Final settlement

1. Advanced Energy Enhancement Pack-purple: contains [Spiritual Power Like the Sea-purple], [Spiritual Power Like Steel-purple].

Note: obtained by converting Yuji Itadori's core traits. Once acquired, your spiritual power reserves will resemble a vast ocean, endlessly replenishing themselves, and your psychic energy output efficiency will increase dramatically.

2. Advanced Cursed Technique Enhancement Pack-purple: contains [Black Flash-purple], [Malevolent Shrine-blue], [Blood Manipulation-blue], [Reverse Cursed Technique-blue].

Note: once acquired, the above cursed techniques can be engraved on your original body and modified into psychic energy versions compatible with the main world.

3. Comprehensive Breathing Style Pack-blue: contains [Source Breathing (Limitless)-blue], [Sun Breathing-blue], [Water Breathing-green], [Thunder Breathing-green]...

Note: once acquired, eleven breathing styles can be directly imparted to you, along with their physical attributes (taking the highest values).

4. Basic Physique Enhancement Pack: contains [Intermediate Physique-green], [Cursed Spirit Bloodline-green], [Comprehensive Weapon Combat-green], [Basic Hand-to-Hand Combat-white].

Note: once acquired, this will directly improve your original body's basic physical attributes, physical talents, bloodline, and weapon aptitude. Cursed Spirit Bloodline will be modified into [Spiritual Blood Physique-blue], compatible with the main world.

5. Supernatural Attribute Enhancement Pack: contains [Soul Touch-purple], [Absolute Spiritual Power Control-purple].

Note: once acquired, this can dramatically increase soul strength and bring psychic energy control to an exquisitely precise level.

What a haul! What a surprise!

Lu You looked with deep emotion at the fruits of all his hard work. All that time pretending to be Tang had not been wasted.

By pretending to be Tang, he had pulled one over on the system.

He had successfully pushed the rewards to the highest limit he could reach.

A Synchronization Value of 180% was already the limit. He had no idea how he could raise it any further.

How should I allocate 360%...? First, the first option is a must, at least 100%. After all, psychic energy is the most fundamental foundation.

I need the second option too. Having abundant spiritual power without cursed techniques to use it to kill enemies is no different from having none. My original body doesn't have any special abilities.

The third and fourth options overlap. Both improve physical attributes, but the fourth is closer to improving talent?

As for the third, do I need it?

Breathing styles aren't much use in the main world. Choosing breathing styles for physical attributes would be putting the cart before the horse. Better to choose Cursed Spirit Bloodline to ensure I can make full use of Blood Manipulation.

The fifth looks like some kind of supernatural trait, and Soul Touch is a trait I could only get after reaching 100% Synchronization Value. I have to choose it no matter what...

Lu You had thought 360% was plenty, but after going through his choices, it turned out to be nowhere near enough.

In the end, he gritted his teeth and made his decision.

"My allocation is 100% to the first option, 100% to the second, 60% to the fourth, and 100% to the fifth."

[Ding-dong! Allocation complete. Settlement in progress...]

Boom!

Lu You blinked and waited.

Suddenly.

Violent psychic energy surged from the depths of his lower dantian, raging like a vast ocean as it scoured Lu You's meridians, continually widening them and tempering his body.

Hot sweat poured from his entire body, then evaporated instantly.

Lu You had turned scarlet all over. Steam swirled above his head, and large quantities of filthy substances seeped from his pores, black and greasy, giving off an intense stench.

"I'm fired up!"

He felt no pain. Instead, it felt very comfortable, his whole body warm as though he were soaking in a hot spring.

His cultivation level rose continuously with the surge of psychic energy: early First Tier... middle First Tier... late First Tier... peak First Tier.

It only stopped at early Second Tier.

Something seemed to explode inside his mind, and the world before his eyes became incomparably clear.

"Is this... the spiritual sense you gain when you break through to Second Tier?"

If First Tier in the main world meant extraordinary humans, then Second Tier meant superhumans. They surpassed First Tier in every respect, chiefly because of spiritual sense.

Spiritual sense could keenly detect the slightest disturbance within a thousand meters, and clearly perceive an opponent's movements in battle.

One could say spiritual sense was an enhanced version of Transparent World.

Ocean-like spiritual power kept rotating in his dantian, becoming a terrifying abyssal vortex that drove the circulation of spiritual power throughout his body.

This was Spiritual Power Like the Sea!

This was the terrifying power of a purple trait!

Acquiring it had propelled him straight to Second Tier, with spiritual power reserves far exceeding others at his level.

