Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 150

Chapter 150: Update
Chapter 150

[The main quest has been completed]

[You have not absorbed the dragon tear]

[You have not taken away the cultivation technique ‘Yin Yang harmony’]

[The connection between Run Long and Quan Li hasn’t been fully severed]

[Main quest I has been completed with 87% efficiency]

[Efficiency reward would be given upon system update]

[Rewards for the quest have arrived]

[All stats +10]

[You have received a permanent discount on all items in the system shop]

[All items are now available with a 3% discount]

[System update will begin in six hours]

[System shop update will follow the system update]

Wei Jun read through the notifications in great detail. He was a little upset that he wouldn’t be able to increase his level by taking the rest of the treasures and severing Run Long’s connection with Quan Li.

[Those chances ended with Run Long]

That was the simple explanation offered by the system. However, there was nothing he could have done. He had milked Run Long as much as he could. He couldn’t fully sever his connection with Quan Li because of their childhood even though Run Long had tried to kill her.

As for the treasures, he couldn’t absorb the dragon tear because he couldn’t risk being discovered by the world laws yet and the other one hadn’t even arrived in Yuan Yin City yet and Wei Jun wasn’t willing to waste this chance for a small time technique.

Wei Jun entered the penthouse building in which he also had given flats to Quan Kui, Xiao Heiling, Quan Li, and Zhan Yi. Only theirs were flats while his was the penthouse. He went straight to the shower room to take a shower.

Finished with everything, Wei Jun slumped on his bed after a warm bath. Although he hadn’t taken a bath after his Qi awakened, he couldn’t help but want one for an entirely different reason than loosening his muscles.

A little tired, not physically but mentally, he closed his eyes and fell into slumber.

After about six hours, he was woken up by the sound of the system notifications.

[The system upgrade will now begin]

[Time taken for the first quest to be completed: 3 months 26 days]

[Additional reward would be added]

[Efficiency at 87%]

[Extra reward will be added]

[The change of the world would be in favor of the host by 61%]

‘Change?’ Wei Jun thought inwardly and just at that moment, everything began to shake. The intensity of the quake was so much that Wei Jun couldn’t hold on with his stats. However, when he tried to use his Qi, he couldn’t.

The weird thing was, that in that shaking world, everything else remained still. The lamp on the table wasn’t falling but Wei Jun was shaking like hell and even fell off the bed.

H managed to take hold of the bed but still kept shaking. The bed didn’t shake with him though.

Through efforts he couldn’t imagine, he managed to stand up, jumped at the window, and held the wall with all his power.

He wanted to see outside. And he was able to do that successfully. But what he saw left him bewildered.

The sky split, like a crack in a concrete floor, extending from one end of the sky to the other. Out of it, lightning fell of different colors. Yellow, blue, dark red, black and white. The lightning never harmed the world but wherever it fell, it created a smoke that rose from the ground and mixed in with the surroundings.

The earthquake became intense with each passing moment and so did the lightning falling on the ground. The smoke became so dense that it spread everywhere until it also covered Wei Jun.

That was when he felt it. It was Qi. Out of all the types of Qi, the only one that came to enter his body was the death Qi. He began to choke; his innards began to constrict until it got to a point where he couldn’t even breathe.

But he was alive. He was alive and fully conscious, feeling the pain without a moment’s rest. It only increased with each passing moment and it only became unbearable with each passing moment. But he couldn’t do anything.

All he could do was one thing and one thing only; endure.

The process lasted for about twelve hours. Or that was how it felt for Wei Jun. For him, twelve hours really did pass for him. However, the rest of the world was frozen. It was frozen but not just that. Something was changing. Not just to them, it was happening in the entire world. However, only one individual was unaffected.

He was affected, but not by the changes of the world. He was breathing in the dark and black smoke, hurting him so much that he felt like his innards were falling apart.

And finally, it ended. And he lost consciousness.

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“Nothing to report. No trace was picked up. It was too late.” A cultivator in a black suit reported the man who was also present when his master was being treated by Run Long.

“Not a thing?” Ywi Lang asked.

“Not one thing. There were traces of battle, a battle between adequately powerful cultivators. I would have to say they were at the Qi master realm.” The cultivator reported. The fight was something he hadn’t ever seen and traces left behind were something no one would have been able to easily make.

Surely it would have been an epic battle if the scale of destruction was that much.

“Is there anything else?” Ywi Lang asked the woman cultivator who was escorting the envoy.

“Nothing. He was just a Qi gathering realm cultivator.” The woman contradicted the observations of the cultivator who deduced that it might have been a battle of high rank cultivators.

“I don’t think so, captain. It could have been that he was just hiding his strength. There are some high-level cultivators who can do that. I mean, master himself can do that.” The man stuck with his theory.

“Yeah. But none at the Qi master realm. It would have to be an at least Qi grandmaster and there’s none in a small city like the Yuan Yin city.” The woman once again contradicted the man.

“That’s also true.” Ywi Lang agreed with her before he said, “Examine the area once again. There must have been something. Also, use the master’s name. Contact the miracle healer. Tell him what his disciple did. And tell him, if he is hiding him, the consequences wouldn’t be just anything.”

The man and the woman looked at each other before the woman asked, “Wouldn’t that be a bit too disrespectful to a man of his status?”

“So what if it would be? He isn’t above the law and certainly not above us.” Ywi Lang replied.

“But what if he gets his sect involved?” The man asked.

“Then we involve the military. They’re not the only ones with power on their side.” Ywi Lang replied.

If the sects were like a union, the government was what it was, the government. All the law enforcement came under it. if the unions were to make a mess that got out of control, the law enforcers would rain sticks on them, making sure they stayed in control.

After all, the unions weren’t above the government. Nothing was above the empire in the entire empire. And the one to rule above all else was the emperor.

Naturally, sects also came under him, not equal to him. If the sects thought they had no one to answer to, they thought wrong.

They had to answer the empire, and the empire’s only weapon was its stick, two actually. The thin stick, the cultivator special forces, and the thick stick, the military.

The thin stick was bearable and some sects could act arrogant in front of it. But then the thin stick would bring in the big guns, the military. No power on earth could deal with the empire’s military. Mainly because they had the most Qi grandmasters and a number of Qi commanders.

However, that wasn’t all. The rumor that kept all of them in line was the existence of a Qi Saint.

The chief of the military was rumored to be a Qi saint, one level higher cultivator than even the emperor, who was in the initial realm of the Qi commander realm.

Ywi Lang knew they had the advantage and the upper hand. No one could defy them, certainly not a master-level cultivator like the miracle healer whose main forte wasn’t even fighting but medical.

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In a room, a man aged between 23-24 lay unconscious on the bed. His attendant had found him like that. The doctor was called, but it only turned out to be due to exhaustion. He was just directed to have a lot of rest.

Wei Jun slowly opened his eyes but clamped them shut after the light from the window stung his eyes.

Just as he was getting used to everything, the door to the room opened and a woman with black hair and dark brown eyes entered carrying a tray. The most exquisite feature of the woman was that she was wearing a French maid uniform.

Wei Jun saw her, his drowsiness gone and he remained in his spot. His instincts to attack her and seize her didn’t kick in and he was more confused than alert.

“Oh! Young master, you’re awake. I was so worried.” The woman said as she came closer to Wei Jun and put the tray on the nightstand.

Wei Jun looked at her incredulously and asked a simple question, “Who the hell are you?”