rare and precious materials or powerful treasures to successfully pass its death tribulation, without the power of heaven and earth derived from the lightning tribulation to change its demonic body, these karmic demons will inevitably fail when they try to transform into human form. In the end, they will become ugly monsters that are half human and half beast. If they want to become human, they can only use some illusions. As long as a cultivator with cultivation can detect it, they can see through it with some means.

More importantly, demons who fail to transform will not be recognized by heaven and earth, and will face extreme difficulties on their path of cultivation. Therefore, most demons burdened by karma choose to continue down a dark path.

Bai Qingyu was very uneasy at this moment.

She was certain that she had no karmic burdens because she had basically never been in contact with humans. Her usual practice of killing and eating fish was simply for survival, which was a natural law permitted by heaven and earth.

It was precisely because they had never encountered humans that the awkward situation arose.

She has neither karmic obstacles nor merits.

Is it possible to transcend tribulations without accumulating merit?

No, has her cultivation level reached the Tribulation Transcending stage yet?

Ever since she swallowed that spiritual flower, her heart had been pounding. Instinct had led her to swallow the flower, and now instinct was telling her that she had reached a crucial stage in her bird demon life and it was time to try to break through.

She couldn't think of any other possibility for the bird demon's next stage besides undergoing tribulation.

After flying out of the cave, Bai Qingyu arrived at the summit of another mountain under the cover of night.

Although I can't see much, the clouds seem unusually thick tonight.