Free Web NovelUnder the night sky, in front of the desolate old building of the School of Literature.
A bizarre figure stood silently in the dim light, tall and robust, covered in black feathers.
It looked like the newly hatched chick of some giant strange bird, its entire body covered in black feathers, dripping with slippery liquid that fell to the ground with a viscous sound. Three thick human arms extended from beneath the messy, sparse feathers, holding two headless bodies.
On its back, a pair of wings, almost entirely reduced to flesh and blood, looking like underdeveloped organs, dragged on the ground, while several bare, fleshy long tails slowly writhed behind it.
The entire figure looked terrifying, twisted, and grotesque, like a monster formed by strangely and disharmoniously piecing together the bodies of various animals.
Terrifying Spiritual Energy fluctuations emanated from its body, spreading in all directions. The space seemed to shatter, the air rippling, reflecting dizzying light.
In front of it lay two corpses, two charred and rotten headless bodies.
Even from hundreds of meters away, Liu Banxian could smell the pungent stench, a mix of burnt and rotten smells, like an aura rising from the abyss.
What on earth is that thing? A urban legend wrapped in wet bird feathers, or a strange bird with three human arms? Liu Banxian thought in terror.
In his mind, various legends of bird-related urban legend flashed continuously, from the man-eating Luo Luo, to the ambivalent Gu Huo Bird, to the bird-feather killer rumored in some parts of America. None of them matched the urban legend he saw.
The only somewhat similar figure was Thoth, the magic god with a bird's head and human body in Egyptian mythology. However, as a deity whose Power represented judgment and wisdom, Thoth's Power should be righteous and bright. But the creature standing in front of the old School of Literature building was ugly, like a collection of filth and distortion.
However, although he couldn't tell what that urban legend was, based on Liu Banxian's decades of experience in the jianghu, it was definitely not benevolent.
Just as he was contemplating, that bizarre-looking urban legend suddenly turned its head and looked towards him.
Their eyes met from a distance, and Liu Banxian's pupils contracted violently.
Brilliant, dazzling light burst forth from those deep eyes, like the sun suddenly rising in the dark night.
But in those eyes that had turned golden-red, there was only icy coldness, without any pity.
Liu Banxian looked into its eyes and felt an inexplicable restlessness in his heart, as if walking under the scorching sun in midsummer.
A burning pain came from all corners of his body, and large patches of burn marks appeared on his skin, as if scorched by the intense sun.
Just as the pain was tormenting Liu Banxian's nerves, he looked towards the bizarre figure again, but could no longer find its trace.
Disappeared? Could it be...
Oh no!
Liu Banxian's heart jumped in alarm. He turned around abruptly and looked behind him, then, seeing the empty rooftop where the evening wind swirled with snowflakes, his mouth twitched.
Indeed, I've watched too many novels and movies, my nerves have become sensitive.
In reality, where are there so many 'turn around and get killed' scenarios?
However, even if it came to kill me, I wouldn't be afraid of it. If I can't defeat it, can't I at least withstand its attacks?
Liu Banxian mocked himself with a few words, waited in place for a moment, and after confirming that the large bird urban legend seemed to have truly left, he moved, rushing towards Chunfeng Residence on Gu Wan Street at the fastest speed.
That thing just now looked like a ghost, what's the probability it actually holds good intentions?
I must quickly tell Lord Ju Meng about the situation here! Liu Banxian thought.
As he hurried away, not far behind him, a pair of eyes watched his retreating back from the darkness, sighed silently, and then quietly lit a cigarette.
"Looks like she was scared... I'm afraid she won't be waiting tonight," someone muttered in the darkness.
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On the dilapidated and decaying rooftop, Lu Yibei once again saw the chaotic ball of light in Qingji's hand.
And then...
She was sent flying again, flying out of the railing, gliding through the air, smashing into the ground, and then spitting out a mouthful of blood with a 'wah' sound.
Beneath the fair skin of her slender arms, it was as if something living was struggling desperately, twisting the flesh and blood into unbelievable shapes. Bones cracked and popped, and then her hands exploded like firecrackers with a 'boom!' sound, creating a cloud of blood.
