Chapter 295: Broken Ugly

A hillside on the south side of Meishencheng was the location of the cemetery. The environment here was beautiful, the scenery was pleasant, and the view was delightful. Standing on the slope, one could overlook Meishencheng.

The slope was clean and dry, transparent from north to south, and rows of tombs were hidden in the low bushes. The wind blew from north to south, and a fresh corpse could be blown into a dried one in a few days.

Besides being a cemetery, this was also the habitat of undead creatures. Some skeletons and zombies working nearby would return here to rest after finishing work in the morning, avoiding the sun to refine their souls, and incidentally taking a bath.

The skeletons and zombies of Meishencheng were the cleanest corpses in all planes, so clean that they could be placed in a room.

At dawn, Liu, holding a clean suede towel and linen cloth, stepping on a leather-blown sheep oil brush, etc., arrived at the entrance of the cemetery, waiting for the returning undead creatures.

The name Liu was very strange. It didn't look like a normal person's name, because this wasn't a name at all, but something others called her casually. It was called so much that it finally became fixed. Even she didn't know what it meant.

Anyway, when others made this sound, she knew they were calling her.

However, generally, not many people would be willing to look for her. Only when bullying her would everyone call out that word. But as she grew older and looked more and more ugly, even those who were willing to bully her were gone.

Seeing her, whether it was adults or children, they would run away. Adults would be a bit more subtle, at most speeding up their pace, while children would scream in terror and run away.

Sometimes, when she scared children, she would be beaten up by people wielding big sticks, and she would run away holding her head.

Let's see what kind of ugly appearance this was. Her face was crooked, her right cheek was high and her left cheek was low, which caused her eyes not to be on the same line. Her forehead and mouth were the same. On her face, one couldn't find anything symmetrical.

This also led to her teeth being deformed and protruding, and her lips leaking air.

Besides an ugly face, she also had rough skin, large pores, deformed and swollen joints, long hands and short feet. From afar, she looked like a legendary stitched monster, and ordinary people would be scared to death.

On the ugly face, the only thing that could be looked at was probably her clear eyes.

From afar, some figures moved slowly and stiffly in the morning light, and soon arrived at the entrance of the cemetery. Seeing these "people," Liu revealed a smile. These "people" were the only ones who saw her smile but didn't hit her.

"Morning." A skeleton moved to Liu's front. Liu greeted enthusiastically, not caring whether the skeleton could understand, and then stepped on the leather blower under her feet.

It was a giant leather bag clamped by two wooden boards. With one step, the air inside would be squeezed out.

Liu held a soft tube, aimed the front at the skeleton's bones. The air sprayed out under high pressure would spray onto the bones. The mud, grass seeds, moisture, dirt, etc., caught in the joints, gaps, and holes would be sprayed clean by the high-pressure air.

Watching a dirty skeleton become clean in her hands, Liu's whole face smiled and unfolded, looking even uglier.

But it didn't matter. The skeletons and zombies in front of her wouldn't mock her, nor would they hit her, only walking silently into the cemetery.

Liu didn't care either. This was her favorite job. She continued to spray air at the second skeleton, then the third, until the front was replaced by zombies.

The cleaning work of zombies was much more troublesome than that of skeletons. Blow dry the stains and moisture on the body, brush off stubborn dirt with a brush, then wipe dry with a suede towel, then apply sheep oil, rub, let the oil penetrate into the skin, and then wipe dry—the same routine as maintaining leather.

Cleaning one zombie was more troublesome than ten skeletons, but Liu didn't care, still doing the cleaning very carefully and attentively, and every zombie skeleton that came to her front, she would greet enthusiastically: "Morning."

A zombie suddenly let out a roar: "*Hiss—*"

Liu looked up and said happily: "It's you, Red Pants. Morning, what work did you do last night?"

One could see a piece of red pants showing from the zombie's clothes. Presumably because of this feature, it was called this.

