Chapter 117: 147, 148. Being Flirted With?

It was already late at night when Song Cheng returned to the An Mansion.

In the distance, beyond the vast farmland, one could still see dilapidated houses and abandoned pavilions standing empty.

That ocean of ruins, with its jagged bricks and tiles under the eerie moonlight, looked sharp and ghostly, standing silent and desolate like a ghost city.

Yet the brand-new Hanping Village seemed to have gathered all the radiance of the original Hanping Prefecture, and because there were so many powerful Martial Artists here, the Yang energy was unprecedentedly abundant, like an isolated fortress in the vast deep sea.

Restaurants, warehouses, and residences were the three most common types of buildings in Hanping Village today.

Residences were for people to live in, and currently, there were only a few types of people: Martial Artists, merchants, pharmacists, Soul-practitioners, beast tamers, farmers, cooks, servants, prostitutes, and so on. Warehouses were for the Ruyi Chamber of Commerce to rotate goods and store some strange trinkets; after all, this was a Small Town standing amidst a Ghost Tide, and strange treasures or weird objects were often found in the Ghost Tide.

Restaurants were the places Martial Artists loved to go to most, as they had gathered many of the excellent cooks from the original Hanping Prefecture. At the same time, you could even find many prostitutes here. These prostitutes were the best of the batch from the original Hanping Prefecture. When moving south, many prostitutes chose to stay behind. Firstly, because many of them were in poor health and feared dying of illness on the road or being caught in the chaos of war with an uncertain future; secondly, because the Ruyi Chamber of Commerce gave those who stayed behind a considerable subsidy.

Martial Artists had vigorous Qi and blood, and if they did not settle down, they often spent the night in restaurants. This was the Hanping Village of today, and also the Yin Gui Society.

When Song Cheng walked through Hanping Village, there were still many people on the streets, some singing wildly while drunk, some with their arms around each other's shoulders, others arguing angrily, presenting a scene of a bustling city.

Anyone walking here, if they did not know the strength of these people, would only think this was a relatively wealthy village, and would not imagine the hidden murderous intent here.

But no matter what they were doing, as soon as they saw Song Cheng, they would immediately stop their actions and respectfully call out, "Mr. Song."

Here, Mr. Song was unique and truly supreme.

However, Mr. Song was not doing very well today.

He felt an inexplicable heat in his heart.

It was the kind of heat a normal, healthy man would have.

In the Su Jia Yinshe, he hadn't seen the scene at the table, but he could imagine it: the cold, charming, and peerless sister-in-law, who was fierce and cold on the outside like an iceberg with thorns, had her legs crossed, her small bare feet swaying under the table, her toes tracing a path and lightly brushing against him.

When he looked over in surprise, the sister-in-law had cast an innocent and puzzled look, as if interrogating his thoughts.

Song Cheng rubbed his hair and cast this scene out of his mind.

After returning to the An Mansion and teasing A Ting and Xiao An for a while, he chose Xiao Yu'er's room.

A night of battle.

From the high snowy peaks to the deep Yin springs.

In the White Tiger Cave, golden light shone everywhere.

But inexplicably, during that battle, Song Cheng would always think of that scene in the Su Jia Yinshe, and suddenly become exceptionally fierce.

However, Xiao Yu'er quite liked it; she hugged him and said sweetly, "I like you, husband," before falling into a deep sleep.

The next day, morning.

Song Cheng did not pay any more attention to the Lishan King's side.

Regarding the Imperial Capital, he only deepened his understanding a little, realizing that even the Imperial Capital was just a part of the chessboard. The people who were truly playing the game were not on the surface.

His attention should be placed on the Buddhist Sect.

But he had no way to make contact with the Buddhist Sect.

However, he was not in a hurry.

There was plenty of time; he would wait until the Yin Gui Society's spies were developed.

An immortal had plenty of patience.

He told the Young Miss that "Su Mengzhen" would be staying for a long time and would be responsible for teaching A Ting, Xiao An, and Ling Xue, then went to the training grounds to continue practicing military formations.

He had to practice not only large military formations but also small ones.

Ying'er, Wang Tianchuan, and Ke Bucun, who served as the "beast tamer," followed closely behind.

