HELP! These Girls Wants To Kill Me-Chapter 234

The moment Yang Ze chose the option to upgrade the talent, the entire world seemed to turn still. It was as if time itself had stopped. The previous quiet forest seemed to have turned even more deathly silent as he couldn’t even hear his own heartbeat.

And before he could understand what was going on, a blinding golden light burst out of his body, completely enveloping the surroundings. The entire forest in the radius of a hundred meters seemed to have turned into a golden ocean.

But the changes didn’t just stop there.... The blinding glow of the golden light kept on increasing. Thankfully, he was inside the Dead Zone, where no one usually comes. Otherwise, this phenomenon would have attracted the attention of countless cultivators.

Yang Ze watched in nervousness and excitement as the golden light finally stopped expanding and slowly began to retract.

He could see ten bright specks of even more dazzling golden lights, which seemed to be compressing the golden light from all directions.

Yang Ze watched everything unfolding before him in fascination as the golden light finally converged in three meter radius around his body, almost turning the area into a sun.

Yang Ze, who was inside, only felt a warm current constantly washing his body, making him feel like he was sitting in a hot spring.

And just when he was wondering what was going to happen next, the ten specks of gold light began to crack, and with every crack, the golden light around Yang Ze began to condense even further, but this time, instead of radiating golden colour, it began to slowly turn red.

In less than the time it takes for an incense to burn, the golden light had turned pitch red before submerging in Yang Ze’s body.

And in the next moment, everything returned back to normal.

"....."

"....."

"What the..." Suppressing the rampant excitement in his heart, Yang Ze immediately looked at the newly added talent on his personal panel, and the moment he did, his eyes narrowed into slits.

[Void Decree(Red): Sacrifice your lifespan to hasten the flow of time by a hundredfold in a small domain.]

"HUUUUH!?" Yang Ze couldn’t help but rub his eyes, wondering if he was seeing things.

The previous golden talent, Withering Year Mark, would condense one hundred days of life into a life gem every day. Although it sounded terrifying, he could simply crush the gems to regain his lifespan. In a sense, to him, who didn’t know anything about the usage of a life gem, it was a useless skill.

And the upgraded version was even more peculiar than the previous talent.

"Isn’t this just an upgraded version of the Death Stick?" Muttering to himself, Yang Ze thought about the description of the stick of death.

[Stick of Death: Sacrifice ’x’ amount of your lifespan to take off ’50x’ lifespan from the enemy.]

It was almost identical to his newly upgraded talent, except instead of fifty times, it did one hundred times.

"Speaking of the stick..." Yang Ze hurriedly patted his body, only realise that he had been standing stark naked for quite a while now.

With the black fog that covered his body like a tattoo now gone, his entire petite body was now on full display.

A shiver ran down Yang Ze’s spine as he hurriedly snapped his fingers before a set of simple grey robes appeared on his body. It was only then that he hurriedly jumped around, looking for the stick of death.

Unlike the Clock of time which he could store in his body for some reason, the stick of death couldn’t be stored in his body. He could only keep it outside.

He remembered keeping it inside the house while he ventured around, gathering more information about the place.

But now...

With the village gone, his stick had disappeared along with it.

"..."

"..."

"FUUUUCKKKK"

Yang Ze couldn’t help but curse at the top of his lungs. Had he known there would be so many changes in such a short span of time, he would have tied that stick to his body with those long vines. Unfortunately for him, at that time, he didn’t think things would spiral out of control this much.

Yang Ze even rushed back to where the village was once again, picking up every broken branch and stone, but no matter how hard he searched, he just couldn’t find it.

In the end, he could only give up with an unwilling expression before focusing on the nelly gained in front of him once again.

"So after Gold is Red!" Yang Ze finally knew the rarity of the talent after Gold. Though this newly gained red talent seemed a bit underwhelming, he couldn’t help but rub his chin while thinking about how he could use it more effectively.

It wasn’t until an hour passed that he stood up and patted his new clothes.

"Should I head out?" The moment this thought came to his mind, Yang Ze couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

"Let’s just wait one more day and see if I can repeat the process of upgrading this talent." Taking a deep breath, Yang Ze suppressed the urge to leave this place and sat down in meditation.

Unbeknownst to him, while he was sitting in the state of enlightenment, the figure of a young girl was quietly hovering above his head, gazing deeply at his figure.

And in her hand was the very same black short stick that Yang Ze had been so desperately searching for.

"What a strange person." These were the only words she could utter for Yang Ze.

How could the blinding golden light that was almost akin to a small sun be hidden from her? Earlier, she wasn’t even interested, but after seeing that golden colour that appeared out of nowhere, her curiosity got the better of her. In the end, she watched the entire process from start to finish.

Although she didn’t know what it was, she had a feeling that it was something earth-shattering... something she couldn’t see through in her current state.