"*Hiss—*" the zombie responded.

Liu naturally couldn't hear what the other party wanted to express in a roar, but she could see a lot of information on the other party's body. From the rice left on this zombie, she could know: "You went to shell the grain, right? There's no mud or water under the bones' feet, so it shouldn't be in the field."

Zombies were afraid of water and wouldn't go into the field to plant things, but they would thresh, dry, and carry big bags. Their strength was greater than skeletons, and they weren't easily broken.

After being busy for half the morning, finally all the skeleton zombies were cleaned. Liu returned to her little hut, took out a piece of hard bread, placed it on the charcoal fire to bake, baked it soft, and then carefully took a bite, her face revealing a happy and satisfied expression.

Before coming to Meishencheng, she had never been full, let alone eaten this kind of pure grain bread. Having a few pieces of moldy black bread was already very good.

That kind of black bread, even if baked, was as hard as a stone, and there were gravel, sand, and straw inside. If one wasn't careful, one would break their teeth or cut their lips.

Before coming to Meishencheng, Liu didn't even know that bread could have no stones, so that even now when she chewed bread, she would still be careful. That was a habit formed in the past.

Some sounds came from outside the cemetery. Liu quickly pulled up her hood to cover her face, revealing only two eyes, and quietly slipped out of the hut, hiding in the grass to observe.

One could see from afar that a group of people were walking up the slope. The leader, Lisa, shouted: "Liu, come out for a moment."

If it were someone else calling her, Liu wouldn't come out, but Lisa was an exception. This was the only person Liu had met in her life who wouldn't mock, beat, or insult her because of her appearance, and even tried to treat and beautify her.

Originally, Liu's right hand was broken. When she was a child, someone kicked her. She blocked it and broke her wrist. She had no money for treatment, and after it healed, it was crooked.

After coming to Meishencheng, Lisa broke her wrist again and treated it, which was how the crooked right hand was cured.

Lisa also tried to beautify her, but the omnipotent Cleansing Technique and Spot Removal Technique lost their effect on Liu, and instead had a trend of getting uglier the more she treated her.

At that time, there was also a pharmacist named Alchemist Sawa present, who said: "Your ugliness is innate, and the more you treat it, the more serious this ugliness becomes, so you can only keep it as it is now."

Liu nodded and had no other thoughts.

Later, Lisa arranged for her to be here. No matter how ugly she was, the skeleton zombies wouldn't mind, so Liu lived very happily.

Now Lisa brought a large group of people to find her. Although she was a bit afraid, Liu still walked out timidly.

"I saw you long ago, come over. Take off your hood and let the Lord see you," Lisa said with a smile. Not to mention hiding in the grass, even burying herself in the soil would be useless; she had already been discovered by her.

Liu carefully squinted and saw the people beside Lisa. The one in front was actually a flying brass dragon.

She was very guarded against people, but not against dragons. She looked curiously and lifted her hood timidly.

The face under the hood startled Lord Nai Ge: "This... this is too... how could she grow like this? Didn't you beautify her?"

Although Lord Nai Ge was a brass dragon, his aesthetics were normal. Like this asymmetrical face, it certainly didn't belong to a kind of beauty. Presumably, if this face were placed among the half-orcs, it would also belong to the ugly kind.

It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned this, but as soon as he did, Lisa wanted to cry: "How could I not? I almost changed her face."

Lisa said: "Although the standards of beauty are different, some people think short hair and wide lips are good-looking, some people think high noses and deep eyes are good-looking, but as long as they are healthy, no matter what they look like, they can have their own beauty."

"Zi Hai has such a big size, her back muscles are wider than male Titans, but when she does training, a bunch of fitness enthusiasts are drooling and watching there. If it weren't for the huge difference in body size, they would all be prepared to pursue Zi Hai."

