Chapter 57: The Abyss’s Secret and a Surprising Revelation

“Really?”

The deep abyss of the forest, permeated with endless resentment and a terrifying atmosphere, suddenly resonated with You Baili’s ethereal girlish voice. This occurred just as Ye Yu silently voiced her proposal to share their senses.

For a moment, the sheer delight in You Baili’s tone seemed to dispel much of the negative emotion clinging to the abyss.

Tang Yue, sharing the same dress as Ye Yu, had silently absorbed every detail of Ye Yu’s sharing proposal.

At this moment, she was overcome with a profound sense of wonder.

After all, this ability for Ye Yu and You Baili to share hearing, and even sight, through their spiritual mark seemed almost too convenient. Was it akin to installing a perpetual tracking device on the other person?

Following her momentary surprise, a new question began to form in Tang Yue’s mind. It prompted her to speak, gently pinching Ye Yu’s slender waist as she posed her query.

“Hubby, You Baili, if you two can always sense each other through this connection, wouldn’t there be some inconvenient moments?”

Upon hearing Tang Yue’s slightly anxious question from behind, especially the four words ‘inconvenient moments’ in her query, Ye Yu felt her legs mysteriously weaken.

Propping herself against the wall, she silently steadied her form, pushing all strange thoughts aside. At this point, Ye Yu couldn’t help but ponder the implications of Tang Yue’s words.

After all, this mark was, in a sense, like being on a perpetual video call.

Yet everyone deserved privacy; even in the most intimate relationships, one couldn’t possibly keep a camera rolling while using the restroom, could they?

Considering this, Ye Yu immediately conducted a test with You Baili.

After the test, Ye Yu discovered a certain pattern. While You Baili held the dominant position in this mark-based video call, meaning Ye Yu couldn’t view her surroundings and You Baili retained the initiative, Ye Yu did possess the power to ‘end’ the video, which was quite a humane feature.

Seeing the favorable outcome, Tang Yue, as the primary wife, breathed a sigh of relief.

After clearing her throat twice and feeling Ye Yu’s forehead, which had grown slightly warm again, she looked at You Baili, who appeared somewhat pitiable with the reluctance in her eyes.

However, for Ye Yu’s well-being, Tang Yue steered the conversation back to the main topic: escaping the abyss.

“You Baili, now that Ye Yu and I are wearing the same dress, we shouldn’t be attacked by demons. So, which direction should we take to leave? Or rather, where should we start?”

Tang Yue’s question plunged You Baili into contemplation.

As a spirit born among the demons, she was intimately familiar with this stratum, rarely being attacked by other demons herself, save for a few unique circumstances.

Yet, the question Tang Yue posed still stumped her.

The reason was simple: neither Tang Yue nor Ye Yu possessed wings, meaning they would have to climb out of the abyss with their bare hands.

Leaving aside that You Baili, a homebody, had never ventured outside this abyss since childhood, she was at a loss as to where to even begin analyzing such a climbing method.

Watching You Baili’s exquisite face, her delicate brows furrowed into an adorable ‘川’ shape from deep thought, Ye Yu found her utterly charming.

As she pondered, a cute ‘ooh~’ sound escaped her lips.

Listening to her thoughts, Ye Yu, while finding her endearing, rephrased the question, approaching it from a different angle.

“You Baili, do you remember which direction that great demon beast, the one that looked like this, and roared ‘ao-woo,’ flew out of this abyss a few days ago?”

Watching Ye Yu’s animated, vivid description, complete with hand gestures, which clearly depicted a ‘Lion-Demon Tiger,’ You Baili quickly recalled it.

She then pointed her finger towards the east, the direction from which Ye Yu and Tang Yue had initially fled for their lives.

Following You Baili’s slender, jade-like finger to look east out of the tree hollow, Ye Yu had previously never seen the outside of the abyss due to her lack of vision.

Now, gazing out from the tree hollow, even as a former male, Ye Yu was momentarily stunned.

To the east, far from the tree hollow, unnamed trees were covered in countless dense white spider webs. As a gust of wind swept through, the sight was like white ribbons of hell, beckoning souls.

Within this network of spider silk, colossal spiders coiled. Their eight sharp, black legs, like high heels, moved with the agility of human dancers across the silk.

However, the enormous sacks on their backs and their countless compound eyes imbued the scene with an eerie, unsettling aura.

Just one glance sent a shiver down Ye Yu’s spine, making her legs feel weak with fear.

Fortunately, Tang Yue, who was behind her, wrapped an arm around Ye Yu’s waist, preventing her from falling.

Ye Yu steadied herself, feeling the smooth, moist touch of Tang Yue’s skin against her back. Her pretty face flushed slightly, and she fell into deep thought.

As a former boy, Ye Yu had always had a good estimation of her own courage. Why was she reacting so strongly just from seeing large spiders now?

Even after transforming into a girl, her personality shouldn’t have changed so drastically, should it?

Sensing that something was amiss in various ways, Ye Yu, lost in thought, inadvertently glanced at the small dress she shared with Tang Yue, and a few theories began to form.

Since their original intention in coming to Lijiang was tourism, Tang Yue was wearing a light green, very girlish and cool dress.

Looking at this dress and recalling her unique ‘cross-dressing’ ability, Ye Yu couldn’t help but check her attribute panel in her mind for the first time in a while.

Name: Ye Yu

Race: Human (Female)

Age: 18

Intelligence: 80 (6+72)

Strength: 5 (7-2)

Agility: 92 (10+82)

Charm: 8 (7+1)

Cross-dressing Ability (Forbidden): Intermediate

Summoned Beast: Intermediate White Demon Tiger

Current Female Attire: Ordinary Fresh Girl’s Dress (Incomplete)

Temporary Special Attributes from Attire: Frailty +3, Fear +3, Charm +1

Additional Special Skill: Delicate Body, Easily Overthrown.

Skill Description: The light green hue is the exclusive patent of soft girls. Who in this world doesn’t adore a sweet, gentle maiden? Wearing this garment grants a default increase in affinity from creatures. Please be careful not to be overthrown!

After a long absence, the attribute panel finally opened, and Ye Yu, by reading it, finally solved the mystery.

The reason her mindset had changed and why she kept stumbling was entirely related to this female attire.

Looking at her mere 5 points of strength, Ye Yu felt it was incredibly exaggerated. Although soft girls were indeed soft, wouldn’t 5 points of strength mean she couldn’t even beat a child?

Putting aside her ridiculously weak strength, Ye Yu noticed significant changes in her other attributes. The most prominent was her Charm value.

It had directly increased from its original 3 points when she was a boy and not cross-dressing, to a base value of 7 points.

Regarding this, although she hadn’t seen her own appearance in a mirror yet, recalling her white hair and her look when cross-dressed, Ye Yu knew she must be quite beautiful now.

Beyond the change in Charm, what caught Ye Yu’s attention even more was that her cross-dressing ability, which she hadn’t fully understood yet, had subtly advanced from Basic to Intermediate.

Even wearing an incomplete set, her Intelligence and Agility attributes had soared to the level of a formidable Intermediate ability user.

Seeing her cross-dressing ability inexplicably elevate to Intermediate, along with the substantial attribute bonuses, Ye Yu’s small head was filled with questions.

How exactly did this ability upgrade?

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