Alone and Infinite.

Chapter 226 Misfortune: My snail rice noodle shop ran away! (Long chapter)
The sound wasn't loud, but it seemed to be right next to my ear, trembling slightly.

Black Charcoal jumped up with a 'whoosh,' its two pointed little ears pressed tightly against its head.

He opened his mouth and hissed, clearly quite frightened.

With a whoosh, it flew over the pool and landed on Li Xia's head, looking around.

"Where is the evildoer?"

The faint female voice grew closer and closer, and finally, at a certain point, it suddenly appeared in front of Li Xia.

The white dress was stained with tar-like stains, and specks of blood were particularly noticeable.

An inhuman paleness appeared on her pretty face, and her eyes were filled with madness and greed.

He opened his arms as if to embrace her.

"Oh!"

A faint ripple of air spread from his lower abdomen.

His expression changed to one of extreme astonishment and pain.
She was almost completely folded up, and flew backwards, crashing into the wall.

The walls shook, and dust fell from the ceiling, filling the entire hall with a cloud of dust.

Li Xia slowly withdrew his right foot, which was kicking, his face showing no abnormality, but his heart had suddenly skipped a beat just a moment ago.

What is that? How did you get in?
From the moment I heard the sound until that strange woman came in, I hadn't noticed anything unusual!
But once the tension subsides, joy and excitement grow rapidly, like tender sprouts breaking through the soil.

Big stuff! Just by looking at its entrance, you can tell this is definitely a formidable opponent!
The difficulty has finally become apparent; the second phase is finally getting intense!

At this moment, Li Xia felt as if the last shoe had finally dropped, and her tense nerves finally relaxed a little.

Let's see what kind of powerful monster it is.
Detection!

[Comparing the intelligence and mental attributes of both parties]

[Due to the difference in intelligence/mental ability between the two parties, you have obtained 100% of the information.]

[Apostle No. 6572257 (In the process of corruption)]

Physical Strength: 4 (Corruption Bonus)

Health: 75% (decreasing)

[Mana: 460/270 (Corruption bonus)]

【Strength: 8】

Dexterity: 16

【Intelligence: 21】

【Spirit: 21】

【Physique: 17】

Job Template: Plant Queen LV2
1. Increased plant affinity

2. Gain bonus health and mana regeneration when in the forest.

3. Plants can be allocated and controlled to provide benefits.
professional skills:
1. [Sunflower]

Summon a sunflower that generates a patch of sunlight every five seconds. The sunlight restores 15% of your health and dispels darkness-related debuffs.
2. [Moonflower]

Summon a Moonflower that generates a cluster of moonlight every twenty seconds. The moonlight restores 40 mana and slightly increases mana regeneration.
3. [Frosty Peas]

Summons a Frost Pea that sprays peas at the target every ten seconds, inflicting a frost effect and 100 points of physical damage.

4. [Nepenthes]

Summon a pitcher plant lurking underground. The pitcher plant can move slowly underground, but when it moves under a target, it will burst out of the ground at an extremely fast speed and devour the target.

It causes a binding effect and inflicts burning damage; pitcher plants have independent health.

5. [Corruption]

All skills will be corrupted and twisted.
6. [Descendant of the Goddess of Pregnancy]

Can borrow the 'Divine Heir' skill

Awoo's eyes were practically glued to the panel:
"What the heck? Is this an apostle?"

Black Charcoal looked utterly shocked. Even if it were simple-minded, it could understand from the panel that the apostle in front of it was pregnant, and with a so-called 'divine offspring'.

Just as Li Xia was about to speak, a sudden sense of alarm arose in his heart, and he shifted his feet to the side to dodge.

The white-clad female apostle suddenly appeared in his spot once again.

Her expression was contorted, and there was a nauseating, sticky liquid at the corner of her mouth; the kick hadn't been entirely harmless.

"My child. He is hungry. Why can't you help Him?"

The voice was very soft, like a murmur, but at the end, it suddenly rose in pitch, like a scream.

Why can't we help Him?!

Visible ripples appeared in the air and exploded from the apostle's mouth.

Li Xia's pupils contracted, and a hazy white light suddenly shone from the surface of his body.

Like rubies, ethereal dragon scales appeared, and the ripples first touched the white light, causing the originally gentle white light to become violent.

