Chapter 157: Chapter 157: The Ridiculous System
Since Qian Qi dares to do a business deal three times, she’s naturally not afraid of being caught.
Even if the three come to question her, she could say the original price was intended all along, and if any of them didn’t want to pay, she wouldn’t sell the secret recipe.
As for why she went through the trouble to make them keep secrets from each other, well, obviously because it’s fun~~~
Qian Qi sat on a small stool, chewing a lollipop, poked at the system panel, and unlocked the features of [Evolution Direction] and [Cultivation Method].
She was quite curious about evolution and cultivation since the market didn’t have the notion of "evolution" for Contracted Beasts. The system panel showing this term was clearly...
A golden opportunity for her to get rich is here again!
"Hehehe~" Qian Qi’s face instantly revealed a lecherous grin.
System: [...Stop looking at me and laughing like that, it’s scary.]
"Revert it back!" Qian Qi rudely tapped the panel, dissatisfied, "I haven’t finished reading it yet!"
The system sluggishly erased the characters and continued to display the [Evolution Direction] page.
[Magic Beast Name: Mo Ya Beast
Evolution Direction One: Six-winged Heaven-breaking Crow
Evolution Description: Transform its flight attack to the extreme, every additional wing equals one evolution level, triggering new Awakened Skills.
Evolution Direction Two: Mysterious Hell Crow
Evolution Description: Evil words bring evil deeds, killing things without a weapon, word spirit ability rises with level without limit.]
Qian Qi softly read the words on the panel, squinting her little eyes while licking the lollipop, "Six-winged Heaven-breaking Crow, each additional wing equals one evolution level, six wings mean it could rise to S-level."
"And the Mysterious Hell Crow, the word spirit ability’s level has no upper limit, can I understand that S-level is not the highest limit for Magic Beasts?"
Uncle Sun once told her, historically a few S-level Magic Beasts appeared, and it took hundreds of thousands of A-level Awakened and thousands of S-level Awakened to barely kill them.
Such an unequal level matchup already shows that some S-level Magic Beasts might not truly be "S" level.
Of course, these are just her guesses.
Maybe Magic Beasts’ S level is just a general term, those Magic Beasts unbeatable by S-level Awakened are all labeled as S-level.
But the mere three words "no upper limit" on the system panel reveal so much information. She guesses those S-level Magic Beasts must have different levels, it’s just that both past and present humans are too weak, unable to discern higher-level distinctions of Magic Beasts.
"System?" Qian Qi tapped her knuckles on the panel, her voice crisp and clear, "Why aren’t you speaking? I’m asking you a question~"
[...]Silence is consent, do you understand, you little trash.
[You can only choose one evolution direction, which one do you pick?]
"Can’t have both?" Qian Qi immediately jumped up, incredulous, "So useless? Are you capable?"
[Warm reminder: Trash Qian Qi only deserves to have a trash system~＾＿＾]
Qian Qi: ...
"Don’t worry, even though you’re such trash, I won’t abandon you~" Qian Qi gently comforted, "Soon, I’ll make you feel my brilliance."
System: ???
The system had a bad feeling.
"Then let’s first choose Mysterious Hell Crow, attack skills are everywhere, but Crow’s Beak is rare and hard to come by." Qian Qi tapped on the words of Mysterious Hell Crow on the panel, then jumped to the [Cultivation Method] module page.
[Magic Beast Name: Moyu
Magic Beast Level: D-level → C-level
Cultivation Method 1: 3 Heavenly God Lotus plants, 1 Magic God Grass plant
Cultivation Method 2: Purchase "Crowing Guide"]
Qian Qi: ???
Qian Qi pointed at the "Crowing Guide" with her mouth wide open, angrily said, "How is this different from watching a video that requires a monthly membership, and after paying, you still have to buy each episode separately like a capitalist?!"
[Oh, you could choose the first method too~]
"The first method?!"
Qian Qi grabbed a hoe and swung it at the system, "Damn it, Magic God Grass is the main ingredient for treating spiritual power collapse, Sikong Wang can’t find Magic God Grass, how can I cultivate my Ya Ya?"
Let alone Heavenly God Lotus, she’s never even heard of it!
The system quickly dodged: [Oh, Gu Yun Mountain Dungeon isn’t that big, Sikong Wang will surely find it, you better worry about whether you can beat a C-level Magic Plant first.]
It chuckled, [Remember what I said before? If you trust me, I can plan to give you power and defensive abilities comparable to C-level~]
"No money!" Qian Qi spat.
[How could that be?] The system snuggled up to the waistband of her shorts, [This steaming hot black card, I’ve been craving it for so long~＾ｖ＾]
Qian Qi: ...
Dang it, what a perverted system.
The card has 300,000, but unlocking "Crowing Guide" requires 2 million, and she guessed even after buying it, she would likely only unlock the first Chapter, with potential extra costs for the methods inside.
So Qian Qi eventually chose the first cultivation method.
——
Three weeks later, in Sea City.
As one of the bases for the Seven Great Families, congregating the Awakened Association and Warrior Medical Base, Sea City serves as the administrative and economic center domestically, far surpassing Yan City, a cultural hub, in influence.
Notably here is the conquered C-level dungeon—Gu Yun Mountain Dungeon.
As one of the few conquered C-level instances, the vast and abundant space within Gu Yun Mountain’s instance is filled with C-level Magic Beasts and Magic Plants, with scarce resources monopolized by some families.
According to Awakened who entered before, the Magic Beasts inside are mostly arrogant and disdainful of weak humans, which enabled the Awakened back then to kill the BOSS and successfully conquer the Gu Yun Mountain Dungeon.
The instance is named Gu Yun Mountain because its entrance resides atop a renowned mountain in Sea City called "Gu Yun Mountain".
Gu Yun Mountain, mountain peak.
Qian Qi sat on a small stool against the majestic landscape of overlooking all peaks, softly blew out a nonexistent smoke ring.
"Once I had a 300,000 business deal before me, and I cherished it too much. By the time I realized it was all a trap, I regretted it deeply, and the greatest pain is not realizing it sooner. If heaven would give me another chance, I’d tell that trash system just four words."
Qian Qi said sinisterly, "Fuck your old man."
System: [...Are you still mad?]
"If you ask me how many times I’d like to curse," Qian Qi smiled slightly, "I’d hope it’s a trillion times∩_∩."
Over the past three weeks, Qian Qi strictly followed the system’s learning plan, killing the Demon Electric Lion boss every two days to increase her power buff, diligently planting Defense Fruit and Magic Plants from the Frenzy Potion recipe, occasionally visiting Yanjiao dungeon and Chuyun Mountain instance to train tacit and combat power with Mo Ya Beast.
Until the last two days, her power buff finally stacked to D-level Peak, just a step away from advancing to C-Level.
Then the system said, she could start preparing to enter the Gu Yun Mountain Dungeon.
What was the conversation like back then?
Qian Qi: "Didn’t you say you could give me power and defense comparable to C-level? But now I’m just a little D-level Peak weakling!"
System: [Exactly, I said comparable, isn’t D-level Peak comparable to C-level?]
Qian Qi: ??? "Then what about my defensive power?"
System: [Don’t you have a set of C-level Defense Armor?]
Qian Qi: ???
Qian Qi then realized she was tricked.