Ch. 25
Chapter 25. I Slept for One Night, and the Void Scripture Reached the Beginner Level—And I Even Broke Through a Realm?
In Huazhong, an old, crumbling apartment building stood with vegetation crawling all over one side of the wall and stretching in through the windows.
Just yesterday, she was still living in a grand villa. Now, this was the only place she could stay.
Lin Wan walked to the door in a daze, her eyes hollow and lifeless, like a walking corpse as she opened it.
But the atmosphere inside was even more oppressive. Her father, mother, and younger brother were all sitting at the dining table, their faces extremely grim.
On the flickering television nearby, a live replay of Huazhong University's graduation ceremony was playing.
Smack!
The crisp sound of a slap rang out from the television. Lin Wan could not help feeling pain in her face, and even more pain in her heart.
The expressions of Lin Hai and the other two changed at once, and all of them looked toward Lin Wan, who had just returned.
"What are you standing at the door for? Come here and kneel!"
Lin Hai slammed a hand against the table and shot to his feet in a fury.
Lin Wan's eyes immediately reddened. Biting her lip, she walked over and knelt in front of her father.
"Did a door crush your brain? You broke up with Xiao Chen in front of the entire school. What did I tell you yesterday? I told you to discuss it properly with him!"
As Lin Wan listened to her father's scolding, her hands slowly clenched, and tears kept streaming down her face.
"Dad, Jiang Yichen lied to me. If he hadn't kept it from me, how could I possibly have broken up with him..."
"And you still have the nerve to bring that up?" Her mother, Liu Su, joined in angrily. "In these past four years, what has Xiao Chen ever done to wrong you?"
"He covered all of our family's expenses. He even built the Yanhuang Team, the number one team in Huaxia, for your dream. And he's the eldest young master of the number one family. Yet you... you wanted to break up with him, you..."
Liu Su clutched her chest, so furious she looked ready to cough up blood.
Her younger brother Lin Tian hurriedly supported their mother and chimed in, "Sis! I don't care what method you use, you have to bring my brother-in-law back. Otherwise, I will never acknowledge you as my sister again."
Hearing those words stab into her heart, Lin Wan's eyes widened, and tears poured down uncontrollably.
"I'm sorry. Ye Chengyu told me Jiang Yichen was only an ordinary rich heir. I didn't know..."
"What is he supposed to be? He's just the son of a second-rate family in Huazhong. How would he ever be qualified to know the eldest young master of the Jiang family? Where was your brain?"
Lin Hai roared at his daughter, "Lin Wan, I'm telling you this now. If you don't bring Xiao Chen back, then I won't have a daughter like you."
"Since Xiao Chen has already canceled your guaranteed admission quota, you'll go participate in the graduation assessment three days from now."
"Xiao Chen should be there too. When the time comes, apologize to him properly. Understood?!"
Lin Wan nodded through her tears. Jiang Yichen was the eldest young master of the Jiang family, and he had even built the number one team in Huaxia for her.
Only now did she realize how good Jiang Yichen had been to her. She absolutely could not let something that rightfully belonged to her fall into someone else's hands.
As long as Jiang Yichen was willing to come back, what was the big deal about lowering her head and apologizing?
Compared to using the Jiang family to stand at the peak of the martial path and obtain wealth and power far beyond ordinary people, that was more than worth it.
"Dad, Mom, Lin Tian, I promise you. During the graduation assessment, I will apologize to Jiang Yichen."
The moment those words were spoken, the expressions of the three of them visibly relaxed.
After all, Jiang Yichen had always had a good temper. During the four years they had spent together, as long as Lin Wan softened her attitude, Jiang Yichen would forgive her immediately.
If Lin Wan had not gone too far during the graduation ceremony this time, Jiang Yichen would never have acted the way he did.
Her mother, Liu Su, crouched down and helped her daughter to her feet, speaking earnestly and sincerely. "Wan'er, ever since you awakened S-grade martial talent, you've become the hope of this entire family. You bear the responsibility of leading all of us forward."
"In the future, treat Xiao Chen better and hold on to him. If we can climb into the Jiang family, that would be a blessing beyond measure."
Lin Wan wiped away her tears and nodded. "I understand, Mom."
"Good, good. Then get some rest early. Just look at how worn out my daughter is." Liu Su's viciousness from a moment ago vanished, replaced by a loving expression.
Lin Wan gave a quiet response and staggered into her room.