It trembled violently and surged backward with overwhelming force, followed by the ethereal dragon scales trembling as well.

Bright flames quietly formed and gathered behind him.

"boom!"

In an instant, sparks flew and smoke billowed in the not-so-large room.

The walls were covered with numerous cracks, and the ceiling creaked unsettlingly.

Li Xia slowly lowered his arms, took a few steps, and rushed towards the outside.

Unsurprisingly, the attacking female apostle showed no interest in the clay figure's howls or the 'weak' charcoal.

Her lifeless eyes held a chilling greed; she had only one thought: to devour this incredibly delicious-looking food.

Not only Jasmine, but even the 'divine offspring' in her womb was emitting one shrill and unpleasant cry after another, desperately wanting to devour this 'highly nourishing' man.

“Mommy knows.”

Jasmine looked at the gun-wielding figure in the distance, gently stroking her protruding belly, her eyes, though filled with madness, also held a hint of wariness.

Her special 'vision' told her that the man in front of her seemed different from the 'desserts' she had encountered before.

Those little desserts only require you to tear open the outer packaging to enjoy their sweet and delicious taste.

But he made Jasmine feel a little scared, as if this 'delicious' not only had an extremely hard shell, but also sharp thorns on its body surface.

You could accidentally hurt yourself.

The 'divine offspring' inside her belly cried out in an increasingly shrill voice, even trying to struggle to emerge from her stomach.

Then Li Xia saw a disgusting face pushing hard against her fair belly, straining to push it outwards.

If ugliness were a god, it would most likely be the ancient Greek god of ugliness.

Jasmine gently stroked her abdomen again, but that ugly face opened its mouth and bit her fair finger, making a crisp sound.

Her finger was bitten off, blood splattering everywhere, but Jasmine showed no reaction whatsoever, instead feeling a pleasure emanating from the bottom of her heart.

The child has grown up and can feed himself now.
Several tentacles quietly emerged from between the severed fingers, shaking wildly.

Jasmine decided not to wait any longer; she would use the most powerful strength bestowed upon her by 'God' to devour the food before her!
She suddenly opened her mouth, and that mouth, which didn't look very big, opened to an unbelievable degree.

A large group of slimy, disgusting, black octopus-like creatures gushed out of its mouth and danced wildly in the air.

The whole world seemed to quiet down, and time suddenly slowed down.

The tentacles that Jasmine spoke of lashed out even more violently, shattering the space in front of them layer by layer.

A bizarre and magnificent world kept appearing in Jasmine's 'spiritual vision'.

This is the power of her child, the 'divine offspring,' who generously lent his power to his 'mother.'

"found it"

A strange smile bloomed on Jasmine's face, and her tentacles slowly parted the ripples before her eyes, as if lifting a curtain.

Pitiful mortals. Even if they are lucky enough to gain power, they are still nothing more than pitiful worms in terms of status.

They were merely God's playthings and food.

The great gods can easily devour their fate, giving their humble lives a negligible value.

Jasmine stretched out her hand, eager to enter that magnificent world.

Just like how it devoured the fate of the magician before, as long as it devours his fate.

Then all attacks from him become ineffective, because she is his destiny!
Finally, the last ripple slowly spread out before my eyes.

Jasmine's smile froze on her face.

He instinctively let out a groan of fear.

What... what is this?

If the fate of ordinary people is only as faint as the light of a firefly.

The magician I've seen before was a candle, which, though faint, was enough to emit its own light in the darkness.

But what am I seeing?
Jasmine raised her head, and the tentacles in her mouth seemed to have lost their strength and drooped limply. She had tried her best to raise her head.

Yet they still couldn't see where the end of this towering golden pillar in front of them was.

And next to the golden pillar, a monster shrouded in black smoke, its form obscured, was leaning against the pillar, seemingly asleep.

Thick liquid dripped from the monster's mouth.

'Eat, eat. I need to eat three meals a day. I'll eat.'

Jasmine struggled to pull her gaze away; the monster gave her an even more terrifying and peculiar feeling.

It seemed even hungrier than the offspring in its womb, and even higher in rank.

But the terror before our eyes has not yet disappeared.

On the towering golden pillar, a monster unlike any seen before snaked its way down.

The monster's name automatically popped into Jasmine's already muddled mind.

