Chapter 77 : Chapter 77
Chapter 77. The Reward Was the Fountain of Life, and a Severed Limb Could Regrow
As Jiang Yichen looked at the daily notes on Su Linyu’s phone calendar, he stood there in a daze.
He finally understood a little why Su Linyu would become so excited and happy over some careless remark of his.
So in the end, all of this had been caused by him.
A trace of heartache flashed through Jiang Yichen’s eyes. For the sake of bringing him breakfast, this girl had run all over the city just to find the shop with the best-tasting buns.
Every single thing done by someone so wholehearted in love was deeply moving.
Lowering his eyes, Jiang Yichen carefully examined the gift Su Linyu had prepared for his father.
Even the box had been made entirely by hand, exquisite and touched with a refined sense of artistry.
She must have put an enormous amount of effort into it.
Jiang Yichen took out the Fountain of Life from the System’s storage space and said with a smile, “You’re giving my father a gift, so I should give your father one as well.”
At his words, Su Linyu slowly lowered her phone. Her gaze fell on the bottle in his hand, which glowed with a green light. The green liquid inside swayed softly.
“Brother Yichen, what is this?”
Jiang Yichen explained, “It’s called the Fountain of Life. It can regenerate severed limbs. Uncle Su should need it.”
Shock filled Su Linyu’s eyes. Her father’s right leg had been bitten by the Ninth-rank Beast Emperor, the Azure Flood Dragon, and the wound had contained the creature’s deadly poison.
Every day, her father had to take medicine just to ease the pain from the wound. Yet even so, it had not stopped the poison from spreading.
In the end, the only way to stop the poison from spreading had been to amputate the leg, and only then had her father managed to survive.
But after losing his right leg, her father’s strength had declined sharply, and she often saw him staring out the window, sighing again and again.
Her mother and her elder brother had fought through one ruin after another in search of a divine object that could regenerate severed limbs for him.
But even after several years, they still had not found one.
“Brother Yichen, can this really regenerate a severed limb?” Su Linyu asked again, her voice trembling with excitement.
Jiang Yichen nodded. “It can. Take it to Uncle Su and let him try it.”
Su Linyu covered her heart with both hands and acted as if she had been struck by a devastating blow.
“Brother Yichen, so you’ve always been concerned about my father’s condition. To find something that could regenerate a severed limb, you must have suffered so much.”
Her voice was full of aching tenderness.
“Uh...” Jiang Yichen felt helpless inside. How was this girl so good at filling in the blanks on her own?
But she did not have a System, so of course that was the only way she could think of it. After all, divine objects capable of regenerating severed limbs could only possibly appear in Ancient Ruins.
And Ancient Ruins were unimaginably dangerous. There were countless high-rank demon beasts there, and even Ninth-rank Beast Emperors comparable to Martial Gods could appear.
“It’s nothing. Just take it.”
He placed the Fountain of Life in Su Linyu’s hands.
He might not have been especially fond of Su Zhan, but this girl had done so much for him that he ought to do something in return.
“Brother Yichen is so wonderful. You’ve always been quietly giving, without letting anyone notice.”
Su Linyu looked at him with the same heartbroken tenderness and said affectionately, “Brother Yichen, I’ll be worthy of everything you’ve done for me. I’ll treat you a thousand times, ten thousand times better.”
Jiang Yichen gave a stiff smile. The System had simply handed it to him as a reward, yet Su Linyu was talking as though he had struggled desperately to obtain it.
Ah. I’m clearly taking it easy here, so why does everyone think I’m working hard in silence?
Jiang Yichen smiled helplessly.
After that, with Su Linyu leading the way, he looked around her room, admired the furnishings, and chatted with her about the past.
It was not until evening that he finally left the Su family.
“There’s no need to see me off. I can get back on my own.”
“No, that will not do. It’s dangerous for a boy to walk at night. I’ll walk you home and leave after that.” As Su Linyu spoke, even she could not help giggling at her own excuse.
Jiang Yichen: “...”
The two of them walked side by side down the street, where the chirping of cicadas could be heard from time to time. Su Linyu brushed the back of his hand now and then, as if by accident and not by accident at all.
A shy look appeared on her face, as though she were waiting for his permission.
Jiang Yichen took her hand of his own accord. “Then hold on to me, or you might get lost.”
At once, Su Linyu bloomed into a sweet, bashful smile. With her other hand, she took out her phone and snapped a picture of their clasped hands.
Caption: I’m so excited~ I went strolling hand in hand with the man I adore.
Jiang Yichen watched in silence and felt an inexplicable sense of comfort.
Su Linyu walked him all the way home, then turned back.
Jiang Yichen stepped into the villa and raised a hand slightly. The maid standing by the door helped him remove his coat.
