Chapter 2577 / Chapter 2578

Hmm, even the most defensive hand feels soft to the touch.

Feiying nodded thoughtfully, then turned Chen Li's hand over and over and squeezed it several times.

"Hey, you vixen next to Chen Li, let go right now." A cold voice came from ahead.

Jingliu was standing in front of everyone, the long sword in his hand still gleaming with a lingering cold light, his scarlet eyes coldly staring at her... or more precisely, at her hands that were still fiddling with Chen Li's palm.

"I should be the one criticizing you! Next time you're chopping someone up, can you please be more careful with your aim? You almost hit me!" Feiying released Chen Li's hand, put her hands on her hips, and glared back at Jingliu.

"Heh, that's exactly who I'm going to cut." Jingliu sneered, a hint of undisguised coldness flashing in his scarlet eyes.

"I... I'm not Abundance Fiends. I'm Eternal Spiritwood." Feiying's imposing aura instantly diminished.

Jingliu simply chuckled coldly again, without replying.

"Hey, is this what you meant by 'her mental state is very stable'? How is it stable? That sword energy she just unleashed was aimed directly at me, and her aim was perfect!" Feiying felt a chill run down her spine from Jingliu's meaningful sneer and turned to ask Yao Guang beside her.

"Hmm... obviously she didn't kill you because of your status as a member of the Abundance People," Yao Guang said with a light laugh.

As she spoke, her gaze fell on the hand that Feiying was still playing with Chen Li's hand.

Noticing Yao Guang's gaze, Feiying was taken aback at first, then looked down at her hand still hanging in mid-air, then at Jingliu's icy face, and then at Yao Guang's meaningful smile...

"Oh, so it's food possessiveness," Feiying said, suddenly realizing.

"Shush." Jing Jingliu's face instantly turned red, and his voice rose several decibels.

That usually cold and indifferent face now showed a visible hint of embarrassment and annoyance.

Upon hearing this, the others present instinctively turned their heads away, pretending not to have heard.

"Alright, Jingliu, let's deal with Shuhu first. Let's put personal grudges aside for now." Chen Li raised his hand, interrupting this mini- Asura Field.

Jingliu, then turned and glared hatefully at Feiying before turning back and flying towards Shuhu with his sword drawn.

Feiying quickly shrank behind Chen Li, put her hands on Chen Li's shoulders, and peeked half her head out from Chen Li's side to make a face at Jingliu.

Jingliu ignored Feiying and instead raised the longsword that gleamed coldly in his hand again, Shuhu at Shuhu, who was perched atop the TV tower.

However, the power of this sword strike was completely incomparable to the giant sword energy that had just struck Feiying. The sword light landed on the enormous body of Shuhu, leaving shallow and fine wounds, as if it was not meant to kill it, but merely to add new pain to it.

This is more like an act of venting anger... like someone who wouldn't stomp on an insect, but instead pluck out its legs one by one.

"My benefactor, look at her... She chopped at me so hard just now, but now she's being so perfunctory." Feiying tugged at Chen Li's sleeve, complaining softly in a wronged tone.

Feiying wasn't pretending to be a manipulative woman; it was her true feeling.

Because when her second personality's full-force Jingliu couldn't even withstand one-tenth of the power of Jingliu's sword energy, and she could only watch helplessly as the sword energy was about to strike, Feiying had already decided where she would bury herself.

That's incredible! Absolutely incredible!

However, Chen Li was not surprised by the outcome just now.

After all, with One Heart's Aspiration's continuous efforts and the special training Chen Li gave Jingliu using two-digit spirit points, Jingliu's strength has now truly reached the point where he can cleave down the stars in the sky.

Feiying Jingliu is no different from a wild fox on the roadside facing Immortal Aeon.

At Chen Li's signal, the group, who had been enjoying the triple pleasure of attacking Shuhu while waiting for him to heal and tormenting him, stopped wasting time on Shuhu.

Faced with our luxurious and extravagant lineup, we can kill Shuhu at any time, but a sitting duck that can constantly regenerate health and generate gold coins every time it regenerates is really hard to find.

Chapter 2577

But since Chen Li has already given clear instructions, then...

"Die, Shuhu!" Blade held the Scattered Light Sword in his hand, the tip of the sword aimed at the humanoid body in the center of the giant petal, and pierced it mercilessly.

As the sword pierced his body, the red health bar above his head, now Shuhu to a thin layer of blood, was finally shattered by the attack, turning into countless scarlet particles of light that dissipated into the night sky.

As the health bar shattered, death became Shuhu.

The enormous and eerie petals began to wither away layer by layer from the edges, and the scarlet patterns on the petals gradually dimmed like a flame that had lost its fuel.

"In the end, I still couldn't fulfill my wish... The Holy Grail... rejected me..." A mournful voice came from the humanoid body of the giant petal, weak and hoarse.

Upon hearing this voice, everyone turned to look at Chen Li standing to the side.

"Why are you looking at me?" Chen Li spread his hands.