Thinking of the scene where Zi Hai, over three meters tall and big enough to treat lightning like a little pony, was being pursued by a bunch of men who were hugging and rubbing her, Lord Nai Ge shuddered, hurriedly shaking his head to drive the picture in his mind away.

"In my cognition, healthy is beautiful, but this cognition doesn't hold true for Liu. The healthier she is, the uglier she looks. The better the nutrition, the more obvious the ugliness."

"For a period of time, I also sent her meat and beets, making her face greasy and even growing acne, ugly enough to be a bit scary. Later I didn't send any. Just chewing bread, her condition was actually a bit better," Lisa said sorrowfully.

Alchemist Sawa raised her hand and said: "I went back to check the information and found that this situation is innate, and it worsens with age. The bigger she gets, the uglier she gets. Many people don't live past ten years old. I suspect that there is an extra thing in the body that produces 'ugly elements.' The healthier she is, the more 'ugly elements' are produced, and the more serious the situation."

"Is there any potion that can treat it?" Lord Nai Ge asked.

Alchemist Sawa shook her head: "No."

Lord Nai Ge then turned to Ang and said: "Okay, the person you want has been found. Meishen can't cure it, and potions can't handle it. It depends on your god skill."

Ang nodded and reached out to grab at Liu.

Liu only felt her whole body stiffen, and she couldn't move instantly. On her body, an ugly phantom was "grabbed" out by Ang.

Without the wrapping of clothes, one could see her ugliness even more from the phantom. The proportions of her limbs were uncoordinated, her joints were swollen, and some places were bent, which was very ugly.

Ang gestured a few times at this phantom and suddenly asked: "What is beauty?"

The people around instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

"You are the God of Beauty, and you still ask what beauty is..." Lord Nai Ge said helplessly.

Lisa hurriedly interrupted: "If it's a girl, like me, like Alchemist Sawa, like Katie, they are all beautiful. We are more in line with the aesthetics of women. But Zi Hai is also beautiful, power beauty. But skeletons and dried corpses, if put on a girl, it's not beautiful. Although your golden skeleton is very imposing, it doesn't fit the aesthetics of women."

"Oh." Ang nodded, indicating understanding.

The phantom hand squeezed hard a few times, the phantom kept changing, and finally, certain things seemed to be fixed. Ang's other fist was raised, and he punched the phantom, shattering it.

Liu's whole body shook, and she sat on the ground.

One second, two seconds, three... two minutes passed, and everyone looked at each other: "That's it? There's no change at all."

"Didn't you say it was a god skill?"

Everyone was confused, whispering. Liu, who had fallen to the ground and climbed up again, couldn't see any changes at all.

"What's going on? Isn't it a god skill? Why is there no change?" Lord Nai Ge asked.

Ang turned out a pile of food and piled it in front of Liu, stomping his footprint forcefully.

It wasn't that there was no change, but the change needed time to change. If it were just the God of Beauty, it might take several months for this kind of change to be presented. Fortunately, Ang still had the Fast Death Aura.

Under the aura, Liu quickly felt that she was hungry, grabbed the food in front of her, and gnawed. As she gnawed, she felt her teeth fall out, and she spat out some deformed and broken teeth.

How could this be? Liu subconsciously touched her gum with her tongue and found that new teeth had already grown.

As she ate, Liu found that the joints of her fingers had shrunk a lot, her skin had become much more delicate, and a kind of unprecedented relaxed feeling came from her body, as if all kinds of shackles on her body had been smashed one by one.

Because there was no mirror, Liu's own feeling wasn't strong, but the feelings of the onlookers were completely different. They watched with their own eyes as an ugly monster like a half-orc changed bit by bit, at a speed visible to the naked eye, into a stunningly beautiful woman.

This woman was a bit like Lisa, moist and plump, a bit like Alchemist Sawa, tall and pure, and a bit like Katie, gentle but charming...

"Ku Ba Da, Ang, did you really rub the advantages of the three of them together?" Lord Nai Ge said incredulously.

