Chapter 311: Restarting the Private Kitchen

"Dying of old age... a mediocre life... wasting away in the jianghu... demonic scum... low-level cultivator."

"Hmm, that is a life that an ordinary person would most likely have."

Every few words that flashed through Li Yu's mind represented a certain life that this young boy from the Qian Kingdom, called Liu Xiu, might possess.

This ability was not foreseeing the future, but rather a perception of "fate" and "possibility"—peering into them, one might say.

At the same time, he also possessed the power of intervention.

"Although he is a mortal, he can still be crafted into bait for a life-seed."

"I can add some private goods into the *Immortal Fish Art*, so that after he cultivates it, his physical shell will undergo mutations. He can be disguised as someone with extraordinary talent and sent into the Qian Kingdom's royal family, or into the three major orthodox sects: the Vast Heaven Sect, the Earth Mother Sect, or the Demon-Warding Sect. As for what I can fish up in the end... I can only take it one step at a time."

"The investment is not small, it takes a long time, and the returns are unknown. It is not worth it."

"Of course, for this mortal himself, being chosen by me to be crafted into bait is actually his good fortune."

"Although this behavior of mine, in the eyes of righteous cultivators, is quite similar to that of demonic cultivators."

"Adding ingredients, fishing, spreading fake cultivation techniques, distorting reality, calculating conspiracies... the style is truly too villainous. If exposed, I would definitely be hunted down by cultivators of the 'protagonist' type."

These thoughts flickered in the depths of Li Yu's mind.

Yet he did not actually do so. Setting bait is not a game; once set, if one cannot catch a big haul and feed oneself, one will suffer a backlash.

Right now, he was merely carefully feeling and assessing the abilities he currently possessed:

Everything possessed by the Longevity Daoist was inherited, and even strengthened.

The origin divine ability 【Blessing】, which he could not bear to part with, also remained. At this moment, he could even begin to use this ability, consuming his lifespan to ripen the four alienated divine organs he possessed.

With just these, Li Yu had already become a powerful and sinister "angler."

In addition, there was a new divine ability that he was very concerned about:

"Bait-Eating True Pupil!"

"According to the description, and the Qi I perceive now, once this technique is activated, it is equivalent to foreseeing my own future. I can know good or ill fortune in a single thought, and I can precisely locate the enemy's position, regardless of whether they are hidden in the shadows."

"To a certain extent, it can also be considered a much-weakened Truth Pupil that lacks some authority."

"It's just that the Truth Pupil requires consuming bubbles, while this technique does not."

"Of course, the price is not small either."

"Besides the conventional consumption of lifespan, it will also lead to a period of poor luck, becoming unlucky."

"And if the status of the enemy being peered at is too high, there is also the risk of being discovered in return."

"In short, it is very useful, but must be used with caution."

"However, I am now a formal 【Bait-Eating True Lord】. Even without paying the price to activate this divine ability, I still have similar intuition, it is just very blurry."

"The time is about up, it's time to go back."

"Don't miss the train."

After feeling the brand-new power he possessed, Li Yu stood up and left.

As for the red carp in the deep pool at the bottom of the cliff, which was Liu Xiu, the owner of this dream...

Li Yu neither intervened in his fate to use him as bait, nor did he clear his memories or take back that volume of the *Immortal Fish Art*.

Although it was something he had scribbled together, it did have its uses.

As long as Liu Xiu was not too greedy, relying on this opportunity, he would be enough to become a long-lived person and gain some extraordinary power, carving out a name for himself in the low-level jianghu.

This could also be considered fulfilling his wish of not being content with mediocrity, wanting to stand out, and having a brilliant life.

In fact, this was the best outcome.

He could live a brilliant life without having to enter the true extraordinary world.

That world was too dangerous and terrifying.

When he thought of this, Li Yu's figure had already returned to the Pioneer.

This "Ancient God Train" was still docked at the Dream Station. Outside the window were endless, bizarre, and gorgeous dreams.

The three-hour time limit was about to end.

All the guests who chose to enter the dream also began to return one after another.

Almost every single one!

Had similar expressions.

Excitement, novelty, jealousy, and an intense desire for destruction.

The atmosphere in the top-tier carriage became very restless because of this.

Li Yu had anticipated this long ago and was not surprised at all.

It was a pity that there were still too few clues. Even though he was now a 【Bait-Eating True Lord】, he still could not peer into what the City Lord's Mansion, or rather, the group of evil gods led by the "Lord of the Veil," actually wanted to do.

