Chapter 105: Don’t Look Back

“Brother, don’t look back—I’m your senior.”
“You’re Senior Niu Mo? And here I was believing you were going to help me get stronger!” Li Wanzhou gritted her teeth in frustration.
“Look, this is hypnosis.”
“...” Hypnosis or not, she had already changed into a brand-new racing girl outfit.

Under duress, the tomboy who willingly submitted to hypnosis soon obediently recounted the details of her first Artificial Divine Realm experience, seeking the advice of the seasoned veteran, Old Blue Demon.

Li Wanzhou’s first Artificial Divine Realm was actually quite fascinating, and the world’s difficulty wasn’t trivial at all.

She was assigned the role of a ship girl in the Artificial Divine Realm.

Her identity: a reserve ship girl of the Zhou Tian Alliance, orphaned with a clean family background, taken in by an orphanage. By a twist of fate, she avoided being sold into a tragic fate in Yangzhou and happened to possess a rare talent exclusive to the ship girls—known as the Celestial Princesses—of that world, which led her to be chosen by the Celestial Princess Academy.

The so-called Celestial Princesses, called “ship girls” by enemy nations, are extraordinary beings.

Men cannot become Celestial Princesses.

Women, however, must be talented and undergo rigorous study of the Celestial Princess Codex, physical transformation, equipment modification, and battlefield trials. Even an elementary Celestial Princess’s enhanced body can easily tear through flesh, move at astonishing supersonic speeds, resist toxins, and even replenish spiritual energy by drinking gasoline.

Advanced Celestial Princesses are even more formidable.

According to data, their deployed weaponry can level armies and cities; not even nuclear bombs can guarantee their instant demise. As long as they have sufficient metal and energy reserves, they won’t collapse but continue fighting.

Li Wanzhou’s attitude towards this was straightforward.

“Damn Celestial Princesses! I want to fight with my fists! I’ll punch a ship girl to death with one blow!”

Her chaotic and rebellious nature refused to accept the status quo.

She wanted destruction, craved battle, and reveled in the thrill of combat!

It was this very personality that, during a seven-day survival mission and a postponed return by one month, led her to unwittingly get involved in a bullying incident at the Celestial Princess Academy. Using a crude aluminum thermite trap, she burned a lower-level Celestial Princess who was bullying others without activating her equipment into six pieces.

Li Wanzhou had already prepared to investigate and find a way back herself.

Unexpectedly, someone secretly helped her erase traces that only Celestial Princesses could detect.

Soon after, this group contacted her covertly.

Li Wanzhou never became a Celestial Princess herself; instead, she became an assassin for the Cult of Death. The Cult of Death emerged after the rise of the Celestial Princesses, embodying the widespread hatred and fear among nations’ civilians towards these inhuman entities. They believed the Celestial Princesses disrupted the natural order, causing centuries of unending war.

There was some truth to this.

Because of the Celestial Princesses, wars between Artificial Divine Realm ship girls never ceased, even when the lower classes were starving, destitute, and broken. The arrogant Celestial Princesses insisted on pushing the conflict forward, and no one dared oppose them openly. When enraged, the severed heads they left around city walls numbered more than one circle.

It was yet another cruel world.

And this was the norm in the Artificial Divine Realm.

Either endless disasters or supernatural havoc.

The Martial Empire founded by Blue was different. It faced external enemies, had enlightened citizens, benefited from the development of Taoist arts, and was supported by current ideologies. Thus, in fifty years, it not only avoided collapse but grew healthily.

The story afterward needs little elaboration.

Li Wanzhou joined the Cult of Death.

Through secret studies of Celestial Princess corpses, the Cult’s esoteric fumes, and her own nature, she developed a unique Divine Training Mindset.

“So, in other words, you actually still have a foundation in the Celestial Princess system.”

Blue, who had been hypnotizing her on the couch and then resting in the bathtub, held his good brother thoughtfully.

“In that case, your upcoming enhancements...”

“Wait, wait! Even under your hypnosis, I’m still the one doing all the talking! What about your story?” Li Wanzhou, displeased, splashed water playfully like a yawning cat, signaling she was making a fuss.

“You’ve probably seen the info on my first Artificial Divine Realm. Let me tell you about my original second trial—that is, after you died and changed me, here’s my story.”

Blue indulged her curiosity.

In his previous life, his spirit had already been somewhat unwell—living on scraps, lacking power and internet, fleeing from cities under pursuit, and having strangled Li Wanzhou with his own hands. Something formidable had awakened within his character.

Then he entered his second trial.

Blue’s second Artificial Divine Realm was a martial world.

A rare, healthy cycle within the Artificial Divine Realm.

This world housed a powerful alien species that fed on humans and had once threatened human survival. Upon entering, Blue was assigned as a disciple of a third-rate sect with some knowledge of Taoist arts. After two moves, he quickly caught the attention of the Demon Suppression Bureau.

Then Old Blue Demon went unstoppable.

In this martial world, he not only perfected the martial human form but also elevated Taoist arts to the level of the Heavenly Cultivation Palace. During a coup led by the Crown Prince, he single-handedly killed six peers, broke through the imperial city’s grand formation, slew the city’s general, and rose to become a meritorious dragon.

Blue was immediately crowned king and married the Crown Prince’s sister, the reigning princess.

Due to a warrant from the main world,

The already infamous Blue Demon endured much harassment and provocation from spiritual energy cultivators of the main world, especially the moral guardians, mediators, and enforcers.

After ascending the throne, Blue ruthlessly purged his opponents.

Particularly the spiritual cultivators from the main world—playing cat-and-mouse with swapped identities—now it was his turn to lead the hunt. Whether here or there, “Come kill me or be killed!”

“Eh? My death inspired you to become a berserker?”

Li Wanzhou, holding a cup of hot water and slurping before playfully splashing it onto Blue’s chest muscles, looked incredulous.

“According to your description, when I died, my body was intact, no blood, looking beautiful with rosy cheeks. That should have stirred your artist side, right?”

“I never had the talent for art.”

Blue said indifferently.

The original path had been altered; his second trial could no longer be the martial world. Without the strange species, spiritual cultivators wouldn’t have become moral guardians or enforcers either. He only wondered what kind of teammates the talent market would randomly assign this time.

They should all be strong, likely all reborn souls.

The reason was simple.

Even when recruiting reinforcements for the battle space, the power gap can’t be too wide, or the trial mission can’t be completed.

“You do have an artist’s talent.”

The tomboy suddenly smirked as she twisted her slender waist.

Her fingers slid down over his abs.

“You have the talent to turn me into a feminine masterpiece.”

“Brother! You smell so good!”

The next moment, an explosion of splashing water filled the bathroom!

(The End of This Chapter)