Fate [Eternal Fall into the Abyss]!

Forty-five minutes later.

"Damn, my hands are sore from all this grilling."

Su Yuan rubbed his aching wrist, looking at the girl in front of him who had an appetite like a bottomless pit and was still devouring grilled meat and various staple foods.

He wanted to retract all the principles he had just lectured her on about eating at buffets.

How could someone with stats like hers not get her money's worth no matter what she ate? It was a must to make her pay!

"Hey, hey, don't eat the bones!"

Seeing Chen Nuoyi crunching on a pork rib with bones and biting them to pieces, Su Yuan quickly pulled the half-eaten rib away from her mouth.

"What's wrong? Bones should be edible too,"

Chen Nuoyi mumbled through a mouth full of bone fragments, asking, "I checked online, eating more bones can supplement calcium. And based on my dining experience, bones are the most filling among all edible foods."

What kind of experience is that? Did you really have to gnaw on bones because you were so poor before?

Su Yuan was speechless. He really wanted to know how Chen Nuoyi survived when her family had just gone bankrupt.

But it didn't matter, cultivators wouldn't get indigestion from eating bones anyway, so let her be.

He picked up a freshly grilled piece of meat from the grill, dipped it in seasoning, and popped it into his mouth, mixing with the rich flavor as it went down.

"Strange, why do I already feel full?"

Su Yuan touched his stomach. He hadn't eaten that much, not even as much as he usually did.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt like he was losing out. There was still over an hour left before the dining time ended, and he was already full? If only he could have a Blue Pill...

Just as he was thinking this, a waiter pushing a food cart passed by. Besides a pile of used plates, the cart also held a lot of swill.

A flash of inspiration struck Su Yuan. Since he could extract Blue Pills from the swill in the cafeteria using his demonic art, Finger Spirit, could he do the same with the swill from this buffet restaurant?

With this thought, Su Yuan quickly scanned the layout of the entire buffet restaurant. Drawing on his extensive experience as a deliveryman, he quickly identified the location of the restaurant's back door.

"I'm going to the restroom, you keep grilling by yourself for now."

Su Yuan said, and then, dodging the sight of the staff and surveillance cameras, he quietly slipped through the staff entrance into the back of the restaurant. There, several full swill buckets were waiting, not yet sent to the garbage station.

Slurp!

Seizing the moment when no one was around, Su Yuan directly activated his demonic art, Finger Spirit.

A large number of light points surged out of the swill, transforming into two deep yellow spirit pills that fell into Su Yuan's hand. The description of the pills also appeared on his System Panel.

[Unnamed Yellow Pill: Upon consumption, greatly increases satiety, allowing one to go without food for up to a week. Side effect is an instinctive aversion to greasy food until the effect wears off.]

Su Yuan: "..."

Damn it, why is this crappy pill the opposite of what I was thinking?

This must be a Bigu Pill!

Wait! Something's not right!

As Su Yuan was mentally ranting, he suddenly realized something.

The effects of the spirit pills condensed by the demonic art, Finger Spirit, would vary depending on the different components of the extracted items.

So, this Yellow Pill increases satiety because the swill from this buffet restaurant contains a large amount of satiety-increasing ingredients?

"No wonder I felt full without eating much."

Su Yuan's face darkened.

It truly was a case of "one inch of cunning meets a foot of trickery"! He could snatch up huge coupons through various channels, but the merchants also had their own ways to ensure they wouldn't lose money!

So the question is, does the appearance of the Blue Pill mean that the cafeteria's food really contained ingredients that made people's heads pointy?

Su Yuan fell into deep thought.

It wasn't until a waiter pushing a food cart arrived at the back door and called out to him that he snapped back to reality.

Su Yuan suppressed his jumbled thoughts, claiming he had gotten lost looking for the restroom. He then hurried to the restroom to pretend to use it before returning to the table.

Looking at the pile of grilled meat charred black on the grill net, Chen Nuoyi lowered her head like a child who had made a mistake and said, "I tried really hard to flip the meat, but I never expected it to burn so quickly."

Su Yuan sighed and said, "Class Monitor, being a grill cook isn't that easy. Let me handle it."

After changing to a new grill net, Su Yuan stopped worrying about getting his money's worth. He focused entirely on grilling meat for Chen Nuoyi. They left after eating for a full two hours, under the owner's face as dark as the bottom of a pot.

However, Su Yuan felt no guilt whatsoever.

If it weren't for Chen Nuoyi, this "stats monster," they would have probably been taught a lesson by the restaurant owner today.

By the time they walked out of the restaurant, it was already past three in the morning. This was barely enough time to go back and get a little sleep before having to get up immediately for school.

Anyway, it didn't matter whether cultivators slept or not. Su Yuan decided to start "exploiting" this Righteous Path Saintess from now on, meaning tutoring.

Have you ever seen Taihua City at three in the morning?

Right, it's already the second day. I can check Chen Nuoyi's refreshed fate again. Maybe it's related to my studies.

With that thought, Su Yuan directly activated the Devil Skill·Command, and began checking Chen Nuoyi's fate for the day.

Then, he saw several words as dark as ink above the girl's head!

[Eternal Fall into the Abyss (Unanswered)]

???

No way, man.

Doesn't fate refresh daily? Why did it suddenly become so heavy?

She falls completely in just one day? Isn't that too fast?

Who did this? Who did this?

Damn it, I'm asking you, who could make a Righteous Path Saintess fall completely in a single day?

It couldn't be me, right!

Su Yuan really wanted to distance himself from the change in Chen Nuoyi's fate, but... besides himself, the Demon Lord, were there any other Demon Lords at Taihua High School?

Even if there were, her Dragon King Father would have dealt with them before they could get close to Chen Nuoyi.

This means that the Demon Lord who would be killed by Chen Nuoyi's Dragon King Father next was him, Su Yuan!

Su Yuan trembled.

But just then, the System chimed in with a timely [Ding Dong].

[By glimpsing your own destiny within another's fate, you are surprised to discover that the Righteous Path Saintess will fall from 20% Saint Fall Degree to 100% within a day, never to return!]

Sorry, I'm not surprised at all, only terrified.

[What kind of evil and depraved act will cause her to fall into the abyss forever? In the face of this abyss that decides destiny, will the Righteous Path Saintess unconsciously resist, wanting to escape this desperate fall, and how will you guide her towards this outcome?]

[Limited-Time Demon Lord Mission Triggered]

[Mission: First Familiar (In Progress)]

[As a qualified Demon Lord, you should have countless familiars loyal to you. Please turn the fallen Saintess into your first fanatical familiar!]

[Mission Progress: Saint Fall Degree: (20%/100%)]

[Mission Reward: Abyss Dharma Vein]

[Mission Deadline: Within the Day]

Oh dear, this is a huge problem now.