Wisdom!

The terrifying aura wantonly unleashed by the three Councilors left the monsters in the city district restless. They gathered around the various Lord-Tier monsters, faintly showing signs of launching a Beast Tide.

The three generations of the Jiang Family did not provoke the monsters. After tidying up, they left the battlefield.

After flying five or six kilometers, the old man purposefully led them to a high-end apartment building over thirty stories tall. They entered the underground garage, killed the monsters entrenched there, and found another Safe House built by the Jiang Family beneath the elevator shaft.

Jiang Zhe's mouth twitched. He no longer knew how to mock his family's peculiar fixation.

The Jiang Family might enter the Wilderness Zone to train, but they never deprived themselves when it came to amenities. They were nothing like the other martial artist squads who came here to make a living and had to rough it in the wild.

"Little Zhe, this Jade Marrow can increase your Physical Quality by 1.5 times. Use it later." The old man tossed Jiang Zhe a test tube.

The viscous liquid was jade-green and did not cling to the walls of the tube. One milliliter was the standard dose.

"Grandpa, how do I use it?"

"Pull out the rubber stopper and drink it."

"Will a second dose still work?"

"The second dose gives a fixed, small increase in Physical Quality. In quantifiable terms, it's roughly equivalent to one ton of punching power."

Jiang Zhe did some calculations in his head. A peak Greater War God had roughly 500 tons of punching power. The cost of reaching that level by relying solely on low-grade stuff like Jade Marrow would not be low.

Besides, whether Jade Marrow's effects could even reach that level was another question.

Unable to find a better excuse, Jiang Zhe could only force himself to say, "Grandpa, can you give me the tube with three doses?"

Jiang Chengbai gave him a puzzled look. Wasn't that a waste?

The old man, however, readily tossed him another tube. "I'll give you four doses. That should be enough, right?"

"Enough. Four doses are definitely enough." Feeling somewhat ashamed, Jiang Zhe gripped the two test tubes and returned to his room.

Five doses of Jade Marrow were just enough to divide among the Jiang Family's three generations and his young aunt. He had taken the share that belonged to them.

Let those who got rich first help those who got rich later!

Brothers, sisters, your little brother will eat first. I'll definitely compensate you with Wood Spirits, Wood Essence Crystals... in the future.

After Jiang Zhe returned to his room, the old man called Jiang Chengbai over and showed him a video.

It was footage of Jiang Zhe killing the two War Gods.

He had been hiding nearby at the time and had recorded the scene with great interest. Yet the more he thought about it afterward, the stranger it seemed.

The video was less than half a minute long. After watching it, Jiang Chengbai also frowned slightly, feeling that his nephew was absurdly strong.

The old man asked, "Did you spot the problem?"

Jiang Chengbai said, "Little Zhe has the Physical Quality of a Junior Battle General. At most, he should be a Psychic Master close to the peak of a Greater Battle General. How could he kill Mid-Level War Gods so easily?"

But the old man continued, "A few days ago, when you were sparring with Little Zhe, how much punching power did you think he had?"

After considering it, Jiang Chengbai gave an approximate range. "Ten tons, with a margin of error within plus or minus two tons."

The old man nodded and suddenly said, "Multiply ten tons of punching power and forty tons of flying knife impact force by two."

The words jolted Jiang Chengbai awake!

His eyes widened. Once he calculated it that way, everything matched up perfectly on paper. It all made sense.

His expression turned excited. "Could Little Zhe have mastered a Force Amplification Technique unique to Psychic Masters? Can he unleash twofold force amplification?"

Jiang Lie: ???

His face was full of sorrow, and he looked exactly like that old man staring at his phone on the subway.

My son, did you leave home without your brain this time?

The old man said darkly, "A Psychic Master's Force Amplification Technique depends on how many flying knives they can control at full strength!"

"Huh? How did I forget that... Dad, then what is going on with Little Zhe?"

"Have you ever considered the possibility that there are two Little Zhes?"

"Dad, what do you mean?"

"Chengbai, follow my line of thought and think carefully."

"Little Zhe's outrageous Psychic Master potential; his freakish degree of control over strength; his speed in cultivating Gene Primordial Energy; and the fact that he rarely practiced the Guiding Technique, yet could cultivate Gene Primordial Energy for such long periods..."