"Shuhu seems to be dead, but Manyuan seems to have a little bit of health left, but she'll bleed to death too. What should we do now?" Xing craned her neck to look at the health bar panel, then turned to ask.

"Of course we'll wait until she's dead. Why would we keep her alive for the New Year?" Chen Li answered decisively.

"So decisive? I thought..." Xing blinked.

"What do you think? To kidnap her, lock her up in the Imprisonment Prison, and make her watch those Resurrection Card ads? Don't be silly, kid. I know you might have read the story about Manyuan... but her pitiful state has no necessary connection to her having to die." Chen Li crossed his arms.

The saying "Even the most hateful person has a pitiable side" is debatable, but it certainly applies to Manyuan.

Contrary to some speculations that she was the mastermind behind the events, Manyuan was truly a complete victim in the Deathbringer Demon incident.

She does indeed possess the ability to see through and even manipulate people's hearts, but Manyuan founding of the Happiness Research Society and even her descent into darkness to perform Happiness Surgery and implant Shuhu Cells into those who have nowhere else to Deathbringer Demon incident.

Once upon Manyuan, after experiencing the tragedy of her classmates being smeared on the ground like paint by the Deathbringer Demon, and the deaths of both her parents, she had tried to move on from the tragedy.

With the encouragement and care of countless people, she did indeed succeed in taking this step.

It wasn't until she learned that all those seemingly kind acts that had warmed her heart were just a staged performance arranged by the production team, a plot deliberately designed by the director to boost viewership, and that those people felt no remorse whatsoever... that she completely turned to the dark side.

Manyuan is indeed pitiful, and killing Manyuan brings no sense of accomplishment. But that doesn't mean she should be spared death just because she's pitiful.

To capture the hearts of two hundred thousand people with the heart of one, to implant Shuhu Cells into those victims, driven to desperation by the false Elation and fleeting traffic of the Duality Paradise, depriving them of their senses, turning them into Nirmanarati Heaven Humans, into walking corpses devoid of feeling except for joy...

When Manyuan did this, she had already transformed from a victim into a perpetrator.

Even if Manyuan to slaughter the entire family of those who had corrupted her, Chen Li wouldn't object, because the nature of their actions was indeed heinous, and the wronged should have their culprits.

But the truth is that most of those who joined the Happiness Research Society are ordinary people like Manyuan, who are burdened by the weight of life and need surgery to add a little bit of happiness to themselves.

They are not Manyuan's enemies; they are just like Manyuan in the past, wanting to stop and catch their breath.

However, considering that people who are truly driven to darkness by suffering are irrational, Chen Li decided to give the other party a quick death.

Chen Li walked slowly to the front of the group, lowered his head and looked at the wilted Manyuan in the center of the flower whose petals had withered most of their previous life.

"It wasn't Elation that ruined you. It was this Duality Paradise that ruined you. Is there anything else you want to say?" Chen Li sighed softly.

"So slow... It only took the Deathbringer Demon me. But it took the Duality Paradise fifteen years to kill me..." Manyuan's voice was so weak it was almost a murmur, and he spoke intermittently.

"I received your last words." Chen Li nodded.

Manyuan's eyes slowly closed, and those eyes that had once seen through countless hearts finally lost their light completely.

The wind still blows Haiyuan TV Tower. The flowers that grew from Manyuan are withering and falling petal by petal, turning into specks of light and dissipating into the night sky.

"Huh? Me?" Feiying pointed to herself with a blank expression.

"Otherwise what? Who else here besides you is a spirit of the Ambrosial Arbor? Now that Shuhu is dead, the Power of Abundance within him should greatly reduce your consumption when treating these 200,000 people. Isn't that what you came for?" Chen Li said matter-of-factly.

"I... I can't do it..." Feiying scratched her head and said with a bitter face.

"Can't you even do this? The Power of Abundance has been prepared for you; all you need to do is distribute it." Chen Li looked at Feiying in surprise.

"That's impossible! Is the key point the Power of Abundance? The key point is the precise distribution! Two hundred thousand people, each person needs a different dosage, too much or too little will cause problems... Besides, aren't you also Medicine Seeker? You should know how difficult this is. Even the Aeon of Abundance couldn't do it!" Feiying retorted irritably.

Of course, this was just something Feiying said in a fit of anger, but even the Aeon of Abundance couldn't do it.

Giving too little Power of Abundance might not heal the wound; giving too much Power of Abundance might turn it into a new Abundance Fiends.

The Aeon of Abundance has always been indiscriminate in bestowing his Power of Abundance people, and each time he does so, it inevitably leads to the latter situation.

"If you're bad at this, practice more. Even Ambrosial Arbor can't handle this basic micro-management? Don't embarrass the Medicine Seeker." Chen Li crossed his arms.

"If you're so good, then you do it! If you can do a perfect allocation, I'll give you my life!" Feiying muttered in frustration.

Chapter 2578

Chapter ID: 114937993

Top of Haiyuan TV Tower.

Chen Li stood beside the giant flower bud that had completely lost its life, his gaze sweeping over the last wisp of crimson veins fading from the bud's surface.

