Chapter 10

In the dim living room.

Li Yi sat on the ground without moving. His eyes were lightly closed, his breathing was even, and his whole person was immersed in cultivation.

The broken knife coin brought him an unimaginably huge advantage. Pure energy was being guided into his body by his intent continuously and then absorbed.

After receiving the nourishment of this energy, the human body's cells actively began to evolve.

Evolved cells will have faster division speed, longer lifespan, and higher strength than previous cells. This subtle change will finally be reflected in the complete individual. Therefore, the cultivator's physical fitness will be stronger, bones will be tougher, and of course, the lifespan will also increase.

This is a comprehensive transformation.

Therefore, cultivation is a process of self-evolution.

However, after Li Yi entered meditation for about two or three hours, his body felt a strong sense of hunger, which forced him to open his eyes and interrupt his cultivation.

"So hungry." He licked his lips.

His stomach was growling, and a strong sense of hunger and thirst filled his whole body. The things he ate at night had long been digested completely, and he needed to eat immediately now.

Li Yi was not panicked, because he knew this was a normal phenomenon. Because the body had evolved, the energy consumed by the body would also become more. The most intuitive change was that he was particularly able to eat, so he had to stand up to cook for himself, and fill his stomach first.

The milk, dried noodles, and instant noodles in the refrigerator were soon swept away, but he was still very hungry. Finally, even the white sugar used for seasoning was dissolved into sugar water with warm water and drunk all at once.

Until everything edible in the house was eaten, Li Yi's hunger subsided.

"No wonder some people say that medical pods are not prepared for dormant persons, but for cultivators. Now I understand. After entering the medical pod, a cultivator can obtain a comfortable and stable cultivation environment. The medical pod can automatically adjust the temperature and humidity of the air, isolate noise, and massage your body to promote blood circulation, avoiding illness from sitting for a long time. Of course, the most important thing is to automatically supplement the nutrient solution needed by the cultivator's body."

Li Yi glanced at the two medical pods in the room and thought secretly.

"A second-hand medical pod is worth at least one million. If it is the latest model of medical pod, the starting price is over thirty million. And the cheapest nutrient solution is one thousand per bottle, which can maintain the basic consumption of a dormant person for ten days. But top-tier nutrient solution is one hundred thousand per bottle, which is simply liquid gold. That kind of nutrient solution should be supplied for cultivators."

"Otherwise, if a cultivator is woken up by hunger and has to eat every few hours of cultivation, it will greatly affect the efficiency of cultivation."

"Therefore, if an ordinary person wants to cultivate, they must at least be equipped with a medical pod and a sufficient quantity of nutrient solution. If they still have some money, they will go to hire a guide to help guide the cosmic energy into the cultivator's body, greatly shortening the time required for cultivation."

"Calculated this way, there are places to spend money everywhere in cultivation. It seems that most people are not willing to cultivate not because they fear that cultivation is poisonous, but because they have no money. If they have money, these problems can all be solved."

Li Yi finished the sugar water in his hand, smacked his lips, and after calculating in his heart, he was secretly shocked.

"Therefore, the top priority is that I must find a job that can earn big money and fast money. Otherwise, even if I possess this broken mystic object, my path of cultivation will not go very smoothly. And besides supplying my own cultivation, I also have to supply my parents, allowing my parents to lie healthily in the medical pod and sleep. After all, I cannot feed my parents cheap nutrient solution that costs one thousand per bottle for a long time."

"With money, I also want to change to the latest and top-tier medical pod and buy nutrient solution that costs one hundred thousand per bottle."

The pursuit is different, and the desire and ambition in Li Yi's heart are also greater. Now he is definitely not satisfied with the little wages he earned from working before.

"Continue to cultivate, and ask Lin Yue tomorrow how people who step into cultivation earn money."

Li Yi entered meditation again and entered the state of cultivation.

One night passed quickly.

As soon as the sky brightened.

Li Yi went out very early. He was starving now, and the things at home were eaten up, so he went straight to the breakfast shop downstairs.

"Boss, give me twenty steamed buns first."

His voice was loud and full of energy. Although hungry, his mental state was surprisingly good, and his whole body was very relaxed and full of strength, not at all as tired as when he was working before.

This was only the first day of cultivation.

Li Yi buried his head in eating while thinking about how to earn money today. He only had a little over one thousand dollars left in his hand, and it could be said that the family had run out of food. If he couldn't bring back two bottles of nutrient solution before dusk, his parents would have to go hungry too.

While thinking, his train of thought was suddenly interrupted by a phone ringtone.

Li Yi picked it up and saw that the caller was the black-hearted intermediary who usually introduced him to jobs: Yellow Curly-Haired Brother.

"Is this Li Yi?"

As soon as he answered, the voice on the other end of the phone was not Curly-Haired Brother's. That voice was very low and very familiar; it seemed he had heard it somewhere before.

He remembered.

It was that Lao Ya he wasn't very familiar with.

Li Yi felt a chill in his heart, and his face turned solemn instantly. He didn't expect the other party to solve the trouble at the Investigation Bureau so quickly. It seems this group of people are not ordinary cultivators but existences with a certain status and background.

"It's me, Lao Ya." He didn't choose to escape but communicated head-on.

"You ran quite fast yesterday, disappearing in a flash. Where are you now?" Lao Ya inquired.

Li Yi said: "You can just say what you have to say, don't beat around the bush. You are not interested in a poor kid like me; you are interested in the things I brought back from the abandoned district, right?"

"You are quite sensible. Hand it over; that thing is not something you can take. Don't look for trouble for no reason." Lao Ya's tone was low, revealing a sense of threat.

