Chapter 214: The Li Yu Who Suffered

Li Yu had long known that his mechanical maid's previous life was that of a "God-Chosen" of the Tiangong Sect, possessing high-level intelligence.

Because of this, he had never treated her as a mere mechanical product, but rather as a human being.

Precisely for this reason, he was all the more panicked.

The Hong Dou at this moment was completely different from any time in the past.

The intense aggression and impulse in her eyes meant that she had begun to show signs of losing control.

He had never imagined that he would go on a single campaign mission in a Mystic Realm, only to return and find his own backyard on fire.

"Hong Dou, you...?"

Before Li Yu could finish his question, he was interrupted.

A special report, delivered at high speed, spilled from Hong Dou's mouth:

"Due to the Master's growth rate exceeding calculations, according to the Master-Servant Agreement, Hong Dou has triggered the evolution module."

"Step one: the wisdom core must be completed... After restoring wisdom, the probability of Hong Dou obtaining the qualifications for the 【Demon Star Command】 and 【Reincarnation Command】 will reach ninety-nine percent. Thus, Hong Dou will no longer be left behind, will be able to enter Mystic Realms with the Master to obtain resources, and will always be able to accompany the Master."

"The most effective and rapid method to restore wisdom is the 【Spirit Supplementation Great Art】. The judgment has passed; please prepare yourself, Master. It is about to begin..."

When he first started listening, Li Yu didn't feel there was anything wrong; he only felt moved.

Because his own leveling speed was too fast and his strength had surged, his mechanical maid had realized she couldn't keep up, so she had triggered an active evolution.

She wanted to restore her wisdom, shed the "mechanical servant" designation, and obtain the qualifications to enter Mystic Realms, all to achieve the goal of forever accompanying Li Yu, her Master.

As for that near-hundred-percent probability, it likely came from Hong Dou's own mysterious intuition, as she had once been a Tiangong God-Chosen.

But upon hearing the end, he was shocked.

What was Hong Dou planning to do?

It sounded nice to call it the "Spirit Supplementation Great Art."

If one were to put it bluntly, Hong Dou was planning to turn the tables and harvest him, her Master.

"Stop! Stop!"

Li Yu shouted the order while struggling.

Unfortunately, the Master's command, which had always been effective in the past, failed this time.

Amidst flashing red light, lines of dense, tiny text were projected before Li Yu's eyes.

It was a detailed, loophole-free contract, specifying that Hong Dou, this mechanical maid, must always put the Master first, and that as long as the goal of "forever accompanying the Master" could be achieved, special means could be employed when necessary.

At the very bottom was Li Yu's signature.

Clearly, from Hong Dou's perspective, she was actively fulfilling the Master-Servant Agreement.

Seeing this, Li Yu was stunned; who could have foreseen this?

The only consolation was that this didn't count as a mechanical servant losing control and devouring its master, but rather Hong Dou being too eager to improve.

What was helpless was that Li Yu seemed unable to struggle or refuse.

In a normal state, his combat power was above Hong Dou's.

But unfortunately, Li Yu was currently in a severely wounded state.

In the Immortal Qin Mystic Realm, in order to deceive Zhao Xi and the Forbidden God, he had allowed the Forbidden God to eat his flesh and blood bite by bite, and in the end, he had relied on his near-immortal Demon Body to perform a "living dead, flesh from bones" miracle.

He had resurrected, snatched the Jade Seal, and fled.

It was indeed a miracle, but Li Yu had truly suffered heavy damage.

The Demon Star Command was not some so-called "Main God Space" from his previous life; it wouldn't repair his body for him.

Li Yu had intended to find a good way to mend himself upon returning.

He never expected to fall into Hong Dou's hands the moment he returned.

He currently couldn't, or rather, wasn't able to, transform into the Judgment God-Chosen or the Demon-Slaying God-Chosen.

As for his most proficient means—bewitching the masses and charming the world—

they had no effect on a mechanical lifeform.

And so, the next moment!

In this bedroom, a scene quite unfit for the eyes began to unfold.

Accompanied by a loud "hissing" sound, Hong Dou's body immediately spewed out a large amount of pink mist carrying a strong stimulating Qi and a wondrous fragrance; it seemed to contain some corrosive component, which easily and quite ingeniously stripped away the clothing on Li Yu's body.

Amidst that pink mist, two near-perfect bodies walked toward the bed.

Li Yu, as someone blessed by the Daughter of the Vortex God, went without saying; even if a Saint Child of the Lust Sect came, he might not be a match for Li Yu in terms of physical allure.

And Hong Dou was no different.

Li Yu had originally intended to struggle for a bit—not out of prudishness, but because this "Spirit Supplementation Great Art" was not a proper Tiangong divine technique; it was a heterodox art born from the collision of this branch of the Tiangong Sect, which had come to preach in Wanfu City, with the many evil god Dharma-paths here.