"dragon"

The length of this blue dragon was unknown, and Jasmine only knew that she was as insignificant as a grain of sand in front of it.

The dragon's eyes were indifferent, as if nothing in the world could shake it in the slightest.

No, this is a manifestation of fate, not a true living being.

Jasmine quietly took a step back, but this step seemed to have startled something.

The monster that had been sleeping against the pillar suddenly stopped muttering, its nose twitched, and its enormous mouth, which seemed capable of devouring everything, suddenly opened wide.

"Eat...eat...snail rice noodles!"

Even the dragon turned its head and cast a detached glance.

"what!!!!!"

The 'divine offspring' inside her belly let out a scream even sharper and more piercing than Jasmine's, kicking Jasmine's stomach hard to make her run away.

All the tentacles retracted at an astonishing speed, and the layered world in front of them rapidly healed and closed.

Time, which had been stagnant, seemed to flow again.

Jasmine was drenched in cold sweat and panting heavily, as if she had been pulled out of the water.

She escaped! She escaped from hell!

She breathed in the decaying air of the Demon Prison Star, which carried a sense of 'fragrance' and 'familiarity', and felt as if she were at home.

But when his gaze swept over the figure standing not far away, he suddenly froze.

"what!!!!"

Jasmine let out another synchronized, piercing scream with the 'divine offspring' in her womb, and she turned and ran.

Two long, slender legs swung so fast that even the rows of footprints didn't have time to bloom into black flowers.

In the blink of an eye, Jasmine, relying on a combination of running and teleportation, actually ran more than a thousand meters.

Li Xia, who was about to rush forward, was stunned by this sudden scene.

As Jasmine was about to disappear from sight, he slowly typed:
"?"

What's going on?

Before he could figure it out, Aowu and Heitan, who had been hiding inside the house, rushed out as well.

Jasmine stared in disbelief at the row of footprints she had left behind.

"Wait, why did it run away?"

"I don't know, I'm just preparing to launch a probing attack."

Li Xia frowned and put away Night Silence. He felt that a lot had happened before, but in terms of time, it was only a moment.

Suddenly, the misfortune at his waist began to tremble.

Indistinct murmurs echoed in my mind, following the connection between my soul and destiny:
"Eat, eat. Food snail rice noodles. Ran away."

Luosifen (river snail rice noodles)?

No, how did Unlucky know about snail rice noodles?
Oh right, its communication is similar to spiritual resonance, a more advanced form of communication.

Just like in a temple, the transformation in one's own mind is done through one's subconscious.

Li Xia quickly figured out the key points.

So, does bad luck refer to things that smell bad but actually taste good?

Misfortune only favors luck and devours fate; luck, of course, cannot be bad.

How could Li Xia not know whether it smelled bad or not?

Once your luck stat skyrockets, even the air smells sweet!
Then only fate remains.
Li Xia nodded thoughtfully: "So, she saw my fate? No, not saw it, she got closer to it."

"Just seeing it wouldn't arouse such strong feelings of misfortune."

"hiss----"

The little paws, supporting its chin, seemed to be deep in thought, trying to grasp that fleeting inspiration:

"Your Highness, Divine Heir, I seem to vaguely remember you being some kind of Ancient God?"

Aowu tapped his head in frustration:
"Anyway, these monsters are incomprehensible, and it's even difficult to figure out what they're thinking. They also have strange powers or rules."

This thing is like a virus; once the world gets infected, it's basically over.

It seems that these monsters can use their special abilities to briefly move through the void, but they cannot survive in the void sea for long.

They must find a world bubble to live in, but they will slowly corrupt and absorb this world, causing the bubble to become smaller and smaller until it can no longer support their bodies.

Then we need to find another world to store bubbles.

Moreover, these monsters have a peculiar adaptability; whichever world they parasitize, they will become the rank of that world, which is quite amazing.

In short, it's a never-ending cycle of searching, arriving, parasitizing, and searching again.

I can't think of anything else. As for that 'divine heir' that the apostle mentioned earlier, was it an attempt by an ancient god to descend upon this world?

Awoo spread out its little paws:

"Perhaps His Highness's rank is higher than its, and it scared it away?"
Surely I didn't scare them away?

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1. Monthly pass 2. Recommendation vote

Today I brought the little carp.

(End of this chapter)