Chapter 499: The Great Villain, Lu Yibei

“What the heck? Weren’t we talking about repairing my body? Why do I have to go into that creepy thing’s dream!” After listening to the PL girl’s explanation of the body repair process, Lu Yibei asked in surprise.

She had zero interest in what monsters might dream of, and was even quite resistant to the idea.

“To be precise, it’s the spiritual world,” the PL girl explained. “If you want to use the Beast of Inheritance’s flesh and blood to help repair your body, you have to let it copy you. Then, at the moment the copying is complete and it starts to reconstruct your body, you forcibly sever the connection with the part of its flesh and blood used to copy you.”

“During the copying process, your consciousness will link with it and enter its spiritual world. That’s inevitable.”

“I’m only suggesting this plan out of kindness, you know? The two of us–one collects the Beast of Inheritance’s flesh and blood scattered in the special space to repair the body, the other enters its spiritual world to resist spiritual erosion. It’s basically two against one, a guaranteed win!”

“That makes sense, but…” Lu Yibei pondered for two seconds, then looked expressionlessly into the PL girl’s eyes. “Why can’t I be the one collecting the flesh and repairing my body, and you go resist the spiritual erosion?”

The PL girl crossed her arms and gave Lu Yibei a sidelong glance. “Are you suspecting that I want to harm you?”

“Mhm!” Lu Yibei nodded without hesitation.

The PL girl facepalmed and said irritably, “Can you stop using your dirty little mind to judge someone as upright as me?”

“I’m having you resist the spiritual erosion because you just inherited Ms. Wang Meili’s power, so you have what it takes to fight back, right?”

I don’t have the ‘kingly aura’ that comes from the Human Emperor’s power, the PL girl thought to herself.

From her past experience with the Beast of Inheritance, after being suppressed and enslaved by the Eclipse Society for a long time and used in all sorts of crazy experiments, the Beast of Inheritance’s spiritual world was extremely chaotic and twisted. Without some kind of special spiritual ability, entering its spiritual world would inevitably result in severe mental contamination.

If she were the one to enter the Beast of Inheritance’s spiritual world, even if she could withstand the mental pollution, she might not be able to escape from its spiritual world in a short time. By then, she would definitely miss the best moment to sever the connection with the Beast of Inheritance.

“……” Lu Yibei was silent for a few seconds, then frowned and said, “Since you put it that way, I guess I have no choice but to bite the bullet, right?”

“So, when do we start?”

“Now!” the PL girl said with a smile.

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly shoved Lu Yibei, and Lu Yibei’s vision instantly blurred.

“Remember, don’t believe anything you see in there…” the PL girl’s voice sounded in her ear, gentle and low.

It was as if she was hallucinating–Lu Yibei felt her body tipping backward, falling.

She passed through what seemed like endless darkness and plunged into the spiritual world of the Beast of Inheritance.

——–

Slowly, Lu Yibei opened her eyes from the darkness. A brilliant, dazzling pale golden light flashed deep in her pupils.

Once she saw the scene before her clearly, her brows furrowed tightly, and she looked around with a strange expression.

“……”

In the sky floated clouds of pale pink, pale purple, pale green, and other colors, hanging very low. The clouds gathered into shapes like kittens, puppies, ducklings, and so on, looking like fluffy balls of cotton candy.

A sweet fragrance drifted in the air, like a mix of fresh fruit and floral scents.

Looking around, there was a wide street before her. The winding, undulating road was painted in rainbow colors, as if a rainbow had fallen to the ground. Cute pumpkin and corn-shaped cars hurried along the street.

The trees on both sides of the street had tender green leaves, and were hung with all kinds of cakes and candies. The buildings were covered in brightly colored graffiti–giant mushrooms in all colors, smiling sunflowers, chubby little bees… full of childlike fun.

The pedestrians on the street wore adorable and gorgeous clothes. Each “person” had an animal head like a character straight out of a cartoon, all fluffy and endearing.

Even the unreasonable limbs growing from their bodies, once rendered in a cartoon style, no longer looked creepy. Instead, they gave off a kind of ugly-cute, comical vibe.

It was as if

……

the whole world looked like a fairy tale city arranged by a child.

Is this really the consciousness world of the Beast of Inheritance?

How strange!

It felt like strawberry milkshake-flavored herbal medicine, or a muscle-bound man in a pink princess dress.

Not that it’s impossible, but it just feels a bit off.

Could it be that, beneath the Beast of Inheritance’s ferocious and twisted exterior, it’s actually the type with pink hair who hits super hard? Lu Yibei wondered.

Just then, like a hallucination, something flashed through her mind. It felt similar to when the jacket sent her information through the familiars’ mark, but not exactly the same.

It was as if a silent call came from somewhere, plucking at her heartstrings, gently tugging at her consciousness, trying to draw her closer and seek her help.

Lu Yibei frowned slightly, intending to ignore this sudden call in her mind.

It’s like helping an old lady up from the street–there’s a chance you’ll get blamed for it. Some things you just can’t help with casually.

At the very least, you should check if there are any cameras around, right?

And in this creepy place, there were obviously no cameras… Lu Yibei thought.

