System Update [Silver Bonus 8/20!]

Cherry-red peach petals danced in the Clear Mist, slowly falling into the water, where they were devoured by colorful, Warm Water Fish.

Each fish sucked on its sweet, cherry-red lips, looking quite delicious.

The ancient well Xiao Ran calm and still, its gaze unwavering, for a glance would reveal a vast and magnificent landscape.

Master, will you take me with you tonight?

Ha, you make it sound like you're not the same! Xiao Ran sat up straight and said in a serious tone:

"Let me calculate for you, Master. The Dao Alliance rewarded you with 500,000 Spirit Stone, and you spent less than 100,000. After that, you successively obtained Lu Pingtian's Demon Crystal and my Heaven's Chosen Silver Ring. According to market prices, Master are now a millionaire with no shortage of money. If you want to drink bone broth, your disciple will have to cook it. Why are you in such a hurry for dragon bones?"

Fool!

Dragon bones are definitely more valuable than Immortal Crystal!

Lingzhou Yue draped her right arm over Xiao Ran's shoulder, appearing extremely intimate, and spoke softly and earnestly.

"Dragon bones aren't commonplace. There are plenty of fake dragon bones out there. We can't let that kid Xuan Yuan Guang fool us. You still have to accompany your master on missions. How can you have time to form some elite dragon-hunting team? Besides, even if all of you elites were combined, could you even take down one of my fingers?"

Xiao Ran was speechless; his smug feeling as a prodigy had been extinguished by his Master's single finger.

"I can't be wrong about the dragon bone. Teaming up is just a formality to defend against the Dao Alliance, it won't waste any time."

"Tch, so stingy!"

Lingzhou Yue pushed Xiao Ran away angrily, then took several gulps of wine before saying, "By the way, what about that bird you were talking about?"

Xiao Ran Xiao Ran shook his head and said, "That bird is a living Netherworld creature, which is forbidden to be brought into Chaos City. It would be very dangerous to take it out."

Lingzhou Yue was drinking when she suddenly froze.

"So, how did you bring the Nether Bird in? Even if a living Nether creature is placed in Space Ring, it will be detected by the city's entry formation. I didn't even see your Space Ring. Where did you hide it?"

Xiao Ran didn't know how to explain it, so he simply said, "This is a high-level spell."

Lingzhou Yue became more and more confused as she listened.

"Something's not right with you. I'm a Spirit Severing Realm cultivator, how come I can't see the spatial spells you're using? I can't even see your Spiritual Power fluctuations. Tell me, are you hiding some kind of treasure?"

Xiao Ran shook his head regretfully.

Xiao Ran hurriedly explained:

"Well, it's a kind of spatial secret technique from my hometown. It's something you carry with you and it's one with you. If Master has any valuables, such as Spirit Stone, Immortal Crystal, or the Heaven's Chosen Silver Ring, and you're worried about them being stolen, this disciple can keep them safe for Master."

"You have no manners! No one in this world has ever been born who can steal from our Master."

Xiao Ran suddenly felt that if his Master's feet weren't used to kick him, being pushed by the soles of his feet was quite comfortable, warm, smooth, and soft, with a pleasant fragrance.

It was as if he were spewing profanities. "Why steal something you can win?"

"Um?"

Lingzhou Yue was stunned for a long time before realizing that Xiao Ran was cursing her. She turned her head and looked at him with a sharp gaze. She raised her hand and grabbed him from a distance, wrapped her arms around his head and held him Xiao Ran to her side, her eyes narrowed in a low voice.

"You are truly my most filial disciple, starting to mock your master now, aren't you? It seems that a battle between you, me, and the Wraith is inevitable."

Xiao Ran gritted his teeth and endured the pain.

It didn't actually hurt that much, it was just that I was powerless to resist.

He could only silently endure the pain of his left cheek being deformed by his Master's jade arm.

Who could understand this kind of pain? Xiao Ran closed his eyes and endured it, while breathing deeply and circulating his energy throughout his body, so that his body and mind could merge with heaven and earth and the natural way, in order to get rid of the blush and evil thoughts in his heart.

This, on the contrary, made him appear to exude an ascetic charm, like a hermit.

Lingzhou Yue, slightly drunk, wiped the wine stains from her lips.

"Haha, you're blushing? What, you really want to climb the generational ladder and become your teacher's wife's brother-in-law?"

Amitabha Buddha, well said, well said...

Xiao Ran, as sage as a Buddha, calmly said, "Master, you're drunk. Please rest."

"Rest my ass!"

Lingzhou Yue has cleared her five million debt and is especially happy today. She accidentally drank too much and started saying some incomprehensible things.

"Do you know? My body is so sensitive that men can't touch me. You can't touch a tiger's butt. I'm a tiger that's always ready to eat you. I'm afraid that if I fall asleep, you might do something strange and I'll die without even knowing how I died."

Xiao Ran clasped his hands together and calmly said:

"I have no worldly desires."

Lingzhou Yue shook her head and smiled, released Xiao Ran, and with a flash, left the pond and appeared under the peach tree.

When Xiao Ran looked up, she had already changed her clothes in an instant and was standing by the pool tying her belt.

His slightly tipsy face instantly regained its clarity, like a landscape painting; his figure was as swift as a sword, and his clear eyes shone brightly.

"I know a little about men's affairs. Some things will go wrong if you keep them bottled up. Hurry up and get dressed. I'll take you out to see the world."

After speaking, he gracefully walked out of the small Bamboo Forest and Xiao Ran outside while drinking.

What do you even know?!

As Xiao Ran dressed, he felt that he had recently earned a lot of Filial Piety Points... maybe over a thousand? He subconsciously glanced at the System Panel.