Ying'er might have known the general idea, but the latter two had no idea what Song Cheng had done yesterday, nor did they know he had crushed a victorious army mixed with children of noble families.

In fact, before Song Cheng made his move, he didn't know "he was actually so unsolvable."

It was clearly just a simple "long-term Manifestation" and "a slightly more solid foundation," yet it had brought about such terrifying effects.

Subsequently, while training the "Qi Realm soldiers," Song Cheng began to ponder his own power.

Perhaps because of his experience, the deduction probability of his "Xuanwu True Qi" had improved again, but this was no longer his focus.

Self-deduction was an extremely long and major project.

What he was focusing on now was the combination of his existing powers.

And his current power, to put it plainly, actually consisted of three types: first, severing the enemy's body, which was the Xuanwu Six Forms plus the Grey Membrane state.

Multiple phantoms retracted into the body formed the Grey Membrane.

Second, attacking the enemy's Soul, which was the One-Tail Fox Dance, Five-Tail Soul Fire, and Six-Tail Mother-Child Spirit.

Third, trapping the enemy and detaining the enemy's Soul, which was the Evil Ghost Reappearance, Extreme Bliss World, and Great Dark Heaven.

The three types of power were very scattered, and he could only use one at a time.

Song Cheng pondered whether he could fuse them together.

Days like this passed for four or five days.

Five days later, while Song Cheng was still pondering, Ling'er arrived by carriage, calling out, "Husband, husband," and when Song Cheng approached, she said in a strange voice, "The head of the Su Family is here."

Song Cheng nodded, got into the carriage, and immediately asked, "Ling'er, your tone seems to be hiding something."

Ling'er said, "Husband, you will understand when you see the head of the Su Family."

Her tone was quite strange.

Song Cheng decided to keep some curiosity, so he did not get to the bottom of it.

But throughout the carriage ride, he kept wondering what had happened to Su Mengzhen. Hanping Village was not as large as Hanping Prefecture; after a while, the carriage arrived at the mansion, and Song Cheng saw a back figure wearing a snow-white full-length dress from afar.

That back figure was extremely charming, yet the full-length dress was incredibly dignified, with long sleeves and a hem dragging to the ankles.

Just as Song Cheng was wondering who it was, the back figure turned her head with a smile, glancing at Song Cheng from afar; her apricot-blossom-like eyes were like a pair of hooks.

It seemed like a hook, or perhaps just a simple glance, and the owner of that back figure turned back to continue talking.

She was surrounded by three children: A Ting, Xiao An, and Ling Xue.

For a moment, she took on a certain pure and innocent quality like a child.

Song Cheng finally understood why Ling'er felt it was strange.

Because Su Mengzhen was wearing too much. Wrapped in a pure white long dress, she appeared dignified, charming, and cold, yet because she was with the children, she also appeared pure. Song Cheng inexplicably thought of the small feet that had slid back and forth under the desk that day and secretly thought: "As expected, I was overthinking it. That's right, how could my sister-in-law possibly flirt with me?"

He took a deep breath, walked over, and smiled at A Ting and the others: "Have you called for Teacher Su?"

"Tea—cher—Su—" the three children said in unison.

Su Mengzhen began to smile.

It was not seductive, but very beautiful, like a pure, innocent little white flower.

She listed some medicinal ingredients needed for refining Pill and handed them to Ling'er, then immediately began to teach the three children.

Song Cheng's days temporarily returned to normal.

Drilling troops, drilling troops; during the drilling, he also used the Double Fish Skull Jade to contact Lady Zhushan and Zhao Hua several times.

Lady Zhushan and the Great Barbarian King were in Yu Prefecture.

However, because there were aristocratic families in Yu Prefecture "colluding" with the Barbarian King, Lady Zhushan's status began to become less important.

Now that the world was in chaos, the walking representatives of the aristocratic families who had originally been lurking in various border regions had also emerged one after another.

Lady Zhushan was merely a "secondary contemplator of the aristocratic family children," and although she was learned, she did not have many advantages.

If it weren't for the fact that she had helped the Barbarian greatly in the beginning, and that Song Cheng was the master of the Barbarian King's pair of children, she would likely have completely faded from the Barbarian King's center of power long ago.

