Chapter 217 - 216: The True Face of the Charming Shadow, No More Room Separation

The night deepens.

After dinner, Chen Yuran stayed to chat with Liu Sisi for a while, then went back to his own home.

Li Jing tidied up the kitchen, finding Liu Sisi was no longer downstairs, presumably went upstairs to take a bath, he went into the guest room to locate Xiao Ai.

"Xiao Ai."

He called softly.

The supercomputer’s vertical and horizontal screens lit up simultaneously, and Xiao Ai’s virtual figure appeared on the vertical screen and walked down, transforming into a charming maid figure.

"What do you need, master?"

Xiao Ai flattered skillfully.

Li Jing was already used to this.

Sitting down, he took out Liu Shi’s USB drive and plugged it into the supercomputer console. Li Jing said,

"Transfer the data from this USB drive to the supercomputer, set the access permission to Only Me and Sisi."

"Understood."

Xiao Ai responded, transferred the data, and set the permissions. The files were then displayed on the horizontal screen.

Seeing this, Li Jing picked up the mouse and opened the files displayed on the horizontal screen. He found numerous organized documents, each one named individually.

This was somewhat surprising to Li Jing.

The USB drive contained all of Liu Shi’s self-created spells.

The quantity was more than he expected.

This mother-in-law of his was truly extraordinary.

Creating one’s own magic skills was not difficult.

As the cultivator’s realm improves, they gradually deepen their understanding of the power system.

The simplest way to create a magic spell is to base it on this understanding and their mastery of known spells, leveraging and modifying known spell formulas.

It often ends up producing something if one is patient.

The difficult part is creating a spell that has unique practical value.

In other words, high-level cultivators can easily create their own spells.

But creating useful spells is another matter, depending on the individual.

There’s another issue.

A truly self-created spell requires a full outline of the operation principle and spell formula, which can be learned and used by those other than the creator.

Not everyone can do that.

The existence of the Immortal Learning Research Association is therein.

Li Jing, for example, has mastery over the boundary-breaking skills, which to some extent can be considered as self-created spells, and they are of high practical value.

The Boundary Breakthrough Skills are the product of his game advantage, but since the system itself belongs to him personally, it can be considered his original creation, right?

Moreover, if you really want to be choosy about it.

The spells selected for integration were picked by him.

The use of the spells was his doing.

All the System did was assist with the integration.

Aside from this.

In his understanding of the Boundary Breakthrough Skill, starting from the moment of successful integration, he had a much deeper understanding and insight than regular spells.

Yet, if he were to teach others or explain why this was so, he simply was not up to the task.

He understood the relevant spell formula, and he had his own understanding and insights.

To teach others would be possible.

But if others were to learn from him, they would more than likely fail.

Looking at the hundreds of documents on the widescreen, Li Jing was genuinely amazed.

My mother-in-law is awesome!

After a cursory review of the names of the hundreds of documents, Li Jing raised his eyebrows.

The spells Liu Shi stored on the USB drive, those that were completed and could be taught to others, were about forty in number. The remaining seventy or so were in their preliminary form.

But that was not the point.

The point was that, among the seventy or so preliminary documents, he noticed a document called Forbidden Skill Preliminary.

This...

This was a little outrageous?

Liu Shi was creating her own forbidden skill?

This was astonishing!

He figured he needed to reassess who would end up worse off when Liu Shi and Chen Jing went head-to-head.

Liu Shi definitely had not learned any forbidden skills.

However, since she was in the process of creating a forbidden skill, she had obviously deduced the corresponding spell formula framework and was attempting to perfect it.

How complex are the spell formulas of forbidden skills?

If she could deduce this, was Liu Shi attempting to defy heaven?

Swallowing hard, Li Jing opened the Forbidden Skill Preliminary document.

In the Forbidden Skill Preliminary document.

Liu Shi explained many theoretical things, her personal insights and understandings were also listed, and she even sketched out a clear spell formula framework using illustrations.

He was able to grasp certain parts of these.

But for the most part, he only understood half of what he read. Currently being at the Fifth Boundary, his comprehension of power was far less than Liu Shi’s.

Li Jing had no intention of profiting from a forbidden skill.

A preliminary forbidden skill wasn’t going to provide a complete chant.

Having examined the content of the document, Li Jing chose to close it.

Liu Shi’s description in the document was very detailed, so detailed that even an outsider like him could come to some understanding upon reading it.

But the creation of forbidden skills was clearly not an area he was currently capable of venturing into.

Once he reached the Sixth Realm in the future, reaching the same level as Liu Shi, perhaps he could try to study it.

His gaze fell on the document of the fully developed spell called Silent Shadow, and Li Jing chose to open it.

Silent Shadow. Jiang Yini had mentioned it to him.

Although it’s an escape skill, according to Jiang Yini, this should be Liu Shi’s signature spell.

