Chapter 274

The system transmitted a message.

【Task 3 has been settled under the condition of doubled probability.】

【You have received rewards: Physique Improvement: Image Charm increased by 10%, Martial Arts Talent increased by 100%; Random Magic Treasure*2; Low-grade Spirit Stones*20; System Currency*150.】

Three items were doubled in full: Martial Arts Talent, Spirit Stones, and Magic Treasures; only Charm and Currency were not doubled.

That counts as decent luck.

Moreover, since the Magic Treasure alone could be doubled, Lin Li felt that all the effort he put into this task was suddenly worth it.

Everything after that is pure profit.

Although the doubling of the remaining two items is not actually high priority for Lin Li—useful, yes, but not something he anticipated.

Lin Li would be willing to trade these two non-doubled items for a single doubling of System Currency, because that way he'd only be a little short of buying the mecha in the 【Shangcheng】, and he could buy it after next Monday's delivery task settlement.

One cannot want both and still want more, but Lin Li can.

However, he is also quite satisfied, so Lin Li examines these two magic treasures.

【You have obtained the magic treasure: Invisible Sword.】

【Invisible Sword: After refinement, it can turn any object into its sword form, and by using sword techniques to control it, one can repel enemies.】

【You have obtained the magic treasure: Qiankun Ring.】

【Qiankun Ring: A ring containing storage space; it recognizes its master upon a drop of blood, and as refinement increases, the internal space also expands.】

It's a storage space!

I don't know if it comes with a soul ring inside.

Nowadays, buying a used car or used house might even come with a soul ring, so if the system's ring contains a few weak old masters, that's not excessive, is it?

No, what era is this? Still old men? It should be a few weak beautiful masteresses.

As for the first "Invisible Sword," it looks like an offensive magic treasure; the description is too short to determine its quality for now—I'll have to examine it more carefully when I get home.

After announcing the closing ceremony had ended, the group immediately loosened and scattered.

"Don't rush off, everyone—go take a photo in front of the podium as a keepsake. Rain Ying, you hold the trophy and stand in front. Students who won gold, silver, or bronze medals in the events sit in front. Ideally, the medals should be worn around the neck or held in hand. Other students should line up behind according to height."

Xue Jian clapped his hands and called out to the class formation.

"Okay!"

Those who want to take a commemorative photo using the podium banner and posters shouldn't be few, so the advantage of moving quickly is being first—no need to wait.

"Lin Li, hurry hurry hurry, give me a medal, give me a medal!" Bai Bufan, at this moment, came running from the back of the line, panting and shouting.

"No need for that—you didn't hear about any dog-catching team coming to school, so you won't be caught even without a dog tag. Don't worry, be good, go play now~" Lin Li affectionately patted Bai Bufan's back.

Bai Bufan: "?"

Your mom.

Please name the most despicable person in Class 4, Grade 1, and explain why it's Lin Li.

"Gold medal! Give me a gold medal! I want to pretend I'm a super hero, go back and brag to my mom about some small beef, cheer her up—maybe then I can earn some military funds." Bai Bufan reached out and said.

Knowledge point reinforced—Military Funds: money reserved for reserving funds to shoot down aircraft.

Lin Li shook his head, laughing helplessly, and also tossed a gold medal to Bai Bufan.

Afterwards, Lin Li took the C-position, sitting beside Chen Rain Ying's leg.

"Here we go again." Bai Bufan beside him suddenly said.

"What's come again?" Lin Li turned his head to ask.

"I feel like what's happening now has happened before." Bai Bufan frowned and said softly.

"This phenomenon is quite common—I occasionally experience it too. I think it's called the hippocampus effect or something like that?

Simply put, it's either your brain is twitching, or the part responsible for storing memories has mistakenly labeled new memories as old ones, or the brain's processing speed has developed a bias, or you really have dreamed of a similar scene before."

Upon hearing this, Lin Li showed no surprise, shrugged, and popularized the explanation.

"Oh oh, sounds about right—I feel like I dreamed we were taking our class graduation photo." Bai Bufan thought for a moment, then nodded.

"So you had a nocturnal emission? I'm really ashamed of you, you bastard!" Lin Li looked at Bai Bufan, his eyes filled with contempt.

Having nocturnal emissions means Bai Bufan is too lazy in many aspects—unforgivable.

"What the hell does nocturnal emission have to do with this? If you can emit in this dream, then there's a problem!" Bai Bufan stared wide-eyed, face full of confusion.

"The graduation photo is just the class's memorial photo—you dreamed of this, isn't that a memorial photo dream? Well, what did your memorial photo dream look like?" Lin Li said matter-of-factly.

Bai Bufan: "(；o_o)？"

Is this, is this correct?