Song Cheng suddenly proposed the suggestion of "letting her return to Hanping Village instead."

Lady Zhushan looked glamorous, but in reality, she was already of advanced age.

For a Soul refiner, one's own lifespan does not increase; perhaps in not many years, this lady who had the grace of teaching Tong Niangzi would grow old and die.

Lady Zhushan said she would consider it further.

Song Cheng added another sentence: "If the Barbarian King is unwilling, you can let me speak with him."

Lady Zhushan was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Lady Zhushan, who had stayed among the Barbarian for so long, must have mastered many important "techniques" of the Barbarian, and among them, perhaps included the "most terrifying" "Taming Technique" of the Barbarian; this "Taming Technique" made the Barbarian iron cavalry exceptionally powerful.

Under the condition that the quality of the soldiers was about the same, if the Barbarian army and the Great Shang army fought, the Barbarian side only needed a third-rate general to fight to a draw with a first-rate general from the Great Shang side.

Besides "Taming Technique," there was actually "Witchcraft."

With the children of the Central Plains aristocratic families emerging one after another, the power of the Barbarian had instead become a rare commodity.

Lady Zhushan had, nine times out of ten, mastered these rare commodities; after all, she had once been at the center of the Barbarian's power and was extremely eager to learn.

And when these "techniques" could return to Hanping Village and fall into Song Cheng's hands, his sense of security would increase by a few points.

As for Zhao Hua's side, after Song Cheng saw the 100 favorability rating above his head that had never changed, he knew that this was still his younger brother.

Zhao Hua began to chat with him about some strange topics: the Imperial Capital.

He seemed to know quite a lot about the affairs of the Imperial Capital, and each time they connected, he could bring him new information.

"Big Brother, the two surnames of the Imperial Capital, the Divine Weapon Feng Surname and the Star-Gazing Yan Surname, seem to have developed a great conflict... That Yan Surname seems to have lost its entire heritage."

"The Yan Surname heritage? It is said to be Star-Gazing, to borrow the timing of Heaven. The timing of Heaven is the great trend of Heaven and Earth. But no one in the current Yan Family knows how."

"Big Brother, there are rumors outside saying that the Lishan King, who is leading troops outside for the Yan Family, is holding his position and shrinking behind the Wu River; this means he is going to rebel."

"In my opinion, this is the struggle in the Imperial Capital becoming increasingly intense."

"Big Brother, the Fengzhou Cui Family says that the Three Thousand Ever-Victorious Army of Gongyang Gu at Duanhun Gu was actually wiped out by you alone. The relationship between the Yan Family and the Su Family has also been dug up... and the only person who can provide support to that Su Family head is you."

"Now the Qi Family is also very wary of you and wants to meet with you through me."

"I know Big Brother doesn't like this bustle, so I helped you decline it."

"However, Big Brother, are you going to help the Yan Family?"

"Mm, understood, Big Brother is not helping the Yan Family, but only to save that general named Yan Baixiang."

On the other side, the Su Family head was teaching the three children while taking the medicinal herbs sent by Tong Niangzi to begin refining Pill.

When she was refining Pill, Tong Niangzi would assist.

Thus, when Tong Niangzi returned, Song Cheng would know that Su Mengzhen was free, and then send the children to learn.

Days like this passed and passed and passed, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month had gone by.

Even in the North Land, the weather had become hot.

On this day, the three children returned from learning in the courtyard next door.

Before long, Ling'er ran over again and said to Song Cheng, who had just returned from the drilling field: "Brother-in-law, the Su Family head wants you to go over for a moment."

Song Cheng knew that Su Mengzhen should have finished refining Pill and it was time to undergo the tribulation.

He strolled to the courtyard next door; compared to last month, the sister-in-law's snow-white long dress was worn thinner and thinner, and now it was silk, light and thin, even transparent, and one could vaguely see her hazy long legs behind it.

"Little Song, I have finished refining Pill."

"Then tidy up a bit, and we will set off tomorrow."

"Mm." Su Mengzhen responded, then gazed at Song Cheng from afar; those eyes looked at him very earnestly, as if all the brilliance was focused on him, and the air suddenly became quiet.

