A Snake Transmigrated as a Scum A - Chapter 70

The entire afternoon, Li Yingxue didn’t come back.

After Fu Man slightly regained her strength, she went out alone to find Li Yingxue.

First, she went to her family’s residence, but after not finding anyone, she thought of the forest villa she bought for Grandma and hurried there without stopping.

But when she got there, she still couldn’t see Li Yingxue’s figure.

A Ci asked from the side, “Your Highness, did something happen to Miss Li?”

Fu Man’s expression was serious: “I’m not sure. She’s been a bit distant these past few days, and today she suddenly drained a lot of my spiritual energy.”

A Ci was shocked: “Drained a lot? Then Your Highness, you—”

Fu Man shook her head, “I’m fine.”

A Ci was somewhat angry: “Why did Miss Li do this? Your Highness, you delayed your cultivation for three months to help her establish her foundation.”

Fu Man still hasn’t thought about Xu Anji until now, “You help me check if there are any side effects from the mental power.”

Li Yingxue’s transformation occurred after she gained mental power, especially since she established her foundation to build the Dan Foundation, expanding her spiritual abode to store spiritual energy to support her mental power.

She hasn’t learned many spells yet and has no idea which spells require a lot of spiritual energy; only mental power is something she clearly needs a lot of spiritual energy to ignite.

A Ci finally realized and responded, “Your Highness, do you suspect there’s an issue with mental power?”

“Mm.” Fu Man recalled seeing Min Tian in the Empress’s palace before, sensing the spiritual energy on her. A guess arose in her mind, “Check on Xu Anji as well. If we can’t find Xu Anji, then we’ll go after Min Tian.'”

Min Tian is Xu Anji’s person. Even if Xu Anji can hide, Min Tian still has to come out and be her trusted team captain.

A Ci: “Okay.”

When Fu Man returned home, she saw grandma sitting in a wheelchair, looking at her with worry in her eyes, “Xiao Man, what’s wrong with Yingxue? I called her, but she didn’t answer. This afternoon, I saw her rush out in a hurry. Did something happen?”

Fu Man looked at the elderly person in front of her and suddenly didn’t know whether she should tell her about Li Yingxue. She didn’t know that they were practicing dual cultivation, nor did she know that Li Yingxue had the mental power that only Alpha had.

She didn’t even know that she wasn’t actually human.

But asking her to deceive such an elderly person, she couldn’t bring herself to do it; after all, they used to chat like good friends.

“Grandma…” Fu Man half-squatted in front of her. In a flash, she remembered Li Yingxue’s earlier request to erase Grandma’s memories of her before she returned. With that in mind, it wasn’t impossible to be honest with Grandma.

“Grandma, do you know about mental power?”

“What?” Grandma doubted she heard correctly, “Mental power?”

“Yes, the mental power that only Alphas have. Your granddaughter, she has also gained this ability.”

Grandma’s aged face showed a hint of shock, “Are you saying it’s true?”

“Of course, when have I ever lied to Grandma?”

Grandma didn’t know whether to believe her or not; she just gazed into the distance, murmuring to herself, “Only Alphas have mental power. How could an Omega like Yingxue have it…”

“She indeed has mental power now, Grandma. Can I ask if there are any side effects from having mental power?”

Upon hearing this, Grandma became serious, “Are you saying that Li Yingxue running out today is related to mental power?”

Fu Man pursed her lips: “It’s still uncertain at the moment.”

“Mental power…” Grandma repeated it again, thinking that their ancestors had also produced an SSS-level Alpha. After several hundred years of silence, it was understandable that the Li family had another descendant with mental power.

“Mental power doesn’t have any side effects; it’s a form of intention.”

“However,” Grandma became worried, “only Alphas have mental powers. Yingxue is an Omega; throughout history, there’s never been a case of an Omega possessing mental powers.”

Grandma suddenly remembered, “Xiao Man, there might be a book that could be useful for you.”

Fu Man: “What book?”

Grandma asked Fu Man to take her to the Li residence.

“Take me to the study.”

Fu Man pushed her into Li Huarong’s study. Under grandma’s instructions, they went to a display cabinet, where Fu Man was asked to move an ancient artifact.

