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"Not bad." Fang Can looked at the whole bag of arsenic in his hand and nodded in satisfaction.

This was enough to last until his body became completely immune.

And arsenic wasn't the only poison in the suitcase. There was also ricin, a deadly poison that could kill with just 0.007 grams. Smoking this stuff was much more satisfying than arsenic.

Once his body was immune to arsenic, he could switch to ricin to improve his resistance.

Jiang Ning'an came down the stairs. Since there were no women's clothes in the house, she could only wear Fang Can's.

Seeing the bag of pills in Fang Can's hand, she couldn't help asking curiously, "What exactly are those? I see you taking them every day, but you don't look sick."

"It's because I'm so strong that I have to take them," Fang Can explained with a smile. "They're all deadly poisons."

"If you don't want to tell me, fine." Jiang Ning'an crossed her arms, unconvinced by Fang Can's evasive answer.

She suspected they were something like candy pills, but even so, taking more than ten a day seemed like a pretty serious addiction.

"If you don't believe me, that's fine, Senior." Fang Can shrugged, unconcerned, then closed the suitcase again.

"Though these things probably wouldn't affect you, Senior, you'd still be better off not eating them."

"Who wants to eat your candy pills?" Jiang Ning'an retorted, then asked, "You said before that we might be able to go back. It's been three days already, and there still aren't any signs."

"Don't worry, Senior. I was there for seven days last time. We just have to wait patiently."

Fang Can smiled and looked at her delicate face. "And even if we can't go back, you're welcome to stay at my place for as long as you like. No rent. Just make yourself at home."

Feeling Fang Can's gaze, Jiang Ning'an turned her face away, a little uncomfortable. She wasn't used to being looked at so closely by a man.

She instinctively cupped her chest and chided him, "This isn't about where I live. If I'm trapped here for the rest of my life, what about my teachers and family?"

"Weren't you worried about your family when you first disappeared?" Jiang Ning'an asked.

"No," Fang Can replied at once.

Seeing Jiang Ning'an's stunned expression, Fang Can calmly explained, "Once those two got rich, they spent all their time traveling around the country. Other than sending money every month like clockwork, I only saw them once every two or three years. I couldn't see them whether I crossed worlds or not, so what's there to worry about?"

Since the topic reminded him of his two unreliable parents, who'd left him to fend for himself, Fang Can pursed his lips. He had no interest in continuing the conversation, so he took out another pill of arsenic and swallowed it, then resumed his training.

Over the next few days, Fang Can kept the suitcase close at all times, so he could bring it with him when he crossed worlds.

As he trained his body, Fang Can grew stronger by the day.

His build hadn't changed, but it was as if a tyrannosaurus had been crammed into a tight human shell, ready to tear through flesh and reveal the enormous creature within.

Along with the changes to his body, Fang Can's Heart Manifestation was also growing stronger with his flesh and blood.

The guards keeping watch outside the house would occasionally feel a terrifying aura spilling out from inside, making them shudder.

After experiencing it often enough, all they could do was marvel to themselves that a Superpowered really was something else. Even his aura was on another level.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Four days later, inside the villa, Fang Can stared at his right fist and slowly clenched it. As his muscles tensed, the large tendons in his body seemed to tighten like steel wires.

Flesh Alienation: 8.9%

"That guy..." In the distance, Jiang Ning'an watched, her injuries about seventy percent healed, her emotions churning.

She had watched Fang Can grow stronger step by step over the past few days, and knew all too well how terrifying his talent was. Even a genius like her couldn't bring herself to compare with him.

"Give him another two days, and he'll be able to try to pass the First Mysterious Barrier."

Thinking of this, Jiang Ning'an offered her advice. "Fang Can, you're about to pass the First Mysterious Barrier. Before you attempt the breakthrough, you'll feel a distinct resistance holding you back. Once you notice it, you'd better rest for a few days before making a full effort to break through."

"I understand." Fang Can nodded. After all, it was worth taking the experience of those who came before him into account.

"Senior, next..." Fang Can started to say, but then he noticed everything before him beginning to warp. It felt as though the whole world was about to collapse.

The instant the thought occurred to him, Fang Can grabbed the suitcase beside him, which he'd kept ready to take along, and vanished.

He wasn't the only one. Spatial Energy Tides erupted violently at hundreds of locations across the entire territory of the New Nation.

At least several hundred people were swept into the spatial turbulence by this surge of spatial energy. Jiang Ning'an, who had been longing to return, was among them.

"Clack!"

When Fang Can came to, his surroundings had changed. In the dim Library, a candle burned slowly, lighting a small patch of the room.

Before him, Elder Li's voice continued reciting Biography of the Great Yan Emperor, slowly reading it word by word. Everything was just as it had been seven days earlier, when Fang Can had crossed over.

"Whoosh!"

Almost instantly, Fang Can's right hand flicked. He had already prepared for this in advance, and with a forceful burst of finger wind, he snuffed out the candle on the counter from across the room.

To Elder Li, an ordinary man, everything suddenly went dark, and he was plunged into complete darkness.

"What happened? Why did the oil lamp go out?" Unaccustomed to the dark, he murmured in confusion.

"Elder Li, maybe the wind blew in from outside," Fang Can said leisurely from the darkness.

After waiting several seconds, Elder Li's eyes still hadn't adjusted enough to see in the dark. Fang Can, back in his Tiger Fiend Sect clothes, had already relit the candle with a fire striker.

Ignoring the little incident, Elder Li continued reading, unaware of Fang Can's excitement.

"Time really does stop on both sides."

Behind Fang Can, in the blind spot of Elder Li's vision, a modern suitcase lay safely behind Fang Can's chair.

Now that he knew how time flowed between the two worlds, Fang Can could finally relax.

The current situation was practically ideal. He wouldn't have to return only to find himself expelled from the Tiger Fiend Sect.

"In that case, I can get to work properly now." Fang Can narrowed his eyes slightly. As he listened to Elder Li's explanation, he was already planning out the next day.

Now that he'd learned the basics of martial arts, what was the point of holding back or keeping a low profile? It was all bullshit.

Tomorrow, he'd go straight to the Martial Arts Hall and break the legs of those senior brothers who'd once dared to rob him.

A gentleman took revenge without waiting a day. By Fang Can's reckoning, nearly ten whole days had passed since they robbed him. If he didn't get even now, was he supposed to wait until next year?