Song Cheng felt an inexplicable dryness in his abdomen; he was just about to turn his head, but his sister-in-law smiled brightly and beckoned: "Why are you standing so far away? Your A Ting left a painting here; I found it, so you can just take it back, and then say goodbye to your wives properly... The Reappearance Tribulation is not something that can be overcome in a day or two."

Song Cheng smiled; he discovered he was still standing in front of the courtyard gate, so he walked over quickly and said: "A Ting is really scatterbrained."

"Not really, A Ting is quite good, and she has great potential."

Su Mengzhen replied earnestly, then turned around and leaned over a pile of books and paintings to search.

Song Cheng was originally still waiting, but he suddenly felt something was wrong.

Su Mengzhen was facing away from him, very close; her buttocks, wrapped in snow-colored thin gauze, were raised, and because of this, they were outlined in a beautiful curve by the naturally hanging crystalline skirt gauze. A breeze blew gently.

The hem of the skirt also swayed slightly.

The action of searching would also bring about a bit of twisting.

And just at this moment, the Su Family head suddenly turned her head and said to him: "Little Song, why are you stunned? Come over and search with me; recently, the children have drawn too many paintings and practiced too much calligraphy."

Song Cheng nodded.

He walked over.

The two leaned against each other, their occasional physical contact seeming intentional yet also unintentional.

Song Cheng had never felt this way before; his breathing inexplicably quickened, and when he looked at his sister-in-law beside him, those intellectual yet pure eyes were intently fixed on the pile of paintings in front of her, seemingly unaware of his abnormality at all.

Though Song Cheng had a doubt in his heart: Is Su Mengzhen flirting with him?

But there was absolutely no evidence.

And absolutely no motive.

If one spoke of the connection with the Su Family, he was currently practicing the Su Family's Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit Scripture, his wife was Su Mengzhen's younger sister, and Su Mengzhen herself had offspring; the connection between the two sides was already deep enough, so Su Mengzhen had no reason to flirt with him.

Everything seemed as if he were simply overthinking.

But this kind of overthinking was clearly immoral.

He shook his head, thinking to himself, "Perhaps it is because my Qi and blood have been surging wildly these past few days; I cannot keep thinking like this."

And just as he was distracted, a sound came to his ears again.

"Little Song, what is wrong?"

Song Cheng subconsciously turned his head, happening to meet Su Mengzhen, who was also looking at him from the side.

That face was charming yet intellectual, her expression full of concern, her eyes looking at him earnestly—only him.

Time seemed to stand still.

Their two faces were very close.

"Found it."

The sister-in-law suddenly raised a hand, and amidst a light laugh, she mischievously blocked a painting between the two of them, shielding their lines of sight, then stood up, pulled away, and said with a cold, charming posture that kept people at a distance: "Little Song, your state does not seem very good; the Reappearance Tribulation is no joke, you must adjust your state, you... hurry and go prepare."

Song Cheng only felt an inexplicable itch in his heart; he really wanted to ask, "Sister Su, are you flirting with me?", but he felt that this way of asking was quite rude. Thus, he stood up, brushed off his Jin Clothing, and took the painting.

Upon looking, it was a painting of a hundred beasts.

Although what A Ting painted could not yet be called lifelike, she clearly had great talent in composition.

"Teacher Su taught well." He smiled and left with the painting.

Regarding the Reappearance Tribulation, Song Cheng did not need to prepare at all.

Because this tribulation was his "weakened version of the Extreme Bliss World plus the Great Dark Heaven," and he would join in it, accompanying Su Mengzhen to undergo the tribulation together.

But he was not purely "acting as a babysitter."

Recently, he had been pondering the fusion of power.

And patiently experiencing his own Reappearance might allow him to find the answer, or at least lead to a more complete application of his power.

That night, for the sake of saying goodbye, Song Cheng specifically had the three women sleep together.

After a fierce night, the next day, he prepared some simple food and set off north with his sister-in-law, who was already prepared.

The two soon left Hanping Village.

Song Cheng led the way, heading toward an uninhabited canyon.

After entering the canyon, he quietly released the Human-Skin Ghost; the eerie Ghost Qi turned into gray mist and spread out, like a hazy, dark-toned river beginning to fill the rugged and winding narrow paths of the canyon.

Su Mengzhen looked around cautiously.

