QUICK TRANSMIGRATION CANNON FODDER’S RECORD OF COUNTERATTACKS

Chapter 2974: All Looks and No Substance

Yu Liuli snorted. “I don’t like men who are all looks and no substance.”

“Good, because I don’t like women like you either,” Ning Shu said with a shrug.

Yu Xiongfeng had asked Yu Liuli to move courtyards, but Yu Liuli, driven by some sense of pride, refused.

Ning Shu also stayed in the courtyard, taking a room next to Yu Liuli’s.

Sitting cross-legged on her bed, Ning Shu cultivated while thinking about how to deal with the tiny object in her mind.

It was no bigger than a grain of rice, yet Ning Shu couldn’t figure out how to handle it.

Using her spiritual power, she slowly approached the object.

The object was probably what intertwined her soul with Yu Liuli’s and was protected by the laws of the heavens.

When her spiritual consciousness touched the tiny bead, it was immediately repelled, leaving Ning Shu’s mind momentarily blank. For a brief moment, even her hearing went completely deaf.

Ning Shu shook her head, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

This thing was really hard to deal with.

Ning Shu felt helpless, not knowing what else to try.

After the discomfort in her head faded and the rebound force disappeared, Ning Shu cautiously extended her spiritual consciousness toward the tiny bead again.

She moved carefully, realizing that if her spiritual consciousness approached the bead too roughly, the violent rebound might knock her unconscious.

It was like dealing with a tightly wound spring.

After struggling with the bead for what felt like forever, Ning Shu was drenched in sweat. Her spiritual consciousness was almost completely drained, and her soul felt on the verge of breaking apart.

When she couldn’t persevere any longer, Ning Shu quickly stopped.

She cultivated for a while, waiting for her soul to stop throbbing painfully before attempting to approach the bead again.

At one point, Ning Shu even thought about wrapping her spiritual consciousness around the bead to sever its connection to Yu Liuli’s soul.

But the moment she tried, the rebound hit her again. The pain was so intense she felt like slamming her head against the wall.

For a moment, Ning Shu worried that her soul might actually dissipate.

Because her soul felt very heavy and extremely exhausted.

Her soul energy was being consumed far too quickly, and she still had one more chain task ahead of her.

Ning Shu was genuinely scared her soul wouldn’t last until the end of this task.

She felt completely frustrated and helpless.

Finally, Ning Shu decided to summon the fire dragon from her dantian, directing it into her sea of consciousness to scorch the bead with fire energy.

The fire dragon transformed into flames, burning the floating bead in her sea of consciousness.

But it was completely useless.

The bead didn’t change at all. It stayed exactly the same, unmoved despite the scorching flames.

Ning Shu felt utterly discouraged.

Well, at least burning it offered some psychological comfort, even if it didn’t actually work. At least it felt like she was doing something, haha sob…

Since returning from the mountain range, Yu Liuli had started cultivating in seclusion. She spent all her time cultivating and rarely left her courtyard. Meals were brought to her by the servants.

The food was all top-tier and carefully prepared.

The servants treated Yu Liuli with great respect, a clear sign of her rising status in the Yu family.

It seemed that putting on a show at the entrance really had its benefits.

Meanwhile, Ning Shu had her own annoying problem: a growing number of little maids kept finding excuses to visit her room.

One moment, they’d bring her tea. The next, they’d ask if she was hungry.

These maids were shy and bashful around her, which made Ning Shu feel incredibly uncomfortable.