Money Ability Really Was the Most Awesome Superpower!

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The moment he stepped onto the road, Jiang Chuan saw drones flying overhead.

Jiang Chuan frowned slightly at the sight.

Drone patrols meant Nandu City had heightened its alert.

"Looks like the great battle outside the city hasn't ended yet. Or is someone trying to stir up trouble in the shadows while the City Lord's Mansion is distracted by the battle outside?"

Jiang Chuan immediately shook his head, dismissing the thought.

At the end of the day, he was only a first-year high school student.

Even if cultists truly intended to attack Nandu City, as a cultivator who had only just completed Skin Tempering, he would be slapped to death in a single blow if he faced the cult's high-level officials.

He headed down the street toward Immortal Gate High School. When he passed a shop called Nandu Auntie Milk Tea Shop, Jiang Chuan stopped.

"Top Supporter Sister gave me a cultivation technique. It wouldn't feel right to show up empty-handed."

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Chuan entered the milk tea shop, bought a cup of milk tea, and carried it toward Immortal Gate High School.

As soon as he arrived at Immortal Gate High School, Jiang Chuan saw Meng Nanxi getting out of a white MPV.

Meng Nanxi noticed Jiang Chuan as well.

"Morning, Jiang Chuan."

"Good morning, Campus Belle Meng."

Jiang Chuan walked up to Meng Nanxi and handed her the milk tea.

"Thanks for paying for me yesterday."

Meng Nanxi glanced at the woman in the car. "Thanks, but I don't like milk tea."

Jiang Chuan was somewhat taken aback. He had not expected Meng Nanxi not to like milk tea.

Meng Nanxi continued toward Immortal Gate High School, and Jiang Chuan followed.

When they were nearly at the Teaching Building, Meng Nanxi stopped and held out her hand to Jiang Chuan.

"What is it?" Jiang Chuan looked baffled.

"Give me the milk tea!" Meng Nanxi looked at the cup in Jiang Chuan's hand.

"Didn't you say you didn't like milk tea?" The confusion on Jiang Chuan's face deepened.

Meng Nanxi took the milk tea, stuck the straw into it, and took a huge sip.

"My mom was right there. Did you think I'd dare drink it?"

Jiang Chuan suddenly understood.

"My mom's always been extremely strict with me. She never lets me eat this kind of junk food."

As she spoke, Meng Nanxi took another huge sip, an expression of bliss appearing on her face.

Clearly, Meng Nanxi loved milk tea.

After entering the classroom through the back door with Jiang Chuan, Meng Nanxi did not return to her own seat. Instead, she first placed her dark blue canvas backpack on the windowsill beside Jiang Chuan.

Under Jiang Chuan's expectant gaze, a fiery-red little head poked out of Meng Nanxi's backpack.

The fiery-red head immediately recalled everything that had happened yesterday upon seeing Jiang Chuan.

"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!"

Jiang Chuan had not expected Meng Nanxi to simply bring the squirrel to school.

"Why did you bring the squirrel to school? Aren't you afraid it'll run away?"

"It probably won't run away anymore."

Meng Nanxi raised a hand and stroked the squirrel's forehead. The squirrel wore an expression of enjoyment, then climbed up her arm and onto her shoulder.

"It's only been one night. How did you tame it so obediently?" Jiang Chuan was utterly perplexed.

His family ran a Pet Store, so he knew better than anyone how difficult pets were to tame.

"After it recovered last night, I told it that as long as it followed me, it would have endless red dates, walnuts, and pine nuts to eat. Then it became very obedient," Meng Nanxi said with a smile.

Jiang Chuan gave her a thumbs-up.

Money Ability really was the most awesome superpower!

Meng Nanxi then took out a charred piece of beast hide from her backpack and handed it to Jiang Chuan.

"This was excavated from Ancient Ruins—Xu Ming Heaven, one of the prototypes for the Thirty-Six Heavens in myth and legend. It's called 'Wrath of the Firmament.'"

"Xu Ming Heaven!"

