Chapter 84: 82. Li Yingqi

82. Li Yingqi's Talent

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Lin Ling crossed his arms, listening to Haimofen's solo with great interest. After noticing the changes in the dancing notes, the corners of his mouth curled into an even more delighted arc, and he said, "The melody is wrong."

"Eh, is it?" Hearing Lin Ling's words, Xin Junmao was startled. He couldn't hear it at all, and it seemed the other audience members present hadn't heard it either, remaining intoxicated and immersed in Haimofen's string music.

"Someone with sufficiently superb skill can make adjustments very quickly, let alone Haimofen, who is a world-class musical genius by nature, possessing talent that even otherworldly musicians would envy," Lin Ling explained with a smile.

Xin Junmao understood, only feeling that this shop owner, who looked excessively young, was somewhat formidable. To be able to capture the details of a mistake in an instant, the other party perhaps possessed extremely high attainments in music theory himself.

One second he was sighing with emotion, the next, Xin Junmao's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He turned his head abruptly to look at the Daughter of Gluttony beside him, discovering that in the fleeting moment, the distance between her and him seemed to have closed by a few degrees.

Xin Junmao jumped up in surprise where he stood and looked at Haimofen, who was playing strenuously in the center of the stage, discovering that the other party's expression was no longer one of intoxication and enjoyment, but revealed a slightly ferocious, teeth-gritting look, as if the melody had entered a passage of extremely high technical difficulty.

And Xin Junmao knew that Haimofen was definitely not distressed by the difficulty of the music at this moment, but that Haimofen's battle with the Daughter of Gluttony on another spiritual level had fallen into a stalemate; that slight mistake just now was the best proof of this.

"Excuse me, Lin Laoban, I think I have to go now." Xin Junmao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and after hurriedly bidding farewell to Lin Ling, he walked quickly through the audience crowd and out the exit passage.

Lin Ling nodded with a smile, watching Xin Junmao leave, then glanced at the Daughter of Gluttony, who was acting like a robot that had lost power. Upon sensing Xin Junmao's departure, she immediately followed suit, rising and chasing after him step by step.

Facing this scene, he just watched happily from the side, with no intention of intervening at all.

Li Yingqi tore off a piece of sticky biological membrane, and finally arrived at a room in the palace of the Daughter of Gluttony, covered in foul-smelling, unidentified light-red mucus.

Inside the room, a huge sarcoma was growing on the bed. It was like a beating heart, pulsing, while at the same time, a bright red light was being released from inside the sarcoma, illuminating its thin walls and reflecting the shadow of a female curled up inside.

This sarcoma looked more like an embryo, only what was gestating inside the embryo was not a child, but an adult.

"Is this the sleeping Daughter of Gluttony?" Li Yingqi gripped the Black-edged White Feather in her hand tightly. The feeling of relief in her heart was far greater than any other emotion; she was very glad she had guessed the Daughter of Gluttony's situation correctly.

The Daughter of Gluttony had indeed been affected by the power of an unknown existence at the same time as Xin Junmao; they had both fallen into a deep sleep, their consciousnesses likely controlled under the hand of that unknown existence.

"Now is the best opportunity to strike." Li Yingqi took a deep breath, then gripped the Feather tightly with both hands, aiming the sharp quill at her own heart. Her life's past of just over twenty years flashed through her mind in a blur, and she felt that her life experience was no worse than those sixty-something-year-old elders who had walked through life peacefully.

Stab!

The sharp quill pierced the tender skin over her heart, passed through layers of flesh and muscle, and finally plunged into her vividly beating heart.

Excruciating pain surged from her heart to her brain. Li Yingqi immediately convulsed in agony, but she gritted her teeth and held on, feeling the power within the Black-edged White Feather flow from the feather into her heart, and through the action of the heart's ventricles, merge into her blood. An indescribable power instantly crawled over her entire body like ten thousand ants biting her.

This pain lasted for about thirty seconds, and then suddenly, Li Yingqi felt as if certain areas of her brain had been shielded; her ability to sense pain decreased, but the feeling that climbed up in its place was actually comfort and pleasure.

The strange power of the Black-edged White Feather was remodeling her body. Her body was undergoing rapid deformity; Black-edged White Feathers were growing from her back and arms, and between her armpits on both sides, wing membranes were also growing rapidly. Finally, her hands turned into wings, and the wings were slowly covered by feathers.

One minute later, the strange colors on Li Yingqi's body vanished, and Li Yingqi's body had completed its transformation; her body had completely turned into the likeness of a Black-edged White Feather.

Li Yingqi felt the unusual changes in her body. She just used the mirror in the Daughter of Gluttony's bedchamber to peek at her current appearance, and even though she had been mentally prepared, she was still startled by herself in the mirror.

Was that humanoid female bird in the mirror, with its high forehead, disheveled hair, pair of dull, lifeless large black eyes, and thunder-god beak, her now?

She tried to make a sound, but Li Yingqi discovered that her throat had also been remodeled, which made her unable to vocalize like a human. The words she wanted to say would eventually be automatically converted into another language with a certain pattern.

"Come on, Daughter of Gluttony, let me see if you can withstand my current power." After Li Yingqi calmed down a little, she leaped, her bird claws tensed, talons sharp and upturned, and she slashed fiercely at the sarcoma.

Puchi!

Li Yingqi felt her feet land on fragile jelly; she could feel a certain elastic resistance, but that was not enough to block her sharp claws. In an instant, the sarcoma shattered, and large swaths of red plasma erupted from within it.

When the sarcoma was injured, those fleshy strips growing around the sarcoma whipped about like vines, relying on instinct to drive away and kill Li Yingqi, who had just harmed their mother body.

Li Yingqi gritted her teeth, dodging the attacks of the fleshy tentacles. Her figure shifted freely in the air; whether it was an instinct brought by the power in the Feather or she truly had a special talent for controlling the body of a Black-edged White Feather, she moved and shifted in the air without any effort. Avoiding the Daughter of Gluttony's instinctive defense was simply as easy as turning over one's hand, and she even felt somewhat pleased by it.

Li Yingqi remembered that wings could also be a means of attack for a Black-edged White Feather. She raised one wing and immediately felt the feathers on the wing tense and line up according to her thoughts, as if combined into a giant machete, with every single feather acting as the sharp edge of a dagger.

As the wing swung down, Li Yingqi felt herself slice through the air, and an invisible slash flew out, directly severing the eerie tentacles that were attacking in succession.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

After Li Yingqi tried using her wings to attack several times, she became increasingly adept with the body of the Black-edged White Feather. Before long, Li Yingqi no longer regarded those dangerous fleshy whips as dangers worthy of special attention, and she continued her attack on the sarcoma.

Puchi, puchi...

In the space of the dream, the Daughter of Gluttony suddenly collapsed on the spot, and Haimofen, who was in the midst of a bitter battle with the other party, couldn't help but be stunned.