Chapter 19: The Maid's Pounce

"Hiss!"

The moment Li Yu's soul returned to his body, he felt the swelling of his skull for the first time.

His brows furrowed slightly, and a feeling of joy and disgust surged up.

Joy was naturally because of the harvest he had this time, which was far more than he expected.

Disgust was because digesting such a large amount of extraordinary secrets made him feel that his soul was full.

"Wandering Soul... Cinnabar Apprentice... Strange Realm Spirit Realm... Black Maitreya path... Sequence Seven Life-Demanding Walker... Hongdou's secret... Evil God path Sequence Eight Flower Queen..."

As Li Yu summarized in his heart, the fourth Truth Bubble on his eye membrane was more than half charged.

And when he woke up, the two transactions in the field were also successfully completed.

The atmosphere was very hot.

The remaining few evil cultivator neighbors couldn't help but take out different strange things one after another, each initiating a transaction request.

Because there was no "secret medicine formula" among them, Li Yu didn't plan to waste the only remaining opportunity.

He didn't think about the other secrets he had peeked at, and began to think about the most critical problem in his heart.

"I now have Cai Ren, Wandering Soul, and Cinnabar Apprentice secret medicine formulas. The first two can be dismissed. One cannot be cultivated, and the other won't solve my predicament even if cultivated."

"Only Cinnabar Apprentice, although it looks quite dangerous, the benefits are also extraordinary."

"With my current situation where I might die at any time and turn into a cannibalistic monster, it's not good to be picky about this path having no backer or force, and it being very difficult to obtain subsequent sequence formulas."

"As for waiting for another gathering to see if more suitable paths and sequences will appear?"

When this thought arose, Li Yu shook his head and denied it immediately.

Can't wait!

Although he could borrow the power of Cai Ren one more time, the price was huge.

Moreover, he couldn't guarantee that secret medicine formulas would appear in the next gathering.

That was the rarest resource in the extraordinary world. The appearance of two sequences for the first time was already burning high incense and having great luck. How could he dare to hope for more?

For now, saving his life and stepping onto the path to godhood was the most correct choice.

"Good, then Cinnabar Apprentice."

"It's just, how to gather the formula? Those toxic minerals are easy to find, but what is Fire Essence? And I can't buy a furnace openly. If Zhu Mei, the master who bought the Cinnabar Apprentice formula, finds out, he will definitely be suspicious."

"Even if they are all gathered, I have to refine myself in the furnace. Tsk tsk, it seems that no matter if it's a righteous god or an evil god, they all like to torture their believers."

Just when Li Yu finished thinking and made a decision, all the transactions in the field were finished.

Seeing the atmosphere cool down, Li Yu stood up immediately, his voice stiff:

"Thank you all for your support. This Spirit Food private banquet and trading gathering will end here."

"When the next private banquet will start, I will personally visit and invite you one by one."

"Hongdou, collect the money."

"Thank you for your patronage."

Hearing him say this, everyone was sensible.

Giving him, the exclusive Spirit Chef, some face, they stood up to pay the bill.

Everyone gained a lot tonight, and those who didn't trade also ate a very cheap Spirit Food feast, leaving happily.

As soon as the evil cultivators left, Li Yu immediately showed an excited smile, looking at his maid, and the large amount of wealth she was holding.

Although it was already late at night, he had no sleepiness at all.

The first urgent thing in his heart was to buy and gather the 【Cinnabar Apprentice】 secret medicine formula. He had just obtained a huge sum of money, so he thought there was no problem, and he even thought about where to buy it.

"Peace Strange Market!"

"Existing in a market in Peace Workshop, according to Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang, this is the largest extraordinary market in Wanfu City, only open for one hour at the Zi hour. It does not allow ordinary people or even unranked extraordinary people to enter. Only formal Sequence Eight and above practitioners can enter."

"In addition to the practitioners of the eight major workshops in the South District gathering for trading, high-sequence powerhouses from other three major districts in the city will also appear in the market occasionally."

"Although I don't count as a formal Sequence Eight, if I switch to the Forbidden God Child state, I should be able to enter smoothly."

"However, the strange market should be closed now. If I want to go, I have to wait until tomorrow night."

Having obtained a path to godhood suitable for himself and a sequence formula, but not being able to gather and take it immediately, it was indeed annoying.

So Li Yu quickly put his energy into the second urgent thing.

His own maid still had a small amount of Tiangong Secret Core residue... find it... there is a possibility of repair.

You must know that this was the peak work of a Sequence Seven puppet maker, and it was also embedded with a 【Tiangong Secret Core】 of a very high level.

Even if it doesn't need to be fully repaired, just a few more module functions.

Hongdou's value will double.

Moreover, she will also be able to provide him with greater help, such as protecting him before he gathers the formula and ascends to Cinnabar Apprentice, and protecting him during the promotion process, etc.

Li Yu, he might have picked up a super big leak.

At the thought of this, he became even more excited.

He walked straight forward, took his maid's hand, and went to the master bedroom again.

"Hongdou, take off your clothes, I want to check you carefully to see if I can repair some module functions?"

