Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

The yang energy value of Wen Yu, which was displayed on his body, returned to normal after fluctuating.

Shen Yu took in all of this. He looked at Wen Yu's data bar, remained silent for a moment, and then turned and walked out.

Xuan Lin was taken to his own palace for treatment, but the imperial physicians who had been urgently summoned were all kicked out shortly after entering. Xuan Lin's roars echoed throughout the palace, mixed with wails, constantly assaulting people's eardrums.

Shen Yu had already changed into a maid's uniform inside Kunning Palace. He disguised himself as an ordinary maid and blended into the line of people going to deliver hot water.

"Get out! All of you, get out!"

"Go...go tell Mu Yuyuan! If he doesn't catch that bitch within three days, I'll cripple his hands and feet! Let him continue searching! All of you, get out—"

Shen Yu stood at the door with his head down, listening to the sounds inside. He had just taken a step forward when he was pushed out by the palace maid in front of him.

"His Majesty is in a fit of rage right now, why don't you get away? Do you want to die?"

Shen Yu was forced to retreat outside the main hall again. All the palace maids and eunuchs serving inside were driven out by Xuan Lin. Xuan Lin was wary and full of suspicion, and he did not allow anyone else to approach the palace. He even refused to let the imperial physician who came to treat him enter.

In the end, only the guards remained at the entrance of the palace, while everyone else left, leaving Xuan Lin alone inside the palace.

When Shen Yu left, he made a point of observing his surroundings. He took another small path and walked from the dense forest behind the palace towards it, using the path to jump onto the roof of the palace.

Mu Yuyuan mobilized almost all of her secret guards to search. The few remaining guards were not skilled in martial arts, and they were all knocked unconscious by Shen Yu and tied to the tree trunk.

Shen Yu slowed his pace and glanced at Gou Qie Tou Sheng, who immediately opened the golden book. The remaining energy flowed along a void line, enveloping Gou Qie Tou Sheng and Shen Yu's bodies, and soon merged into them, disappearing into the air.

Shen Yu then withdrew his gaze, lifted a tile from the eaves, and looked down.

Inside the palace, chaos reigned. Medicine bottles and porcelain were smashed and thrown on the ground, gauze was torn, and sewage and bloodstains mingled together, faintly exuding a foul stench.

Xuan Lin's figure was hidden behind a five-panel dragon-shaped screen. Shen Yu could not see him from above, but he could see the light and shadow emanating from the coal ball.

A faint sound came from inside, which Shen Yu could not hear clearly. He stared down and suddenly heard a furious shout.

"What use are you to me?! You're a piece of trash!"

Before he could finish speaking, the coal ball was violently thrown out. Its sturdy body shattered the base, and the entire ball was violently embedded into the wall. The wall cracked into a spiderweb pattern, and the coal ball twitched stiffly, shaking off a few grains of stone.

"Warning! Danger! Warning! Requesting headquarters support...beep—low energy..."

Xuan Lin stepped on the rubble on the ground. The deep wound on his face had been mostly healed, leaving only a scarlet mark.

He seemed consumed by hatred, his entire face contorted in a grimace, like a snarling beast on a mask. The coal ball was stuck in the wall, unable to move. With each step Xuan Lin took closer, the warning markings on its body grew darker.

"Warning! Warning! Warning..."

Xuan Lin yanked the coal ball out of the wall and threw it on the ground. The protective panels on the coal ball were all smashed open. Xuan Lin, annoyed by its noise, stomped on the coal ball repeatedly.

"What are you talking about! Huh? What the hell are you talking about!"

The data panel of the coal ball shattered into pieces. Xuan Lin stomped on it until its body was almost deformed and twisted. The coal ball was buried in the stone slab of the main hall, and intermittently emitted alarms that sounded like cries for help.

"Requesting support from headquarters... requesting..."

Before it could finish speaking, Xuan Lin suddenly smashed a gold and jade porcelain bottle onto it: "I'll teach you to talk! I'll teach you to talk!"

The sound of the coal ball gradually ceased with each hammer blow from Xuan Lin; the light on its surface dimmed, and its parts shattered on the ground.

Shen Yu held his breath, his brows furrowing unconsciously as he looked at the scene below. As a system himself, the one that could barely survive trembled at the sight. It lifted Shen Yu's sleeve and stuffed the entire sphere inside to hide.

Xuan Lin smashed it for three or four minutes before he could barely stop. The coal ball had already shut down, leaving only a tiny bit of power stored in the core chip.

“…Useless piece of trash.” Xuan Lin seemed still not satisfied and stomped on the coal ball a few more times.

The wound on his face had reopened due to his sudden movement, and blood was flowing continuously. Xuan Lin glanced at the crimson liquid dripping onto the ground, covered his right cheek with a handkerchief, and staggered away.

"Summon the imperial physician...call the imperial physician over!"

Xuan Lin pushed open the palace door, his voice sinister and ghostly, carried by the cold night wind to the ears of the guarding eunuchs.

"Yes, Your Majesty. Quickly... quickly summon the imperial physician!"

As the sounds outside faded into the distance, Shen Yu put the bricks and tiles back on and took the opportunity to jump off the eaves.

He walked a short distance along the wall to a more rounded corner, revealing his desperate struggle for survival hidden in his sleeves.

"This is terrifying! This is terrifying!" Still shaken, it clutched its head and muttered incessantly, "That Xuan Lin is completely insane! Coal Ball is bound to it, how could he treat his own system like this?! Does he have no humanity at all?!"

Shen Yu glanced at the cowardly creature with a cold look: "Perhaps it deserves to be hit?"

"He deserves to be hit... but he shouldn't have hit him like that!" Gouqiechoingsheng grew increasingly angry. "He'll kill it! Couldn't he have been gentler?"

Shen Yu was indifferent; in his view, Meiqiu's actions were nothing more than reaping what he sowed.

"Coal Ball tried to resist just now, but Xuan Lin suppressed him." Shen Yu recalled what had happened, his brows furrowing slightly. "What was the reason?"

After pondering for a moment, he analyzed, "I actually told you about this situation before. The hosts I bind to are all innocent and cute types with low danger and low threat, but Coal Ball is different."

"It binds itself to hosts everywhere, and Xuan Lin's level of danger has exceeded its control. That's why their identities have been switched, making Coal Ball subject to Xuan Lin."

Shen Yu listened and remained silent for a moment: "How is the coal ball doing now?"

“It has reached the critical point.” Gouqiechoingsheng said seriously, “Most of its power has been drained by Xuanlin, and it is now no different from a crippled system. If it does not receive rescue, it will become a pile of scrap metal.”

Upon hearing this, Shen Yu narrowed his eyes. He leaned against the wall, rubbing his fingertips, but had not yet spoken.

The creature, barely able to stay alive, glanced at Shen Yu. The golden book in its hand was gradually darkening, subtly hinting that the coal briquette's remaining energy was rapidly dissipating.