Graduation photos really are like class memorial photos, so I guess I really did have a memorial photo dream……

"Don't say such weird things—where are there color memorial photos?" Chen Rain Ying's voice, laced with a smile, slid down as she patted the seated Lin Li on the right leg.

"Class monitor, you were eavesdropping!"

"It's because your voice was too loud."

"Then why didn't you cover your ears!"

"Hmph."

"So you know Bai Bufan had a memorial photo dream?"

"Pervert."

"Mm-hmm, I also think Bai Bufan is a pervert."

"Lin Li, you damn well have a problem!"

Behind them, Wang Yue Zhi, taking advantage of his short stature and standing in the front row of those standing, thus very close to Chen Rain Ying in front, ignored the two people wrestling in front of him, nodded firmly, and fully agreed with Chen Rain Ying's view.

What is a graduation photo as a memorial photo? Will it speak?

Once the photo is in hand, everyone else gets mosaicked—then isn't it clearly just my and Chen Rain Ying's wedding photo?

Getting this close yourself — that's still a close-range wedding photo!

win!

"Be careful on your way home. Once you're home, have your parents send a message in the parents' group. Alright, dismissed." After the memorial photos were taken, since the class base had already been cleaned up, Xue Jian gave a word of reminder, then signaled everyone they could leave on their own.

"Class monitor, see you the day after tomorrow." Lin Li stood up and waved at Chen Yuying.

"Okay, see you the day after tomorrow." Chen Yuying and Ding Si and the others probably still planned to take some photos holding the trophy; hearing this, they turned their heads, looked at Lin Li, and waved and nodded.

"No need to return it to me. This is a marvelous tool you'll need for swindling military funds in the future. Keep it." Seeing Bai Bufan hand the gold medal back, Lin Li waved his hand, and at the same time took off a gold medal and directly looped it over Chen Yuying: "Class monitor, giving you one too. Wearing a bronze medal around your neck for photos doesn't look good."

Lin Li, with his mind on the magic treasure, then headed straight for the school gate to ride his bike home.

……

Arrived home, took off shoes and changed shoes, confirmed no one was home, then Lin Li returned to his room.

From the 【Warehouse】, he manifested both magic treasures.

The "Qiankun Ring" was a small ring, pitch-black all over, with a small piece of black crystal on the face. Wearing it on the index or ring finger was a bit loose; the middle finger fit just right.

Without hesitation, he pricked his fingertip with a needle tip, and Lin Li dripped a drop of blood onto the "Qiankun Ring."

The blood was rapidly absorbed. The black crystal lit up with a faint fluorescence, then quickly dimmed again.

A faint connection had already formed between himself and the "Qiankun Ring," and the ring's size seemed to have adjusted to a suitable size along with the bonding. Suddenly it felt very fitting.

Lin Li closed his eyes, attempting to immerse his mind into the "Qiankun Ring."

The space inside the ring appeared before Lin Li's eyes.

Roughly a thousand cubic millimeters in appearance.

In human speak, that's one cubic centimeter.

Equivalent to one milliliter.

Lin Li: "……"

?

"I expected the space to be tiny at first, but you can't be this tiny! What use is this bit of space to me!" Lin Li stood up, stifled with frustration as he complained.

What can this hold?

Lin Li manifested a spirit stone and began guiding spirit qi to circulate inside the "Qiankun Ring," attempting to open up space.

Fifteen minutes later, the low-grade spirit stone approached an empty shell infinitely. Lin Li retrieved it back into the system.

The space inside the "Qiankun Ring" had multiplied nearly tenfold. Now it could hold at least a full ten milliliters of stuff, and it was still a standard cube. The shape should be fixed; no matter how much deeper the refining went to expand it, all six faces extended outward evenly.

Looks like it can't be expanded at will — for example, opening up a long narrow space.

But not bad.

Although a single low-grade spirit stone opened up very little space, Lin Li wasn't greedy. As long as the space could expand and the gains were visible to the naked eye, that was enough.

Take it slow. Anyway, he'd already stored quite a lot of spirit stones, and his system currency wasn't exactly little either.

Temporarily stopping the space expansion, Lin Li began testing the "Qiankun Ring's" usage.

After bonding, the ring would self-adapt its size, perfectly fitting all ten of Lin Li's fingers — even the thumb could wear it. Good review.

But it had no reaction to toes, neck, or penis — wouldn't self-adapt. Bad review.

Once worn, unless Lin Li took it off himself, it couldn't be removed.

Very similar to the system's 【Warehouse】 — as long as there's contact, items can be received into the space. But there's a zone restriction: when worn on the right hand, it's limited to the right hand and the ring itself; conversely, only the left hand and the ring itself. Manifestation works the same way.