"If only the main body was here..." Clicking her tongue in regret, she gently tossed the stick in his hand before stroking it gently.

"A failed spirit treasure." There was a hint of pity in her voice as she kept on caressing it. "Just a bit more, and this thing might have turned into a spirit treasure.

"But it’s still powerful for a failed treasure." Speaking till here, she simply waved her hand as a small rabbit appeared out of nowhere in front of her. Without speaking a word, the girl slashed the stick towards the rabbit, and in that instant, the confused rabbit’s eyes grew dim as it lost all signs of life.

The girl snapped her finger as the body of the lifeless rabbit appeared in front of her, and she began to observe it carefully.

There didn’t seem to be anything different with the rabbit at a glance. Its body was in its prime state; there were no outer or inner changes in its body. But she could clearly see that it died because of exhausting its life force.

She simply threw the lifeless body of the rabbit away before waving her hand again as another rabbit appeared out of thin air.

This time, he kept the stick pointed towards the rabbit, carefully observing the changes in its body.

With her cultivation realm, she could easily tell how much lifespan a person or animal had. Earlier, she sacrificed one year of her lifespan to kill the rabbit in an instant. But now...

"Sacrifice one day..." She muttered under her breath as she watched an invisible wave spread from the stick, directly pointing towards the rabbit. In that instant, she felt the rabbit suddenly losing fifty days from its life.

"Continue..." She kept on sacrificing one day of her life every second to observe the changes in the rabbit.

A few moments later, when the rabbit was at its dying breath with only a few days of its lifespan remaining, it still didn’t show any changes. It was still completely normal, though a bit afraid and panicked because of flying in the air... but other than that, it was no different from a normal rabbit.

"A pity..." With a sigh, she merely closed her eyes, and with it, the rabbit disintegrated into nothingness.

"It is more like a lifespan curse instead of the law of time." Clicking her tongue in regret, she gazed at the figure of a young boy below her, as her eyes flashed for a moment.

"Too bad." Muttering to herself, she simply tightened her grip around the stick, afraid that she might lose it.

As for the matter of returning it back to Yang Ze... Heh... How could she return such a treasure to a mere brat?

"Consider this... umm... yeah... my payment."

"For whatever reason." With a shrug, she took a step forward before disappearing from there.

Yang Ze, on the other hand, didn’t even realise that the stick of death that he was so desperately looking for had already been snatched by that girl. But even if he knew about it, there was nothing he could have done other than curse her a few times in his mind.

Without him realsising it, an entire day passed in the blink of an eye while he sat in a state of meditation.

By the time Yang Ze finally opened his eyes, it was already noon.

Without wasting another moment, Yang Ze immediately used his daily sign-in to get the talent ’Withering Year Mark’, hoping to see if it was possible to upgrade the red talent even further.

[Congratulations on getting Withering Year Mark(Gold)]

Looking at the panel in front of him, Yang Ze couldn’t help but let out a bitter smile.

Good news... he could upgrade his first red talent even further.

Bad news... the text behind the talent had changed to (1/999999)

Looking at the dense number of nines, Yang Ze immediately threw the idea of upgrading the talent further. He didn’t even know if there were this many trees in the forest.

"Shall I head out today?" Now that he had gained a basic understanding of this place and even managed to get a red talent, Yang Ze didn’t think there was anything else for him to do there.

Taking one last look at the empty place where a village used to be, he suppressed the rising emotions in his heart before turning around and walking away.

He wasn’t going to lose himself in sorrow. He might have lost the people he cared about, and in the future, perhaps will continue to... He needed to steel his heart to face whatever life throws at him.

Just like Lin Meilin once said to him... a person truly dies when their memory dies.

With the village gone, he was the only single person in this entire world to remember those children... especially the group of five courageous girls who, despite going through so much, never lost hope.

Since they didn’t... why should he?

He couldn’t save them, but he did get revenge for them.

And the only thing he could do now was to keep them in his memories. One day, when he is powerful enough, he would share their stories with the world... perhaps one day he would even be able to revive them.

Yes... Even with such a setback, he hadn’t lost hope of reviving Cang Yue.

On the contrary... with the death of the children, he was even more intent on finding a way.

Not only would he revive Cang Yue, but he would also find a way to revive those five girls and then show them just how beautiful the outside world is.

Unknowingly, a gentle smile appeared on his face as Yang Ze slowly walked in the direction of the outside world.

It took him a few hours to finally reach the boundary.

Taking one last look behind him, he took a deep breath before raising his foot and taking one step forward, finally leaving the death zone behind.

And the moment he walked out of there, the air in front of him twisted as the figure of an enchanting woman appeared directly in front of him... hiding her face with a veil as she gently lifted her hand before pointing her finger towards Yang Ze and then, without any hesitation, poked his nose.