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In his memories...
Jiang Fu lived at No. 666, Blue Shore Manor Residential Area, in the center of District Nine.
It wasn't far from District 9 People's Hospital.
At Jiang Fu's current walking speed, he could get there in about half an hour.
If he multiplied his speed by ten, he could arrive even sooner.
But after leaving the hospital grounds, Jiang Fu slowed down.
Along the way, he savored the joy of walking on his own two legs.
At the same time, he observed the city and this world.
It looked much like the cities in his previous life.
High-rises towered overhead, and traffic streamed through the streets.
There was one difference, though.
Bands of colorful light, like auroras, floated above the city.
Even under the midday sun...
They stood out vividly.
This was the city's Air Defense Belt.
It intercepted flying mutated beasts or realm beasts attempting to invade the city from above.
The spiritual energy revival, biological mutations, and monster invasions...
Had begun a hundred years ago.
Humanity had already rebuilt order upon the ruins of the previous civilization.
To Jiang Fu...
This felt more like a parallel world.
Setting aside the spiritual energy revival...
This world's civilization, culture, and customs...
Were largely the same as those of Earth in his previous life.
Even certain aspects of its history shared many similarities.
Jiang Fu stopped frequently along the way.
It took him over an hour to reach Blue Shore Manor Residential Area.
He arrived at the gate of a detached, three-story villa.
The villa had been left behind by the original owner's parents.
It had always been registered under the original owner's name—now Jiang Fu's.
Guo Fangdong and his family of three had moved in under the pretext of looking after Jiang Fu.
They had stayed for twelve years.
At the moment, the villa's courtyard gate was shut and locked.
There were no maids or servants in the house.
The housework fell to Jiang Fu.
Jiang Fu patted himself down again, confirming that he had no house key.
He looked at the tightly shut gate.
His spirit power stirred slightly.
Click!
The lock opened instantly.
Looks like my spirit power isn't weak.
I can control elevator doors to crush Guo Xiaofeng's head, and I can open high-end locks like this.
Jiang Fu pushed the gate open and stepped into the courtyard.
Using the same method, he unlocked the villa's front door.
Jiang Fu's room was the maid's room by the turn of the stairs on the ground floor... though calling it a storage room would have been more accurate.
The room was tiny.
It contained only a bed and a bedside table.
Jiang Fu released his spirit power.
He searched every inch of the villa.
It was just as he had expected.
There was nothing valuable in the house.
Not a single cultivation resource, either.
Clearly...
The money and resources his parents had left behind...
Had either been squandered by that family of three or moved elsewhere.
Jiang Fu first rubbed his empty stomach.
After an hour of walking...
The appetite Guo Xiaofeng had disgusted out of him was almost back!
Business first!
With that thought...
He climbed the stairs to the third floor and stopped outside Guo Xiaofeng's room.
His target was the computer inside.
This had originally been Jiang Fu's room.
After Guo Fangdong's family moved in, Guo Xiaofeng had claimed it for himself.
Jiang Fu pushed the door open.
And then...
"Urgh—"
A strange stench hit him in the face.
Jiang Fu staggered back several steps.
Bracing one hand against the wall, he dry-heaved for a long time before recovering.
"Fuck! I should've eaten first!"
Jiang Fu's face flushed red.
At that moment, the hunger that had just begun stirring in his stomach vanished once again.
He was now too disgusted to eat anything at all.
The room before him was dim.
The curtains were drawn.
Jiang Fu could still make out the scene inside...
The entire room was a complete mess.
It looked like a garbage dump.
The floor was piled with miscellaneous junk, empty liquor bottles, empty or half-finished takeout containers, and...
Used. Tissues. All. Over. The. Floor.
...During the few days Jiang Fu had spent in the hospital...
No one had cleaned Guo Xiaofeng's room.
The once-luxurious room had turned straight into a garbage dump.
Looking at the tissues on the floor...
Jiang Fu's face twitched violently.
