Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

Runyu's mournful cries echoed in the empty ancestral hall.

Shen Xingzhu threw down his pen and stood up, the ink on the pen tip staining the scripture he had just written.

She didn't care about any of that, and with a swift movement, she reached the entrance of the side hall of the ancestral hall in just a few steps.

She pushed open the door to the side hall, revealing a chaotic scene inside, with all the belongings she had brought scattered haphazardly on the floor.

Runyu hugged Peixi and huddled in the corner, as if only the cold bricks behind them could give them a little sense of security.

Shen Xingzhuo looked over and saw that the two people's faces were filled with fear, but their eyes were shrouded in a white mist.

Runyu's lips moved silently, as if she were saying something.

But the sound was too soft for Shen Xingzhuo to hear clearly.

She took a few steps forward, trying to hug Pei Xi.

Unexpectedly, Runyu hugged the child even tighter and let out a shriek that sounded inhuman.

This time, Shen Xingzhuo clearly heard Runyu say "help"!

She and Pei Xi are safe and sound, so the only ones who must have had an accident in this room are those eight fleshy balls!

Shen Xingzhuo then quickly went to check the basket where the meatballs were placed.

Inside the basket, one of the fleshy balls was more than twice the size of the others.

The skin and flesh were forcibly swelled and torn apart.

Unlike the scene where Pei Xi tore open the placenta and crawled out herself, this scene is more like something inside the cavity suddenly exploded.

The room was dimly lit. Shen Xingzhu snapped her fingers, and a wisp of spiritual fire appeared at her fingertips.

She moved her finger closer and saw that in the center of the broken flesh ball was a mass of severed limbs.

Blood gushed out from the crack.

Shen Xingzhuo's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly took out a handful of grains from his Qiankun bag and sprinkled them on the ground.

He swiftly formed his right hand into a sword-finger gesture, bit the tip of his middle finger, and drew a talisman in the air.

"May your wandering spirit, lingering in its shell, return and be reborn! So be it!"

The moment she uttered the incantation, specks of spiritual light slowly floated in the air from the pool of blood on the ground.

Then, attracted by the energy of the talisman, it formed a palm-sized ball of light that kept flashing.

There was a small, thin figure in the ball of light.

The child's lingering soul struggled to gather above her palm.

It was so weak that it couldn't even respond to her call.

This tiny, remnant soul desperately needs a vessel.

However, her immortality was entirely maintained by Shen Xingzhuo's constant output of spiritual energy.

The wooden doll prop has been banned, so even Shen Xingzhuo cannot create a paper doll with just one hand.

"mother……"

"No rush..."

"Xi'er will help you..."

A very soft, childlike voice came from the corner of the wall.

Shen Xingzhuo turned around in confusion.

Suddenly, the thin membrane on Pei Xi's lips tore open.

Immediately afterwards, the little doll made an inhalation motion, and a powerful invisible airflow formed, precisely locking onto the remnant soul that Shen Xingzhuo had painstakingly condensed.

"Can't!"

Shen Xingzhu tensed for a moment, her body radiating a bright light as she tried to protect the second child.

But the remnant soul was already weak and had no power to resist.

In the blink of an eye, Pei Xi devoured it completely.

Pei Xi's small body suddenly trembled, and her little belly bulged out in an arc.

He burped and looked at Shen Xingzhuo with a smile.

"Mother, isn't Xi'er amazing?"

The swastika pattern on Pei Xi's eyes emitted a lustrous red light. He was trying to curry favor with Shen Xingzhuo like a little puppy, and even his speech was much more fluent than before.

Shen Xingzhuo's breath hitched, and before she could react, a piercing pain shot through her abdomen.

She felt as if her internal organs were being crushed into mud.

A violent spasm swept through her entire body from the location of her uterus, instantly draining all her strength, and she collapsed uncontrollably to the ground.

As darkness began to blur before his eyes, Shen Xingzhuo instinctively began to circulate his spiritual energy.

However, her Taoist magic was completely ineffective against this excruciating pain.

