Chapter 4: Vengeance
A surge of pain boiled and poured at once on Dan Shi's mortal body like it was being ripped and shredded similar to how she would always die.
Wait, wasn't she just reborn?
Then, why does it feel like she's about to die in so much pain again?!
After the last kick of the guard, she descended on Ming Shi's body. She hadn't come to her senses from the sudden pain when her head throbbed next. Causing her to groan and feel more resentful of her rotten luck.
Upon entering the portal, she tumbled through the void, and a new world came into view—a world teeming with strange gray fluctuations of life force and color, so different from the ethereal blue realm she had known.
She possessed Ming Shi's body—to be exact her ethereal form was pulled out of its course by the dying girl's vicious qi.
A strange yin physique on the verge of being a vengeful spirit.
With a sudden bump, she found herself in a physical form, her spirit anchored to a body once again. But this body is also freaking dying!
"What's the use of possessing a broken shell that will crumble with a sneeze?" Dan Shi muttered resentfully.
Just then, a system notice materialized before her, its bold letters as jarring as a crime scene bathed in harsh red light.
Dan Shi squinted and shielded her eyes, adjusting to the sudden brightness to protect her eyesight.
[CRITICAL WARNING!
Your body's life force is under threat! Your baby's life force is under threat!
Condition: Near-Death
Countdown to Demise: 00 00 05.59s]
"B-Baby?" Dan Shi was stunned as if struck by lightning in the middle of the day.
She instinctively looked down and reckoned what she thought was LBM.
"So, I'm pregnant not just bloated?!"
The people around her glanced at Dan Shi with complicated looks on their faces. Seeing her talking to herself with candid expressions that made her ghastly complexion worse, they were all cautious.
"Is she becoming senile after being hit a few times?"
"Doesn't... doesn't she look possessed? Oh heavens!"
"D-Don't come closer! Everyone, step away! That girl must be muttering evil enchantments to call demonic creatures like her."
Dan Shi couldn't care less. She's more concerned about her shitty situation.
"Is this another trick from that old god, cursing me all the way from hell?" she wondered with a hint of spite.
Although she might have not entered school as there was no school during her time, she still has a common sense of what a baby is.
But her common sense is only limited to that!
The only vivid recollection she had about unborn children was when she was stuck inside an egg as a dragonling!
Dan Shi was horrified.
"AH! Does that mean I will have to lay an egg and hatch the baby as well—keheukhek! Keheuk!"
Dan Shi coughed out blood that grisly covered half of her face, dripping like a broken valve faucet.
'No, no this blood doesn't matter anymore!'
More importantly, why is she having a baby all of a sudden?
She's just a ghost!
How can she live with a baby?
[Caution: Failure to act will result in the host's body disintegrating and igniting into flames. Are you willing to spend 1000 Life Points to preserve your life and baby?
-Yes/No
Current Life Points: 1,499,966.6]
Dan Shi flinched when she saw the punishment. Fire again? Dan Shi's expression turned green.
She hates fire but the system is threatening her with it? How deliberate!
And why is it so expensive? Will she and this baby live for 500 years each? Dan Shi felt more annoyed.
This evil system will be the death of her! She retains skills in every life she has but this evil system always finds a way to enslave her.
Dan Shi wants to thrash the system if only it was alive and can feel pain, she will definitely torture it. That was Dan Shi's greatest desire!
Alas...
"Do you think that's even a question I need to ponder on? Yes!"
[-1000 LP]
Dan Shi vomited another bout of blood, but this time it wasn't due to the wound. She was so heartbroken and angered at her first expenditure.
"Opportunistic. Greedy. Dogshit Evil,..." the girl muttered relentless curses under her breath as if she was reciting long incantations.
*Ding!
[System Notification: You have successfully spent 1000 LP!
Current Life Points: 1,498,966.6]
[Level 1 Achievement 1000/100 Unlocked!]
[Level 2 Achievement 1000/500 Unlocked!]
[Level 3 Achievement 1000/1000 Unlocked!]
[Level 4 Achievement Progress: 1000/1500]
Dan Shi clucked her tongue and dismissed the alert.
"Do I look like I have time to open those achievements now? Otherwise, do you see me as if I'm in the mood to do so?" she gushed sarcastically.
Thus, after restoring her health from the system's instant recovery treatment, Dan Shi stood up and stretched her limbs.
Cracking her bones with a vicious light. Ming Shi's eyes, once filled with despair, now burned with a fierce anomaly from Dan Shi's fervor.
Dan Shi retained Ming Shi's memories, the pain of her injuries, anger, and hate, fueling her desire for vengeance.
"Fine, I will avenge your death. But there was no agreement about conceiving a child!" She glared at the big ball on her tummy!
In what hole will she lay this big ball? Her mouth is too small to vomit it whole!
Besides, in almost all of her lives, she's always humanity's enemy. How can she raise a human child?
"Puchi!" she called out her spirit animal, naming it Puchi since it was the only thing it could say.
Her voice echoing through the silent crowd, who were all thundered by her strange actions.
Just then, a black fog emerges with visible red predatory orbs which appeared to be its eyes.
"De-Demon! That girl is calling out a demon—ack!"
Dan Shi flicked her finger in the air and the guard lost his head, rolling down the dirt, with a beam of light.
This caused great horror to everyone, they all shrieked and squealed internally when they saw the girl crush the severed part that rolled in her feet. Causing the brain and blood to splatter and blend with dirt.
Oh Gracious! Is this still the timid and weak daughter of the Ladyship Ming?
"Pitui! So noisy!"
Dan Shi spits on the head of the pig guard which is reduced to a pool of murky blood, as petty revenge for the time when that buffoon spat on Ming Shi that is now her body.
"Puchiii!!"
"Don't copy me!" the girl hissed.