It was already late at night when Lin Yunyun reached the Gu residence.
The dark night veiled the earth. The 13-year-old girl stepped into the large residence step by step.
Her shadow stretched and elongated slowly under the moonlight. Her figure seemed a little mournful, but in reality, she wasn't. Her arrival had nothing to do with anything poetic or romantic. It was simply because of… desire.
It was impossible for a tiger that had tasted blood to go back to being a vegetarian.
"Miss Lin?"
She saw an unfamiliar woman standing in front of her greeting her in a gentle voice. She felt at a loss.
'Wasn't that butler the one who contacted me? How come…'
She didn't want… other people to see her appearance when taking drugs. At least, the fewer people who saw, the better.
Lin Jun smiled and reassured Lin Yunyun with her unique friendliness. A moment later, she led the girl slowly into a room with a smile. "Everything you want… is inside!"
Lin Yunyun took a deep breath and didn't know what to say, but the fleeting pleasure that had sunk deep into her bone marrow began to reverberate in her body once again.
...
"Young Master, she went in," Lin Jun stood beside Gu Nan and spoke softly.
Gu Nan nodded and stood up from his chair. In the Evil God Temple in his mind, the event concerning the "Martial Arts Competition" had already started.
On the third day of his return, Gu Nan personally kicked off Ruby Fish Star's Martial Arts Competition, and the chain event also started. What he had to do now was to earn Evil Value for the first event.
He got up and walked out, but Lin Jun stood in front of him all this time, looking hesitant.
"Young Master, will you… kill Xiaoxiao in the future?" After a long mental debate, she still asked this sentence.
Gu Nan looked at her with great interest. "I thought people like you cared more about the suffering of all sentient beings rather than an individual's life and death."
"I'm no longer one of Goddess Sect's goddesses." Lin Jun shook her head.
"You didn't have a choice before, but now you want to be a good person?" Gu Nan joked casually, then chuckled. "She thinks I can't do anything about her if she stays there?"
When saying this, Gu Nan's smile turned somewhat strange. "I'm actually not very interested in you guys, but that's not necessarily true for other people."
"The Gu family needs someone to take charge of Immortal Demon World. I'm already overseeing the Martial Arts Competition, so who do you think will go there?"
...
Gu Nian's room wasn't very spacious. In fact, compared to her status, an ordinary 1.5-meter-long bed seemed somewhat shabby—at the very least, she should be sleeping on a 500 square meter crystal bed.
But even such a simple layout was unimaginable luxury for Lin Yunyun.
She realized that this wasn't the room that was prepared for her, so she became more and more careful.
Her eyes slowly scanned the room. Her clenched fist began to sweat, as if she could hear her own heartbeat. She finally found what she was looking for on the dressing table next to her.
It was a plastic bag containing white powder.
Lin Yunyun's eyes lit up slightly, and she immediately let her guard down. Desire once again occupied her brain. As soon as she grabbed the plastic bag, she opened her mouth and chewed it down.
She didn't know when it started, but she liked this rough way of "eating" more and more.
"Pah! Pah…"
However, as soon as she ate it, Lin Yunyun couldn't help spitting it out—this wasn't what she wanted at all; this was just flour.
"Damn it… Huh?" Lin Yunyun, who felt tricked, was about to get angry, but found a small glass bottle hidden inside the flour.
Inside the bottle was a handful of bright red crystals, shimmering in the light.
Lin Yunyun seemed to understand something. She hurriedly unscrewed the bottle cap and poured the crystals into her mouth. Unfortunately, the mouth of the bottle was too narrow, and only a few crystals fell out.
But even with such a small amount, as soon as they entered Lin Yunyun's mouth, the girl felt that her head was about to explode, as if countless needles were about to erupt out of her cheeks and turn her into a hedgehog.
The girl could hardly stop herself from moaning. Over ten years of endless pain made her develop a strange hobby.
On the one hand, she was extremely eager to live like a normal person and use drugs to eliminate the pain. But on the other hand, she was also obsessed with intense sensory stimulation, even if that stimulation was the familiar pain she hated the most.
Her eyes were closed, her hand holding the bottle trembled slightly, and she clutched the bottle with such force that her knuckles were faintly white.
Bang!
The glass bottle shattered because it couldn't bear her strength, which startled the girl out of her state of extreme excitement.
Red crystals flew everywhere; most of them landed on the ground. The glass shards cut her hands bloody, but she seemed entirely unaware of it.
The girl crazily picked up crystals from the ground to eat, and she even crawled on the floor and licked the ground until there was no residue on the floor anymore. She then started licking her palm with her tongue.
The broken glass shards cut her tongue, her mouth, and her lips, but she didn't feel anything.
Her body was getting hot. The aphrodisiac component had begun its attack, but this desire was nothing compared to the floating feeling that was currently madly stimulating her brain.
The crystals on her hand soon disappeared. The girl was very sober, but she was filled with endless desire. She began to look around.
From the dresser to the bedside table, she searched, smashed, and destroyed the layout one by one, but the red crystals never appeared again.
Until… She lifted the quilt spread on the bed and stared in shock.
Countless blood red crystals, shining a strange light, were quietly spread out in front of her, glistening brightly.
...
"You were looking for me?" Gu Nian stood outside her own room and looked at Gu Nan in confusion.
Ever since Gu Nan revealed information regarding Immortal Demon World, the entire Gu family had shifted their focus. Almost everything regarding the Martial Arts Competition had been handed over to Gu Nan, while she took over the matter of colonizing this new plane.
