"Good morning, Brother Jiang," Shan Hongyi greeted while brushing her teeth, "Feeding the dog so early?"

Apparently, she had accepted the fact that Blood Wolf was a dog.

After all, if humans could be so dog-like, what's wrong with a wolf being a bit more canine?

Could it be even more doggish than Jiang Bai?

Jiang Bai stuffed the last piece of debris into Blood Wolf's mouth, watching it eat before patting its head satisfactorily and humming a tune as he left.

Jiang walked to Shan Hongyi's side, casually ruffling her white hair,

"Mm, brother's in a good mood today, giving the dog extra food."

Blood Wolf, who had just swallowed the entire ability meter debris: ......

Jiang Bai bought the second-hand ability meter from the shop owner to conceal his true strength.

After all, the officially sold ability meters might have some backdoors, transmitting Jiang Bai's data back, which was something he wanted to avoid.

A second-hand meter was much safer.

Moreover, the second-hand meter exploded after just one use. Jiang Bai's current level was above 1500 Qi, but exactly how much, nobody knew.

Even so, Jiang Bai was extra cautious, carefully collecting the debris from the exploded second-hand meter and feeding it all to Blood Wolf, destroying all evidence!

Blood Wolf, having eaten all the debris, looked at Jiang Bai with particularly resentful eyes.

Please, just be human!

After ruffling the little loli's hair, the cleanliness-loving Jiang Bai washed his hands before coming to the dining table.

Before he could speak, with a "pop", the power went out again.

In the darkness, the three of them, accustomed to this, sat in their own seats, silently eating breakfast.

Jiang Bai finished his soy milk and clapped his hands,

"Director, your modifications were good."

The Director was stunned for a moment, blankly saying, "Oh."

"Don't casually give it to ordinary people to practice."

Jiang Bai said seriously,

"It will kill people."

The Ninth Set of Bone Refining Exercises, if not for encountering a freak like Jiang Bai, whoever practiced it would die!

The Director scratched his head, "I know."

Jiang Bai cried out, "You knew and still gave it to me!"

The Director began to scratch his head anxiously with both hands, after a while finally squeezing out a few words,

"You're not an ordinary person."

This statement, Jiang Bai was quite pleased with.

He patted his chest and laughed,

"That's right! Who am I, bro, I'm the one who's going to save the world. Little bro, I'm not bragging, when we save this world, by then... all the money we owe won't need to be paid back!"

Shan Hongyi: ......

So you're saving the world just to default on debts?

After breakfast, the three left the powerless research institute, returned to the surface, and as usual, those who needed to cultivate cultivated, those who wanted to slack off slacked off, and those who wanted to tinker around tinkered around.

Jiang Bai changed his position today, facing the sun directly, letting the sunlight fall on his forehead, giving him a layer of sacred radiance.

Shan Hongyi, tired of slacking off, stared at Jiang Bai for a long time, then quickly ran to the Director's side and whispered,

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"Director, why do I feel like Brother Jiang's forehead is shining brightly today?"

The Director started scratching his head, thinking about how to lie to the little loli.

He found a lame excuse, "Jiang Bai doesn't wash his hair."

Shan Hongyi fell into an even longer silence.

After a long while, she said, holding back her heartache, "I'll invest more money, let the institute pay more for water bills, try to supply water for one more hour every day..."

The Director couldn't find a reason to refuse, "Okay."

Not far away, Jiang Bai sat cross-legged, absorbing Qi from between heaven and earth.

This morning, he had successfully refined his frontal bone, breaking through to become a mid-level ability user.

According to the limit of the ability meter, Jiang Bai's Qi was above 1500.

Jiang Bai estimated that he now had around 2000 Qi.

All this 2000 Qi was now infused into the frontal bone, yet still couldn't fill it completely!

Becoming a mid-level ability user, besides the increase in Qi limit and quality, there were other benefits.

