A battle came to an end.
Xie Litang could certainly consider this a bountiful haul.
Excluding those buried beneath the rubble, she still obtained eleven spatial storage items.
At the door of the bank vault.
Creak.
Xie Litang pushed open the dusty door.
"Sis, you're here."
"Mm, I'm here."
Xie Litang stepped forward and scooped up her younger sister.
At the same time, she stored the maglev wheelchair inside her woven spatial bracelet.
She then stepped onto her turbofan hoverboard and flew all the way toward Fumu City. She should be able to enjoy a period of peace for a good while now. As for getting into trouble again later?
As long as Xie Litang was given a little more time to grow, trouble would no longer be trouble.
If they dared to step into Fumu City,
then Fumu City would become their graveyard.
Chen Linling wrapped her arms around Xie Litang's neck, resting the side of her face against Xie Litang's shoulder. Twitching her nose slightly, she murmured, "Sis, you smell so good."
Xie Litang couldn't help but roll her eyes and said softly, "Teasing me, are you? I haven't showered in days out here, and I worked up quite a sweat in that fight just now."
"Whatever you say, Sis—you still smell the best."
"Alright, alright, whatever you say."
In less than half a day,
the two returned to Fumu City.
Even though it was merely a ruined city out in the wilderness, somehow, it gave them a subtle sense of belonging.
The two of them each washed up.
Chen Linling went to rest first,
while Xie Litang pulled out her satellite communicator and sent a message to a certain legendary salesperson back in the city.
"Back."
"Eleven spatial rings. Find a way to unlock them. If you can sell the resources inside without causing trouble for yourself, I'll give you an extra one percent commission cut."
Ding-dong.
【Received. Wait for me.】
The two agreed on a time.
At the latest, Yang Yiyi would arrive here the day after tomorrow.
Xie Litang remained seated on the windowsill, gazing out at the desolate, ruined Old Era streets below.
This battle had taught her a great deal.
More than that, it made her clearly recognize her own shortcomings.
"Heartsteel is powerful, but its drawback is that the cooldown on the same target is too long. If I face a true expert, they won't give me thirty seconds."
Obviously,
after that single hit from Heartsteel, her damage fell off completely.
Therefore, she needed to make up for her basic attack output. For ordinary people, the simplest solution would be to learn various cultivation techniques.
But Xie Litang was different.
Because she had the cheat that was her system.
And the core of all this lay in her Vitality.
Xie Litang needed to build a fighting style centered around Vitality.
"That strike from Heartsteel can still serve as my trump card, but I can't rely on it alone."
"Currently, there is one and only one way to upgrade Heartsteel—and that is using gold coins."
"However, the cost of doing so is far too high."
"The gold coins required to upgrade Heartsteel to zero cooldown would be enough to fully deck me out in a full six-item build."
"So..."
Xie Litang shifted her gaze toward the system shop—or more specifically, toward a piece of equipment: Overlord's Bloodmail.
For Xie Litang, the greatest benefit of this item lay in one of its core passive effects:
Tyranny: Gain attack damage equal to 2% of your bonus health.
So coming back to the main point, what she lacked most right now was gold coins.
Currently, the only known way to acquire gold coins was by hunting demon beasts.
Xie Litang frowned and murmured softly, "Should I go into a demon-occupied zone to hunt demon beasts?"
"It's a viable option,"
"but far from the optimal one."
With a cheat in hand, there was no need to put herself in unnecessary danger.
Thus, there was another way: to make the demon beasts come looking for her on their own initiative.
Xie Litang had previously taken on karma on her own initiative, originally thinking she would wait for the Yellow Immortals to come knocking.
Yet after so many days had passed,
let alone a Yellow Immortal seeking revenge,
she hadn't seen so much as a single strand of Yellow Immortal fur.
"In that case,"
"perhaps I can raise the stakes and escalate this karma to the point where they have no choice but to come."
"And I don't need to limit myself to Yellow Immortals. Fox, Weasel, Hedgehog, Snake, Rat—the Five Immortals all hold grudges. I can target every last one of them."
"Of course, to ensure nothing goes wrong, I still need to get some life-saving measures."
Xie Litang wrote down a list of her requirements and sent it to Yang Yiyi.
As someone determined to become a legendary salesperson, she believed Yang Yiyi would surely come up with a solution for her client.
The following night.
Once again under the cover of night,
a truck slowly drove into Fumu City. Yang Yiyi was as cautious as ever.
Several bodyguards stood guard around the front of the truck, while the cargo container had been remodeled into a private room.
Yang Yiyi took those eleven spatial rings and said in a serious tone, "Inside is an ability user of the Artifact Smith Sequence who's responsible for cracking spatial rings."
"From start to finish, he stays strictly inside the sealed container. He doesn't know the destination, nor does he know whose spatial rings he's cracking. He's strictly doing a job for money."
Xie Litang nodded. "When you handle things, I can rest easy."
Yang Yiyi pulled out another list and continued, "Now, let's talk about the other business. The matter you entrusted to me has already seen some progress."
"Fox, Weasel, Hedgehog, Snake, and Rat are the Five Immortals of the Old Era."
"I've already posted procurement bounties on the black market and with the Demon Beast Hunter Association."
"Right now on the truck, I can hand over a batch to you: eleven Yellow Immortals in total, valued at 2.76 million."
Immediately after,
she pulled out a catalog of cultivation techniques.
Adjusting the gold-rimmed glasses on her delicate nose, Yang Yiyi said, "In accordance with Miss Xie's requirements, I searched through all the cultivation technique resources currently obtainable."
"Taking Vitality as the starting point... Well, since you mentioned that cost is no object, I ran model simulations using a supercomputer."
"There are three techniques I recommend to you in total. You can review them yourself first."
"Of course, if you're unsatisfied, I can open up the full inventory catalog of techniques for you to choose from."
Xie Litang took the list and glanced through it, her expression clearly showing immense satisfaction.
A qualified—no, legendary salesperson—brought this exact kind of delight and satisfaction.
Moreover, unlike before, the items on this list were all exorbitantly expensive.
Xie Litang flipped through the pages and said softly, "Salesperson Yang, these are quite pricey."
Yang Yiyi covered her mouth with a light chuckle and replied, "You've seen the list yourself. The only downside to being expensive is that it costs a lot, isn't it?"
Xie Litang smiled, offering neither agreement nor denial.
She was particularly interested in one technique on the list: the Blood Escape Technique.
Blood Escape Technique effect: For every 100 points of Vitality burned, gain a 1-point speed boost and immunity to certain control effects.
To others, this was a life-saving trump card—burning Vitality as a cost to gain short bursts of ultra-high movement speed in exchange for escape time.
But to Xie Litang, this wasn't a cost—it was a permanent state.
Besides, wasn't this Blood Escape Technique practically an alternate version of the Wuju Master's ultimate ability, Highlander?
Rate on N.U.