It was a large-scale plane that few reincarnators knew about, yet it was rich in resources. No force would be able to resist the temptation.
She was awfully busy recently, but Gu Nan picked this time to look for her. It was probably an important matter.
'What can it be?'
Gu Nan pointed to her room. "See that?"
Gu Nian paused slightly. Just when she was about to extend her senses to scan the room, she felt a sudden chill around her. She didn't know when it happened, but she was now standing in utter darkness. No matter whether she looked up, down, left, or right, it was full of shadows.
"Domain Stage!" Gu Nian almost screamed and frantically urged her innate ability to counter it but found that Gu Nan had already locked the surrounding laws, and all the innate abilities she specialized in were disassembled one after another.
Gu Nian was speechless. She could only stare at Gu Nan with a complicated and surprised expression.
She was surprised that Gu Nan would actually attack her and also surprised at his rapid growth. It seemed that his breakthrough didn't require accumulation at all. He had already reached this point in a few short months.
And…
"We've only fought once, but you actually saw through all my powers?"
Her several backup plans were completely sealed without even giving her a chance to use any of them, which made her feel frustrated and defeated.
How could she know that Gu Nan's understanding of the law of "duality" exceeded her own? As long as he neutralized several basic laws, that was enough to negate most of her methods.
And locking other laws with one's own power was also one of the characteristics of Domain Stage.
Gu Nan's power of shadows had reached Level 3, so he finally gained this ability, which he immediately used to deal with Gu Nian.
"Did you really think that you can retreat fully unscathed after scheming me?" Gu Nan patted her face and said with a smile, "Even if I don't mind, I still have to teach you a lesson."
The next second, countless shadows poured into her mouth and swam around her body, dispersing her internal energy.
A grand Prodigious expert momentarily became an ordinary person. Because of the remaining shadows in her body, it was even hard for her to move.
Gu Nan picked up Gu Nian's delicate body with one hand and threw her into the room.
"Enjoy it to the fullest, sister dearest."
Devotee's Game System Inspired Note
» This section of the chapter is a Fan based created system to mock-up or simulate the 'Status Information' of our MC - Gu Nan. This implies that you are free to skip reading this and continue your journey onto the next chapter.
» All catalog data below is a summary of various information achieved by Gu Nan that corresponds till the end of the related chapter and is compiled into a singular 'Status Screen.' Additionally, the invented system below would continue to evolve as we progress and learn more about the novel itself.
MC's Status Information
Name: Gu Nan
Current Location: Gu family's residence, Ruby Fish Star
Current Soul Location: N/A
Status: ⟪ Evil God ⟫
Advancement Direction: Agility Type
Current Evil God Rank: Tier 3
Equivalent/Current Martial Art: Prodigious Realm
◈ Comprehension of Innate ability: Domain Stage
Chosen Core Skill: The Law of Shadow
Current Evil God Temple Quest:
→ Main Mission Objective/s:
-— Evil Event: Ruby Fish Star's Martial Arts Competition. - Evil God Temple Issued
◈ Status: On Going
→ Side Quest Objective:
-— None. - N/A
◈ Status: N/A
Current Evil Points: 600
Overall Evil Points: 3875, Overall Evil Value: 102
Core Skill Acquired
— Shadow. ｢Also known precisely as 'The law of Shadow' - its one of the highest-ranked laws in the game. Skill 'Power of Shadows' LVL +1｣
Normal Skills Acquired:
— Resistance. [ Passive Ability ] ｢Your body will resist damage, and any damage taken will be reduced by 50%｣
— Locked ｢N/A｣
— Locked ｢N/A｣
Exclusive Skills Acquired:
— Deceitful Steps. [ Passive Ability ] ｢Movement Speed increased by 30%. Attack Speed increased by 50%｣
— Power of Shadows. [ LVL 3 ] ｢Allows the players to activate the skill "Hidden Shadows" at LVL 1 and unlocks the skill "Shadow Form" at LVL 2. If the 'Power of Shadows' reached LVL 3, the player will be able to use the 'Law of Shadow' to a much finer degree.｣
▸Hidden Shadows. ｢The power to manipulate shadows to a fine degree.｣
▸Shadow Form. ｢An incomparable handy skill that allows the player to manipulate shadows to create things, like weapons and armor. At the highest level of mastery, it could even create a humanoid clone.｣
Equipment being worn
→ Armor
-— Dawn Sage's Robe. ｢Basic level defense. If you are not attacked within 3 seconds, you will receive the "Praise of Dawn" effect.｣
→ Weapon
-— Four Element Crossbow. ｢A Tier 2 crossbow weapon that can generate four types of elemental arrows—earth, water, wind, and fire—based on the user's needs and does not need to load arrows.｣
→ Accessories - Facial Accessories, Necklace, Earrings
-— Observer Eyepiece. ｢An eyepiece that have a fixed Tier 2 magic 'Insight' inscribe in it.｣
-— Dragon Heart Pendant. ｢Allows players to activate the skill "Dragon Power". This skill cannot be upgraded｣
-— Shadow Earrings. ｢Skill 'Power of Shadows' LVL +1｣
Equipment Skills Acquired:
-— Insight. [ Passive Ability ] ｢Ability to obtain high-precision data analysis when looking at people or objects.｣
-— Dragon Power. ｢Greatly enhances the player's strength and physique. Duration: 5 seconds. Cooldown: 5 minutes｣
-— Praise of Dawn. [ Passive Ability ] ｢Increases self-healing ability by 300%｣
Item/s owned:
→ None.