Seeing Ju ng's terrifying expression, Lu Yibei's forehead broke out in a sweat. His mind raced, and countless excuses and lies surfaced.
Facing a high-level urban legend like Ju ng, a head-on confrontation was definitely not an option. He could only try to bluff his way through.
Last ti, Ju ng had no intention of killing him, yet he had gone to great lengths to inflict only a minor injury on her.
"I, what did I do? I didn't do anything!"
"Hmph!" Ju ng narrowed her eyes slightly, looking at Lu Yibei askance. "Still playing dumb? Do you need soone else to remind You of the good deeds You've done?"
Lu Yibei's face turned slightly pale, and he quickly said, "Damn it, don't ask that. That's the question I fear most."
"Helping Grandma cross the road, stuffing money into poor girls' piggy banks, helping elentary school students surrender in internet cafes while they're in the bathroom..."
"I've done so many good deeds, where should I even begin?"
"Don't know where to start?" Ju ng tilted her head, sneered, and suddenly lifted her clothes, pointing to her flat, fair lower abdon. "Then let's start from here!"
Lu Yibei covered his eyes with his hands, peeked through his fingers at the perfectly curved lower abdon that made one blush, and then quickly covered his eyes again.
Hiss—! What does this an?
Did this Slly Girl run off and ss around, get pregnant, and now wants Void to be the fallback guy?
As Lu Yibei was thinking, he suddenly noticed a wisp of black mist on Ju ng's lower abdon, wriggling under her fair skin as if alive. He couldn't help but frown.
"You, are You referring to that black mist?"
"What else?" Ju ng rolled her eyes impatiently. "I've long felt that You are a bad kid. I didn't expect You to use sothing containing the blood of corrupted deities to harm !"
Lu Yibei was stunned. Blood of corrupted deities? What is that? Never heard of it!
"Don't You know, if I'm contaminated with this filthy, impure stuff, I might fall? By then, don't think You can escape. Everyone in Hua City won't be able to escape! Hmph!"
Lu Yibei, "..." Sounds serious. Well, I'm truly sorry!
"Didn't I just stay at Your place and ask You to help collect urban legend core bodies? Although this is a bit dangerous for a normal person like You, I haven't mistreated You! Besides, aren't You happy seeing such a great beauty all day?"
Bah! Shaless! Lu Yibei spat in his heart, suddenly feeling less guilty.
He cleared his throat and said, "Ahem, I really don't know where that stuff You call blood ca from. I just casually hunted a urban legend, split half with Headless Senior, and then brought the core back. There were no middlen making a profit."
It's not possible that Headless Senior is so kind of corrupted deity, is it? She doesn't look like it either! Lu Yibei thought.
"You really don't know?"
"Really don't know."
Hearing this, Ju ng looked at Lu Yibei askance, raised her hand, glanced at the back of her hand, and saw that the contract mark hidden beneath her skin hadn't lit up. Only then did she temporarily put aside her suspicion.
"Then what kind of urban legend did You hunt, and where did You encounter it?" Ju ng asked Lu Yibei with a serious expression.
"I think, judging by the amount of corrupted deity blood contained in the urban legend core body, the urban legend You hunted is very likely a corrupted deity's kin."
Hearing this, Lu Yibei's mind flashed back to that thing under the sinkhole in the Bamboo Scroll Illusion. He suddenly felt a sense of realization.
Lu Xu beca a urban legend because of the bamboo scroll. Isn't there a high probability that he beca the kin of that thing in the bamboo scroll?
Thinking of this, Lu Yibei didn't directly reveal the source of the urban legend core body. Instead, he asked Ju ng, "Since You asked, of course I'll tell You the source of that urban legend, but You must at least tell first, what is the blood of corrupted deities?"
Ju ng frowned, looked at the mark on the back of her hand again, and only after confirming that Lu Yibei's question posed no harm to her, did she begin to explain.
"In Your Night Watch's terms, corrupted deities are fallen mythical beings. That is, like , they ss up and lose their minds. Do You understand?"
Lu Yibei nodded. From what he saw in the Bamboo Scroll Illusion and the information revealed in Ju ng's words, he had already made this guess.
"The blood of corrupted deities, in a narrow sense, doesn't just refer to the blood of fallen myths, but everything that contains their Spiritual Energy fluctuations."
"Those things have a great impact on upright deities like . After coming into contact with a certain amount, we will also lose our minds, like a virus that makes urban legend go crazy."
"I understand, I understand." Lu Yibei echoed, "aning, after those guys go crazy, their minds beco twisted, they can't stand to see others doing well, and they want to drag people down with them, retaliating against society, right?"
"Humans also have such people, don't they? Like those virus carriers who not only don't actively cooperate with treatnt but also frantically infect others everywhere."
