Chapter 9

"Wake up!"

A voice suddenly came to Li Yi's ear while he was immersed in cultivation.

He was immediately startled awake, and at the same time, his cultivation was interrupted.

Lin Yue looked at him with a smile that was not a smile at this moment and said: "You are not polite at all. You spent a full four hours as soon as you entered the state of cultivation, making me act as your guide the whole time."

"Has it been four hours already?" Li Yi was very surprised. He glanced outside the window.

It was already dark, and looking at the time, it was already seven o'clock in the evening.

He really didn't expect that so much time had passed since he started cultivating.

"I just checked your talent. In these four hours, I guided a total of one hundred portions of cosmic energy into your body, and during this period, you absorbed a total of forty-five portions, and all the others dissipated. Looking at it this way, your efficiency in absorbing cosmic energy is forty-five percent," Lin Yue said.

Li Yi secretly thought: as expected.

The cosmic energy that actively rushed into his body was really because of Lin Yue's deliberate guidance.

"Lin Jie, forty-five percent, is this data very low?" He then asked again.

Lin Yue said: "Although the data performance is a bit low, considering this is your first time cultivating, it is understandable. My data for the first time was only seventy percent. Overall, you have a little cultivation talent and can walk this path of cultivation. As long as you work harder, you will have achievements."

"Have talent, but not much, is that what you mean?" Li Yi laughed at himself: "That's really terrible."

"No, this is already considered a very good result. As your cultivation experience deepens, your energy conversion rate can still be improved. I estimate that reaching about sixty-five percent will be no problem," Lin Yue said.

Li Yi said: "That's just barely passing."

Lin Yue rolled her eyes: "Passing is already very good. Did you see those students during the day? After they cultivated for a period of time, their data was only about forty or fifty percent. You are considered an honor student in the training class."

"What is the data of those cultivation geniuses? One hundred percent?" Li Yi suddenly asked curiously.

"No, one hundred percent is not considered a genius. True geniuses are all above two hundred percent," Lin Yue said.

"..." Li Yi.

He thought the full score was one hundred, and he could get sixty-five, which was considered okay. He didn't expect the total score to have no ceiling.

"By the way, Lin Jie, just now when you were guiding cosmic energy into my body, did you perceive a special energy field?" Li Yi suddenly asked.

Lin Yue frowned: "Special energy field? No, I didn't. In my perception, there was only a grayish-white world, and there was no special energy field. Why? Did you feel it? If you felt it, you must be very careful. That might be a wormhole that suddenly opened. Your consciousness must not be rolled into it; otherwise, it is easy to be damaged. In severe cases, you will be in a coma for several months, and in mild cases, you will have a headache for several days."

"I understand." Li Yi nodded solemnly.

Afterward, he felt somewhat puzzled. The energy field he perceived should be the one emitted by the knife coin. Why didn't Lin Yue perceive it?

Could it be that the energy field of the broken knife coin is too small, so the range is limited?

"Haha, don't be busy cultivating. Come, come, come. I just ordered a few good dishes at the hotel next door. Let's have a good meal today. Niece, here is the braised shrimp you like to eat the most." At this time, Uncle Biao's voice rang out. He was in a pleasant mood and walked in carrying a pile of takeout boxes.

"Uncle, you are spending money recklessly again," Lin Yue said.

"If you earn money, you should eat and drink well; otherwise, life is too boring." Uncle Biao excitedly unpacked the takeout boxes: "Look, there is also beer. Li Yi, let's have a drink, don't stop until we're drunk."

"Uh, I don't drink alcohol," Li Yi said.

Uncle Biao put his arm around his neck and laughed: "You're already a twenty-year-old guy, how can you not drink? I'll teach you."

Until ten o'clock in the evening.

Li Yi left Uncle Biao's meditation room with a bit of tipsiness.

At night, when the city's cool breeze blew, he was startled and immediately regained his spirit, and his slightly dizzy head also cleared up again.

Without wasting too much time, he rushed home as fast as he could.

On the way, Li Yi secretly pondered in his heart: "Now I can be sure that the half of the knife coin in my hand is a mystic object. Although I don't know what strange abilities it has, at least I can be sure that this thing can help me cultivate. And from Lin Yue's mouth, I learned that my cultivation talent is not bad, and compared to most people, it is considered medium-to-high level."

"But the thing I have to consider right now is how to keep this broken mystic object. After all, this thing is not stable now. Once that group of people finishes dealing with the investigator Wang Jian, they will definitely come to find me when they turn back. At that time, only two paths will be left in front of me."

"Either hand it over in exchange for enough benefits and the protection of the Investigation Bureau, or take the risk of keeping it in my hand. As for Lao Ya's side? Sorry, not very familiar."

