Chapter 5: I Don't Believe You, You Ghost!

Early morning.

Tianhai Training Center.

After a night of arduous struggle, Zhou Chu finally grinded the proficiency of two skills to the highest level.

【Your Dead Man's Contract (LV5 Immortal) proficiency has been reached; successfully upgraded to God-tier.】

【Your Swiftness (LV5 Immortal) proficiency has been reached; successfully upgraded to God-tier.】

【Dead Man's Contract (God-tier): Can cast a Contract Curse on a contract material of no higher than God-tier quality, summoning an Undead Servant of no higher than God-tier to fight for you.】

【Swiftness (God-tier): Increases the attack speed of contracted creatures by 500%.】

Whew—

Zhou Chu let out a sigh of relief, feeling a weight lifted off his shoulders.

The Normal Difficulty Dead Man's Contract had been upgraded to the highest God-tier.

Grinding from Immortal tier to the highest God-tier actually took nearly ten hours.

In the end, Zhou Chu finally possessed two God-tier quality skills.

There was nothing much to say about God-tier Swiftness.

It directly increased the attack speed of contracted servants by 500%.

In a word, it was insanely fast!

It allowed a D-Grade Corpse to land 10 attacks in one second.

As for how one could tell it could land so many in a second, it certainly couldn't be seen with the naked eye.

However, the most intuitive feeling was that the arm the Corpse swung now looked like a high-speed rotating chainsaw.

It caused what was originally 3 points of damage in 2 seconds to skyrocket to 30 points of damage in 1 second.

This was quite absurd.

Of course, what was even more absurd was the God-tier Dead Man's Contract; now Zhou Chu could apply the Dead Man's Contract to God-tier quality Contract Material.

From only being able to contract D-Grade ones at the Normal Difficulty stage, it had been upgraded step by step to God-tier.

At this moment, it could be said to be all-encompassing!

As long as there was no existence higher than God-tier, Zhou Chu could make it his loyal subordinate!

However, to contract a God-tier servant, one must collect God-tier quality material.

In today's world, it was hard to say if God-tier quality material even existed, let alone where to get it.

And the Life Soul Artifact could currently only provide the lowest quality.

To obtain higher ones, one way was to kill high-rank monsters and use them as new material.

The other was to upgrade the rank of the Life Soul Artifact as quickly as possible; perhaps it might produce high-quality material.

Of course, there was also a faster and more effortless method.

That was to hurry and reach level 5, then use Divine Fusion on a D-Grade Corpse; perhaps it could fuse into a God-tier Corpse.

However, Divine Fusion only had one chance every five levels, so it could not be used recklessly.

If it were used on a D-Grade Corpse, it would be a bit of a waste of a precious resource.

Good steel should be used on the blade.

It was better to wait until encountering material worth cultivating later.

But regardless, the effort of this day and night was ultimately not in vain, as Zhou Chu had managed to grind out two God-tier skills.

One had to know, this was something other Soul Professionals could not achieve in their entire lives.

Yet Zhou Chu had easily achieved it in just one day and night.

For a level 1 Soul Professional newcomer, having two God-tier skills on hand meant there should be few rivals among newcomers at this stage.

Just by relying on 300 Corpses buffed with 500% attack speed, it shouldn't be difficult for Zhou Chu to clear the Novice Dungeon.

Checking the time, the 18 hours of training time had been mostly used up.

After converting the remaining time into money, Zhou Chu left the Training Center.

At this time, there was still over an hour until the assessment exam.

He had to hurry and catch the school bus to the Dungeon Hall.

At this moment, two short car horn sounds suddenly came from behind.

Zhou Chu turned around and saw a small white car parked on the side of the road.

His aunt Chu Shuangshuang was sitting inside, waving at him with a face full of smiles on her charming features.

Not to mention, this woman really had a certain charm when she smiled.

Zhou Chu then climbed into the passenger seat.

Chu Shuangshuang was looking at her nephew strangely with those beautiful eyes of hers.

Zhou Chu glanced at her: "What? Can't recognize me after not seeing me for a night?"

Chu Shuangshuang was full of confusion: "I recognize you, but you're different. The old you wouldn't even say a word even if you were beaten with a stick."

Zhou Chu rolled his eyes and said: "If you have something to say, say it, otherwise I won't make it to the assessment exam."

Chu Shuangshuang casually tossed over a bag of hot breakfast.

"It just so happens I'm going back to school to make preparations today, so I'll drop you off at the exam location on the way."

Zhou Chu took a bite of breakfast and said: "Does your Shenxia University not treat interns like people? Why do they have you, an intern, charge into every danger? If it doesn't work out, just quit!"

