Mu Xingqi smiled faintly. A wolf demon was still a wolf demon—or rather, a mid-stage Qi Refining demon beast was still a mid-stage Qi Refining demon beast. It had some intelligence, but not much.
At most, it was no different from an ordinary child.
At that moment, the wolf demon's flying pounce happened to expose its most fatal weakness: its waist!
Mu Xingqi raised his sword and slashed sideways with a strike of the Nan Sword Art.
Whoosh!
Sword Qi streaked across the sky.
The blow struck true!
The wolf demon was cut in two at the waist!
Perhaps his sword art had already reached Perfected mastery, perhaps the Rusty Sword in his hand was extraordinary, or perhaps it was both. The wolf demon's prideful fleshly body was nothing in his eyes.
Yet as Mu Xingqi looked at the wolf demon corpse he had slain on the ground, he began to worry instead.
"I don't have a storage bag. How am I supposed to bring this corpse back? That's a problem."
But leaving it behind would not do either. After all, the wolf demon's corpse was proof for settling his mission.
It seemed he still needed to get himself a storage bag. The clan had them too, but they required rather a lot of contribution points—one hundred points in total, meaning one hundred Spirit Stones! That was enough for him to simulate three times now.
He had looked into storage bags before. In this world, they were not some rare novelty; they could even be said to be quite common.
That was because, unlike what was written in the novels from his previous life, storage bags in this world did not use precious materials like Space Stones, nor did they employ spatial formations.
They were simply made from the fur of a kind of demon beast.
That demon beast was called the Space Rat, though people preferred to call it the Storage Rat. It belonged to the demon beast category, and its fur naturally possessed a certain storage function. As long as simple formations such as stabilization and sealing were inscribed upon it, it could directly be used as a storage bag.
Moreover, Space Rats were very common demon beasts. They had even been domesticated by humans. Although the Mu Family did not raise them, forces in Jinzhou County specialized in breeding Space Rats.
A Space Rat could be raised to the initial stage of Qi Cultivation within one or two months of birth. Once grown, it could even possibly break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, though Foundation Establishment was the limit of its strength.
This was why storage bags were so common. Yellow-rank storage bags especially only required the fur of Qi Cultivation Space Rats as material.
Mu Xingqi lifted half of the wolf demon's corpse in one hand and began sprinting back.
"If I'd known, I wouldn't have tried to look cool. The wolf demon got split in half, and now it's awkward to carry."
If he slung it over his shoulder, he would be covered in beast blood—reeking and foul!
So he could only carry it by hand.
A short while later, Mu Xingqi returned to the front of Qinghe Village.
From afar, he saw Daniu and the mother and daughter standing there, seemingly waiting for him.
Seeing Mu Xingqi return safely, with the corpse of that vicious wolf demon in his hand, Daniu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Beaming with delight, he said:
"Immortal Master, your skills are really something! I knew you had it in you!"
The mother stepped forward as well and said gratefully, "My daughter and I both thank you, Immortal Master, for saving our lives!"
Mu Xingqi did not think much of it. Since he had seen it, he could not simply stand by and do nothing, could he?
After all, he was a fine young man with all five virtues.
The little girl also tugged on Mu Xingqi's hand and said in her sweet childish voice, "Thank you, big brother!"
Seeing such an obedient and adorable little girl before him, Mu Xingqi could not help reaching out to stroke her chubby cheek.
After exchanging pleasantries with the mother and daughter and Daniu, Mu Xingqi declined their earnest invitation.
He asked Daniu for a sack, packed the wolf demon's corpse inside, and returned to Muye Mountain.
Carrying the sack, Mu Xingqi went to the Internal Affairs Hall to settle his mission.
After he opened the sack and showed the wolf demon's corpse to the deacon responsible for settling missions, the deacon immediately transferred twenty contribution points to him.
After Mu Xingqi left happily, Mu Shenghuan, the Fourth Elder in charge of the Internal Affairs Hall, came before the wolf demon's corpse. His expression turned grave as he stared blankly at the smooth cut...
