Chapter 222 The Chain of Karma (1/2)
That night.
”Fang, I'm here.”
Li Jing visited Sun Fang's room in the middle of the night. She wore a thin nightgown as if she wanted to make herself prettiest today.
Unfortunately, she was not here to seduce her husband into the night activity. She wanted to kill him to get her skill back.
In her cloth behind her back, she hid a knife there, preparing to use it on Sun Fang.
For the sake of her absolute power and a dominant role in an army, she required the system skills.
”Come in.”
Sun Fang watched her with sympathy as he knew full well that she was not here for sex. Contrary to her previous insight and intelligence, she broke down after a setback.
”Listen, wifey. You don't have to force yourself. You can go back for today, and I'll pretend that you were never here tonight, okay?”
He attempted to give Li Jing a chance to redeem herself without exposing her real goal. Though their relationship was forced, he still loved her and wanted to be husband-and-wife for real.
Li Jing shook her head. Her facial expression was serious, yet her eyes were already dimmed as she abandoned everything for this task. She slowly stripped her upper clothes, revealing her bosoms and her smooth skins.
Unlike his rowdy nature and his somewhat dumb demeanor, Sun Fang did not get turn on by Li Jing's strip tease. Instead, he felt a sharp pain in his heart.
Everyone would have felt it if a man's secret-crush wanted to betray him.
Sun Fang did not give up. He gave yet another chance to Li Jing, ”Wifey. If there's a problem, we can talk it out.”
Li Jing paused, and her eyes flickered for a second. She bit her lower lips and stared at Sun Fang with a frown.
”Will you give me your lifespans if I tell you?” She asked in a sarcastic tone.
”I will. Only if you drop your knife and forget about your entire plan.”
A wry smile appeared on Sun Fang's face as he decided to be frank with her after the failed attempts. This was her last chance. If Li Jing insisted on killing him, he would have to take a drastic measure against her.
Li Jing was taken aback. Her dimmed eyes regain the light, and her brain restored its function. The dumbfounded girl stood in confusion for five minutes before she groaned.
”DAHHHHH! What a blunder!” She screamed while she held her forehead with both hands.
”Have you regained your sense?”
”Yeah, somewhat.”
Li Jing drew her hidden knife from her waist and threw it away, abandoning all her sinister plans. She sat on the bed by the side of Sun Fang without bothering hiding her bare chests.
”I was narrow-minded,” She confessed, ”I even forgot that you can get lifespans from cultivation.”
”Yup, wifey. You need to pay more attention to others. If you keep thinking about yourself first, this is what happened to you.”
While consoling his wife, Sun Fang breathed a sigh of relief as he did not have to kill his love. It would have been a disaster had she lost her reasons earlier.
”The system said the clan tax reduces from 10:1 into 2:1. I'll transfer my lifespans to you so you can get your skill back.”
”I had 12 skills back then after the nerf. I want all of them back.”
”Don't be greedy, wifey. Reread the log message from the system. It clearly said that your soul will bear some burdens if you have too many skills. Say, why did you want to kill me?”
Li Jing gave her husband a bitter smile, ”It was a mission from the system. It wants me to kill one otherworlder.”
The wife-in-name explained the content of her mission to Sun Fang, who grinned at her.
”You can't call me a muscle brain anymore, wifey. Check the deadline! It's freaking years away! We can search for an otherworlder easily with my father's spies, you know?”
”Yeah, that's why I cried that it was my blunder.”
”So, can you cancel it?”
Li Jing shook her head, ”No. It stays until it's completed or failed.”
”Shame. Well, I've put my lifespans in the clan pool. Let's get some of your skills back.”
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Li Jing ended up taking 300,000 lifespans from the pool while Sun Fang donated 600,000 years. Just like what happened to Tong and the others, Li Jing could only get two skills back.
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**Status**
Name: Li Jing
Age: 17
Lifespan: 123,442 Years
Shopping Pass: 10
*Skill List*
[Time and Space Law] LV.2
- The host can slow down or accelerate the time flows.
Skill Cost: 100 Lifespan per one second. Maximum of 100 seconds.
Skill Upkeep: 2,000 Lifespans per year.
Skill Restriction:
- The current range is 150 meters radius.
- Can be used once a day. Skill resets at midnight.
[Shadow Teleportation] LV.3
- The host can teleport 20 people of your choice or 20 tons of material objects.
Skill Cost: 100 Lifespans peruse.
Skill Upkeep: 2,000 Lifespans per year.
Skill Restriction:
- The host can only teleport to a place where there is an ally.
- Can be used once a day. Skill resets at midnight.
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She wanted her life-saving skill [Vampirism] back, but she still satisfied with her two skills.
”I'll return you lifespans back later,” Muttered the ashamed girl.