The moment the call connected, Reed's voice came through quickly. "I'm Reed. Are you up? I've got the information on the family in the Unchanging House you asked me to investigate. I've also sold the D-Class Transcendent's body. The money should arrive this morning, and the association's bonus should probably arrive this morning too."
He continued slowly, "If you're free this morning, come over. You need to sign in person."
"Alright." He Ao turned and glanced at the puppet lying on the table, sprawled out in the shape of a 'big' character. "I'll come over in a bit."
"You didn't sleep last night?" Reed asked curiously.
"In a sense, I slept quite well," He Ao replied slowly. "But it sounds like you didn't sleep last night."
"I slept too, probably," Reed said casually. "For a while."
The sound of keyboard tapping came from the other end of the call. Reed said slowly, "I'll send you the address. Let me know before you come."
"OK." He Ao shrugged and hung up.
He raised his gaze and looked at his personal attributes interface.
Physical Quality: 194
He had broken through to D-Class at around nine last night. About ten hours had passed since then. Apart from the first hour, when his Physical Quality had surged by ten points, it had afterward increased at a rate of five points per hour.
Just now, he had expended a bit of divine consciousness to construct a simple divine-consciousness spirit-gathering formation.
With his previous experience drawing and modifying spirit-gathering formations, this time he had greatly reduced the amount of divine consciousness required. It used less than one-twentieth of the original amount, yet together with the fixed spirit-gathering formation he carried, it could barely maintain the original effect.
The only problem was that this spirit-gathering