NOVEL WEB Ch. 33
Chapter 33: Payment Balance Flying In
May 24th, Thursday, 6:12 a.m.
Two consecutive days of high-intensity cultivation had drained Jiang He’s spirit and stamina.
If it had been an ordinary person, they would have already been on the verge of collapse.
But he was a noble Word-Spirit talent user.
Before sleeping, he cast a restorative buff-type Spell Word on himself, entering a deep sleep state.
By the time he woke up, he felt refreshed, revived as if at full health and energy.
Jiang He even forgot yesterday’s pain—
After all, yesterday was already in the past. A person should always look forward; each new day was a chance to meet a brand-new self!
“Good morning, future me!”
“…Shut up.”
White Crane’s ability to move had been restricted. He had spent the entire night watching Jiang He sleep, and was clearly in a bad mood.
It wasn’t until Jiang He lifted the restriction and asked him to go out and buy breakfast that his expression eased slightly. He changed form and pushed the door open to leave.
Jiang He only nodded faintly.
To simultaneously achieve both “making a super S-rank existence run errands for oneself” and “being a super S-rank existence running errands for someone else”… Tell me, who else in this world could possibly manage that?
“All right, time to get up and take care of business.”
Jiang He flipped out of bed, speaking while walking toward the bathroom.
「Phone, fly here」
At the same time his Rumor Bearer profession gained +1 experience, his phone automatically detached from the charging cable, flew through the air, and landed in his palm.
If nothing else, the convenience of a Word-Spirit talent was truly unparalleled.
Unfortunately, with the refresh time for this week’s Heroic Spirit approaching, the trial period for his Word-Spirit talent was also about to expire.
At that time, not only would he lose this convenient ability, but if he wanted to level up his Word-Spirit-related profession again, he would have no choice but to rely on 「Spell Words」.
The cost of Spell Words was far too high. Jiang He couldn’t afford to use them casually.
He could only seize the moment to grind more experience now.
「Cup, fly here」「Clothes, fly here」…
Jiang He kept practicing with low-cost Word-Spirits while also opening his phone.
Before he even checked his chat messages, his eyes froze.
【Payment balance credited: 1,200,000.00 yuan.】
A balance flying in!?
Jiang He tapped rapidly, opening the chat app to check unread messages.
Sure enough, around six o’clock last night, Wei Sheng had sent him a message.
【Wei Sheng: Jiang He, the school’s opening date hasn’t been set yet. I went ahead and applied for the scholarship on your behalf. You can use it first, and we’ll talk about the official award ceremony after school starts.】
【Jiang He: Thank you, Teacher!! (sticker: hearts hearts)】
Yesterday, Jiang He had been so exhausted from cultivation that he hadn’t even bothered to check his phone, collapsing into bed as soon as he got home.
He hadn’t expected Teacher Wei to have already applied for the scholarship last night and deposited it directly into his account.
One million two hundred thousand! Twenty thousand more than he had expected!!
This was incredible!!
With this money, he could attempt to break through to E-rank Transcendent today!
“The advancement method of ‘brick flying with great strength’ works fine at G-rank, but starting from F-rank, it’s no longer realistic.”
“To break through the Transcendent shackles by pushing limits, one needs 100 points in a single attribute.”
“I’ve been cultivating hard these past few days. My physical strength just reached 50 points, and my mental strength has only risen to 61. Based on the growth pattern that slows the closer one gets to the limit, reaching the 100-point cap would take at least half a month.”
“By then, it’d be too late.”
This was why, before the millennium, A-rank was considered the strongest Transcendent, and no one had ever broken past it; but after the first S-rank Transcendent, the Prophet, appeared in the millennium year, S-rank powerhouses had begun to emerge like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
The birth of every S-rank powerhouse represented the emergence of an S-rank Path.
They paved the way so that those who followed no longer had to grind slowly, instead gaining much simpler methods of breaking through.
The F-rank bottleneck Jiang He was facing was exactly this situation.
Far too many Transcendents had already broken through this stage, leaving behind all sorts of methods.
And among them, the simplest method was nothing more than “throwing money at it.”
As long as one met the condition of 【Composite Energy Level 50.0】, one could purchase various elixirs, spiritual blood, and even Transcendent items, and then—through the corresponding ritual requirements—directly break through the bottleneck.
Thus achieving a qualitative leap in transcendence, advancing to the next energy level.
As for which method to choose…
Naturally, White Crane knew best.
…
Half an hour later, at the Zhongzhou City Fire Department.
In the days following the Arc Light Organization’s attack, incidents like Li Zhi’s abduction hadn’t been the only ones to occur.
Revenge, ambushes, drunken brawls, sudden murders…
The entire city of Zhongzhou was shrouded in a layer of gloom, with all sorts of cases happening every single day.
And once such cases involved Transcendents, they were no longer something as simple as smashing a few chairs and tables.
Demolished buildings, damaged pipelines, fires, explosions—things kept piling up one after another.
Most of these cases weren’t too complicated and could be handled by Zhang Zhiyong and his team, or they were assigned to the Public Security Bureau, so they hadn’t disturbed Jiang He’s cultivation.
However, all the fire department members had been living at the station these days, so they could respond to alarms immediately.
Because of this, when Jiang He arrived at the fire department, he went straight to the gym and found Zhang Zhiyong already training that morning.
“Captain, does the bureau have any ‘Bone-Piercing Needles’, ‘Thunderclap Liquid’…”
Jiang He rattled off the list of Transcendent items and resources White Crane had given him.
After hearing it, Zhang Zhiyong said in puzzlement, “Those things are expensive. They’re usually used to promote transcendence and assist Transcendents in breaking bottlenecks. What are you asking about them for?”
As he spoke, a strange thought flashed through his mind. His eyes widened. “You’re planning to break through an energy level?”
Jiang He said, “Mm. My Composite Energy Level has already reached 50 points. I can break through to E-rank.”
“Holy shit!” Zhang Zhiyong cursed outright.
If he remembered correctly, Jiang He had only awakened last Friday.
Now it was Thursday—barely a week later—and he had already reached the F-rank bottleneck, ready to break through to E-rank?!
As someone born before the millennium and a Transcendent for forty years, this was the first time Zhang Zhiyong had ever seen anyone grow this fast!
When he thought of Jiang He’s diligent training these past two days, Zhang Zhiyong relaxed a little.
Yeah, it made sense. In just two days, Jiang He had already consumed 58 grams of C-rank spiritual blood quota. For a mere F-rank Transcendent, that was basically the same as pouring it straight down his throat, an extreme extravagance.
With that much spiritual blood poured in, it wasn’t unreasonable for his energy level to be forced up to the bottleneck.
Zhang Zhiyong said, “Most of those things the bureau already has. The rest we can procure.”
“But something like a ‘Bone-Piercing Needle’—that kind of Transcendent item has to be used by someone else on you. What do you plan to do about that?”
The “Bone-Piercing Needle” was a consumable Transcendent item. By piercing specific acupoints, it simultaneously pierced body and spirit, causing the effects of elixirs to volatilize quickly, soaking the entire body.
It was a fairly common breakthrough item.
But a Transcendent couldn’t use such an item on themselves, and Jiang He couldn’t have White Crane use it on him either—
That fell under “harming the master.” Even if White Crane had no such intention, he still couldn’t use it to pierce Jiang He.
This was why Jiang He had come to Zhang Zhiyong to purchase breakthrough resources.
“Captain, do you know how to use it?”
The forty-year-old Transcendent uncle chuckled. “I know a little.”