"Although this process isn't spontaneous for them, it's pretty much that idea!" Ju ng crossed her arms over her chest and pouted.
"So, now can You tell where You got this urban legend core body from?"
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Lu Yibei was about to speak when he suddenly rembered sothing and quickly changed the subject. "Last question, if this stuff is really as serious as You say, then I split half with Senior (female). Won't she be finished?"
As Lu Yibei spoke, he imagined Headless Senior being twisted and mutated by that ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) half of the urban legend core body, killing elentary school students one by one with her blade, going berserk in the school. He felt a chill down his spine.
Hearing this, Ju ng's face darkened, and her eyebrows furrowed.
"Roar—! You heartless wretch, Sister I was almost killed by You, and You're not asking if I'm okay, but worrying about so other woman outside? Huh?"
Lu Yibei, "..."
What kind of sour jealousy is this?
"Okay then, are You okay?" Lu Yibei said expressionlessly.
"No, if I couldn't even digest this level of corruption, Sister I would have turned into a black mountain demon long ago."
"What about Senior (female)?"
Ju ng pouted, "She's fine too. That kind of low-level urban legend is too weak to even feel the influence of the corrupted deity blood."
This setting is really strange. Being weak isn't the original sin, but has beco a hidden benefit? Lu Yibei was stunned for a mont, then continued, "Last question."
"Speak!"
"Logically, since You're fine and Senior (female) is fine, why are You throwing a tantrum?" Lu Yibei said expressionlessly, thinking, I thought You had discovered my secret!
Yeah, besides being a little angry at first because I thought I was poisoned, what is this unnad anger I'm feeling? Ju ng frowned, thought for a few seconds, couldn't co up with a reasonable answer, turned around and gave Lu Yibei a flick on the forehead that almost made him pass out.
"You talk too much!"
...
As agreed, after Ju ng answered his questions, he had to tell her the source of Lu Xu's urban legend core body.
So, after dealing with the large bump that had risen on his head, Lu Yibei went upstairs and retrieved the bamboo scroll he had taken over from Professor Ma.
Lu Yibei placed the wooden box containing the bamboo scroll on the coffee table, unlocked it, and as soon as he lifted the lid, he saw Ju ng shrink back, covering her nose and saying with a look of disgust, "It slls so bad! What is this stuff?"
"Slls bad? No, it doesn't?"
Lu Yibei leaned closer and sniffed. Besides a cloyingly fragrant camphor wood sll, where was there any bad sll?
"Of course You can't sll it, You're human. The bad sll I'm talking about is the sll of corrupted deities," Ju ng explained.
"Is that so?"
Lu Yibei frowned, thinking, But when I transford, I didn't sll any special sll on the bamboo scroll either? Is there sothing wrong with , or sothing wrong with her?
As he was thinking, he cupped the bamboo scroll in his hands, placed it on his lap, and gently patted it. "This is the set of bamboo scrolls I asked You to translate last ti. The urban legend I hunted last night most likely ca out of here."
"I originally thought that if I got the bamboo scroll from the Professor and kept it at ho, any urban legend that ran out of it would be available for You to use freely. I didn't expect..."
"You didn't expect the luxurious buffet to turn into a toilet buffet, did You?" Ju ng said with a pout.
"I say, can't You consider Your identity as a beautiful girl and not say such vulgar lines? Don't You think it damages Your image?" Lu Yibei said impatiently.
"No!" Ju ng said nonchalantly. "Sister I am thousands of years old. Are You still expecting to be like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old fairy? It's not realistic, little brother! At my age, I just want to keep it real!"
As long as Your elder self is happy! Lu Yibei shrugged noncommittally, picked up the bamboo scroll in his hand, and shook it at Ju ng. "Want to see?"
Ju ng frowned, pondered for a few seconds with a look of disgust, and then reluctantly said, "Then let's see?"
As she spoke, she took the bamboo scroll from Lu Yibei's hands, holding it with a pair of orchid fingers as if handling sothing very disgusting, and carefully untied the rope binding the bamboo scroll.
The mont she unfolded the bamboo scroll, Lu Yibei suddenly felt a sharp burning pain in his eyes, and intense unease impacted his nerves.
The special characters on the bamboo scroll glowed with a bloody light, like dancing little figures, twisting their strange bodies and clawing their way out of the bamboo scroll. Like piranhas slling blood, they sward towards Ju ng.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei's pupils slightly contracted. He quickly lunged forward before those special characters could land on Ju ng, snatched the bamboo scroll from her hand, then tilted his body and pressed down on her. At this mont, the distance between their noses was only one and two-thirds centiters.
Lu Yibei, "..."
"Let explain..."
"Don't say anything, I understand." Ju ng smiled charmingly and wrapped her arms around his neck...
User Comments
0 comments from readers