Shen Xingzhu curled up and struggled to breathe, barely managing to suppress the broken screams of pain escaping her throat.

Those watching the sky were utterly shocked and flooded the screen with countless comments.

What happened? Why is Sister Shen in so much pain?!

Is this a bizarre punishment? Could it be that the child's actions triggered a murderous intent?

Even so, shouldn't ghost stories be announced in advance?

【My God! Look! Sister Shen's belly is swollen!】

Guan Shanyue suddenly stood up, his eyes fixed on the huge main screen in front of the command console.

"Taoist magic is ineffective..."

"This isn't a curse or attack at the level of rules! It's a ghost story directly attacking her body?"

"But why...?"

Guan Shanyue's voice grew softer and softer, but he couldn't seem to grasp any key or useful information.

She was getting a little anxious.

At this moment, a member of the medical monitoring team said urgently, "The Chosen One's vital signs indicate that the severe pain is originating from the lower abdomen and pelvic region... and cannot be analyzed by conventional analgesia models."

Various possibilities flashed through Guan Shanyue's mind.

"Captain Guan..."

Hearing someone call her, Guan Shanyue looked over and found that it was Qin Shi, a new member of the Huaxu team.

She is a scholar specializing in ancient medicine and bioethics, and was recruited into the Huaxu Squad because of her outstanding professional skills.

At this moment, Qin Shi's face turned somewhat pale, but his hands did not stop moving.

Finger taps rapidly on the virtual keyboard to bring up comparison data.

"Captain Guan, look at this."

The data was displayed before Guan Shanyue's eyes.

Then Qin Shi explained, "The pain experienced by the Chosen Ones is identical to the pain waveform formed during natural childbirth hundreds of years ago!"

"Therefore, I suspect... the Chosen One is very likely experiencing the pain of childbirth!"

Guan Shanyue was taken aback; although she was more than ten years older than the members of the Huaxu team.

But she was born in the interstellar age, where medical standards had reached a level unimaginable hundreds of years ago.

Therefore, she had never witnessed natural childbirth and could not guess what Shen Xingzhuo was going through at this moment.

"Is it possible that our treatment will be effective for Xingzhuo's current condition?"

Qin Shi quickly analyzed the situation and said, "Theoretically, it's possible!"

"But... how do we give it to her?"

Guan Shanyue curled his index finger and bit down hard on the flesh of the third knuckle.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and a resolute glint flashed in them.

"Give it a try! It's better than sitting and waiting to die!"

She pressed the gemstone on the ring finger of her left hand, and the fingerprint scan was successful.

These were the store access keys that she and Shen Xingzhuo received when they entered the National Fortune Exchange Store.

The sounds of ghost stories drifted into the command room, sounding completely calm and uneventful.

[Would you like to open the National Fortune Exchange Shop?]

"yes!"

Guan Shanyue answered without hesitation.

……

In the side hall of the ancestral hall, Shen Xingzhuo's consciousness was tossed about by waves of excruciating pain.

Just then, a distant, intermittent, yet incredibly clear voice seemed to pierce through endless barriers and resounded deep within her mind.

"Starlight! National destiny... shop... potion... drink!"

Shen Xingzhuo's unfocused gaze suddenly sharpened.

It's Guan Shanyue!

Did she make her drink the medicine from the Guoyun Store?

I don't think this item was available when I redeemed it before.

But she did not hesitate. Enduring the excruciating pain, she focused her energy on activating the National Fortune Shop!

Guan Shanyue rushed to her side and slowly fed the pale purple potion into Shen Xingzhuo's mouth.

The excruciating pain, like the receding tide, lingered, but the most devastating impact had finally passed.

She collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath, like a fish out of water.

However, before she could catch her breath, she was kicked out of the national fortune value exchange space!

The entire ancestral hall suddenly trembled!

The sounds of ghost stories resounded loudly in every corner.

[WARNING! The Chosen One, Shen Xingzhuo, has severely disrupted the balance of the rules!]

[Penalty being generated according to the exception handling rules!]