Chapter 135: Chapter 135: Purple Butterfly

After the door to the room opened, the first thing she saw were thick, sturdy iron bars. It was a large prison cell, though it was furnished like a normal room, complete with not only a soft bed but also a desk, a wardrobe, and other furniture.

The walls were lined with solid iron bars, and even the ceiling was reinforced with them. At the entrance, beyond the main door, an additional iron gate stood closed.

It was a room inside an iron cage.

Inside the caged room, a man with purple hair sat cross-legged on the pristine, soft bed. His hair, which looked like it hadn’t been cut in ages, was incredibly long, its purple strands fanning out across the entire mattress.

His head was slightly bowed, and his purple hair cascaded down, completely obscuring his face.

The phantom image of a giant, glowing purple butterfly flickered faintly around him.

It was a purple butterfly.

His condition seemed to be a familiar one: on the verge of Beastification one moment and reverting to human form the next, unable to control his beast form.

He was constantly shifting back and forth between his beast and human forms.

Two Beastmen with Level 3S Spiritual Power walked in, syringes in hand. On high alert, they slowly approached the purple-haired man.

"Female, please step back." The two other guards at the door blocked Jiang Zheyu’s path.

The next second, a loud noise erupted from inside, sounding like a violent struggle.

BANG!

AH!

...

The tremendous noise felt like it would pierce her eardrums, making them ache.

The two tall Beastmen blocked Jiang Zheyu’s view, so she couldn’t see what was happening up ahead.

She only knew that after the loud sounds of a struggle, everything fell silent.

Seeing that the Commander had been injected with the sedative, the two tall Beastmen blocking Jiang Zheyu finally breathed a sigh of relief and stepped aside.

"This way, female." The two Beastmen moved to either side, bowed slightly, and gestured for her to enter.

Jiang Zheyu could now see the situation inside clearly.

The two Beastmen who had gone in to administer the sedative were now bleeding from their hands and faces. One was even limping. But they hadn’t left; they stood their ground, waiting for Jiang Zheyu to enter.

Their main concern was that the Beastman, with his unstable spiritual power, might harm Jiang Zheyu, so they remained to ensure the female’s safety.

The comforter had been torn to shreds on the floor, and the bed itself had half-collapsed.

The man was now sitting on the bed. He lifted his head to look at Jiang Zheyu, his face devoid of expression, utterly lifeless.

But that couldn’t hide his handsome, pale, beautiful face or his pair of shimmering purple eyes.

Even his hair was purple, making him look as if he were lost in an ocean of violets.

"Why didn’t you just use an anesthetic?" Seeing the man’s beautiful purple eyes, Jiang Zheyu didn’t step closer. Instead, she asked one of the Beastmen beside her. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

’They only used a sedative. What if he becomes agitated again? Wouldn’t it be better to just use an anesthetic and knock him out completely?’

The Beastman didn’t answer. Instead, the man on the bed spoke first.

"When I fall into a deep sleep, I automatically erect a spiritual power barrier, which would make it difficult for you to enter my Spiritual Domain Space." The man’s voice was calm, but his words came out remarkably fast. "The sedative will keep me conscious for a time. I will open my Spiritual Domain for you. You can come in and try. If it doesn’t work, leave immediately. I don’t know if I can remain lucid when an episode from my damaged spiritual power hits."

The man clearly already knew that Jin Yu had arranged for a female to come and heal him.

That was why he was being so cooperative.

However, his expression also showed that he didn’t truly believe a female could heal his spiritual power.

His expression was one of complete indifference, numb and lifeless, as if he didn’t care whether Jiang Zheyu tried or not.

’Looks like Jin Yu really did arrange everything.’

Now Jiang Zheyu could proceed with the treatment without worry.

"Alright, I’ll give it a try." Jiang Zheyu walked over and took the man’s hand.

As Jiang Zheyu held his hand, she felt the man’s body tense up slightly before he quickly relaxed again.

She focused her mind and entered the man’s Spiritual Domain Space.

Sure enough, inside the man’s Spiritual Domain Space, she saw a giant purple butterfly.

The giant purple butterfly was surrounded by wisps of dark black energy—the damaged spiritual power that needed healing.

Jiang Zheyu spotted a familiar sight: a clump of black energy, just like the one she had seen in Feng Qi’s Spiritual Domain Space. That was the Beastification Value.

A mass of Beastification Value was balled up, forming a black sphere, with the dark energy swirling within it.

Jiang Zheyu was a little confused, but she decided to first heal the darker, scattered wisps of black energy.

Healing value +100.

After purifying the darker wisps, Jiang Zheyu reached out and took hold of the mass of black energy that was the Beastification Value.

’Why has all this Beastification Value formed a black sphere?’

The black sphere of Beastification Value in Feng Qi’s Spiritual Domain Space had been the first she’d ever seen; now, in this man’s Spiritual Domain Space, she was seeing it for the second time.

’But I shouldn’t get too caught up in that right now. I’ll just purify this mass of Beastification Value first.’

Beastification Value +201.

’Hearing the system’s announcement, I’m starting to wonder if its data is corrupted again.’

Name: Jiang Zheyu

Gender: Female

Current Spiritual Power Value: S+++(3531.5/4000)

Points: 1232.5

This single purification had increased the value in her Spiritual Power Value column by a full 301 points—the sum of the Healing value and the Beastification Value. She was now less than 470 points away from Level 4S Spiritual Power.

’Does this mean if I heal and purify just one more Beastman, I can break through to Level 4S Spiritual Power?’

Jiang Zheyu suppressed her inner excitement.

Suddenly, she felt something brush against her face. Looking up, she saw one of the giant purple butterfly’s long antennae gently poking her cheek.

Jiang Zheyu felt a little awkward. ’This man is the Little Princess of the Empire’s Beast Husband; I can’t be getting familiar with him.’ The next second, she withdrew her spiritual power from his Spiritual Domain Space.

The giant purple butterfly’s antenna poked at empty air.

Jiang Zheyu had a lingering question. It was said that any Beastman whose Beastification Value exceeded 90 would completely succumb to Beastification and turn into a feral beast.

But in both cases she had treated—Feng Qi and now this man—their Beastification Values had already surpassed 90, even reaching 100, yet they were still able to maintain their human forms. On top of that, their Beastification Value had condensed into a sphere within their Spiritual Domain Space.