A Task Comes Knocking

"Sir, these are the resources you are entitled to for this week."

Butler Gu lightly clapped his hands, and under his direction, a logistics worker sorted the various medicines into the villa's built-in cold storage.

"Sir, please look over your item list." Butler Gu held out a sheet of paper with both hands.

Rank-2 Refining Liquid: 5 bottles

Essence Paste: 5 boxes

Meridian-Guarding Pill: 2 pills

Chen Xu could only sigh at the wealth of the Great Abyss Inner Academy. He estimated that just over a month's worth of rewards here could match Peace Prefecture City's usual reserves.

Using ninety-five percent of the resources to support five percent of the people—this was how the Great Abyss trained martial arts powerhouses.

Once Butler Gu and the logistics worker left, Chen Xu eagerly stepped into the cold storage. Nearly ten different items with varying effects would soon be converted into Psychic Energy, helping his strength rise another level.

Ignoring the butler's warning that different pills could not be taken together, Chen Xu swallowed all sorts of strange pills like candy, then drank the Refining Liquid. In less than a minute, the shelves in the cold storage were empty once more.

As his stomach churned and rapidly digested the pills, Refining Liquid, and other resources, the Psychic Energy on the [Tianwu] panel shot up from 101 and became a four-digit number.

He stared at the Diamond Glazed Body for several seconds, raising it from the fourth level to the fifth.

His clothes burst apart as Chen Xu abruptly grew to three meters tall. His skin turned dark gold before slowly fading back after three seconds.

Though it had faded, Chen Xu felt that he could enter that form again whenever he wished. It was a special technique one could master once