Restoration

In the study, Yang Yu's hands blurred into a mass of afterimages as he formed one mysterious hand seal after another.

In just a minute or two, his hands shifted through at least three or four hundred hand seals.

As he formed those intricate, mysterious hand seals, dense streams of cosmic force surged from deep within his cells and genes. Guided by the seals, they flowed straight out of his body and into the air.

The Cosmic Force shone with a cyan light.

Brimming with lethal intent, the cyan energy stirred restlessly, arrayed like blades and swords. Moments later, an invisible force guided it straight into the five inferior Mortal Shedding Treasures hovering nearby!

Without using any precious natural materials, he relied solely on Cosmic Force, driven by a secret technique, to restore them.

Whoosh~~~~~~~~~~

The energy seeped into them.

Ripples of multicolored light spread across the surfaces of the five hovering Mortal Shedding Treasures. Sparks even crackled inside them, while some of their surface material fractured and fell away under the violent clash.

Such violent collisions left the Mortal Shedding Treasures, already damaged by the erosion of long years, looking even more battered and wretched.

Still... despite their sorry appearance, their auras grew considerably stronger as time passed.

Boom!!

After that thunderous noise, black, red, and yellow light suddenly rippled across the surface of a Mortal Shedding Treasure shaped like a zither. Its once-fading aura abruptly surged, growing at least fifteen times stronger than before!

It had advanced!

It had advanced straight from an inferior-grade Mortal Shedding Treasure to an ordinary-grade one!

"It worked!"

"One successfully restored." Yang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, excitement shining in his eyes.

That single success had earned him at least another ten million yuan.

"Keep going!" Gritting his teeth, Yang Yu once again stimulated his cells and genes, squeezing out more Cosmic Force and pouring it all into the remaining inferior Mortal Shedding Treasures.

After advancing to ordinary grade, the zither-like Mortal Shedding Treasure abruptly dropped to the floor, no longer participating in the restoration.

Without any precious natural materials, barely restoring them by a single grade was already the limit.

If he continued forcing energy into them, there was more than a ninety-five percent chance that the enormous influx of external Cosmic Force would burst them apart. After all, these Mortal Shedding Treasures had degraded to inferior grade, their interiors riddled with damage and their materials rendered terribly fragile by time.

Restoring them by even one grade without adding any precious natural materials was already lucky. He really could not ask for too much.

Whoosh~~~~~~~~~~

Whoosh~~~~~~~~~

Cyan Cosmic Force surged wildly through the room, whipping up fierce winds in Yang Yu's study.

The wind even swept books from the shelves. They fell to the floor, their pages rustling as the gale flipped through them.

Pages tore from many of the books and were swept straight into streams of cyan Cosmic Force, which shredded them into a skyful of scraps!

That alone showed how violent the Cosmic Force pouring out of his body was!

Boom!

Under the assault of such violent energy, the four remaining inferior Mortal Shedding Treasures trembled precariously.

Finally, after five minutes, another inferior Mortal Shedding Treasure, this one shaped like a folding fan, blazed with green light. Its aura surged as it was restored and advanced to ordinary grade.

Time passed.

Yang Yu kept drawing out more Cosmic Force from within himself, forcing it out of his body.

An hour later, Yang Yu's hands, which had been constantly changing Hand Seals, suddenly stopped!

"Whew~~~~~" Sweat beaded on Yang Yu's forehead. His chest slowly rose as he gently let out a breath.

"It's over."

"Of the five inferior Mortal Shedding Treasures, two were successfully restored... the other three stayed as they were. But even though I couldn't restore them, the auras inside them are at least twice as strong as before. Each one's value should have increased by at least one to one and a half million yuan!"

"I can't ask for more. Getting this far was already incredibly lucky." Yang Yu felt satisfied.

By then, all five Mortal Shedding Treasures had landed on the floor.

They lay in a somewhat untidy pile a short distance in front of him, naturally separated from the antiques and the three high-grade Mortal Shedding Treasures he had set aside for his own use.

"Time to pay the Ten Thousand Layers Tower a visit." Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Yang Yu stepped out of the study and looked through the window toward the city center.

The Ten Thousand Layers Tower was a transcendent and terrifying organization of cultivators.

But it also wielded tremendous influence in the ordinary mortal world.

The marketplace where the Ten Thousand Layers Tower bought and sold cultivators' items and equipment was located right in the bustling downtown district!

An entire skyscraper in the busiest part of downtown belonged to it!

The building stood a hundred stories tall.

Even from the outskirts, Yang Yu could see the imposing outline of that skyscraper.

Before he had encountered the cultivation world, Yang Yu had even shopped inside that skyscraper... of course, he had only visited the shopping area open to ordinary people.

He tidied himself up a little, took a shower, and shaved off the stubble on his face.

Yang Yu then checked on Zhao Zixuan, who was undergoing "modification."

He also checked the breeding enclosure of the five remaining Black-Spotted Tiger-Stripe Mantises.

Once he confirmed that everything was fine, Yang Yu packed the pile of antiques and the Mortal Shedding Treasures he intended to sell into two large suitcases, ready to leave.

Of the five Black-Spotted Tiger-Stripe Mantises, one was female.

These mantises were extraordinarily vicious, their wild nature difficult to tame. Ordinary people naturally could not keep and breed them, but Yang Yu had life energy and the various secret techniques of the Insectoid Civilization.

Simply infusing them with life energy and using a few of the most basic taming techniques, he easily domesticated all five mantises, bringing them into their mating period so they could breed naturally.

With Life Energy accelerating the process, living things could grow dozens or even hundreds of times faster.

Before long, Yang Yu believed he would have hundreds or thousands of Black-Spotted Tiger-Stripe Mantises under his command.

"The Ten Thousand Layers Tower."

"Don't disappoint me. I hope those fellows from the Ghost Infant Sect were right—that you buy anything and sell almost all the rare materials and treasures cultivators need."

"As long as I can unseal the second page of the Insect Codex."

"Then my physical strength will reach the Postnatal Earth Rank, and I'll be able to practice the second chapter of the Hundredfold Soul-Tempering Score. Once my Fate Soul grows stronger and reaches Earth Rank, the number of Giant Mantis Beasts I can control will increase dramatically. Then I won't have to fear ordinary second- or third-rate sects descended from the Immortal Civilization."

"At the very least, I won't have to stay on guard against a small sect like the Ghost Infant Sect the way I do now."

"Let's go."

Muttering to himself, Yang Yu stopped looking at the five Black-Spotted Tiger-Stripe Mantises' breeding enclosure and dragged the two suitcases out of the study and then out of his rented home.

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