She had not experienced the Reappearance Tribulation, but people in the Su Family had, so she generally understood the horror of the "Reappearance Tribulation" and the mental distortion that would occur within it; to deal with this distortion, the method left by their ancestors was to "deliberately reveal a flaw" and then let the Reappearance Tribulation erupt within this flaw.

This kind of thing was actually just a few words.

Therefore, Su Mengzhen had not said it while in Hanping Village, but now, seeing that they had already broken into the Ghost mist, she said seriously: "Little Song, there is actually a secret to the matter of undergoing the tribulation; I did not tell you before because it was inconvenient. Now that it is about to begin, I will tell you."

"Please speak, Sister Su."

Song Cheng was also quite curious about what the secret was.

After all, he himself had nearly died when he underwent the Reappearance Tribulation for real.

The Reappearance Tribulation is quite unsolvable.

You need to experience the pain of the Ghost, and it is even a Double Ghost, only then can you increase the strength of your Soul, subsequently nourishing your physical body to reach the level of "Mysterious Grade Grade C."

Su Mengzhen said: "On that previously destroyed continent, I heard quite a bit about the Reappearance Tribulation. The Reappearance Tribulation is actually a kind of mental distortion of the Ghost; if you do nothing, and only remain vigilant and panicked, resigning yourself to your fate, then you will experience everything the Ghost experiences, and that is a dead end."

Song Cheng:... Alright.

He was indeed on a dead end.

At the very moment he was put into a pig cage and thrown into the water, he had actually died. If not for the fact that Yun E's Reappearance Tribulation was very special, with a "young boy who saved Yun E" inside, he would have drowned directly in that Tanghe without anyone to save him.

As expected, was he just blindly undergoing the tribulation at that time?

Song Cheng secretly said he was lucky, then asked again: "Sister Su, then what should be done?"

Su Mengzhen said: "The Reappearance Tribulation reappears the mental world of the Ghost.

We experience the Reappearance Tribulation in order to temper our own Souls.

Therefore, we must resist, not submit.

Simply put, we must find what we want to do within the Reappearance Tribulation, and then persevere in holding onto it.

Little Song, I have learned that you are obsessed with the martial Dao, so you can take practicing martial arts as the thing you want to do.

And as for me, compared to power, I prefer the zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting, so in the Reappearance Tribulation, I will put down power and just be obsessed with the zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

Although the Double Ghost is much stronger than us, it is not completely insurmountable, especially since it is not the Ghost Tide Period now; it is still sleeping, so its power is weakened quite a bit.

If the two of us resist, we can distort it back."

"So that's how it is." Song Cheng was thoughtful.

Su Mengzhen said: "But in the Reappearance Tribulation, everyone is extremely sensitive to the spirit; a tiny thought could distort your ideas and make you become unrecognizable.

Therefore, we must deliberately reveal a flaw in our hearts to control the direction of the mental distortion."

After finishing, Su Mengzhen suddenly said: "Little Song, have you ever thought about tearing my dress and having me?"

Song Cheng was stunned.

Coldly alluring, pure, intellectual, and yet, in this moment as the head of the Su Family, that common, vulgar tone of hers was filled with the most primal temptation; a single instant was enough to ignite every dark thought hidden within a person's heart.

And just in the time it took for him to be stunned, the sister-in-law had already changed the subject, saying solemnly, "Little Song, everything is just for the sake of passing the tribulation."

"Passing the tribulation concerns life and death; if we fail, both you and I could perish, our souls scattered. So... let go of that flaw, because this is the flaw most easily controlled when two people are passing the tribulation together."

"After the tribulation, your thoughts will slowly recover; just treat it as a Dream that only you and I know about, and don't mention it to anyone else."

"Besides, it might not necessarily come to that step. We are just making preparations... If, if we are drawn into the Ghost's emotions, then, you think of this, and use this stronger emotion to restore our rhythm."

The sister-in-law said this earnestly, then emphasized it once more: "Only for the sake of passing the tribulation; after the tribulation, this matter will be a secret between you and me."

Song Cheng did not know what to say.

Was this actually the sister-in-law flirting with him? But regardless of whether it was or not, the sister-in-law had already used her own strength to interpret the word "temptation" to the extreme.