"Yes, Master!"

The conversation that didn't sound very decent was actually not romantic at all.

Hongdou took off her maid clothes, and except for her fox-girl-like face, she was

May I ask?

Who would have improper thoughts about a mechanical maid like this?

Wouldn't that be incredibly perverted?

Li Yu muttered to himself, then began to carefully examine Hongdou's body from the inside out. The starting point was the place where the Mystic Core had originally been housed.

There were a few "stains" there that looked like spots of flesh and blood, quite eye-catching.

When he had first bought her, Li Yu hadn't paid them any mind due to his preconceived notions.

This time, he couldn't help but reach out to touch them; the texture was unexpectedly cold and soft, and there was a feeling he couldn't quite put his finger on.

Just as he was pondering whether to waste a third Truth Bubble to analyze them,

an unexpected situation suddenly occurred.

It was the Forbidden Egg sleeping in his abdomen; the moment he touched that strange flesh, it suddenly transmitted a faint desire.

After all, they were one entity, and Li Yu easily deciphered it:

"Delicious... want to eat!"

"Hmm?"

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"Isn't the Tiangong Mystic Core a mechanical creation? Why would it trigger the Forbidden Egg's appetite? This shitty thing only likes to eat flesh and blood with spirituality."

In an instant, a guess formed in Li Yu's mind.

Then, his eyes flashed, and he gave another order to Hongdou:

"Hongdou, open everything inside your shell to me; open whatever can be opened."

"Understood, Master!"

Accompanied by her delicate, girlish voice, the maid, who was already stripped bare, suddenly erupted with steam smelling of exotic fragrance, and the sounds of gears, mainsprings, and springs constantly whirring filled the air.

When the steam dissipated and Li Yu looked again, what stood before him was a maid who could be considered "dismantled."

She had truly opened up completely; her skull, torso, and limbs were all spread apart.

Li Yu did not delay and immediately began to grope through every corner of Hongdou's body, inch by inch.

Initially, apart from some rust and traces of machine oil, there were no discoveries.

It wasn't until he reached Hongdou's chest cavity, between the gaps of two extremely inconspicuous gears, that a small, familiar stain of flesh and blood was attached.

Li Yu reached out a finger to touch it, and the familiar appetite was transmitted.

"Found it!"

In his joy, Li Yu took a pair of tweezers and carefully clamped out the flesh, which was as thin as a strand of hair.

He placed it in a tray first, then immediately continued to search further down.

Not long after, a smile appeared on his face again.

The tweezers in his hand reached into the middle of a spring and clamped out another thread of flesh.

Dozens of breaths later, he clamped out another small stain of flesh the size of a grain of rice from the surface depression of a bronze nail.

Following that, he had no more gains.

It wasn't until a full hour later that Li Yu clamped out another small piece of flesh, along with a few hair-like blood threads, from between the two soft tubes flowing with machine oil on Hongdou's left and right feet.

"Should be all of it?"

"Don't know if it's useful... hmm?"

While muttering, Li Yu went to place the newly found Mystic Core remains into the tray.

But as he turned his head, he was shocked to see that the scattered flesh stains that had been placed separately in the tray had somehow automatically fused together.

It was now a "blood ball" the size of a mung bean, and it was alive.

It seemed to have detected more nearby, as it was wriggling and constantly extending scarlet tentacles full of spirituality, climbing toward Li Yu's palm.

This scene was somewhat horrifying.

But Li Yu began to feel some anticipation and took the initiative to offer the two pieces of flesh.

In an instant, they merged, and a blood ball about the size of a thumb was born.

The spirituality overflowing from it increased exponentially.

The next moment, an even more astonishing change occurred.

As if the blood ball had come completely to life, a large number of scarlet tentacles shot out, and with a few *pat-pat* sounds, it headed directly toward Hongdou's skull.

With a *slurp*, it drilled directly into the place where the Tiangong Mystic Core had originally been housed.

"Hiss!"

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

Without any order from Li Yu, steam carrying a faint, exotic fragrance roared and erupted once again.

Amidst this commotion, Hongdou's dismantled shell was rapidly reassembled, and her previously tightly closed fox eyes opened once more.

This time, there was a spiritual radiance in her eyes that even Li Yu found horrifying.

If one didn't look at her mechanical body, one would fear they were looking at a somewhat dazed human girl.

These changes were already astonishing enough, but the movement that almost made Li Yu panic and turn to flee happened next.

The moment Hongdou opened her eyes, the red gemstone between her brows released a hazy red light, directly locking onto and enveloping Li Yu.

A mechanical voice that left one confused suddenly rang out:

"Lost Mystic Core has been replenished by five percent... partial module functions are restarting..."

"New master discovered... master-recognition steps insufficient... permissions severely missing."

"Restarting master-recognition... beginning collection of fingerprints, iris, and bodily fluids..."

"Huh?"

Li Yu's exclamation had barely left his lips before he could react, and the mechanical maid before him suddenly leaped up, directly tackling him onto the bed in the main room.

(End of chapter)