Chapter 147: Choice

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The Life Extension Card did not extend one’s lifespan, but one’s vitality.

Unlocking it would allow one to obtain a stream of boundless vitality that would allow withered trees to sprout leaves in spring and old trees to bloom.

For naturally aging human cells, it can effectively slow down the process and rejuvenate a person.

As for broken organs, lesions, and missing organs, the effects were limited.

The latter needed the Regeneration Card.

The Life Extension Card only provided vitality.

Even so, Su Jingxing was pleasantly surprised.

Concentration Fruit Tree!

He did not need the Life Extension Card for the time being. On the contrary, would the boundless vitality obtained from unlocking this card be useful to the Concentration Fruit Tree? Would it be able to speed up its maturity?

With strong vitality, the growth of plants would be affected to some extent.

For example, they would grow bigger and be of better quality.

As for whether it could accelerate the maturation, Su Jingxing didn’t know.

Although he wasn’t sure, it wouldn’t stop Su Jingxing from using the Life Extension Card on the Concentration Fruit Tree.

It was because it was a Concentration Fruit Tree, a heavenly treasure, not an ordinary plant!

Of course, it was unclear whether injecting a tremendous amount of vitality into the Concentration Fruit Tree at one go was a good or bad idea.

If it failed to accelerate the maturation and caused the Concentration Fruit Tree to mutate, Su Jingxing would suffer a huge loss.

It would truly be a double loss.

On the contrary, if it really did accelerate the maturation, the benefits would be great.

Energy Gathering Stones were hard to come by after all. Most of them were in the possession of large factions, while individual martial artists had very few.

Even if the area was expanded to the entire Qinghe City, there still weren’t many Energy Gathering Stones.

Even if Su Jingxing managed to buy all of them, they wouldn’t be of much help to the Concentration Fruit Tree.

Therefore, this was a choice, a big gamble.

He would either be able to harvest the Concentration Fruit in advance or waste a Life Extension Card. Problems might even arise with the Concentration Fruit Tree.

What should I choose?

Su Jingxing pondered to himself. He put away the Life Extension Card and did not use it for the time being.

This was not the time to think about anything else.

A Mutated Beast had appeared in the waste-to-energy power plant. Amidst the panic and screams earlier, someone had called the Martial Suppression Office, the Public Security Team, and even for ambulances.

Right now, the vehicles were already on the road and rushing towards the power plant.

Su Jingxing’s outfit was not suitable for him to meet those people.

Immediately, he descended from the sky and collected Thunderbolt before picking up his three treasure throwing daggers.

Then, he found an empty corner, put away his cloak and mask, and ran back to the parking area of the corpse transportation truck.

He smeared some mud on his face and laid down on the ground, pretending to be unconscious like the others.

Although the battle with the mutated earthworm had ended quickly, the continuous roars of the mutated earthworm and the sound waves still knocked everyone inside and outside the power plant unconscious.

Fortunately, there weren’t many dead people, and Su Jingxing didn’t extract many cards.

This was also the reason why he was relaxed.

In comparison, Su Jingxing was rather pleased with the effect of his true energy cultivation.

Earlier, he had circulated all of his cultivation to suppress the mutated earthworm, immobilizing it. This was the first time he had used this secret ability.

The origin of the secret ability came from an ancient book called “Extensive Use of True Energy”.

It was something Su Jingxing had unintentionally discovered when he was searching for information on the Concentration Fruit Tree on the top level of Xuantian University Library. At that time, he had flipped through a few pages and memorized this small ability.

Extensive Use of True Energy. As the title suggested, it was an ancient book about how to use true energy.

While it might seem easy to manipulate one’s true energy cultivation to suppress, there was a very high requirement to it.

A hundred years!

Only those whose true energy cultivation had reached a hundred years or more would be able to control their true energy to exert a terrifying pressure that could suppress others even without releasing it externally.

Those with a cultivation of less than a hundred years wouldn’t be able to achieve it.

That was also the reason why the secret ability was called a small one.

How many people possessed a hundred years of true energy cultivation?

It could be said that one could determine the strength of a fourth-grade martial artist using this secret ability.

Those with 60 years of cultivation or a hundred years of cultivation were all considered to be in the fourth-grade. However, would their capabilities be similar?

Clearly, a martial artist with a hundred years of cultivation would be stronger!

40 years of true energy cultivation was enough to make up for the gap in other aspects.

The difference between those with a hundred years of cultivation and two hundred years of cultivation was even greater.

Su Jingxing had a true energy cultivation of 351 years. It was not an exaggeration to say that he could defeat all fourth-grade martial artists!

Cough cough!

…

After lying on the ground and pretending to be unconscious for a while, the ambulances, the Public Security Team, and the Martial Suppression Office arrived at the power plant in succession.

The arrival of a group of people caused the entire power plant to immediately go from silent to noisy.

Cleanup, rescue, searches…

Dozens of people were moving in and out of the power plant.

Su Jingxing listened to the commotion and slowly “woke up” with the help of the medical staff.

Then, he tried to move his limbs and “confirmed” that he was fine. He refused to go to the hospital and took over the role of the heavily injured Gu Bo, who was still unconscious. He moved the corpses onto the corpse transportation truck and drove back to the crematorium.

After returning to the crematorium and handing over the corpses, he told the manager about the incident and rushed to the hospital to visit Gu Bo.

By the time he got to the hospital, Gu Bo was already awake. His diagnosis was a slight concussion and some damage to his eardrums. In the next six months or so, his hearing would be impaired.

All in all, it was still alright. Compared to the others who had died, it was already a blessing in disguise.

Then, as expected, Su Jingxing accepted the Martial Suppression Office’s questioning.

It was mainly regarding the Mutated Beast and the expert(s) who killed it.

Regarding this, Su Jingxing naturally “told the truth”. He only heard the roar and then fainted. He didn’t know what happened after that.

He did not know how the Mutated Beast appeared, what it looked like, who killed it, and who the person (people) who killed it looked like.

This was the truth.

Except for Su Jingxing, everyone else in the power plant, except for the few who had seen the enormous body of the mutated earthworm, only heard roars.

Then, there was nothing else.

And the few who saw it were all dead.

Being able to see the mutated earthworm meant that they were right beside it.

This mutated earthworm that devoured electricity had such a terrifying roar. At such a close distance, it would be strange if those people didn’t die from the impact of the sound waves.

Thus, the Martial Suppression Office did not get much information for their investigation.

The mutated earthworm could still be examined and identified through the broken parts left at the scene.

Yet there were absolutely no clues as to who killed it.

It would be better to leave Li Linzhou to feel troubled over this.

…

Back at the small courtyard at the foot of the mountain, Su Jingxing excitedly took out Thunderbolt and sensed how much energy this blood spirit weapon had accumulated.

One-tenth… No, one-twentieth!

After absorbing the electric power of the mutated earthworm, Thunderbolt now filled one-twentieth of its energy reserves.

It didn’t look like much, but Su Jingxing calculated that it was enough for him to use seven or eight times.

Of course, not for attacks, but a boost in speed. He could experience a true lightning teleportation!

…

Ding dong!

A text message notification sounded.

Su Jingxing kept Thunderbolt and unlocked his phone.

“Senior, there’s news about the Energy Gathering Stones!”