Mu Xingqi first went to the Finance Hall and exchanged all his contribution points for Spirit Stones.
Then, humming a tune, he happily returned to his room.
"Finally, I can simulate again. One day without simulating feels like three autumns!"
Immediately afterward, Mu Xingqi fed all the Spirit Stones into the Simulator.
The Simulation Points displayed on the Simulator changed accordingly:
[Simulation Points: 30]
Seeing that he could simulate once more, Mu Xingqi said excitedly:
"Simulator, activate!"
At his command, text began scrolling across the Simulator panel.
[Simulator activating] [The Simulation Talent from the previous simulation has not been saved. Would you like to move the Simulation Talent "Know One Infer Ten (White)" into a Talent Slot?] [Remaining Talent Slots: 0]
"No!"
Although the White Simulation Talent, "Know One Infer Ten," could indeed make him more perceptive in simulations, like a detective—
He had no choice. Right now, he only had one Simulated Talent Slot.
"I wonder how Simulated Talent Slots can be increased?"
There was no point asking the system; it definitely would not answer. Compared with those "God-tier Invincible Systems," "One Slash 999 Systems," and "Deep Blue Stat-Adding Systems" from the webnovels of his previous life, his mute system was far too stupid.
It was practically an artificial idiot system!
Not only were its Simulation Talents dogshit, it also came with all sorts of restrictions.
One-star review!
After cursing it out, Mu Xingqi could only shake his head helplessly and continue looking at the Simulator panel:
[Simulator activating] [30 Simulation Points deducted] [Simulation activating] [Randomly drawing Simulation Talent...] [Simulation Talent drawn: Business Acumen.] [Congratulations, you have obtained the White Simulation Talent: Business Acumen!] [Business Acumen (White): You enjoy and excel at commercial activities, as though this were an innate talent you were born with. You also possess an extraordinarily keen insight into changes in the business market, always able to find opportunities in the smallest details. If you were still alive on the original Blue Star, your talent alone would be enough to make you a stock market god of a generation, rivaling Buffett and Soros.]
"Oh? This is good! It's practically the essential cheat for a loser's comeback in an urban novel from my previous life! But in this world, won't it be a bit useless?"
After all, in this world, the fist was the hard truth. Strength was the foundation upon which any force stood.
Which merchant association in this world did not have powerful experts backing it? Without corresponding strength, possessing hard currency like Spirit Stones was like a child carrying gold bars through the market, or a wild dog walking past you with a hundred-yuan bill in its mouth.
Five words summed it up: a free gift of opportunity.
Forget it. It was only a White Talent to begin with. Since it was already a White Talent, what more could he ask for? As long as it was not a negative talent, he could thank the heavens and earth.
[You jolted awake from your bed!] [You had a nightmare.] [You dreamed that: In the fourth year, not long after your father held the Foundation Establishment Ceremony and your engagement banquet with Zhang Yutong, in the eighth month of the fourth year, an Eerie Blood Palm descended from the heavens. A single strike severely wounded your grandfather. Even with your father, yourself, and all the clan elders joining forces, you could only hold off the Blood Palm for a moment!] [Furthermore, the person behind it could calmly unleash a second palm! Your mother knocked you out of the Blood Palm's range, and you could only watch helplessly as everyone was slapped into a mist of blood!] [You later used the sword art "Wave Shadow Falling Pine South" to successfully ambush the man in black robes. You discovered that he was actually the Fire Cloud Evil God from the secret realm!] [He dug out your heart with a single palm strike, killing you. Before your consciousness faded, you vaguely heard someone call, "Brother Xingqi"... You guessed that the newcomer was Mu Xinger. You lamented how foolish she was. Was it truly worth it for her to throw away her life for a dead man like you?] [You were drenched in sweat. You remained silent for a long time, because you found it difficult to accept that all of this was real...]
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