Not wearing it on the hand, if holding the ring with the hand, wanting to store something requires touching the corresponding object with the ring.

For stored items, Lin Li could control their positioning inside the "Qiankun Ring" to maximize space utilization. And the internal space should be static — first, items can float suspended inside. When Lin Li took out an apple he'd just cut five minutes later, it hadn't oxidized. He stored a few drops of boiling water; ten minutes later when he took them out they were still hot, making Lin Li howl in pain.

What's the use of cultivation? Still not as good as a dead treasure — at least it isn't afraid of boiling water scalds.

Only one small issue: when the interior contains items, the "Qiankun Ring" cannot be retrieved into the system's 【Warehouse】. It must be emptied first before it can be retrieved.

Flaws don't hide the merits. Although the space must be opened up by oneself, it can be foreseen that this is a magic treasure that would be very useful even in modern times.

Think about it — later putting two silver coins inside, one heads-up one tails-down, six dice each showing a different pip count, a whole deck of playing cards, a full set of mahjong tiles…

If he could bring the "Qiankun Ring" back to National Day, Lin Li swore he would make the soles of the "three people's" feet and the "dog's" face pay a painful price!

The fire of revenge burns grandly!

For now it's not much use — the space is too small. A tube of glue could fill the "Qiankun Ring" into a cream puff.

At the same time, although the school isn't strict about it, there's at least a rule against wearing decorative items like rings. Especially since this is a pitch-black ring with a crystal — very conspicuous.

If he wants to use it in the future, after expanding the space, it'll only be suitable for sneaking use inside a pocket.

Retrieving it into the 【Warehouse】, Lin Li manifested the "Formless Sword."

!

A mini sword about ten centimeters long floated quietly before Lin Li.

Lin Li reached out to grab it, but discovered it had no physical body. When his hand passed through it, he only felt a faint coolness.

What holographic projection sword.

Although it had no physical body, Lin Li manifested a spirit stone, preparing to try according to the previous refining method.

But when the spirit stone appeared, the "Formless Sword" actually actively moved closer.

Lin Li's eyebrow quirked. He began absorbing spirit qi to circulate within his body, and put the spirit stone back into the 【Warehouse】. The "Formless Sword," like a pitiful sword with no cheeks to pinch so it could only pinch buttocks, changed direction toward Lin Li and fused into his body.

……

The "Formless Sword's" refining took much longer than imagined.

When the sky had completely darkened, Lin Li finally let out a long breath.

The "Formless Sword" slowly flew out from his body, and following Lin Li's fingers, swayed left and right in the air.

Under the consumption of a dozen or so spirit stones, it was only initially refined successfully.

And just like the "Duck Blood Bottle," after refining succeeded, more information automatically appeared in Lin Li's mind.

Finally got the "User Manual".

Lin Li blinked, digested the information, and manipulated the "Intangible Sword" to fly toward a pen on the desk in the room.

The "Intangible Sword" swiftly approached, then "vanished" the moment it touched the ballpoint pen.

Lin Li's fingers twitched slightly, his expression focused.

After a period of silence, the ballpoint pen finally began to tremble, then the amplitude of its shaking grew larger and larger, and at last it flew up, bumping and knocking its way toward Lin Li, floating before him.

"Everything is a sword, huh? Then this magic treasure is way too sword." Lin Li reached out and grabbed the pen with some surprise and delight.

The "Intangible Sword" has no physical form and cannot cause any lethal harm, but it can possess any object without consciousness, turning it into its tangible sword body.

The ballpoint pen in his hand right now is the "Intangible Sword".

Manipulating the "Intangible Sword" consumes mental energy and a small amount of spiritual qi from within the body.

Although it can possess any object without consciousness — theoretically Lin Li could make the bed beside him, or even this entire building under his feet, become the sword body — the difficulty of controlling the "Intangible Sword" also changes along with the sword body's changes.

After possession, the "Intangible Sword" needs an adaptation process.

Adaptation is divided into two phases: first, establishing a connection — only after this can Lin Li control the sword body; before that, the sword body will not respond to any of Lin Li's commands. Once the connection is established, it enters the second phase of increasing rapport — making Lin Li's control smoother and the cost lower.

Even just a ballpoint pen, merely establishing the connection took dozens of seconds just now — of course, this isn't the magic treasure's problem, it's the master Lin Li's problem.

If he made it possess this building, just establishing the connection would probably take seven or eight years.

And the difficulty of controlling the "Intangible Sword" would rise accordingly; at that point Lin Li feels that even if he formed sword seals until his hands sparked, the building still wouldn't budge.

