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The Star Shuttle changed shape again and again.
Finally, it became a small silver bracelet.
It settled around Jiang Fu's left wrist.
Then.
He looked at Shi Jiu, who still seemed a little dazed.
"How about... you take all of this?"
Shi Jiu snapped out of her daze and hurriedly shook her head. "No, no, that's too much!"
"Besides, you can use these things yourself. How could I take them all?"
Especially those talismans.
One look was enough to tell they had been made by Sequence Martial Artists.
Jiang Fu looked utterly unconcerned. "Everything on this floor put together isn't worth as much as the Star Shuttle you gave me."
A Heaven-Tier High-Grade Psychokinetic Weapon that grew alongside its wielder.
It allowed him, even before he became transcendent,
to experience a psychokinetic weapon of High-grade Heavenly Rank.
Now.
With the rune patterns of the first seal refined,
the Star Shuttle had become perfectly attuned to Jiang Fu's spirit power.
It responded as naturally as his own limbs.
There wasn't the slightest awkwardness.
Jiang Fu felt he could use the Star Shuttle to carry himself into the air right then!
Once he truly grew powerful,
he could multiply the Star Shuttle's rank by ten.
Rank 120.
Another Extreme Dao weapon.
Jiang Fu looked at Shi Jiu.
"I have my sequence. I can keep fishing."
Shi Jiu turned around.
She leaned her back loosely against Jiang Fu's arm.
Tilting her little head back, she rested it on his shoulder.
Her long ponytail slid down his arm and fell into his palm.
It tickled.
"Jiang Fu, you're getting awfully approachable—for a billionaire."
Jiang Fu laughed along. "An approachable billionaire? Aren't you one too?"
"I only unlocked my sequence thanks to that Abyss Fruit of yours."
Shi Jiu said, "That was my Life-Buying Fruit. Come to think of it, you saved my life."
Jiang Fu said, "Without you, I would've died in that little valley too..."
Shi Jiu said, "Speaking of which, I used your identity information for my martial artist certification."
Jiang Fu said, "No wonder Supervisor Shen said I was lucky. Looks like I really am."
Shi Jiu said, "Aren't you curious why I used your identity information to get certified as a martial artist?"
Jiang Fu said, "Because I'm lucky."
Shi Jiu said, "...Well, then I'm pretty lucky too."
Jiang Fu said, "What about you? Aren't you curious how I managed to get so many identical treasures?"
Shi Jiu said, "Because you're lucky."
The two chatted on and off.
Meanwhile.
Jiang Fu used his spirit power to bring over the dishes he had prepared in the kitchen.
He didn't put them on the table.
They simply floated in midair.
Both of them were psychic masters.
They didn't even need their hands to eat.
Of course.
Because of a certain deeply ingrained habit,
they still picked up their chopsticks with their spirit power.
Gradually.
The night deepened.
Their voices slowly fell silent.
Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu fell asleep back-to-back in the first-floor living room.
At eight in the morning.
Jiang Fu had already cleaned up the living room.
Apart from a few talismans,
he had packed everything into Shi Jiu's Storage Badge.
Shi Jiu sat cross-legged in front of the sofa, resting her head on the coffee table.
Her eyes stayed fixed on Jiang Fu as he bustled around the kitchen. "Are you going to school this afternoon?"
Jiang Fu murmured an affirmative. "Something unexpected will happen to me at noon... I'll go to school once I've dealt with it."
Shi Jiu didn't ask any further questions. "Then I'll go this afternoon too."
She yawned. "Oh, right, I want to set up a laboratory here..."
Jiang Fu smiled. "Just make yourself at home."
"The third floor or the basement."
Shi Jiu said, "...The basement, then."
The third floor.
It had practically become a forbidden area in the villa.
Just as Jiang Fu had planned earlier,
after Guo Xiaofeng's room had been completely stripped out, it had been sealed off.
As for the basement,
although they called it a basement,
a lower-level extension would have been more accurate.
Its layout was much like the second floor's.
With no double-height living room taking up space, it was even larger than the second floor.
After breakfast,
Shi Jiu plunged into the basement.
She began setting up her laboratory.
Jiang Fu sat in the first-floor living room.
This time, he didn't fish.
Instead, he devoted himself to cultivating the Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night.
He quietly waited for noon to arrive.
By now,
his progress in the Silken Rain Chapter, the first chapter of the Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night, had reached 7.99%.