If it were truly a Reappearance Tribulation, Song Cheng would certainly have gone along with the sister-in-law's idea, but... the Reappearance Tribulation was under his control.

Then, let's go in first and see.

So, he nodded and said, "Sister Su, we shall act according to the situation."

Su Mengzhen's expression was cold and alluring; she no longer looked at him, but simply smoothed her long skirt over her hips, said "Good," then tossed a bottle of the refined Pill to Song Cheng and instructed, "Eat it; it nourishes the Soul and breaks through illusions."

The gray fog grew thicker, and the two continued forward; the canyon disappeared, turning into a town.

Su Mengzhen looked back, and the path they had come from was gone as well.

A cold, gloomy wind blew from the narrow, old alleyway, carrying the stench of alcohol, vomit, and the mixed smell of rotting bricks and wood, making one feel dizzy.

The two walked carefully, when suddenly... a shadow rushed out from a small alley.

It was a burly man.

In an instant, the burly man arrived behind Su Mengzhen and Song Cheng.

Slap! Su Mengzhen was completely unable to resist and was knocked unconscious instantly.

The burly man raised his hand, intending to strike Song Cheng as well.

Song Cheng glared at him coldly, and the burly man's raised hand just followed through to scratch the back of his head, and then... in his eyes, Song Cheng became a "transparent person," and he paid him no more mind.

The unconscious Su Mengzhen was thrown into a newly made iron cage, and just as the cage door was about to close, Song Cheng raised his hand to hold the door, but after a moment of thought, he still did not go in.

This was clearly a reappearance of the Human-Skin Ghost; the Human-Skin Ghost had experienced these things back then.

Song Cheng could not interfere, because this was the Reappearance Tribulation.

If Sister Su could not complete this tribulation, she would be unable to break through.

Therefore, he turned and ducked into another cage.

The black cloth was pulled over, followed by jolting and dragging; at first, there were still the sounds of a busy market, but slowly, only the sound of the wind remained, and finally, the sound of crashing waves.

Clearly, the ship had set out to sea.

Inside the cage, Su Mengzhen slowly regained consciousness, and she subconsciously called out, "Little Song?"

There was no response from the darkness.

"Little Song!?"

Su Mengzhen panicked.

She groped around the cage quickly, only to discover that she was the only one locked in this not-so-small cage.

She immediately threw herself against the cage, only to find she had no strength at all, and the black cloth covering the cage was extremely heavy; she could not lift it even a little, yet the sound of the waves and the swaying sensation made her realize she must be on a sea vessel.

The initial plan had been completely shattered.

Some past thoughts of good and evil suddenly became extremely delicate, then began to swell and expand, as if countless little people were shouting in Su Mengzhen's mind with megaphones.

Su Mengzhen was dazed and confused, but she knew she could not go on like this.

If she let the reappearance continue to develop, she would surely die.

"Little Song!!" she shouted like a drowning person.

And just at this moment... Clatter!! The black cloth was ripped open suddenly.

Sea breeze and sunlight rushed in together.

A man with a handlebar mustache wearing wide, ornate robes was smiling, ordering people to bring over another iron cage.

Inside that iron cage was a leopard.

The handlebar-mustache man tossed a piece of meat into the iron cage; the leopard immediately leaned over, sniffing and smelling it, and after trying a lick, it finally leaned in and began to eat.

"Hungry?"

The handlebar-mustache man suddenly looked elegantly toward Su Mengzhen's side and smiled, "If you are hungry, observe this leopard more; you will thank me for the hint."

Su Mengzhen looked into the distance and discovered that on the deck, there were not only her cage and the leopard's cage, but many others, each containing a child; Little Song was also locked in a cage.

"Sister Su!"

Song Cheng shouted loudly.

But he was interrupted by the sound of a violent whip crack.

Su Mengzhen continued to observe.

She discovered that in the cages opposite everyone, there was an animal; there were rabbits, there were sheep.

Those children were clearly the same as her, having received the hint from the handlebar-mustache man, and were now watching the animals in front of them with both terror and focus.

Rumble, rumble... sounds came from the children's stomachs.

They were hungry.

Extremely hungry.

The handlebar-mustache man clapped his hands, and immediately, burly men brought over delicious meat steaks and fragrant rice.