Li Jing was very interested in this escape skill.

As soon as the document opened, a complete chant appeared before his eyes.

Then, a prompt sounded in his ear.

"Detected potentially learnable Boundary-breaking Skill Silent Shadow. Would you like to log in?"

?

Li Jing slowly typed out a question mark.

Liu Shi’s self-created Silent Shadow was a boundary-breaking skill?

Looking further down the document, Li Jing was stunned.

According to Liu Shi’s description of Silent Shadow, this escape skill was the result of her integrating three different spiritual magic skills and spending two years on intensive research.

This...

It’s basically a three-in-one boundary breakthrough!

Looking at the description, Li Jing was dumbfounded.

He was able to integrate skills only because he was hacking.

Liu Shi was impressive...

She managed to perform magic skill integration on her own.

What astonished him more was.

Silent Shadow was a result of Liu Shi merging three different spiritual magic skills.

Three different spiritual magic skills came together to form a special escape skill?

Doesn’t that seem impossible?

Continuing to read, Li Jing revealed an expression of realization.

Liu Shi had fooled everyone in Guodu, including him...

Silent Shadow was not a special escape skill at all!

It was a type of spiritual magic!

It operates by creating a disruption in people’s cognition through spiritual means, making it impossible for people to see her clearly.

Liu Shi’s Silent Shadow is based on a powerful Primordial Spirit, causing extremely strong cognitive interference around her, making her unseen by others even though she is there.

Only when she wanted to be noticed did others acknowledge her presence...

Deeply inhaling, Li Jing felt numb.

He realized that his mother-in-law must be a cultivator with an extremely strong Primordial Spirit.

Be aware, Liu Shi has deceived everyone!

That includes the Six Realm members from the Seven Great Families of Guodu, and Chen Jing might also be among them.

No matter how peculiar the Silent Shadow is, to deceive the Six Realm members into believing that Liu Shi possesses an unusually weird escape method, one must have the strength of a Primordial Soul powerful enough to suppress other Six Realm members.

If Liu Shi could disrupt the perception of the Six Realm members, how much effort would it take for her to kill a Six Realm member with her Spiritual Level methods?

Looking back.

Liu Shi created the Silent Shadow, which undoubtedly shows her deep research into spiritual magic. But it seems that no one knows this.

If they knew, they might not think it’s them being deceived instead of Liu Shi’s escape method being impressive.

This Silent Shadow...

Should he learn it?

Of course he should!

Li Jing has not learned Spiritual Level methods before.

The only thing related to the Primordial Soul is the Returning to Origin Skill, which can enhance the strength of the Primordial Soul.

Without Liu Shi’s Primordial Soul, which is so powerful that it can be called superior, he can’t fool everyone.

But can’t he figure out a way to increase the strength of his Primordial Soul?

He doesn’t need his Primordial Soul’s strength to surpass everyone’s, it just needs to exceed most people’s.

According to Liu Shi’s description in the document, the Silent Shadow itself has a strong effect of enhancing the Primordial Soul. The cultivation to an advanced level can even double the strength of an ordinary cultivator at the same level.

Such a godly skill, anyone would be a fool not to learn it!

"Login successful, Limit Breakthrough Skill, Silent Shadow learned."

With the prompt in his ear, Li Jing found that the Silent Shadow was a Passive Skill that needed Skill Points, requiring a full 15 points.

This didn’t surprise him.

The Silent Shadow is different from other Limit Breakthrough Skills. It isn’t a result of the fusion breakthrough of three similar types of magic; it is a completely independent Limit Breakthrough Skill.

The skill points that need to be spent must be used.

With his eyes closed and sensing, Li Jing had an insight.

Being a beginner and yet to officially start, with his Primordial Soul strength, he could already interfere with the perception of those below the Second Realm.

Walking on the streets, if he wants to, no one below the Second Realm could notice him.

Even if someone was taking a bath, he could...

Cough!

By just starting to learn the Silent Shadow, Li Jing gathered some experience.

The Silent Shadow has certain restrictions. If you want to maintain the disruption of perception, you can’t use offensive and defensive magic, otherwise, it would fail to cause disruption.

Frankly, this restriction doesn’t matter much.

If he were to use offensive and defensive magic, there would be no need to disrupt others’ perception.

After learning the Silent Shadow, Li Jing opened Liu Shi’s other perfected creations one by one.

The prompt sound in his ear rang time and again.

But Li Jing didn’t learn any more magic.

The data is already in the supercomputer. He can learn whenever he wants. None of the other magic created by Liu Shi is a Limit Breakthrough Skill.

He hasn’t fully mastered the World Thunder Punishment yet, and now he has learned another Silent Shadow, his demand for skill points has increased significantly, there is no need to rush to learn other magic as well.

Besides, at present, Li Jing prefers to focus on learning three of the same type of magic for breaking through the limits. There is little point in learning a single specific system of magic. He can study it when he has surplus skill points.

