Chapter 423: Pei: Who is accusing this official under the hall! (Seeking monthly votes and recommendations)_1
Chapter 423: Pei: Who is accusing this official under the hall! (Seeking monthly votes and recommendations)_1
[New Extraordinary-Human Genes: Spirit·Avatar]
[Adding Extraordinary Ability: Illusionary Duplication (Consumes Vitality to condense an avatar, with 50% of the original’s strength; currently limited to sharing a single Extraordinary-Human Gene; duration depends on the amount of Vitality)]
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“Plop.”
Song Dehai’s corpse was callously tossed aside by Pei Jinye.
The moment it hit the ground it was engulfed and devoured by a great fire.
Pei Jinye was very satisfied with this talent.
Song Dehai’s talent was indeed to create avatars, but he had forcibly trained it into a Golden Silkworm Shedding, used for escaping.
For Pei Jinye, though, the ability to create avatars was already significantly meaningful.
The focus of the Extraordinary Abilities wasn’t on escape, but on creating perfect illusions.
This meant that he just needed to provide a certain amount of Vitality to have a flawless avatar.
“Share a single Extraordinary?”
Pei Jinye pondered thoughtfully.
In other words, the avatar he condensed could only use one kind of Extraordinary Ability.
That was no problem for him.
With a thought,
Pei Jinye felt a portion of his blood as if it were peeled away from inside his body.
From his hands a myriad of crimson liquid rapidly condensed.
In the blink of an eye, a “Pei Jinye” identical to himself appeared, stark naked.
Someone’s gaze drifted downward.
“Indeed, a one-to-one ratio, very imposing.”
With a flick of his finger,
Frost spewed from the tips of Pei Jinye’s fingers.
Almost instantly, his opposite’s diligent body was encased in a snow-white armor of ice.
Pei Jinye attempted to exert control.
Nearly with a single thought, his entire consciousness had already descended into the avatar, which was just a shell.
“Pei Jinye” raised his head, and the unmoving original body appeared in his vision.
With a thought,
The original clumsily looked over.
“It requires strong spiritual power to support doing two things at once,” The avatar “Pei Jinye” thought carefully.
Luckily, he possessed the Extraordinary Psychic Network System abilities himself.
His spiritual power was also substantial.
So, unlike Song Dehai’s backlash during his first attempt at activating both the original and the avatar, due to a lack of spiritual power which forced him to lay in bed for half a year,
Pei Jinye was different.
When he “awakened” the talent for an avatar, he was already an Extraordinary Third Rank, with his spiritual power nearing two hundred points—a level Song Dehai could hardly dream of matching.
After a brief feeling out,
Pei Jinye’s multitasking already allowed him to easily maneuver both the original and the avatar.
With a thought,
The original teleported ten meters, twenty meters…
Until more than forty meters out, the avatar finally began to show signs of disintegration.
After recording this,
Pei Jinye continued his experiments.
Elemental avatar…
Indeed, it could only use a single type of Elemental Power.
However, the good news was that the lethality boost was still consistent with the original, up to a 35-fold increase.
“Which is to say, only when I activate the elemental avatar, will my combat power be the strongest…”
Pei Jinye was not disappointed.
The avatar could act as a decoy, luring enemies and clearing his own suspicions.
When it comes time to truly take action, there’s absolutely no need to hesitate, as the strongest original body will handle it!
After a series of tests,
In the span of three hours, his Vitality only dropped by six points.
That’s to say, it only consumed two points of Vitality Value per hour.
This was also not bad news for him.
With nearly two hundred points of Vitality Value, it was enough for him to idly waste away for four days straight.
That was completely sufficient to handle some emergencies.
Pei Jinye returned to his original body and cleanly stabbed his own avatar to death with a sword.
Checking his attribute panel,
The death of the avatar caused a loss of twenty points of Vitality Value, which made the corners of Pei Jinye’s mouth twitch.
“Damn, I was too careless.”