Chu Shuangshuang paused, then smiled and teased: "Are you going to support me?"

Zhou Chu said with a serious face: "You haven't been made a permanent employee after working for so many years. It's obvious they're discriminating against you. Don't do it anymore, I'll support you!"

Chu Shuangshuang sighed and pouted: "You, an F-rank Soul Professional, it's hard to say if you can even support yourself. You should just take care of yourself first!"

Seeing Zhou Chu silent, Chu Shuangshuang was afraid that this silly nephew of hers, whose brain wasn't very bright to begin with, would feel even more inferior.

She hurriedly tried to persuade him: "Although you have no hope of getting into university, there shouldn't be any problem finding a job through connections to make ends meet."

Who would have thought that Zhou Chu would suddenly say: "I am going to take the exam for Shenxia University!"

Shenxia University, known as Xia University in the eyes of the citizens.

Chu Shuangshuang paused, turned her head to look at Zhou Chu for two seconds, and suddenly laughed until she was doubled over.

"Just you? An F-Grade Soul Professional wanting to get into Xia University? Hahaha, are you kidding me?"

"Do you know that because of your F-Grade, not only did Tianhua No. 1 High School become famous, but the entire Tianhua City did too!"

"It's already a struggle for you to even qualify for the College Entrance Exam, and you still want to take the exam for Shenxia? Please, use your brain a little, okay?"

Which family doesn't hope for their son to become a Dragon and their daughter to become a Phoenix?

But the reality of her silly nephew was right there.

Is the empire's premier university something you can just get into whenever you want?

Isn't this just looking for stars in the midday sun—daydreaming?

But deep down, Chu Shuangshuang hoped that Zhou Chu would not bind himself to any Combat Soul Profession.

His brain was already not very sharp; who knows when he might lose his life without even realizing it.

Yet, Zhou Chu had gone and awakened an F-Grade Combat Soul Profession, neither high nor low.

Whether it be a large state-owned group or a private individual, no one would accept a Soul Professional bound to a low-grade profession.

Even if he went to the front lines to join the Exorcism Army as cannon fodder, they probably wouldn't want him.

So Chu Shuangshuang just took it as him talking nonsense and didn't take it to heart.

However, now that she had poured cold water on him, she still had to offer some encouragement.

She didn't ask for him to be wealthy or bring glory to the family.

She only hoped he could live out his life in peace and safety.

That way, she could give an account to her sister and brother-in-law.

After all these years of careful planning and risking her life to earn money, wasn't it all so that this nephew could live a little better?

Thus, Chu Shuangshuang took a Skill Scroll out of her Space Ring and handed it to Zhou Chu.

"This is for you, consider it an early celebration for your graduation."

"Given your current situation, stop thinking about any university. This time when I go back, I'll pull some strings to get you a cushy clerical job in the city."

After saying this, Chu Shuangshuang started the car and drove toward the Dungeon Hall in the north of the city.

Seeing the Skill Scroll in his hand emitting a golden light, Zhou Chu opened his mouth in surprise.

It was actually an Epic quality Skill Scroll, and a passive skill at that.

【Random Passive Skill Scroll (Epic Grade): After use, you can learn an Epic-grade passive skill that matches your Soul Profession!】

An Epic-grade Random Passive Skill Scroll was definitely a very rare item.

Skill Scrolls were rare items to begin with; even the lowest Normal Difficulty ones were definitely hot commodities on major trading platforms.

Let alone this Epic-grade passive skill, which must not be cheap in terms of price.

Zhou Chu never expected that Chu Shuangshuang would spend a large sum of money to buy such a Skill Scroll for him.

Before long, the car arrived at the entrance of the Dungeon Hall.

Zhou Chu waved the Skill Scroll in his hand at Chu Shuangshuang and vowed: "I will definitely get into Shenxia, believe me, I won't let you regret it!"

Having said that, Zhou Chu used the Skill Scroll right in front of Chu Shuangshuang.

【You have learned the skill—Soul Agitation (Passive, Epic Grade)】.

【God-level Comprehension activated! Your skill "Soul Agitation (Passive)" has been upgraded to God-level!】

"By the way, I forgot to tell you, I'm actually not F-Grade, I'm God-level!"

Zhou Chu gave a mysterious smile, turned, and got out of the car.

Chu Shuangshuang snapped loudly: "I believe you, my foot! If you're God-level, then I'm God-slaying level. I'll wipe out you brat who talks nonsense all day in a heartbeat."

Watching Zhou Chu's retreating back, a trace of attachment appeared on Chu Shuangshuang's face, and a thin mist filled her eyes.

She whispered: "My silly A-Chu, what will you do if I'm not around anymore?"