Chapter 85: Li Yingqi’s Talent
Buzz——
Lin Ling held his arms crossed, listening to Haimofen’s solo performance with keen interest on his face. After noticing the change in the jumping notes, the corners of his mouth immediately curved into an even more delighted arc, saying, “The melody made a mistake.”
“Eh, did it?” Hearing Lin Ling’s words, Xin Junmao was stunned. He couldn’t hear it at all, and it seemed the other audience members at the scene couldn’t either, still immersed intoxicatedly in Haimofen’s string music.
“Someone with sufficiently superb skill can quickly make adjustments, let alone Haimofen, who is a world-class musical genius with talent even dimensional musicians envy.” Lin Ling explained with a smile.
Xin Junmao understood, only feeling that the small shop owner in front of him, who appeared excessively young, was somewhat impressive, able to capture the details of the mistake in an instant. The other party perhaps had extremely high attainments in music theory himself.
One second he was still sighing, the next second Xin Junmao suddenly felt his heart jump, abruptly sensing an unusual change beside him. He whipped his head to look at the Gluttonous Daughter on his side, discovering that in that fleeting moment, the Gluttonous Daughter had gotten a few points closer to him.
Xin Junmao jumped up in shock on the spot, looking toward Haimofen who was performing vigorously at the center of the stage, finding that the other’s expression was no longer one of immersed enjoyment, but had revealed a slightly ferocious gritted-teeth look, as if the melody had entered a segment of extremely high technical difficulty.
But Xin Junmao knew that Haimofen at this moment was absolutely not troubled by the difficulty of the music performance, but rather that Haimofen was locked in a stalemate on another mental level in battle with the Gluttonous Daughter, and that earlier trace of mistake was the best proof of it.
“Sorry, Boss Lin, I think I need to leave first.” Xin Junmao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, hastily bidding farewell to Lin Ling, then quickly weaving through the crowd of audience members and walking out the passage to leave the performance scene.
Lin Ling nodded with a smile, watching Xin Junmao leave, then glanced at the Gluttonous Daughter who moved like a robot with a power outage. After sensing Xin Junmao leaving, she immediately stood up as well, chasing after him with one step, one pause.
Faced with this scene, Lin Ling just watched cheerfully from the side, having no intention of intervening at all.
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Li Yingqi tore open the last piece of sticky biological membrane, arriving in the Gluttonous Daughter Queen’s bedroom covered in a body of foul-smelling unidentified pale red mucus.
In the room, a huge flesh tumor grew on the bed. It was like a beating heart, pulsing with eerie vitality one beat at a time. At the same time, bright red light released from inside the flesh tumor outward, illuminating the thin wall of the flesh tumor and also casting the shadow of a female curled-up figure within the flesh tumor.
This flesh tumor looked more like an embryo now, except what was gestating inside the embryo was not a child, but an adult.
“This is the slumbering Gluttonous Daughter?” Li Yingqi gripped the Ushi-Oni feather tightly in her hand. The sense of relief in her heart outweighed other emotions by far; she was very happy that she had guessed correctly the Gluttonous Daughter’s situation.
The Gluttonous Daughter had indeed been affected by the power of the unknown existence at the same time as Xin Junmao; both had fallen into slumber together, and their consciousnesses were most likely under the control of that unknown existence.
“Now is the best chance to strike.” Li Yingqi took a deep breath, then gripped the feather tightly with both hands, aiming the sharp root at her own heart area. Her mind rapidly flashed back through the experiences of her short twenty-odd years of life, inwardly sighing that her life experiences were no less than those of elders who had walked safely for sixty or seventy years.
Thrust down with force!
The sharp root pierced through the tender skin at her heart, passing through layers of flesh barriers, ultimately stabbing into her fresh beating heart.
Intense pain surged from her heart to her mind. Li Yingqi immediately convulsed in agony all over, but she gritted her teeth and endured, feeling the power in the Ushi-Oni feather flow from the feather through the heart, merging into the blood via the heart’s ventricles. An indescribable power instantly crawled through her entire body like ten thousand ants devouring her.
This pain lasted about thirty seconds or so, then suddenly, Li Yingqi felt as if certain areas of her brain had been blocked off. Her sensation of pain diminished, while a strange sense of comfort and pleasure rose in its place.
The Ushi-Oni’s strange power was modifying her body. Her body was rapidly deforming, with black-edged white feathers growing from her back and arms, and between her armpits on both sides, wing membranes that hadn’t existed before grew rapidly, until finally her hands turned into wings fully covered in feathers.
One minute later, the strange glow on Li Yingqi’s body faded. Her body had also completed the modification, thoroughly transforming into the form of an Ushi-Oni.
Li Yingqi sensed the extraordinary changes in her body. She just peeked at her current appearance using the mirror in the Gluttonous Daughter’s bedroom. Even though she had mentally prepared herself, she was still startled by herself in the mirror.
That high forehead, disheveled hair, thunder god mouth, and pair of lifeless large black eyes of the humanoid female bird in the mirror—was that her now?
She tried to make a sound, but Li Yingqi discovered her throat had also been modified, making it impossible for her to vocalize like a human. The words she wanted to say would automatically convert into another language with a certain pattern.
“Come on, Gluttonous Daughter, let me see if you can withstand my current power.” After calming down slightly, Li Yingqi leaped forward, her bird claws tensing, sharp hooked claws standing inverted, and slashed fiercely down at the flesh tumor.
Pfft!
Li Yingqi felt like her foot had stepped on fragile jelly, sensing some elastic resistance, but that membrane was not enough to block her sharp claws. In an instant, the flesh tumor burst, and large amounts of red pulp sprayed out from within it.
When the flesh tumor was injured, the flesh strips growing beside the flesh tumor whipped around like vines, instinctively driving away and attacking Li Yingqi who had just harmed their mother body.
Li Yingqi gritted her teeth, evading the assaults of the flesh strip tentacles. Her form changed freely in the air. Whether it was the instinct brought by the power in the feathers or she truly had a special talent for controlling the Ushi-Oni body, she rolled and maneuvered in the air effortlessly several times without strain. Dodging the Gluttonous Daughter’s instinctual defenses was a piece of cake; she even seemed to be enjoying it somewhat.
Li Yingqi vaguely remembered that wings were also an attack method of the Ushi-Oni. She raised one wing, immediately feeling the feathers on the wing tense and align together as she willed, forming what seemed like a huge machete, with each feather acting as a dagger’s spike.
The wing slashed down. Li Yingqi felt herself cutting through the air, and instantly an invisible slash flew through the air, directly severing the continuously incoming eerie tentacles.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
After continuously trying the wing attack a few times, Li Yingqi grew increasingly adept at controlling the Ushi-Oni body. Soon, she no longer treated those dangerous flesh whips as threats worth special attention, continuing her assault on the flesh tumor.
Pfft pfft……
At the same moment, in the space of the deep layer dream, the Gluttonous Daughter suddenly collapsed to the ground without warning. Even Haimofen, who was locked in bitter combat with her, couldn’t help but be stunned.
Something came up today, wrote too late, feeling too sleepy now with insufficient state. Will make up today’s missing chapter tomorrow.