In the future, his spiritual power reserves would always be many times greater than those of others at his level.

At this moment, he had leaped into the ranks of Fuyuki City's strongest.

And that was not all.

The Spiritual Power Like Steel trait had also caused the strength of Lu You's spiritual power to soar instantly.

In other words, his strength could not be judged by early Second Tier standards at all.

"Now I really don't have anything to fear."

The threat of death that had been closing in on him vanished at once, and he felt much more relaxed.

Scanning the white walls around him, Lu You could make little of them. This was the system space. Before, he had been so busy heading to the Demon Slayer world that he had not examined it closely.

Now he found it empty.

"Though I don't know why this system exists, there's no point thinking so much about it with my current strength. Things will work themselves out when the time comes.

"If it really is some big shot's handiwork, I'll accept that too."

"Open the panel."

[Name: Lu You]

[Psychic energy level: Second Tier (early)]

[Divine ability: Astral Transit (red)]

[Skills: Spiritual Power Like the Sea-purple, Spiritual Power Like Steel-purple, Soul Touch-purple, Absolute Spiritual Power Control-purple, Black Flash-purple, Swordsmanship Master-blue, Malevolent Shrine-blue, Reverse Cursed Technique-blue, Blood Manipulation-blue, Comprehensive Weapon Combat-green, Basic Hand-to-Hand Combat-white...]

[Physique: Basic Physique-white, Spiritual Blood Physique-blue]

[Loaded template: none (0 draws available)]]

The current Lu You could crush his pre-Demon Slayer self to death with half a hand.

"Swordsmanship Master... it's still there? Right, experience and knowledge stored in memory will always remain once learned."

The reward packs had not included the Swordsmanship Master-blue trait, but it was still on the panel.

This meant combat experience made no distinction between his original body and the body he entered. As long as the memories remained, it would always exist.

A short while later.

Lu You chose to return to the main world.

White light enveloped him, and his figure vanished from the spot, leaving only the deathly silent system space.

Dusk was approaching, and the setting sun shone through the window.

Lu You slowly opened his eyes.

It was still the same old teachers' dormitory. The room that had looked so shabby before now seemed rather pleasing to the eye.

Was this how his perceptions changed when his mood improved?

Lu You's nose twitched slightly, and an intense stench assailed him. His expression changed a little as he realized he was covered in expelled impurities. He hurried into the bathroom to wash.

An hour later, after scrubbing off practically two layers of skin, he finally strolled out of the bathroom.

Steam swirled around his whole body.

"That felt good."

Now that he felt good, it was time to start solving his problems.

Not one of those who had wanted him dead would escape!

"First, I need to establish who's my enemy and who's my friend."

Lu You sat on the bed and circulated the psychic energy within him.

"Without a doubt, the old principal is my benefactor and the only person I can trust, so I need to find a chance to see him and ask about the current situation.

"Then the wealthy financial dynasties in Fuyuki City are my enemies. I don't know whether this body's original parents did something like dig up their ancestral graves to make them hate me this much.

"But blood debts must be paid in blood.

"Someone has to pay the most painful price for over twenty years of barely scraping by!"

His eyes were cold, his killing intent chilling.

Ring, ring, ring...

The phone on the table rang crisply.

Lu You picked it up. The first thing he saw was the date displayed on the screen, February 14, followed by an unfamiliar incoming number.

"Hello?"

"Open the door. I'm outside."

Completely baffled, Lu You hung up speechlessly.

Who the hell is that, being so rude? You tell me to open the door, and I'm supposed to do it? Who knows if you're an assassin sent by those financial dynasties?

[Ding-dong! A new announcement has been released. The limited-time Valentine's Day event is now open. Seize the opportunity and complete missions for a chance to obtain rare, limited-time collectibles!]

The system's announcement sounded in his ears.

Oh, right, February 14 is Valentine's Day. But why are you celebrating holidays from my previous life?

[Ding, ding, ding! Traces of a limited-edition red-grade treasure detected! It is currently five meters away from you...]

[Eternal Heart-red]: the most dazzling, purest diamond in an unknown spacetime, polished for his wife by a certain being who attained the Dao while he was still a mortal. It symbolizes steadfast, eternal, undying love.

Originally gold-grade, its limited-time system buyback price during the Valentine's Day event is red-grade.

Lu You abruptly stood up.

Bro, I was wrong. I'll open the door right now.

When the dormitory door opened, however, the person standing outside was a girl.

There will be a few chapters in the main world. Let me know which anime you'd like to see afterward ʕ ◦`꒳´◦ʔ