I Snatched the Male Lead’s "Cool Novel" Script - Chapter 34

“Ahhh!!!”

Guo Lu stretched his thick neck and roared toward the sky, both fists raised upward. His posture made him look as if the Fire Cloud Evil God had ascended and decided he was invincible.

The muscles all over his body swelled violently, tearing his clothes apart. He ripped them off in one motion. The eyes beneath his face covering were bloodshot as he gritted his teeth and faced Lin Zhuxun.

“Watch me kill you!”

Lin Zhuxun naturally sensed this abnormal burst of power from him and warily retreated a step.

What kind of spiritual art was this? He could not sense the slightest fluctuation of soul power from it.

If he could not sense the fluctuation, then he could not predict the attack. That made this extremely troublesome.

Seeing this, Lin Zhuxun’s vulture Beast Soul immediately swooped down from high above, its sharp claws grabbing toward Guo Lu. But it had not expected Guo Lu’s reaction speed to be this fast now. There was no opening to get close at all.

Lin Zhuxun’s constitution was poor. Not only could he not practice physical arts, he also could not endure high-level spiritual arts. Dealing with the useless Guo Lu from before had been more than enough, but now…

With a dark expression, he continuously formed hand seals and launched attacks. Countless black clusters of spiritual arts struck out, shaking the surrounding trees, but Guo Lu walked toward him step by step as if nothing had happened.

When the other party was about to reach him with a face full of rage, Lin Zhuxun finally felt fear. Panicked, he pushed the wheels of his wheelchair, wanting to escape.

“Heh, trying to run?” Guo Lu grabbed his wheelchair and slapped him right away.

Lin Zhuxun only felt his left cheek burn fiercely, and his ear was struck as if it had lost hearing.

He turned his head and glared at Guo Lu. “You dare treat me like this. If my sister finds out, do you know what kind of end you’ll meet?”

At the same time, the system was also reminding Guo Lu, “Host, host, Lin Zhuxun is an indispensable supporting character for completing the disciple-acceptance mission. Please know when to stop.”

“You’re telling me to know when to stop? Why didn’t you tell me in advance when you sold me things using my lifespan just now?”

The system only replied mechanically, “Once items from the system shop are sold, they cannot be returned or refunded.”

In essence, these hosts were the systems’ targets of exploitation. Only transaction after transaction was the fundamental rule that allowed systems to continue growing and surviving.

How could it truly be worried that Guo Lu would fail to complete his objective? It simply wanted to squeeze out the last bit of his remaining value. If the mission failed, it would quickly connect with the next host.

Guo Lu’s anger did not decrease in the slightest. He suddenly reached out and grabbed Lin Zhuxun by the neck. “What a coincidence. The words I say also can’t be returned. I said you have to die today, so you must die!”

Why had he come to ask Lin Hegui to take him as a disciple?

To become stronger.

But now there was a shortcut right in front of him. Why should he still humble himself and beg a woman to accept him as a disciple?

“What Lin Hegui? I don’t need her anymore!”

Beep beep beep— The system emitted a piercing sound, and its voice also became cold. “Detected that Host’s blackening value has severely exceeded the standard. Reloading script…”

“Reloading?”

“Villain script loading. Receiving for Host—”

…

Yan Yu and Yin Beiqing exchanged a glance, and both instinctively quickened their pace.

After crossing several steps, they saw the open fence gate. The wooden house door was wide open, and a wheelchair had fallen in the corner of the courtyard.

Liquid had flowed all over the ground. It was precisely the source of the smell they had detected just now.

With this much blood spilled, even if the person was not dead, they only had half a life left.

Yan Yu anxiously wanted to run forward, but Yin Beiqing pulled her back behind herself and handed her to Zhongpu. “Watch her.”

There were great soul power fluctuations here. At least Special-rank.

Yin Beiqing ordered everyone to stay where they were and walked toward the wooden house alone. She had only approached a few steps when she immediately heard a bird’s shriek.

Inside the house, a vulture was being held by the wings. It flapped its body in panic. It seemed to desperately want to escape, but even with feathers falling all over the floor, it still could not escape that person’s palm.

Yin Beiqing was familiar with the back of the person holding the vulture.

Her gaze moved downward. On the ground, a thin, weak man was lying there covered in wounds, already having lost the ability to move. His eyes were tightly shut, and a gash had been opened on his back, right above the heart where the Beast Origin Pearl was stored. The place that had originally held the Beast Origin Pearl was now empty.