It was rebellious and heterodox, a union of man and machine.

He was worried it would ruin Hong Dou's path; after all, the potential of a Tiangong God-Chosen was at least Tier 2 or 3.

However, struggling was useless. When Hong Dou began to transform into a mature seductress, a charming young wife, a pure jade maiden, an exquisite young girl, a sexy nun, a half-demon pet... and leaned in, producing an exchange of fluids, this fellow declared defeat after resisting for only a few breaths.

In his mind, his thoughts underwent a gradual change:

"Who would seriously read such a complicated Master-Servant Agreement? She let Hong Dou find a loophole to bypass my orders."

"Hong Dou has the potential to compete for 【Tiangong Sect Master】 or 【Tiangong Saintess】; if she's nurtured well, I'll have hit the jackpot. I absolutely cannot ruin her path for the sake of momentary pleasure."

"High-level intelligence combined with a bionic skin even more wondrous than flesh and blood—Hong Dou's damn charm."

"It's over, I, the Master, have lost all face; I'm actually being forcibly harvested by my own maid?"

"Wait? So this is how the Spirit Supplementation Great Art works? Man and machine as one, I provide spirituality, she provides wisdom, virtual-reality interaction?"

Initially, Li Yu thought that the Spirit Supplementation Great Art was actually Hong Dou harvesting his spirituality and wisdom as a human.

Afterward, Hong Dou would recover many functions because of this.

And he, as the harvested party, would likely suffer a great loss of vitality.

But as the Great Art progressed, Li Yu discovered that wasn't the case.

He did indeed pay with "spirituality"; during the interaction, his entire heart and soul seemed to have been extracted, entering an incomparably fantastical world.

Within this world, scenes could be changed at will, and all were incomparably realistic.

Of course, the theme could not be changed; it had to be spirit supplementation.

At the very beginning, it seemed to be a scene derived from the mechanical heart and soul Hong Dou had left behind: a battlefield filled with shattered machinery, like the end of the world.

After Li Yu's heart, soul, and wisdom were added, the scenes began to undergo thousands of changes.

This was an indescribable, incomparably wonderful experience!

Li Yu in this life was indeed a virgin who hadn't been "unsealed," but he hadn't been in his previous life, so he naturally knew very well what that kind of experience between a man and a woman was like.

But if he were to evaluate it now, he would feel that ordinary affairs between men and women simply couldn't be compared to what he was experiencing at this moment.

The difference in wonderfulness was like the difference between one and a hundred.

"If I had to describe it, it's like that virtual world from my previous life becoming real, plus the blending of flesh and blood."

"This doesn't seem like an evil art, does it?"

"Or is it that when other people in Wanfu City use the 【Spirit Supplementation Great Art】 with their mechanical servants, it's not like this?"

The reason Li Yu felt this way was that he discovered his spirituality hadn't been depleted. On the contrary, his wisdom seemed to have increased to a certain extent.

As for Hong Dou's gains?

While Li Yu was immersed.

Outside, in that scorching pink steam, sentences of mechanical sound kept ringing out:

"Spirit Supplementation Great Art enabled!"

"Interacting with the Master's spirituality and wisdom... Underlying logic being rewritten... Wisdom core being reconstructed... Self-cognition beginning to perfect itself!"

"Combat module unlocked... Xu Kequan module unlocked... Emotion module unlocked..."

"Beep beep beep... Spirit supplementation has reached the limit... Assessment: if it overflows, negative effects will be produced, causing Hong Dou to develop excessive possessiveness toward the Master, with a certain probability of prompting Hong Dou to bypass the agreement and take harmful actions toward the Master... Disconnecting interaction..."

"Disconnected!"

Accompanied by the final mechanical sound, the man and the servant simultaneously broke free from that ever-changing virtual reality world.

When Li Yu returned to reality, the first thing he felt was the wonderful sensation that hadn't yet faded, and what he saw was the snow-white body looming in the pink steam.

Following that, a strange feeling that was hard to describe surged up.

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And, the contemplation of a sage.

"So, do I still count as a virgin?"

"Hong Dou is more womanly than a woman, but she isn't a true human after all."

"But then again, this is a horror otherworld; with the 【Tiangong God】 and those 【Spirit Realm Mechanical Races】 as precedents, mechanical life is also life, and in the eyes of some, it's even far more advanced than the human race, with people dreaming of mechanical ascension."

"My behavior here doesn't count as grotesque."

If Li Yu were a proper native of Wanfu City, he wouldn't be thinking about these things at all, but would just be pestering Hong Dou to continue.

For Wanfu City, where talents were gathered and geniuses emerged, things like the Spirit Supplementation Great Art and man-machine interaction were all basic operations not worth mentioning.

