"Ding! Congratulations, Host, for successfully killing a Middle Rank Evil Spirit. You will receive the following rewards:
1. System Points: 150
2. Divine Origin Substance: 2 points"
Is it because I've reached the Second Rank? Chu Feng mused, looking thoughtfully at the simple two-item reward list.
However, the mere two points of Divine Origin Substance still made him frown.
It seems my luck isn't very good this time, he thought. Otherwise, I could have exchanged for Spiritual Objects to enhance my Spirit Root!
Chu Feng opened the system store again to look at the Spiritual Objects he had been longing for. Heart of Chong Ah, 20 points... Golden Spirit Jade Liquid, 100 points of Divine Origin Substance?
He suddenly paused as he looked at the prices of the two Spiritual Objects.
Wouldn't this fifty-percent discount coupon be put to better use on the Golden Spirit Jade Liquid?
After all, he planned to upgrade his Spirit Root to Top Quality before attempting to advance to the Golden Core stage. By that calculation, it was clear that saving fifty points of Divine Origin Substance was the correct choice.
Fifty plus twenty, a total of seventy points of Divine Origin Substance, and I only have eight right now...
Looking at the information on the system panel, Chu Feng let out a long sigh. Why am I starting to miss the days in the Qingxuan Sacred Ground? If I were there, Master Chu Qing, that drunkard, would probably have soaked the Spiritual Objects in liquor and forced me to drink it by now...
「...」
The bottom of the office building was severely damaged, and a large pit had also appeared in the parking lot outside. As a result, the office could only temporarily cease operations, waiting for the repairs below to be completed.
With the leverage of money, New York's construction and renovation companies had arrived at the site in only an hour and were now clearing the rubble and debris.
"Belles is truly useless, wasting so many of my subordinates for nothing!" Palmer, weaving through the workers, glanced at the huge pit in the parking lot, his mouth twitching slightly. He secretly wished he could flog Belles's corpse a few more times. "But that waste did do one good thing: at least now those damned Exorcists are finally out of the building!"
Looking at the building, which was almost in ruins, and the workers coming and going, a Bizarre red glint flashed in his eyes for an instant.
"Don't be in a hurry. As long as I get the item, even if you consume all these ordinary people, it won't be an issue!"
Palmer's self-muttering went unheard; the surrounding workers seemed completely oblivious to his presence.
Amidst the noise created by various construction tools, his figure quickly moved up the floors, searching for his target in different offices.
"Not here... not here, still not here!"
"Damn it! Where the hell did these Exorcists hide the object?"
Palmer, who had reached the seventh floor, looked at the mess he had made in the room and grew increasingly irritable, starting to suspect that the item had already been taken.
"Is this what you are looking for?"
Accompanied by an unfamiliar voice, a hand holding six silver coins mysteriously extended in front of him.
Seeing the six silver coins, Palmer felt not joy but a shiver in his heart, frantically retreating.
Damn it, when did he get here?
Someone had managed to sneak up on him so silently. The shock was so great that he could no longer maintain his disguise and revealed his true form.
"We can't have you smashing into the walls now, can we!"
As the owner of the hand spoke again, Palmer suddenly found that a palm had clamped onto his neck at some unknown moment.
The next instant, he felt his body abruptly lift off the ground. Someone had grabbed him by the throat and hoisted him up.
"UGH... Damn it... Let go of me!"
"Let go of you? No, that won't do. Let's move to a different place and have a proper chat!"
Chu Feng looked at the man in his grasp, whose pupils were flickering with a red glow, and raised an eyebrow. I hadn't expected to encounter another human with such a Bizarre appearance so soon. It seems this one is also from the Yulei Sect...
Accompanied by a rainbow streak across the sky, Chu Feng, holding the man, soon appeared in the outskirts of New York.
"I'll ask you a few questions. Think carefully before you answer!" Chu Feng slapped the man's face, a hint of danger in his eyes.
"Pah! You're dreaming!"
Palmer's uncooperative stance made Chu Feng scoff. With a mere thought from Chu Feng, a silver coin emitting white light suddenly shot out from Palmer's collar.
"Not being honest, are you!"
Shaking his head, Chu Feng easily shattered the incoming claws with a swift slap and tossed the man to the ground. Then, amid the man's groans, he snatched the silver coin into his hand again.
So it's this thing...
Palmer hadn't expected his opponent to understand the silver coins so well. Seeing the coin now in Chu Feng's grasp, he was instantly terrified. His body went limp, and he immediately began to beg for mercy.
"Please no! I beg you!"
"Heh. You've changed your tune rather quickly! What happened to your defiant demeanor just now?"
"Sir, sir! Didn't you want to ask questions? Just ask, I'll answer them all!" At this life-or-death moment, Palmer could no longer care about anything else. He only wanted to placate the man before him first.
"What organization do you come from?"
Chu Feng eyed the man, whose attitude had done a complete one-eighty, amusement flashing in his eyes as he asked the same question again.
"Organization?" Palmer's eyes flickered. He steadied his nerves before replying, "I come from a secret research base of the federal government!"
"Federal government? Secret base?" A smirk gradually appeared on Chu Feng's face.
"Really, sir, I truly am..."
Before the man could finish, Chu Feng scoffed, shook his head, and threw a punch that cut him off.
"You really won't cry until you see the coffin, will you!"
"Uh... Wait! Wait! What exactly did you do?" Palmer, having taken the heavy punch, was just regaining his senses from the acute pain when he felt something in his body change.
At the same moment, as the skill icon lit up on the system panel, a piercing howl burst out from within the man's body.
Under the influence of True Yuan, a blood-red, ethereal, and Bizarre figure slowly emerged from the man's body, its octopus-like tentacles flailing wildly as if suffering extreme pain.
Yet, just as the silvery-white flame in Chu Feng's right hand was ready to greet the new arrival, the silver coin he clutched suddenly pulsed with a soft, creamy white halo.
Under the halo's influence, the Bizarre entity emerging from the man's body froze mid-action.
The next second, the figure, already more than halfway out, showed signs of retracting back into him.
Hmm? This silver coin...
Looking at the glowing silver coin in his hand, Chu Feng narrowed his eyes slightly and silently mobilized the True Yuan within him.
I'm curious to see just what this inanimate object, so coveted by the Yulei Sect, is capable of...