"This is my spiritual bone! It's my spiritual bone!!"
"Shen Qing, how dare you?!"
"Ahhhh!!"
Lin Yibai let out a hoarse shout, her eyes bloodshot. But all she could do was watch helplessly as the spiritual bone slowly left her body.
Shen Qing's spiritual bone attached itself to Lin Yibai's. The pain Lin Yibai felt from having her bone extracted was a thousand times more intense than what Shen Qing had endured back then.
This pain was like having your bones and veins shattered repeatedly, only to be pieced back together and shattered again.
Under this despairing agony, Lin Yibai could only let out pained sobs. She didn't even have the strength to curse.
Shen Qing deliberately slowed down the process. She wanted Lin Yibai to experience every bit of the pain she had once suffered.
"Aren't you so proud of being the female protagonist, relying on that disgusting and filthy system? You thought you were the master of the world and looked down on everyone else."
"But you don't know that there are countless opportunities in this world. If you don't leave a way out for others, you won't have one for yourself either!"
"I endured the pain of being skinned and having my bones broken. Now you've experienced it too. How does it feel?"
Hearing Shen Qing mention the system and the female protagonist, Lin Yibai's eyes widened in shock.
She gritted her teeth tightly and managed to squeeze out a sentence from the depths of her throat, "Why... do you know about it!"
After saying that, Lin Yibai's eyes widened again as if she had just remembered something. She asked, "You're also a transmigrator, aren't you?"
This would explain everything!
If Shen Qing was also a transmigrator, she must have come with a system and a mission.
It was just that Shen Qing was lucky enough to transmigrate as the original female protagonist, while she had only become an insignificant supporting character.
No wonder she had lost to Shen Qing. It wasn't that she was incompetent, but that Shen Qing's system and fortune were too powerful.
Shen Qing didn't expect Lin Yibai to have such a speculation. She sneered and shook her head.
"I don't have that disgusting and filthy system on me. A defeated general still can't recognize her own situation."
"How pathetic..."
Hearing this, Lin Yibai was even more surprised.
"If you're not a transmigrator, how do you know about the system?"
Lin Yibai couldn't figure it out. If Shen Qing was really the original Shen Qing, how could she know about the system?
But Shen Qing didn't give her much time to think. As the spiritual bone was slowly being extracted, Lin Yibai felt like she was about to faint from the pain.
But every time she was on the verge of fainting, Shen Qing would pinch her acupoints to keep her awake. This was simply a fate worse than death.
The light ball in Shen Qing's hand was getting bigger and bigger, a sign that the spiritual bone was being completely extracted. Lin Yibai had already given up struggling.
To her, Shen Qing was the female protagonist of this world. She had come with the system to steal Shen Qing's female protagonist halo.
Now that her spiritual bone had been taken away, the female protagonist halo on her body would also slowly disappear.
That unreliable system had stopped showing up after giving her a few words of comfort.
Her mission was bound to fail.
But if she was going to hell, she would definitely drag others down with her!
Seeing that Lin Yibai couldn't hold on any longer, Shen Qing extracted the last bit of the spiritual bone.
The spiritual bone turned into light spots that danced in Shen Qing's hand. They seemed very affectionate but didn't dare to get too close.
Shen Qing carefully put the spiritual bone into her storage bag. She noticed that there was a faint black mist lingering on the spiritual bone. She would have to remove this mist before integrating this half of the spiritual bone back into her body.
The most urgent thing now was to get rid of Lin Yibai, this scourge.
Shen Qing narrowed her eyes. Her gaze towards Lin Yibai was filled with a sharp killing intent.
Lin Yibai felt that her time was running out. She gritted her teeth and said to Shen Qing with all her strength,
"Don't you want to know... where the system comes from and what its purpose is?"
Shen Qing shook her head. She didn't want to know.
In the original book, the world she was in was just an insignificant small world in this vast prehistoric universe.
The system was like a celestial being from beyond the heavens to her. It could shuttle between different small worlds. She didn't have the ability to catch the system, nor did she have the ability to investigate its origin.
Now, all she could do was destroy the system that existed in this small world.
Seeing that Shen Qing wasn't swayed at all, Lin Yibai shook her head in fear.
"Spare my life. If I die, the system will die too. But do you know that the system can exchange for many things with points? For example, the thing you've always longed for, ascending to immortality. You just need to take a pill from the system, and you don't have to practice so hard."
Lin Yibai threw out the temptation, and her expression became more and more crazy.
"As long as you don't kill me, I can make the system spit out the Ascension Pill. As long as you take it, you can ascend on the spot."
"Let's make a deal, okay? From now on, I'll just be the little junior sister on Worry-Free Peak. I promise I'll never frame you again or take anything from you!"
But Shen Qing looked indifferent. After gathering her spiritual power, she summoned Bi Luo. The sharp tip of the sword glistened with a cold light that stung Lin Yibai's eyes.
She shouted hysterically, "Why aren't you moved at all? Isn't attaining the Dao and becoming an immortal your dream? Why do you want to kill me? You clearly have a shortcut!"
Shen Qing looked down at Lin Yibai from above. The embarrassed appearance of Lin Yibai was far from the high - spirited look she had when she was the little junior sister on Worry - Free Peak.
The memory of the young Shen Qing being captivated by Lin Yibai, who was holding a sword and looking so carefree when she first entered the sect, had slowly faded.
"There are three thousand paths to the Great Dao, and there are no shortcuts."
After saying that, Shen Qing raised her sword and was about to slash at Lin Yibai's neck. But just as the sword was about to touch Lin Yibai, her movement suddenly stopped.
She frowned and tried to move, but found that her hand seemed to be out of her control.
The next second, she heard that familiar electronic voice, which was Lin Yibai's system.
"Female protagonist, female protagonist! Don't be impulsive. I'm the system parasitizing on Lin Yibai!"
The system's voice was full of urgency. Compared with its usual monotonous and emotionless tone, it now sounded a bit flattering.
"If you kill Lin Yibai, I'll die too. So, how about making a deal with me!"
"Give me a wisp of your spiritual power. I'll break the binding with Lin Yibai, and then you'll be my host. I'll help you seize other people's fortune, give you the Ascension Pill, and help you attain the Dao and become an immortal!"
"As long as you agree to me, you can become the original female protagonist again. As for that useless Lin Yibai, you can kill her if you want. I won't stop you!"
Shen Qing raised her eyebrows and looked at Lin Yibai provocatively.
Lin Yibai obviously also heard the system's fickle words. She shouted hoarsely, "System! You brought me here, and now you're going to abandon me!"
The system scolded Lin Yibai in order to curry favor with Shen Qing.
"You're just a useless piece of trash. You're the most useless host I've ever bound with in ten thousand years. You've only completed one mission since you came here. If I could break the binding, I would have left you long ago!"
"So, what do you say, female protagonist? How about binding with me?"
A glint of light flashed in Shen Qing's eyes. She smiled and said,
"Sure, let's bind then."