“However, perhaps this is also a correct path?”
Although Lu Yibei's actions were a bit outrageous, Chatterbox Girl ca to this conclusion after a brief thought.
Except for monsters like Ju ng who are born Calamity, other Psychic and urban legend encounter different dangers when acquiring Calamity-level power due to varying urban legend authorities.
It was as if Lu Yibei, by visualizing the past of Goddess Ba to condense a Spirit Seal and "steal" Goddess Ba's authority, went through tens of thousands of attempts and almost lost herself in the end.
If it weren't for Shen Baiwei's portrait, she might have remained trapped in that near-success state until her Spiritual Energy was exhausted, the urban legend' core collapsed, and she died on the spot.
And according to Chatterbox Girl's experience of acquiring Calamity-level power through the Witch Seed's authority, the most crucial point was taming Lilim's residual consciousness and the witchs egg's vitality.
Her approach at the ti was very simple: just act directly. Who cares about vitality or consciousness? Wouldn't it be better to just destroy them all?
It's just a witchs egg, not a living Lilim; it's not invincible!
Besides, she had already been hunted down by more than a dozen A-Level Psychic, like a wild boss dropping rare materials, until she was cornered. If she couldn't gain Calamity-level power and counterattack in a short ti, being captured by those guys might be worse than dying on the spot.
Since death was inevitable either way, she might as well take a gamble; even if she lost, she could die with a bit more dignity.
However, "taming" can be done through force or gentle persuasion!
At this mont, Lu Yibei wasn't being hunted, so she had relatively ample ti. Perhaps she could try gentle persuasion?
Maybe she could even gain enough favorability to unlock so new poses!
If that really didn't work, with the power of the Goddess Beiling Seal in hand, it wouldn't be too late to suppress it by force at a critical mont.
Although she might get a tiny bit injured, as long as she didn't die, it would be fine.
“Alright! Let her try it herself first?” Chatterbox Girl muttered to herself, “As long as she doesn't believe the content described in that ballad and foolishly gains power through a severely whitewashed past...”
From a certain perspective, taming a witchs egg is similar to taming a demonic sword in stories. As long as you find a way to deal with the curse in the demonic sword, you can gain its power, no matter what thod you use.
Punching and kicking, intimidation and temptation, trickery and deception, all are fair ga!
All roads lead to Chang'an!
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Lilim's past might be problematic, and that black shadow, which embodies Lilim's past, seems to possess a faint consciousness...
Lu Yibei discovered these things, which is why she tried to communicate with it.
Although she has the characteristics of a BB-chan, she's only slightly more talkative than average people; she's not so outrageous that she would have a long conversation with a completely unconscious inanimate object.
She wasn't soone who had been cooped up at ho for too long, without contact with other people for extended periods, and started talking to the plants in her balcony flowerpot.
But that would fall into the category of an abnormal ntal state.
When did Lu Yibei discover that the black shadow had a consciousness?
First, when the ballad recounting Lilim's past echoed in her ears and images appeared before her eyes...
The pure daughter of god, like an elf, living in a mysterious forest, t a young man from afar, fell in love with him, tasted the forbidden fruit, but then suffered betrayal after betrayal. Finally, she awoke, called upon her sisters in the forest, reclaid everything she had given to the young man, and destroyed his country.
Such a story, purely from the perspective of urban legend, is indeed complete and has so credibility, but this cannot be Lilim's entire past, and it might not even be her true past.
Even more bizarrely, when Lu Yibei was peering into those past events, whenever a doubt arose in her mind, the subsequent images would provide answers specifically addressing her doubts.
It was just like a third-rate web novel author encountering a bug in their writing, which a reader pointed out in a review. The author would then quickly copy the review and patch it up in later chapters.
Ergency bug fixes and appeasing "readers" like this feel awkward even in third-rate web novels. When it cos to the experiences of a legendary high-level urban legend, the problem is even greater...
This is very abnormal!
Why didn't Goddess Ba's past display have so many suspicious points?
She didn't even care if the observer could withstand the impact of those scenes displaying Calamity-level power. Even if the massive amount of information would burn out the observer's brain, she wouldn't hold back...
