Demonic Demoness Training Project

"Hahaha, Old Zhao, you really are a beast!"

"My dear daughter, your father has raised you, and it's time for you to do something for him. But don't worry, as long as we win this game, I'll take you home...to eat dumplings."

At that moment, the air became incredibly thick, and the girl struggled to breathe. It felt as if the weight of the entire world was pressing down on her. Despair seemed to have a color at that moment—the dark, bloody hue of the gambling table.

She didn't remember what happened that day; she only vaguely remembered that the dice fell onto the table and then the man lost again.

Then her little finger was gone.

Then, the long-armed puppeteer gave a half-smile.

"Want to continue? Your daughter still has nine more, hahaha."

"I want to try again. There are still nine left; I still have a chance."

"Okay."

The man gritted his teeth in anger, his face flushed red. He picked up the dice cup with his curled palms and tried to shake it up and down.

At the same time, the guy opposite him grabbed the dice cup and shook it up and down, making the dice crackle as if he wanted to shake them to pieces.

The man opposite sneered and said:

"Hehehe, it's my turn to go first this time!"

After saying that, he turned the dice cup upside down on the table, gently lifted the wooden lid, and there were three dice lying on the lid, with three sixes facing up.

"Oh dear, it seems your daughter's fingers are going to be gone again."

Seeing this, the man trembled. They were betting on the simplest thing: comparing the size of three dice. The best outcome was a tie, but that was almost impossible.

He couldn't understand why the other person was so lucky today.

But just then, the girl suddenly stood up, seemingly out of nowhere.

"Father, stop gambling."

As she spoke, she snatched the dice cup from the other person.

"Bastard!"

The father and daughter wrestled together, and the dice cup was slammed onto the table. Four dice rolled out, with three sixes and one one facing up on each of the four faces.

"Wait, where did these four dice come from?"

"The die actually broke!"

"Since it's broken, the four together make nineteen. Okay, so you can still win with that?"

The crowd began to murmur amongst themselves, when suddenly the long-armed puppeteer strode forward and shouted:

"There's something wrong with these dice, everyone move aside, this round doesn't count."

"No, I won, it was me! A spirit stone, I won a spirit stone."

The long-armed puppeteer's face was ashen as he brandished his mechanical arms, pushing the man aside while reaching for the broken die.

"The dice broke. I'll give you one more chance, but this one doesn't count."

Just as the mechanical hand was about to cover the die, the girl suddenly darted forward, grabbed the broken die, and saw a tiny black mechanism rolling out from its inside.

pat~

A tiny mechanism, no bigger than a grain of rice, landed on the table, and the room instantly became so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"Bastard!"

He cheated!

The moment those three words were uttered, the entire casino erupted in cheers.

"Oh, no wonder I used to lose every day. There was a trick involved. I have to get an explanation!"

"Aaaaah, shopkeeper, get out here! Give me back my hard-earned money!"

Using her size advantage, the girl managed to squeeze out of the crowd. She could only vaguely hear what sounded like someone being hit inside, with a continuous crackling sound, like dry wood burning in a raging fire.

She remembered clearly that the man took her to eat dumplings, and she returned to school. However, her classmates often mocked her and asked her where her broken finger had gone.

From then on, the man would take her with him every time he went to the casino, and gradually, she found that she also liked this feeling.

Because she had learned some principles of mechanisms, although she often lost, she was always able to discover the clues to these mechanisms. Her favorite game was mahjong.

Gradually, she became addicted to this feeling.

This is the feeling of defeating your opponent and taking the spirit stone from their hands as a victor.

Others criticized her, saying she had the face of a petty person and that she was a petty person who had achieved success.

She really liked the phrase "a petty person gets ahead" (小人得致).

She had already thoroughly mastered the knowledge taught by her teacher, and the tricks of the casino were nothing compared to that. Suddenly one day, she realized that if others could cheat using tricks, why couldn't she?

From that day on, she kept winning.

In fact, what girls like most is not comparing sizes, but mahjong, because it's too easy to expose things like stuffing traps into the dice.

