Chapter 58: If You’re Weak, Just Practice More!

What welcomed her wasn’t Yue Yiyue’s words, but a swift punch.

Yue Yiyue quickly knocked her to the ground and grabbed a nearby chair to smash the floating eyeballs out of the air.

She did not like to waste words during a fight.

One extra sentence could spell failure.

Her gaze swept over the surroundings, but there was nothing she could use to tie up Wu Zhen.

Moreover, with Wu Zhen in this state, she would surely try something else once she recovered.

“You how…..”

“Who is it?”

“Who exactly are you?”

Wu Zhen looked at the scorch mark on her abdomen. She lifted her clothes to see the strange runes that had appeared on her belly—the final countdown, reminding her that time was almost up.

Yue Yiyue had only taken one bite of the Cake. According to the Rules, she could pursue and kill within the limited time.

Moreover, the number of eyeballs usable against a human was limited.

At this rate, she would have to feed Yue Yiyue a second bite.

What a hassle.

“You’re not experiencing this for the first time.”

“You’ve cleared it before, no wonder you’re handling all this so effortlessly.”

“But I’m not like those losers.”

Wu Zhen’s body, sprawled on the ground, kept elongating—elongating, elongating.

The sun outside the house grew increasingly blinding, and the temperature inside the entire house suddenly rose.

Steam rose everywhere.

Sweat beaded ever more thickly on Yue Yiyue’s forehead.

She glanced upstairs. Gu Nanqiu was still up there.

At this temperature, it would steam a person alive.

Without hesitation, Yue Yiyue swiped her hand through the air, precisely aiming at Wu Zhen’s head.

Her strike was swift and decisive.

In a daze, she saw her past self repeatedly raising her hand to sever one monster head after another……

The blade sank into the neck, emitting a faint ripping sound.

It was like cutting through a thin sheet of paper.

The knife in her hand emitted a faint blue light, continuously absorbing the blood from Wu Zhen’s neck.

The blood groove gradually filled with blood, and then the knife’s appearance underwent a subtle change.

Yue Yiyue drew the knife out. Rip— the sharp barbs tore off a thin layer of skin, which fell to the ground as the knife turned.

Wu Zhen staggered back a few steps. She clutched her neck, watching her power continuously flow into that knife.

“Aaah——”

“Why would the Main God give you that?”

When she clearly saw what was in Yue Yiyue’s hand, her eyes turned bloodshot, filled with jealousy.

A part of the Main God’s body, an SSS-level Artifact.

Wu Zhen fixed Yue Yiyue with a deathly stare. The scattered power could no longer sustain the burning. She clicked her tongue. Damn it. This Yue Yiyue was so ordinary.

And yet…….

That Gu Nanqiu too—clearly carrying a massive power, yet so weak it seemed she could be crushed at any moment. It was just that damn Rules restriction preventing an immediate kill.

Ah, so annoying.

Both of them were so annoying.

Wu Zhen no longer wanted to maintain this Rule.

Right now, she just wanted Yue Yiyue dead, regardless.

Then she could take everything from Yue Yiyue and devour Gu Nanqiu’s power.

Next, she would keep devouring, devouring endlessly, until she became the new god of this world.

……The previous master had slept too long. It was only natural for her to take over.

Everything here was her stepping stone.

She would surely become a god.

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Roaring came from afar, drawing closer.

The room began to distort. Clattering sounds echoed from the distance, as if something had been knocked over, or some large object was being moved.

No need to guess—it was He Wu coming.

As Yue Yiyue tried to take cover, He Wu burst through the window, blocking her path.

It had fully monsterized.

Just like the time it had chased Yue Yiyue before.

By now, pitch blackness reigned outside the window.

Unbeknownst to her, night had fallen here for the first time.

The surroundings were terrifyingly silent.

Wu Zhen had vanished without a trace at some point.

Yue Yiyue did not hesitate. Following muscle memory, she attacked He Wu.

Attack after attack.

Under Yue Yiyue’s swift fists and feet, He Wu clumsily dodged.

Having turned into a monster, it faced such dense attacks for the first time and was caught off guard.