"Seriously, how is it possible to perfectly distribute this enormous Power of Abundance to two hundred thousand people, no more and no less?" Feiying muttered under her breath, hands on her hips, looking at Chen Li's back with a sullen expression.

"Don't make excuses for your lack of skill." Yao Guang reached out and gently patted Feiying's shoulder.

"What do you mean by 'not skilled enough'? I am the double Emanator of Abundance and Elation. My benefactor is clearly making things difficult for me. Besides, how long has he been Medicine Seeker, yet he dares to make such a boast. In a few years, won't he even disregard the Aeon of Abundance?" Feiying turned her head and said casually.

"Ah, this..." Faced with Feiying's remarks, Yao Guang was speechless for a moment.

Not hearing Yao Guang's reply, Feiying turned her head in surprise to look at Yao Guang beside her.

"So? You think I'm right too, right?" Seeing Yao Guang's hesitant expression, Feiying couldn't help but curl her lips slightly upwards, raising her chin triumphantly.

Yao Guang opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know how to refute it.

In a few years, will they even disregard the Aeon of Abundance?

Child, it won't take that long.

Meanwhile, Chen Li had already placed his palm on the surface of the giant flower bud, his fingers gently pressing the fading petal textures, carefully feeling the Life Force contained within.

The Emanator of Abundance, Shuhu, is indeed quite capable.

Even though his health bar was empty, Chen Li could still sense that Shuhu had not completely died... He was still dormant within this power, like a seed buried deep in the soil, quietly waiting for the day he would return.

The death now resembles the state of feigned death that followed when Baiheng blew the Shadow of Voracity into mincemeat.

Even though its Shuhu Life Force has been weakened to a low point by the group members over a long period, the power contained within this flower bud is still enough to make up for the deficit of 200,000 people, and even more than enough.

As for how to give back this power to those 200,000 people?

Theoretically speaking, it's not impossible to use the [Seeking Medicine] Miracle Card to summon the Aeon of Abundance to your side and make Him kneel down and ask Him for a favor.

After all, even if we don't summon the Aeon of Abundance now, when Chen Li refines the entire Honkai: Star Rail world in the future, he will still need to draw upon the power of the Path of Abundance. At that time, the Aeon of Abundance will naturally need to appear. Letting Him show up in advance is not a big deal.

However, there's a problem here.

Firstly, Lord of the Hunt Lily, is watching from the New Penacony.

Faced with these Abundance prey that could be controlled and dealt with, Lord of the Hunt could still maintain his composure. But if he were to actually summon the true form of the Aeon of Abundance... well, that would be a different story.

Moreover, Lord of the Hunt Lily, is still in a state before becoming Aeon. What if he rushes up to the Aeon of Abundance, draws his bow, and shoots an arrow, only to fail to kill him and instead be captured and thoroughly pampered by the Aeon of Abundance?

When the weak exert all their strength, it's seen as mere cuteness by the strong.

Chen Li dared not imagine how outrageous the secondary creation between the Aeon of Abundance and the Hunt Aeon would become if such a scenario actually occurred.

Please, please stop watching these fan-made creations! These fan-made creations are actually performed by my Reignbow Arbiter and the Aeon of Abundance!

Oh... this damn idea is just too vivid, it's making Chen Li's brain tremble wildly.

If the Lord of the Hunt were to use his Noble Phantasm [One Command Arrow] to summon his true form, things would be even more complicated.

Secondly, as Feiying said, the Aeon of Abundance is never very generous with his blessings. Sometimes being too generous isn't necessarily a good thing.

After roughly estimating how to allocate this Power of Abundance, Chen Li gently touched the flower bud with his finger.

"Buzz!"

The flower bud shattered the moment it was touched, disintegrating into countless golden-green rays of light that densely surrounded Chen Li.

The lights, like fireflies with their own will, slowly swirled around Chen Li, enveloping him in a mist of light pulsating with life.

Chen Li didn't stop. He walked straight to the railing at the top of the Haiyuan TV Tower, put his hands on the railing, and looked down.

The night view of Haiyuan City doesn't look very nice right now.

The streets were littered with the citizens whose Shuhu power had been drained after Sunday's Tuning, who had been Nirmanarati Heaven Humans into normal people.

Their bodies were so weak that even walking was difficult, but compared to their previous state of being deprived of all senses and left with only the emotion of "happiness," this was already much better.

Although there is no true death in New Penacony, the weakness these people suffer cannot be repaired after leaving the Duality Paradise.

Because this is the price of removing Shuhu Cells from their bodies.

The choice is between weakness and continuing to hold onto Shuhu Cells... This is a multiple-choice question.

It's not impossible to forgo everything, but the required Hell Points are simply too high. It's much more efficient for Chen Li to take matters into his own hands.

With a casual wave of his hand, Chen Li caused a large amount of golden-green light surrounding him to converge in Chen Li palm at the same moment, condensing into a dense mass of golden-green powder that was almost tangible.