Chapter 63: Li Yu's Peculiar Habits

In the master bedroom, Li Yu suddenly froze before the electric eel lamp, then looked at his mechanical maid with a speechless expression.

He had long since realized that ever since he repaired that tiny bit of the flesh-and-blood secret core for Hongdou, she had gained some intelligence and autonomy.

Now it seemed her intelligence was still slowly increasing.

She had even learned to eavesdrop on conversations?

And she had even taken it upon herself to start evaluating things.

What was even more speechless was that Hongdou continued to emit a mechanical voice:

"Assessment complete: Master, as a human male, possesses no relevant fetishes and is incapable of feeling desire for a mechanical body."

"Purchasing a bionic skin suit may resolve this."

"Shall I contact the salesman Shi Dazhu to make a purchase? According to relevant records, there are options such as mature seductress, charming young matron, pure maiden, delicate young girl, etc., as well as special options such as seductive nun, half-demon spirit pet, female anomaly, and so on..."

"Stop, stop, stop!"

"Do not enable that for now, and there is no need to purchase anything. Just stay there and behave yourself."

"Understood, Master!"

Li Yu hurriedly spoke to stop Hongdou from continuing her assessment; if he let her go any further, she might skip a few steps and pounce on him directly.

The reason he was temporarily refusing the spirit-replenishing secret technique, besides his inability to feel desire for a "mechanical body," was mostly due to concerns about side effects and his unwillingness to spend such a long time doing something so perverse.

According to Shi Dazhu, for this secret technique to take effect, Li Yu would have to spend years and months replenishing Hongdou's spirit.

Once successful, although Hongdou's combat power would skyrocket, she would also develop a severe, distorted dependency on Li Yu as her master, becoming hostile toward any creature—or even other mechanical creations—that got too close to him; once a certain limit was reached, her chainsaw sword would force itself out of its sheath against the master's orders to hack the other party.

In a way, could this be considered cultivating an overly clingy battle maid?

"Only those perverts in Wanfu City could come up with such a forbidden secret technique; perhaps in their eyes, the side effects aren't a price to pay, but a benefit."

"The people from the Heavenly Craft Sect actually approved of this secret technique; this branch that came in to proselytize will likely be corrupted sooner or later. They're doomed."

While complaining in his heart, Li Yu began to quickly read through the discarded drafts.

In Wanfu City, he was forced to be a grinder.

If he didn't improve his strength for a single day, it was hard for his mind to be at peace.

There was no help for it; not only was the city full of perverted evil cultivators, but there were also high-sequence powerhouses like the "Three Sages" causing trouble in the shadows, or various sudden disasters.

In particular, Li Yu also vaguely felt that he truly possessed the constitution of a disaster star or a harbinger of doom.

In short, the more he could rely on, the better.

This batch of discarded drafts didn't bring many extraordinary secrets, and after finishing them, the eighth Truth Bubble had only charged up a tiny bit.

However, Li Yu spotted two pieces of news in the discarded drafts that interested him:

"Exclusive interview with this year's new citizens of Wanfu City, inviting refugees from the three great nations of Gan, Li, and Jing. We ask them to discuss why they abandoned those three powerful nations to embrace Wanfu City—is it because their brains are broken? Or is it because they are pursuing a better life?"

"The first group of interviewees: all the villagers from [Anan Village] of the Jing Kingdom."

"According to the account given by all of them, they were originally a normal village until a certain villager discovered a major loophole in one of the orthodox god sects, 'Buddhism,' which allowed them to borrow vast amounts of wealth, grain, and even strange items from the temples of various Bodhisattvas and Buddhas by making grand vows."

"Thus, the whole village set out and soon became the wealthiest village far and wide."

"But not long after, they faced the time to fulfill their vows and had to seek help from... very well, this is their reason for entering the city: to evade debt. How traditional."

"The second group of interviewees: a group of cultivators from the Gan Kingdom. Most of them are unranked or Sequence 8, and they don't belong to orthodox god sects, but rather unknown wild gods or deities whose paths have been severed. Their reasons for entering the city are very reasonable: they couldn't stand the strict, rigid rules of the Haotian Sect or the Earth Mother Sect."

"Indeed, indeed. The three nations are now completely occupied by the six major orthodox god sects. Cultivators of other paths, regardless of whether they are righteous or evil, are all branded as heretics, either openly or secretly. Only a place of supreme tolerance like Wanfu City is the blessed land for all cultivators."

