Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

Boom!

Thunder roared, and a massive bolt of lightning seemed to tear the sky apart.

Thick, dark clouds rolled in, carrying a heavy weight, as if they would fall at any moment.

Lightning flashed through the clouds, leaving a blinding trail of light before disappearing just as quickly.

Another loud bang, and large raindrops hit the ground; a storm was coming.

Tao Yan stumbled through the wilderness, the rain lashing at her like sharp swords.

Her body was in excruciating pain, a pain that seemed to tear her soul apart from her very core, leaving her in a state of utter mental chaos.

She was in a daze, her mind was crowded and heavy, and endless despair and resentment welled up from the depths of her soul, constantly assaulting her spirit.

She realized where these emotions came from, and she gladly accepted these painful emotions that did not belong to her, even though her rationality was on the verge of collapse, she never had a thought of rejection.

Boom!

A massive bolt of lightning struck overhead, and Tao Yan's monstrous body stiffened before collapsing to the ground with a thud.

"Ahhh—" she let out a strange, beast-like scream.

The sound was shrill and terrifying, but it was far less devastating than the thunder in the sky, which sounded like the wrath of the heavens.

Tao Yan felt a tearing pain in her mind, as the twisted hatred, resentment, and despair that caused her so much pain were constantly being pulled out of her body.

After a moment of excruciating pain as if her body was being torn apart, the mountain-sized monster disappeared in the torrential rain, leaving Tao Yan lying naked and covered in wounds in the muddy, rain-soaked ground.

The curtain of rain, which seemed to leak from the Milky Way, was suddenly parted. Tao Yan was taken aback by this sudden change. The next second, a set of ordinary cotton clothes fell from the sky and accurately covered her.

Tao Yan looked in the direction the clothes had come from and saw the strange young man from the inn floating in the air, with a huge lightning bolt tearing through the sky behind him.

The deafening thunder caused her to lose her hearing for a moment, her mind went blank. She only felt that the boy in mid-air was like a little fairy descending to earth, and the shock he brought her was something she could never forget, no matter how many years had passed.

Floating in mid-air, Su Xingze looked at the beautiful woman on the ground with satisfaction. After seeing the monster just now, and then seeing Tao Yan now, the girl's delicate features were made even more stunning.

The lightning continued to strike from the sky, and Su Xingze felt the heavy pressure from the lightning above him. He couldn't help but frown, feeling quite innocent.

The vengeful spirits already existed in this world. He merely added a small catalyst to Tao Yan's transformation, allowing her to contain the vengeful spirits in a semi-mutated state. He hadn't anticipated that she would become a low-level monster.

Low-level monsters are just a bit disgusting and scary in appearance. They don't constantly emit polluting energy like other monsters. They can take revenge on their own and won't harm the innocent. Why does the world's consciousness react so strongly to such sensible monsters?

Why doesn't He reflect on His own world rules? Why is it that even though the vengeful ghosts are filled with resentment, they can't even avenge themselves? Does He really have to let the vengeful ghosts evolve into an even more terrifying ghost king?

For the time being, Su Xingze could still withstand the pressure of the world's consciousness, so he put it aside and focused his attention on the several dazed ghosts beside Tao Yan.

In his world, vengeful spirits are also terrifying beings. The powerful Ghost Emperor is no less formidable than the Great Evil Spirit. The only thing that makes the Evil Spirit more troublesome than the vengeful spirit is its omnipresent pollution, its terrifying and unsolvable domain of rules, and its unique characteristic that only the Evil Spirit can kill the Evil Spirit, or rather, not kill but devour.

These four vengeful ghosts were all women. One had half of her face rotten and a large gash on her neck; another was missing both hands and her heart was exposed; another was missing a leg and half of her body was shaved down to the skeleton; and the third had her eyes gouged out, her heart cut out, and her bones shaved. Each of them had countless wounds on their 'body', and one could imagine the torture they had endured before they died.

Tao Yan changed into the clothes provided by Su Xingze, knelt down solemnly, and performed a grand salute.

Tao Yan is deeply grateful for your great kindness. I have no way to repay your kindness except for my lowly life. From now on, I will serve you at your benefactor's behest.