In the final analysis, it was because his level was too low.

"Spirit Venerable Path Sequence Four is definitely a high-sequence powerhouse."

"But it is limited to Wancheng. If expanded to the boundless Spirit Realm, it is nothing."

"If compared to the level where the gods reside, it becomes an ant."

"Truly, there is no end to cultivation. Just after climbing up one sequence, looking up, it is still boundless and endless."

While muttering, Li Yu once again carefully observed all the passengers in the carriage.

Every one of them had a great background, which meant they all hid many secrets and privacies.

Li Yu was very curious about this.

If the Truth Bubbles could be used without limit, he would have long since grabbed them one by one to peer into them.

Although he couldn't do that now, as a Bait-Eating True Lord, he could already see some blurry information, so naturally, he wanted to see it first.

Clearly!

Li Yu could not break his addiction to peeping, nor did he intend to.

What's more, this was actually his way of cultivating.

After all, the things he peeped at—whether it was the private gossip of these powerhouses or some secret knowledge—could all be used to charge his Truth Soul Body.

Why not kill two birds with one stone?

However, what made him very helpless was that after he carefully peered at them one by one, his harvest was meager.

"Although I have advanced, these God-Chosen Envoys and racial representatives all have high life tiers, and behind each of them stands at least one divine entity."

"It is completely different from that mortal boy, Liu Xiu."

"Without activating the 【Truth Bubbles】 or 【Bait-Eating True Pupil】, it is indeed impossible to see anything... Hmm?"

Just as Li Yu was feeling a bit depressed, a surprise suddenly arrived.

The one who provided the surprise was none other than the Spirit female prophet called "Star Tear."

Because during the previous Chaos Cards game, she was the only one who bet on Li Yu to win, and could be said to have made a fortune, her mood naturally became very good afterward.

At that time, Li Yu was even certain: if he asked her out, the two of them could directly complete a great harmony of life in the carriage's private room.

Spirit female prophets, because they shoulder a mission and have the lessons learned from those indulgent clansmen of the ancient era, almost all advocate restraint, abstinence, and so on.

They are all virgins!

Even virgins without desire.

There is a proverb in their clan: A single tear is better than ten thousand pleasures, for it does not attract the hungry wolves.

The hungry wolves here refer to the Evil Gods.

The more indulgent and pleasurable one is, the more powerful Slaanesh becomes.

Only through restraint can one resist it a little.

But they happen to be Spirits, a race that is naturally sensitive and extremely easy to enjoy pleasure.

So once ignited, it is simply like dry tinder meeting a raging fire, impossible to control.

If they were not on the Pioneer, but in Spirit territory, Li Yu's fate would be: either be killed by Star Tear, who had hardened her heart, or be killed by Star Tear's clansmen.

Here, however, it was a different matter.

Star Tear had already experienced Li Yu's ability to control thresholds, so indulging once or twice was nothing.

However, at this moment, Star Tear probably did not have much interest in having fun.

She had clearly chosen the "Reincarnation Dream," and it was unknown what kind of dream she had experienced. Upon returning, she still had a look of envy and was full of reluctance to leave the beautiful dream.

She was also one of the few in the carriage who had no desire to destroy the present world.

The Dream Station is called a dream.

But in reality, the boundary with the real world is not very large, which is also the reason why Li Yu could borrow it to advance.

So in just three short hours, Star Tear had probably experienced and witnessed many beautiful dreams, to the point where she was somewhat unable to control herself.

Her heart and soul were very agitated.

When Li Yu looked at her, he actually gained a significant harvest.

Fate inspiration, possibilities, etc., whether they could be crafted into bait, how to train her... these all emerged one after another.

Perhaps it was because her origin was great and her background was very complex.

So the information Li Yu saw was even more than what he saw when looking at the mortal Liu Xiu earlier.

They all seemed very blurry!

But Li Yu combined this with the *Spirit Epic* he had glimpsed earlier and actually pieced it all together:

"Her ending, it seems, none of them are good."

"The best one: Pale death."

"To resist the 【Evil God】, and to lift the tragic fate of the Spirit Race, she might awaken the most powerful racial deity of the Spirit Race, the 【Spirit Race Death God】."

"But the price of awakening that divine entity is the death of the entire Spirit Race."

"She might still do it, and punish herself as the executor, a death sacrifice or something similar."

"The second future fate: she falls."

"Because she has tasted pleasure, combined with her Spirit Race constitution, and the constant bewitchment from the Evil God."