However, now he had a clear grasp of the costs, which would facilitate his actions in the future.
Going upstairs,
Pei Jinye turned and entered the secret room hidden in the abandoned factory by the three brothers.
A blackboard had photos of him and Lin Xiawei attached, marking his home, the Investigation Team’s Base, and the apartment where Lin Xiawei often appeared.
“Quite a detailed strategy…”
While looking at the information, Pei Jinye smoothly opened the secret safe, with an easiness that made it seem as if he were in his own home.
Two rows of Blue Potions and downing three bottles instantly replenished his expended spiritual power, and he packed up everything else to take with him.
He also wiped a clean Blood Spirit Fruit, took a big bite, and with a keen interest, peeled off a sticker from the side information.
There was a photo with a line underneath: [Kidnapping, five million.]
Glancing at the person in the photo,
Pei Jinye was actually not unfamiliar.
“Sun Ruo… Fan?”
He stared at the photo for a while before looking away.
When he turned to leave, a great fire burned everything there to ashes.
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Teacher Chang still hadn’t returned, but Pei Jinye had captured his men.
“This old thief… Has he been targeted for revenge?”
Pei Jinye looked puzzled.
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Old Thief Chang actually had enemies.
But it seemed like he had left Da Peng City…
Pei Jinye fell into thought.
He certainly didn’t mind “kicking someone when they were down”.
It’s just that he had lost track of the old thief’s whereabouts for the moment.
“It’s a pity, this isn’t the Western Continent.”
If this were in the Western Continent, 380,000 electronic eyes would sweep across, and Old Thief Chang couldn’t hide the color of his underwear, let alone his location, from his eyes.
Pei Jinye stood under the mall, looking up at the electronic eye above.
“It’s a pity, this is Central State.”
“I need to find a way to hack ‘Xing Tian’ as soon as possible!”
Pei Jinye took his eyes off the scene and dialed a number.
“It’s me.”
The voice of Lin Xiawei came through: “I’m about to board my flight, and I’m afraid I’ll be leaving Central State for a while.”
“Now?” Pei Jinye was a bit surprised, but he could understand.
The fate of her master was uncertain, and if it were him, he would be worried too.
After a few words between the siblings, Lin Xiawei on the other end hung up the phone.
Pei Jinye exhaled softly.
His sister was also leaving.
His true backing in Da Peng City was now completely gone.
From now on, he could only rely on himself.
He stepped onto the staircase.
Pei Jinye headed to Pei’s Dalhae Lao.
Yet before he reached the hotpot restaurant, he heard a noisy commotion that was so loud it made his eardrums buzz.
Clueless, Pei Jinye pushed through the crowd and saw that the noise was coming from his family’s hotpot restaurant. He hastened his steps to enter.
The reception recognized him and hurried to greet him, but Pei Jinye swept a glance at the arguing man and woman in front and asked in a low voice, “What happened?”
“These two customers insist they found something dirty in their food at our restaurant and are demanding compensation… But there’s surveillance in the kitchen, and the boss and his wife have always placed great importance on cleanliness, so such an incident is absolutely impossible,” said the agitated receptionist.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Pei Jinye understood the situation, and normally he wouldn’t care about such a minor incident.
However, this restaurant was a business set up for his parents to pass the time. If the business were to be disrupted by these two people, his parents would likely be distressed for a long time.
He gestured, “Bring up the surveillance footage from the back, inform everyone, also call the police, and directly prosecute them.”
The receptionist responded, “The problem is here; there happened to be a system crash during their visit, so we can’t prove anything now…”
Pei Jinye looked over as he heard this.
A system crash?
He turned his gaze.
Before the receptionist could say anything else, Pei Jinye walked straight over.
He activated hypnosis.
The man and woman’s inner thoughts were immediately revealed, causing an uproar around them.
Before the receptionist could react, Pei Jinye had already called the police and had legal affairs sue the couple to bankruptcy.
When Father Pei hurried over, Pei Jinye had already resolved the issue.