It was a bright red display, making Qingji exclaim, "Festive!"
However...
Although Lu Yibei was severely injured, her hands almost completely ruined, this time, after forcibly drawing a trace of Hundred-Armed Giant's Power out of her body to clash with Qingji, she did not meet the expected death.
This is an excellent sign!
It means that in the past ten-plus days, after hundreds of cycles of trying, failing, giving up, and trying again, she has been able to slightly control that deadly force within her body.
Although the current level of control is not enough to support her using the Hundred-Armed Giant's Power outside of the dream without harm, at least she doesn't have to worry about exploding and dying every moment.
Progress is small, but it is still progress!
As the saying goes, everything can be 'moe-fied'.
If the Hundred-Armed Giant's Power is compared to a violent beautiful girl, Lu Yibei has successfully conquered 20% of it. The relationship has improved from a situation where she could be beaten up at any time to a point where they can barely coexist peacefully. freewēbnoveℓ.com
Lu Yibei firmly believes that soon, she will be able to make this "beautiful girl" lie in her arms and whimper!
At worst, it's like an old bachelor marrying a beautiful bride into the bridal chamber - working hard (grinding)!" (Note: The Chinese phrase 'Explosive' can mean 'work hard' or 'explode and do', playing on the 'explode' theme.)
Seeing her injured and fallen, Qingji stopped attacking, walked over to her side, and sat against the wall. "Granddaughter-in-law, did you encounter something outside these past two days?"
"I feel like your control over your own power has become more skilled..."
In the past few hours, when Qingji sparred with Lu Yibei, he could clearly feel that her understanding of her Spiritual Energy seemed deeper than before.
Achieving such progress in just over ten days, even with Lu Yibei's amazing memory, is considered rapid, even abnormal.
How could anyone in this world be more talented than me? She must have encountered some fortuitous event to reach this point. Qingji thought with certainty.
Due to excessive blood loss, Lu Yibei's consciousness had begun to blur. She struggled to lift her eyelids and said weakly and annoyingly, "What? Jealous? I exchanged it with my life..."
Seeing a chaotic ball of light reappear in Qingji's palm, Lu Yibei's trash talk came to an abrupt halt. She then weakly recounted her encounter with Miss Rabbit after embellishing it.
Encountering her husband's mortal enemy, fighting for her life, and gaining new insights into her own power in the nick of time... The entire process sounded like a plot often seen in stories, reasonable and logical.
Moreover, Miss Rabbit already had a blood feud with "Lu Yibei," so there wasn't a hint of falsehood in the story.
But...
"Nonsense! Do you think I haven't experienced such things? When I was being hunted by my enemies, you didn't even know where you were! When you're truly about to die, people only feel afraid and want to run," Qingji said.
"Unless you are already..."
Halfway through his sentence, he noticed that Lu Yibei had lost her breath, and her body was gradually turning into black powder, disappearing before his eyes.
"...Unless you are no longer human, or you no longer have any attachment to this world and no longer fear death," Qingji muttered, looking at the spot where Lu Yibei disappeared, adding to his sentence.
If granddaughter-in-law is telling the truth, then I must have a good talk with her.
Speaking of which, she is indeed a woman who values feelings and righteousness.
However, she can't lose hope of living just because my good-for-nothing great-grandson is dead! Qingji thought.
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Dying in the dream once again, Lu Yibei's consciousness dissipated, and then slowly re-condensed, just as it had hundreds or thousands of times before when she was reborn in the dream.
During this condensation process, she once again had a strange dream, just like the previous strange dreams of "The Little Girl Who Sold Alchemy Dirty Bomb" and "Three Ways to Eat the Sea's Daughter."
Once upon a time, there was a very lovely Little Girl, everyone who saw her liked her, but her grandmother loved her the most. One time, her grandmother gave the Little Girl a hooded Coat made of silk velvet.
The Little Girl loved her grandmother's gift very much and wore it every day, so everyone started calling her "Little Red Riding Hood."