Although this might be due to different processes and difficulties in obtaining Calamity-level power through different types of urban legend, if there's even a one-in-ten-thousand chance of danger, one must be on guard.
Next, Lu Yibei, emboldened, grabbed a lump of the Shaman King's black blood after his "explosion," squeezed it into a ball, and threw it at the blurry black shadow like a snowball.
Normally, the black shadow seen at this mont would either be an illusion, a non-corporeal entity that sothing thrown at it would pass right through.
Or it would be highly condensed Spiritual Energy that would directly crush anything solid it touched. Most other hypotheses would also be similar to these two situations.
But to Lu Yibei's surprise, when she threw the lump of blood, the black shadow slightly shifted to the side, dodging it.
She threw it again, and it still moved.
The faster she threw, the more frequently it moved, until finally, as Lu Yibei's arms spun like a "wind-fire wheel," the perfectly good ballad solo turned into a classical opera performance.
Although it used corresponding movents to conceal itself in sync with the ballad's content changes, why did it not move earlier or later, but only when soone was throwing "mud" at it?
It felt strangely abrupt...
From the content of the ballad, there were clearly several tis ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) before when movents could have been incorporated for better presentation...
But the most crucial point was that she felt a vibration coming from the Witch Seed urban legend core, or rather, the witchs egg, attached to her heart.
The sensation brought by that vibration was completely different from the violent tremors the witchs egg usually produced when stimulated by external favorable factors.
It was faint yet rhythmic, full of vitality, and blood-connected, as if another heart was growing inside her, right next to her own, beating slowly.
Lu Yibei had never given birth, nor could she have, but upon feeling that strange vibration, a word imdiately popped into her mind—"fetal heartbeat."
Although the location was tens of thousands of miles off, still...
She hadn't gone through qi refining, foundation building, or golden core formation; she hadn't done anything, yet suddenly she beca a "Nascent Soul" big shot. Who could stand that?
It was chilling!
Lu Yibei's scalp tingled, and a chill ran down her spine.
Is this reasonable? Or is this a necessary experience for the Witch Seed urban legend to advance to Calamity?
If so, did Chatterbox Girl secretly give birth?
Lu Yibei felt that she might be facing the biggest crisis of her life. Before this, the biggest crisis was in the boiler room of the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel, which was the closest she had ever been to death. Both of these crises were caused by the damned witchs egg.
Given this situation, let alone gaining most of Lilim's authority by peering into her past, or condensing a Spirit Seal through visualization, if she wasn't careful, Lilim might drain her of "nutrients" and burst out of her body, making Lu Yibei Lilim's cheap mother.
A dignified, pure steel man, a true blooded hero, actually having such an experience, can only be described as bizarre!
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Her manly soul would absolutely not allow such a thing to happen!
In short, since it has consciousness, let's try communicating first, shall we?
That's BB-chan's domain.
If communication is truly impossible, then the Goddess Beiling Seal can be used for forceful suppression...
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“......”
“After all, we are one now, no need to be polite!”
Lu Yibei said, gently patting the black shadow's shoulder. The mont she touched the black shadow, she suddenly felt a bone-chilling coldness emanate from her palm, followed by a thin layer of white frost spreading from her fingertips all the way to her shoulder.
Her arm was almost completely numb.
A Spiritual Energy fluctuation, emanating a strong bloody scent, quietly spread, enveloping the surroundings.
A sharp, piercing sound echoed in her ears, like countless girls' miserable screams mixed together.
The cold, the screams, and the blood-scented Spiritual Energy fluctuations made Lu Yibei feel as if she was hallucinating, as if a girl had appeared behind her.
The girl extended her small, pale, and cold hand, like that of a corpse, gripping Lu Yibei's arm tightly, not allowing her to leave on her own, and whispered into her ear.
“Stay with ...”
“Wouldn’t it be nice if we fell into the abyss together?”
Just then, a burning pain shot through her eyes, as the core of the mythic urban legend continuously poured into them.