He smiled and said, "Only animals may eat."

Having said that, he pointed to the girl in front of the rabbit cage and said, "You must become a rabbit."

He pointed to the girl in front of the sheep cage and said, "You must become a sheep."

After chasing in a circle, he looked at Su Mengzhen and said, "You must become a leopard."

"If the imitation isn't like the real thing and you don't get food, don't blame me."

At the beginning, no one imitated at all, but slowly, someone finally started; regardless of whether it was like the real thing or not, they all received food as a reward to a greater or lesser extent.

Su Mengzhen only felt her heart suddenly occupied by an intense fear; her self-consciousness began to slowly blur, as if those many noisy thoughts had all disappeared, and what remained was a thought that did not belong to her, the thought of a Ghost.

She bit her lip stubbornly, shrinking alone in the corner of the cage, her hands hugging her knees; at this moment, how could she still remember any "emergency plan"?

The man with the handlebar mustache smiled and squatted in front of her cage, holding a small lamb chop roasted to a golden brown in his hand, shaking it slightly.

The sea breeze carried the fragrance of the lamb chop away.

"Want to eat?"

Su Mengzhen did not answer; she endured stubbornly, not saying a single word.

The man with the handlebar mustache laughed: "If you are too hungry to have any strength, you will be thrown directly into the sea; there are too many stubborn little children. However, only by filling your stomach first can you change your fate, isn't that so?"

Thus, after being hungry for two days, Su Mengzhen finally began to imitate a leopard.

As for the girls on the deck who were sick or performed poorly, they were thrown directly into the sea.

Su Mengzhen's performance was not very good because she resisted in her heart.

I do not know how many days passed, but the ship stopped at a deserted island; the deserted island was filled with cages, and the cages were full of girls imitating animals; some girls had already become delirious, they had completely forgotten that they were human, but precisely because of this, they also ate the best and lived the best.

It seemed that a complete force existed on the island.

These forces were training the girls, wanting them to turn into animals.

These people formulated various policies.

Slowly, Su Mengzhen was also unable to resist; in order to fill her stomach, she imitated desperately, and her seriousness allowed her talent to be brought into play; she became the best among this batch of people.

And the man with the handlebar mustache seemed to have added some medicine to their food; these medicines kept them in a state of hallucination; hallucination plus imitation made people no longer human.

A mysterious doctor began to change the appearance of some children who had completely become accustomed to their "new identities"—those children's skin turned into fur.

Fur of all colors.

Rabbit fur, sheep fur, cat fur, dog fur, and even the feathers of certain birds; Su Mengzhen was also, in a daze, implanted with leopard fur.

In the terrifying "Extreme Bliss World", Song Cheng sat on a tree branch; the operation of this Reappearance allowed his comprehension of the Dao of power to gradually deepen, and he also saw the performance of his sister-in-law entirely.

Seeing this, he could not help but sigh.

It seems that the "Reappearance Tribulation" is not something that can be passed just like that; it can be said that the sister-in-law thought she knew enough about the Reappearance Tribulation, but in fact... she was not capable enough.

If this tribulation were not a tribulation he had manifested, the sister-in-law would likely have had no chance of survival at all.

Even the head of the Su Family would die in the "Reappearance Tribulation", let alone others.

Thinking back to the performance of the scions of the great families from the Six Towns earlier, Song Cheng roughly understood the current great families; someone like his sister-in-law was actually about the ceiling.

As for the "Holy Heaven Buddha" and "Arhat" he encountered, they were counted separately.

As the mysterious veil of this continent slowly fell, Song Cheng suddenly discovered that his current strength was likely already among the most top-tier, most behind-the-scenes group of people.

Watching his sister-in-law still crawling on the grass, completely forgetting her original thoughts and plans.

Song Cheng was quietly waiting for Su Mengzhen to need to complete this sequence, and at the moment of final death, he would appear to wake his sister-in-law up directly, so as to enter the next Reappearance Tribulation, and then do the same, until the final successful crossing of the tribulation.

However, looking at his sister-in-law crawling now, a strange heat rose in the bottom of Song Cheng's heart, but he hurriedly took a deep breath and suppressed it completely.

(End of this chapter)