System, You Didn't Say the Villain Can Read Minds! - Chapter 57

Chapter 57

◎A Sudden Realization.◎

“Everyone in the entire city is being manipulated.”

Yun Wenzhou’s timing in revealing this information was perfect, as if it were a conclusion drawn from on-the-spot judgment.

Mo Jiu didn’t suspect a thing.

She simultaneously maintained eye contact with the lead woman and pondered.

If there’s a way to manipulate so many people at once…

An array?

Perhaps I can break it.

But if that were the case, then the people of Eternal Serenity City would all be innocent…

Should she save them, or follow the script and annihilate the city?

Mo Jiu couldn’t decide in a short time. She chose to put that thought aside and first try to stabilize the manipulator behind these walking dead.

Can’t provoke her. Priority is to save my life and Yun Wenzhou’s.

With this thought, Mo Jiu spoke calmly: “Alright, I’ll be honest. My Dao Companion wanted to come here to cultivate, so I accompanied her.”

Xiao Zhou, cooperate!

Yun Wenzhou reached out and hooked Mo Jiu’s arm. Her action was gentle, but her gaze was sharp—if the people around them made any move, she would strike them down immediately!

“Your Dao Companion?” The woman’s gaze moved from Mo Jiu’s face, stared at Yun Wenzhou for a while, and then returned, her eyes filled with suspicion and amusement.

“One practices the Immortal Path, the other the Demonic Path. Even the ‘Dao’ is different. Where did this ‘Dao Companion’ come from?”

“Oh, I overlooked that,” Mo Jiu replied calmly. “When we became Dao Companions, she hadn’t fallen into the Demonic Path yet. Now, she is indeed not my Dao Companion.”

She’s my wife!

“She is my beloved.”

Yun Wenzhou somehow understood the meaning of the word “wife” and knew Mo Jiu meant “partner.”

Perhaps she had temporarily forgotten how to say “partner,” or perhaps she felt the expression “beloved” was more romantic.

Regardless of the expression, it acknowledged her position in Mo Jiu’s heart.

Yun Wenzhou’s heartbeat sped up involuntarily.

Even after having more intimate contact, she could still be moved by a single word from Mo Jiu.

But now was clearly not the time for sentimentality.

“Hahahaha!” The woman burst into laughter. The suspicion and amusement in her eyes quickly turned to mockery after confirming their relationship. “Unable to find a man, so you turn to each other for relief? Like the unfavored concubines in an emperor’s harem, both laughable and pathetic.”

Mo Jiu cursed a string of obscenities in her mind before barely maintaining her outward composure: “Is there a possibility that we already didn’t like men?”

She emphasized the word “already.”

But hoping that this would make someone with a different perspective understand was pure fantasy.

Yun Wenzhou didn’t need mind-reading to interpret the woman’s disbelief through her condescending attitude.

“A-Jiu, there’s no need to waste words on her.” Yun Wenzhou spoke coldly, a dense wave of demonic energy surging around her.

Throughout the journey, she had deliberately suppressed her demonic energy to avoid harming Mo Jiu, but now, it was incredibly difficult just to curb her killing intent.

Immortal cultivation was self-discipline; Demonic cultivation was indulgence.

Indulgence was the true nature of a demonic cultivator.

Her indulgence would not permit Mo Jiu to waste any more breath on a person already dead to her!

A chilling coldness swirled up from her feet, rapidly forming a barrier that blocked out everyone except herself and Mo Jiu.

“A-Jiu, focus on breaking the array. I won’t let any of these people touch a single hair on you!” Yun Wenzhou said.

Mo Jiu instinctively said “Okay,” and sent her divine sense deep underground to locate the array’s core.

Only then did she realize.

Wait, how did she know I could break the array?

How did she even figure out there might be an array here?

Yun Wenzhou’s body stiffened. She bit her lip and said nothing, forcing her attention onto thickening the layer of ice.

Mo Jiu didn’t dwell on it. After finding the array core, she immediately began to figure out how to dismantle it.

Perhaps because these worlds were all created by her, even though she hadn’t stayed in this world for very long, she could master many of the settings within it.

Cultivation, breakthrough, alchemy, artifact forging, arrays—she could do anything she set her mind to!

Mo Jiu closed her eyes, concentrating on analyzing the array.

She had to first break the array in her mind before attempting to dismantle it in reality, otherwise, the consequences would be unpredictable.

Yun Wenzhou protected herself and Mo Jiu within a hemispherical barrier made of cold ice.

She actually didn’t care whether the people of Eternal Serenity City were saved, but she knew Mo Jiu wanted to save them. As long as Mo Jiu wanted to save them, she would do everything in her power to buy her time.