Besides, not moving is one thing; if it moved once, Lin Li feels his mental power would be instantly drained dry and he'd restart life on the spot.

The "Intangible Sword"'s adaptation to the sword body will partially reset after it leaves the sword body.

For instance right now: when it detached from the ballpoint pen and possessed it again, re-manipulating the ballpoint pen no longer required waiting dozens of seconds of startup time; in a few seconds, the connection was re-established.

Adaptation time greatly shortened.

Although it's a pity the full progress can't be retained, it's still better than a complete reset.

So, if Lin Li idly put the "Intangible Sword" in the building every day, fifty or sixty years later, the cost of controlling the building would eventually drop to a level Lin Li can accept.

By then, Lin Li could make the building shake all day long whenever he felt like it — provided it hasn't been demolished by that time.

And the Intangible Sword is compatible with any sword art, but Lin Li doesn't know a single one right now.

The "User Manual" doesn't even include a basic model — what's the difference from buying an iPhone and still having to buy the charger yourself?

Resulting in Lin Li currently only being able to manipulate it to move up, down, left, and right; as for cool sword qi and thunderous moves, sorry, he knows none of them.

Although he has no sword art, he can learn from Wang Yuhui.

In the future, possess the "Intangible Sword" onto a shit-stained mop and remote-control it — no need to worry about this heaven-defying weapon accidentally injuring himself; it's simply too broken.

Actually, Lin Li feels that in the modern era, he fundamentally has no need to use it as a weapon.

Just possess a boy's skirt and control it to float upward — isn't that fine?

Change the perspective, and the "Intangible Sword" simply couldn't have more prospects; it has great potential.

As for control distance, Lin Li tested it: the ballpoint pen flew a few meters out of the room, and his head ached terribly to manipulate it; his essence, qi, and spirit as well as the spiritual qi in his body also dropped extremely fast, and the "signal" even had lag and loss.

It was already somewhat out of control; looks like this is the current limit — he still can't maintain control at this distance for long.

But this is also related to the "Intangible Sword" not having possessed for long right now and the high manipulation cost; if it adapts longer, this distance should be normally controllable?

Perhaps.

His stomach growled; Lin Li glanced at his watch — refining for a few hours, and it was actually already eight o'clock; he still hadn't eaten dinner.

But having obtained two promising magic treasures, Lin Li's mood was good.

At this hour, Lin Li picked up his phone and ordered takeout; eat, then sleep early; tomorrow he still has to get up early to cultivate and go for a physical exam.

Wang Ze sent himself a message again.

"Wang Ze: Prime Minister, I think I chatted Tian to death, what do I do, urgent urgent urgent!"

"Wang Ze: 'Image', how should I reply now?"

Lin Li opened the image Wang Ze sent; it was a chat log.

"..."

"Qian Ying: I heard it from my grandpa."

Qian Ying is the name of that senior sister who has a favorable impression of Wang Ze; the chat starts here.

"Qian Ying: Three different matchmakers introduced partners to my dad, and all three introduced my mom."

"Wang Ze: Such a magical destiny?"

"Wang Ze: Then did your dad and mom end up together?"

"Qian Ying:?"

"Qian Ying: Guess why my dad is called my dad."

"Wang Ze: Sorry sorry!"

"Qian Ying: Of course they got together! And they get along really well, sigh, my mom just went out on a date again, didn't bring me, left me alone at home."

"Wang Ze: Alone?"

"Qian Ying: Yeah, so what?"

"Wang Ze: Eh, what about your dad?"

"Qian Ying: Junior brother, who do you think my mom is dating."

Lin Li: "..."

He totally feels that when Senior Qian sent that last message, she must have taken several deep breaths.

"Lin Li: How did you reply?"

Wang Ze's message was sent half an hour ago; he definitely already replied.

"Wang Ze: I replied hahaha is that so, she replied hahaha yeah, and after that we haven't chatted for now."

"Lin Li: Hahaha, dumbass."

"Wang Ze:..."

"Lin Li: Relax, right now she's the one chasing you, so theoretically she's more anxious than you, thinking 'How did I run into a dumbass, damn it, I want to die, I want to die, I want to die, should I just give up'."

"Wang Ze: I'm just afraid she'll stop chasing me! Being chased feels amazing, but damn it, chatting is so hard!"

"Wang Ze: When will I wake up one day and find every guy's flirting skills have dropped 10,000-fold? I just sent a girl a 'good morning', and she cried telling me she wants to spend the rest of her life with me!"

Lin Li was amused, as if possessed by Chen Tianming's dying hallucination.

"Lin Li: Sports meet, just how many novels have you read?"

"Wang Ze: A lot, still reading now."

"Lin Li: Then stop right here, put it down, time to rest."

(End of Chapter)