[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-39":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Wasteland's Only King",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1594835,2061,"Chapter 39: Healing","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-39",39,"\u003Cp>The wide open space in front of the villa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new members of the Environmental Protection Club sat cross-legged on the ground, their eyes full of curiosity as they stared at Yu Jin standing in the middle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn’t expect the president to know magic tricks!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So impressive!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow, President is just too multi-talented. I really like that!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What kind of magic is it, though?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve never actually seen a live magic show before, this is my first time, hehe...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new club members chatted excitedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao sat quietly off to the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was curiosity in her eyes too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on what she knew, Yu Jin wasn’t supposed to know any magic tricks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when she returned after her rebirth, Yin Yao had already gotten all the information she needed on Yu Jin from her grandpa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The data was so detailed, it even listed the name of Yu Jin’s desk mate from the first grade—and where that guy lives now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s how Yin Yao was able to recognize Chen Gang the first time they met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe he’s self-taught, so he never performed in public. It’s not in the record, which makes sense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yao thought to herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under everyone’s expectant eyes, Yu Jin wore a faint, casual smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need a volunteer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he spoke,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>swoosh swoosh swoosh——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Freshmen jumped up enthusiastically one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Me! President, pick me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m super obedient, I’ll go along with anything—any pose you want, just say the word!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bruh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin found these racy words both funny and speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll just pick someone at random.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke, stretched out his hand, and pointed at a JK junior sister with white stockings standing in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the JK junior sister, cheeks flushed, stepped up to Yu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"President...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She must be a local from Jiangnan; her voice was a little sweet and coy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin didn’t mind that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked past her to the other freshmen sitting around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone worked hard cleaning the polluted river today, didn’t you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as those words came out,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The freshmen answered in unison:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It wasn’t hard!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I mean physically hard, like tiring hard.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new members exchanged glances and nodded tacitly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In today’s river cleanup, as Environmental Protection Club members, they were way more eager than the other Jiang University students or volunteers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how lazy they normally were, under Yu Jin’s example they had all gritted their teeth and kept working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, the excitement of team building kept the fatigue at bay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now that Yu Jin brought it up, it was like all their nerve endings and cells suddenly remembered to feel tired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nerve fatigue and muscle soreness hit them like waves of a tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quite a few new students immediately made faces of pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s more like it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Yu Jin nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The body’s reaction is sometimes delayed. Especially in a happy mood, this delay gets even stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How about you, are you tired?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin looked at the volunteer in front of him, the JK junior sister in white stockings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am I supposed to be tired?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The JK junior sister’s big eyes blinked rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was a little at a loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a couple of coughs, Yu Jin suppressed the urge to find a new volunteer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to the group and announced,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The name of the magic I’ll perform is——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Healing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Like the name says, this trick will heal your physical fatigue, and relieve your muscle soreness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he finished,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene fell into a short silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Freshmen looked at each other—you look at me, I look at you—not sure how to react for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was Old Tang who broke the ice first. \"See if it’s a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"President Yu, show us what you got!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the previously awkward mood heated right back up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The club newbies clapped and cheered along, \"President Yu, show us your skills!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They chanted that, but everyone knew this so-called \"Healing\" trick had to be totally ridiculous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of magic could make you stop feeling tired just like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it was just a mental thing, maybe you could buy that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But physical exhaustion? That’s about nerves and muscle fatigue—soreness is caused by real lactic acid buildup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What trick could make lactic acid go away?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or in other words——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a trick could instantly remove lactic acid, would it still be magic?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’d be magic, not just a trick!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"President, I’m tired!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m totally exhausted right now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My arms are sore, my legs hurt, and even my butt’s a little achy!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The JK junior sister was totally into it. As soon as Yu Jin finished saying what the magic was for, she immediately raised her voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Very good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached out his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course he wasn’t going to take any advantage, he just put his hand gently on her shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So comfy!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It already feels like I’m not tired anymore!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The JK junior sister’s eyes widened in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t even started yet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was doing this \"Healing\" magic show not just to stop Old Tang from singing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real reason——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wool-grabbing, wool-grabbing, and more wool-grabbing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when he activated the \"Territory\" module, the system made things crystal clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[As a City Lord, developing your territory, improving your subordinates, handing out resources, purifying subordinates, etc.—all earn you rich rewards!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among these, one was \"purifying subordinates\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This \"purification,\" in Yu Jin’s mind, meant his \"Purifying Light\" counted as purification.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the \"Purifying Light\" skill could heal, cleanse, and dispel; using it for body fatigue was basically overkill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the surface, Yu Jin was performing \"Healing\" magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he wanted to trigger another round of system rewards this way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>if he was really doing magic tricks, Yu Jin had plenty of \"Light\" and \"Thunder\" spells up his sleeve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those would genuinely stun all these freshmen out of their seats—but the risk of exposing his superpower would skyrocket, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By contrast,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purifying Light was way, way more subtle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to keep his secret, Yu Jin was using this one-on-one approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m starting now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin looked into the JK junior sister’s eyes and spoke softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m ready!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The JK junior sister closed her eyes, her long lashes trembling slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buzz——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the faintest, almost inaudible sound,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin pressed down a little with his right hand on her shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From his palm, a wisp of light, invisible to the naked eye, slipped into her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The JK junior sister let out a weird sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A whole minute passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The JK junior sister opened her eyes again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her round, baby-faced cheeks were full of shock!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh my God!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She exclaimed in her cute voice, then started bouncing up and down where she stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She swung her arms, stomped her feet, rubbed her butt, and even did a few squats on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It really isn’t sore or hurting anymore!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This line came straight from her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Yu Jin just used a little bit of his \"Purifying Light\" ability, it still completely healed her bodily fatigue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way the JK junior sister looked at Yu Jin changed in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"President!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you Superman?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1255,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.699Z",1,"novelbin.me","9421e4554b5860d57837bd62e5af69246959c717f1cfca47b9f91a08ca9169fb","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-208","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-38",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]