Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 175

Chapter 175: Stunted growth
Chapter 175

[The connection between Shao Chen and Reum Chan has been significantly weakened]

[Seven events have been affected]

[Two events have been altered]

[Four events have been removed]

[One event is undetermined]

[Fate has been heavily compromised]

[Your level has increased by 7]

Wei Jun felt a rush of power throughout his body but that wasn’t all. he had felt similar power-ups before so he was somewhat familiar with them and could focus on other things.

The other thing that he saw was the slight change in space. As if it was contorting. And it was mostly around two individuals, Shao Chen and Reum Chan.

However, seeing that they didn’t react to it, it was probably so that only he saw it.

Wei Jun couldn’t help but wonder what that was. As if the air was tearing apart and space was being contorted. He couldn’t understand anything of it. All he knew was that something had changed around Shao Chen and Reum Chan.

He had received the levels as soon as Reum Chan was injured by Shao Chen. The system had called that fate so he had a good guess that it was the power of the world. His original opponent.

The next set of notifications made him even more curious.

[The world’s will has started to take notice of something]

[The anomaly of the invader hasn’t been spotted yet]

[The user is still hidden from the world’s sight]

Wei Jun didn’t understand one bit about it. All he knew was that he was going in the right direction and that he wasn’t strong enough to have been noticed by the world yet.

As he got over all this information, he saw the green-haired mercenary and Yan Rong in a confrontation. A fight was coming. Or at least it will if he didn’t stop it.

No doubt Yan Rong possessed the power to kill everyone there. He didn’t want that obviously because he still had to wring Shao Chen dry.

He had finally figured out what the influential leverage of Shao Chen meant. Where he needed to just take the love interests of Run Long, he needed to take every connection from Shao Chen.

Anything that could help him to his goal.

In this case, Reum Chan was a connection to the cultivator’s special forces but from the looks of it, that bridge had sunk in deep now.

Wei Jun stood up and approached the scene utilizing his new power without using any Qi reinforcement.

“That’s enough, Yang Rong.” Wei Jun grabbed Yan Rong by her wrist.

She dispelled her power and looked at him. As for the green-haired man, he did the same and the erratic green power around him vanished.

Wei Jun knelt down and pulled a health pill from his pocket slash inventory. He put it in Reum Chan’s mouth who was still coughing blood.

In an instant, it started to take effect and in just a few minutes, she was completely healed. She stared at Wei Jun and then at Yan Rong.

“Don’t do anything.” Yan Rong said with authority in her voice, something Wei Jun had never witnessed from her.

Reum Chan nodded and remained on the floor. As for Wei Jun, he stood up and tossed a pill to the green-haired man who caught it.

“Let’s just say both sides were in the wrong and forget about it all.” Wei Jun said, staring at Shao Chen who was in pain and being healed by the man who was hitting on the girls, Bernard.

Wei Jun hadn’t seen such an application of mana but it surely was interesting. But it still wasn’t as fast as the healing pill.

So he graciously gave one. Well, that was also because there was a need to cement his image in the rest of Shao Chen’s team.

They wouldn’t be messing with him for some time. At least not until it was too late.

The green haired threw the pill to Bernard who caught it and fed it to Shao Chen. The green-haired man saw Shao Chen healing at a visible rate and then once again turned to Wei Jun and asked, “And the cultivator’s special forces?”

“You’d have to ask them?” Wei Jun pointed at Yan Rong.

Yan Rong smiled and said, “Whatever you say, darling.”

Wei Jun smiled. She wasn’t as dumb as she came across. She knew what Wei Jun was trying to do. He was trying to show he not only had the backing of a sect but also had a strong ally on his side.

The green-haired man nodded and said, “Let us meet again under better circumstances.”

“Sure.” Wei Jun said. He glanced at Shao Chen who was just getting up. Shao Chen didn’t have a good expression on his face and his eyes were spilling hatred.

But not for Yan Rong who had injured him but for Wei Jun who was smiling at him.

However, Shao Chen remained quiet. He didn’t do anything except for that. He turned and left with the rest of his team.

“I’m sorry, Lieutenant. Because of me, it all got out of control.” Reum Chan said as she stood up.

Yan Rong waved her hand and said, “No problem. I do that all the time.”

Although not quite the same, Yan Rong had also dealt with such issues from a young age. There were many who were after him just after a glance of her.

Even her relatives had tried to pursue her. Of course, no one ended with a happy ending. The lucky ones died while the unlucky ones were left in unimaginable agony.

Wei Jun somehow doubted that Yan Rong’s ‘same’ and Reum Chan’s ‘same’ were not quite the same. But he kept his mouth shut because it didn’t concern him one bit. He just looked at Yan Rong and said, “Thanks.”

“Oh, anytime darling~~~,” Yan Rong said with a smile that charmed everyone in the vicinity. The women. As for the sole man, Wei Jun didn’t have any change in his temperament. He was as stoic as the day he saw her.

Wei Jun nodded and left. Yan Rong stayed behind because she needed to deal with some of her own matters.

As for Wei Jun, he checked the time and left for his apartment. He had no pending meeting or any sort of task. For the next few days, he was absolutely free. The business was being looked after by Li Wei and Lao Chen.

As for Shao Chen, he was under strict observation by Mark Wilson. Although he had stated that with the addition of mana users, it became quite difficult to keep an eye on Shao Chen. He was deploying some expensive measures to continue.

Of course, the pay for those measures came from Wei Jun.

The system backed the explanation by Mark Wilson as mana users were sensitive compared to the other users. Mark was a mana user and mana users were sensitive to mana. If he were to use mana in their vicinity, he could be spotted by another mana user.

With there being three mana users in the mercenary team of Shao Chen, observation of them became a very hard thing to do.

Wei Jun didn’t mind though. The information he was getting from Mark was the groundwork for Shao Chen’s demise.

It was thanks to Mark that Wei Jun was able to find out where Shao Chen would be tonight.

But he didn’t know he would be walking towards such a big event and such a big gain from it as well.

But that didn’t make him happy. It only worried him instead because that meant Wei Jun could easily not have been there tonight.

In other words, every move of Shao Chen could lead to an event and Wei Jun couldn’t be there the next time. The only way to do that would be to know of it beforehand and the only way to do that was through the novel.

Although Wei Jun now had ten levels to unlock the second volume of the novel, he was somewhat hesitant to do so. Wei Jun’s progress had stunted quite a bit.

Except for his Qi, no other stat of his was facing an imminent increase. The only fact that made Wei Jun special and different from others was his already monstrous physical strength.

He wouldn’t even need Qi to fight those on the same level as him. But if his physical stats remained in one place, he was worried he might not be special anymore.

After all, he wasn’t as talented as the others. If his only plus point stopped being one, Wei Jun would be left at quite a disadvantage.

‘Are there elixirs to increase physical stats?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Of course, there are]

[Body cultivators use them all the time]

‘But…’ Wei Jun felt like a but was coming up.

[But they are extremely rare]

[Just like body cultivators themselves]

‘But they’re available in the shop, right?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Of course they are]

[Just one tiny bit of a problem]

‘And that is?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Elixir of stone will]

[Strength +10]

[Cost: 1,000,000 coins]

Wei Jun’s eyes popped out of his sockets when he read the price. It was the same as the Qi awakening elixir.

[The problem is simple]

[They are ten times more expensive than Qi-increasing elixirs]

“…”

‘Well, sh*t.’