The entire room expanded with He Wu’s movements, growing larger and larger. In an instant, it was half the size of a soccer field.

He Wu was somewhat puzzled. Shouldn’t it hear Yue Yiyue screaming?

Then it would swiftly dig out her heart, right?

Oh, Yue Yiyue had no sin on her, so It could not directly judge her.

But it did not matter. The small fry It had nurtured were coming.

Rustling sounds came from outside the window.

Some humans who had been parasitized crawled in through the window.

Their eyes were vacant, movements stiff, but they all charged straight at Yue Yiyue with clear intent.

He Wu stood behind them. As soon as Yue Yiyue made a move, It could directly deal with her.

Fulfilling sister’s needs……

It was sister’s best dog. Whatever sister wanted, It would surely obtain.

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Yue Yiyue looked at the humans before her. She scooped up the Cake from the ground and placed it on the floor.

He Wu tilted its head, wondering what tricks this human still had.

Then it saw her stab the knife into the Cake.

Crimson liquid instantly surged out.

Yue Yiyue bolted.

And that liquid seemed to have eyes, chasing right after her.

The Rule triggered by eating the Mango Flavor Cake would surely attract them.

Soon, a thick sizzling scent filled the room.

Yue Yiyue slid through the crowd on a slide tackle. She straightened her slightly disheveled hair and ran toward the door.

She tried touching the wall.

She was still in Spirit Body state.

She passed through the wall and ran straight to Gu Nanqiu’s room.

She had pretty much wrecked the downstairs just now. She wondered if whatever was trapping Gu Nanqiu had been destroyed.

Wu Zhen probably was not in Gu Nanqiu’s room now.

Or perhaps only one “Weird Tale” could exist in this area at a time.

She stumbled into the room where Gu Nanqiu was trapped.

Yue Yiyue locked eyes with the person inside.

She turned to look at the doorknob—no doorknob appeared.

Yue Yiyue’s expression froze for a moment.

Did she need to find something doorknob-like?

“Ya!” Gu Nanqiu cried out upon seeing the intruder.

She then realized she could not expose Yue Yiyue’s position and pretended to be scared by something.

“No need. I just finished a round with them.” Yue Yiyue sat wearily on the nearby sofa.

“Gu Nanqiu, I have something very serious to tell you.” Yue Yiyue stared at Gu Nanqiu sitting on the bed.

She wore a white dress clinging to her body, long hair spread across the bed. Moonlight spilled down, making her look like the laurel goddess leaning against the headboard.

She tilted her head in confusion at Yue Yiyue, waiting for the question.

“Do you have any other clothes here?”

“Dressed like that, you’ll get cold later.”

“And do you know Purification? I can’t kill those two downstairs. Purify them early, and we can go back sooner.”

As Yue Yiyue spoke, she got up and opened the nearby wardrobe, swiftly scanning the clothes inside.

Finally, she picked out a jacket: “Put this on.”

…….

“Okay.” Gu Nanqiu set the book aside: “Purification?”

“If you mean like that Dove Head classmate before, then yes, I can.” Gu Nanqiu draped the clothes on: “But I need to know what they’ve been through.”

“Sorry, Yiyue. I hid it from you.”

The story, huh…

Yue Yiyue looked at the bleak moonlight. This story was not a happy one.

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A little girl lost her mother, only to have her father taken by a relative.

Though the relative’s younger brother was easy to fool—bribe him with small favors and he would scamper about obediently.

But she found it boring.

After all, that foolish dad was single-mindedly set on propping up that younger brother.

The precocious girl watched coldly as her foolish dad pulled one stupid stunt after another.

On the eve of entering university—her eighteenth birthday—she looked at the orange fireworks and the beautiful birthday Cake before her.

Ah….. so boring. If only they would all die.

So she set up an exquisite coincidence—a big fire to take them all away.

Unfortunately, that day a demon wind seemed to blow, or perhaps she triggered something.

The fire was huge, trapping all three of them here.

But the intense hatred turned Wu Zhen into a Pollution Source.

Make a wish, and it would come true—as long as you had the luck to eat that Cake.

This was the entire backstory and aftermath that Yue Yiyue had pieced together.

