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    The gang quickly heeded her directions and ran towards the flipped over spirit beast. Itnded on its back in its attempt to killWenling, putting it in a somewhat helpless position. The gang avoided its dangerous legs that were strong enough topletely shatter a defensive formation and started stabbing and slicing it with their weapons. Some jumped onto the stomach of the creature to dig their weapons in its guts while other were fine hacking at it on its sides. It fiercely cried out in pain and struggled to kill any members it could with its ws.


    Ears used this chance to take care of the spirit beast. He nimbly avoided the razor-sharp ws of the beast as he aimed to slice the lotus off of the beasts head. It seemed as if the rabbit could sense his intentions and grew desperate. The giant beast screamed with enough force to knock Ears into the air before he could slice the strange nt off with his daggers. The others caught the Vice Commander before he fell and the rabbit was getting back up!


    Damn this thing just wont stay down!


    Its bleeding like a bitch but it''s still just as strong as before!


    Aim for the flower you stupid bastards! The flower on its god damn head! Ears yelled.


    Wenlingleapt up high and dove down with her ive to separate the flower from the beasts head. It bared its teeth and readied itself to bite the Commander once she gets close enough.Zihaoused his new lightning sword and shoved it deep into the neck of the mutant beast. Although it waspletely by luck, he managed to wedge his de into the spine andpletely lock its head in ce. This allowedWenlingto cut off the lotus attached to the head of the rabbit.


    Red fluid squirted out of the stem and sttered all overWenlingschest but this didnt bother her. She raised the flower up high in a stance of victory! The battle was over and no more lives needed to be lost!


    Hell yeah!!!


    Fuckyoustupid rabbit! He was repeatedly kicking the dead beast in its side.


    About damn time...


    Hey Commander why is that thing still moving? Someone pointed out.


    What are you--- The lotus in the Commanders hand started to rapidly grow in length.


    Wenlingtried to throw the spirit herb away but it was clingy. It covered her in its roots and tried to reach her head with its main stem which was the thickest. Jing used this chance to participate in the event. Sofar,shes done really nothing but watch as she was acting as if she was still tired from creating the barrier. But with this, she could say that shes done something.


    Jing actually was quite interested in the parasitic nt. This could be an easy way of gaining 100% loyal followers if she could find out a good way of growing them and after refining them with SCP-914, she would have those infected with the nt topletely follow hermands. Maybe she would even be rewarded with more tickets like what happened with HuTao.It was a thought worth exploring.


    Jing clumsily and desperately rushed over toWenlingand pushed her out of the way, freeing her from the grasp of the nt but also allowing the nt totch onto her own head.


    Jing no!Wenlingcried out. Why did you try to help me?!


    Jing didnt hear her. She wasnt in the Treasured ins anymore and was back in that ce from before. The same ce where she was taken when she refined herself. The ck space with the white sphere that felt linked to her. If she tried harming it or affecting it, it would have the same result to herself. Of course, that was just Jings gut feeling talking and not something she knew for sure.


    She was naked again just likest time but that wasnt the important thing here. It was the nasty foulpresence above her that didnt belong here. She looked up and met eyes with the parasitic lifeform that wanted to take over her being. Jing was slightly surprised looking at the figure. It was like she was looking right at herself!


    It had her exact same face and body but with a few extra parts. There was the beautiful light blue lotus attached to its head and several lotus petals floating around it. The qi leaking from the copy was strong and seemed to get even stronger the longer it stayed here. It looks like it didnt even need to attach with that strange orb over there to strengthen itself.Itsmirked at her.


    You dont truly believe you can take over my mind, do you? Jing asked, amused.


    The flower continued to grow in strength while smiling at Jing. It was trying to pressure her with itsever-increasingqi. The qi that was being sucked straight from Jingsdantian. It wasughable that it believed that taking her qi was going to help it at all. By inviting itself to this realm only hastened its death. If they were back in the physical world, Jing would have to restrain her power and techniques but here, there were no witnesses at all.