The PL girl had warned her not to trust anything she saw here. Now that her memory had fully recovered, she was very clear about how many familiars she had.

The only ones who could transmit information into her mind through normal, safe channels were Du Sixian, Meng, and the jacket. Anything else could be considered as having ulterior motives!

So, after a brief moment of contemplation, Lu Yibei furrowed her brows and released her newly acquired ability–[royal authority]–toward the unknown entity calling out to her.

In the next instant, faint golden ripples appeared in the air around her.

The ripples spread outward like waves on water, layer by layer, until they faded away two or three meters out.

As the faint golden ripples stabilized and gradually disappeared, a strong sense of confidence quietly rose in Lu Yibei’s heart, making her want to shout, “I can take on ten at once!”

At the same time, her petite figure, not even one meter fifty, seemed to become imposing in an instant, exuding an invisible, intense sense of oppression.

Just like the legend: one meter fifty tall, with an aura five meters wide.

As a special ability carried by the low-tier power, diluted from the Human Emperor’s power, [royal authority] was actually just a support ability.

At least, that’s what the PL girl said.

The ability it granted its wielder was simply to intimidate enemies weaker than oneself or of similar strength, making them feel fear, and to form an invisible psychic field around the wielder, repelling external psychic energy fluctuations and suppressing the enemy’s psychic energy to a certain extent.

Simply put, it was an all-around debuff aura skill with a fear effect.

Lu Yibei had thought that the source of the call in her mind would retreat after being intimidated by [royal authority].

However…

After she released [royal authority] and made her first attempt to impact the source of the call in her mind, it fell silent for a few seconds, then grew even stronger.

For a moment, it was as if she were hallucinating–she heard a soft whisper by her ear: “Come here, over here, help me.”

Lu Yibei, “……” What the hell? What’s going on? Are you some kind of masochist?

Listening to the soft whispers that kept ringing in her ears, Lu Yibei suddenly felt a very strange sensation.

It was like discovering an old lady had fallen by the roadside, crying out in pain. She asked out of courtesy, and then got blamed for it.

Then she realized there were no cameras around, so she threatened the old lady, “No cameras, and you still dare to frame me? Careful or I’ll beat you up!”

But the old lady, instead of being scared, looked at her expectantly and said, “Great, great, please hit a little harder!”

……

The experience was utterly infuriating.

“I’ll be damned if I let this go today!” Lu Yibei muttered under her breath. After her initial attempt at the new ability, she increased her psychic energy output, pushing the effect of [royal authority] to the very limit of her current control.

———-

Elsewhere, at Eclipse Society’s No. 4 base, the bottom level of the Great Furnace.

Berses stood at the window of the main control room, looking down at the numerous alchemy devices running in triple overdrive, his brows tightly knit, his mood heavy.

Those alchemy devices were clearly operating under overload, but for some reason, the efficiency of harvesting power hadn’t improved noticeably.

“……”

Where exactly was the problem?

Could it be that when Qi Nanzhu constructed the special space, there weren’t as many psychics and hauntings as I thought, so after intercepting a certain amount of power, the efficiency started to drop? Berses wondered.

Before he could pinpoint the key issue, a series of explosions suddenly erupted, interrupting his thoughts.

Following the direction of the noise, Berses saw that in the laboratory below, more than a dozen alchemy devices had exploded. Broken alchemy circuits sparked, and thick smoke billowed from the damaged equipment.

The Eclipse Society members in charge of controlling the alchemy devices were sent flying by the explosions, landing on the ground like piles of mud, lifeless, their spines a bloody mess.

Seeing this, Berses hurriedly asked his subordinates, “What’s going on!? Why did the equipment explode?”

“Reporting, Lord Berses, the Beast of Inheritance suffered an unknown psychic shock, causing intense mental fluctuations.”

Berses frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, “Analyze the information carried by that psychic shock!”

A psychic shock, this extremely special form of psychic attack, was like hurling threats–either the words were fierce, intimidating the enemy, or sharp, disturbing the enemy’s mind. But since it was “hurling threats,” it would inevitably carry different thoughts and information from the sender at the moment of release.

Although analyzing the sender’s thoughts and information from a psychic shock was very difficult, the Eclipse Society possessed this technology.

“Understood.”

So, after waiting for about three minutes, Berses heard his subordinate’s voice again.

“Re-reporting, Lord Berses, the analysis is complete, but the result…”

Hearing his subordinate’s hesitant tone, Berses said impatiently, “What? The analysis result is incomprehensible? Then forget it. Lower the equipment’s operating power and switch to defense mode.”

In his view, any haunting or psychic capable of delivering a psychic shock to the Beast of Inheritance must be extraordinarily powerful. It was understandable if his subordinates couldn’t analyze the sender’s information from the psychic shock.

But…

“No, sir, we got the result. The information carried by that psychic shock was… was: [Today, I’m going to be the big villain who beats up old ladies!]”

Berses, “……” Where did this thug come from?

Just as he was inwardly complaining, a sharp roar erupted in the laboratory.

The suppressed Beast of Inheritance had awakened, opened its eyes, and its body, studded with alchemical steel needles, began to struggle violently. Foul blood mixed with dark red flesh splattered everywhere…