Ineffective Disguise and Ineffective Motherly Love (Continued)

"Little Ye?! What's wrong?! Who scared you?! Did that scumbag bully you?! Tell Mother! I'll come over and tear him apart right now!!!"

That cold yet anxious female voice, like billions of ice needles, pierced deep into Ling Ye's soul! The immense rage and protective affection contained within made him shudder even more than the absolute zero killing intent from before!

It's over!

I've completely blown my cover!

How could that damn grass leaf activate on its own?! And scare that person's "precious son"?! Is this Forget Worry Grass or Soul Summoning Grass?!

Ling Ye was so terrified he almost lost his soul. The bellyband in his arms burned his chest, and the intense infant's grievance felt like demonic music in his ears, making his scalp tingle!

He had no doubt that in the next second, that enraged mother would tear through space and descend directly, tearing him to shreds!

I must fix this immediately! Pacify her immediately!

"No! No! Madam, please calm down! No one bullied the young master!" Ling Ye responded with his divine sense, almost shouting, his words coming out as fast as a Gatling gun. "It's... it's the neighbor! There's a mortal child next door who's too noisy! Crying terribly! Perhaps... perhaps it disturbed the young master's rest! I'll handle it now! I'll make that child quiet immediately! I promise it won't disturb the young master!"

As he spouted nonsense, he frantically poured his own pure Chaos Origin Qi into the bellyband in his arms as if it were free, trying to simulate a "gentle soothing" fluctuation to calm the "frightened child's" "emotions."

Perhaps his Origin Qi had an effect, or perhaps his impromptu excuse temporarily worked.

The light and vibration emanating from the bellyband weakened slightly, and the intense feeling of grievance also subsided a bit.

The terrifying rage from the other side of the rift hesitated for a moment, not descending immediately, but a cold warning still came through, "It better be. If Little Ye has even the slightest discomfort again... Hmph!"

A cold snort, like the arrival of an ice age, made Ling Ye shiver again.

He had stabilized one side for now, but Ling Ye dared not relax at all. The real infant next door had to shut up immediately! Otherwise, if it cried again and stimulated the "little ancestor" in the bellyband, the consequences would be unimaginable!

He couldn't afford to be weak anymore. He leaped up from the ground, yanked open the door, and rushed out!

As soon as he reached the hallway, he saw the door to the next room ajar, with dim light seeping out, yet it was eerily quiet.

What was Su Wanqing up to?! Didn't I tell her to quiet the child?! Why is there no movement at all?!

A bad premonition arose in Ling Ye's heart. He pushed open the door to the next room!

Only a small night light was on in the room. The young mother was lying by the bed, seemingly asleep, her breathing steady. The baby in the crib was also sleeping soundly, its little mouth unconsciously smacking.

Everything looked... unusually calm.

Only Su Wanqing was missing!

Ling Ye's gaze swept across the room like a falcon's, instantly locking onto the wardrobe, which was slightly ajar!

He strode over and yanked open the wardrobe door!

Su Wanqing was curled up inside the wardrobe, her eyes tightly shut, breathing evenly. She had actually... fallen asleep?! She was still tightly clutching the now-ineffective Forget Worry Grass leaf.

Ling Ye's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot!

This useless woman! Not only did she fail to handle the child, but she was taken down by the grass leaf herself?! What use is she?!

Just as he was so angry he wanted to drag Su Wanqing out of the wardrobe and throw her back into his room--

His gaze inadvertently swept over the young mother sleeping by the bed.

A bolder, more insane, yet at this moment seemingly heaven-sent opportunity, struck his mind like lightning!

A ready-made mother!

A ready-made infant!

A ready-made... "scene"!

Since that "Madam" missed her child so much, and longed to see him so much... why not... just go along with it?! Let her "see" him?!

Just a distant "glance" at this warm "mother and child" scene across endless space and time... should... not trigger too severe a backlash from the restrictions, right? At least it could satisfy her temporarily and buy more time!

Once this thought arose, it could no longer be contained!

A trace of crazy gambler's light flashed in Ling Ye's eyes!

Let's do it!

He hesitated no longer. First, he roughly dragged the unconscious Su Wanqing out of the wardrobe and casually threw her onto the floor of his own room (so she wouldn't get in the way again). Then, he quickly returned to the next room.

He stood in the center of the room, took a deep breath, and began forming seals with his hands at an extremely rapid pace!

This time, he wasn't consuming his dwindling Origin, but... the extremely cold aura belonging to that "Madam," which had remained in the air after suppressing the bellyband and the pebbles, and had not completely dissipated!

Using these auras as a guide, mixed with his own Chaos Origin Qi, he quickly sketched an extremely complex and extremely secret... one-way "scrying" formation in the air!

The formation's light was faint and cold, like an undercurrent beneath the water's surface, silently connecting to the existence beyond the endless space and time.

