466: Chapter 466 Accompany Me to Face the Past

Chen Yi analyzed the current situation.

Right now, there were only two paths to quickly obtain Enhancement Points.

First, find and form a contract with Spirit Beast Girls who possess a hidden Bloodline, use Spirit Beast Awakening to help them activate their Bloodline, and then obtain rewards by increasing their favorability;

Second, find a way to increase Hua Liuli's favorability. Her favorability was already at 94 points, just one point away from reaching 95 and claiming the reward. Furthermore, the System also required that Hua Liuli's favorability be raised to 100 points.

"The first path..."

Chen Yi rubbed his temples and sighed, "There's definitely no way to do it with great fanfare."

ZERO wasn't a fool.

If Chen Yi were to suddenly hold some kind of concubine selection event at this critical juncture, the other party would certainly suspect his motives.

Once ZERO realized that Chen Yi was urgently increasing his strength, it was very likely that they would launch an attack prematurely, disrupting all his plans.

But if he didn't do it with fanfare and searched one by one like finding a needle in a haystack, that would be even more troublesome.

With the Dragon Nation's population of over a billion, there were probably fewer than a hundred girls with hidden Bloodlines, spread all over the country. How could he possibly find them in ten days?

"What on earth should I do?"

Chen Yi fell into a stalemate for a moment.

He walked to the window and watched The girls Cultivating in the courtyard.

Everyone was working so hard, and everyone placed their hopes on him.

Hua Liuli was standing in the corner of the courtyard, quietly observing everyone's Cultivation.

Her 94 points of favorability meant that her gaze toward Chen Yi was filled with tenderness, but that majesty belonging to a queen never vanished.

"Liuli..."

Chen Yi whispered her name.

If he could grind her favorability to 95 points, he should be able to obtain a considerable reward.

But the problem was, how to grind it?

Give gifts?

As the queen of the Demon Abyss Cult, what treasures hadn't Hua Liuli seen?

Sweet nothings?

She would probably just laugh off those superficial sweet nothings.

Experience danger together?

It was a stable period now, with ZERO turtling up and not moving, where would danger come from?

Or perhaps spend the night alone with her?

That wasn't realistic either; he had pulled the trigger dozens of times that night, and the favorability hadn't increased at all...

The more Chen Yi thought about it, the more his head hurt.

There were only ten days left, with an Enhancement Points deficit of 940, an attribute deficit of several hundred, no way to find new girls, and the old girls' favorability stuck...

"Sigh, Lilian, oh Lilian, if only your ability could add a feature to give me hints..."

Just as Chen Yi was stuck in a stalemate and almost about to give up thinking.

An unexpected thing happened.

The door was gently knocked upon.

"Please come in."

Chen Yi adjusted his mood and said softly.

The door opened, and Hua Liuli walked in carrying an exquisite wooden tray.

On the tray was a set of celadon tea ware, and the teapot was emitting curling wisps of steam, giving off an elegant, light fragrance.

Chen Yi was stunned for a moment, only then realizing that Hua Liuli was no longer in the courtyard.

Instead, she had changed into a black qipao, her black hair simply tied up with a wooden hairpin, lacking a bit of the queen's majesty but possessing a bit more domestic gentleness.

"I saw that you had been staying in your room ever since you returned from Yuri Demon Empress Ai Ke, did you encounter some kind of difficult problem?"

Hua Liuli placed the tray on the table and poured two cups of tea, "This is my specially made calming tea; it can soothe the mind."

Chen Yi was somewhat surprised and took the teacup, "Thank you! Indeed... I have encountered some problems."

He did not hide it and simply explained his current predicament.

Of course, he didn't mention the System; and even if he did, no one would believe it.

Hua Liuli listened quietly, her slender fingers gently stroking the edge of the teacup.

After Chen Yi finished speaking, she also fell into silence.

Chen Yi had created too many miracles so far.

Every single thing could not be described by common logic.

This method of needing to find new girls who possess hidden Bloodlines... it shouldn't be a joke!

"I see! So what you need most right now is to find a new Spirit Beast that possesses a hidden Bloodline?"

Chen Yi nodded and touched his nose, feeling a bit awkward, "Yeah! That's right! But I'll say this beforehand, I'm not being a playboy! Really..."

"Chen Yi!"

Hua Liuli interrupted him, stood up, and walked to the window, "Do you know? Actually, for the past month, I have been pondering a question."

"I have lived for a very long time, and as the queen of the Demon Abyss Cult, I have seen too many dark sides of human nature."

"Power, desire, betrayal, utilization... these are not unfamiliar to me."

"So when I met you, my initial thought was to use you—to use your ability to achieve my goals!"

"But everything that happened later made me start to doubt myself... Why were you willing to trust me? Why were you willing to help me? Why, after knowing that my initial motives were impure, did you still choose to forgive and accept me?"

"For these past few months, I have watched you interact with the sisters, watching how you give your all to protect them..."

"I began to understand that you are different from me; you possess something I lost long ago—sincerity!"

"You said you wanted to take a step further with me; in truth, it's not that I don't want to get closer to you, but that I don't dare!"

"Every time I get close to you, I feel afraid—afraid that I will become weak, afraid that I will depend on you, afraid... that if one day you leave, I won't be able to bear it!"

Hearing these words, Chen Yi was stunned.

He had never imagined that the queen of the Demon Abyss Cult, who was always in command, actually harbored such fear in her heart?

A queen who had lived for thousands of years actually had such a girlish side?

"But today! When I saw you clearly in urgent need of increasing your strength, alone and looking troubled..."

Hua Liuli smiled with a sense of relief, "I suddenly realized that I shouldn't be afraid!"

"Chen Yi, I have a proposal: come with me to a place—to the place where I was first born!"

"That place holds my past, and it also holds a secret I have never mentioned to anyone."

"I want to tell you everything! Not as the queen of the Demon Abyss Cult, but as Hua Liuli, as your contractor, as—a woman who wants to truly open her heart to you!"

Chen Yi grasped her hand back and nodded firmly, "Okay, I'll go with you. When?"

"Now!"

Hua Liuli explained, "That place is very special. Only at noon on the night of the full moon will its true entrance be revealed! Today is the fifteenth of the lunar calendar, and noon is just one hour away!"

"Do we need to prepare anything?"

"Nothing at all. That place rejects all external objects; one must enter in the purest state! Furthermore... only people like us who serve as the array eye can go. If one more person comes, the entrance will close."

Hua Liuli looked at Chen Yi, her eyes filled with anticipation, as well as nervousness.

She also wasn't sure if this was something that should be said.

But perhaps, if she didn't say it, no one would ever be willing to listen in this lifetime...

After a long silence, she slowly said, "Chen Yi, are you willing... to face my past with me?"