Alien Hotel.

Chapter 450 Bad omen...?
Upon hearing his disciple's report, Master Yuanhe's eyes widened instantly: "What?!"

Meanwhile, Yu Sheng was still wondering what "a monster" meant—it took him two seconds to connect the word with a mentally unstable snake...

Immediately afterward, the disciple who came to report quickly described the situation at the bottom of the Demon Suppression Tower—halfway through his report, the Yuanling beside him couldn't stand it any longer: "The Ominous Wanderer has suddenly gone mad? We must go there immediately!"

He had barely finished speaking when he remembered something and quickly turned to Yu Sheng, cupping his hands in a respectful gesture: "Ahem, something unexpected has happened in the Demon Suppression Tower, I have to go and take a look, really..."

“It’s alright, it’s alright—I’ll go with you to take a look,” Yu Sheng waved his hand before the other person could finish speaking. “I also have some things I want to talk to that ‘Ominous Wanderer’ about.”

Yuan Ling nodded, said nothing more, and raised his hand to form a hand seal, preparing to take off into the clouds.

He had only raised his hand halfway when he saw Yu Sheng casually open a door opposite him, and on the other side of the door was the Demon Suppression Tower...

“…I forgot about your hand,” Yuan Ling paused, then clapped her hands. “Alright, let’s go this fast!”

At the bottom of the Demon-Suppressing Tower, a huge underground cavern leading directly to the geyser of the earth's veins was filled with shimmering light. The crimson glow emanating from the underground magma and the ghostly light emanating from the flowing earth veins around it complemented each other. Above the huge platform located at the center of the veins, some restless lightning still lingered, but the Demon-Suppressing Stone Pillars around the platform had returned to silence. Between the stone pillars, crisscrossing chains of runes tightly bound the huge stone sphere with the terrifying face, which remained motionless, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep.

As soon as he arrived at this place, Yu Sheng noticed the faint electric sparks remaining in the air. He turned his head and saw that Hu Li was all furry. The fox girl's tail and ears were fluffy due to static electricity. She was also curiously pulling a tail from behind her and rubbing it in her hand, which made a crackling sound.

The electric sparks illuminated the fox girl's bright eyes, and she happily rubbed her tail against Yu Sheng's arm: "My benefactor! There's static electricity!"

Yu Sheng was instantly jolted by the electric shock and quickly backed away: "Stop, stop, stop! Stay away from me—go with Luna."

Luna tilted her head in confusion.

Yu Sheng casually explained, "You're made of iron, your whole body is grounded..."

Luna nodded: "Yes, that's right."

The fox sheep sheepishly tucked its tail back in, then let one tail dangle on the ground as a ground line. It then sniffed the air and asked, "What's that smell?"

"A burnt smell." Yu Sheng sighed and pointed to the vicinity of the platform's edge.

A huge, stiff snake lay unconscious between two demon-suppressing stone pillars. Several tower-guarding disciples stood guard nearby with tense and uneasy expressions. The snake was the Snake Queen who had been struck unconscious by lightning. Lightning still occasionally flashed between her heads, and her body twitched from time to time. Her charred scales emitted the aroma of roasted meat.

Fortunately, she was a powerful demon; despite being in such a terrible state, she only fainted.

Master Yuanhe stepped forward with a subtle expression, told his disciples to leave for the time being, then bent down to check on Snake Princess's condition, and finally breathed a sigh of relief: "It's alright, just superficial injuries. A few bolts of lightning struck her head, which is why she fainted."

Eileen sat on Yu Sheng's shoulders: "Which head?"

“A human head,” Master Yuanhe said casually, “She mainly relies on this head to think about problems… although her thinking is usually a mess.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the snake queen lying on the ground seemed to hear him, her body twitching slightly. The great demon struggled to open her eyes, her breath weak: "You old thief Yuan He... you son of a bitch..."

Master Yuanhe immediately took two steps back, and Yuanling beside him could only bite the bullet and step forward to ask, "Snake Princess, what exactly happened?"

"What is it... You bunch of filthy old Taoists, how dare you ask!" The Snake Queen's human head widened its eyes, but its body remained stiff in place due to spasms, its tone almost like it was about to cry, "You fucking feed that ball shit, every time you feed it shit it gets stressed, every time it gets stressed I get struck by lightning, every time I get struck by lightning I start cursing, every time I curse it it curses me, every time it curses I get shit, every time it gets shit it gets stressed, every time it gets stressed..."

Snake Princess was clearly deeply aggrieved, and once she started talking, she couldn't stop. Yuan Ling could only quickly interrupt her: "Stop, stop, stop! Okay, I understand completely now. You don't need to describe it in such detail."

Eileen poked Yu Sheng's head: "Hey, Yu Sheng, this girl talks even more roughly than I do."

Yu Sheng opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but it got stuck in his bronchus, and he couldn't utter a word—the good news was that he roughly understood what was going on...

At this moment, Yuan Hao focused his attention on the huge, motionless stone sphere in the center of the platform.

"...The Ominous Star has always been well-behaved over the years, so why did it suddenly become agitated today? It even triggered the suppression of the Demon-Suppressing Array," the old man frowned slightly and turned to look at the giant snake, "Snake Princess, what did the Ominous Star say before it went berserk? What unusual things has it done in the past few days?"