At that moment, a door in the center of the antique shelf slowly opened outward, revealing a dark, cavernous basement inside.

Before pushing her to the basement, Grandma looked at the steep stairs and said, “I won’t go down there. You go down and find a red leather suitcase. Open it, and inside you’ll find a book. That book was left by our ancestors, and it’s said that it was written by that person.”

Fu Man seemed to be deep in thought, “Okay, Grandma, be careful up there.”

The basement is very spacious, even as big as a living room.

After turning on the light, many vintage items were displayed inside, and even some court paintings were hung on the walls, with a painting hanging on the central wall.

The oil painting depicts a woman in uniform, wearing black boots, sitting with her legs crossed on a chair.

With sharp and heroic features, her gaze looked ahead as if she were disdainfully staring down at ants.

Just by looking at each other, one can feel that solemn and serious atmosphere.

Fu Man noticed that she was wearing many badges on her chest. A Ci said that Li Yingxue’s great-great-great-grandmother was an SSS-level Alpha and had once been the chief prosecutor of M City.

At that time, M City did not have a monarchy, and there was no so-called empress. The highest official rank was that of the Chief Prosecutor, who once led the Li family to its peak.

“Grandma, is this person the great-great-great-grandmother of Li Yingxue?”

“Yes.”

Fu Man turned around and asked, “Why is she here?”

Grandma’s lips trembled, and her mood clearly dropped as she said: “That’s because later on, our Li family never produced another Alpha. Everyone doubted that she had not blessed our Li family but instead cursed her own descendants, causing the Li family to suffer ridicule and humiliation from the world. So her descendants moved her belongings here and forbade anyone from coming in to pay respects or remember her.”

Fu Man frowned, “It’s really absurd.”

A strong person was actually despised by her descendants, and the reason was so shallow and ignorant.

Fu Man caught a glimpse out of the corner of her eye at the red leather suitcase placed on the table beneath the painting and walked over.

“Grandma, is this it?”

The red leather suitcase was locked, and she couldn’t use magic to open it in front of grandma.

Then she asked, “Grandma, the box is locked.”

Grandma was at the door, backlit, standing tall at the top of the stairs. “There is a key, but I forgot where I put it. Let me think…”

Fu Man brushed off the dust on top and looked around for possible places to put the keys.

Grandma watched her back while pondering, matching the gaze of the woman in the giant painting, unaware that the wheelchair beneath her had started to move.

Slowly move forward.

As the wheel slipped, Grandma let out a scream.

At the critical moment, Grandma and her wheelchair were supported by a mass of white mist, floating in the air before gently landing on the floor.

Grandma was still shaken, but Fu Man had already come to her side, asking, “Are you okay, Grandma?”

Grandma clutched her chest, her face turning pale again and again, her gaze wavering between Fu Man and the painting behind her. Finally, her eyes became steady, suspiciously staring at Fu Man, a bold guess surfacing in her mind.

“Xiao Man, you told Grandma before that you practice magic and want to become an immortal. Is that true?”

Fu Man could tell from her expression that she had probably guessed it, and she chuckled lightly, “Grandma, I told you I never lied to you.”

Grandma took a long time to come back to her senses, and combined with the recent miraculous event, her hands trembled: “So you really saved me just now?”

Fu Man made a sound of acknowledgment.

Grandma still couldn’t believe it: “Are you really an immortal?”

Fu Man: “That’s not it, I still need to practice for a while.”

Grandma, however, didn’t care; in her eyes, she had already regarded her as a reserve deity. She was just happy that their ancestors were blessed and that Yingxue had found a capable person to marry.

Then it immediately occurred to her that Fu Man wanted to become an immortal, wouldn’t that mean she had to leave?

“Then is there no chance for you and my Yingxue?” Grandma became sentimental again.

Fu Man sighed, “Grandma, I’m not from this world, and there’s no future with Yingxue, but don’t worry, I’ll take care of her during this time.”

“Does she know you’re not from here?”

“Yes.”

“Sigh…”

Grandma felt heartbroken for her granddaughter.

