Leap Forward Comics: Watch How I Become a Villainess

Chapter 181 The Fate of the Fire Feather Spirit Bird

After getting the address, Zhiyan didn't say anything more and left with Jianjian.

"Aren't you going with them?" Lu He asked Nagi.

Nagi sighed and shook her head: "No, I plan to go back to Yuxi Forest... I feel that Yan Yan has changed a lot since we met. She's not the same person I knew before."

"Now that you mention it, I do feel there's something different." Lu He recalled the image of Zhiyan in the comics, that alluring and mature woman, which hardly matched her current aloof persona.

"She's probably grown up since we last met sixty or seventy years ago." Nagi chuckled self-deprecatingly, feeling that she could no longer catch up with her former lover.

“No, something’s not right… Now that you mention it, I realize something’s wrong…” Lu He recalled the moments they had spent together and noticed that Zhiyan had been quite nice at first, but had become unusually cold towards everyone after the massacre of the village.

He only paid special attention to Jianjian.

This feeling is very much like being replaced by a different person at some point in the middle of the journey.

Lu He couldn't help but recall the first time she transmigrated into Wen Shiyu's body, which happened without any plot developments or warnings.

Could it be that the current Zhiyan is no longer the same Zhiyan?

This thought sent a chill down Lu He's spine. Just how many time travelers had entered this comic book world?

For Nagi, Zhiyan's changes were simply due to the long period of separation, and he wouldn't suspect anything more.

Lu He, who had read the comic, wouldn't be so easily fooled. The Fire Fox Young Master in the comic was never a cold-hearted person from beginning to end. Why did she only realize this so late?

If she were also a time traveler, her mission would probably be related to Jianjian, not the male protagonist. Besides, she hadn't even paid attention to Tan You's life or death just now.

It seems that after refining the inner core, she needs to find Zhiyan and Jianjian immediately.

Traveling day and night back to Spirit Beast Mountain, Lu He went directly to the location of the spirit vein. He had taken precautions beforehand, obtaining a bottle of Tan You's heart's blood, just in case he needed to use the spirit vein at any time.

In a place abundant with spiritual veins, the inner core can be refined much faster. A level twelve inner core—if I were to absorb it, I wonder how much my cultivation would increase.

Lu He was somewhat excited. She was originally level eight, and if she added twelve more levels, wouldn't she be at the maximum level? She secretly rejoiced as she made her wishful thinking.

Anyone who has read cultivation comics wouldn't use addition to calculate leveling up; all I can say is that the more excited you are now, the more disappointed you'll be in a little while.

"How come I'm only at level eleven? Is this reasonable? I absorbed a level twelve spirit beast pill at level eight and it only increased my level by three? Isn't that too cruel?" After spending a whole day absorbing the inner core, she felt as upset as if she had won five million but then found out that the tax had charged her two million.

The system innocently explained that this was already incredibly overpowered, considering that it might take thousands of years to reach level ten. These fantasy comics are hardly as simple as one plus one equals two.

"Fine, fine, it's National Day then... better than nothing..." Lu He could only pout in dissatisfaction.

"You should think about what to do about your mission. The Phoenix Core has been taken by another traveler..." The system rarely worries about this now, and she probably won't be able to complete this mission.

"Isn't there another mission? To become the king of Spirit Beast Mountain? I can just complete that." It's just a matter of getting more or less points, which is better than losing my life.

"If I really go to Gongzhan to steal his inner core, I might just die in this comic... What level is he? What level am I? Can I even beat him?" Lu He got angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He had just enjoyed his cheat ability in the previous comic, and now he had to accept this kind of suffocating feeling of being completely out of sync.

"What you said actually makes a lot of sense... Not completing it just means losing some points, which is better than dying." The system surprisingly agreed with her immediately.

"By the way, is Zhiyan also... possessed by a time traveler?"

"I'm not too sure about that. The system isn't omnipotent and can't check on time travelers who aren't under its jurisdiction. But you should still be careful. This comic series has too many side stories and subplots..." The system was also helpless about this. Recently, the higher-ups had indeed started this kind of multi-line experimental project.

For system intelligence, it may not understand the decisions of supreme wisdom, but it must obey them.

"I plan to meet her. I think if she is, her mission will not conflict with mine. Her target seems to be Jianjian." Who knows, Zhiyan might even help her complete the mission of becoming the king of the Spirit Beast Mountain.

"Be careful and stay safe."

"Don't worry, I value my life very much."

Lu He didn't waste any time and headed east towards the Purple Jade Valley.

The Fire Feather Spirit Bird, Yunyi, is Tan You's third concubine.

In the comic, this quirky girl is someone Tan You encounters while fleeing from other forces.

At that time, Tan You had just been separated from Zhi Yan, and Jian Jian had also been captured by the opposing forces. He fled alone to Ziyu Valley, where he met this playful girl, Yun Yi.

Yunyi is extremely straightforward, and as a demon beast without a rank, her core is extremely rare.

It is the only Fire Feather Spirit Bird in the world that is not bound by levels. It becomes stronger when it encounters a strong opponent and easily drove away more than a dozen level-eight demonic beasts that were chasing Tan You.

Of course, Yunyi later developed feelings for Tanyou, and after a sweet and ambiguous little drama, she was finally defeated by the high-level spirit beasts of the opposing force and sent to Ziyu Valley.

The Fire Feather Spirit Bird sacrificed itself to Tan You, activating his phoenix bloodline and instantly gaining complete control of the phoenix power, killing all of Tan You's powerful demons.

However, this activation only lasts for a short time before the protagonist weakens. Moreover, it's not something he can activate whenever he wants; it only activates his bloodline and allows him to control the power of the phoenix when the fire feather within his body determines that he is in mortal danger.

Listen to this, isn't this ridiculous? They've just forcibly linked two people together.

Later, the male lead went to great lengths to separate the Fire Feather and revive Yunyi, acting all lovelorn, forever keeping a deceased white moonlight in his heart...

Lu Hezhen frowned as she read the comics. She had a deceased white moonlight in her heart, and she also had a child with her savior Jianjian and the domineering fox queen...

It's disgusting. This is why Lu He dislikes harem anime. The male protagonist always has to give his affection to every girl in the story, and each of them has to be devoted to him alone, while he can pick and choose among them.

He decides who is the cinnabar mole, who is the white moonlight, who is the childhood sweetheart... In short, he hates them all, so Lu He has always hated Tan You.

(As for this childhood sweetheart... I'll explain in more detail later; she's a Radiant Flower that secretly cultivated alongside them within the spiritual vein.)

When they arrived at the Purple Jade Valley, they saw Zhiyan and Yunyi facing off in the Purple Glazed Forest, their swords drawn.

What's going on here?

She rushed over, trying to stop them from causing unnecessary harm: "Stop it! Stop fighting!"

Yun Yi raised her hand and unleashed a whip-like attack towards Lu He.