After a day of cultivation, Jiang Bai opened his eyes, his gaze clear, having a preliminary understanding of the changes in himself:

"Depending on the refined bone part, ability users will gain different enhancements.

After successfully refining the frontal bone, my defense against mental sequence abilities has greatly improved, which is a planned success.

In addition, the speed of absorbing Qi has become faster, storage efficiency is higher, my own foundation is more solid, and the bone refining technique I chose is top-notch, this improvement is also what I deserve..."

Even without calculating the effect of [Human Harmony], Jiang Bai's current cultivation speed was more than three times that of others at the same level!

Under the blessing of [Human Harmony], Jiang Bai could achieve a terrifying fifteen times cultivation speed!

His one day of Qi absorption was equivalent to fifteen days of hard cultivation for others!

Besides the improvement in Qi, [Inch Stop] also had some enhancement.

Sequence abilities would break through along with the ability user's breakthrough.

Jiang Bai thought to himself,

"Each use of Inch Stop consumes Qi between 100 and 1000, the more Qi used, the stronger the effect of Inch Stop.

Combined with the effect of [Human Harmony], if I use 1000 Qi to release [Inch Stop], it's equivalent to a 5000 Qi Inch Stop, even high-level ability users can't resist..."

Inch Stop was indeed a strong sequence ability, the only problem was that it consumed too much Qi and couldn't be used frequently.

Even with Jiang Bai's terrifying talent and qualifications, if using [Inch Stop] at full power, he could only use it twice in one battle!

For other ability users without cheats, it would be even worse!

Jiang Bai couldn't help but sigh,

"There's a reason why you're second to last."

For several days after the breakthrough, Jiang Bai lived a peaceful life in the Ninth Research Institute, cultivating, eating, sleeping, being a slacker...

Until this day, his communicator suddenly had activity:

"Hello, the materials you ordered earlier have arrived and are ready for pickup at the market..."

Looking at the message on the communicator, a meaningful smile appeared on Jiang Bai's face.

This was the first time Shan Hongyi saw Brother Jiang smile like this.

It wouldn't be long before Shan Hongyi would understand that when Jiang Bai showed this smile, it meant someone was going to be in big trouble.

Big, big trouble.

...

In a corner of the trading market, a tea shop.

The door was locked tight.

Around the tea table sat three to five burly men, each with over ten scars on their bodies, looking fierce and not to be trifled with.

They were chattering noisily,

"That kid spent 40,000 in the market without blinking an eye!"

"Can't be a rich person, rich people don't come to this place to buy things, must be a nouveau riche! He even bought combat suits on the spot! I saw it with my own eyes!"

"He had a little loli following him, might be living off women, he might not have a background, but what if that little loli does?"

"I say, lure him out, kill him, and take this batch of goods. This kid is buying these materials just to break through to the mid-level, can't be that strong!"

"Idiot! I followed that guy, he lives in a haunted place, you think he's easy to deal with?"

"Just a bit braver, doesn't know how high the sky is, has a hard life, what's so special about that? I used to live in that place too, only eight out of ten people died, it's not that creepy!"

"An initial-level ability user about to break through, if he has the embryonic form of an ability bone on him, we'll hit the jackpot!"

"....."

Four or five heads argued back and forth, no one could convince the others, spittle flying, the scene was quite chaotic.

In their mouths, killing and robbing was like buying vegetables in the market.

This is the end of the world, the only recognized rule of survival is the law of the jungle.

When a fat sheep walks into a wolf pack, its fate is self-evident.

And Jiang Bai, who spent money lavishly, was this fat sheep.

On the tea table, there was only one cup of tea, and the owner of this cup had been silent all along, not participating in the discussion, just quietly listening.

The owner suddenly reached out to pick up the tea cup, and everyone immediately fell silent.

Those ruffians full of murderous aura were now as docile as sheep, not daring to make any noise.

The owner took a sip of tea, put the cup back on the table, and under everyone's gaze, calmly said,

"Don't touch the girl, as for the man... kill him."