One day, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother was sick, so Little Red Riding Hood's mother prepared some exquisite food and asked her to take it to her grandmother before it got dark. Her grandmother was sick and very weak, and eating these would make her feel better...
...Little Red Riding Hood met the old wolf, the old wolf killed the grandmother, and hid in bed, preparing to eat Little Red Riding Hood. This time, the story in the dream was very normal, seemingly different from the previous two times.
What's going on? Could the proper Little Red Riding Hood story hide some information I don't know? Lu Yibei thought.
Just as she was wondering, a hunter passing by in the dream killed the old wolf who was about to commit the crime and saved Little Red Riding Hood.
And then...
Just as Lu Yibei thought the story had reached its conclusion, she found that the dream continued. After the hunter saved Little Red Riding Hood, he took her home and the next day sold her to a place thousands of kilometers away in the mountains to be a child bride, making a hefty profit.
Thus, the sorrowful emotion of being forced to gaze at the big mountains enveloped Lu Yibei's heart.
At the end of the dream, in the cellar, a disheveled woman with a distorted figure, holding a child wrapped in a red velvet hooded Coat in her arms, looked at the faint light coming from the ventilation hole with cloudy eyes, mumbling, "Once upon a time, there was a very lovely Little Girl, everyone who saw her liked her..."
Lu Yibei, "..."
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"Damn it! What a beast!"
With a low growl, Lu Yibei woke up on the dilapidated and decaying rooftop, opening her eyes to see Qingji sitting cross-legged opposite her with a grim expression.
She was stunned for a moment and quickly explained, "Ancestor, listen to me, I wasn't cursing you just now, I was... Uh, this is more complicated to explain, this is actually..."
"That's not important," Qingji didn't seem to care who Lu Yibei was cursing, rolling his eyes and interrupting her. "I want to talk to you about death."
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"I suddenly thought that although this magical place allows you to die and be reborn, and master some abilities more quickly through repeated life and death experiences, it might not be a good thing."
Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion, "Ancestor, why do you say that?"
Could it be that the Ancestor has sensed that there will be some kind of punishment mechanism after dying here?
For example, a classic online game novel setting where you lose a piece of memory every time you die. Lu Yibei thought.
"I mean, this might make you numb to death, but it will also accelerate the possibility of you truly encountering a fatal danger," Qingji explained.
Someone not afraid of death repeatedly puts herself in danger, like walking a tightrope on a cliff; one day she will play herself to death.
"That's it?" Lu Yibei waved his hand expressionlessly, saying, "You absolutely don't need to worry. Here, every time I die, every time I clearly experience the pain of near-death, it deepens my fear of death."
"Don't worry, even if everyone in the world has to die, I will definitely cling on until the very last batch!" freēwēbηovel.c૦m
The more Lu Yibei understood death, the more she feared it. She seemed to be heading towards another extreme.
Qingji, "..."
Although it doesn't sound like the actions of a brave man, but...
His granddaughter-in-law is a woman to begin with, this is quite good.
This way, I can train her ruthlessly with confidence, without worrying about affecting her state of mind. Qingji thought.
Lu Yibei secretly observed the silent Qingji, always feeling there was something off about his expression.
A few minutes later, when Qingji controlled the chaotic light spheres, which were several times more violent and precise than before, and fiercely attacked Lu Yibei, she suddenly realized.
"Old scoundrel! You were holding back? I... Ah——!"
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Half past midnight, Tang City, Peach Blossom Road.
"Ding-a-ling— Ding-a-ling—!"
Accompanied by a gentle sound of wind chimes, someone stepped out of the Chunfeng Residence, carefully locked the door, turned around, and walked out along the alley.
Under the night sky, fine snowflakes slowly drifted down from above.
Ju Meng's small figure strolled through the snow towards the main street, looking as if she could be blown away by the raging late wind at any moment, evoking pity.
Then, she, who knew the location of every surveillance camera on Gu Wan Street, after reaching a blind spot, lightly tapped the ground with her toes and leaped up. Accompanied by a flash of emerald green light, she transformed into a Magpie with glossy feathers and flew towards the Tangcheng Four Seasons Hotel.
