The skin-covered skeleton's expression cracked.
He reached out, struggling to pull his face back into place, then gritted his teeth and asked, "Not leaving? What do you want to do if you don't leave?"
The aura of a Tribulation Transcending stage expert, even if only slightly released, was terrifying.
But Li Shuang remained relatively calm.
After all, she hadn't violated any rules.
As long as she stayed within the rules, the skin-covered skeleton couldn't act.
Otherwise, in his current state, he would likely kill any cultivator who came near.
People like Yilan and Roushan were able to escape multiple times unscathed.
This showed that the rules here were indeed unbreakable.
Li Shuang said calmly, "I just think that if there's an option to leave, there's naturally an option to stay."
The skin-covered skeleton's face changed. He quickly said, "The trial is over! As soon as you leave, you'll receive a large reward of Soul Points. With your performance this time... I'll secretly tell you, you should be able to get about four thousand Soul Points in one go! That's equivalent to a normal cultivator's earnings for one or two years!"
About four thousand Soul Points.
It was quite tempting.
After all, her goal was thirty thousand Soul Points.
And now, in less than a day, she could get four thousand Soul Points.
From this perspective, it was very cost-effective.
But...
A slight smile appeared on Li Shuang's lips: "No, I still want to stay."
The skin-covered skeleton looked like he really wanted to drive her away.
In that case, she had even more reason to stay!
"If you stay, you'll be meat on my chopping block. Even the rules won't protect you then. One glance from me, and you'll turn to ashes," the skin-covered skeleton threatened.
Li Shuang's heart instantly settled. She said sincerely, "I was a bit nervous at first, but now that you've said that, Senior, I'm completely at ease."
The skin-covered skeleton: "???"
Having been here for so long, it was the first time he had the urge to violate the rules.
But he held back.
He gritted his teeth and said, "If you don't believe me, just try it!"
"Please choose within a quarter of an hour whether to leave the Gluttony Hell," a mechanical voice rang out.
"Not leaving," Li Shuang responded without hesitation.
She even said it out loud.
The skin-covered skeleton: "..."
"Cultivator Li from Myriad Law City has chosen to stay after completing the preliminary trial. Activating the hidden trial of Gluttony Hell: The Feast of a Hundred Ghosts!"
The voice continued to ring out.
Li Shuang's eyes lit up instantly.
The reason she refused to leave was precisely because of the many dishes in this Gluttony Hell!
These dishes.
They were deadly to others.
But to Li Shuang, what were they?
They were value points!
The skin-covered skeleton watched Li Shuang's eyes light up, and the bones in his body began to creak!
This Feast of a Hundred Ghosts had different levels depending on the cultivator's soul cultivation.
Li Shuang's soul cultivation was at the Soul Transformation stage.
The upcoming Feast of a Hundred Ghosts was also most suitable for the Soul Transformation stage.
The only time the Feast of a Hundred Ghosts in Gluttony Hell had been cleared was the one for the Body Integration stage.
The Feast of a Hundred Ghosts for the Soul Transformation stage had yet to be eaten by anyone who survived.
If it were another cultivator who willingly stayed to die, the skin-covered skeleton would undoubtedly be overjoyed.
But when it came to this Li...
For some reason, he had a vague premonition of something ominous.
Many people had chosen to stay and challenge it before.
But...
None of them had such a look of craving!
If these foods weren't prepared by him personally, he would suspect that he was some culinary master, and that what he made were rare delicacies.
Otherwise, why would this human's eyes be as bright as a cat that had stolen fish!
"Is the trial starting now?" Li Shuang looked at him with anticipation.
The skin-covered skeleton was silent for a long while before gritting his teeth and saying, "Start!"
"Hurry up, I'm in a rush," Li Shuang urged repeatedly.
The skin-covered skeleton gritted his teeth, and the surrounding skeletons lined up one by one, waiting in front of Li Shuang.
Each skeleton held a plate of dishes.
"There are a total of one hundred dishes. You pass if you finish them all," the skin-covered skeleton said. "If you want to go back on your word midway..."
"No regrets!" Li Shuang quickly said.
The skin-covered skeleton: "...Then let's begin."
The first skeleton stepped forward.
Li Shuang lifted the lid, revealing a plate of blood jelly, faintly emitting a strong腥气 (fishy smell).
Li Shuang's eyes lit up.
"Heavenly Wolf Blood: 700 value points."
Why hesitate?
Eat!
Even if it tasted bad, there were value points to be gained!
Li Shuang wolfed down the first dish.
The skin-covered skeleton watched in silence.
No... was what he made really that delicious?
It wasn't that no one could eat this plate of blood jelly, but to eat it so eagerly, with such an expression of enjoyment, this human was the first!
What he wanted was to see the expressions of those who ate the dishes, expressions of agony and wishing they were dead.
Not an eager look urging him to bring the next dish quickly!
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
Amidst Li Shuang's frantic urging, dishes were brought up one after another like a flowing stream.
The skin-covered skeleton watched, gritting his teeth!
He felt that he would never be happy again!
In Li Shuang's sea of consciousness, the Heaven and Earth Furnace continuously received income.
A blissful expression involuntarily appeared on Li Shuang's face.
Oh heavens.
Why.
Why couldn't she live such a good life every day?
She ate her way through from beginning to end at a terrifying speed.
By the time all one hundred dishes were consumed, she had spent less than half an hour.
The skin-covered skeleton no longer wanted to speak.
One must know.
It wasn't that no one had cleared it before, but to eat one hundred dishes, the fastest person still took three months.
Slower ones even spent several years here.
And this human?
She used less than half an hour?
What else could this be but madness!
"Senior. Is there more?" Li Shuang looked at the skin-covered skeleton with an expectant expression, still wanting more.
The skin-covered skeleton said with a fake smile, "No more."
"But, I think I can still..." Li Shuang anxiously tried to say something.
The next moment, a dizzying sensation came over her, and her body suddenly lifted into the air.
By the time Li Shuang reacted.
She had already been sent outside the swamp.
Li Shuang's expression changed.
She was just sent out like that?
How could this be?
She clearly saw many more dishes in Gluttony Hell.
Li Shuang tried to walk into the swamp, and her feet quickly began to sink.
Just as Li Shuang was about to be delighted, suddenly, a hand reached out from beneath the ground.
And literally... lifted her up.
Li Shuang was a bit speechless. She tried to reason with the hand: "Isn't your behavior a bit out of line?"
"Senior Skeleton and I haven't seen each other for a day, it feels like three autumns. I still want to see him, is there a problem with that?"
"In such a vast Gluttony Hell, can it not accommodate the existence of a pair of good friends?"
Li Shuang earnestly reasoned for a long time.
But the hand remained unmoved, still firmly holding her up there.