Fu Man smiled without speaking, turned around to open the small box, and took out an ancient book with a sheepskin cover from inside.

The book records that mental power is divided into five realms: mental intervention, enhancement, energy, manifestation, and perception.

Among them, mental interventions are further divided into high-level interventions and low-level interventions.

Hypnosis is a high-level intervention that can control others’ thinking patterns, and it is a very domineering form of mental control.

Mental interference is a low-level intervention, mainly controlling ionization stability, plant growth, etc., through one’s own will.

Fu Man skimmed through it roughly; some of the mental powers were quite similar to the effects of the spells they practiced, though not as detailed in classification. However, some of the mental powers were indeed very formidable.

For example, manifesting mental power can turn the characteristics of real-world objects into one’s own abilities. For instance, if water can freeze and ice can become a blade, then one would possess the ability of an ice blade.

If a thread is seen lying on the ground, the psychic owner will possess countless invisible threads, enough to silently strangle their enemies.

Fu Man had just made some preliminary judgments about mental power. If Li Yingxue’s mental power could integrate and comprehend these high and low levels, energy, and manifestations, she was afraid that she might not even be able to defeat her.

Fu Man continued flipping through the pages, explaining that every time Alpha used high-energy mental power, they would become weak and would need to rest for a while.

But some Alphas are born with defects; simply resting is not enough, and they need external factors to assist.

In other words, if you want to use mental power again, you have to rely on external factors to activate it.

Seeing this, Fu Man thought it might be related to Li Yingxue’s mental power; she also needed to use spiritual energy to access mental power.

She keeps reading, it says above that a kind of energy called “Kesi” is needed.

Are Kesi and spiritual energy the same thing?

A defective Alpha requires a large amount of Kesi to maintain her mental power. Once it is depleted, she is no different from an ordinary person. Unlike top-tier Alphas who can use their mental power at any time, her mental power cannot be sustainably regenerated once Kesi is used up.

Extremely lethal, but the defective Alpha with Kesi is no different from a healthy normal Alpha. When it erupts, it can even mentally torture top-tier Alphas.

Li Yingxue’s great-great-great-grandmother wrote in her book: “It is both a flaw and a window that God has opened.”

Fu Man flipped through it and found that only this Kesi and the defective Alpha had symptoms similar to those on Li Yingxue.

As for why Li Yingxue, despite being an Omega, can also possess spiritual power, Fu Man can only conclude that it might be due to her dual cultivation with herself, which caused some changes in her physique, making her capable of possessing mental power like an Alpha.

From this book, it seems that Li Yingxue and the defective Alpha have similarities; needing Kesi is a manifestation of a defect or disability. Does that mean needing spiritual energy is also a defect?

The book only mentions this one defect and does not mention the mental state of the defect Alpha. However, Li Yingxue’s situation is particularly special. Fu Man speculates that Li Yingxue falls within the category of defect Alpha, but whether the defect is only related to Kesi/spiritual energy is hard to say.

Especially since Li Yingxue now seems like a completely different person, doesn’t that also count as a flaw?

Fu Man could not know, and could only wait until she found Li Yingxue to know.

“Grandma, can I take this book to Li Yingxue?” Fu Man’s face turned serious as she closed the book.

This book should be quite useful for Li Yingxue, after all, it was personally written by her ancestor.

Grandma nodded, “Since Yingxue has mental power, it’s best to give this book to her.”

When Fu Man and Grandma returned to the villa in the mountains, it was already dark.

A Ci stepped forward to report: “Xu Anji is missing, but Min Tian is attending the Empress’s ceremony tonight, and I can’t get in.”

Fu Man just remembered that the Empress’s ceremony was being held tonight. Lord Fu even asked her this morning if she wanted to attend.

At this moment, a low murmur of conversation came from upstairs. When A Ci looked over, she realized it was the servants standing on the balcony, gazing out.

“What are you looking at?” she asked.

One of the servants said, “The city center suddenly exploded, and huge flames shot up into the sky.”

A Ci: “Explosion?”

