Chapter 153: Upgraded

Qin Zhiyi put his clothes back on after having just washed himself in the Spiritual Creek to heal the physical injuries he had sustained.

"I will never believe a single word you say again!"

Is this something a human being could possibly do?

A phantom pain still lingered, causing Qin Zhiyi to subconsciously start walking with cautious, tiny steps.

"Oh, come on! Your humble consort's Spiritual Creek water cures all ailments and works wonders for healing wounds. It even cleanses the marrow, purifies the body, and enhances one's appearance. It's just a minor injury, a quick soak is all it takes." Shen Fuyu gave herself a thumbs-up. Her dimensional space truly had everything!

"..." Qin Zhiyi glared at her with a dark expression, completely speechless.

Even if it could instantly heal physical wounds, could this water smooth over the trauma inflicted upon his soul? Absolutely not!

Yet, no matter how upset Qin Zhiyi was, the two of them remained trapped here for the moment. Shen Fuyu had far too many tricks up her sleeve, constantly finding new ways to stir up trouble. He couldn't beat her in a fight, reasoning with her was impossible, and there was nowhere to hide. She was truly going to drive him mad with anger!

Shen Fuyu chirped, "Your Majesty, come play with me!"

"Do me a favor and spare me," Qin Zhiyi shot her a glare. "I'm tired."

"No worries, Your Majesty, take a pill!" Without giving him a choice, Shen Fuyu shoved a mind-clarifying, invigorating pill right into Qin Zhiyi's mouth. "You won't be tired once you swallow this."

"Damn you!" In just a single night, Qin Zhiyi's proficiency in cursing had reached an impressive level. "I've figured it out. What kind of indecent pills are these things you have here? Your master is supposed to be an immortal being, so why are all the remaining items and recipes such bizarre things?"

"Is there a problem?" Shen Fuyu smiled brightly. Grinding the ultimate boss-level rage point dungeon, she was about to reach level forty-five. "Your humble consort thinks the medicines left behind by Master are quite useful."

Qin Zhiyi: ...

Indeed, everything was designed entirely to your satisfaction!

"Speaking of which, my father and the others are terribly slow," Shen Fuyu said, growing bored and lying down on the ground. "Why haven't they brought people over yet?"

"Have you gone to check on them?" Qin Zhiyi asked.

"Yes, took a look just now, and the outside is still the same," Shen Fuyu pouted. "As expected, my father is utterly useless."

Qin Zhiyi had long since grown accustomed to Shen Fuyu constantly running down her own father. "He is a civil official; it's perfectly normal for him to be slow."

"Truly useless," Shen Fuyu shook her head.

"Do you really look down on him that much?" Qin Zhiyi looked at Shen Fuyu, his tone flat. "He is your father, after all."

"I look down on him," Shen Fuyu shook her head. "Sooner or later, he's going to get himself killed playing his foolish games."

That father belonged to the original body; what did he have to do with her? From her perspective, she simply despised the entire Shen family, as it bore no resemblance to a real home at all, did it?

The original body had been neither loved by her father nor cared for by her mother, and on top of that, she had to endure bullying from her stepmother and stepsisters. Not even the heroines in cliché transmigration stories had it as miserable as she did.

Looked at that way, could there possibly be anyone decent in the Shen family?

"Your Majesty, you're obsessing over these things again. Your humble consort told you long ago, I don't care about them." Shen Fuyu sighed. She didn't need sympathy; she needed rage points!

Then, with the speed of a thunderbolt leaving no time to cover one's ears, she gave Qin Zhiyi a sharp pinch!

"Hiss!"

Qin Zhiyi instantly clutched his chest, staring at Shen Fuyu in disbelief: "You!"

You damn well aren't human!

"Ah..." Shen Fuyu suddenly sat straight up from the ground!

Startled by her sudden movement, Qin Zhiyi couldn't help asking, "What is it?"

"A new feature has been unlocked." The joy on Shen Fuyu's face was completely pure and genuine. At that moment, her smile seemed no different from that of an ordinary person, as if she had transformed into someone else entirely. She sprang impatiently to her feet. "I can see the outside!"

Level forty-five had arrived so abruptly. A fresh wave of rage points had come from goodness knows where, mixing with Qin Zhiyi's own rage points to push her straight over the threshold in one go!

"A new feature?" All of this was completely incomprehensible to Qin Zhiyi.

"This place was left to me by my Master. When it was first given to me, it was very, very small. It needed certain catalysts to... to... well, anyway, even though those medicinal recipes left by Master were mine, I could only use them under certain conditions. The same goes for the medicine fields, this spring, and this little brook." The ancient people probably had no concept of leveling up, so there was no point in explaining it in detail. Shen Fuyu considered herself hopeless at explanations; her reading comprehension back in school had never been that great anyway. "Anyway, that's how it is. Another catalyst just triggered, and now we can look at the outside world from in here!"

Qin Zhiyi nodded, roughly understanding the situation. Since this place was so miraculous, it truly must be one of those legendary magical artifacts left behind by an immortal, right?

Shen Fuyu gently waved her hand, and the scene before them seemed to tear open like a curtain, making the situation in the outside world perfectly clear.

Qin Zhiyi instinctively shrank back. Faced with such an unprecedented phenomenon, he maintained his constant vigilance.

"Don't worry, people outside can't see us." Shen Fuyu manipulated the projection, watching several assassins pacing back and forth outside with no intention of leaving. "This is getting a bit tricky. Why on earth are they guarding this place constantly?"

The cave was only so big inside and out. Aside from the few unlucky souls she had butchered, where else was there even a shadow of a person?

Why wouldn't these few fellows outside just leave?

"This area isn't particularly large; I'm afraid they're simply certain that we have no way of escaping," Qin Zhiyi observed as he looked along with her. "Can we attack them from in here?"

"No," Shen Fuyu shattered Qin Zhiyi's train of thought. The dimensional space wasn't that convenient. "We can only watch."

"However, since you mention it, that means there must be people connected to them inside the imperial lodge." Shen Fuyu narrowed her eyes slightly. "Who do you suppose it could be?"

"We can only find out once we return," Qin Zhiyi said.

Too many people had come. To be able to contact the people at the imperial lodge while simultaneously passing messages to this side, the culprit's identity couldn't be too obvious, yet they had to be in a position to make contact...

Shen Fuyu opened her mouth and yawned. "Your humble consort is sleepy."

"You're the target of an assassination attempt, yet you say you're sleepy..." Could you at least try to look a bit nervous?

Shen Fuyu was undoubtedly the most unflappable person Qin Zhiyi had ever met.

"Your humble consort is sleepy," Shen Fuyu rubbed her eyes. "With all due respect, Your Majesty, if it weren't for playing along with you, your humble consort would have already slaughtered my way out. Since I was able to sneak out in the middle of the night to shave Noble Consort's hair, I could just as easily sneak out and butcher the Empress."

Although it sounded utterly unbelievable, it really was that easy and simple.

Keeping them alive served two purposes: first, for the rage points, and second, for her cooperation with Qin Zhiyi. After all, no matter how many rage points other people provided, it was hard to find anyone who could rival Qin Zhiyi's output.

This was Shen Fuyu's guiding principle for the present.

So how could a predicament that wasn't truly a predicament possibly make her feel nervous?

"I am utterly bewildered. If you wanted to kill people, I could actually accept that. But what is the point of randomly going off to shave other people's hair?"

"What, are your feelings hurt for her?"