But lies will eventually be exposed. You have to accept the consequences of your bet. Even if you cheat, all you'll lose is a few fingers or a hand, which can be easily replaced with a contraption.

On the contrary, the newly installed mechanical fingers were more flexible than the original ones, giving her more room to operate covertly.

She still has eight original fingers; these are just chips on the gambling table because she knows that for mortals to win, they have to be scoundrels and let scoundrels succeed.

The fact that her finger was cut off did not teach her a lesson; instead, it emboldened her. Her cheating methods became increasingly sophisticated, and she created more and more ingenious and unimaginable mechanisms.

As long as she wasn't caught, it means she didn't cheat; she won through her own skill.

From then on, the casino gained a genius mahjong girl who struck fear into the hearts of all, and everyone called her "Severed Finger".

The man died of an infection from his wound not long after. The girl didn't feel much sadness, as if it were something that had nothing to do with her. The mechanisms of the mortal world could no longer satisfy her; she wanted to go further.

Later, she entered Qingyang Palace. When her senior sister asked her name, the girl looked at her severed finger and seemed to see the past that she had personally severed.

At this moment, the girl hesitated for a moment.

"My surname is Duan, and my given name is Xuanyuan."

……

For many years, Duan Xuanyuan has been swindling and cheating, resorting to any means necessary and using every possible method.

All of this is for the sake of becoming a so-called villain, for the thrill of that moment of triumph!

Years later, when she and her senior brother stood side by side in front of the gate of inheritance, she resolutely decided that she preferred the path of destiny to the down-to-earth path of earth. It was this feeling of taking shortcuts and making big gains with small investments that was so damn satisfying!

Years later, when Lu Li stood before her, gazing at the uranium pills in his storage bag, he said:

“I want to try again. I still have sixty uranium pills. I still have a chance.”

It is said that if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked as well. Once upon a time, Lu Li was a timid and naive young man, but now Duan Xuanyuan feels that Lu Li is more like himself when he was young.

On the contrary, perhaps influenced by this wicked disciple, she herself gradually became timid.

"Hehehe, since you insist on this, then I will gamble with you one more time."

Lu Li vaguely felt that Duan Xuanyuan's tone was a bit off, with an inexplicable hint of madness. Just moments ago, the other party was trying to stop him and tell him to give up as soon as possible, so how come he suddenly seemed like a different person?

"You old geezer, what's wrong with you now?"

Chapter 233 The Little Pear Worth 300,000

"You're not crazy, your master isn't crazy. Your master is showing you great mercy and supporting you. What else could you possibly be dissatisfied with?"

"There is a ghost..."

Lu Li was suspicious and subconsciously felt that the old man had ill intentions.

"Seeing how hard you're working, I'll show you the right path."

"Do you understand the Return to the Void Seal? Then you can point the way."

"I don't know much about the Dao of Returning to the Void, but as the saying goes, those involved are often confused while bystanders see clearly. As an observer, I've seen you cultivate for so long and have noticed some clues."

"Speak your mind!"

“Your yana design definitely has a problem, but the LingTu Instrument can’t detect it because it’s not of a high enough grade.”

“My Spirit Chart Instrument has been upgraded to the third level. The Scroll I have is not complete. To restore this fourth level Scroll, it will take at least two months, but that’s simply not enough time.”

"The Spirit Chart Instrument is not of the required grade, but you can make up for it with the Great Dream Pivot. After all, your Spirit Chart Instrument is connected to the Great Dream Pivot and shares the same Spirit Core with it. The problem lies in the deduction power. If you can find a way to improve the deduction power of the Great Dream Pivot, it may help you refine the Return to the Void Seal."

"Do we need a higher-grade spirit core...?"

Lu Li thought about it and realized that this was indeed the simplest way. However, he had neither spirit stones nor high-level spirit cores, only the remains of the Five Ghosts Battle Puppet. That thing could probably be sold for fifty or sixty thousand spirit stones, which could then be exchanged for a top-tier third-level spirit core.

No, even if you place an order now, it will take three or four months for it to arrive.

Moreover, the supply of Spirit Cores is far from meeting the demand, making them even harder to obtain than other Spirit Cores.

