Tavern of the Spear: Desire for Pleasure

The two were stuck in a stalemate before the stone gate, time ticking by and the atmosphere growing increasingly tense. Bai Yu kept drawing circles on the ground, looking utterly bored, while Cheng Yu frowned, racking his brains for a solution.

Finally, two hours later, Cheng Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had seen a glimmer of light in the darkness. He clapped his hands excitedly and shouted, "I've got it!"

Bai Yu, who was drawing circles on the ground, heard Cheng Yu's voice and immediately jumped up like a spring. He rushed to Cheng Yu's side, grabbed his shoulders tightly, and asked excitedly, "What idea did you come up with? Tell me quickly!"

Those two hours felt like two centuries to Bai Yu. He was incredibly bored; this feeling of having nothing to do was worse than death. Now, hearing Cheng Yu say he had a solution, he was overjoyed and couldn't wait to put it into action.

Cheng Yu was so dizzy from being shaken by Bai Yu that he felt like his brain was being shaken to its core. He quickly stopped Bai Yu's "rough" behavior and said, "Don't get excited. I did think of a way, but we'll have to try it to see if it works."

"Then hurry up and try it!" Bai Yu said impatiently. "I'm about to suffocate! This godforsaken place doesn't even allow me to use spatial abilities. I've lost not only time but also space. I'm practically useless!"

In Bai Yu's mind, time and space were his greatest strengths and the abilities he was most proud of. But in this world, his time and space abilities were restricted, which made him feel extremely frustrated and powerless.

Cheng Yu smiled awkwardly. He could understand Bai Yu's feelings. After all, for a strong person, the pain of losing power was no less than being deprived of life.

“Okay, I’ll give it a try.” Cheng Yu said, taking a photo out of his pocket. The photo looked ordinary, but upon closer inspection, one could see a faint shimmering light flowing across its surface.

Cheng Yu threw the photo to the ground, and a magical scene unfolded! The moment the photo touched the ground, it suddenly burst into a dazzling light. After the light faded, a giant slime appeared in front of the two of them.

This slime was more than two people tall, with a translucent light blue body and seemingly countless stars twinkling inside, making it look both beautiful and mysterious.

Upon seeing the slime, Bai Yu immediately guessed Cheng Yu's intention. He looked at Cheng Yu and asked suspiciously, "You don't actually want this guy to inherit that monster's abilities, do you? Aren't you afraid of being attacked backfired?"

The "monster" Bai Yu was referring to was naturally the tentacles that had almost devoured Cheng Yu. The evil power contained within those tentacles was still fresh in Bai Yu's memory, and he really couldn't understand why Cheng Yu would let this slime inherit that power.

"Ahem..." Cheng Yu coughed awkwardly twice, nodded, and said, "That's right, that's what I think too. You should always try something, what if it works?"

“But…” Bai Yu wanted to say something, but seeing Cheng Yu’s determined eyes, he swallowed his words.

"Alright, this is the only way we can try now." Bai Yu sighed and said, "But you should still be careful. If it gets out of control, stop it immediately and don't let the worst happen."

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing," Cheng Yu said.

He walked up to the slime, reached out, and gently stroked its soft body. The slime seemed to sense Cheng Yu's feelings; it gently rubbed its body against Cheng Yu's palm, like a docile kitten.

"I'm counting on you from now on," Cheng Yu said softly.

The slime made a soft "gurgling" sound, seemingly in response to Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and connected his mental energy with that of the slime. He began to guide the slime, gradually transmitting the image and aura of the tentacles to it.

This is an extremely dangerous process because the power of those tentacles is far too evil. If one is not careful, the slime could be devoured, and even Cheng Yu could be implicated.

Cheng Yu carefully controlled the output of his mental energy, not daring to relax even slightly. Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his face turned somewhat pale.

Time passed second by second, and the slime's body began to change. Its color gradually deepened, from light blue to dark blue, then to dark purple, and finally to an as black color!

Tiny tentacles began to grow on its body surface, waving in the air, looking both eerie and terrifying.

Bai Yu watched in horror, his fists clenched tightly, ready to intervene at any moment.

"Cheng Yu, are you alright?" Bai Yu asked with concern.

"I'm alright..." Cheng Yu's voice was weak, "However, this process was more difficult than I imagined..."

"Maybe we should just give up?" Bai Yu advised. "Let's think of another way."

"No, we can't give up!" Cheng Yu gritted his teeth and said, "I can already feel that it's about to succeed!"

Just then, the slime suddenly let out a sharp cry, its body trembled violently, and its tentacles became even more frenzied, as if they might go out of control at any moment.

"Not good!" Bai Yu's expression changed, and he was about to step forward to stop them.

"Don't come any closer!" Cheng Yu shouted. "Trust me, I can control it!"

Bai Yu abruptly stopped in his tracks, looking at Cheng Yu with eyes full of worry and struggle.

Cheng Yu stared intently at the slime, his mental energy surging towards it like a tidal wave, trying to suppress the restless tentacles.