Guo Lu sensed someone approaching behind him and immediately swallowed the Beast Origin Pearl in his hand without hesitation. The pain in his throat felt like thousands of thorns piercing him. It was the rejection reaction produced by a Beast Origin Pearl that did not belong to him, but he still gritted his teeth and swallowed the thing down.

Lin Zhuxun’s Beast Origin Pearl was Special-rank. An ordinary person’s physique generally could not withstand it, but Guo Lu currently had the enhancement from the medicine. Even though the other party’s soul power constantly resisted inside his body and tried to escape, he suppressed it by brute force.

Perhaps because last time, he had personally watched a cooked duck fly into Yan Yu’s body, leaving Guo Lu with quite a blow.

His current monkey-like impatience made it seem that even if what he held was a bottle of poison, he absolutely would not let it be lost from his hands again.

Waves of black aura emerged from his body. This was the process of a Beast Mark forming. Guo Lu happily howled toward the sky.

“I’ve become stronger!”

Whoosh— An ice spike flew from Yin Beiqing’s hand, stabbing without hesitation toward the center of his back.

But the strike that should have hit without fail was unexpectedly dodged by the other party with ease.

Yin Beiqing frowned. Guo Lu’s physical arts level had grown by leaps and bounds. Compared to before, he was practically a different person. But in such a short period of time, how could there be such great progress?

She suddenly thought of the man lying to the side and guessed that the only possibility was that Guo Lu had used the same improper means to greatly increase his own physique.

Perhaps this was also related to the strange spiritual art he had used last time in Langdie Valley to escape right under her eyes.

“Yin Beiqing!” Guo Lu turned around. His eyes, now completely filled with black, looked somewhat like an evil ghost from a foreign horror film. He clenched his fists excitedly and tremblingly. “I’ve been looking for you for so long.”

Yin Beiqing looked at him as if looking at garbage reeking all over. “Looking for me to die?”

“Was it that stinking woman Yan Yu? Did she say bad things about me to you?”

At this time, Yan Yu, hearing Guo Lu’s voice, suddenly became nervous. She turned to Zhongpu and said, “Did you hear that voice? It’s Guo Lu.”

Teng Jingjie was unhurried. “So what? He’s just a piece of trash. He isn’t even qualified to be our Boss’s stepping stone.”

“He’s that death tribulation!”

As soon as these words came out, Xueji and Teng Jingjie immediately straightened. The ease of watching a show vanished. After previous experience, they were now at least in the state of preferring to believe Yan Yu’s words rather than dismiss them.

The others shielded Yan Yu behind them and quickly walked toward the small house.

Behind the door, Guo Lu immediately saw Yan Yu being protected like a treasure. He pointed at her and impatiently began settling accounts.

“Yan Yu! Not only did you betray me, you even stole my Beast Origin Pearl!”

Even with the face covering, one could tell how hateful the expression beneath it was.

“Your Beast Origin Pearl?” The disgust in Yan Yu’s tone was difficult to hide. “Jiwu is a Beast Soul with a master. The only connection between it and you is that it was stolen goods you failed to obtain. What face does a thief like you have to say that?”

No.

Yan Yu only now noticed Lin Zhuxun, who was on the ground with only one last breath left. Her gaze instantly turned cold.

The current Guo Lu was a murderer with blood on both hands.

“You’re not Yan Yu.” Guo Lu looked at her suspiciously. “She wouldn’t speak to me like this.”

In ordinary times, this childhood sweetheart would cough for a long time even if she spoke a little louder. She always looked delicate, weak, and easy to manipulate. But the woman before him had clear eyes and carried a strength and calmness in her expression that felt unfamiliar to him.

Guo Lu immediately turned to Yin Beiqing and said, “See? She isn’t Yan Yu herself at all. Don’t be deceived by her flowery words.”

Yin Beiqing did not even give him a glance. She lowered her eyes and softly asked Yan Yu, “Are you sure it’s him?”

Yan Yu nodded and pointed at Guo Lu. “It’s him. Your death tribulation.”

Seeing this, Guo Lu immediately pulled down his face covering and revealed his “handsome face.” “Yin Beiqing, look carefully. Will you come with me, or continue listening to her nonsense and let her deceive you?”