At this moment, the program Grandma watched every day was turned on by the servant. Suddenly, the big screen displayed the empress, adorned with luxurious and resplendent jewels, attending a ceremony. She was radiant and smiling, engaging in conversation with others. It was unclear what was said, but the empress covered her mouth and laughed heartily.

In the corner, Min Tian stood in her uniform, looking aloof, while Fu Man caught a barely noticeable smirk at the corner of her mouth.

A Ci hurriedly came down from upstairs: “Your Highness, I just went up to the rooftop and saw that many places have exploded tonight. The casualties among the citizens of M City are estimated to be very severe.”

Grandma’s hands trembled: “How could this happen? It’s simply inhumane… Our Empress will definitely not let these villains go, she must punish them…”

Seeing Grandma’s agitation, Fu Man had no choice but to let A Ci take her back to her room to rest first.

She summoned a snake casually, she asked, “Do you know the whereabouts of Li Yingxue?”

The snake replied: No.

Fu Man couldn’t help but worry about Li Yingxue this time. With everything so chaotic outside, if something were to happen to her…

Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she caught another glimpse of Min Tian on the screen. Although the camera only showed a small corner of her, Fu Man still sensed something off in her eyes.

With such a big event happening outside, how can the Empress still be holding the ceremony?

No one informed her?

Why is her response so delayed?

At that moment, the experiences of Li Yingxue’s great-great-great-grandmother suddenly surfaced in her mind. The descendants of the Li family, unable to give birth to an Alpha, regarded this as her curse, ignorantly erasing the great achievements of their ancestor and sealing her in the basement.

And previously, that girl Xu Anji once said she wanted to team up with me to conquer this world…

Fu Man stared at the ceremony on the TV screen, and the distant sound of explosions from the city center outside could even be faintly heard.

The people are struggling between life and death, suffering heavy casualties, as if they are in a bloody hell, while their most beloved and respected empress is in her magnificent palace, holding a glass of red wine, laughing and chatting with a bejeweled demeanor.

This scene is so glaring in contrast.

Fu Man was startled, turned around and flew to the center of the city where the explosion had occurred. The night wind brushed against her face, making her mood even heavier.

On the four giant silver screens on the facade of the tallest building in the city center, the empress’s ceremony is being broadcast live, with a particular emphasis on close-ups of the empress’s face.

Blood flowed under the building as people fled in terror, and a 3-year-old child stood under the railing, covered in blood, helplessly calling for her mother.

This scene is nothing short of hell.

She never expected that girl Xu Anji would actually use this method to bring down the Empress and conquer the world.

“Mom…”

“Mom, where are you…”

“Woo woo woo…”

Fu Man saw the little girl below, holding a rabbit puppet, standing in place, sobbing and looking around helplessly.

However, there were too many people fleeing around her, and soon, her area was covered by people escaping from the nearby high-rise buildings.

The little girl is about to be overwhelmed by the crowd.

A man was running extremely fast and didn’t notice the little girl standing in front of him, and it looked like he was about to run into her.

Fu Man was just about to strike when, in the next moment, the man’s feet seemed to be bound by something, and with a bang, he fell in front of the little girl.

“What? What the hell?!” The man gritted his teeth in pain, looked down at his feet, but saw nothing. He kicked a couple of times and was able to run again. Not caring about what had happened, he quickly stood up and fled the city center.

Fu Man squinted in the air, waited for a while, and sure enough, saw a familiar figure walking out from the corner, picking up the girl and running towards the outskirts.

Fu Man immediately followed her.

Li Yingxue carried the little girl to a flat patch of grass and set her down.

“Mom, I want Mom…”

The little girl is very scared and keeps crying.

“Stop shouting.” Li Yingxue stood in front of her, looking down at the little one from above, her gaze cold and devoid of any warmth.

Not knowing what she was thinking, she stared at the rabbit in the little girl’s hands, and the next second, she snatched it away.

“It’s mine now.”

The little girl was taken aback, and in an instant, she screamed even louder, almost bursting into tears.

Li Yingxue was annoyed by her constant noise and was about to turn around and leave, but as soon as she turned, she saw Fu Man.

“How can you still take things from the little girl?”