After finishing, Yue Yiyue looked at Gu Nanqiu: “Her dad doesn’t need salvation—he deserved it. That younger brother got it all for free; I’ll try to kill him later.”

“Wu Zhen isn’t bad by nature; she’s just twisted.”

As she spoke, Yue Yiyue sharpened the knife expressionlessly. “I still need to save those trapped by the wishes. Shall we split up?”

“Is that so.” A rotten floral scent suddenly filled the room. Yue Yiyue felt dizzy: “I understand. Leave the purification to me from now on, okay?”

Gu Nanqiu caught the toppling Yue Yiyue and placed her on the bed.

Wu Zhen stepped out from behind the curtains on the balcony: “She seems different from those idiots before, so that’s what you like about her?”

“Her reasoning is mostly right, but she beautified what I did.”

“Once I realized we couldn’t leave, I took the Kitchen Knife and dismembered that fool, dug out his heart, and tossed it to He Wu.”

“But because of that, He Wu could maintain human form after eating the heart.”

More and more eyeballs floated up behind Wu Zhen. Her amassed Thousand People’s Thousand Wishes were now all her aid.

“Speaking of which, I really have to thank you, little friend. Thanks to her, I can finally appear in this area at the same time as He Wu.”

She looked at the dense, substantial aura on Gu Nanqiu. A familiar voice echoed in her ear: “Devour her, just like you started that fire back then. He Wu has become the true Array Eye.”

“Strike now, and the one punished will only be that fool He Wu!”

“The Lord never deceives you. Do as It says, and you can become the one true god of this world—”

The eyeballs lunged at Gu Nanqiu, about to touch the fragile woman who seemed crushable with one hand.

But what Wu Zhen imagined did not happen.

Sturdy Tentacles precisely burst every eyeball.

Then Wu Zhen looked down at the massive Tentacle in her chest cavity.

This scent finally felt familiar—it was that madwoman……

She……

had the same scent as that woman.

She looked at Gu Nanqiu in terror.

No, no.

That woman could not be here.

Tonight’s events had been one shock after another. Wu Zhen’s mind was a mess, her consciousness scattering.

It was like seeing the most terrifying monster from the abyss.

Her SAN Value kept dropping.

Dropping continuously.

Her eyeballs gradually turned white, skin cracking in all directions.

Gu Nanqiu looked at Wu Zhen’s state without joy or sorrow. She simply controlled the Tentacles to swiftly smash all those wishes loaded with unreasonable demands.

Purification—she certainly knew it, though perhaps a bit rough.

The air twisted for an instant, the temperature dropping several degrees. Gu Nanqiu flung Wu Zhen to the ground. That repulsive scent suddenly vanished, and she muttered to herself: “Tch, didn’t force it out. It just ran like that. What a pity.”

Wu Zhen’s body stiffened. She realized the voice in her mind gave no response no matter how she called.

Gu Nanqiu overlooked Wu Zhen, who could no longer maintain human form due to power leakage. She leisurely took a strawberry-flavored Cake from the nearby cabinet and placed it before her.

“You’ve been abandoned by It, become a discarded pawn. But no matter, happy birthday. Eat it.”

Wu Zhen looked up incredulously at the smiling woman before her, her eyes flickering—

“No—”

“Impossible.”

The Cake was flung away.

Wu Zhen pointed at Gu Nanqiu, breaking down. “You lunatic, what did you do?”

“Impossible!”

“Just a little bit more…”

Yue Yiyue—right.

As long as He Wu killed Yue Yiyue, there was still a chance.

She just did not know why, no matter how she sensed He Wu, she received no signal.

“He has already been Sliced by me. He should have been poured into the sewer by now. After all, I was pretty annoyed with him too, since he had those kinds of thoughts about Yiyue back then.”

“So I kept his consciousness and sliced him into pieces, tossing them into the gutter. Scum like him belongs there.”

“But you… how pitiful.” Gu Nanqiu looked at the Cake casually discarded to the side and let out a soft sigh. “I clearly gave you a chance for Yiyue’s sake, hoping you would reincarnate.”

“Since you do not cherish it…”

The massive tentacles wrapped up Wu Zhen.

The area shattered—