But the moldy smell hanging in the air made her stomach churn.
She looked at the cramped space, the hard bed, and the cockroaches foraging in the corner... and began to regret it.
If she had not listened to Ye Chengyu, she would still be living in a luxurious villa right now.
Biting her red lip, Lin Wan sat cross-legged on the foul-smelling bed and began to cultivate.
Her guaranteed admission quota was gone. She could not afford to miss the graduation assessment as well.
As for Jiang Yichen, with his soft-hearted personality, all she had to do was apologize and lower her head a little when the time came.
From her first year until now, she had never once taken the initiative to admit fault. Every time, it had always been Jiang Yichen apologizing and begging for forgiveness instead.
This time, if she took the initiative to admit she was wrong, Jiang Yichen would definitely forgive her.
...
The next morning, at dawn.
【Ding! Congratulations, Host. 'Void Scripture (Minor Mastery)' Realm has reached 'Fourth Realm, Fourth Layer'】
At around four or five in the morning, Jiang Yichen was awakened by the system's notification.
He no longer felt sleepy anyway. After all, he had spent four years getting up at five every day to deliver breakfast to Lin Wan. His body clock was not so easy to change.
Jiang Yichen opened the system panel.
【Host: Jiang Yichen
Realm: Fourth Realm, Fourth Layer (Automatic cultivation progress: 45%)
Blood Qi: 15951
Spiritual Power: 7138
Talent: Divine Sense Amplification, Chaos Body (Automatic cultivation progress: 14.8%, minor mastery at 20%)
Cultivation Method: Void Scripture (Automatic cultivation progress: 20.1%, advanced mastery at 40%, cultivation speed: 0.5% per hour)
Weapon: Void Mirror (Currently amplifying the Void Scripture)
Pet: Supreme-grade · Divine Beast Embryo (Currently incubating... 16 hours remaining)
(Current automatic cultivation speed: '1% per hour.' Maximum speed reached. Cannot be increased further. Automatic cultivation speed will decrease reasonably according to cultivation difficulty!)】
Jiang Yichen gave a slight nod. After one night's sleep, he had broken through a minor realm, and his Supreme-grade cultivation method had even reached the beginner level.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Then he glanced at the cultivation speed of the cultivation method and saw that it had dropped to 0.5% per hour.
Cut in half just like that.
Still, he understood. Any cultivation method became harder the further one advanced, and improvement would naturally slow down.
Jiang Yichen sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and felt the surge of Blood Qi throughout his body. His mind was incomparably clear.
At the Fourth Realm, Fourth Layer, he could already rank among the top five on Huazhong University's Genius Rankings.
Jiang Feng was only at the Fourth Realm, Second Layer right now, while Lin Wan, whom he had raised with countless resources, had only barely broken through to the Fourth Realm as a Martial Master.
They had spent years, even decades, reaching those heights, while he had surpassed them after only two days of slacking off.
Having cheat-level powers really was satisfying.
Then he opened his eyes, and spatial cubes flickered within his pupils.
Wherever his gaze landed, the invisible fabric of space became visible.
Even places blocked by walls appeared in Jiang Yichen's eyes as vast stretches of space.
He slowly raised a hand and said, "Great Void Art."
The moment the words fell, the space before him blurred and twisted, ripples spreading through it.
When the ripples settled, Jiang Yichen was already standing on a rooftop three thousand meters away from the villa.
Gripping the railing with both hands, he gazed at the distant villa. "At only the beginner level, I can already teleport three thousand meters? Damn... that's a little heaven-defying."
The Jiang family also had spatial cultivation methods, but even when cultivated to great mastery, those techniques could only teleport within a thousand meters, and at an enormous cost.
Anything produced by the system was top quality indeed.
"Hello, is this the Enforcement Bureau? Please come to the Financial Tower right away. There's someone in pajamas up here who seems to have lost everything in the stock market and is about to jump off the building!"
After the Void Scripture reached the beginner level, Jiang Yichen's perception had become exceptionally sharp. Even the voice of the office worker twenty floors below calling the authorities came through with perfect clarity.
He smiled faintly. "This world is pretty warm-hearted after all. I only stood on the rooftop for a moment, and someone was already concerned enough to call it in."
Jiang Yichen used Great Void Art once more and vanished from the rooftop in an instant.
The person below who had called the authorities was so frightened that his phone fell straight to the ground.
"Holy shit! A one-in-ten-thousand spatial-type martial artist!!"