"Recall!"
Su Wen said inwardly. Now that things had come to this, a forced recall was inevitable.
Fortunately, Wealth Disrupts Space-Time had a forced recall ability. Otherwise, the Wind God could catch him, imprison him, control him with an ability, and simply refuse to kill him.
What would he do then?
If he couldn't die, his self in the future space-time couldn't return.
That would mean Wealth Disrupts Space-Time, the God of Wealth's greatest trump card of a sub-talent, was practically useless!
[Oh, impoverished God of Wealth! You spent the vast majority of your own wealth source, using its power to forcibly interfere with space-time.] [The River of Space-Time of this world noticed fluctuations in the power of the wealth source and keenly detected that you did not belong to the current space-time. It began to expel your soul and true spirit.] [Under the protection of scattered traces of the power of the wealth source, your soul and true spirit have returned.] [Because you forcibly interfered with the River of Space-Time this time, you have drawn the Gaze of the River of Space-Time.] [You have obtained the buff: Gaze of the River of Space-Time.] [For 12 hours, your wealth source expenditure on space-time will be doubled.]
Su Wen: "..."
The duration had increased again?
He took a deep breath, then looked at his status panel, not daring to let his thoughts wander toward the River of Space-Time.
"Wealth Source Points: 0.05."
Seeing that he had only 0.05 wealth source left, Su Wen couldn't help his eyelid twitching.
"The price of a forced recall is the same as crossing space-time."
"Looks like I'll need to prepare at least twice as much wealth source before crossing space-time from now on."
"After all, who knows whether I can use the wealth source I obtain after crossing space-time?"
"But this time, I'm so broke I'm just short of pawning my underwear."
"Wind God..."
Su Wen narrowed his eyes. Although he had spent twice as much as before this time, at least he now knew which enemy he needed to guard against in the future.
The Wind God!
His luck had been bad this time too. Such momentous news as the God of Wealth's return had spread, yet the first to arrive was actually a traitor?
If there were no other traitors, then the Wind God was probably the one who had framed him.
As fellow God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers, they were bound to have dealings with each other.
As for telling the Star God that the Wind God was a traitor?
He had only just awakened and knew nothing about the Heavenly Mandate Bearer domain or the Wind God, and he didn't know what the relationship between the Wind God and the Star God was like either.
Honestly, could he produce solid evidence right now?
Empty words were easy enough for anyone to say.
Besides, before giving him the chess piece, the Star God had cut him off and stopped him from revealing his talent's ability.
He had even given Su Wen the impression that he must never expose the talent of a God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearer.
It looked as though there were some issues among the Heavenly Mandate Bearers.
"If I come into contact with the Wind God, I can first check his rank."
"If he isn't strong, I can kill with a borrowed knife, hire an assassin, poison him, curse him, trick him... I'll see how things stand when the time comes. The main objective is to get rid of him."
"I can also make more friends and use my space-time-crossing talent and information advantage to help them avoid risks and find opportunities."
"If I bring in more allies, especially a few friends with 'God' in their titles, things will be much easier."
"..."
Su Wen rubbed his brow as he thought, his head aching a little.
He just wanted to go to the future and honestly haul bricks. Why was it so hard?
He could understand being killed by other races or getting caught up in a war.
High-level battles affected a wide area and were immensely destructive. He really couldn't interfere at his current level.
But a traitor was also thinking about killing him all day. Being the God of Wealth meant being not only poor, but exhausted too.
"Hm?"
Su Wen sensed a large number of auras approaching in the distance, and his mouth stretched into a grin.
When he was poor, someone had come to bring him money!
They had come at the perfect time.
"One hundred Black Coin Monkeys and two Silver Coin Monkeys?"
Hidden beside a boulder, Su Wen watched the company approaching from afar and said with a smile, "That's six wealth source altogether. Not bad at all!"
As he spoke, Su Wen extended his index finger.
"Hum!"
A faint but tenacious thread of qi and blood power gathered at Su Wen's fingertip, then tore through the air and shot straight out.
Using a finger as a gun and qi and blood as bullets was merely one of the most basic applications of qi and blood in the Qi and Blood Resonance Technique.
Moreover, the qi and blood bullets fired were made from the martial artist's own qi and blood, so the martial artist could also control them remotely to a certain extent.
In the future, this was an extremely effective method when martial artists faced enemies far weaker than themselves, or wanted to use qi and blood power to interfere with an opponent.
Techniques such as condensing qi and blood into a spear were also extensions of this kind of qi and blood technique.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Qi and blood bullets tore through the air one after another, striking the Black Coin Monkeys precisely between the brows.
One hit, one kill!
Even when some Black Coin Monkeys were more sensitive to danger and dodged the initial attack, the qi and blood bullets could simply curve around and strike them in the head.
The Black Coin Monkeys still couldn't dodge bullets that could track them.
Soon, only two tall, sturdy Silver Coin Monkeys remained on the field.
Su Wen didn't attack the Silver Coin Monkey with qi and blood bullets. There was no need.
Two Silver Coin Monkeys would take two slaps.
But he didn't intend to slap both of them to death. Letting one escape and lead the way for him would be excellent too.
As for the mine behind him?
Guarding a mine, and a small one at that-how could the income possibly come as fast as killing monkeys?
Two Heavenly Mandate Silver Coins were worth a small mine's income for an entire day.
"Bang!"
Su Wen flashed into view in front of the Silver Coin Monkey on the left and sent him flying with a punch.
The other Silver Coin Monkey, deliberately frightened by Su Wen, was so scared he pissed and shat himself as he fled southeast.
"Converted 100 Heavenly Mandate Black Coins. Obtained 5 wealth source." "Converted 1 Heavenly Mandate Silver Coin. Obtained 0.5 wealth source." "Wealth Source Points: 5.55." "Notice: Experience points are full. Advance in rank?" "After advancing to rank one, you may freely choose whether to end your training and leave the Training Arrow Realm."
Su Wen checked his status panel as he trailed the fleeing Silver Coin Monkey.
When he saw the advancement notice, he willed a thread of qi and blood power onto the Silver Coin Monkey without anyone noticing.
Then Su Wen found a relatively secluded spot and sat down cross-legged.
"Begin advancement!"
After reaching rank one, he could freely choose whether to continue his training.
That meant he had completed his basic training and could leave at any time.
Before leaving, there was no need to hold back so much.
After using the means the Star God had given him, he could just leave if things didn't work out. What was there to fear?
"Hum!"
"Hum!"
"Hum!"
"..."
The familiar trembling sensation came over him again, followed by a feeling of sublimation in both body and soul that made Su Wen instantly understand the importance of the Martial Dao.
Ordinary Heavenly Mandate Bearers evolved once when advancing in rank, but Heavenly Mandate Bearers who cultivated the Martial Dao could evolve twice.
The improvement brought by advancing twice would certainly crush that of advancing once.
Or rather, the potential of a second advancement was bound to be greater than that of a single advancement!
"Perhaps this was the true reason the Star God joined forces with the Cultivation Technique Research Group in the original space-time, spending several years and even consuming several divine artifacts to create the Body Refining Art."
A moment later, Su Wen completed his advancement. He looked up at the sky and thought, Improving the survival rate of Heavenly Mandate Bearers is one reason, but increasing their future potential is the top priority.
But in the future space-time where I hauled bricks twice, why didn't the Star God research Martial Dao cultivation techniques?