"No, I..." Ouyang Suxian was completely dumbfounded, and could only say, "This time it really is my real body!"

Xu Shu didn’t believe her: "Cut it out, I’m not falling for it again this time, you libido-killing woman! Of course, unless you can prove it. Only then, if you and I team up, we might barely have enough strength to keep ourselves alive in the Mysterious Gate."

"Don’t believe me? If you don’t, then pinch me!" Ouyang Suxian urged speechlessly. After a whole lot of coaxing and tugging, she dragged Xu Shu back to a spot one meter outside that huge bowl wall, but then couldn’t move him an inch more and had to compromise.

"No no, that’d be too rude, wouldn’t it? Wouldn’t it make it seem like I don’t believe you?"

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up!"

"Ai, since you insist, then I won’t be polite."

Xu Shu’s gaze swept over that pair of big "oranges," he swallowed, rubbed his fingers together, and reached out.

As the distance shrank inch by inch, in the end his hand still changed direction and stopped on that soft pink big... little face instead.

Squish~!

Xu Shu pinched hard on both of Ouyang Suxian’s cheeks, and the skin beneath the veil dented inward. It felt warm and smooth, like a freshly shelled egg, tender and bouncy.

"So it really is your real body... This feel is way better than puppet Xiao Ya’s..." he muttered under his breath.

Smack!

Ouyang Suxian slapped away the big hand fooling around on her face and urged, "You believe me now, right? Move it!"

Xu Shu shook his head. "Even if you’re the real body, I still refuse to go in!" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"You????"

"Hey, maybe you don’t know, but the entrance to this Mysterious Gate has stayed open too long today. There are probably more than one Demigod inside already, and I’m not going in there to die." Xu Shu crossed his arms and shook his head, looking every bit like he wouldn’t listen.

"No, who told you Demigods..." Ouyang Suxian got halfway through, then suddenly widened her eyes. "Wait, if that’s what you think, then you were sending me in to die?"

"Aren’t you a puppet? You’re not afraid of dying. Heh, drop the act. Sure, your face feels amazing to pinch and really makes me want to knead it a bit more, but you being so generous about agreeing to my shameless demand—you expect me to believe you’re the real body? What a joke. I might not understand the ’Mechanical Expert’ path, but you think I don’t understand women?" Xu Shu laughed loudly, wearing a "I’ve got the upper hand" expression.

"What? You bastard... damn it! You groped my face and still dare to lie to me! Are you even human?"

Two rosy clouds rose on Ouyang Suxian’s cheeks as she nearly died of anger. While scolding sweetly, she grabbed Xu Shu’s big arm in one go.

Seeing this, Xu Shu laughed: "Don’t waste your strength, you can’t move me. I was just cooperating earlier, pretending to be pulled over here by you. I’m done playing now. I’ll even let you use both hands—if you can push me an inch, I’ll just eat—"

Rumble!

Before Xu Shu could finish, he suddenly felt the originally flat railway ground around them tilt at a pretty steep angle.

This wasn’t a literal, physical tilt, but a change in spiritual perception, as if the surrounding space had undergone some kind of distortion.

At the same time, a powerful pulling force and torque traveled along Ouyang Suxian’s fair hand, and Xu Shu’s feet left the ground.

She actually lifted Xu Shu straight up!

"Hiss? What did you do?" With his feet off the ground, Xu Shu couldn’t help but stare wide-eyed.

Ouyang Suxian puffed up angrily. "Hmph, like hell I care. Perverted wolf Xu Shu-ge, you take advantage of your friend and still want to run? Get in there!!"

As soon as she finished, she leapt up, her body leaving the ground as well. Just like Xu Shu, she seemed affected by some kind of ’balance’ and interference in the direction of gravity!

This was a signature move from stage two of the "Divine Child" path, "Shut-in": it was called "Gravity Disorder."

With this skill, Ouyang Suxian could slightly manipulate the force field within a certain range around herself, flipping it—also known as universal gravitation manipulation.

As for that sudden burst of Divine Power earlier that hoisted Xu Shu up and made him briefly lose his "Feet on the Ground" effect, that was also a skill, one belonging to stage three "Mechanical Expert," called "Leverage Mastery."

It was said that if you gave a "Mechanical Expert" a suitable fulcrum, they could even pry up an Earth Star. This class pushed the lever principle to the absolute extreme, earning them a refined nickname—"Lever Freaks."

Right now, under the changed direction of gravity, Xu Shu was doing a "free fall" straight forward on flat ground!

Crash!

Crash!

Because the light wall was right in front of them, with this sudden change, Xu Shu and Ouyang Suxian, one after the other, broke through the barrier and "fell into" the inside of the Buddha bowl together.

Only then did Xu Shu feel the twisted gravity around him gradually become something he could adapt to. With a slight exertion, everything went back to normal; he overcame this "Gravity Disorder" and once again had his feet firmly on the ground.

The whole thing had taken less than three seconds.

But the problem was, in those three seconds he had free-fallen several meters and was already completely inside the Buddha bowl!

"Fuck!"

With no time to think, Xu Shu almost instinctively turned his head and tried to run.

But in that instant, the "Suffering" character behind him let out an elongated "Om~" sound, like a drawn-out chant, accompanied by a deafening boom like a massive bronze bell!

Then it completely dropped, sinking into the ground. Golden Buddhist light flared to full brilliance in an instant, solidifying into substance and cutting off everything from the outside world.

"Boom!"

Amidst the thunderous roar, this moving relic, the [No-Life Mysterious Sect], after nearly ten minutes of charging up, finally fully descended and fused with reality, carving out an independent world that belonged solely to the relic itself!

"..."

Xu Shu’s head slammed into the Buddha-light barrier in front of him, which looked hazy and chaotic. He bounced straight back.