Li Yi was actually inclined toward the latter.

Because Lao Ya and the others didn't know for sure that he had obtained a mystic object. After all, besides him, Wang Hu and Wei Li had also taken something away that day. And he was also worried that once this thing was exposed, the other party would likely choose to kill him to silence him.

Cultivators can make you die in one encounter. Li Yi didn't dare to bet that the other party would keep their promise.

With some anxiety and unease, Li Yi returned home.

He first greeted his parents, then checked the medical pods, and after confirming that the medical pods were running without problems, he finally looked at the remaining amount of nutrient solution in the medical pods.

Nutrient solution: less than ten percent.

The flashing reminder made Li Yi have to worry again.

He looked at the balance on his phone: 1,876.

This little money was only enough to buy one bottle of nutrient solution, not even two.

"Wasn't the arrival of this day expected long ago?" Li Yi sat alone in the living room, and he fell into silence.

Since his parents became dormant, the family had been living beyond their means. As long as his parents didn't wake up, one day the family's money would be consumed completely. His hard work alone was just delaying the arrival of this day.

It's just that Li Yi himself didn't expect that this would be six years.

Before, he naively thought that as long as two or three years passed, his parents would be able to wake up, but now it seems that even after three years, this situation might not change.

"Perhaps handing over the broken mystic object is the correct thing to do. Getting a sum of money would at least allow my whole family to live safely and steadily, and even give me a chance to continue cultivating."

Li Yi rubbed the half of the knife coin in his hand, looking at his parents lying in the medical pods in the room, and thought in his heart.

"But I risked my life to luckily pick up such a thing that can change my destiny. If I give up today, I reckon I will regret it for the rest of my life. And as long as I am given a little time, my cultivation will soon have results. After becoming a cultivator, earning money will be much easier. At that time, how could I be troubled by a few bottles of nutrient solution?"

After a brief hesitation, Li Yi firmed up his inner thoughts again. He looked at his parents in the room again, and then said: "Dad, Mom, let me fight once. If you wake up one day, I believe you will definitely be able to understand my choice."

After finishing, he held the broken knife coin, sat with his eyes closed again, and began to discard distracting thoughts to enter the state of meditation cultivation.

Since he wants to fight, then every minute and every second cannot be wasted. The future cannot be grasped, but the present can be grasped. As long as the mystic object is in his hand for one day, Li Yi must cultivate with all his might. Only when he becomes strong enough will he not have to fear the upcoming trouble.

Soon.

He entered the state of the daytime again.

Within his perception, the broken knife coin emitted a narrow energy field. Under the influence of his intent, pure energy was guided into Li Yi's body.

Perhaps Li Yi's cultivation value is not high, and the energy conversion rate is only forty-five percent, but in the situation where he possesses this broken mystic object, he doesn't need to spend time capturing the energy leaking from the wormhole, nor does he worry about energy being wasted.

Talent has become not so important to him.

Because even for a genius, most of the time spent cultivating at night is consumed in capturing energy, and scarce pure cosmic energy is the biggest shackle limiting a genius's cultivation.

With the help of the mystic object, Li Yi can break this shackle, and the results of one night of cultivation exceed that of a genius by several times, or even dozens of times.

At the same time.

Late at night, old district.

Ning Wu, who had a tall figure and a long single ponytail, her accomplice Lao Ya, and a group of subordinates wearing black suits walked out of the Investigation Bureau behind them.

"Ning Wu, although someone has come forward to protect you, I advise your group to restrain yourselves. If you dare to cause trouble again, I guarantee you won't be able to walk out of the prison for ten years," the warning voice of investigator Wang Jian came from behind.

"Hmph."

Ning Wu hummed very dissatisfiedly and walked out without looking back.

After leaving the scope of the Investigation Bureau, she stopped her steps and immediately said: "Lao Ya, you must use the shortest time and at any cost to contact Wang Hu, Wei Li, and Li Yi, these three people, and let them return the things, so as not to have long nights and many dreams."

"Of course, I don't want to see accidents happen again either," Lao Ya nodded and said.

Ning Wu's eyes flickered with light, and she was so angry that her teeth itched: "If it weren't for this Wang Jian suddenly intervening, how could things have become so complicated? We had already obtained the things when we were in the abandoned district."

"Ning Wu, don't be anxious. They are all ordinary people, it's not hard to find them. And even if they really obtained good things, they don't know the goods. At worst, we raise the price a bit, and they will be very willing to hand them over when they see money," Lao Ya said.

"It's best if that's the case. My patience is about to be exhausted... This concerns a mystic object."

Ning Wu took a few deep breaths to calm herself down.