Furthermore, Lu Li is truly out of spirit stones right now, and the spiritual materials he brought from the sect to refine the Returning Void Seal are almost completely used up.

He bought a small portion of these spirit stones himself, but most of them were taken from the Wuliang Hall's weapon-refining room.

The frequent failures have exceeded Lu Li's expectations. If he wants to continue, he will need to purchase the necessary spiritual materials.

"Lack of spirit stones? How stupid! I've practically given you the answer, and you still can't figure it out?"

"Wait, do you mean?!"

"Correct."

Lu Li had a deep-seated grudge against the Tongxian Sect. Not long ago, the Tongxian Sect sent people to assassinate him. The reason Lu Li had been hiding was because he was about to have a major battle with Ying Wange and did not want to cause any trouble at this critical juncture.

The saying goes, "A small act of impatience can ruin a great plan." Lu Li originally thought that the Dharma King must die, but not now; at least after he dealt with Ying Wange.

But Duan Xuanyuan's intention was to have him snatch the fourth-rank spirit core from the Dharma King's hand?

……

A moment later, Lu Li left the void space and arrived in the Boundless Realm.

The entry requirements for the Boundless Realm of the Crimson Child are much more lenient, especially now that it is the low point of the Boundless Tribulation of the Crimson Child. Local families and sects from the White Azalea River Basin, as well as various forces from the middle reaches, have successively settled in and established temporary strongholds on this land.

It was called a stronghold, but it was just a few dozen tents and a few giant war chariots. The camp was bustling with people, including sect disciples, independent cultivators who were looking for gold, and merchants who were buying spiritual materials.

Lu Li found the tent of the Hecheng Chamber of Commerce and bought two catties of plain pears. There was a wanted poster posted outside the tent. The person on the wanted poster looked young, wearing a straw hat and with silver hair.

Lu Li recognized at a glance that the person in the painting was himself.

"They didn't even have a face, how are they supposed to find me... Oh, right, I wore a straw hat the whole day, so they probably didn't see my face."

"Then you must not be careless. The wanted poster says that as long as there are clues, you can find him. There are countless heroes in the world, and you are only a third-level cultivator. Based on the clues you left behind, if a higher-level Destiny Dao Artifact is used to deduce, it is not impossible to find you."

"What a coincidence, I was looking for him too."

As Lu Li was pondering how to turn the tables and kill the other party, he continued reading and saw that the bounty below the wanted poster was a full 300,000 spirit stones!

"Wow, that's expensive! Does this 300,000 spirit stones mean my price is 300,000 per piece, or does it mean that including myself and the pure white yttrium I have, the total value is 300,000?"

"How would I know? It's not written on it."

Lu Li stroked his chin, removed the wanted poster, left the stronghold, and then found a spot to retrieve a talisman for protection.

The Disaster-Blocking Puppet can mimic the aura of a cultivator at a higher realm. Lu Li is currently at the Spirit Pivot Realm, so if he wants to deceive the other party, he needs to use a second-stage puppet. The only drawback is that it has little combat power and will be exposed once a fight breaks out.

He dressed the puppet in his own clothes from the day in Chizi City, then put on a bamboo hat, and compared it with the one on the wanted poster, finding it to fit perfectly.

Seeing this, Duan Xuanyuan seemed to have guessed what Lu Li wanted to do, but she couldn't understand why Lu Li would go to such lengths.

"I thought you would just go directly to him, kill him, and take the Spirit Core. Why go through all this trouble?"

"you guess."

"I'm too lazy to guess."

"Are you that stupid? I've practically given you the answer, and you still can't figure it out?"

"I feel like I've heard that phrase somewhere before."

……

The Tongxian Sect's branch altar, the Dharma King's Hall.

Above the main hall, a chilling demonic aura filled the air. The Dharma King sat at the head of the table, flanked by a group of guardians, all of whom were at the Spirit Pivot Realm.

On either side of the Dharma King, there was a huge mechanism, roughly square in shape, eight feet long and wide, and more than six feet high, with five huge array plates on top.