“In the future, I will become the strongest man in this world. Only you are worthy of me.” He extended a hand toward Yin Beiqing. “I know you also crave strength. Come with me. I’ll give you happiness.”

Guo Lu’s posture was quite grand. In addition, Yan Yu remembered that the book had described him as having “sword-like brows, starry eyes, and a charming, unrestrained elegance,” with looks so outstanding that Yin Beiqing fell in love with him at first sight.

But when she fixed her eyes on him…

This?

Forget his shifty brows and rat-like eyes, his face also had many pimples. Paired with that “I alone am supreme” confident expression, his entire face looked unbearably greasy.

Yan Yu deeply experienced how differently each person understood the phrase “charming and unrestrained.”

Yin Beiqing did not even blink. She did not even respond to Guo Lu’s words. She raised her hand and pulled the Demon-Slaying Blade from its scabbard. The sword light leapt in her eyes, reflecting a sharpness.

“Good. Then I’ll cut him down now.” These words were a reply to Yan Yu.

Yan Yu’s jaw almost dropped. Although she had expected that changes to the plot would make Yin Beiqing make a different decision, she had not expected her to make up her mind so decisively.

Could it be that Guo Lu’s protagonist halo had vanished?

After all, in the original book, as long as a character was female, she would be completely devoted to him and willing to give everything after only a few glances.

“Are you sure you want to listen to her lies?” Guo Lu became a little anxious. Why was this completely different from the prediction?

He was this handsome, yet Yin Beiqing was not shaken at all?

Was his manly charm inferior to Yan Yu’s flowery words?

Where was heavenly justice!

What responded to him was Guilian whistling out. Last time, failing to bite off this dog man’s head in one mouth had made her teeth itch for half a month. This time, no matter what, she would not let him go!

Seeing that Yin Beiqing gave him no chance to speak, Guo Lu’s pitiful self-esteem immediately could not bear it.

“You ignore me now, but in the future, I’ll make you unable to reach me!” he said in a low voice to that vulture. “Kill for me!”

Tears appeared in the vulture’s eyes. It kept looking in its master’s direction, wishing it could die together with him on the spot. But it was a Beast Soul and could not resist the command of the person who possessed its Beast Origin Pearl. Even if its heart was unwilling, its body still rushed toward Guilian.

Its sharp cry pierced the clouds. Lin Hegui, who was gathering herbs halfway up the mountain, seemed to sense something and raised her head to look at the sky. Her heart beat rapidly. She had always believed greatly in her own intuition, so she immediately picked up her basket and flew toward home.

Meanwhile, Guilian still failed to truly bite down. As a fellow Beast Soul, she could feel the despair and sorrow coming from this vulture and felt sympathy for it.

She twisted her python body, avoided the vulture’s attack, and floated lightly down behind Yin Beiqing.

“Master…”

The two were like mother and daughter. With just a movement of Guilian’s lips, Yin Beiqing knew what she meant.

“Mm. I’ll do it.” She patted Guilian’s lowered snake head and did not scold her. “It’s not a problem.”

Guo Lu had just swallowed the Amber-Guilin Pill, and the medicinal effect was fierce. In addition, he was in a state of extreme anger, so his attack was aggressive.

Yin Beiqing watched the fist getting closer and closer to her, smiled contemptuously, and moved her arm while holding her shoulder. “Perfect. My arm has just healed. I’ll use you to practice.”

“You think I’ll still be afraid of you now?”

The wind from his fist lifted her long hair, carrying an obsession to fight to the death. Yin Beiqing stood still and only lightly raised her right hand. After a movement so fast it could not be seen clearly, a reflected sword light flashed across the wall.

The sword rose and fell. Aside from Yin Beiqing’s still-swaying sleeve, there was no trace of her move.

But…

“Ah! Ahhh—” Guo Lu let out an ear-piercing cry of pain from his throat. His expression was hideous as he clutched his shoulder. “My hand, my hand!”

No one present cared about the noise he made. Yin Beiqing even had the leisure to turn back and speak to Yan Yu.

“Sickly weakling, your stitching skills are very good.” Her wrist moved slightly, and another cut landed on Guo Lu’s body. “It swings very lightly.”

“…” Thank you.

Xueji clapped on the side. “Hahahahaha! Murder! Murder! I also want Goddess Sister to sew my arm!”

Zhongpu hurriedly covered her mouth. “Children’s words carry no harm. Pah, pah, pah!”

