Yunyang couldn’t see the males’ pollution levels, but she could still sense that something was different.
Compared with a few days ago, her psychic power seemed to have increased quite a bit.
Was it because she had spent the past few days helping Cang Zhuonian purify his pollution?
There were still two SS-rank males waiting for their individual purification appointments. Yunyang put the thought aside. After having the supervisors escort the forty or so males away, she sat down and waited for the remaining two.
Fuyuan took the opportunity to help her recover her psychic power.
A familiar song echoed in her mind. Yunyang leaned back in her chair as she waited for her psychic power to recover, only to discover that the process was unusually slow today.
She wasn’t sure of the exact figure, but more than ten minutes had passed, and her psychic power seemed to have recovered by only six or seven percent.
Something was wrong.
Previously, although the effects of Fuyuan’s ability had been limited, helping her recover around ten percent of her psychic power in ten minutes had never been a problem.
Yunyang opened her mouth to ask about it, but at that moment, someone knocked on the purification room door.
“Lady Yunyang, have you rested enough?”
Yunyang swallowed the words that had been about to leave her lips and turned toward the door. “I’m rested. Come in.”
One of the supervisors standing nearby immediately went over to open the door.
Soon, the supervisor outside led in the first male to secure an individual purification appointment.
Under normal circumstances, purifying an SS-rank ability user required Yunyang to expend around thirty percent of her psychic power to lower his pollution level to below ninety.
Today, she also used thirty percent of her psychic power. However, she asked Fu Shiyi for the male’s pollution level both before and after the purification began.
His initial level had been ninety-four. Once she finished purifying him, it had dropped to seventy-seven.
A full seventeen points!
Even Yunyang herself was stunned.
Could her psychic power have advanced?
With that thought in mind, Yunyang decisively took her nine beast husbands to the lounge after finishing the second male’s purification.
The moment the door closed, before she could say anything, Fu Shiyi suggested, “My lady, I think you should test your psychic power level again.”
“I was thinking the same thing.” Yunyang nodded. The faint pallor of her face could not conceal the excitement in her eyes. “Once we finish purifying the remaining people, we’ll go to the psychic power testing center.”
After saying that, she opened her terminal and contacted the psychic power testing center on Central Star.
She had only just sent the message and hadn’t had time to read the reply when Fu Shiyi pressed down on the terminal around her wrist.
“My lady, you need to recover your psychic power first.”
There was a barely restrained eagerness in his eyes behind his glasses.
By now, all nine of Yunyang’s beast husbands knew how to help her recover her psychic power, so Fu Shiyi was naturally volunteering himself for the position.
But Yunyang still called Chen Yueli’s name.
She had already decided that, from then on, whenever she needed to recover her psychic power in the purification tower, she would let whichever husband had been chosen the previous night help her. That would save her the trouble of choosing every time.
Fu Shiyi’s eyes dimmed slightly, but he still took the initiative to leave the lounge.
Cang Zhuonian had originally wanted to make one last attempt, but seeing his rivals leave one after another with such tact, he swallowed the words he had been about to use to plead his case.
Yunyang stayed in the lounge for two hours.
By the time her psychic power had fully recovered, the beastmen who had hurried back from the frontier planet finally arrived at the purification tower.
They could no longer maintain their beast forms. Their ability levels ranged from A-rank to SS-rank, and their bodies were still spattered with blood that could have belonged to anyone.
When Yunyang appeared, they all lowered their heads awkwardly.
Their pollution levels had already exceeded ninety-five before they even boarded the spacecraft. Their comrades traveling with them had immediately fastened restraint belts around them, so they hadn’t had any chance to wash the blood from their bodies.
To appear before Lady Yunyang in such a disheveled state was practically an offense to her eyes.
Yunyang didn’t think that way at all.
Anyone who had rushed over from a frontier planet was undoubtedly a member of the Federation military. They had probably just finished a battle, so it was perfectly normal for them to have blood and dust on them.
She sat down in the chair again and released her psychic power without holding anything back.
This time, she used nearly ninety percent of her psychic power. A few minutes later, the male with the highest ability rank and highest pollution level saw his pollution level drop by a full thirty points.
The others’ levels dropped even more. The pollution level of the A-rank Federation soldier fell all the way to fifty-seven.
Even after returning to human form, the group remained somewhat dazed.
Their pollution levels had actually dropped by that much?!
Lady Yunyang must have expended a tremendous amount of psychic power, hadn’t she?
Their faces filled with gratitude. As soon as their restraint belts were removed, they immediately opened the appointment website and transferred money to Yunyang. Each transfer was an enormous sum.
They had nothing else to offer her—only Federation credits and military merit.
They didn’t even know whether they would be able to spend those things in the future, so they might as well give them to Lady Yunyang.
Thinking this, they grinned happily. When they saw that Yunyang was about to leave, they immediately bowed in perfect unison.
“Thank you, Lady Yunyang!”
Yunyang waved her hand. This was the only thing she could do for them.
She was still in fairly good condition, so she had Fuyuan help her recover a little psychic power before leaving the purification tower with several of her beast husbands.
She was eager to confirm whether her psychic power had really advanced.
•
At the psychic power testing center, the staff had asked Yunyang whether she needed someone sent to pick her up as soon as they received her message. After she declined, they could only wait at the center, quivering with excitement.
The sky had already grown dark, yet Yunyang still hadn’t arrived. Unable to hold back any longer, the staff were just about to send her a message to ask about the delay.
Female ability users generally never returned to the psychic power testing center after their psychic power levels had been registered.
What did it mean that Lady Yunyang had suddenly said she wanted to come in for another test today?
It meant that Lady Yunyang’s psychic power had very likely advanced!
Lady Yunyang was already one of the Federation’s only three S-rank females. If she advanced, she would become the Federation’s sole SS-rank female!
And they might very well be the first people—aside from Lady Yunyang’s beast husbands—to witness it.
How could they not be excited?
How could they not be anxious?
The staff waited at the entrance, pacing back and forth. After another hour, they finally saw a spacecraft approaching from the distance.
The spacecraft was moving so quickly that one second they had only just spotted it, and the next, it had already begun to descend.
Was that Lady Yunyang’s spacecraft?
It had to be!
All the ladies informed the center in advance before coming to have their psychic power tested. No other lady had said she would be coming today. That left only Lady Yunyang.
Certain of their guess, the staff hurried forward to greet her. When the hatch opened, they all bowed in unison.
“Respected Lady Yunyang, welcome to the psychic power testing center!”
Yunyang stepped off the spacecraft without changing expression and said to the director leading the group, “We’ve only just finished at the purification tower. Can you still conduct the test now?”
“Of course!”
“Respected Lady Yunyang, whenever you wish to come, the doors of our testing center will always be open to you.”
The director wore his most courteous smile.
“The testing room is ready. Please follow me.”
