Qi and Blood Surges

"You, you, you!"

Jiang Fan forced a smile onto his face.

"Hello!"

The receptionist, Xiao Xin, looked completely stunned, examining Jiang Fan up and down.

"You're alive!"

"Where's Old Third Yue?"

Jiang Fan raised an eyebrow.

"He's dead!"

The receptionist suddenly raised her voice.

"What? Dead?"

After saying it, she quickly covered her mouth.

"How did he die?"

Jiang Fan asked calmly.

"Their three-person team took me to hunt Monstrous Beasts, and then they tried to use me as bait, so I ran!"

"Then I got lost, circled back, and saw they had already been killed. There was a Scorpion-tailed Wolf in a trap!"

The receptionist Xiao Xin looked at Jiang Fan strangely.

After a long pause, she said to him meaningfully.

"Old Third Yue and his two companions often tricked people who wanted to make big money into going to Phoenix Mountain!"

"They were very skilled and don't know how many people they harmed. I never expected them to fall victim to..."

At this point, the receptionist Xiao Xin shook her head.

"Although their crimes were heinous and everyone applauded their deaths, and they were all loners with no one to stand up for them!"

"But, could you please make up a more believable story?"

Jiang Fan was taken aback and then shrugged.

Having made her point, the receptionist Xiao Xin didn't say any more to Jiang Fan. She turned and went to open the lobby doors to start her shift.

As she turned her head, she hummed a tune, sounding quite relaxed.

"Thank you!"

Jiang Fan said silently behind her.

Because Jiang Fan's clothes were torn by branches during his fight with the Azure-Scaled Giant Python.

Even though the bloodstains were washed off, he still looked like a beggar.

He first went to the market and idly bought a set of clothes. After cleaning himself up, he went to the inner city's morning market and bought ten pounds of Monstrous Beast meat, spending nearly 10,000 Blue Star Coins. Only then did he slowly head towards his aunt's house, carrying the meat.

At this time, it was just past seven in the morning.

When he reached the entrance, he hesitated.

Yesterday, he was so focused on hunting Monstrous Beasts outside the city that he only remembered to ask Lei Ming to help him request leave, but he forgot to tell his aunt that he wouldn't be home that night.

He figured his aunt must be worried sick!

Just as Jiang Fan raised his hand, the door was opened from the inside.

"Xiao Fan?"

Su Qingwan opened the door, and upon seeing it was Jiang Fan, she exclaimed in surprise.

"Where were you last night?"

"I was almost worried to death!"

"Come in quickly!"

Just then, Ma Ning heard the commotion and also came out of her room.

"Brother! Where were you last night?"

"Mom didn't sleep at all last night and even went to the Jiang family to look for you, but you didn't go back..."

As she spoke, her gaze fell on the things Jiang Fan was carrying.

"What are you carrying?"

Jiang Fan raised his hands and gestured.

"Monstrous Beast meat!"

Ma Ning took the bag and looked at it, her eyes widening in surprise.

"So much?"

She reacted.

"Where did you get it from?"

Su Qingwan looked at Jiang Fan nervously.

Jiang Fan smiled faintly.

"My uncle-in-law was injured, so I borrowed it from a classmate..."

"Last night, I stayed at a classmate's house!"

Jiang Fan gave a simple excuse and then took out the remaining forty thousand Blue Star Coins.

As expected, Su Qingwan and the other person relaxed after hearing this.

However, seeing Jiang Fan borrowing money from others for Ma Jiang made her feel even worse.

"Xiao Fan, you've worried yourself sick over your uncle-in-law's affairs!"

"Your uncle-in-law will repay this money once he's recovered!"

If it were before, she would never have taken Jiang Fan's money.

But now, with Ma Jiang so badly injured and needing medical expenses, and Ma Ning's tuition for the next semester due, she needed the money.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh!

She wondered when life would get better.

After Jiang Fan arranged things at home, he told Ma Ning to pay her tuition fees and urged his aunt to quickly pay the medical expenses. Only then did he leave his aunt's home.

Although the family's finances were still tight and the most important shortfall hadn't been met, the immediate pressure had been temporarily eased.

He still needed to think about how to earn more money to completely change the family's situation.

Yesterday, he had asked Lei Ming to help him take two days off.

Only one day had passed, and he couldn't be bothered to go to school.

Now that he had activated his Mysterious Seal space, cultivating inside was 10 times faster than cultivating outside.

Moreover, continuously challenging himself in the space to obtain cultivation techniques could also improve his combat awareness, so he naturally didn't want to waste any more time at school.

What could school teach him?

Besides the body-tempering techniques from the Martial Arts True Understanding, and some knowledge from regular classes, there was nothing else.

It seemed he needed to find a way to ask for an extended leave from school!

When Jiang Fan arrived at the Thunder Martial Hall, it was still early.

After greeting Sister Bingbing, he went straight to the training room.

This time, his harvest from Phoenix Mountain was considerable.

Besides earning over forty thousand Blue Star Coins by hunting Scorpion-tailed Wolves, he had also unexpectedly hunted an Azure-Scaled Giant Python.

That was a Level 2 Monstrous Beast!

After absorbing the Azure-Scaled Giant Python's life energy, he felt stronger than ever before.

Therefore, he was very eager to know through quantifiable metrics how much improvement these life energies had brought him.

Previously, every time he hunted a Monstrous Beast and absorbed its life energy, it only showed the progress of his Mysterious Seal unlocking.

This was the first time it had been applied to his body.

He wanted to know the conversion standard so he could estimate which Monstrous Beasts would be most beneficial to him in the future!

He skillfully drew blood and underwent the test.

The red light disappeared, and the digital display screen of the Qi and Blood Testing Device showed a value of 4.7.

Thump! Thump!

Jiang Fan's heart raced!

His current Qi and Blood of 4.7 was enough to easily defeat any high school student in Jiang City's Third High School.

If he remembered correctly, even some early awakened geniuses, with the help of large amounts of tonics, could only reach a maximum of slightly over 2.

Although he didn't know about the top geniuses in the entire Jiang City, he had made such great progress in such a short time.

So even if those so-called geniuses were temporarily ahead of him, he was not afraid at all!

Catching up was only a matter of time!

Jiang Fan calmed his surging emotions and arrived in front of the Combat Power Testing Device.

He threw a casual punch.

In front of the Combat Power Testing Device, red numbers flickered rapidly before finally settling on the screen!

Combat Power: 682.

Seeing this number, Jiang Fan was shocked!

According to the rules of this world, Qi and Blood values and Combat Power values are basically maintained at a 1:100 ratio.

Even after awakening, combat power can be increased by practicing cultivation techniques.

But fundamentally, they remain within a normal floating range.

This is the first time I've seen such an exaggerated ratio like mine!

Why?