Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands

Chapter 252: Chapter 252: Who Hit Me!?

Xiao Jinsheng pursed her lips in silence.

She had never encountered anyone with such a request.

Since that’s the case...

She closed her eyes, hardened her heart.

Fearing that Ying might return to the Spiritual World thinking all this was a dream and hurt himself again.

A decisive slap rang out loudly, a sharp "PAH" as her hand landed heavily on Ying’s face.

Ying’s eyes closed as he fell backward in satisfaction.

"Passed out?" Xiao Jinsheng asked in shock. "Don’t tell me I knocked him out with that slap?"

"Ah—Ouch, ouch, ouch!" Yu Yunxiao sat up from the bed, clutching his face.

With his cat ears perked up, he surveyed the surroundings cautiously: "Who hit me!?"

"Was it you!" he interrogated Lou Yan Zhi.

Lou Yan Zhi shook his head.

"Was it you!" Yu Yunxiao turned to question Que Zelian.

Que Zelian avoided eye contact.

Xiao Jinsheng weakly raised her hand: "I hit you."

"Then it’s fine." Yu Yunxiao’s ferocious gaze softened instantly.

His Healing Superpower lit up as he treated his face, then asked with concern, "Does your hand hurt? Let me heal it for you."

"I’m fine." Xiao Jinsheng opened her palm: "Though force is mutual, when slapping, my hand gets protected by a layer of superpower."

After confirming Xiao Jinsheng was truly unharmed, Yu Yunxiao finally relaxed.

Curiously, he asked, "That Ying... is he gone?"

If not for Ying leaving and him not waking up.

He couldn’t imagine why Xiao Jinsheng chose to slap him awake.

"We’ve already saved Ying and taught him a Cultivation Secret Manual for spiritual power training." Xiao Jinsheng answered.

Hearing how Ying rushed back to the Spiritual World to cultivate, eagerly aiming for soul entity transformation to gain freedom, Yu Yunxiao nodded approvingly.

But when he heard Ying left and requested Xiao Jinsheng to slap him hard to confirm he wasn’t dreaming, Yu Yunxiao couldn’t hold back anymore.

"Does he have brain problems? If he does, I can treat him for free."

"He doesn’t even have a physical body. In Mist Continent, any injuries this body suffers ultimately hurt me!"

Ying, a Dark Soul.

Returning to the Spiritual World, he exists in soul form.

Forget a slap.

Even if Xiao Jinsheng smashed his head into a pancake, he wouldn’t feel the pain associated with this body in Mist Continent after returning to the Spiritual World.

As Ying returned to the Spiritual World, he gazed upon the once gray-white realm morphing back into darkness.

He skeptically touched his face: "Not painful?"

"Did Xiao not hit me?" he muttered in confusion.

Just as he began doubting his encounter with Xiao Jinsheng was an illusion...

The Spiritual Power Cultivation Secret Manual Xiao Jinsheng taught him resurfaced in his mind.

At least this could prove his memories of meeting Xiao Jinsheng were real.

Ever since learning of Ying’s decision to self-destruct, Yu Yunxiao had been feeling uneasy.

But to directly yield control of this body was absolutely impossible.

Still...

Thinking it over, he finally made up his mind and grabbed a piece of paper to write on.

Soon, Yu Yunxiao handed his carefully thought-out schedule to Xiao Jinsheng, reluctantly speaking: "I feel like staying in a dark place all the time—even if he works hard in cultivation—prolonged absence of light will still impact his mental state."

"I’ve drawn up a schedule where he can come out three times a day."

"Anyway, whenever I step aside, I just fall asleep, so there’s no danger."

"This way, he can temporarily leave the Spiritual World and get some respite."

"Yu Miao Miao, you’re so kind." Xiao Jinsheng laughed as she reached out to pinch his cat ears.

Yu Yunxiao huffed proudly: "Of course!"

The schedule Yu Yunxiao prepared was only a rough plan.

The exact times for Ying to come out depended entirely on his personal control.

One busy day passed.

Through the Star System Map, Xiao Jinsheng saw that in just one day, fifty thousand people had already bound themselves to the Intelligent Brain and transported there.

Nearly everyone was injured to some extent.

Luckily, the Mist Base was a safe zone under the Star System Map’s defense.

Those with resources directly exchanged them for Star Coins in the Star System Map.