[Filial Piety Points: 1024!]

Wow, it really broke a thousand! Xiao Ran suddenly became excited!

Money is still the most effective way to sway Master.

As the old saying goes, problems that can be solved with money aren't really problems.

If money could solve everything for the Master, why would he need to work so hard as a brother-in-law? Is he complaining that the kidneys are too good?

One thousand Filial Piety Points! Without saying anything more, Xiao Ran prepared to immediately advance his Foundation Establishment Cultivation Level.

Foundation Establishment in two months is a record-breaking achievement! Thinking this, he immediately Mind Concentration, opened the system Shop, and found the Foundation Establishment Cultivation Level pack item.

[Foundation Establishment Cultivation Level Pack: Instantly raises the host's Cultivation Level to Foundation Establishment Cultivation Level. Price... Host's Qi Sea has expanded; price recalculated.]

Huh? Xiao Ran was dumbfounded.

What business is it of yours to advance your Qi Sea level if I'm only at the Qi Sea level?

[Ding—The price of the Foundation Establishment Cultivation Level Package has been recalculated. Price: 100,000,000 Filial Piety Points.]

Eight zeros? One hundred million?

Xiao Ran rubbed his eyes. Even if he rubbed his eyeballs until they were crushed, it would still be a hundred million!

Isn't the Foundation Establishment Package Filial Piety Points?

How can this lousy system raise prices like this? 100,000,000...

100000×1000?

Xiao Ran seemed to understand—the price increased ten thousand times for advancing from the Qi Refining Ten Thousand Layers Qi Sea of the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment?

Upon closer examination, if the Qi Sea area were 100,000 times larger, constructing a Foundation Building Pill Wall of the same thickness would indeed require 100,000 times more spiritual energy.

After he reached the Qi Refining Ten Thousand Layers, his Qi Sea expanded by more than 100,000 times; it was practically infinite.

So, charging him 100 million Filial Piety Points is considered a friendly price... what a load of rubbish!

Just reaching the Foundation Establishment requires 100 million Filial Piety Points; how can one even dream of reaching the Golden Nascent Soul or Nascent Soul stages?

Is it only when filial piety deteriorates and touches the Master's trigger point that the Filial Piety Points explodes and can one advance to the Foundation Establishment?

Of course, if one day one can truly trigger the Master's trigger point, the Filial Piety Points might explode.

Or perhaps filial piety has become corrupted, and the system evolves again...

It's too early to say anything about many things right now.

The only certainty is that if Xiao Ran's filial piety doesn't change, Xiao Ran probably won't be able to advance to the Foundation Establishment.

Perhaps it's necessary to investigate the specific ways in which filial piety has become corrupted.

In fact, Xiao Ran can now gather the Qi vortex of the Nascent Soul Stage in the Boundless Qi Sea through Serendipitous Critical Strike, so that he can unleash a Nascent Soul Level Spiritual Pressure Cultivation Method.

In essence, he was already half a Nascent Soul cultivator! Cultivation Level was nothing more than an empty title to him.

For now, let's focus on acquiring Cultivation Method and upgrading our actual combat strength.

Xiao Ran immediately checked the prices of some advanced Cultivation Method.

Only then did he realize that, thanks to the expansion of his Qi Sea, all the Heavenly Merit techniques in the system Shop had been unlocked and were now available for purchase.

This means that his physique is already capable of cultivating all kinds of Cultivation Method? He glanced at the prices of the four levels of Cultivation Method: Heaven, Profound, Earth, and Yellow.

The prices range from several thousand to millions.

If someone's original constitution or mindset is particularly suitable for spiritual practice, the price will be even lower.

Although it's still not cheap, it's many times more cost-effective than a Foundation Establishment Cultivation Level package costing 100 million! With the Art of Resonance, the Boundless Qi Sea, and the Serendipitous Critical Strike, as long as enough Spiritual Power is poured into the Qi Sea and a suitable Cultivation Method is used, even someone in the Qi Refining Realm could potentially reach the Mahayana Realm! What surprised Xiao Ran even more was that immortal techniques had appeared in the system Shop!

These are not Heavenly Merit techniques adapted from fragments of immortal arts, but rather original immortal arts that have long been lost! However, these immortal arts have only appeared and are currently locked, so they cannot be purchased at the moment.

Good grief! This is a system update...

With immortal techniques, does it mean that one can ascend to immortality in broad daylight through Qi Refining? Every cloud has a silver lining.

If someone with Qi Refining Cultivation Level wins against someone with Foundation Establishment Cultivation Level, others might think you used some forbidden technique or some heaven-defying Foundation Establishment to barely win.

However, if someone with Qi Refining Cultivation Level surpasses someone with Nascent Soul Cultivation Level, others might suspect that you are more than just Nascent Soul cultivator...

Unfathomable!

Xiao Ran thought to himself that the Qi Refining Cultivation Level was unpredictable, which made people look more sophisticated and gave them more benefits. At the same time, it also made enemies wary and dare not make a move easily—like Comrade Gentleman.

After accepting this premise, Xiao Ran no longer felt frustrated; on the contrary, he was somewhat excited.

Of course, if filial piety becomes corrupted and triggers a switch on the Master that can cause Filial Piety Points to explode, it could also be a good path to success.

Because they had been thinking in the pool for too long, soon, their Master's impatient voice came from outside the Bamboo Forest.

"What are you dawdling about? Do you need your teacher to help you get dressed?"

Once I learn immortal magic, it's not impossible...

Xiao Ran thought to himself.

Chapter 151: The King of Seductive Pictures: The Shark Flying Against the Wind.