"Heavens, Lord, what kind of punch is this? Can you give me a punch? I have always felt that my height is not enough," Lisa said excitedly.

"Lord, Lord, give me a punch, I feel like I'm too flat," Alchemist Sawa hugged Ang's arm, her eyes shining.

"Lord, Lord..."

Ang shook his head: "Ten times soul flame, and God of Beauty power."

"Ten times soul flame? Ten times the soul flame of the Fast Death Aura? What is the power of the God of Beauty?" Lord Nai Ge asked while driving away the few women who were going crazy.

Ang revealed the God of Beauty godhead: "Its power, can still be used twice."

"Is it the power of the God of Beauty godhead? Can it still be used twice? Can it recover?" Lord Nai Ge asked.

Ang nodded, but added: "Slow."

"Then don't waste it. Don't worry about those fellows, save the power of the God of Beauty first. By the way, what is this god skill called?" It actually needed special power of the God of Beauty to drive it? Then this kind of god skill couldn't be used casually.

Ang tilted his head. Name?

"Lord." Alchemist Sawa, who had been driven to the side, raised her hand and said: "The phantom just grabbed by the Lord represents ugliness. Why not call it the Ugly Shattering Fist."

"Shatter your head." Lord Nai Ge flew over and slapped her on the head with a claw: "How is your homework? I haven't felt any new knowledge entering the library recently. Are you slacking off? Do you believe I'll deduct your funding?"

Alchemist Sawa's face instantly turned into a crying face: "You want knowledge to enter the library, why do you let me learn? Can't you learn it yourself?"

"You are the only believer of the God of Knowledge. If you don't learn, who will? Hurry up." Alchemist Sawa was driven away. She absolutely couldn't have imagined that just by casually naming it, she would be assigned so much homework. If she had known, she would have sewn her mouth shut.

After driving away all the idlers who were clamoring for a punch, Lord Nai Ge said disappointedly: "What a pity, this kind of beauty and aesthetic god skill has no meaning. It's not as easy to use as your Fast Death Aura, and it can't be used in battle. You can't just give the enemy a punch and make them more beautiful, right?"

Ang tilted his head and said: "Can do this."

Lord Nai Ge, who didn't understand, retracted his consciousness into the Palace of Rest, followed Ang's lonely hand, and flew to the farm.

Reaching out to grab a phantom of rice in the field, Ang punched it.

"*Hiss! * This Beauty Fist of yours can also be used on plants? What did you smash?" Lord Nai Ge asked in shock.

"Short," Ang said.

It took Lord Nai Ge a long time to understand Ang's meaning: "You mean, you treated the 'short' of the rice as ugliness and smashed it? Then can it grow very tall?"

Ang nodded.

"God skill, this is the real god skill. This is not for beauty at all. This is a god skill that can change the innate defects of species," Lord Nai Ge trembled with excitement.

Ang didn't understand why it was so excited and ignored it, self-consciously stimulating the rice that had its "short" smashed.

Very quickly, the 1.2-meter plant grew to about 2.3 meters, taller than a person. This was no rice seedling; it was clearly a rice tree. The rice ears produced were also unprecedentedly large, heavy, and the yield increased by at least 70% compared to when it was short.

Lord Nai Ge, who had been excited alone for a long time, flew over and asked: "Ang, you can still use the Beauty Fist one more time, right?"

Ang nodded, while at the same time thinking about which "ugliness" of the rice to smash this time. He was already prepared to use the last Beauty Fist on the rice.

Without looking at his expression, Lord Nai Ge knew what he was thinking and hurriedly said: "According to the current speed, how long will it take to recover once?"

Ang calculated the recovery speed of the power of the God of Beauty and said: "Two months."

"Too long, Ang. Can you leave this Beauty Fist to me?" Lord Nai Ge said solemnly.

"You are a corpse dragon, can't use it," Ang shook his head.

"It's not for me to use." ===== CHAPTER 296 =====