"She falls into becoming a Dark Spirit, becomes a new 【Evil God's Favored】, and chases me all over the world."

"To imprison me, to abuse me?"

"???"

When Li Yu peeked this far, his mind was already full of question marks.

Caught off guard, there was actually a role for him in this?

But upon second thought, it was indeed quite reasonable.

Originally, Xing Lei practiced absolute abstinence, but because of bad luck, she was caught by Li Yu and thoroughly ravished the moment she arrived at the Ancient God camp.

Not only did she taste that pleasure, but it also lasted a long time.

Once she falls into becoming a Dark Spirit, it is only natural that Li Yu would be the first one on her mind.

Come to think of it!

Li Yu also faintly realized at this moment:

Why, among so many passengers in the carriage, was only Xing Lei's "future fate" glimpsed by him?

One must know that there were far more people with agitated hearts and souls than just Xing Lei.

The most fundamental reason was that she had previously had indirect intimacy with Li Yu, and she had Li Yu's Qi in her body.

In other words: there was a medium.

"Hmm?"

Realizing this, a flash of inspiration suddenly arose in Li Yu's mind.

Before he could ponder it carefully, other futures of Xing Lei and matters related to bait also surfaced:

"She is excellent bait!"

"If she is used as bait, trained, and allowed to be parasitized by bait-threads, she can be cast into the boundless Spirit Realm to fish for many big targets."

"The most direct ones are the entire 【Spirit Race】, some branch factions of the Spirit Race, and some divine entities behind the Spirit Race."

"There is also one easier to hook: that Evil God. He can hardly resist the fall of such a female prophet; he will definitely bite the hook and be willing to pay a great price."

"Besides that, there is another powerful divine entity, 【Kind Father】. Among the many Spirit Race deities behind Xing Lei, there is a goddess whom the Kind Father has been coveting... If Xing Lei is used as bait, there is a high probability that the Kind Father can also be fished up."

"Because a special relationship has already been established between me and Xing Lei."

"The probability of success is very high."

"One only needs to ask her out, and by utilizing that act of intimacy, the two most important procedures—training and parasitism—can be completed simultaneously."

"Afterward, one only needs to cast a long line and wait for the harvest."

"Hiss!"

The astonishing information appearing in his eyes not only made the progress of the Truth Bubble jump, but also made Li Yu unable to help but gasp in his heart.

In this instant, he understood how powerful the strength he now possessed was.

And, how suicidal it was.

Good heavens!

Using a "Spirit Race female prophet" as bait to fish for a once incomparably glorious, star-system-dominating extraordinary race, as well as the divine entities behind them.

Even more terrifying is that one could also fish for two other powerful entities.

And, there is a high probability of success.

Li Yu first expressed disdain for the process and method of preparing the bait, then became wildly tempted.

He had previously been somewhat worried:

Although he had successfully advanced and obtained four alienated organs—【Buddha Bone】, 【Cursed Hand】, 【Sub-umbilical Silk Sac】, and 【Demon Dog Brain Marrow】—as well as the corresponding divine power.

But the pollution radiation also began to erupt from that moment, with an intensity far exceeding Li Yu's imagination, several times more terrifying than described in the secret medicine formula.

If Li Yu's body had not also been strengthened by divinity, he would have likely alienated the moment he returned.

But if things continued this way, he wouldn't last too long.

The solution was the advancement ritual, which is to dissociate pollution by consuming bait.

"The first candidate bait, it's here already?"

"Sending my pollution radiation to the Evil God, or the Kind Father, and exchanging it for some benefits is indeed a good choice."

"It's just that by doing so, Xing Lei as bait will inevitably be in danger, and might even be swallowed."

"With no grudges or enmity, especially after that overly intimate training method, can I really bear to send someone who has had skin-to-skin contact with me... out as bait?"

At this moment, without hesitation, Li Yu shook his head.

Absolutely not!

However, the moment he shook his head, he didn't know what he thought of, but a brilliant light lit up in his eyes again.

Immediately, Li Yu looked at the entire carriage, looking at every God-Chosen Favored and racial representative.

The previous inspiration had been continued.

A rather whimsical thought surfaced:

"Undoubtedly, including Xing Lei, these distinguished guests filling the carriage."

"No matter who it is, they are all very suitable to become my bait."

"But because there is no medium, I cannot see their fates or how to prepare them clearly."

"Since that is the case, then I will actively create a medium; other methods would mostly make them alert."

"Except for... eating!"

"It seems it is time to restart my private kitchen business?"

(End of chapter)