Renovation Complete

Seven days later.

Xi Shenlian's house was more or less finished, and various finishing touches were underway.

Not only had all the furniture been replaced, but even things like the walls and floors had been redone from scratch.

Basically.

Everything had been given a completely new look!

And.

The materials used were all of the highest specifications.

Some of them couldn't even be purchased without the right connections and know-how.

For example, the various renovation materials in the Martial Arts Training Room incorporated special alloys with military applications.

Although they were only three centimeters thick.

They could completely withstand a direct hit from the main battle tanks of various countries, suffering only slight deformation afterward.

They were completely immune to all kinds of light weapons.

Even hundreds of thousands of ordinary armor-piercing rounds would only polish them.

These special metals sold for roughly five million yen per kilogram, and were only available to special clients with connections.

After receiving Xi Shenlian's permission, the Ye Qi Three Sisters relied on their past connections and directly obtained the materials for him, using them in the Martial Arts Training Room.

This caused the construction cost of the Martial Arts Training Room to skyrocket, surpassing nine figures on the spot!

But in return.

From then on, unless it took a direct nuclear blast.

Otherwise, all conventional weapons would basically be incapable of destroying the place!

As for various rare antiques, calligraphy, and paintings, the Ye Qi Three Sisters had originally wanted to obtain some through various channels to use as displays for Xi Shenlian.

After all, such things were often part of one's style and status.

Having a sculpture or painting worth hundreds of millions of yen displayed at home gave one some bragging rights.

However.

Xi Shenlian had absolutely no interest in those things.

In his eyes.

To put it bluntly.

Many antiques were things dug out of dead people's graves...

Or old objects that hundreds of people had handled and fondled for centuries...

No matter how high-end, grand, refined, and steeped in cultural heritage they sounded.

The essence of the matter remained unchanged, regardless.

Therefore.

Xi Shenlian genuinely couldn't work up any interest in those things.

He absolutely didn't want to display a pile of things used by the dead in his new home.

After rejecting the various antiques, calligraphy, and paintings.

He chose to have the Ye Qi Three Sisters get him some modern artworks that suited modern tastes.

Nothing abstract.

Only the kind that conformed to normal people's aesthetic sense.

Xi Shenlian didn't want to see any artworks at home that made people wonder what the hell they were looking at from the very first glance.

And in order to satisfy Xi Shenlian's enormous appetite—the kind that could make chefs weep—Ye Qishi directly purchased an enormous freezer, or rather, a frozen-storage room.

It alone occupied sixty square meters!

Its interior could store roughly twenty-five tons of various foods, with the temperature adjustable by section.

Xi Shenlian was very satisfied with this.

With 2,600 square meters of indoor space, he could do whatever he wanted...

Besides that.

The wine cellar, entertainment room, library, indoor swimming pool... all underwent renovations.

The indoor pool and the outdoor pool on the rooftop were fitted with high-powered temperature-control and massage equipment.

They could be used just like enormous hot-spring baths.

For this reason.

Ye Qisao also installed a large amount of privacy-preserving special bulletproof glass on the rooftop, frames made of special metals, top-tier ventilation equipment, high-end air-exchange systems, high-powered air purifiers, and enormous artificial-lighting devices, turning the entire rooftop into a completely enclosed, independent luxury garden!

After this super-luxurious renovation process was completed, Xi Shenlian naturally spent no small amount of money.

Especially since all the labor, installation, and material transportation were carried out according to the fastest and best standards, the cost was even more staggering.

Just having more than a hundred of Tokyo's top workers and designers take stimulants and work in two shifts through the night to handle all kinds of complicated tasks already required hundreds of millions of yen.

Air-freighting all kinds of hard-to-purchase raw materials from overseas and elsewhere likewise required hundreds of millions of yen.

Spending money like flowing water?

No, no, no. This was what it felt like to spend money like a waterfall!

By the middle of the project, even the Ye Qi Three Sisters, who were used to seeing grand situations, felt that they were wasting money a little too extravagantly.

They wanted to rein things in a bit.

Unfortunately, Xi Shenlian refused!

"Save some money?"

"Save what?"

"I'm no longer interested in money!"

"Now I get annoyed the moment I see money!"

With a grand wave of his hand, he even had the Ye Qi Three Sisters raise their standards again!

As for himself, he spent several billion yen having high-end liquor merchants from all over the world air-freight various rare and even one-of-a-kind liquors to him.

In this regard.

Other people might buy them for collecting, but he truly bought them to drink...

As if they were water.

And.

He also spent more than ten billion yen on a supercomputer occupying over a hundred square meters, the kind generally used only for high-end experiments.

Don't misunderstand.

He wasn't trying to conduct scientific research.

He merely wanted to use the thing to play Super Mario...

But he soon discovered that the supercomputer didn't have the prerequisite software needed to run various games installed. It only had all kinds of computing and scientific-research software.

It couldn't play any games at all!!

It was like how even buying the finest and most luxurious cruise ship wouldn't let you drive it on a highway.

A supercomputer was scientific-research equipment. Who would use such a thing to play games?

Naturally, it didn't come with gaming functionality.

But could such a minor problem stump the invincible Xi Shenlian?

Obviously not! (shakes finger.JPG)

He directly had the Auxiliary AI in his phone write an entire suite of game-running programs on the spot and input them into the machine, allowing the supercomputer to run all kinds of games perfectly.

Along the way.

The Auxiliary AI also took the opportunity to optimize the supercomputer's actual performance for software and algorithmic issues, boosting its performance by five hundred percent on the spot!

The situation was exactly like putting wheels and rocket boosters on a cruise ship, then sending it rampaging across an F1 track.

It could smash all its opponents to death all the way down the line!

This made it even easier for Xi Shenlian to crush the other players.

Even when the game operators discovered something wrong with the game data and checked what device the game was running on, they all immediately fell silent.

Why was a supercomputer running their company's little game?

Why?

Furthermore, they discovered that no matter what they did, they couldn't ban his account.

Forcibly banning it would instead cause their own administrator accounts to be banned on the spot.

At this point.

Not only had Xi Shenlian smashed his competitors to death, even the referee had been smashed to death by the invincible Xi Shenlian...

Fuck, what the hell is happening??

This forced programmer after programmer to face a result they had never imagined, staring at the company's game servers and computer systems in deep thought.

In the end.

After a whole lot of commotion.

When the time reached the tenth day.

Xi Shenlian's house was completely renovated.

Looking at the bill, with a 6 as the leading digit followed by ten zeros before the decimal point, the Ye Qi Three Sisters all fell into deep thought...

A renovation fee of sixty billion yen!

Considering this world's purchasing power—ten yen could buy a cheap loose piece of candy, one hundred yen could buy a bottle of cheap mineral water, one thousand yen could buy a bowl of ramen with a decent mix of meat and vegetables at a shop, and ten thousand yen equaled or exceeded the total daily wages of most salaried workers—

They had no doubt that even the people of the Sixteen Nights Family would suffer immense heartache upon seeing this enormous renovation bill.

However.

As the one who had paid for it.

Xi Shenlian was lying on his side on the newly purchased sofa, completely unconcerned, using a game controller with one hand to crush one game player after another and increase his own enjoyment by ruining other people's gaming experiences...

He had never cared about the renovation expenses at all.

And when Ye Qisao herself swiped the card, she didn't receive any notification about a spending limit, either.

The meaning of this was very simple.

The Super Card Xi Shenlian had casually tossed to her contained far more than a mere few tens of billions of yen...

Thanks to Book Friend Shaoyan Wuyan for 100 Qidian Coins! And to Dianchen Bai for 10,000 Qidian Coins!