The old man put forward a bold guess. "Suppose everything about Little Zhe is twice that of an ordinary person. Wouldn't all these anomalies suddenly seem perfectly reasonable?"

"At the very least, it's double, though we still can't determine the exact amount."

"And under normal circumstances, he only reveals the standard level of a single person."

If Jiang Zhe had heard the old man's deduction, he would surely have clapped in admiration. You really could stumble onto the truth by sheer luck...

The old man continued, "By the same reasoning, the Cultivation Resources Little Zhe needs should also be two to several times that of ordinary people!"

Jiang Chengbai's expression showed sudden understanding.

Put that way, he could understand why Jiang Zhe wanted extra doses of Jade Marrow. Two people naturally needed at least two portions of food to fill their stomachs.

At the same time, Jiang Chengbai gradually realized his father's true intention.

"Dad, I'm not bothered by Little Zhe taking more Cultivation Resources. You don't need to talk me through it."

"I'm not... Chengbai, I'm not fooling you. This is a genuine deduction."

"Dad, I understand. Don't say any more." Jiang Chengbai waved his hand. "Let's keep this matter between the two of us for now. Little Zhe's secret cannot be known by a fourth person."

As he spoke, Jiang Chengbai deleted the recording of the kill.

The old man rubbed the stubble on his chin. Though he felt as if he had somehow overcomplicated things, it was fine as long as they had talked it through. There should be no resentment left between the younger and older generations.

He could not help sighing inwardly: Being the Patriarch of a Great Family wasn't easy!

But before long, a new thought popped into the old man's head. "Where should I find Little Zhe a match? His exceptional bloodline must be passed on."

Jiang Zhe had no idea what was happening outside. After returning to his room with the Jade Marrow, he used it immediately.

He directly drank the tube containing three doses of Jade Marrow.

You had to admit, the old really were wiser!

Based solely on minor details from daily life, the old man had deduced that he might possess a special talent similar to "multiplying his own abilities by two."

And just as the old man had deduced, a double Genetic Level required double the resources.

If he only needed one unit of Cultivation Resources to gain double the strength, double the Psychic Power, double the lifespan... how could there be such a good deal in the world?

Back to the Jade Marrow.

It had a strong bitter taste. It was icy cold as it entered his mouth and slid down his throat into his stomach, like taking a sip of ice water beneath the Blazing Sun on a summer afternoon.

Except that sensation was amplified more than tenfold.

He could feel the Jade Marrow rapidly breaking down in his stomach, releasing strands of icy silk that spread into the bone marrow of his spine before coursing throughout his body.

From his bones to his flesh, then to his skin, strands of icy silk emerged through his body. It felt as if cold air were seeping from every inch of him.

Jiang Zhe was frozen to the point of nearly losing all sensation, his face deathly pale.

The genetic material within his cells rapidly transformed as the Jade Marrow's energy poured in. Useless genes were shed, while beneficial genes were refined and improved.

Dead cells and impurities were expelled from his body, forming a layer of grime across his skin.

Under this cellular-level transformation, Jiang Zhe's tendons, bones, membranes, muscles, skin, and internal organs all underwent astonishing changes!

As his Physical Quality increased, the Psychic Power within his life core also began to grow. The dark-golden sphere erupted with an immense amount of mist.

Once the mist's density reached a certain limit, it began to condense into droplets.

One drop, two drops, three drops...

This was the mark of a War God Level Psychic Master!

It was past two in the morning when the transformation caused by the Jade Marrow finally ended.

Conditions in the Wilderness Zone were poor, so Jiang Zhe could only wet a towel with drinking water and wipe away the grime coating his body. He decided that he would go wash in the sea first thing tomorrow morning.

After cleaning himself up, Jiang Zhe went to the main hall, turned the generator's output to maximum, then entered the training room and activated the Punching Power Tester.

He slammed a heavy punch into the Punching Target.

Jiang Zhe immediately looked at the display, where bright red digits appeared—"35025 kg!"

"A Greater Battle General?"

"No, divide it by two. Around 17,500 kg, which means seventeen tons!"

"My theoretical realm has only just crossed into Mid-Level Battle General, entering the fifth apprentice stage, but my actual combat power goes far beyond that!"

Next came the pills. He would soon reach War God Level, then Planetary Level, uncover the secret of the Alchemy Furnace, and head into the universe.