"Quiet down!" Cheng Yu roared inwardly.

The slime's body trembled more and more violently, and its cries became increasingly shrill, as if it were enduring immense pain.

Just then, Cheng Yu suddenly felt a closer connection being established between his mental power and the slime's mental power. He could clearly sense the slime's emotions and control its power more freely.

"Now!" Cheng Yu was overjoyed. He concentrated all his mental energy and then pressed down on the slime.

The slime's body jolted violently, and then, incredibly, its restless tentacles began to calm down slowly. Its cries also gradually diminished and eventually disappeared completely.

The slime's body color also began to lighten slowly, from pitch black to dark blue, then to dark purple, and finally back to light blue.

The tiny tentacles slowly retracted into the slime's body and eventually disappeared completely.

Everything returned to calm, and the slime turned back into the gentle and adorable little creature it once was.

"It worked?" Bai Yu asked in disbelief, looking at the scene before him.

"Yes, it worked." Cheng Yu breathed a long sigh of relief, a relieved smile on his face.

He walked over to the slime, gently stroked its head, and said, "Thank you, you did a great job."

The slime rubbed its body against Cheng Yu's palm, making a soft "gurgling" sound, as if responding to his gratitude.

"So, what should we do next?" Bai Yu asked.

“It’s very simple,” Cheng Yu said, pointing to the stone door. “Let it use the power of those tentacles to open this door.”

"I see." Bai Yu suddenly realized. "I understand now."

Cheng Yu once again connected his spiritual power with the slime's spiritual power and soul. In this way, Cheng Yu transformed into slime form again. Then, Cheng Yu began to guide the power within his body and release it onto the stone gate.

In his slime form, Cheng Yu walked to the stone gate, stretched out his body, and gently touched the patterns on the stone gate.

A miraculous scene unfolded once again! Upon contact with the slime's body, the patterns began to emit a faint glow, and then the stone door opened.

The stone door slowly opened, emitting a deep rumble, like the sigh of an ancient behemoth, echoing in the empty space. The scene behind the door gradually appeared before the two of them. Bai Yu and Cheng Yu, who had already transformed into a slime, both held their breath, awaiting their unknown fate.

Bai Yu looked at the comical scene before him and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. He pointed to Cheng Yu's body lying on the ground and said to Cheng Yu in his slime form, "Um... are you still going to take care of your body?"

Cheng Yu, in his slime form, looked back at his original body and realized that he had been too engrossed in his work, transferring his entire soul into the slime's body, leaving his original body as an empty shell without a soul.

The sticky blue gel on Cheng Yu's slime form writhed, forming a somewhat comical, yet unmistakably awkward expression. However, he quickly adjusted his mindset. In his view, compared to his current incredibly powerful slime body, his original body was utterly weak and probably unnecessary for the time being.

Thinking this, Cheng Yu didn't hesitate to control the slime's body, lightly leaping up like a giant jelly, and then landing precisely next to his original body. Then, to Bai Yu's astonishment, the slime's body wriggled and actually swallowed Cheng Yu's original body whole!

"What...what are you doing?" Bai Yu's jaw nearly dropped in shock. He pointed at Cheng Yu in his slime form and stammered, "You don't want your original body anymore? You really are...fickle!"

Cheng Yu, in his slime form, looked at Bai Yu with his eyes made of blue liquid, a hint of helplessness seemingly visible in them. He explained to Bai Yu through his mental power, "Of course we don't want it anymore, it's just that we don't need it right now, so we'll store it in this slime body for now. This will also help protect the original body, since it currently has no defenses."

Bai Yu felt like a flock of crows were flying overhead, and his forehead was covered in black lines. He simply couldn't understand Cheng Yu's thought process; this guy's behavior was always so...unpredictable.

However, now is not the time to dwell on these things. Bai Yu shook his head, putting these messy thoughts to the back of his mind, and said, "Forget it, let's leave it at that. Let's get out of here quickly, I don't want to stay in this awful place any longer."

“Okay,” Cheng Yu replied simply in his slime form.

The two walked out of the stone gate, one after the other. They had expected to see the long-awaited light, but instead, they were met with a pitch-black night sky. Logically speaking, moonlight is also light, so why can't it be light during the day?

"Uh, okay, it seems it's still quite late. Maybe we should wait a while until dawn, don't you think?" Bai Yu looked up at the sky, then glanced at Cheng Yu somewhat awkwardly. "This is getting worse and worse. My perception of time is becoming increasingly blurred. I thought it was daytime?"

Cheng Yu, in his slime form, looked up and said, "It seems we can't stay in this timeline any longer. If we continue like this, something bad will happen sooner or later. I have a feeling that the nights here are much longer than where we were before."

"...I feel the same way, but how come you feel this way?" Bai Yu frowned and looked at Cheng Yu. He could feel this way because he was originally close to time. Although it had been weakened in this world, he shouldn't always be one step behind Cheng Yu.