Jiang Chuan was overjoyed. He had not expected Meng Nanxi to get him such a precious cultivation technique.

"The name 'Wrath of the Firmament' sounds so imposing. It must be a World-Shaking Divine Technique!"

"Whether it's a World-Shaking Divine Technique is hard to say. It's only a Partial Scroll, after all. No one knows how powerful it would be once cultivated to mastery. Still, I looked through my grandfather's library, and this was the best Thunder Cultivation Technique I could find."

Meng Nanxi paused before continuing, "If you can't cultivate it, or if you think it isn't good, tell me. I'll go home and find you another one."

At that moment, Jiang Chuan felt that the Golden Light around Meng Nanxi had become even more dazzling!

After watching Top Supporter Sister return to her seat, Jiang Chuan began studying the beast hide.

The first two or three hundred words of "Wrath of the Firmament" were Daoist Five Seasons explaining why he had created it.

He believed that wind, clouds, ice, snow, thunder, and lightning were all weapons of the Heavenly Dao, with wind and thunder being the strongest among them. If one could command Wind and Thunder Power, one would be the Heavenly Dao itself.

Your heart would be Heaven's Heart, and your wrath would be heaven's wrath.

"Wrath of the Firmament" was a cultivation technique for controlling Wind and Thunder Power. According to what was written on the beast hide, the most crucial requirement for cultivating "Wrath of the Firmament" was a Thunder Pill.

Thunder Pills were medicinal pills refined by Ancient Cultivators using heavenly lightning.

Then...

Jiang Chuan saw a note beside the words "Thunder Pill."

A 20,000 mAh power bank could be used instead.

"Technology is great!"

"What technology is great?"

Wei Dong had just arrived in the classroom when he saw Jiang Chuan staring intently at the beast hide.

"Is that the cultivation technique Campus Belle Meng gave you? Is it powerful?"

"I think it's powerful. No, I should say it's incredibly powerful. As expected of the strongest Thunder Cultivation Technique in her grandfather's library!" Jiang Chuan said with feeling.

"What?!"

Wei Dong was stunned, his eyes brimming with envy. "Campus Belle Meng gave you the strongest Thunder Cultivation Technique in her grandfather's library?! Does she like you?!"

"Though I am pretty handsome, I'm not so handsome that I can make someone fall for me in two days."

Jiang Chuan knew himself well enough.

There had been dozens of girls in high school and college who had pursued him and written him love letters.

But he did not think he was so handsome that everyone who saw him would fall in love with him.

"What if she really does like you?" Wei Dong pressed.

"There's no what if."

Jiang Chuan knew full well that he was still far from winning over Top Supporter Sister.

For now, they were merely good friends who had caught a squirrel together and escaped death together.

Ding-ring!

The class bell rang. Jiang Chuan saw that it was Chinese class, then continued lowering his head to read "Wrath of the Firmament."

By the time the dismissal bell rang, Jiang Chuan had finally gained a preliminary understanding of "Wrath of the Firmament."

As a Partial Scroll, "Wrath of the Firmament" could only be cultivated to the fifth realm. There was absolutely nothing beyond the fifth realm.

Upon reaching the fifth realm, the power of thunder would merge with the five energies born from the five viscera, transforming into Five Elements Divine Thunder.

"A bolt of Five Elements Divine Thunder, according to Daoist Five Seasons, is already enough to rival a bolt of heavenly lightning. But one bolt of heavenly lightning certainly can't count as heaven's wrath!"

Jiang Chuan looked regretful. "These scriptures at the beginning are only the foundation. The true essence of 'Wrath of the Firmament' lies in what comes after."

"I wonder what a true heaven's wrath would look like?"

Jiang Chuan silently made up his mind. Someday, he would find a way to complete "Wrath of the Firmament" and cultivate it to mastery.

After Wei Beishan left, Jiang Chuan continued his two-point-one-line routine.

Visualization, studying cultivation knowledge, practicing swordsmanship and spear techniques, and attending regular classes.

That peaceful life continued until September 8.