Some survivors transported over with resources identified via the Intelligent Brain that were exchangeable for Star Coins.

Many capable individuals even managed to kill and bring along one or two Insect Clan corpses.

Even survivors too injured to fight were granted resources by Xiao Jinsheng under the name of World Consciousness when binding the Intelligent Brain.

They exchanged those resources into Star Coins and purchased a potion called Healing Potion through the Intelligent Brain.

Naturally, Xiao Jinsheng didn’t have much of these potions.

Caicai had a stockpile, but it wasn’t large.

The greatest supply actually came from the Cannibal Flower.

Upon Caicai’s suggestion, it listed all the Healing Potions it hoarded for sale on the Intelligent Brain.

One bottle after another of Healing Potion sold out.

There were also several purchases of Interstellar Weapons.

The reviews came pouring in, nothing but praise.

Caicai and the Cannibal Flower sat together, counting Star Coins.

"One hundred, two hundred, three hundred..." Caicai excitedly shook its scallion leaves, saying to the Cannibal Flower: "You made three million Star Coins on the Intelligent Brain this time. Share three hundred thousand with me."

"Hmm..." The Cannibal Flower hesitated.

This idea had been Caicai’s suggestion, after all.

It mulled over it indecisively, then finally transferred three Star Coins to Caicai.

Looking at the Cannibal Flower’s transfer, Caicai fell silent.

After a while, it gritted its teeth and asked, "Why are you stingier than Lou Yan Zhi?"

"Mine!" The Cannibal Flower declared emphatically: "It’s all mine!"

Its possessions couldn’t be taken by anyone!

Noticing Lou Yan Zhi watching Caicai and the Cannibal Flower fight over unequal profit sharing, Xiao Jinsheng curiously asked: "You’re really not getting involved?"

"Finally free of them. Do I look foolish to you?" Lou Yan Zhi intertwined his fingers, raising his hands behind his head, leaning back and resting comfortably.

With evident ease, he said, "I don’t want anything. I just want peace and freedom."

With Caicai, he sought liberation from the constraints of his identity.

With the Cannibal Flower, it was to resolve the cause-and-effect born from the calamity his lightning tribulation had inadvertently brought about.

Some things aren’t about whether outsiders can judge if he gained or lost.

As long as he feels it’s worthwhile in his heart.

After all, the same thing has different values in different people’s eyes.

As someone who clawed his way up the Cultivation World as a miserly Sword Cultivator...

Lou Yan Zhi used to prize material possessions highly.

But compared to freedom, or the Heart Demon that could arise from unresolved cause-and-effect and hinder his path of cultivation...

Everything else could be abandoned.

Caicai and the Cannibal Flower’s quarrel ended with Caicai being ruthlessly slapped against the wall.

Crying pitifully, its green onion leaves drooped and wobbled.

"Pfft." Lou Yan Zhi couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing.

Caicai’s tiny bean-like eyes glared at him coldly.

"I just remembered I haven’t fed the cockroaches yet. I’ll be going now." Lou Yan Zhi quickly got up and slipped away.

"Wuuu." Caicai broke down.

It flopped under the dining table, despondent: "Why wasn’t I born a combat-type system?"

If it were a combat-type system...

If it had the same power as Xiao Jinsheng’s Star System Map battle system...

It would definitely smash that domineering Cannibal Flower into the wall so hard its stinginess couldn’t scrape it off.

While Caicai was wallowing in misery, its long, slender green onion leg got stepped on.

"Who’s there! Are you blind?!" Caicai yelled angrily, sticking its head out from under the table.

Nervously, Ying explained: "Sorry, I... I didn’t notice."

He had thought it was just a stray green leaf beneath the table.

Never did he imagine this green onion could talk.

"Are you my food?" Ying curiously asked Caicai.

Caicai stared at him in horror and quickly pulled its tall green onion legs back under the table.

Ying gazed at the green onion curiously, full of confusion.

Yu Yunxiao had left him a note.

Telling him, going forward, he could come out three times a day.

Each time coinciding with a meal, so he could taste normal food.

But staring at the green onion with a face, nose, and mouth that could talk...

Ying hesitated.

This kind of food didn’t look more normal than what he ate in the Spiritual World.

Could eating a talking green onion like this cause poisoning?noveldrama