“Trying to break my array? You’re courting death!” The lead woman roared in anger. Crimson patterns lit up beneath her feet. Her body subsequently swelled and tore, revealing a bright red spine.

No! That wasn’t a spine! It was a centipede!

The woman transformed into a gigantic red centipede, easily as tall as a person!

The patterns under her feet were part of the array!

“You’re the one courting death!” Yun Wenzhou flashed onto the ice barrier. Countless sharp ice shards condensed around her. Without the slightest hesitation, they shot out like a thousand arrows at the centipede, instantly shattering it into scattered remnants!

Kill those who cannot be saved!

Kill anything that threatens A-Jiu!

No one is going to hurt A-Jiu!

Killing intent surged, and her demonic power skyrocketed. Her cultivation, which had been stagnant, advanced rapidly in real combat.

“Damn it! What are you?!” A man roared this before his body, which was rapidly swelling, was shredded into half by the dense barrage of ice shards before he could transform into a centipede.

“A mere Demonic Nascent Soul—”

Killed.

“Don’t you run out of demonic power?!”

Shot to pieces.

“No, wait! You can’t be Demonic Nascent Soul! What is your true realm! You…”

Shot into a sieve by ice shards before even becoming a centipede.

Yun Wenzhou had gone into a killing frenzy.

In her frenzy, she accidentally killed a few mortals who hadn’t yet transformed into centipedes.

But what did it matter?

This group of people was under the control of some demonic cultivator anyway; they would all turn into centipedes sooner or later!

No, wait…

I promised to buy A-Jiu time to save people…

Yun Wenzhou calmed down slightly.

Just then, Mo Jiu successfully broke the array, flew through Yun Wenzhou’s ice barrier, and soared into the sky. She then immediately asked the System to customize forty-nine swords, which unfolded in a fan shape behind her. She quickly used her divine sense to locate forty-nine landing points: “Go!”

The forty-nine swords flew to forty-nine different locations in Eternal Serenity City, dropping vertically like nails into the earth.

Underground, invisible to Yun Wenzhou’s naked eye, vines grew, grabbing the sword bodies like tentacles and dragging them deeper into the earth.

Yun Wenzhou didn’t need to read Mo Jiu’s inner thoughts to know—it was done.

Because before the array was even broken, everyone in her field of vision began to wail.

“No—”

“This is impossible—”

The wailing rose and fell but didn’t last long.

Soon, with the array broken, all the mortals in Eternal Serenity City lost consciousness and fell to the ground, escaping the fate of being possessed by centipedes.

They were saved.

At the same time, an angry woman’s voice seemed to come from beyond the sky: “You’ve chosen the hard way!”

A powerful burst of demonic energy erupted, instantly engulfing the entire Eternal Serenity City.

The pressure of a Blood God realm demonic cultivator immediately crushed Yun Wenzhou from the air to the ground.

Yun Wenzhou knelt on one knee, gritting her teeth to prevent the other knee from touching the ground—What kind of trash is worthy of making her kneel?!

Mo Jiu also felt the pressure, but since she had broken through to Soul Transformation, she could barely stay airborne.

She summoned thirty-six formation flags and surrounded Yun Wenzhou, attempting to create a defensive array to shield her from the pressure.

But array setup took time. Before she could complete the array, the mastermind manipulating the mortals of Eternal Serenity City revealed herself.

It was a figure in black and red, clearly a woman by her build.

With seductive eye shadow, a strange and revealing outfit, and an overtly charming demeanor in every gesture—she perfectly embodied the stereotype of a “demon.”

“A snake demon.” Yun Wenzhou sneered. “A snake demon, yet you let centipedes possess mortals to be killed by me. What a touching display of Five Poisons love!”

“Snake demon?” Mo Jiu had thought the opponent was a centipede spirit.

How did she figure that out?

Is it because they are both demonic cultivators?

Figured it out?

No, Yun Wenzhou heard it.

With the true form revealed, she finally heard the opponent’s inner thoughts.

Damn it! I was cultivating quietly underground to recover from my injuries. Now not only are my injuries not healed, but the array backfired, adding insult to injury! It’s all the fault of these two bitches!

Those centipedes were useless! Useless!

Was it easy for me, a snake demon, to cultivate to this realm? I absolutely cannot die here!

I absolutely must seize their divine souls!

This was the snake demon’s goal.

She was severely injured and wanted to collect the divine souls of Nascent Soul cultivators or Demonic Nascent Soul demonic cultivators to recover.

So, she set up an array, turning all the people in Eternal Serenity City into her eyes, helping her scout and lock onto targets.

Demonic Nascent Soul realm Yun Wenzhou was her target.

