Chapter 23

Normal people were deeply wary of corpses, but Chen Hao was rushing to step forward.

Tian Wenjing seemed to see through everyone's thoughts.

She said, "Chen Hao respects his teachers and follows the Dao; he is extremely good to his masters."

"So he is willing to take on the dirty and tiring work."

"That's right, Little Hao is very filial."

Liu Xiaodao remembered that Chen Hao had just sent him some more torrents.

Hearing the words of Tian Wenjing and Liu Xiaodao, everyone finally understood and cast admiring glances at Chen Hao.

Chen Hao threw the guy's corpse into the fire pile.

To prevent any accidents, he added another burst of flame.

"Ding dong!"

"Congratulations to the host, corpse collection successful!"

Awesome!

It was truly too awesome!

Chen Hao experienced what it meant to have killing and arson bring golden belts.

Possessing the Corpse Collection System, he had become the biggest winner tonight.

This time, not only did the Scorpion Brigade suffer casualties.

The Supernatural Bureau also lost quite a few people.

The Scorpion Brigade lost twenty, while the Supernatural Bureau lost twenty-five.

The members within the Scorpion Brigade were all heinous criminals, so their combat effectiveness was stronger.

Chen Hao and the others transported the corpses of their fallen comrades from the Supernatural Bureau back.

After Chen Hao applied makeup to them, and everyone mourned, they were sent into the incinerator.

As the corpses were sent into the incinerator one by one.

A series of system prompts rang out in Chen Hao's head.

The Supernatural Bureau lost five C-rankers this time, and the rest were D-rank espers.

E and F-rank espers had too poor aptitude, so the Supernatural Bureau didn't recruit them.

This time, Chen Hao obtained many abilities.

For Chen Hao, they were all chicken-rib abilities.

He directly decomposed all the abilities.

Counting the previous ones, Chen Hao now possessed original ability beads.

Chen Hao thought for a moment and used 10,000 original ability beads to upgrade [Strength Enhancement] to B-rank.

[Strength Enhancement], B-rank ability: After use, it can increase strength by three times.

"Pretty good, my strength has increased again."

Now there were 3,600 original ability beads left.

Adhering to the principle of making the best use of everything.

Chen Hao used 1,000 beads on [Super Brain], upgrading [Super Brain] to C-rank.

Then he used another 1,000 beads on [Sanctimonious], upgrading [Sanctimonious] to C-rank as well.

Chen Hao planned to save the remaining 1,600 beads for now.

In war, there are only losers, no winners.

There was a burst of wailing within the Supernatural Bureau.

The Scorpion Brigade wasn't doing well either.

"Bang!"

Inside a secret base.

A woman slammed a heavy punch onto the table.

The table was cracked directly by the blow.

"Damn, truly damnable!"

She was a branch leader of the Scorpion Brigade, named Huang Wanjiao.

Her strength was Spirit-rank Tier 1.

This operation to attack Nanjiang City was planned by her.

"If it weren't for that waste being useless, we wouldn't have to be in such a rush."

The waste Huang Wanjiao spoke of was naturally that child.

"Boss, we didn't expect the little brat to be so fragile."

"He clearly awakened the SSS-rank [Corpse Control] ability."

"His body actually couldn't withstand it."

"If we hadn't used drugs, perhaps he would have died long ago."

"Hmph!"

Huang Wanjiao snorted coldly.

"But this time, it's not like we didn't have any gains."

The person speaking was wearing a white lab coat and was an old man.

He had the appearance of a mad scientist.

He was holding something in his hand, which was clearly the claw of a monster.

"This is a dragon claw; with it, I can develop warriors possessing dragon bloodlines."

"Hmm."

Hearing this, Huang Wanjiao nodded.

She said to the little old man, "Work hard."

"If you mess it up, you know the consequences."

"Boss, rest assured, don't you trust my technology?"

"Alright, stop showing off, hurry up and get to work."

"Yes."

The little old man left.