After closing all the documents, Li Jing looked at Xia Ai, who was obediently waiting by his side.

"How did the Dark Net Black Market go while I was away?"

"Very smooth, the membership level was upgraded to the highest a few days ago. After removing the two billion assets you instructed to be transferred to the Black Market courier - I have about fifteen billion left in my account."

Xia Ai said.

"Next, I plan to focus on making money. But business has been tough lately, with more and more competitors and targeted attacks in the lower-end market of the Dark Net Black Market. Making money is not as easy as before, at most I can make about 20 million a day. When I have more assets, I plan to gradually expand to the mid-end spirit market."

After listening to Xia Ai’s report, Li Jing nodded.

After deducting two billion for Fu Hua and the one billion he took before he left, his Dark Net account should only have twelve billion left.

His account still has fifteen billion, which means Xia Ai has earned three billion in the past half a month.

This efficiency is extraordinarily high.

After struggling for more than a month to maximize the membership level and expanding the lower-end market, it’s indeed time to change direction.

Making 20 million a day, of course, can’t be considered little.

But with Xia Ai’s ability to "make money", in a place like the Dark Net Black Market, which doesn’t have too many rules, only making this much would be a waste of talent.

After some thought, Li Jing got up.

"Whenever you want to break into the mid-end spirit market, do as you see fit. If you need anything, feel free to buy some for yourself. Just remember to let me or Sisi know when you place an order. Also, don’t forget to consider the space at home. Don’t bring back anything too large that won’t fit."

Upon receiving Li Jing’s "authorization", Xia Ai’s eyes lit up and she quickly nodded in agreement.

"For now, Xia Ai doesn’t particularly want anything. There are many types of tech products on the dark web’s black market, but they’re quite limited. If Xia Ai sees something she likes, she’ll buy it then."

"Alright, go ahead. I’m leaving now."

Li Jing said with a smile.

...

When Li Jing walked out of the guest room, it was already close to eleven o’clock at night.

Realizing that it was already so late, Li Jing thought about going upstairs to take a shower. He had a lot to do the next day and should rest early tonight.

Just as he was about to go upstairs, Liu Sisi came down the stairs in her pajamas.

Upon seeing her, Li Jing smiled warmly.

"Sisi, aren’t you planning to rest?"

Liu Sisi’s face showed a hint of unease upon hearing his words, and she spoke softly.

"I didn’t see you coming up, so I thought I’d come down and remind you to get some rest."

"Come to remind me to rest?"

Li Jing was taken aback.

Without giving him any time to process her words, Liu Sisi cleared her throat lightly.

"Didn’t I promise you that after you officially proposed, I would allow you to sleep on the bed?"

"..."

Li Jing.

Indeed, Liu Sisi had mentioned letting him sleep on the bed before.

That was on the night at the hotel.

Due to the incident involving Wang Youwei, they didn’t spend the night at the hotel.

Now that they were back home, he didn’t expect Liu Sisi to bring up the old topic so proactively.

Seeing Li Jing’s bewildered face, Liu Sisi’s cheeks turned crimson.

"Regardless of how you look at it, we’re already husband and wife. It’s not appropriate to sleep in separate rooms anymore. I’ve already tidied up upstairs and cleaned out your room."

"Ah, this..."

Li Jing was dumbfounded.

Not only did Liu Sisi bring up an old matter on her own initiative, but she also went as far as to clear out his room without any notice.

What did this mean?

Cutting off her own retreat?

Before he knew what to say, Liu Sisi bit her lower lip gently.

"Looking at you, it seems that you’re not ready for me yet? Then we can just sleep together and do nothing else?"

Li Jing was startled by her words and looked at her in astonishment.

"Sisi, you..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Liu Sisi "tsked" and gave him a look of irritation.

"What do you mean ’you’? How explicitly do I have to state things to make you satisfied? Don’t you know that I’m shy? Do you really want me to spell it out clearly?"

Facing her tirade, Li Jing opened his mouth in speechlessness and looked at her wordlessly.

Seeing his reaction, Liu Sisi felt somewhat guilty. After averting her gaze for a while, she spoke softly.

"Um, I didn’t mean anything else. I just thought that we’re both adults, and sooner or later, I’ll have to give myself to you, I..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Liu Sisi suddenly felt as if she was lifted into the air, and she involuntarily let out a small cry of surprise.

When she came back to her senses, she realized that she was being held in Li Jing’s arms, and he was climbing the stairs, taking three steps at a time.

Upon seeing this, Liu Sisi momentarily lost her composure, but then quickly collected herself and said seriously.

"I have to go to work tomorrow, so don’t go too far."

Li Jing paused for a moment at her words.

"That shouldn’t be a problem. You’re already at the late stage of the Three Realm. It won’t be that easy for you to stay in bed."

"..."

Liu Sisi.

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