"No wonder Guo Xiaofeng didn't become a martial artist until eighteen, even with all those resources poured into him..."
"Come to think of it, now that I've multiplied that by ten, can he keep up?"
His face full of disgust, Jiang Fu retreated several more steps.
Only then did he use his spirit power to draw back the curtains and open the windows.
He let the air circulate.
The stench in the room slowly began to dissipate.
"Forget it. Spirit power will work just as well."
Jiang Fu wasn't a clean freak.
But he still had no desire to approach that horrifying room.
His spirit power had already locked onto the computer, the only relatively clean thing inside.
"Good thing the computer's still on. Otherwise, this would be a pain."
Jiang Fu breathed a sigh of relief.
He couldn't possibly guess Guo Xiaofeng's login password.
His spirit power manipulated the mouse and keyboard.
The monitor lit up.
A familiar figure greeted his eyes.
Jiang Fu stared, dumbfounded.
"Holy shit! Isn't that Han Ruobing, the class beauty the original owner worshipped?"
In the frozen image, the girl looked pretty and alluring, her skimpy, daring outfit leaving her practically naked as she struck a provocative pose.
She didn't look the slightest bit like a student.
Jiang Fu attended Senior Three Class Fourteen at Bincheng Ninth Middle School.
Han Ruobing was the class beauty of Senior Three Class Fourteen, and even a strong contender for school beauty.
Jiang Fu scratched his head.
"I... no, the original owner! He was Han Ruobing's simp."
"Only after he became a martial artist did Han Ruobing take the initiative and agree to date him..."
Jiang Fu knitted his brows.
The original owner hadn't been stupid, but love had certainly gone to his head.
Initially, Ge Yanxia had manipulated him, trying to make him enter the Wilderness Area to pick Mist Ripple Fruit for Guo Xiaofeng.
He hadn't been particularly willing.
But soon...
Han Ruobing had made the same request, asking him to enter the Wilderness Area and pick spiritual fruit for her.
Blinded by love, the original owner had recklessly left the city and entered the Wilderness Area.
And that had been the end of him.
Now...
Jiang Fu looked at the video on the screen.
"So these two were already screwing around..."
"The original owner really was a big sucker. They screwed him over like he was the enemy."
"I'll settle that score later... business first."
The corner of Jiang Fu's mouth twitched.
None of that mattered.
His top priority now was to make money and stay alive!
Jiang Fu closed the video and opened the browser.
He began searching online for information about spirit power.
Jiang Fu had already decided to hunt small mutated beasts in the Wilderness Area.
At this stage, that was the fastest way to earn money.
And what he could rely on was his spirit power, which had reached 1,000.
But Jiang Fu didn't know exactly what level 1,000 spirit power represented.
So he needed to find out.
The internet was the quickest way.
In his previous life, Jiang Fu had spent three years paralyzed in bed.
Although it had left his mind somewhat twisted and dark...
It had also made him calm and rational.
He had to plan before acting.
"Found it!"
"Spirit power... psychic masters!"
"A branch of martial artists. A special type!"
Using his spirit power, Jiang Fu quickly browsed the pages.
Unfortunately...
There wasn't much information about psychic masters online.
There were only a few general introductions and scattered explanations.
Psychic masters were mysterious and powerful.
They could control objects from a distance and even launch mental attacks.
Killing without a trace.
But as for everything else,
such as exact Spirit Power values and Psychic Master levels,
not a single word was mentioned.
"Right, the Martial Artist Forum!"
All of a sudden,
Jiang Fu remembered something else.
He hurriedly used his Spirit Power to control the keyboard.
He typed in a web address.
After becoming a martial artist,
the body's original owner had been invited to the Martial Artist Guild to register as a martial artist.
That had granted him access to the Martial Artist Forum.
The Martial Artist Forum, as its name suggested,
was bound to have what he was looking for.
But when Jiang Fu opened the forum's login page,
and entered his martial artist credentials,
he was dumbfounded.
[Your martial artist registration has been revoked!]
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