"Madam..." Ling Ye cautiously transmitted information with his divine sense, his tone carrying a fawning quality of "seeking praise" (which he himself found disgusting). "Please look... the young master... he's sleeping soundly... look how much he resembles you..."

He carefully focused the formation's "lens" on the sleeping, exquisitely carved baby in the crib.

To make the effect realistic, he even gritted his teeth again and drew out a trace of extremely weak, homologous bloodline fluctuation from the bellyband, enveloping the infant very gently, creating the illusion of "this is your son"!

After doing all this, Ling Ye's heart was in his throat, nervously awaiting the other party's reaction.

On the other side of the rift, there was dead silence.

After what felt like a century.

That cold will slowly "swept" over the scene transmitted by the formation again.

This time, there was no anger, no killing intent.

Only a kind of... extreme... silence, like a glacier slowly melting.

Ling Ye could even faintly "hear" an extremely faint sigh, as if it had crossed eons of time and space, filled with endless sobs.

That sigh was filled with indescribable longing, sadness, and... a sliver of weak satisfaction?

He succeeded?!

She believed him?! She was temporarily appeased by this warm illusion?!

Ling Ye was ecstatic! He almost jumped for joy!

However, just as he thought he had succeeded and was about to quietly remove the magic circle--

An accident happened again!

Perhaps it was the "Madam's" emotions fluctuating too violently, or perhaps the bloodline fluctuations Ling Ye forcibly simulated had an unpredictable resonance...

In the crib, the baby who had been sleeping soundly... without any warning... slowly opened its eyes!

They were a pair of... eyes as clear and bright as the purest obsidian.

The little one didn't seem shy at all. With its big, round, dark eyes, it curiously "looked" at the invisible, cold "peeping" magic circle in the air, as if it could sense something there.

Then, under Ling Ye's horrified gaze--

The baby parted its toothless little mouth and let out an extremely faint sound, like a kitten's... "Eeeeee..."

And... towards the direction of the magic circle... it revealed an innocent, all-healing... smile!

Boom--!!!

Ling Ye's mind went blank! Cold sweat poured down like a waterfall!

It's over!

He messed up! He overdid it!

However, the furious rage he expected from the "Madam" for being deceived did not descend.

On the other side of the rift, a... more deathly silent... silence fell.

That silence made Ling Ye more uneasy than any roar.

It was like the last calm before a storm.

After a long time.

That cold voice, devoid of any emotion, slowly spoke again, each word like ice beads hitting Ling Ye's heart:

"He... smiled..."

"He looks so much like..."

"His... eyes... are like his father's..."

Ling Ye: "???"

Father?!

Whose father?!

What's going on now?! This script is wrong!

Before he could recover from the sudden evaluation of "looking like his father"--

The voice suddenly changed, becoming incredibly cold and sharp, with an all-penetrating scrutiny:

"But... why is his aura... so... weak?"

"His bloodline... is also... not quite right..."

"What... exactly... did you do to him?!"

The last sentence exploded like thunder, and terrifying killing intent once again crushed down like a tangible entity, even colder than before, and... filled with the rage of being deceived!

Ling Ye was scared out of his wits, knowing he had gone too far! He had messed up! This matriarch's insight was terrifyingly sharp!

Just as he was about to forcefully explain--

In the next room, Su Wanqing, whom he had thrown on the ground, as the effects of the Forget Worry Grass gradually wore off, coupled with the stimulation of the terrifying killing intent here, suddenly... woke up!

She let out a short gasp and sat up blankly.

And almost simultaneously--

The baby in the crib, perhaps startled by Su Wanqing's cry, or stimulated by the terrifying killing intent, its little mouth pouted--

"Waaaa--!!! Waaaa--!!!!"

A loud, incredibly wronged cry once again echoed throughout the room! It even penetrated the walls and reached the corridor!

The bellyband in Ling Ye's arms, as if subjected to the strongest provocation and stimulation, suddenly erupted with unprecedented light and vibration! The word "Ye" on it almost ignited! An even vaster, more wronged, and more furious infant consciousness surged towards Ling Ye like a tsunami!

"Waaaa--!!!" (Bellyband's consciousness: Who is she?! Why is there another child?! Daddy, don't you love me anymore?!)

"Waaaa--!!!" (Real baby: I'm so scared! So scary! Mommy!)

Dual demonic sounds pierced his ears! Dual death pronouncements!

Ling Ye's vision went black, and he almost fainted on the spot!

On the other side of the rift, the terrifying killing intent instantly boiled to its absolute peak!

"Ling! Ye!"

The two words were like the final death sentence!

A terrifying icy current, a hundred times more solid than before, imbued with absolute freezing and destructive power, like a world-ending ice dragon breaking free from all restraints, violently tore through space. Disregarding all distance, it slammed towards Ling Ye... and the entire budget hotel he was in!

This time, it was no longer a warning, no longer a probe.

It was true... annihilation!

Ling Ye's pupils contracted to pinpricks, and the shadow of death instantly enveloped him completely!

He was finished!