“Is everything all right?” Father Pei was somewhat concerned.
Pei Jinye indicated, “It’s fine, the man is an Extraordinary Psychic Class who hacked into our network. I’ll have a friend remotely update it later; this kind of issue won’t happen again.”
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Father Pei sighed with relief upon hearing the words, “Thank goodness you’re here. Otherwise, with those two causing such a ruckus, there’s no telling what kind of chaos might ensue.”
After a moment of thought, Pei Jinye felt that he still needed to check out the backgrounds of those two individuals.
If it was just the two of them acting on their own initiative, that would be one thing.
But if someone was behind this, directing their actions, then he would have no choice but to eradicate the problem at its roots.
“By the way, where’s Mom?” Pei Jinye asked.
“Your mom is cleaning the house right now. We’ve looked at a few houses recently and actually settled on one.” Father Pei had been driving around these past couple of days to house-hunt.
Now the business at the store was not bad, and after Pei Jinye came back, he brought five million in spending money for the family.
Even buying a villa in Da Peng City would only cost about two million, so there was money to spare.
The matter of the house was left to the elders.
Pei Jinye did not get involved; what he had in abundance now was money.
After experiencing more of life, he realized that having too much money was actually pointless.
If it couldn’t buy cultivation materials, it was just a stack of useless paper.
Just then, Father Pei suddenly received an emergency phone call. Before he even hung up, he hurriedly said to Pei Jinye, “Let’s go, head home quickly. Something has happened with your mom.”
After Pei Jinye got in the car, Father Pei said in a low voice, “It seems like your mom has awakened.”
Upon hearing this, Pei Jinye relaxed, thinking it wasn’t anything serious.
“What’s the situation now?”
“She can’t quite describe it, feels like the whole person is a lot more relaxed…”
Father Pei also struggled to describe it accurately. After hurrying home with Pei Jinye, the truth was finally confirmed.
“My mom really did awaken. It’s Psychic Class Purification.”
Father Pei was startled at the words, “Does that mean from now on, when I’m tired from farming, I can just go to your mom, and with one purification from her, I’ll be all fine?”
Mother Pei also glanced over upon hearing this.
Pei Jinye said with a smile, “It’s not just that. Whenever you feel unwell, you can undergo a purification. But for now, mom’s spiritual power is still quite weak, so she can’t purify you anytime you wish. Rest assured though, practice the mental method I taught you first. Leave the restaurant to the manager, focus on your cultivation without worries.”
Seeing this, Father Pei and Mother Pei did not insist.
The elders had gone from ordinary people to Transcendents overnight and were still immersed in the novelty of it all.
Pei Jinye still reminded the elders, “Currently, there are indeed examples of such evolution, but they are too rare. Once exposed, you will inevitably attract attention.”
The elders knew the pros and cons, and their excitement faded somewhat. Pei Jinye, seeing their reaction, said with a smile, “Don’t worry too much. At least in Da Peng City, no one can hurt you.”
When Pei Jinye was about to leave, Father Pei followed him, looking nervous and uneasy.
“Jinye, now that your mom has awakened… could it be harmful to the baby?”
Pei Jinye replied, “I just checked her, and the pregnancy looks normal; don’t worry.”
In fact, what he was thinking was…
Normally, people awaken around the ages of seventeen or eighteen.
For his mother to awaken at such an advanced age, and while pregnant… he couldn’t predict whether his soon-to-be-born little brother would inherently possess extraordinary powers.
If that were the case, it would truly be a chosen one.
After dealing with the family matters and before Pei Jinye could return to the Jiang family for cultivation, he received a call from the Investigation Team.
The caller was Zhou Ye.
Apparently trying to avoid someone, he spoke in a very low voice.
“Old Pei, something big has happened. The person taking over for Chief Lin is from Nan Du City, and they’ve specifically named you for an investigation.”
Pei Jinye’s eyebrows raised.
“My senior sister just left, and now someone is looking into me?”