Who cursed themselves like this?

Teng Jingjie stole one of the little fatty’s sugar cakes from the side and ate it with a lazy expression. “Stop spoiling her. She’s already two hundred years old.”

“Stinky Little Jie!” Xueji jumped up and smacked her on the head.

While Guo Lu was suffering, these people were laughing and joking at the side. Completely unable to gain even the slightest bit of importance, he felt deeply humiliated. His face was covered in cold sweat as he continuously questioned the system.

“How is this possible!” What he had just swallowed was a Special-rank Beast Soul, and his physique also had the enhancement of the medicine. Even so, “Why still can’t I beat her!”

System: “Host, you should think of it this way. I only gave you a golden finger. As for how to use it and what effect you can produce, that all depends on your own fortune.”

Not to mention Yin Beiqing’s unmatched, powerful soul power, merely the thousands upon thousands of real combat experiences on her body were enough to crush Guo Lu, this plain boiled chicken that had only bulked up by relying on injected hormones.

“I don’t care, I don’t care! Give me more golden fingers! I absolutely have to make these people who look down on me suffer!”

“Host, with your remaining lifespan balance, it is currently insufficient to exchange for the soul power needed to satisfy your objective.”

Then there was no way!

He had already said those words. How could he be willing to be slapped in the face like this?

“Is it about time to end this?” Teng Jingjie finished the last sugar cake and tossed aside the sobbing little fatty clinging to her trouser leg. “Getting entangled with this kind of person is a waste of time. Didn’t the sickly weakling say this person was some death tribulation?”

She smiled sarcastically, her words so poisonous they pierced the heart. “Something that crawled out of the mud like this still dreams of becoming a dragon.”

After being crushed by Yin Beiqing in one move, Guo Lu understood that he could not win against Yin Beiqing with a frontal attack. In addition, she had so many subordinates here. Then he could only first find a way to seize a weakness that could restrain them…

His gaze slowly moved to Yan Yu at the side.

If not for her, he would not have fallen into such a sorry state. Then even if he had to go to hell, he would drag her down with him!

“Go die!”

He used all the strength in his body and suddenly jumped high into the air. In midair, he used a spiritual art to combine beast form with the vulture. In an instant, he grew a sharp beak and claws. His speed reached its peak as he dove down, his target directly aimed at Yan Yu.

Huala huala…

The earth made a strange sound. Half of a thick, long vine broke through soil and stone, drawing out from the ground and directly separating Yan Yu from Guo Lu.

But Guo Lu did not take this kind of obstruction seriously. He pulled his arm fully backward, preparing to use inertia and impact force to smash through it.

But suddenly, he felt as if something had pinched the back of his neck. His entire body hung in midair, unable to move.

Yan Yu poked her head out from behind the tree and saw Yin Beiqing raising her right arm in Guo Lu’s direction. The force freezing Guo Lu in place was a transparent giant hand formed from her soul power.

Yin Beiqing narrowed her eyes and contracted her palm. The giant hand gripping Guo Lu also tightened. The force was so great that Guo Lu could even hear the sound of bones all over his body cracking and breaking. He felt as if he was about to be forcibly crushed into a ball.

At this moment, he raised his eyes and happened to see that at some unknown point, a girl with white jellyfish hair had sat on the tree that had grown out of nowhere.

Seeing him stare at her, Xueji wrinkled her nose. Her two hands braced against the tree trunk beneath her, and she lifted her right leg, kicking him fiercely in the face. Her tone was very displeased. “Stinky man, what are you looking at!”

It looked like only a light kick, but Guo Lu heard a crack beside his ear. His jaw seemed to have fractured. His mouth could only hang open as drool flowed down, completely unable to close.

Only after seeing him controlled did Yan Yu dare take out her little cloth bag and quickly walk to Lin Zhuxun’s side. The first thing she did was stop the bleeding.

There were two types of death for Beast Arts Masters: death from the depletion of soul power in the Beast Origin Pearl, and death from severe bodily injury causing bodily functions to decline, resulting in insufficient energy supply to the Beast Origin Pearl.

In summary, the Beast Origin Pearl was a Beast Arts Master’s life. Guo Lu had directly taken his Beast Origin Pearl and had not considered whether he lived or died at all.

Yan Yu checked his breathing. He was still breathing, and it seemed the soul power in his body had not completely dissipated. But he was not far from truly breathing his last.