That was considerably faster than expected.
Finally.
Noon arrived.
Prompted by the Multiply by Ten countdown,
Jiang Fu stopped cultivating.
He had already multiplied his Vitality Pill by ten.
One pill had become ten.
As for their medicinal potency...
Jiang Fu wasn't sure whether he could withstand ten times the potency in his weakened state.
So he had left that untouched for now.
"Multiply the Vitality Pill's effect by ten!"
"Multiply absorption efficiency by ten!"
"Multiply absorption speed by ten!"
One second before the countdown ended,
Jiang Fu multiplied one of the Vitality Pills by ten.
He held it between his lips.
The next instant.
A helpless weakness welled up from the depths of his soul.
It rapidly spread throughout his body.
The screen floating before him changed instantly.
[Name: Jiang Fu] [Gender: Male] [Age: 18] [Level: 0] [Qi-Blood Value: 3] [Lifespan: 4 days] [Ability: Multiply by Ten (cannot be stacked)] [Ability use limit: Positive infinity]
On the screen,
his spirit power and cultivation technique vanished at the same time.
And in the next instant,
Shi Jiu, who had been busy in the Underground Laboratory,
appeared beside Jiang Fu like a gust of wind.
She looked at Jiang Fu, collapsed on the sofa with barely a breath left in him.
She froze as though struck by lightning.
Her bright, pretty little face turned deathly pale.
It was filled with fear and helplessness.
Shi Jiu reached out with both hands, clad in her Cloud Patterned Gloves.
Trembling, she tried to touch Jiang Fu.
Yet she realized that, at that moment, he looked as though he might shatter.
She was terrified that a single touch would make the young man before her crumble into dust.
Jiang Fu smiled.
He gave Shi Jiu a reassuring look.
Then he opened his mouth slightly.
The Vitality Pill rolled into his mouth.
The next instant.
The Vitality Pill dissolved into a warm current.
It swept through his entire body.
With its effect and absorption both multiplied by ten,
strength soon returned to Jiang Fu's body.
His qi-blood value also began to climb slowly.
Finally, it stopped at a number.
11.
Jiang Fu frowned.
He realized something was wrong.
He took out another Vitality Pill.
After multiplying it by ten, he swallowed it in one gulp.
The number ticked up, becoming 15.
Then.
The third, the fourth, the fifth...
Not until the eighth Vitality Pill went down his throat...
...did Jiang Fu's Qi-Blood Value finally scrape its way to 30.
"Now I should be able to withstand ten times the medicinal power."
Medicinal power multiplied by ten!
Potency multiplied by ten!
Absorption multiplied by ten!
Absorption speed multiplied by ten!
The ninth Vitality Pill went down.
Jiang Fu's Qi-Blood Value leaped to 50.
After he swallowed the tenth Vitality Pill...
...Jiang Fu's Qi-Blood Value...
...finally reached 70.
He was back in the Quasi-Martial Artist Realm he had reached after multiplying by ten.
His vanished Spirit Power and Cultivation Technique reappeared as well.
Spirit Power: 155 Silken Rain Chapter progress: 9%
Jiang Fu got to his feet again.
He looked at Shi Jiu.
"See? I'm fine now. You don't have to worry."
Shi Jiu still stood where she was.
Something glistened at the corners of her eyes.
An icy killing intent radiated from her.
"Who did this?"
Shi Jiu's voice was hoarse, with a slight tremor.
"They used a Forbidden Drug to force your Blood Energy higher at the cost of destroying your Origin and potential..."
Jiang Fu froze, then understood.
No wonder the original Jiang Fu had slaved away here every day, without enough to eat or warm clothes to wear.
Others had even taken more than half the resources the school gave him.
Yet he had still become a Martial Artist.
Jiang Fu had thought he was extraordinarily gifted.
So they had forced his growth.
No wonder, when his Qi-Blood Value reached 50 just now...
...his remaining lifespan had been ten years.
And now, with his Qi-Blood Value at 70...
...his remaining lifespan was still ten years.
...He could multiply it by ten.
That would make it a hundred years.
Still, Jiang Fu thought there might be a way to save himself.
He was in no hurry to multiply that by ten.
"It's fine. I'll make them pay tenfold."
Shi Jiu lowered her head. Her voice was still a little hoarse.
"A Vitality Pill won't help in your condition."
"You need a Heavenly Treasure Origin Pill to repair your damaged Origin and potential."
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