"Am I looking for trouble or are you looking for trouble? It was agreed that money would be given when the things were found, but until now I haven't received any money. Did you think I wanted to run yesterday? You didn't give money, and you wanted to silence me. You were the ones who didn't keep your word first. Bah, what kind of thing is this."

"I'll give you ten minutes now to transfer the money to me immediately. Otherwise, I'll take this pile of things to the Investigation Bureau and say it's stolen goods."

Li Yi was immediately righteous and outputted a lot to Lao Ya on the other end of the phone.

You could witness me from ten meters away, so you definitely can't do anything to me across the phone screen.

And now the more righteous Li Yi was, the more he could prove that he didn't have a guilty conscience and didn't take the other party's things.

Lao Ya's face twitched, and he was so angry that he almost crushed his phone, and then explained: "Liu Yan's death was an accident. Although she was killed by us, she was possessed by a ghost at the time and couldn't be saved. We had no choice but to finish her off."

"Whether she was possessed by a ghost or not is not up to you to say. Now, if I am found by you, I will probably be possessed by a ghost too. You have already lost your credibility. If you want to take back the things, you must pay money first. Otherwise, I will report the mystic object matter together with the stolen goods. No one will have a good time," Li Yi said.

Lao Ya on the other end of the phone fell silent for a moment, and it took a long while before he gave an answer: "Fine, the money can be transferred to you first, but you must take a photo of the things and send them over, so I can determine that the things are still in your hand."

"Pay money first, then look at the goods," Li Yi said.

Old Crow on the other end of the phone had a very cold tone at this moment: "Stinky kid, you really want money more than your life. Do you really think I can't do anything to you? I can get through to your phone today, and I can find your house tomorrow. You should know that there are not many people in the old district of Tianchang City who own two medical pods. You have actually been exposed long ago. I advise you to be honest."

Li Yi felt a chill in his heart upon hearing this, and he fell silent immediately.

He could run if he encountered trouble, but his parents at home were lying in the medical pods and couldn't run. This was his soft underbelly.

"Take a photo of the things and send them over first. I will give you a sum of money based on the value of the things," Lao Ya said. Although he issued a threat, he didn't dare to push Li Yi too hard.

In case this kid really took the things and ran to the Investigation Bureau, then the greater loss would be theirs.

They are cultivators and are not worth being dragged down by a few rotten lives.

This was also fortunate that it was a safe zone. If it were in the abandoned district, Lao Ya would really want to kill him to silence him, saving trouble.

Li Yi had no choice. Under such a threat, he could only swallow his anger and choose to compromise: "Fine, I will take a photo of the things I obtained and send them to you."

After finishing, he opened his backpack, took out the big pile of tattered clothes inside, took a photo, and sent it over.

Lao Ya, who received the photo, immediately took it to Ning Wu, who was on the side, to look at.

"This is the burial object Li Yi obtained on the second underground floor. See if it has any value?"

Ning Wu stared at the picture and looked at it: "Those clothes are indeed not products of our world, and the material is very special. However, the probability of it being a mystic object is very small, because mystic objects are very difficult to destroy, and the clothes are already rotten and damaged, so they have almost no value. It seems our goal still has to be focused on Wang Hu and Wei Li."

"Is there any possibility that the other party lied and concealed some things?" Lao Ya said in a low voice.

Ning Wu closed her eyes and recalled the scene yesterday, and then said: "The possibility of concealment is not high. The quantity of clothes in the picture indeed matches the quantity of clothes Li Yi had in his hand yesterday. However, to avoid extra branches, give him some money and recover the things."

"Fine, I know."

Lao Ya nodded, and only then continued to talk to Li Yi: "What you have in your hand is a pile of junk, not worth money. But considering the special nature of this matter, I am still willing to offer ten thousand to recover it."

"Only ten thousand? Wasn't it agreed on two million?" Li Yi almost started cursing.

Lao Ya sneered and said: "Just a few pieces of tattered clothes, do you think you are holding a mystic object in your hand? Dare to ask for two million? Just ten thousand, do you want it or not? If you don't want it, you won't even have ten thousand."

Li Yi gritted his teeth and spat out a word: "Want."

Even a mosquito is meat no matter how small it is.

Sure enough, these guys are very black-hearted. If he hadn't received the fifty thousand deposit first, he would have lost everything now.

"I reckon you kid are afraid of death and don't dare to show your face. Put the things in the storage locker of the shopping mall, and I will send someone to pick them up," Lao Ya said.

"Fine."

Li Yi hung up the phone. Although he was gritting his teeth a moment ago, he felt relieved the next moment.

He should have fooled them.

Although he didn't know how long he could fool them, at least Lao Ya's group wouldn't stare at him for a short time.

Of course, Li Yi also understood that it wasn't because his means were high, but because the other party's attention was attracted by Wang Hu and Wei Li. After all, the possibility of those two people holding a mystic object was higher.

It's just that he also knew clearly in his heart that as long as he continued to cultivate, once the other party met him next time, his possession of a mystic object would likely be exposed.

Because the cultivation gap between having a mystic object and not having one is very large, far from being explained by a sentence like "you are a genius."

So before that, he must master a certain self-protection ability, at least to be like that woman, opening the spirit medium.

Thinking of this, Li Yi took a deep breath, and a thick sense of crisis shrouded his whole body.

After dealing with Lao Ya's matter, he immediately set off for Uncle Biao's meditation room.

His understanding of cultivation was still far from enough, and he still needed to ask Lin Yue for advice.