She knew that she was able to successfully take revenge thanks to Su Xingze's help. She was born as worthless as grass, her life trampled on by others. She had nothing but her life, so from now on, her life belonged to her benefactor.

Su Xingze didn't react much to Tao Yan's offer to work for him, since Tao Yan had already accepted his strange energy and her life was in his hands.

However, having a subordinate is quite convenient. Once Xiao Qilin receives news of his parents, he can take Xiao Qilin away from the Zhang family. It's better to prepare a place to stay in advance so that he can leave the Zhang family more easily whenever he wants.

With that in mind, Su Xingze accepted Tao Yan as his subordinate.

Have you noticed any changes in your body?

Tao Yan's expression remained unchanged as she honestly replied, "I can feel an extra force within my body."

She stretched out her hand, and a sharp bone spur appeared in her palm as the tumor writhed.

"It's a skeletal mutation." This is quite common in his world.

Su Xingze gave her a brief explanation of the basics about mutants.

There is no such thing as a mutant in this world. Tao Yan was created entirely by his strange energy and can barely be considered a semi-mutant.

Semi-mutants can maintain their human appearance and sanity, but once their source of power is depleted, they will completely transform into mutant monsters.

Her transformation stemmed from her malice, and thus her source of power needed to come from malice.

Her own malice and the malice of others are both resources for her growth.

besides……

Su Xingze focused his gaze on the four vengeful ghosts: "You have developed a special connection with them, and you can now be considered a ghost raiser."

"As a ghost keeper, you can integrate these vengeful spirits into yourself and gain great power. The price is that you will constantly suffer their resentment and pain. Once you lose your sanity, you will become like that again. But if you don't take them into your body, they will remain in a daze until their resentment and remnants of their souls are worn away, which is equivalent to their souls being scattered."

Tao Yan looked at the four female ghosts with complicated emotions, took a deep breath, and pleaded, "My lord, may I ask if there is any way to restore their appearance before they were alive, and whether they can regain their senses?"

They shouldn't be like this now. Their enemy is dead, and they can no longer live in the pain inflicted by him.

"It's difficult, and it will cost you a lot."

Tao Yan firmly replied, "I'm not afraid."

Su Xingze reminded him again, "This will cause you a lot of pain."

Tao Yan persisted.

"This may cause you endless suffering for the rest of your life."

Tao Yan: "Without them, there would be no me."

Tao Yan told Su Xingze a story about how a group of women born into lowly circumstances raised a child during a terrible famine.

Tao Yan was born in the last few months of the Dingwu Famine. Her mother was a refugee who had fled to this place, and her father died on the way to find food for her mother.

When her mother was about to starve to death, she was saved by several despised prostitutes.

They were the children of villagers from nearby areas. Due to the continuous drought and natural disasters, grain production was reduced or even completely lost. In order to support their families and themselves, they voluntarily sold themselves.

Natural disasters often hit the poorest people the hardest, but the wealthy have food reserves, so even if there is a complete crop failure, it doesn't affect them much.

While the disaster victims were starving to the point of cannibalism, the young masters of the gentry were still complaining that the food wasn't good enough, throwing the food to feed the dogs, and even indulging in a life of debauchery and pleasure.

"She was only sixteen years old that year. She stepped into the town magistrate's house and came out three days later lying down. She had exchanged this for a month's worth of food, which allowed me to survive."

Tao Yan pointed to the person whose eyes had been gouged out.

"She sold herself to a wealthy businessman who was so ugly he could be her grandfather, in exchange for a cartload of moldy grain."

She pointed to the woman who had no hands.

"she……"

She remembered everything each of her aunts had done for her. Everyone else could despise them, but she couldn't. They were the mothers who had sheltered her from the storm, whom everyone else could trample on.

After surviving that terrible disaster, their lives were gradually getting better when the innkeeper appeared.

He and Cai Gou colluded to force these unfortunate women to work for them. Even though they could have escaped such a life, they were forced to continue struggling in hell, and in the end, they were even tortured and killed by Cai Gou for his own amusement.

She didn't want her mothers to be trapped in endless suffering after their deaths, and she wouldn't regret it no matter the cost, as long as it alleviated their pain.