“Welcome home, Young Master.”
He gave a slight nod, dropped onto the sofa, and a trace of weariness appeared on his face.
The maid beside him noticed immediately and called over the massage team. “The Young Master is showing signs of fatigue. Prepare a relaxation massage.”
Before long, two strikingly beautiful massage therapists came in and knelt at Jiang Yichen’s feet.
“Young Master, the facial recognition system has detected signs of fatigue. Huazhong Foot Therapy World is at your service.”
Jiang Yichen was startled. This really was high-end. The money had not been wasted at all.
“Go on, then. Give me a massage.”
Leaning back on the sofa, Jiang Yichen closed his eyes and began to enjoy himself.
After being out all day, he really was a little tired.
The therapists skillfully removed his shoes and began massaging his feet with practiced, expert hands.
They were not merely massaging him in the ordinary sense. They were also channeling Spiritual Energy to open his acupoints, and it felt so wonderful that his scalp tingled.
How could he ever have enjoyed service like this in his previous life? Back then, when he returned home, he was either being blamed by Lin Wan or so exhausted and dizzy that he collapsed straight into bed.
Compared with his life now, taking it easy truly was bliss.
The corner of Jiang Yichen’s mouth lifted.
【Ding! Congratulations, Host. Your realm has reached the Second Layer of the Sixth Realm, your Chaos Body has reached the Perfected state, and your cultivation of the Void Scripture has reached its Peak.】
At that moment, the System’s notification sounded in his mind.
Another notice from automatic cultivation had arrived.
It was simply invincible.
Ten days ago, he had only been a Fifth-realm Grandmaster. Now he was already a Sixth-realm Great Grandmaster.
Even Jiang Yichen had to marvel at such heaven-defying cultivation speed.
Who in all of Huaxia could break through from the fifth realm to the sixth in ten days? There was not a single one.
Being able to rise by one minor layer in ten days would already have been impressive enough.
If Su Linyu, Chu Xingchen, and the others had not been supported by arrays, pills, cultivation arts, and the like, they might not even have broken through a single layer.
Smiling faintly, he opened his personal status panel.
【Host: Jiang Yichen
Realm: Second Layer of the Sixth Realm (Automatic Cultivation Progress: 20.25% | Cultivation Speed: 0.25% per hour)
Blood Qi: 155013
Spiritual Power: ∞
Talents: Psychic Amplification (Max Level), Chaos Body (Automatic Cultivation Progress: 82% | Perfect at 100% | Cultivation Speed: 0.0625% per hour)
Cultivation Art: Void Scripture (Automatic Cultivation Progress: 81.4% | Perfect at 100% | Cultivation Speed: 0.0625% per hour)
Weapon: Void Realm (Currently amplifying the Void Scripture)
Pet: Divine Beast · Bai Ze (Current Growth Progress: 36%)
(Current automatic cultivation speed of 0.25% per hour has already reached the upper limit and cannot be increased further. Automatic cultivation speed will decrease appropriately according to cultivation difficulty!)】
Aside from Xiao Bai’s growth progressing rather slowly, everything else was advancing as though it had been strapped to a rocket.
The Chaos Body and the Void Scripture were both about to reach one hundred percent perfection. With his current mastery, when he used spatial traversal, he could cross half of Huaxia in a single step.
The Chaos Body was even more outrageous. No attack could come near him, as though he had an innate protective barrier that rendered all attacks completely ineffective.
At this rate, by the time summer vacation ended and he went for his military district internship, even the commander of the military district would probably be complaining about who exactly was training whom.
Growing stronger just by taking it easy was exhilarating beyond measure.
Jiang Yichen shook his head and sighed. Then he dismissed the two therapists, took a bath, and returned to his room to sleep.
Tomorrow was his father’s birthday, so he had to go early.
...
Su Family Manor.
After seeing Brother Yichen home, Su Linyu returned with the glowing green Fountain of Life in her hands and knocked on her father’s door.
“If this really can make Dad’s severed limb regrow, then he probably won’t stop me from being with Brother Yichen anymore.”
“Come in!” a heavy voice called from inside.
Su Linyu opened the door and saw that her father’s face was pale. The mechanical prosthetic he had just removed lay on the floor, stained with quite a lot of blood.
“Dad, are you all right?” she asked anxiously as she hurried over to check on him.
Su Zhan shook his head. “I’m fine. It’s the same old problem. Have the butler call the doctor over and change the prosthetic.”
But Su Linyu shook her head and held the glowing jade bottle out in front of him.
“Dad, Brother Yichen gave me a bottle of Fountain of Life that can regenerate severed limbs. Try it.”
What!?
Hearing that, Su Zhan’s pupils contracted abruptly.