Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 482
Chapter 482: Limits…
Chapter 482
Bam!!!
The doors barged open, and Li Wei came in running inside Wei Jun’s temporary home office while he sat behind a desk, watching outside in the garden where his team, mostly the girls, were having a small party of their own with barbecue.
Wei Jun turned to Li Wei, who stopped on the other side of his desk, placed her hands on the table, and took deep breaths. Once she had calmed down, Wei Jun poured her a glass of water and waited for her to speak, but she didn’t speak.
She waved the file in her hand as if it were the most urgent matter to discuss, and Wei Jun grabbed it.
“It–It arrived!” Li Wei excitedly said as Wei Jun checked the file with a calm expression on his face. As soon as he read the contents of the file, a smile appeared on his face, and with the sunlight cascading on his figure through the windows, the scene looked so ethereal that Li Wei froze in the middle of drinking water and let all the water flow down on the carpet.
Wei Jun closed the file and took a deep breath. He spun his chair to the lawn and looked at the smiling expressions of all of his teammates before he said, “Go join them. Have some fun.”
Li Wei awoke from her stupor and was about to argue that it wasn’t the time to loiter around when Wei Jun said, “Have fun today. Tomorrow, we shake this whole empire.”
Li Wei, aware of her boss’s ambitions and methods, nodded and calmed herself before she confidently turned around and left to have fun with the others. As for Wei Jun, he closed his eyes and rested his head on the headrest of his chair as he looked at the blinking notifications in his view.
He still closed the notifications he received when he killed the man from the evil organization whose name was known by no one.
[Are you not going to stop now?]
[Even I’m tired]
‘It’s the sign of my shi*ty luck break for once. If I could, I’d look at them every second of the day.’
[…]
At Wei Jun’s reply, the system could only remain speechless and remained quiet.
“Haa…” Wei Jun sighed as he read the notifications in his view once again.
[The amount of accumulated Death has reached the pinnacle of this fragment]
[The user can no longer accumulate Death Qi]
[To compensate the user, the system is searching for alternative methods to accommodate the gained power]
[An alternative method according to the user’s wishes has been found]
[The level limit of the user has risen by 25%]
[Upon each level up of ten, the user’s stat limit has now increased to 50]
[Note: The level limit would return upon the upgrade of the fragment]
[Number of upgrade fragments in the user’s possession: 13]
[Please collect more for the upgrade of the fragment]
[Death Qi: 100,000,000,000100,000,000,000]
‘Say, what realm is required to hold that much Qi?’ Wei Jun couldn’t help but ask the overseer.
[To be precise, no realm can hold that much Qi]
[Ever]
[Except for the spiritual energy which is stored in one’s mind]
[Mana and Qi are stored in the heart and the abdomen]
[Unlike the brain, which is said to be the size of the universe, the heart and abdomen of a human body are limited, so one can never store that much in their body parts]
[So, the alternative method is to limit the user]
[For example, if a skill takes about 100 Qi at the beginning, one can train their skills to use 10 points of Qi to execute the same skill]
[So, if the human limit is 100,000 points of Qi, depending on how much they’ve trained themselves and the purity of their Qi, they can use skills ten times that or ten times less that, depending on the purity of their Qi]
[Do you follow so far?]
‘No.’
[…]
[You could have told me that in the middle of the explanation]
‘You were going nonstop; there was no opportunity to interject.’ Wei Jun argued in his defense.
[…]
[Haa…]
[Anyway, while it is not possible for a human being to store that much Qi, they can lower the cost of their usage by increasing the purity of their Qi]
‘I see. But the purity only allows them to increase it by 10 times, right?’ Wei Jun asked.
[Yes]
[And no, even then, they cannot rival the amount of Qi you can hold]
[And no one can hold the type of Qi you have because no one can actually store death in their being]
[Even you are limited because you’re not death itself but a version of Death]
[Half Death, one could say]
‘I see.’ Wei Jun replied, but that didn’t matter to him. What his origins were was a question for later, and it wasn’t possible to gain anything from the overseer anyway, since the overseer couldn’t give him a surefire answer.
What he was interested in was…
‘Is it possible to increase the purity of my Qi?’ Wei Jun asked.
[No]
But all his dreams were dashed by the simple reply from the overseer.
‘Why the hell not?’ Wei Jun felt betrayed, so he asked.
[Death is already in a purified form]
[Further purification is not possible]
‘That sucks.’ Wei Jun complained.
[You have the rarest element of Qi, or probably the impossible one]
[In billions at that]
[And you’re sulking]
‘More is never less.’
[Never heard of that expression]
‘It’s a great expression.’
[Ahan]
Wei Jun stood up and stretched his limbs. Once he was refreshed, he made his way out of the villa to enjoy himself with the rest.
~~
Step…
A silent step that couldn’t have been heard by anyone echoed in the cave as Bang Yu, an old man with a buff figure and dressed in a white suit, approached three figures at the end. Two of the people were standing, flanking the third one, who was sitting cross-legged.
“Is she not well yet?” Bang Yu asked.
The woman who was sitting cross-legged was focusing her Qi to heal the internal injuries she had gained. The other two men, dressed in white robes similar to the woman, looked at Bang Yu and one of them replied, “That man was more formidable than we thought.”
“Yes, he sure was.” Bang Yu replied.
He never expected it. He was aware of Liu Qianghua’s existence, but even he could never have expected him to go head to head with the three figures before him and even injure the woman among them gravely.
“Times have changed.” The other man said, “A potential like him never existed in the central plains.”
“I would argue there.” The woman who was sitting cross-legged spoke.
“The heavenly demon.” Bang Yu said, aware of what the woman was thinking.
“Ahh…” Both of the men couldn’t help but silently agree. The heavenly demons were always formidable, but the final one, the one who faced the angel with all her might, was someone even the three of them wouldn’t have been able to defeat had it not been for their lord.
“Are there more like him?” The woman asked. But, in the end, the heavenly demon was a demon of he past. What enemies did they currently face? If there were others like that old man, then they had their work cut out before their master’s return.
“A few.” Bang Yu said.
“And what about the Ashguard empire? Does it still exist?” One of the men asked.
“Not anymore, it does not.” Bang Yu replied.
“So the emperor is still trapped?” The other man asked.
“So far.” Bang Yu replied.
“Are there any followers of his in this era?” The woman asked while she was still focused on tending to her injuries.
“There were a few, but now most of them are dead. A few remain, one of whom is at large.” Bang Yu replied.
“So, someone who can corner the remnants of the Ashguard empire exists? Is it one of the threats?” The man on the left asked.
“No.” Bang Yu replied before he simply added, “It’s the vessel.”
“…” Silence. Still silence in the cave, even more than before. None of them dared to speak.
They all remained silent until the woman broke the silence as she asked, “Is the young master in contact with the vessel?”
A chill ran through all four of them, even the woman herself, who had mentioned the young master.
“Yes.” Bang Yu replied. “While I cannot be certain, there was an absence of him from this world, but then the connection was established once again.”
Once again, silence dawned upon all of them. Fear aside, if the young master was already in contact with the vessel,
then…
“We need to stay as far away from him as possible. There is a possibility he already knows who we are.” The woman said.
“Agreed.” All three men replied at the same time.
“But first,” Bang Yu said as he added, looking at the ancient clothing of the trio, “Perhaps a change in attire to blend this era better.”