Huangyi, carrying the Forbidden Fruit Bestiary, soared into the sky with Origami.
In just a few minutes, they arrived outside the city library.
“Origami, connect the spatial passage at the coordinates you calculated.”
“Okay.” Having scouted the area earlier, Origami estimated the location of the fifth underground floor based on the depth of the third floor.
Estimates were just estimates. Given the countless years of repeated reinforcement and the extreme sealing of the library’s foundation, Origami alone couldn’t successfully establish a space wormhole. A key city site wouldn’t leave loopholes for users with spatial abilities.
Fortunately, now they had Huangyi.
The Eternal Moonlight extended along the spatial passage Origami had opened.
Soon, the Eternal Moonlight encountered some resistance.
“Break.” Huangyi’s right hand gripped the air as if pinching something from afar.
Silently, several layers of formations at the library’s foundation shattered like broken glass, torn into fragments.
With the formations broken, Origami’s passage was successfully established.
“Let’s go.”
Chen Mimi was the first to step into the spatial passage, followed by the paper figure and the winged book.
Meanwhile, at the library’s back office and the scholar academy’s central monitoring room, piercing alarms sounded.
“What’s going on? Enemy intrusion?” The scholar on duty today was Carpenter, one of the Six Scholars.
“Reporting to Lord Carpenter, someone on the library’s fourth underground floor has used spatial ability, broken the blockade, and forcibly invaded.”
“Fourth floor? Which area?”
“The area of Project Patient No. 3.”
Carpenter fell into thought. That neglected project was being forcibly breached?
At the library’s foundation.
Huangyi silently observed the surroundings, wondering if they’d come to the wrong place.
This place didn’t look like a library or a sealed land. It resembled a high-tech medical laboratory.
And it was a lab without any experimental personnel.
The Forbidden Fruit Bestiary looked around and concluded, “This isn’t the fifth floor—it should still be the fourth floor.”
“It seems this fourth floor is very tall, leaving space for two layers of depth.”
“If we want to avoid a direct confrontation, we’d better hurry. The scholar academy should already be mobilizing.”
“Origami, continue downward. Hmm? Who’s there?”
Huangyi looked toward a large box not far away.
The box was entirely black, clashing with the surrounding high-tech environment. At the edge of the box, a narrow gap revealed a pair of eyes peering outward.
Someone was hiding inside.
Not receiving a response, Huangyi walked over and opened the box.
Inside was a little girl with green hair.
Anyone who could appear here was no ordinary person, let alone a little girl.
The little girl’s eyes were full of vigilance. She glared with wide eyes, intentionally baring her little fangs, putting on a “I’m super fierce” expression.
“Little girl, who are you? Why are you here? Are you up to no good?”
“Impertinent! I am the great witch Chenpi!”
Huangyi immediately called her out: “You’re lying. None of the Seven Great Witches is named Chenpi.”
“Hmph, I’m not from this generation. I was active a long, long time ago.”
The little girl switched between “I” and “me” inconsistently.
“How long ago?”
“Annoying! A long time means suuuper long.”
“You slipped up, little girl. You can’t count beyond the number 100, can you?”
“How dare you belittle me!” The green-haired little girl was furious, her cheeks puffing up.
“Not at all. So, you’re aged Chenpi, huh? What are you doing here?”
Hearing this, the little girl immediately changed her expression. Hands on her hips, she looked smug.
“I’m the head and chief researcher of a top-secret project group.”
“You? What do you handle in the project group?”
“Haha, I’m mainly the one being researched.”
“Being researched? So you’re the test subject—kept here for slicing and bloodletting?”
“Hmph, shallow understanding. I founded the project group myself. I personally interviewed every researcher before they joined.”
“Alright then, continue your research.”
After figuring out the basics, Huangyi prepared to leave. Time was tight; slowing down meant clashing with the scholar academy.
Huangyi wasn’t afraid of the academy, but there was no need for such a conflict.
“Wait, you can’t go.” The little girl blocked the way.
“What’s wrong?”
“All the researchers have run away. Help me recruit a few.”
“Talk to the scholar academy—this is their responsibility.”
“I tried. No one is willing to come. They say I’m too special and don’t want to keep investing. Hmph, shortsighted.”
“How are you special?”
“Want to know? I won’t tell you unless you come study me yourself.”
“Like this—I’m busy today. If you can get out, we can chat properly next time.”
“Fine, a deal is a deal.”
The little girl unexpectedly agreed. Getting this half-serious “next time,” she didn’t fuss and made way.
Origami kept opening passages downward.
After five attempts, they still encountered only stone and soil.
“This fifth floor’s depth is ten times greater than the previous four. Just how deep underground are we?”
Origami had a good sense of distance: “We’re already at 80 meters.”
Finally, at a depth of 100 meters underground, building structures appeared again.
“We’re here.”
There was no need for Origami to point it out. The scene before them was unmistakable.
A massive book suspended in midair, its four corners connected to thick iron chains. The chains’ other ends were anchored on four large pillars nearby, their surfaces covered with mysterious runes.
The Forbidden Fruit Bestiary stepped forward and called out, “Withering Odes, I’ve come to find you.”
The chained book slowly lit up: “Oh, it’s you. Since you managed to get out, you should roam around more. Coming here means you’ll be sealed up again soon.”
“Do you want to get out? Truly and completely free?” Huangyi spoke, extending an offer.
“You? Yellow robe, yellow specks?” Withering Odes suddenly saw the face beneath Huangyi’s robe.
“Yes.”
“I… I’m sorry, Lord. I’m different from the Forbidden Fruit Bestiary. I have my peculiarities and can’t enjoy freedom at the moment.”
Huangyi didn’t insist. Dealing with book-type aberrations, he didn’t like using force.
“I respect your wishes. Today’s visit is to ask you something.”
“Please speak.”
Then Huangyi recounted the situation at Yixian and the small grove.
Withering Odes listened and slowly began to speak.
“Actually, leaf-type aberrations are extremely rare in this world.
Because leaves are inherently part of a tree—for a leaf to become an aberration, the whole tree would have to transform. A single leaf rarely gains intellect.
But among all things, there are always miraculous moments. Occasionally, a leaf seizes a fleeting opportunity.
Based on what you’ve described, there is only one type of aberration.
It is the Obscuring Leaf. It is very special and hasn’t appeared in tens of thousands of years.”
“How is it special?”
“It wasn’t nurtured by a tree. It was nurtured by a human.”
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!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
