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Shi Jiu closed her eyes with a conflicted look.
It seemed she had resigned herself to her fate.
Then.
She felt the pocket of her shirt grow slightly heavier.
It seemed something had been placed inside.
Immediately afterward.
The zipper of her school uniform was pulled back up.
Realizing what had happened, Shi Jiu opened her eyes.
Looking at the boy so close to her, she asked in surprise, "You don't want it?"
The Storage Medal was a genuine Sequence item.
Its value far exceeded that of the Abyss Fruit.
After all, the Abyss Fruit merely offered a chance to unlock a Sequence.
But the Storage Medal could be used continuously.
It was equivalent to having a huge portable space.
When Jiang Fu took the Storage Medal, Shi Jiu had never thought she could get it back.
The snake venom in her body was extremely strange.
Although it could not threaten her life.
She had no idea when she would recover her ability to move.
Just as she had said before.
No matter what Jiang Fu wanted to do to her, she could not stop him.
Jiang Fu said seriously, "I can still tell the difference between an external possession and a long-term backer."
He put it rather bluntly.
That strike from Shi Jiu.
It had completely exceeded Jiang Fu's understanding.
His Spirit Power had not even managed to capture the trajectory of that slash.
And that was while Shi Jiu was suffering from deadly poison and was exceptionally weak.
Guo Fangdong's family, along with Old Wu hiding in the shadows, were constantly trying to kill Jiang Fu.
He had to find himself a backer.
Shi Jiu froze for a moment.
Then, a smile bloomed across her face. "All right. If we can make it back alive, I'll protect you from now on."
That radiant smile dazzled Jiang Fu for a moment.
But he did not look away. "Don't worry. We'll definitely make it back alive."
As he spoke, he took two Energy Pills from his backpack.
He tore open the outer packaging.
Then he stuffed one into Shi Jiu's mouth.
"There shouldn't be any danger here. Get some sleep first."
At this point, as the snake venom worsened and the last trace of Psychokinesis was exhausted.
Shi Jiu's face had turned pale, and her body was growing increasingly weak.
The Energy Pill's aura, accompanied by a faint bitterness, slowly spread through her body.
It made her feel somewhat better.
Shi Jiu gave a soft "Mm" and was about to close her eyes.
But she suddenly noticed the conflicted look on Jiang Fu's face.
So she forced herself to stay alert. "What's wrong?"
Jiang Fu spoke somewhat indistinctly with the Energy Pill in his mouth. "I'm wondering how to recover the Spirit Power I used up."
Shi Jiu found it incredulous. "You don't have a Mental Cultivation Method?"
Jiang Fu's eyes lit up. "A Mental Cultivation Method? A Cultivation Technique for cultivating Spirit Power?"
Shi Jiu sighed. "I have one here... in the Storage Medal."
Jiang Fu glanced at Shi Jiu's chest.
Then he remembered the two suitcases inside the Storage Medal.
"...I'll wait until you've recovered before asking you for it."
Out here in the wilderness.
Even if he got the Cultivation Technique, he could not cultivate immediately.
...The main issue was that Jiang Fu knew his self-control was poor.
If he reached out to take it again, he was afraid he would lose control.
Shi Jiu noticed Jiang Fu's gaze.
She could not help recalling the... two scenes from earlier.
The tips of her ears instantly turned bright red.
She hurriedly closed her eyes and said no more.
However.
In the very next moment.
Jiang Fu suddenly reached out and scooped Shi Jiu off the ground.
With his back against a large tree, he looked extremely wary.
Shi Jiu opened her eyes. Seeing Jiang Fu's reaction, she asked in a low voice, "Someone's coming?"
Jiang Fu gave a soft "Mm." "I can handle it."
Shi Jiu yawned.
She rested her head against Jiang Fu's chest and slowly closed her eyes.
Jiang Fu tugged at the corner of his mouth. "I was too busy running earlier and forgot about you four."
Under his Spirit Power.
The four Martial Artists who had fled earlier.
Were slowly closing in from four directions.
Their footsteps were extremely quiet, drowned out by the wind all around them.
Their Camouflage Combat Uniforms had also blended into the surrounding weeds.
If Jiang Fu's Spirit Power had not been constantly active.
It would have been impossible to notice their tracks with the naked eye alone.
Those four Martial Artists had already locked onto Jiang Fu's position.
That blue-and-white school uniform stood out far too much in this desolate wilderness.
The four had seen Jiang Fu's speed.
So they did not Startle the Snake by Beating the Grass.
They chose to approach slowly and deliver a fatal blow.
But now.
