"Microscopic?"
Lin Zhuyu didn't know what microscopic meant.
But she knew Fang Ming wouldn't harm her.
So she didn't say anything and drank it down directly.
The taste was acceptable.
This was Lin Zhuyu's first impression of the Godly Medicine.
Then, Lin Zhuyu felt the transformation the Godly Medicine was bringing to her.
She felt a deeper control over her body, so deep that she could see down to the level of individual particles.
She could control many particles.
With the ability to control many particles and perfectly utilize every inch of her body's strength, although her physical strength hadn't increased significantly, she discovered that her combat power had completely surpassed her previous level.
"Condensing Meridian Third Layer?"
"Condensing Meridian Fourth Layer?"
Lin Zhuyu was astonished to find that her strength had directly increased to the level of the fourth layer of Condensing Meridian!
It wasn't her mana that had risen to the fourth layer of Condensing Meridian.
It was her physical strength that had risen to the fourth layer of Condensing Meridian.
No... it wasn't even that her physical strength had reached the fourth layer of Condensing Meridian. It was that her understanding of her body at the microscopic level had reached a level comparable to the fourth layer of Condensing Meridian.
Her body itself hadn't reached the fourth layer of Condensing Meridian like a body cultivator. Her physical strength was only around the first layer of Condensing Meridian. The reason she could be comparable to the fourth layer of Condensing Meridian was entirely due to—microscopic control, a comprehensive command over her own body.
Lin Zhuyu didn't understand what controlling genes or unlocking gene locks meant.
But after seeing numerous telomeres and controlling them.
She vaguely understood what microscopic meant.
"Is this microscopic?"
"The feeling of controlling one's own body."
Lin Zhuyu mused.
Who researched this medicine?
It didn't increase mana, only physical strength, indicating it was a blood and qi related pill or medicine.
In the cultivation world, blood and qi related pills and medicines specifically for body cultivators, while less sought after than those that increased mana, were still available in the market.
Only this microscopic effect.
Before drinking this bottle of medicine, Lin Zhuyu had never imagined that any pill in the cultivation world could have such an effect.
Unprecedented, unheard of. Which alchemist had researched this new product?
Or was it an ancient pill?
Lin Zhuyu had a myriad of guesses, but just like the martial art comparable to cultivators' profound techniques, she didn't ask for clarification on what was happening.
Where Fang Ming obtained these things.
Lin Zhuyu actually understood that if Fang Ming had been willing to tell her, he would have already done so.
And since Fang Ming didn't want to tell her, she couldn't proactively ask.
This was one of Lin Zhuyu's principles.
After Fang Ming taught Lin Zhuyu the Immortal-Demon level martial art, the Cold Moon Whip Technique, and had her drink the Godly Medicine from the zombie world, he had already mentally written off a large portion of his compensation for Lin Xuan.
What should he do next in this cultivation world?
From Lin Xuan's identity and the oppression he had previously faced, Fang Ming also saw an opportunity for profit.
Lin Xuan's status as a direct descendant young master of the Lin family theoretically meant many things belonged to him, but in reality, they had been exploited away.
These exploited possessions, for the original Lin Xuan, would naturally be impossible to reclaim.
But for Fang Ming, because he possessed strength, and these things rightfully belonged to him, it was akin to possessing "righteousness."
Reason and logic were on his side, as were the family rules.
When strength was insufficient, reason and family rules were like waste paper.
But with great strength, he didn't need to display power comparable to the Dao Foundation realm. He only needed to show himself to be outstanding enough, comparable to the normal direct descendant disciples of the Lin family. Condensing Meridian fifth or sixth layer, not being a natural waste.
Then, those things that rightfully belonged to him could be reclaimed.
These things, reclaimed honorably, would not be seen as theft by the Lin family members. It would simply be taking back what was his.
This point was crucial.
Fang Ming valued profit.
This Lin family young master identity naturally had aspects that could be exploited.
Although the Lin family was not a major clan in the Nine Provinces Great World, and did not even have a Golden Core realm existence, they did have Dao Foundation realm cultivators, some of whom possessed profound mana.
If Fang Ming went all out, he might not be able to contend with the Lin family.
As an outsider, attempting to rob the Lin family would be impossible.
But as this direct descendant young master of the Lin family, reclaiming what was rightfully his, many of the Lin family elders and clan elders would not be obstacles, but rather aids.
Of course, this was contingent on Fang Ming displaying "superior strength."
If he were still the same waste with a废体 (waste body)...
Those elders would not pay him any mind.
"The Salary Hall..."
"Zhuyu, come with me to the Salary Hall."
"It's time they returned what they owe me."
Fang Ming said directly.
Lin Zhuyu was startled.
She naturally knew what the Salary Hall was.
The Lin family had various halls, like the Law Enforcement Hall, which was responsible for upholding the law.
And the Salary Hall, as its name suggested, was responsible for managing and distributing monthly stipends.
While the Salary Hall was ostensibly fair and just, in Lin Zhuyu's eyes, it was an incredibly dark place.
Some disciples without backing, weak in aptitude and low in cultivation, might not receive their full monthly stipends. Excuses would be made to deduct five or six tenths of their pill allocations.
Those pills would then be treated as personal gain by the people in the Salary Hall.
That place was very corrupt.
The first time Lin Zhuyu's pill allocation was deducted, she sought out an elder. The elder casually said, "Oh? Missing pills? Hmm, this does indeed hinder the fairness of the Salary Hall. How about this, I'll give you a few bottles of waste pills?"
"Waste pills, I'll give you ten bottles, ten times more than your normal allocation. Are you satisfied now?"
The elder readily gave her ten times the normal allocation of pills.
But the key point was, they were waste pills.
Waste pills, as the name suggested, were pills that were ruined during the alchemy process and needed to be discarded.
Since they were discarded pills, did they have any value?
Absolutely none.
What use was ten bottles of waste pills, which had no value at all?
No matter where she went, these ten bottles of waste pills could not be exchanged for a single genuine pill.
It was at that time that Lin Zhuyu first experienced the darkness within the clan.
Lin Zhuyu also knew that Lin Xuan had experienced the darkness of the clan – Lin Xuan's six hundred Spirit Origin Pills often dwindled to forty or fifty, with over ninety percent being swallowed up.
Both of them had suffered at the hands of the Salary Hall.
Now that Lin Xuan had defeated those subordinates and was going to the Salary Hall...
"Brother Xuan, are you going to cause a scene at the Salary Hall?"
Lin Zhuyu asked.
Fang Ming replied, "Indeed, that is my intention."
Lin Zhuyu immediately gasped.