Just two minutes ago, the Spiritual Energy threads she had placed in room 7017 were triggered. Fu Xinyi seemed to have finally left the room, and she finally had a chance to sneak into the room to find out what was going on.
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Since Lu Yibei fell unconscious, Fu Xinyi had stayed by her side the entire time, except for leaving briefly to purchase medicine and tools to further treat her wounds.
On one hand, Lu Yibei was her savior, and on the other hand, she was an elder from her sect. She felt she dared not be negligent, treating the wounds with medicinal herbs and Spells to remove the residual Spiritual Energy fluctuations of the enemy within, and stitching the wounds, all with extreme care.
After treating Lu Yibei's wounds and quietly waiting until her condition was basically stable, Fu Xinyi finally felt a little relieved, reinforced the sealing Spells in the room, and then left the room to look for her junior fellow apprentice—Lu Yibei.
She had arranged to watch a movie with her junior fellow apprentice. After encountering that unexpected incident, she was only now confirming his safety, which was already quite late.
By the time she left the room, it was already past midnight. She called Lu Yibei, but it indicated no answer.
Fu Xinyi didn't think much of it, assuming Lu Yibei was startled during the day and didn't want to answer her call, or had already fallen asleep. She simply climbed out of the window in the 7th-floor corridor, used her movement technique, moved along the wall, and snuck into Lu Yibei's room located on the other side of the corridor—room 7022.
I just need to check on the junior fellow apprentice's condition from the balcony for peace of mind. I absolutely won't do anything strange! Fu Xinyi thought.
However, as soon as she landed on the balcony of Lu Yibei's room and looked inside through the glass window, she found the room empty, completely devoid of the cute little junior fellow apprentice.
"Strange, where did he go?" Fu Xinyi propped her chin with one hand and muttered softly, "Could it be he moved out overnight? But his luggage is still here!"
As she spoke, she tiptoed forward like a thief, pushed open the balcony door, and snuck into the room. Just then, a sudden whoosh attacked, and a surge of Spiritual Energy fluctuation intensified behind her. Before she could turn around, she felt a violent impact on her head.
Her body swayed a few times, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw a white down Coat standing upright, holding a broken sword, looking...
Very angry? Fu Xinyi thought, and then her vision went black, and she fell to the ground.
The Coat urban legend that suddenly erupted and ambushed her was not actually very strong, with Spiritual Energy fluctuations only around C+. However, the broken sword in its hand was extraordinarily bizarre. Just a few violent impacts from the sword body, and the powerful vibrations emanating from it seemed to pass directly through the skull and the protection of Spiritual Energy, shaking Fu Xinyi's brain.
It would be hard to recover without a severe concussion.
Seeing Fu Xinyi fall to the ground.
The next moment, the Coat moved, pouncing towards her, transforming into a straitjacket that enveloped the groggy Fu Xinyi. It then formed an eye mask and a mouth mask, and with a 'zip', locked her eyes and mouth.
The thief is caught, when will the Devil Woman come back? The Coat thought.
(。•ˇ‸•。)
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The sky was overcast, and gray-black clouds rolled across the sky, like a surging tide spreading out, creating whitecaps and sprinkling them down.
Strands of brilliant golden energy, invisible to the naked eye and even to the spiritual senses of most Psychic or urban legend, rose from the vast land like threads, soaring upwards and gathering into the body of a Magpie.
Considering that besides Lu Yibei, there might be a terrifying opponent in that room, Ju Meng mobilized the earth's energy of Tang City.
If a conflict really broke out, she could only use her fists to let the other party know who was the Older sister on this land!
The Magpie soared in the sky, its black wings cutting through the fine snowflakes falling from the sky. Beneath the firmament, in the city shrouded in darkness, lights flickered, like the reflection of the starry sky.
Ju Meng had seen such night scenes many times, but still found them beautiful. If she weren't anxious to know Lu Yibei's condition, she would likely find a place, such as the top of the Tang City TV tower, sit down, have snow with wine, and quietly enjoy it.