"Damn it... this topic was killed too. I've practically licked Wanfu City until it bloomed and it still didn't pass. Truly disgusting."

"Major scandal! Huge scandal!"

"According to our reporter Dan Chenzi's multi-faceted investigation, it has been discovered that the three Sequence 6 leaders of the [Three Sages Gang], the overlords of the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop in the Southern District, have all suffered a major mishap."

"The three have not appeared in the gang for many days, and all affairs have been entrusted to envoys sent down from the Holy Nest."

"Coupled with the various signs that have appeared in the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop recently."

"This newspaper has reason to suspect: the three demon Daoists of the Three Sages Gang, in order to save their lives, have completely defected to the Holy Nest. A change is likely to occur in the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop next..."

"Damn, my, Dan Chenzi's, topic can be killed too?"

"My dignified Heavenly Craft Sect, what is there to fear from the Holy Nest? Could it be that the higher-ups are also cooperating with the Holy Nest?"

...The first discarded draft, although the information was wordy and mixed, after reading it patiently, Li Yu caught a glimpse of something.

For example, the process and methods by which refugees entered the city.

And for example, the composition of the refugees.

If he wasn't mistaken!

Wanfu City must have many members operating in the three great nations, using every method to trick people into falling into depravity, while also tricking those cultivators who couldn't stand the rules of the six major orthodox god sects into joining Wanfu City.

And they had special strange items and treasures that could silently pass through the three great forbidden zones.

"Those members are mostly people from the City Lord's Mansion?"

"And the benefits I can redeem after saving up enough merit might just be leaving the city with these mysterious people?"

Li Yu had no substantial evidence for these two speculations.

But inexplicably, he felt very certain in his heart.

If this was the case, the motivation in Li Yu's heart immediately became even stronger.

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Paying the fee to renounce one's status and redeem oneself was a scam; those who actually paid were mostly tricked into going out only to be slaughtered.

But the internal channels were likely real.

As for what obligations he would have to fulfill after getting out, that was a matter for later; he would leave this hellhole first.

And the news about the Three Sages Gang in the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop?

That Dan Chenzi might have actually guessed it all correctly.

The Three Sages Gang had completely defected to the Holy Nest and was brewing some conspiracy or change.

This branch of the Heavenly Craft Sect that came to Wanfu City to proselytize was indeed cooperating with the Holy Nest, and had even leaked some special technologies to them.

"This is troublesome!"

"I am currently just a mere Sequence 8 Pill Apprentice, how did I accidentally catch a glimpse of a conspiracy of this level?"

"If I accidentally leak this, I won't have my life left."

"It's a good thing my identity as a disaster star is well-hidden, otherwise it would be bad."

Li Yu muttered, his mind inexplicably recalling the Wisdom Star Shang Yang, whom he had tricked in the Anomaly Domain earlier.

This guy was the so-called prodigy of the Holy Nest.

He was even following his master, responsible for performing flesh-and-blood mechanical modifications on the "Three Sages."

The first thing they did was cut off the tiger whip, deer whip, and sheep whip of the three of them.

Wonder how the progress is going now?

Li Yu shook his head, dispelling the doubts in his heart.

Unknowingly, it was already around midnight.

Li Yu immediately stood up and summoned Hongdou, who was in a daze, to change his outward appearance and cover him up thoroughly; he planned to make another trip to the Peace Anomaly Market tonight.

"A few days ago, the Anomaly Market lowered its entry threshold, so unranked cultivators can enter too."

"I imagine the Anomaly Market tonight will be incredibly lively."

"If I don't bring Hongdou and don't bring medicinal food or spirit food, blending into the crowd shouldn't be noticed by anyone."

"First, I'll try to see if I can buy all the unknown mysterious materials in the [Anomaly-Infused Sacrificial Meat], then see if wandering the Anomaly Market for an hour can fill up the eighth Truth Bubble."

"The seventh one is full, yet it still can't shake that high-sequence secret medicine formula; I can only look forward to the eighth one."

"This Truth Soul Body is my greatest reliance, but I'm afraid it has also infected me with the bad habit of prying into secrets; even if I can't use it, not being able to know why that sequence formula is what it is still makes me feel like my heart is being clawed at, extremely uncomfortable."

PS: Thanks to book friend "Little Confused and Confused Again" for the 10,000 reward. I suddenly remembered this; I will thank the other book friends who tipped when the book goes on the shelves. Fatty Yu bows.

(End of chapter)