Jiang Fu's Spirit Power had firmly locked onto them.
"The Fruit Knife from before couldn't break through your defenses."
"But my Battle Knife..."
As he thought this.
The Battle Knife Shi Jiu had placed on his backpack.
Slowly floated into the air.
But just then.
Jiang Fu's heart stirred slightly.
Under the perception of his Spirit Power.
The Battle Knife seemed different.
An extraordinarily sharp power, very similar to Spirit Power.
Was contained within the Battle Knife.
Jiang Fu instinctively looked at Shi Jiu in his arms.
The girl's cheek rested against his chest, and her even breathing came from her nose and mouth.
This time, she was truly asleep.
Jiang Fu drew a deep breath.
Suppressing the stirrings in his heart.
He sent his Spirit Power into the Battle Knife and lightly touched that tiny spirit.
The next moment.
The Battle Knife let out a hum.
Along its razor-sharp edge.
A black blade glow suddenly rippled outward.
Jiang Fu widened his eyes and murmured in disbelief, "It's similar to Spirit Power, but possesses such a fierce sharpness... Could this be the legendary Blade Intent?"
"Perfect... I'll use you to test the blade!"
With that thought.
His Spirit Power stirred slightly.
The Battle Knife carried the black blade glow.
Transforming into a blur.
It vanished from sight in an instant.
"The Fruit Knife from before couldn't even pierce the neck guard."
"I wonder if this Battle Knife, which possesses Blade Intent, can cleave through their Combat Uniforms..."
"No, wait, that won't do!"
"That isn't a Combat Uniform. That's my money, my Vitality Pills!"
"Poke them in the face!"
Jiang Fu's Spirit Power locked onto one Martial Artist.
This time, he had no intention of using Multiply by Ten.
He had just killed a Level 2 Silver Moon Wolf.
His confidence was at its peak.
The four people before him were all Beginner Martial Artists, far weaker than that Silver Moon Wolf.
Hum—
The black Battle Knife, almost completely undisguised.
Arrived before that Martial Artist in an instant.
"What?!"
The Martial Artist's eyes widened, filled with disbelief.
"...A Psychic Master!!!"
The thought had barely arisen.
When the world before his eyes suddenly turned upside down.
Then he sank into eternal darkness.
Thud!
The corpse with half its head missing collapsed limply to the ground.
Jiang Fu was also stunned for a moment.
The Battle Knife had only just approached that Martial Artist's face.
Before it had even had time to poke through.
The blade glow erupting from its edge had already cleaved open his head.
"It really is Blade Intent!"
Jiang Fu's eyes lit up.
The black Battle Knife turned into a blur and vanished once again.
The three Martial Artists in the other directions had not noticed the disturbance here.
They continued cautiously approaching Jiang Fu.
Hum—
The next instant.
The black blade glow flashed past.
The second man!
The third man!
They collapsed one after another.
Only then did the last Martial Artist finally realize that something was wrong.
"What's going on?!"
The man was shocked out of his wits.
Then he saw that streak of black blade glow.
At last.
The seven Martial Artists who had hunted Jiang Fu
were all dead!
Jiang Fu drew back his Battle Knife.
Its black edge gleamed coldly,
a faint blade-light shimmering along it.
The source was the Blade Intent Shi Jiu had left inside the knife!
"What a knife! What a knife!"
"A fine knife for Sixth Brother!"
"With this knife, I can play Sixth Brother to my heart's content!"
Bolstered by Blade Intent, his movements left no trace.
It was the perfect weapon for a sneak attack!
The next moment,
four complete combat suits and four Battle Knives
appeared before him.
"Tsk... they thought they could sneak up on a Psychic Master like me?"
"Those amateurs wanted to outdo the master at his own game."
Jiang Fu held Shi Jiu in his arms
and happily stuffed the combat suits and Battle Knives into his Space Backpack.
Then he paused.
His heart began to pound.
There seemed to be nothing else to deal with now.
So...
what if I used Multiply by Eleven on that Abyss Fruit
and ate it?
The next instant,
Jiang Fu focused his Spirit Power on the Abyss Fruit tucked into his trouser pocket.
"Multiply my chance of unlocking a Sequence by ten!"
"Multiply the number of times I can eat an Abyss Fruit by ten!"
"Multiply the number of Sequences I can unlock by ten!"
"Luck... right, I've already multiplied my luck by ten."
"Multiply the chance of this Abyss Fruit unlocking a Sequence by ten!"
"Multiply the number of Abyss Fruits by ten!"
The next instant,
ten more Abyss Fruits appeared in Jiang Fu's trouser pocket.
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