The distance of several kilometers from Gu Wan Street to the Tangcheng Four Seasons Hotel passed in an instant.
Soon, Ju Meng landed on the balcony railing of room 7017 of the hotel. The balcony door was locked, and the curtains were tightly drawn, making it impossible to see inside the room.
She spread her spiritual sense outwards, and using the connection previously established with Qingfeng Shou, she probed the situation inside the room. After confirming that the source of the evil Spiritual Energy fluctuation had not detected her arrival, she lightly leaped and dropped from the railing.
Accompanied by the flow of emerald green light over the Magpie's small body, and with a few strands of black feathers drifting down, a beautiful woman silently landed on the balcony.
With a tall figure, long hair slightly tinged with dark green, a peacock green qipao embroidered with peach blossoms, set against a white fur collar, and perfect leg curves extending from beneath the hem, her enchanting yet unpretentious figure stood quietly in the wind and snow, like a delicate peach blossom.
"Hiss— Huff—!"
Ju Meng took the slender pipe from her waist with a backhand, took a puff, and slowly exhaled smoke towards the balcony door in front of her with slightly narrowed eyes. As the white smoke invaded, the door lock trembled slightly, and with a 'click!', a gap opened.
Seeing this, she gracefully walked forward, pushed the door open, and entered.
The next moment, a strange, faint fragrance wafted towards her.
It was a faint fragrance that was as sweet as blood, yet had the rich scent of flowers, drilling into ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ her nostrils and instantly bringing to mind some thoughts that made her blood rush.
A faint fragrance, reminiscent of the alluring scent of a woman that makes one's blood rush.
Ju Meng felt a sudden blur before her eyes, and even felt a weak reaction in her body. She quickly activated her Spiritual Energy to resist the strange power contained in the fragrance.
Where did this seductive hussy come from? Did she use aphrodisiac as air freshener?
If she's really inside, this Lu Yibei is probably beyond saving, definitely already defiled.
With his character of prioritizing survival, staying with such a seductive hussy, she wouldn't even need to threaten or entice him; he would actively offer up his integrity, chastity, broadcast gymnastics... to save his life, right?
Ju Meng thought, her gaze gradually adjusting to the darkness, and then she saw the girl lying on the bed.
The dimly lit bedroom was warm from the heater. The girl was sleeping soundly between the white cotton quilts. The quilt was kicked away by her, exposing her slender arms and the graceful curve of her waist wrapped in bandages, with silver-white long hair spread out behind her.
Putting aside the terrible sleeping posture, the scene before her was definitely alluring. The girl was sleeping deeply. In the faint light filtering through the window, her skin glowed like jade. Her figure, emanating a seductive aura, perhaps due to the bandages slightly stained with blood, also had a touch of morbid beauty.
Under the strange fragrance and the faint, evil Spiritual Energy fluctuations seeping from the walls, she looked like Venus lying in a flower of sin, sleeping unto death.
Ju Meng's gaze swept over her chest, slightly deformed by the bandages, and she rolled her eyes, unable to help but Spell in a low voice, "Lewd!"
Immediately after, as if remembering something, she leaned closer and carefully examined the girl's face, frowning.
This face, where have I seen it before?
There's a strange sense of familiarity...
Ju Meng frowned, playing with her pipe in one hand, pondering for a while, then suddenly her eyes widened.
Wait, wait!
She looks so much like the enemy she and Lin Yiqi drew a portrait of based on memory. Although she looks more mature, they are both Witch Seeds. Could it be the same person?
And Lu Yibei is from Hua City, and that Witch Seed's activity range is also around Hua City. Could they be... Ju Meng thought.
Just then, the girl on the bed suddenly let out a soft nasal sound, her eyelids trembled slightly, and in the darkness, she slowly opened her eyes...
In the darkness, two pairs of beautiful eyes met quietly, and the atmosphere instantly became strange.
Ju Meng, "..."
Lu Yibei, "???"
