Chapter 397: In the name of God! Pear Madam, you are exposed! (seeking monthly tickets, recommendations, and legitimate versions)_1
Chapter 397: In the name of God! Pear Madam, you are exposed! (seeking monthly tickets, recommendations, and legitimate versions)_1
Time flew by, and before long, a month had passed.
In the Elemental Association’s Cultivation Room, Pei Jinye slowly opened his eyes.
His attribute panel had been updated.
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[Elemental Heart Method: Breaking the limit level]
[Eight Phase Art: Beginner 58% (Elemental power amplification limit 58 times, use with caution, insufficient spiritual power will lead to irreversible damage)]
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Over the course of a month, overtly and covertly lending a hand more than a dozen times, he finally collected all of the Star Ring’s Phase Arts, much like collecting stamps.
The day he completed the collection of all eight Phase Arts, the word “fusion” appeared on the attribute panel, and that was the day Pei Jinye fully realized the Eight Phase Art was not as superficial as he initially understood.
In a certain sense, it was about observing the patterns of heaven and earth.
It was also through the “Eight Phase Art” that he gained some different understandings of “Burning Seal.”
Visualizing the heavens and earth, visualizing all things…
The former is about visualizing absorption, while the latter is about visualizing materialization.
During this period, Pei Jinye’s visualization of the Golden Lotus had become increasingly proficient, almost to the point where he could do it as he wished.
This was also his trump card method for cleanly killing people lately.
The killing power condensed from the Golden Lotus was far beyond what ordinary people could withstand.
And with these gains, Pei Jinye’s elemental damage amplification had already accumulated to 18 times, and that was without counting the amplification from the Eight Phase Art.
Therefore, Pei Jinye did not know where his own limit lay.
His gaze fell on the reminder on the attribute panel.
“Not to exceed the spiritual power limit… which means, as long as I keep increasing my spiritual power, I will be able to reach these levels of elemental power…”
“And moreover!”
“This is merely the damage amplification at the beginner stage; subsequent improvements to the ‘Eight Phase Art’… will still bring an increase in power.”
Pei Jinye exhaled lightly, then left the Element Cultivation Room.
He had been in this world for over a month now.
His strength had soared rapidly.
But he had not forgotten that in reality… he was still in danger in Dragon Valley.
Originally, it was a clash between the white-haired woman and the Big Fire Dragon over the Flame God’s Coffin, but he got caught in the mix by accident, and now the Federation had already dispatched personnel to investigate.
Pei Jinye did not know the strength of the other party, so he could not judge whether he was an opponent or not.
“Little Fire said it would help me block them; I wonder how far it has helped me now.”
Pei Jinye focused his gaze, his strength having soared immensely in this past month.
To be precise, he was no longer the same person he once was.
On the attribute panel.
All three Attribute Points had broken through 160, with a 60% surge in attributes in one month, on top of devouring various Transcendents…
He currently possessed one Third Rank Extraordinary and six Second Rank Extraordinaries.
“I really am too strong.”
Feeling the vigorous power inside his body, Pei Jinye didn’t look back, instead seeking out his next target.
He happened to meet Xu Xiaoqing.
“Pei Jinye,” Xu Xiaoqing called out urgently, her face anxious and somewhat pale, “Can you do me a favor? Take me to Doctor Hu on West Qing Road…”
“What’s wrong with you? Doesn’t the Elemental Association have a clinic? I’ll take you there,” Pei Jinye offered to help her up.
But Xu Xiaoqing quickly struggled, “No, I can’t go there… I’ve taken too much medicine, and now I have an adverse reaction. If the Elemental Association finds out, I might get a major demerit.”
“What’s more important, a demerit or your health?” Pei Jinye looked at Xu Xiaoqing’s expression, nodded, and said, “Alright, I’ll take you there now.”
West Qing Road was over twenty minutes away from their location.
Pei Jinye hailed a cab on the roadside. Xu Xiaoqing was already curled up, her complexion deathly pale, and beads of sweat rolled down her forehead continuously.
“If you don’t mind, I’ll take your pulse first,” Pei Jinye said in a low voice.
Xu Xiaoqing was practically unable to speak, so Pei Jinye took it as her consent. She was a girl who had her own little plans, but at least she was generous and wouldn’t harm others.
With two fingers on Xu Xiaoqing’s wrist, keeping a respectful distance to avoid embarrassment…
Under the perception of Elemental Power, Pei Jinye found that the blood inside Xu Xiaoqing’s body was continuously converging towards her Dantian.
“What medicine did you take?” he asked in a low voice.
Unable to speak, Xu Xiaoqing just pointed to her pocket, and Pei Jinye reached in to get it…
The driver glanced in the rearview mirror, murmuring something to himself silently.
