You Powerhouses All Leave People on Read? So Aloof?

The sun gradually set, and the city slowly began its nightlife.

The streets were packed with colorful snack stalls. Students fresh out of school lined up in long queues, while office drones carrying briefcases squeezed onto the subway wave after wave during the evening rush hour.

It was the ordinary bustle of everyday life.

Fang Yi carried a jianbing guozi as he leisurely made his way through the crowd and returned to his apartment.

"Hm? My cousin went out?"

The moment Fang Yi entered, he saw his cousin's pink rabbit-head slippers by the door.

He did not think much of it and carried the jianbing guozi into his room.

He turned on the air conditioner and took a shower.

Sitting on the sofa and eating his jianbing guozi, Fang Yi began to reflect on what had happened today.

"The Great World Change happened, yet everywhere is still so peaceful. There's no unrest. As expected, the authorities are controlling things behind the scenes."

"Places with dense spirit qi like Restricted Zone 019 have probably already been occupied by Pioneer troops. There are two benefits to that. First, it lets military Pioneers cultivate in areas with the densest spirit qi, ensuring the military's combat strength takes priority. Second, the military effectively forms a warning line between ordinary people and anomalies, protecting the public."

"After all, the denser the spirit qi, the more easily anomalies are born."

The rich aroma of the jianbing guozi filled every corner of the room.

The jianbing guozi stall downstairs was immensely popular, with a long line always in front of it. Being able to continue living this sort of life—cursing out the boss in the morning and stuffing themselves silly at night—during such extraordinary times, the restricted zones truly deserved much of the credit.

On one hand, the authorities used restricted zones to protect ordinary people. On the other, they released signals that spirit qi was about to revive. Taking both approaches was the best option. After all, establishing restricted zones bought ordinary people plenty of time, allowing them to slowly adapt in warm water to a rhythm that was gradually coming to a boil, rather than being plunged straight into anomalies and losing their homes and families.

"From the looks of it, the division of duties above is very clear. The military serves as night watchmen—the sword in the shadows and the nation's sturdy shield. The Spirit Qi Cultivation Association, meanwhile, is responsible for filling in the gaps, clearing out the fish that slipped through the net in the cities, and doing everything possible to preserve the residents' current peaceful lives."

Fang Yi found this arrangement perfectly reasonable.

After finishing the jianbing guozi, he took out his phone to look up recent news about the Great World Change. These days, browsing the news had become a habit for him. It was the fastest way to obtain information.

The moment the screen lit up, his phone began vibrating like mad.

Old Wang: Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit! You really hid things deep, kid. You even fooled your own brother. I don't even dare imagine what else you might do in the future!

Old Wang: Where are you? Do all you powerhouses leave people on read? So aloof?

Old Wang: Brother, I feel like I just leaped from being a stable boy to becoming imperial family. Do you know how many people came to ask me about you today? There were even female soldiers asking for your contact details. Don't worry, I turned them all down for you. No one gets to interrupt your cultivation.

99+ messages.

Every single one had been sent by Wang Liang.

More than half of the ninety-nine messages praised how cool Fang Yi's slash had been today, saying even Thor should let him play the role. A small portion asked where he had bought his Tang Saber, claiming the patterns looked nice and asking for a link. The rest were just nonsense.

He had never seen this guy talk so much before.

Fang Yi could not help but smile. This guy was stupidly adorable. He had even forwarded his entire conversation with his superior, Chu Lan, word for word, telling Fang Yi to be careful and the like.

Old Wang: Brother, you're too strong. Even my superior said she can't keep you in check. I can't cover for you anymore. You need to be careful when you're out there from now on.

Fang Yi narrowed his eyes slightly as he read those words.

He had indeed been very careful.

Chu Lan was right. His Thunder Attribute had been completely exposed and had drawn the military's attention.

A Thunder Attribute Precursor was absolutely a prized treasure in the military's eyes.

The greatest problem Xia Kingdom faced now was the threat anomalies posed to ordinary people.

An anomaly, even the lowest-level anomaly, would be no different from a rat in a granary if it were placed in a city district.

Ordinary people had absolutely no means of fighting back against anomalies. Even that rabbit Fang Yi had accidentally killed before could have easily slaughtered everyone in the entire apartment building if it had been allowed to roam free inside.

It could be said that after the Great World Change, the most troublesome issue was the disasters brought by anomalies.

These anomalies were extremely cunning and possessed troublesome attributes. Even the military had to expend tremendous effort to eliminate them, and casualties were unavoidable.

At a time like this, someone like Fang Yi, with a powerful Thunder Attribute that came with critical hits, was like a glaringly overpowered bug. It would have been stranger if the authorities had not noticed him.

Fang Yi was not ignorant of this.

It was precisely because he had considered that exposing himself would inevitably draw attention that, when killing the Vicious Dog, Fang Yi had deliberately used his right hand rather than exposing his Tang Saber's Yang Attribute.

"The Thunder Attribute has been exposed, but the Yang Attribute hasn't. That is my trump card."

Fang Yi had killed the Vicious Dog with his Thunder Attribute on purpose, deliberately revealing its existence.

He knew very well that the Thunder Attribute he had displayed before the military, with its absolute suppression of anomalies, would surely cause enormous waves among the nation's upper ranks.

Lightning!

It was an ultimate attribute of wildness, power, and brutality.

Because of the Thunder Attribute's special nature, there were practically no people who dared absorb it.

When ordinary people encountered a Great World Change involving lightning attributes, they all avoided it as if it were a plague.

The moment they got close, they would be blasted to death.

Because of this, existences like Fang Yi were exceedingly rare. It could even be said that they were... one of a kind!

Thunder Attribute Precursors possessed the greatest right to speak.

That was Fang Yi's true goal.

He needed resources to keep growing stronger, and the fastest path to strength was possessing the most advanced information channels. The authorities' information was the fastest and most up-to-date.

Still, Chu Lan's words had surprised him somewhat.

"She thinks she isn't qualified to invite me? She really put a lot of thought into it." Fang Yi murmured softly.

He had never considered whether Chu Lan was qualified or not. It was simply that, for now, he had no intention of joining any organization. He did not like the feeling of having his freedom restricted.

Once he finished thinking things over, he had also finished his jianbing guozi.

Fang Yi stood up and stretched.

"I feel like I'm about to break through again after coming back from the restricted zone."

He could feel the abundant spirit qi flowing through his body, as though it were about to overflow. It was the familiar sign of an imminent breakthrough.

The restricted zone truly deserved to be called a place rich in spirit qi. He had only stayed there for a short while, yet he already felt this full.

"What a pity. It's military territory." Fang Yi muttered.

He sat on the bed and crossed his legs. His consciousness slowly sank inward, and with the rhythm of his breathing, the golden light around his body gradually expanded and contracted...