...Chen Hao's [Super Brain] ability had been upgraded to C-rank.

He discovered that the surrounding scenery was different again.

Now he was observant of the smallest details; even a tiny ant on the ground, he could notice its existence.

He began to try cultivating the "Fire Phoenix Art."

The surrounding fire-attribute energy gathered toward his body.

"Fire Phoenix Art."

Chen Hao didn't know how many times he had run it.

He thought he was very familiar with it.

Unexpectedly, under the amplification of the C-rank ability [Super Brain], he discovered the flaws in his operation of the "Fire Phoenix Art."

Chen Hao began to try improving the "Fire Phoenix Art."

"It actually works!"

This time, Chen Hao found two erroneous places in total.

And successfully corrected them.

He discovered that his cultivation speed had instantly accelerated quite a bit.

It was like water in a canal.

Chen Hao had cleared the silt blocking the canal.

The water in the canal naturally flowed faster.

"After cultivating for another period of time, I will be able to break through to the Master rank."

The Master rank was Chen Hao's short-term goal.

Tian Wenjing was currently at Master-rank Tier 4.

Chen Hao felt that it wouldn't be long before he could catch up to Tian Wenjing.

One week later.

Chen Hao was eating in the Supernatural Bureau's cafeteria.

His brows were tightly furrowed, seemingly pondering something.

"What's wrong with you? You look so miserable."

Tian Wenjing walked over with a metal tray and sat opposite Chen Hao.

"I've encountered a problem in my cultivation."

"I feel like I've hit a bottleneck; no matter how hard I try, I can't break through to the Master rank."

"Master rank?"

Hearing Chen Hao's words, Tian Wenjing was somewhat surprised: "You've reached the peak of the ninth stage of the Warrior rank?"

"Yes."

"No wonder you want to charge toward the Master rank."

"But charging toward the Master rank like this is useless."

"Even if you spent a lifetime, it would be impossible."

"Why?"

"Because to break through to the Master rank, you need a Master-rank Pill."

"Master-rank Pill?"

"Yes."

"After your strength reaches the peak of the ninth stage of the Warrior rank, you need the help of a Master-rank Pill."

"After an esper's strength reaches the Master rank, the supernatural energy in their body will change from a gaseous state to a liquid state."

"This Master-rank Pill helps your supernatural energy change from a gaseous state to a liquid state."

"It's like the first grain of sand in an oyster."

"If an oyster wants to form a pearl, it must first swallow a grain of sand."

"Then, using the sand as a base, it sprays mucus onto the sand."

"Gradually, it will form a beautiful pearl."

"This Master-rank Pill works on the same principle, helping you condense the first liquid supernatural energy body."

"Then, using the first liquid supernatural energy bead as a base, you continue to condense."

Hearing this, Chen Hao nodded.

He continued to ask Tian Wenjing: "Then how can this Master-rank bead be obtained?"

"Do missions."

"Do missions?"

"Yes, our Supernatural Bureau has Master-rank Pills."

"If you want to obtain one, you must exchange mission points for it."

"One Master-rank Pill costs about 10,000 points."

"10,000 points?"

Chen Hao's brows gradually furrowed.

He couldn't help but look at Tian Wenjing and ask: "Do you have any points? Can you lend me some first?"

Hearing this, Tian Wenjing shook her head.

"Sorry, I exchanged for some cultivation materials earlier, and now I have very little left."

"Then let's go do a mission," Chen Hao said.

"A mission? That's doable."

"Wait until I finish eating, and I'll take you with me."

Ten-plus minutes later.

Tian Wenjing took Chen Hao to the department in the Supernatural Bureau that issues missions.

With demon and monster invasions, various things happened every day.

The Supernatural Bureau's mission was to solve these things.

After taking a look, Tian Wenjing said: "Choose this one, 5,000 points."

"How about it? Is this mission okay?"

A 5,000-point mission was for those at the Master rank to take.

Tian Wenjing was Master-rank Tier 4, so she could just take it.

"Alright."