As always when facing imnse threats, an unbearable, intense heat spread from the depths of her pupils, burning as if to incinerate everything she saw at that mont.
The next mont, as she released the Goddess Beiling Seal, the last suppression on her eyes, the scenes she had acquired in her mind from that ballad, like ignited photographs, were engulfed in raging flas, gradually charring, breaking down, and finally revealing their true "appearance."
That was everything about Lilim that Chatterbox Girl had once glimpsed.
In an instant, it was as if so devil from the abyss had been released.
Everything within sight was crimson.
Like a sea of blood, conspiracies, deceptions, loneliness, confusion, hypocritical smiles, drowning tenderness, kindness like slow poison... all sorts of things originating from the ugly side of human nature drifted in this ocean.
Surging waves, like hands reaching out from the abyss, pushed countless girls onto shocking torture racks, making them suffer agonizing deaths through prolonged tornt.
When they passed away, their eyes glead with a cold light, either malicious, stubborn, or bewildered...
In the center of the churning Red Sea, a pale-haired, enchanting girl stood on a reef ford by ruined cities, roaring hysterically like a mad beast.
“Why? Why? I gave you everything you wanted, treated you as close friends, yet all you wanted was to kill ! Tell , why?!”
No one stepped forward to answer her questions; only her own uncontrollable sobs echoed.
The surface of the Red Sea rose, as if to take her away, just like the girls swept into the waves.
The crimson water covered her ankles. She took a step, treading on ruins and corpses, moving higher step by step, muttering to herself.
“I curse you, your sins will continue in the blood of your descendants, I will visit their dreams every night, devouring their lives, you will never find true love, only maggots attracted by money around you...”
“You will be holess, never having your own country or land, and one day... one day, your terrible ambition will be like a dagger to the heart, killing yourselves!”
“I curse you...”
The girl's voice echoed long in the heavens and earth, as if to spread throughout the entire world.
In unseen places, countless eyes cast their gaze upon her, so malicious, so indifferent, so angry... but no one stepped forward to refute or interrupt the girl.
Heh, are they feeling guilty? Or are they afraid? the girl thought.
At that mont, a long-lost trace of pleasure and exhilaration arose in her heart, but soon, as if she understood sothing, she quieted down and slumped to the ground, her face full of exhaustion.
Those guys...
Her forr "friends" would not be afraid of her curse at all.
They were like locusts; after devouring her completely, they would imdiately set off to find another green pasture, where they would find new "friends" and receive blessings and protection.
“Let it end like this, go ho... Mother, take ho?”
Murmuring to herself, the girl's body seed to lose its last bit of strength, tilting to one side, falling from the towering ruins, silently dropping into the churning Red Sea, gradually sinking, and finally seeming to lt away, disappearing without a trace...
In an instant, a bone-chilling coldness invaded every inch of her flesh, a strong bloody scent, accompanied by the suffocating sensation of drowning, poured into Lu Yibei's body, and an excruciating pain, as if lting, ca from all her limbs and bones.
It felt like she was about to die, and darkness surged from all directions.
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“Hoo—hoo—hoo—!”
Just a few seconds felt like centuries.
When Lu Yibei finally escaped the pain of Lilim's return to the Red Sea and the demise of her life, she couldn't help but gasp for air.
After she had sowhat adjusted her state, she turned her head to look at her arm resting on the black shadow and frowned.
“......”
So... this is Lilim's true past?
Very good, this feeling of having a complete walkthrough before starting a high-difficulty ga isn't bad!
I just don't know which of the many options will lead to a happy ending?
Lu Yibei thought, slightly adjusting her breathing, and spoke again, "Miss Lilim, uh, you don't mind calling you that, do you?"
"Look, we're one now, we rise and fall together. That's the situation. If you need a friend, maybe I can..."
Before she could finish, Lu Yibei felt an intense coldness Attack, and the white frost, which had only spread to her collarbone, quickly covered her entire chest. With each breath, cold air gushed from her mouth and nose, mixed with a faint cold mist.
Lu Yibei, "..." It seems "friend" is not the correct option.
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