Mo Lini looked around the room's furnishings with curiosity.
On the massive long table against the wall sat an array of glass bottles and earthen jars.
On the other side, the bookshelves right next to the long table were densely packed with forbidden grimoires.
But it felt like... there was nothing particularly interesting to look at.
After all, with Mo Lini's current reserve of magical knowledge, she wasn't yet capable of understanding them.
"Aina, what is that thing?"
Liyana had discovered a giant cauldron in the corner.
It was just like the cauldrons from fairy tales that witches used to brew mysterious bubbling purple concoctions... Perhaps even larger in size, this cauldron was practically a small bathtub.
"That's a cauldron," Xia Lun replied as a matter of course.
"Of course I know that! Do you think I'm an idiot?" Liyana forcefully slapped Xia Lun on the back. "But what is such a huge cauldron used to boil? It can't possibly be for cooking meals, right?"
"Maybe it's for cooking meals for Mida," Mo Lini guessed. In her view, since Mida's true form was so huge, she definitely had a big appetite.
But in reality, ordinary food could hardly satisfy Mida anymore. She only ate sausages because they tasted good, not because they provided much satiety... Mida's true source of energy was the ice crystals provided by Aina.
Those ice crystals were products of another world of ice and snow.
"It should be for refining material potions," Luo Lun joined the conversation. "Materials obtained from large magical beasts are not easy to process."
"None of those," Aina shook her head. "That is used to boil Xia Lun."
"Eh?"
Everyone present froze for a moment, including Xia Lun.
"Hah..." Xia Lun also pointed at his own nose with a weird expression.
"That is used to boil Xia Lun," Aina repeated her previous words. "You light a fire underneath, and then put Xia Lun's corpse inside along with various materials to boil..."
"Uh... stop, stop, stop. No need to go into such detail, we get it." Xia Lun hurriedly interrupted Aina.
He also tactfully refrained from asking why he was being stewed in a giant cauldron.
Xia Lun's corpse... Luo Lun felt like she had just heard something incredibly alarming, but she didn't dare to ask.
Luo Lun looked at Mo Lini beside her.
Mo Lini had an innocent face, looking as if she knew absolutely nothing.
Luo Lun then looked at Liyana.
"Hahaha! Xia Lun! You got turned into stew by Aina! I wonder if she added salt..." Liyana laughed heartlessly.
Well, it seemed that if she wanted to survive long-term in this party, she couldn't afford to act too normal.
Luo Lun found a flat surface and lay down, turning into a sleeping corpse.
Playing the ostrich... sometimes, if you thought about it carefully, it was a move of great wisdom in certain situations.
An ostrich definitely wouldn't be easily corrupted by an evil god, right?
Previously, Luo Lun had felt that Liyana and Mo Lini were a bit foolish in some aspects... Now looking back, that might have been an evolutionary trait developed to adapt to those two...
If she stayed in this party for a long time, what would she turn into in the future?
"Luo Lun, get up for a second."
Just as Luo Lun's imagination was running wild, Mo Lini poked her arm. "Aina gave us an animal skin blanket. Spread it out first... isn't it too hard to sleep like that?"
"Oh... oh."
Luo Lun wasn't particularly fussy, but everyone else in the party was very particular, so naturally, she couldn't appear out of place.
After joining the party, Luo Lun found herself becoming somewhat subservient and agreeable.
After all, no one could act arrogant in front of those two.
"You seem very happy, Mo Lini." Luo Lun noticed the joy between Mo Lini's brows.
Mo Lini nodded excitedly. "We're going to have a snowball fight later!"
"Is that so? That sounds like a lot of fun."
"Does Miss Luo Lun want to come along?"
Luo Lun blanked for a moment; she had never received such an invitation before.
Her parents were both very capable adventurers. Since childhood, she had practically no time for leisure. Ever since she was old enough to understand, she had been continuously tempering her physique and honing her combat skills.
Although her childhood had been arduous, Luo Lun was still very grateful to her parents... The strength she possessed now was not something she could have achieved through talent alone.
"I've wanted to try it for a long time... After all, it rarely snows over in the Yalan Empire, and even when it does, it never piles up this thick." Little Lan on Mo Lini's head was also wobbling slightly.
"Then I'll come and experience it too." Luo Lun couldn't bring herself to refuse the adorable Mo Lini's invitation.
"However, Mo Lini, you need to be a bit careful when you go out to play." Liyana had wandered over at some point.
"Aina has already prepared warm clothing for me, I'm not afraid!" Mo Lini looked confident.
"I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about Little Lan." Liyana poked the slime on Mo Lini's head, and Little Lan extended a tentacle to gesture back at Liyana.
"A slime's body is mostly water, right? So out in the freezing snow, won't it freeze solid?" Liyana asked.
Mo Lini stiffened slightly, petrified on the spot.
"That... that seems possible!" Mo Lini said, her large eyes widening as she covered her mouth.
Little Lan stopped making its bubbling noises on Mo Lini's head, freezing motionless.
After all, slimes were inherently icy cold and lacked body temperature.
"What... what should we do?" Mo Lini genuinely started to worry whether Little Lan would be able to return to normal after being frozen into an ice cube.
"You have to keep it indoors all the time and keep it warm... Wrap it up in a blanket first! Wipe it nice and clean."
"Oh, oh!"
"Then boil a pot of hot water for it! Let's just use that giant cauldron!"
"Okay, okay!"
"Finally, toss Little Lan in and add some seasoning!"
Mo Lini: ...
She finally realized that Liyana was just messing with her.
Hearing that Liyana wanted to boil and eat it, Little Lan bounced straight onto Liyana's head and began dissolving her hair.
"Ah! You bastard! What are you doing?! Mo Lini, hurry up and control this guy!"
Liyana rolled around on the floor in a panic, fighting fiercely with Little Lan.
They had already started playing ahead of time.
"Go on and play, the slime won't freeze," Aina said casually, noticing the commotion. "Take Mida with you too."
The girls ran outside, noisy and boisterous.
"Aren't you going to play?" Xia Lun patted Aina's shoulder. "I'll go with you."
"Look how old we are, have you no shame?" Aina chided playfully. "Don't you think it's childish?"
"We're eighteen," Xia Lun replied as a matter of course. "What's there to be embarrassed about? Being carefree like Liyana is pretty nice."
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