    Youve doomed yourself once you stepped foot in here. Jing told it. The qi she kept restrained within herself was no longer held back.


    She unleashed the deep and unstoppable qi onto the nt in full force with a mockingugh. The doppelgangers face changed in an instant as it wasunched flying into the air. It tried resisting with the qi its stolen from Jing but it was useless. What it took from her was nothing more than a drip from the bottomless well that was Jing. Its face was now morphed into a confused and horrified scowl.


    It needed to run. It needed to flee if it wanted to survive. This host wasnt a good host! It would be killed if it stayed here any longer to try and take over this host! The lotus quickly flew towards the top of this ck space. It knew there was an exit there because it entered from the same ce! It would have to try and take hold of a different host! A host that isnt a freaky as this one!


    But how could Jing allow it to escape when she still had a use for it? A giant blue being appeared in front of the flower. It had feminine features, no definable face, and waspletely transparent. The being swiped the copy out of the air and brought it inside its chest.Itkind of reminded Jing of herself when she was refining...


    Could this creature actually be SCP-914!? Thesubconsciousthat aids me in refining objects I have no knowledge of? Jing wondered.


    It was a very high chance of it being so. But if SCP-914 is here then where is SCP-222? If there was a representation of this SCP then there had to be another for the other one. Jing looked around for anything else inside this other world but couldnt find anything. Even with her superior senses, she couldnt find it. Maybe it was because SCP-222 was a physical object on a different level than SCP-914. It was hypothesized that the refining machine could have been secretly run by a being on a higher level of existence from humans. Like some sort of Divine cksmith.


    Jing locked eyes with the giant as it took out the refined parasite and pushed it out of the exit of this ce. That was also when Jing found herself back with theWolfengGang. She shot up and immediately looked around. LiLicried out in relief and rubbed him face on her face.Wenlingwas next to her and the other were eating around a campfire, joking around. Ears noticed her awakening and started walking towards them.


    Looks like youre finally awake my protg.Wenlingsmiled with relief as well. It seems she was allowing her to rest on her thighs this entire time.


    What happened...? Jing asked whileforting LiLiwithplentyof rubs and petting.


    After you saved me from that nt, it attached itself to your head instead. Then you justfellunconsciousand been out ever since. She told her.


    I didnt hurt anyone did I? Jing said worriedly.


    She chuckled in amusement before saying, No. You didnt hurt anyone sweetie. Like I said before you justfellunconsciousand we couldnt get rid of that flower on your head no matter what we did.


    EvenZihansster-ranked spirit weapon couldnt remove it from you, Ears spoke as he arrived. Heres some meat from that bastard from earlier. Whatever that thing on your head did to it made its body much better. Ear handed her a stick with a cooked part of the rabbits meat stuck at the end.


    Itsmeat is good for strengthening the body, enhancing your qi, and it tastes good as well.Wenlingexined.


    Only those from wealthy ns can eat spirit beasts that give benefits as good as this. Ears added.


    Thank you! Jing bowed her head towards Ears and grabbed the stick.


    The lotus flower attached to her head shot out andtched onto Ears head, quickly drilling into his brain with its tendrils and bing one with him. Jing visibly panicked and screamed at what was happening whileWenlingreached out as fast as she could to try and pull it out of his head. But she was too slow even with her speed. It was the perfect timing as no one could have expected this. One would think it would attach itself to LiLiorWenlingdue to their close proximity with Jing but no, it grabbed Ears.


    Ears body was visibly transforming at a rapid rate. The muscles on his body were erging, his eyes were turning red, the qi within hisdantianwas expanding, and his regr qi was transforming into a different type of qi! He grabbed his head while clenching his teeth in pain. By the end of his transformation, his power was raised to apletely new height as he broke past the barrier of the 8thstage and entered straight into the 9thstage along with gaining a pretty little lotus resting on top of his head.