Pei Jinye took out a packet of golden tablets, with only two left inside. He frowned, “Is this what you’ve been taking?”
He sighed.
Just by briefly sensing these golden tablets, he could detect toxins contained within them.
Looking at Xu Xiaoqing’s state, it was obvious that she had overdosed, with the toxins accumulating excessively.
He discreetly used the Wood Element to stabilize her internal condition somewhat.
When they finally reached Doctor Hu’s place…
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The white curtain was drawn.
Pei Jinye quietly waited in the hall, surveying his surroundings.
This was a small clinic.
It didn’t look very big.
Though called a hall, it could only accommodate four or five people at most. There sat Doctor Hu at the reception, who had now temporarily left to treat a patient, indicating just how bleak the business of the clinic was.
However small, the clinic had all the necessary arrangements.
In less than ten minutes, the curtain was pulled back, and Doctor Hu walked out with a calm face.
Pei Jinye looked back.
Xu Xiaoqing looked like she had survived a calamity, slowly getting up from the bed.
They paid and left.
“Thank you for today,” Xu Xiaoqing said with her head lowered.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
“No need to be polite,” Pei Jinye replied nonchalantly, seemingly perceiving the young girl’s thoughts and adding, “You should take less of that medicine in the future, it’s not good for the body. And don’t worry about anything; I won’t speak of today’s events to anyone.”
“Thank you,” Xu Xiaoqing expressed her gratitude again but still felt the need to explain weakly, “The Elemental Association has an unspoken rule, if you can’t squeeze into the top hundred in the grand competition ten days later, you automatically lose the chance to compete for the excellent student status this quarter, and being an excellent student… is very useful.”
Pei Jinye looked on noncommittally, without discouraging the young girl.
To him,
no honor from the Elemental Association could attract him.
Having Devoured this time, he had access to the core secrets of the Elemental Association, and the mystique of each academy had already faded in his view.
“Hm?”
Suddenly, Pei Jinye raised his eyebrows.
The code he had planted in the Gaia System was showing anomalies.
After parting hastily with Xu Xiaoqing,
Pei Jinye quickly went to a dark net café, typed on the keyboard rapidly, and logged into a network access, blending into Gaia’s data center using the previous code entry point.
“It’s a shame I couldn’t find the server room.”
With a server room, all it would take is a small USB drive to easily plant a Trojan Horse.
But unfortunately…
There were three server rooms located in the Western Continent by Gaia, each heavily guarded. With Pei Jinye’s current strength, it was difficult for him to infiltrate any of them.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t need to go to such lengths to extract information.
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Star Ring: [The self-check program will start in 5 hours to eliminate all suspicious targets. Please issue instructions as soon as possible and arrange subsystem management business…]
Gaia: [Understood.]
Star Ring: [Secretly investigate the Nagano Ouyang Home, have they betrayed the Federation?]
Gia: [Understood.]
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Pei Jinye intercepted this segment of information.
An intense internal struggle unfolded within the Ouyang Family regarding the bill, which was quickly suppressed, but from Star Ring’s stance… it seemed to have achieved no small feat and was probably preparing for a reckoning.
“Start the investigation in advance, and after the bill is completely successful, carry out the reckoning…” Pei Jinye sighed softly, “This cyber intelligence is already becoming more and more like human beings… By Star Calendar 404, won’t it have turned into a monster?”
The more Pei Jinye thought this way, the more eager he became to assimilate the cyber intelligence and ensure he could grasp more initiative in reality.
He was clearly aware that although his strength had surged greatly, he was still very fragile compared to the vast real world.
Star Ring’s mastery in the spiritual network domain, as well as the gap that still existed between him and the masters like the Female Sword Immortal and elder sisters of the martial world, was still palpably wide even now.
“The road is long…”
“Star Ring now wants Gaia to investigate the Ouyang Family; would it investigate me as well…” Pei Jinye fell into contemplation.
Gaia would start its self-check in five hours.
Instructions would definitely be issued before the self-check.
“I’ll take a gamble.”
Pei Jinye was already prepared for his camouflage code to be discovered and, at the same time, switched windows to anonymously send a message to Pear Madam.
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At a certain cocktail party, Pear Madam picked up her phone, apologized to the person she was with and left alone.
The phone displayed the message sent anonymously by Pei Jinye.
After a moment of silence,
she dialed a number.
“It’s me. Have you found any anomalies on your side?” she asked.
“No, Madam,” a voice responded from the other end of the line.
Pear Madam hung up the phone, falling silent again.
She removed a sapphire ring.
Speaking softly, Pear Madam intoned,
“In the name of the God, discern the truth of this matter… God, please tell me the truth.”