Chapter 57 (2/2)

Zhou Gang’s mouth twitched, exasperated.

Damn. This ferocious ghost has even lost her head, yet she can still tell I’m a police officer?

“She must be here to get you to redress the wrong did to her, Ah Gang. We’re not crooks who do bad things. How can we possibly harm someone?” Wang Zhen said with certainty.

Zhou Gang glanced at Wang Zhen in a displeased manner. “We can’t be sure of that. You’re such a player, god knows how many girls you’ve harmed before. Perhaps she’s one of them.”

“Ah Gang, you’re a police officer, you can’t make such irresponsible remarks. Even if I like to woo girls, I never force it on them.” Wang Zhen’s face had dimmed.

One look and you could tell she died a horrible death. How can I—someone with tender, protective feelings for the fairer sex—possibly do something like that?

“Alright, that was just my speculation. Perhaps she was just passing by and we happened to bump into her.” Chen Hao interrupted their argument.

Zhou Gang and Wang Zhen looked at each other, and neither spoke a word.

The two of them felt that things weren’t so simple.

In the past, they had never bumped into something like this. Now that they suddenly did, nobody would believe there wasn’t a problem.

After that, Zhou Gang continued driving, his nerves on tenterhooks. However, in the end, nothing else happened and they smoothly arrived at Zhou Gang’s house.

Because of the encounter with the headless female ghost, the three of them were troubled with different thoughts. It was supposed to be a lively dinner, but they simply had a brief meal, before parting.

When Chen Hao got home, it was already late at night. He was planning on bathing and sleeping when he suddenly heard a sound.

“Ding-Dong: Water Ghost Zhao Yuan, a vengeful ghost of 103 years. Dying Wish fulfilled. You are now blessed with ten years’ worth of Dao Attainment.”

Chen Hao halted in his footsteps, a look of delight appearing on his face.

Dao Attainment’s mission accomplished. Damn. I finally have Dao Attainment now. I’m a genuine master now.

While he was feeling delighted, various pieces of information appeared in his mind out of nowhere. Also, a pure, massive, and masculine energy appeared in his lower abdomen, which went on to spread throughout his entire body.

It felt as though a small mouse had appeared in his body, and it was running about happily, bloating up his meridians.

Thankfully, he didn’t feel any discomfort. On the contrary, it felt pretty good.

Chen Hao responded to it in silence.

After a long while, that mouse-like strength finished circulating once in Chen Hao’s body and returned to his lower abdomen once more.

Chen Hao heaved a sigh of relief. He blinked, feeling ecstatic.

The information indicated that this little mouse was Dharmic power, what people commonly knew as Dao Attainment.

And the so-called Dao Attainment was the Dharmic power accumulated from one year of cultivation. One year of cultivation resulted in one year of Dao Attainment.

Chen Hao’s reward of ten years of Dao Attainment was Dharmic power accumulated over ten years of cultivation. In other words, he reached the sky in a single bound.

Don’t belittle ten years of Dao Attainment.

For ordinary cultivators, due to the heterogeneous nature of Dharmic power, one year of cultivation wouldn’t be equivalent to one year of Dao Attainment. For the talented ones with sufficient resources, perhaps it would take two to five years of accumulation to result in one year of Dao Attainment.

Take Master Long, for example—although he had worked hard to achieve cultivation for more than forty years, he merely possessed ten-odd years of Dao Attainment.

It could be said that Chen Hao had achieved overnight what Master Long took ten years to achieve.

Of course, ten years of Dao Attainment wasn’t a lot. Just looking at Master Long’s performance in the tomb and you could tell that this was only a beginner’s level, and there was nothing great about it.

Moreover, Chen Hao was bound by a restriction that ordinary Daoist cultivators weren’t subject to—that was, he couldn’t accumulate Dao Attainment based on his own cultivation.

The system reminded Chen Hao that although he could use this Dao Attainment, when this Dao Attainment was depleted, it would be replenished.

That meant that the Dao Attainment that Chen Hao depleted could be slowly recovered. But once he recovered to ten years of Dao Attainment, it wouldn’t increase anymore, and he could only rely on doing missions to obtain more.

After reading the message, Chen Hao sighed.

Seems like he wouldn’t be able to shake off the Pleasure Helping Spirit System for the rest of his life.