Just as she frowned and thought of a way, Xueji suddenly sniffed toward the position behind them, then pointed at Lin Zhuxun on the ground. “There’s a scent. A scent very similar to this person.”

Everyone’s gazes immediately turned outside.

It was Lin Hegui.

“Who are you!” she shouted, coming down from the back of a Beast Soul resembling a white crane and striding into the room.

The unease in her heart found its answer when she saw her own elder brother lying there.

“Who did this!”

This group of strangers had not only trespassed into her home without permission and made everything a mess, they had also… killed her brother!

“You. It was you!” Lin Hegui sensed Lin Zhuxun’s soul power from Guo Lu. She grabbed the sickle from her medicine basket and charged at him. “I want you to pay with your life.”

The book said that Lin Hegui had an indifferent nature. In ordinary times, she was unsmiling and rarely had disputes with others. But such a person was now showing this kind of agitated expression. One could imagine how great an emotional blow her brother’s death had dealt her.

At this moment, Yan Yu no longer had any mind to pay attention to the fight behind her. She supported Lin Zhuxun’s body and turned him over so his breathing could be smoother.

Then she opened his collar, took out the Amber-Guilin decoction she had brewed last night, and poured it over the injury at his heart.

She temporarily had no way to repair the soul power aspect, but for external injuries, no medicine could compare to the Amber-Guilin prescription.

In other words, this medicinal decoction was her final and only attempt. If it did not work, then they truly could only give up.

Only, right now, Lin Zhuxun was unconscious and could not swallow. Using it externally alone would reduce the medicinal effect somewhat.

But it was still better than doing nothing.

While she was doing these things, the fight behind her had already quickly reached a result.

“Spare… spare me… spare me!”

Although Lin Hegui was a Healing Master, she had also passed the Special-rank Beast Arts Master assessment. Her usual dislike of fighting did not mean she could not fight.

On the contrary, once a Healing Master like her took action, she understood better than anyone how to attack vital points.

Under her hands, Guo Lu had no ability to fight back. And because he had swallowed the pill, his self-healing ability had greatly increased. Every time she wounded him, he immediately recovered, leaving him with the fate of being repeatedly tortured.

“I’ll give it back to you. I’ll give it back, all right?” he lamented inwardly that his luck was too poor. Running into one Yin Beiqing was already bad enough, and now there was also Lin Hegui.

He should have ended things quickly and left earlier.

“Spare you?” Lin Hegui pressed his neck down with her arm and stabbed into his chest. “The pain my brother suffered, I want you to repay a thousandfold!”

“Wait!” Yan Yu, who had finished emergency treatment for Lin Zhuxun, hurriedly called out to stop her. “Your brother can still be saved.”

Lin Hegui turned back with red eyes. She did not trust Yan Yu, nor did she trust this group of strangers. But Yan Yu’s words were the last straw she could grasp.

“Do you know what you’re saying? I have never heard of anyone whose Beast Origin Pearl was taken away still being able to survive.” The top Healing Master in the entire Jin Kingdom was herself. How could she not know what her brother’s current condition was?

Yan Yu stood up and moved aside. “You can come and take a look.”

Lin Hegui choked Guo Lu by the neck and dragged him all the way to Lin Zhuxun’s side. Lowering her eyes, she carefully examined his injuries. Then she astonishingly discovered that the wound was healing on its own.

Once the Beast Origin Pearl left the body, the body had no source of soul power, let alone any self-healing ability.

But seeing was believing. The “hole” in Lin Zhuxun’s chest was indeed growing continuously at a shocking speed.

Lin Hegui looked at Yan Yu in astonishment, seeming to have thousands of questions she wanted to ask.

“Saving him is more urgent. You should first take out the Beast Origin Pearl quickly.” Even if all the wounds healed, that would only treat the external injuries. The most important thing was still to retrieve the source of Lin Zhuxun’s soul power.

However…

If one wanted to forcibly take a Beast Origin Pearl out of someone else’s body, there was only one method. That was to do it the hard way, exactly as Guo Lu had done earlier.

“If needed, I can do it for you.” Yan Yu noticed that Lin Hegui’s hand hanging by her side was trembling nonstop, so she made this suggestion.

Then, under Guo Lu’s horrified gaze, as if he were looking at a monster, she silently raised the dagger Yin Beiqing had given her and said very calmly, “I’m good at this kind of thing.”