Chapter 234

Chapter 234: Perfect Clear

The Human Skin Skeleton’s expression cracked for a second.

He reached up, tugged his face straight, then asked through gritted teeth: “Not leaving? If you will not leave, what do you want?”

The pressure from a Tribulation Crossing Stage expert, even when slightly released, was terrifying.

Even so, Li Shuang stayed calm.

After all, she had not broken the rules. As long as she stayed within the rules, the Human Skin Skeleton could not act. Otherwise, in his current state, he would probably kill any cultivator who walked in.

Yi Lan and Rou Shan had escaped intact more than once.

That proved the rules here were truly ironclad.

Li Shuang said evenly: “I just think if there is an option to leave, there is naturally an option to stay.”

The Human Skin Skeleton’s face shifted, and he spoke quickly: “The trial is already over! If you just walk out, you will get a huge reward in Soul Points. With how you did… I will leak a little tip for you. You should get around four thousand Soul Points in one go! That equals what an ordinary cultivator earns in a year or two!”

[Four thousand Soul Points… not bad.]

After all, her goal was thirty thousand Soul Points. In less than a day, she could get four thousand. The value was high.

But…

The corner of Li Shuang’s mouth lifted a touch: “No, I still want to stay.”

He looked like he really wanted to kick her out.

Since he was like that, she had even more reason to stay.

“If you stay, you will be meat on my chopping block. When the time comes, even the rules will not protect you. With one look from me, you will be scattered to ash,” the Human Skin Skeleton threatened.

Li Shuang’s heart settled at once, and she said sincerely: “I was a little uneasy at first, but since you said that, Senior, I am completely at ease.”

The Human Skin Skeleton muttered: “???”

He had been here a long time. This was the first time he felt the impulse to break the rules.

He held it back.

Grinding his teeth, he said: “If you do not believe me, try it!”

“Please choose within a quarter hour whether to leave Gluttony Hell,” a mechanical voice sounded.

“Not leaving,” Li Shuang answered without hesitation. She even made sure to say it out loud.

The Human Skin Skeleton fell silent.

“A Myriad Arts City cultivator has chosen to remain after completing the primary trial. Gluttony Hell’s hidden trial is now open: Feast of a Hundred Ghosts!”

Li Shuang’s eyes lit up at once.

She had refused to leave because she had her eye on the many dishes in Gluttony Hell. To others, these dishes were deadly. To Li Shuang, what were they? [They are Value Points.]

The Human Skin Skeleton watched her eyes gleam, and his bones started to rattle. The Feast of a Hundred Ghosts had tiers that matched a cultivator’s soul cultivation.

Li Shuang’s soul cultivation was at the Divine Transformation Stage.

So the coming feast would be the tier best suited for the Divine Transformation Stage.

Only one feast in Gluttony Hell had ever been cleared, and that was the Integration Stage feast. The Divine Transformation Stage feast had never been finished alive.

If it were another cultivator staying to throw away their life, the Human Skin Skeleton would be thrilled.

But with this girl…

He had a faint, bad feeling.

Many people had chosen to stay and challenge before.

But none of them had eyes this hungry. If he had not personally prepared the food, he would have wondered if he was some master chef serving rare delicacies.

Otherwise, why would this human’s eyes shine like a cat that just stole cream?

“Does the trial start now?” Li Shuang looked at him with open expectation.

The Human Skin Skeleton was silent for a long moment, then ground out: “Start.”

“Hurry up, I am on a schedule,” Li Shuang urged again and again.

He clenched his jaw. The skeletons around them lined up, each waiting before Li Shuang.

Every skeleton held a covered dish.

“There are one hundred dishes in total. Finish them to pass,” the Human Skin Skeleton said. “If you want to back out midway…”

“No backing out!” Li Shuang said quickly.

“…Then begin.”

The first skeleton stepped forward.

Li Shuang lifted the lid. Inside was a plate of congealed blood, and a rank, fishy stench rolled up.

Her eyes brightened.

“Sky Wolf Blood: worth 700 Value Points.”

What was there to hesitate about? Eat.

Even if it tasted bad, it was worth it for the Value Points.

Li Shuang wolfed down the first dish.

The Human Skin Skeleton watched in silence.

Was his cooking really that good?

Others had managed to swallow this blood jelly before, but this level of impatience and enjoyment… this was the first time he had seen it in a human. He wanted to savor the sight of someone’s face twisting in pain and despair as they ate.

Not someone beaming as she urged him to bring the next plate faster.

“Faster, faster!”

Under Li Shuang’s relentless urging, dish after dish flowed up like water.

The Human Skin Skeleton ground his teeth. He felt like he would never be happy again.

In Li Shuang’s sea of consciousness, the Heaven and Earth Furnace kept getting credited.

A happy look rose on her face.

Heaven.

[Why… why can I not live like this every day?]

She ate at a frightening speed, from start to finish.

When all one hundred dishes were down, she had spent under an hour.

The Human Skin Skeleton no longer wanted to speak.

To be clear, people had cleared the feast before. But the fastest of them had taken three months to eat all one hundred dishes.

The slower ones had spent years here.

And this human? She did it in under an hour?

If that was not madness, what was it?

“Senior, is there more?” Li Shuang asked, still unsatisfied, eyes bright on the Human Skin Skeleton.

He grinned in a way that did not reach the bones: “No.”

“But I think I can still…” Li Shuang blurted.

The world spun. Her body rose into the air.

By the time she came to, she had already been thrown outside the swamp.

Her expression changed.

She was just tossed out like that?

How could that be?

She had clearly seen many more dishes inside Gluttony Hell.

Li Shuang tried to walk back into the swamp. Her feet began to sink.

She was just about to be happy when a hand reached up from the ground and pushed her up.

Li Shuang was speechless. She tried to reason with the hand: “Is this not a bit against the rules?”

“I miss Senior Skeleton after a single day apart like three autumns. I only want to visit him. What is wrong with that?”

“In a place as big as Gluttony Hell, is there no room for two good friends?”

Li Shuang earnestly lectured for half a day on Heavenly Dao logic.

The hand did not budge, holding her firmly aloft.