NovelYeni Chapter 83 : Chapter 83
Chapter 83 : Chapter 83
Chapter 83: Twice the Cultivation Speed!
After hearing Wang Longcheng out, Li Mu smiled.
Then he looked toward his Uncle by Marriage, Chen Jinshi.
“I do know a bit about the Zhang Group family situation.”
“But as for the Zhang Group’s metal industry, we actually have someone at this table who works on the front lines.”
“My uncle’s forge has always sourced raw materials from the Zhang Group’s metal business.”
Wang Longcheng immediately turned to look at Chen Jinshi.
“Oh?”
Chen Jinshi was sitting a bit farther away and had not heard what the two of them were discussing just now. Seeing them both look at him, he immediately grew puzzled.
“Uncle, Uncle Wang wants to know how the Zhang Group’s metal business is doing,” Li Mu explained.
Wang Longcheng added, “It’s fine. Just speak honestly. I’m only doing a bit of work-related research.”
Chen Jinshi hurriedly said, “Oh, all right...”
“Well... I don’t really understand anything too deep.”
“But honestly, ever since I started using energy metals from the Zhang Group’s supply line, I’ve never used anyone else’s again.”
“First of all, although the Zhang family’s prices are a tiny bit higher, their goods are genuinely excellent.”
“On top of that, their after-sales service is good. In the past, other suppliers never bothered with our scrap.”
“But the Zhang family even handles scrap recovery, and at fair prices too. One phone call, and they send a truck over to haul it away.”
“When you add it all up, it saves worry, it saves effort, and the goods themselves are solid.”
“These past two years, any blacksmith like us who really cares about making good weapons uses the Zhang family’s materials.”
“There’s even a whole circle of us now!”
Once he started talking about his trade, Chen Jinshi really got going.
Wang Longcheng nodded repeatedly as he listened.
From a single leaf, one could infer the coming of autumn.
If the Zhang Group had earned such a reputation among front-line workers, then its metal business could hardly be anything less than excellent.
Seeing that Wang Longcheng was tempted, Li Mu said, “I’m meeting Zhang Zhiwei tomorrow, so I’ll ask first whether their family is interested.”
“If they really have the capability, then they must already have begun preparing to compete for the military-industrial contract tied to this cooperation.”
Wang Longcheng nodded.
“Good. Then I’ll trouble you with that.”
“If the Zhang family is truly interested, have them prepare a proposal and send it directly to me.”
“When it comes to developing this Mother Crystal, our side has the greatest say.”
“And this time, the research institute’s recommendation is not for a mere contract manufacturer.”
“They want a true military-industrial enterprise.”
“Those metal corporations with the biggest names all submit proposals filled with empty grandstanding.”
“In a bidding environment like this, where profit and connections matter most,”
“if things go strictly by the formal process, then the Zhang family’s proposal probably won’t even survive to the final round. It may never reach us at all.”
Even as Wang Longcheng said this, there was helplessness in his tone.
Judging by scale alone, the Zhang Group was not small within the Eastern District.
But in all of Ironhand City, it still could not compare with those enterprises that had military backing.
This time, since he held real influence in his hands, he absolutely would not allow those mediocre companies to take over the Living Crystal project.
This matter was of immense importance, whether to Wang Longcheng personally or to the Pearl Military District as a whole.
“Yes!”
Li Mu nodded and accepted the task.
Then, without thinking much of it, he picked up the teacup in front of him to take a drink.
Only then did he realize there were two teacups before him.
He immediately turned to look at Wang Yinhuan.
By sheer coincidence, he caught her in the act of sneaking a glance at him.
The speed at which Wang Yinhuan’s pretty face heated up startled Yang Suying across the table.
For a moment, she thought, Has this girl cooked already?
Even a boiled shrimp would not turn red that fast.
After the meal ended, when they were heading out, Yang Suying even deliberately stayed a little closer to Wang Yinhuan so she could observe her better.
Honestly speaking, not only was the girl cute and beautiful, her figure was excellent as well.
Her hands were folded together over her lower abdomen, pressing her chest into an even fuller curve.
Her legs were neither too thick nor too thin, her waist was slender, and the graceful line of her body outlined a striking waist-to-hip ratio.
Still, Yang Suying said nothing.
Once they got home, the whole family went about putting away all sorts of odds and ends into their respective rooms.
It was not until late that night that Li Mu finally lay down.
He summoned the system.
This mission had earned him a total of 7,850 Triumph Points.
That was far more than what he had gained last time in the Bone Ghoul Domain.
The main reason was that toward the end of this mission, Li Mu had been killing Fourth Grade monsters.
By now, Fourth Grade monsters could scarcely withstand even a single strike from him.