“It’s being so mysterious, how would I know?” Snake Princess immediately retorted, but then she saw Yuan Hao pull a brick out of his sleeve, and instantly displayed the adaptability of a snake. “I, I just heard it saying a few days ago that the Taixu Spiritual Pivot was going to be destroyed, and then just now it suddenly broke down, saying that the ominous signs had disappeared, that it was impossible, and... oh, and that ‘only the Goddess of Ominous Signs is qualified’ and something, and it also said that it had been abandoned—I really don’t understand!”

Yu Sheng, listening nearby, subconsciously muttered, "A catastrophe...the goddess of calamity?"

He looked up and met Yuanling Zhenren's solemn gaze. "The Ominous Star has a certain ability to predict disasters. The 'catastrophe' it mentioned is not hard to make sense. It is most likely the 'Star Derivation Body' disaster we are talking about now," Yuanling Zhenren said in a deep voice. "But... I don't know what the 'Goddess of Ominous Omens' means. I have never heard it mention this name before."

Yu Sheng then looked at the knowledgeable Master Yuan Hao, but the other man also shook his head: "I have never heard of him either."

“Anyway, it doesn’t sound like a good person,” Eileen muttered, sitting on Yu Sheng’s shoulders, shaking her head and swaying back and forth. “And she’s called ‘Goddess,’ she must be an evil god.”

"Don't move, or you'll fall again," Yu Sheng reached out and steadied the swaying little doll, while looking at Yuan Ling with a thoughtful expression. "Leaving aside the title 'Goddess of Omens,' the key thing is... how can a 'sphere' like the Omens Star have 'faith'?!"

“…This is indeed suspicious.” Yuan Ling frowned, muttering to himself as he walked to the center of the platform and looked up at the terrifying “stone sphere.”

The stone sphere with a terrifying face was tightly bound to the ground by chains. It seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep due to the backlash from the previous demon-suppressing formation. The grayish-white shell still bore the scars of being struck by celestial lightning.

As Yuanling Zhenren approached, E'zhao Youxing did not react at all.

Yu Sheng carried Eileen to the stone sphere, and the two of them looked up at it together.

The little doll stroked its chin, thought for a long time, and then blurted out: "I can't imagine what the 'goddess' would look like from the perspective of such a sphere... Could she also be a sphere?"

"It might be pink," Hu Li strolled over and analyzed with an air of seriousness.

“I like black,” Eileen said, hands on her hips. “Black looks mysterious!”

Yu Sheng did not participate in this pointless discussion. After pondering silently for a moment, he suddenly stepped forward and raised his hand.

Eileen was instantly shocked: "Ah, Yu Sheng, what are you doing?!"

"Just using our traditional skills," Yu Sheng said without looking up.

The next second, a dark figure flashed over and brought down a knife.

Yu Sheng paused for a moment, then turned to look at the Saintess, who was gracefully sheathing her fingertip blade and standing prettily to the side: "...I haven't said anything yet."

Luna said slowly, "Knight, you must be of one mind with your lord."

Yu Sheng wanted to remind Miss Saint that the phrase "mutual understanding" wasn't used in this way, but before he could speak, he noticed that the wound on his hand had already begun to heal. He could only swallow his words back and first pressed his hand on the outer shell of the Ominous Wanderer, while concentrating on controlling the penetration and connection of blood.

—Actually, he wasn't sure what the point of doing this would be. After all, the Ominous Wanderer looked incredibly sinister, neither human nor physical, much less like an angel. Who knew what would happen if he smeared some blood on it? But Yu Sheng had one redeeming quality: when he "tried it out," he never considered too many things. To put it bluntly, it was only because this thing looked like a stone that he would have scraped some off a piece to taste its saltiness…

Previously, the ominous star was active and didn't seem like it would cooperate obediently, so Yu Sheng didn't have the nerve to make a move. Now that the other party had fainted, he certainly wouldn't let go of this "try it out" opportunity.

The blood was almost instantly absorbed into the body by the stone ball.

Yu Sheng's expression froze slightly, and he blinked.

The absorption was so fast that it didn't even give him a chance to react—it felt less like the blood was "permeating" and "staining" the monster, and more like the Ominous Star was actively absorbing all the blood.

"...What the heck?" Eileen was startled, blinking and muttering, "Don't we usually sneak in slowly when we first meet a target?"

Yu Sheng frowned, hesitated for a moment, then placed his palm on the outer shell of the Ominous Wanderer again, while slightly closing his eyes.

He didn't feel the blood connection being established—but directly "saw" a chaotic curtain.

The curtain seemed to be constructed from countless layers of fine mesh, so close yet untouchable, so far yet seemingly right before one's eyes. Deep within the curtain, something enormous was slowly moving, and terrifying phantoms appeared in the distance, swaying their long limbs and stirring the edges of chaos.

He tried to reach out his hand—but the next second, Eileen's voice pulled him out.

"What do you want?" The little doll on the shoulder stared at me with its scarlet eyes, looking at me in confusion.

Yu Sheng: "...Huh?"

(End of this chapter)