But Li Yu, after all, had a dominant will from his previous life on Earth.

He was not only thinking about these things, but also felt a slight sense of shame.

Fortunately, his attention was soon drawn away by Hong Dou's changes.

When the scorching and strange-smelling steam dissipated, Li Yu felt as if he saw a Hong Dou who was glowing.

She was still in the form of a half-mechanical, half-human female skin.

Her face was still that of a fox-girl.

But inexplicably, there was an essential difference from before.

There wasn't a trace of "mechanical rigidity" left; she seemed to be filled with the divine light of spirituality.

She was currently looking at Li Yu with a gaze that was vivid and filled with love as well as possessiveness, and what she spoke was not a mechanical sound, but a wondrous spiritual tone even more pleasant than that of a human girl.

Word by word, it was both a report and a sharing of her progress and gains with Li Yu.

Listening to it, Li Yu's face revealed great joy.

"The re-unlocked combat module includes 【Mechanical Combat Techniques】, 【Gravity Field】, 【Tiangong Spiritual Energy Cannon】..."

"The permission module includes 【Virtual Communication】, 【Machine Soul Invasion】, 【Super Calculation】..."

Li Yu had seen mechanical lifeforms that had undergone transformation.

Brother Brother Shang Yang was the most typical example.

He had undergone mechanical ascension under the blessing of an ancient saint, and was now an existence that would never make a mistake but was also cold and heartless, like a mechanical saint.

Li Yu had originally thought Hong Dou would become like that too.

But now it seemed he had been wrong.

Hong Dou's evolutionary direction seemed to be another kind.

She possessed both powerful rationality and wisdom, while also possessing human-like emotions.

What was even more astonishing was that she was recovering some special divine abilities unique to the Tiangong Sect and mechanical lifeforms, as well as her extraordinary status.

Li Yu listened to her report and made a preliminary estimate.

Hong Dou at this moment!

In terms of pure combat ability, she was already far stronger than Li Yu, who was at the Dao Doctor sequence.

Not to mention anything else, just a single 【Gravity Field】 would be enough to make Li Yu suffer.

Even though he possessed a near-immortal demon body, he would still find it difficult to move an inch within the field.

If it were other Tier 6 cultivators, it would be even more miserable; if they weren't careful, they would be pressed into a sheet of meat.

As for those mechanical combat techniques!

Li Yu had witnessed them in the virtual world while interacting with Hong Dou.

The terrifying combat techniques displayed by various "mechanical warriors" unique to the Tiangong Sect, using all kinds of mechanical bodies, chain-saw swords, electric blade guns, etc., left the ground devastated wherever they passed.

In terms of combat, it was already scary enough.

What made Li Yu regret not enabling the Spirit Supplementation Great Art earlier was the permission module.

According to Hong Dou's own description, she couldn't compete with the 【Sacred Nest Network】 at this moment.

But helping Li Yu resist the surveillance and intrusion of the Sacred Nest Network was no problem.

The "Machine Soul Invasion" she newly possessed, besides helping Hong Dou officially break free from the shackles of ordinary mechanical servants and become a super mechanical lifeform, also meant she would be the nemesis of all mechanical creations.

This was a special divine ability she had been granted only when she was a Tiangong God-Chosen; she could invade any mechanical lifeform whose permissions and status were inferior to her own from a distance, achieving the goal of complete occupation and possession.

Back in that Vortex God Mystic Realm!

If Hong Dou had been there at this moment, even Brother Brother Shang Yang, who had undergone mechanical ascension, might not have been able to put Li Yu in danger.

After all, Hong Dou held an absolute advantage in status.

She was not just a Tiangong God-Chosen, but a Tiangong Seed, a powerful contender for the future Tiangong Sect Master.

Then there was "Super Calculation," which could not only help Li Yu plan various schemes but also achieve a certain degree of "predicting the future" through all kinds of clues and logic.

It was even more precise and concrete than the sudden inspiration brought by his high spirituality.

However, while Li Yu was listening with increasing joy, a slightly ominous premonition also arose in his heart.

"In this horror world, could there really be such a good thing?"

"No price? No side effects?"

"Hong Dou seems to have an extraordinary possessiveness toward me; she wouldn't have that kind of yandere attribute, would she? She won't kill me in the future, right?"

Because he had encountered many traps since he began cultivating.

Li Yu knew very well that it was impossible for this world to have only benefits without a price. Therefore, it was inevitable that he would feel some anxiety.

And this time, it couldn't be considered worrying about nothing, as there had been many signs in the past.

Just as Li Yu was speculating about Hong Dou's future!

The latter, however, suddenly gave him a surprise.

Hong Dou, who was still reporting her gains to Li Yu, suddenly changed her expression, and a mechanical sound came out of her mouth again:

"Beep beep beep!"

"Warning, special signal source detected."

(End of chapter)