After subtracting the points he had spent to learn the Safe-Haven Method, as well as unlocking Bird Transformation and Eagle Transformation in the Seventy-Two Transformations,
he still had 7,150 left.
Without the slightest hesitation, Li Mu first poured 5,000 points into Listen Close.
【Consumed 5000 Triumph Points. Successfully enhanced ‘Listen Close’】
【Listen Close: Store the Divine Weapon within the Xumi space of the ear. Gain constant comprehension and cultivation at 246% of the normal cultivation rate.】
The moment the points were spent, Li Mu could clearly feel that the speed of his cultivation had undergone a qualitative transformation.
This increase was truly enormous.
Even compared to when he devoted himself wholeheartedly to cultivation, this was much faster.
And this improvement was happening every moment of every day.
It was just that, although this cultivation speed was incredibly fast, Li Mu still felt it was not firm enough.
He still needed constant battle to temper the rise in his cultivation, so that his foundation could grow ever more solid.
After this round of combat, Li Mu felt that his cultivation had already reached the peak of the Third Grade Realm.
If nothing unexpected happened, then with Listen Close’s current cultivation speed, he would break through to the Fourth Grade Realm within a few days.
After upgrading Listen Close, Li Mu put another 545 points into Divine Weapon Art.
【Consumed 545 Triumph Points. Successfully enhanced ‘Divine Weapon Art’】
【Divine Weapon Art: Grants weight to the weapon. Current weight: 2000 jin.】
Adding the weight of the weapon itself, that made it 2,220 jin.
Li Mu stretched his arms out long.
“I’ve finally broken past one ton!”
He had 1,605 Triumph Points left.
So Li Mu took out his Size-Shifting Cloak.
Triumph Points could be used to modify and upgrade Spirit Treasures, but Li Mu had always been short on Great Sage divine abilities.
So he had completely forgotten about that.
After this battle, Li Mu had truly come to understand the importance of Spirit Treasures.
This cloak was definitely worth trying to modify.
“How do I modify a Spirit Treasure?”
【Inject Triumph Points into the Spirit Treasure to obtain enhancement traits. The more points injected, the stronger the resulting trait.】
“Inject 1,600 points and reinforce the cloak.”
Li Mu chose to go all in.
【Please provide enhancement direction: Killing, Protection, Recovery, Mystic Arts, Domain.】
“Protection.”
For the time being, Li Mu was not lacking in offensive power.
【While the cloak is worn, it possesses 70% of your body’s defensive power. While detached from the body, it possesses 50% of your body’s defensive power.】
Li Mu raised a brow.
Good heavens.
Had this Spirit Treasure started borrowing strength from his own body now?
Still, there was no denying how powerful this trait was.
Thanks to the Heavenly Immortal Art and his medicinal pills, even without activating Bronze Head and Iron Arms, his defensive power already far surpassed that of ordinary Martial Artists.
As his cultivation rose higher and higher, for a Spirit Treasure to permanently possess seventy percent of his body’s defensive power
was already an extremely rare thing.
The key point was that it still had room to improve.
The thought of medicinal pills then crossed his mind.
Li Mu once again urgently needed to strengthen his body, especially since he was still waiting to see the effects of the High-Grade Body-Tempering Pill.
With that thought, his consciousness directly entered the Blessing Field.
Inside the Blessing Field, Yaogu was currently running around everywhere.
After a few laps, its legs would bend, and it would let loose a stream of urine.
The force of it was so strong that it could spray a puddle straight into the ground.
Then it would run right back to the spring and guzzle water like mad.
Ever since Li Mu had moved Yaogu into the Blessed Field Art, the horse had become obsessed with that Spiritual Spring.
It was probably because the Spiritual Spring could transform its body.
Since the spring kept bubbling up endlessly and there was no shortage of water in there anyway, Li Mu had not bothered with it.
He had already dug a small pool by the Spiritual Spring.
The pool had two overflow channels, and once it filled up, the water would spill into the two plots of medicinal herbs.
There was no such thing as overwatering inside this Blessing Field.
The herbs here could madly absorb nutrients from both the soil of the field and the Spiritual Spring at the same time, growing without limit.
Their growth rate was dozens, even over a hundred times faster than outside.
In just three to five days, Li Mu’s herbs had already become young plants.
He estimated that in another three days, they would become mature plants. As long as they sprouted large leaves, they could be used for alchemy.
Li Mu stood there with his hands on his hips, looking over those two small plots of land.
Once all those herbs matured, he would probably be able to produce somewhere between ten and twenty High-Grade Body-Tempering Pills.
He just wondered whether eating them like regular meals would lead to resistance.
What a headache...
Early the next morning, Li Mu got up and headed straight for school.
Not seeing Zhang Zhiwei, he called him directly.
“Spearman, where are you? I’ve got something good for you.”