And Mo Jiu, who had just broken through to Soul Transformation, would be lucky to exert half her power in a place saturated with demonic energy. She was deemed no threat.

However, she had never calculated that Mo Jiu would break the array, and even less that Demonic Nascent Soul Yun Wenzhou could burst out with the power to challenge a Soul Transformation expert.

These ‘Dao Companions’ truly surprised me.

But, it’s all over!

I am a Blood God realm mid-stage demon, after all! Let me show you the power of a Blood God realm mid-stage!

“A-Jiu! Stop setting up the array! She’s about to attack!” Yun Wenzhou quickly warned Mo Jiu.

Just a little more!] Mo Jiu insisted on completing the array and tried to control the snake demon. Unable to do so, she had no choice but to summon the Soul Guiding Banner and use her spiritual power to summon the Blood Skeleton attached to the banner.

A soul monster capable of challenging a Soul Transformation expert, when imbued with Sha energy, could still put up a fight against a mid-stage Blood God realm demon, even in a place with dense demonic energy!

However, the Sha energy on her body, compared to that of a demon who had killed countless people, was like a cup of water compared to the ocean; it couldn’t even be described as “laughable.”

“Die!” The snake demon declared, pointing her palm forward. A dense poisonous mist formed a massive hand, many times larger than a person, grabbing the Blood Skeleton, which had its jaws wide open, and crushing it to powder!

The soul monster shattered. The backlash of spiritual energy caused Mo Jiu to “Puff—” and spit out a mouthful of blood, her head spinning dizzily.

Crap! Can’t win! Flee decisively, don’t hesitate!

She tried to reach for Yun Wenzhou’s hand in the direction of her fall.

To bring someone into the secret garden, she had to make contact with the target, so.

If she could just grab Yun Wenzhou’s hand, if she could just grab it, she could…

…Huh?

Mo Jiu was only half a meter away from Yun Wenzhou, but that half-meter distance never shortened.

In her astonished sight, Yun Wenzhou, who had been immobilized on the ground by the Blood God realm’s pressure just a second ago, stood up expressionlessly.

For a period, the entire space centered around her became stagnant.

No, everyone and everything in the entire space became stagnant.

Mo Jiu felt she was being held up in mid-air by an invisible force.

Not only that, but her Soul Guiding Banner, the surrounding rubble, and all falling objects were suspended in the air.

This scene was not unfamiliar to Mo Jiu—it was the same sight when the Yun Wenzhou of the last world first awakened her ability.

It felt like entering a zero-gravity cosmos.

The entire space was Yun Wenzhou’s domain.

In this domain, everything was determined by Yun Wenzhou.

“Why can you stand up?!” The snake demon frowned at the scene, her face a mix of anger and bewilderment.

What’s the deal with this bitch? Is she too strong, or am I too injured?

So annoying! Can’t you just die properly!

“Yes, you. Can’t you just die properly?” Yun Wenzhou looked up, her pair of cold eyes fixed firmly on the snake demon.

“You…” The snake demon showed a horrified expression.

How did she know what I was thinking?! Before this thought could be fully formed, her divine soul was struck by a powerful force!

A divine sense attack aimed directly at the divine soul, so powerful that even a Void Refinement stage expert would be left in the dust!

The snake demon was directly knocked unconscious by this strike. Her body plummeted uncontrollably, only to be quickly lifted by an invisible force.

When she regained consciousness, a massive ice shard was already aimed at her chest.

She stared up blankly. Before she could clearly see what was happening, the ice shard pierced right through her chest!

A large amount of blood poured out of her throat.

In her final moments, she could only manage a two-word assessment.

…Monster.

Killing an opponent across realms with a Divine Sense impact.

Only a monster could do such a thing!

Yun Wenzhou watched the snake demon’s falling figure, completely unconcerned with her assessment, and raised her lips in satisfaction.

A-Jiu, I have avenged you again.

And Mo Jiu, looking at the smile on Yun Wenzhou’s face, suddenly realized something.

Powerful divine sense…

Divine sense perception was a kind of “touch.”

If strong enough, it could control objects.

Stronger still, it could directly impact the divine soul.

Even stronger…

Recalling the “coincidences” along the way, the words she had only thought but never spoken aloud were repeated by Yun Wenzhou.

She thought of an aphrodisiac on the road. Yun Wenzhou first felt uncomfortable, then secretly took the aphrodisiac once they entered the inn.

She never mentioned that she had the ability to break the array, yet Yun Wenzhou firmly believed she could.

Coupled with the System’s subtle silence when she thought of Xiao Zhou.

Ah… the one who can read my mind, is it Xiao Zhou?

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