Chapter 13 - 13 Chapter 8: Strangling the Crisis_1 (1/2)
13 Chapter 8: Strangling the Crisis_1
Translator: 549690339
“Ying Er, stay home, I’ll go visit the neighbors!”
Xu Mu walked out of his house and knocked on the door of the house next door.
Creak!
The door opened from inside, revealing two plump figures.
A man and a woman, both looking about thirty years old.
The man’s name was Jia An, and the woman’s name was Li Moqing.
Xu Mu had visited them when he first arrived, and they would greet each other when they occasionally met outside, so they were quite familiar.
There were only two types of people in White Stone City who could be fat, one type was the younger generation of the large families in the marketplace, and the other type was the ones who practiced special martial techniques.
The reason the couple lived in the slums was self-explanatory.
“Friend Xu, how do you find the time to come over?”
Jia An squeezed out a smile.
Li Moqing next to him, on the other hand, looked rather displeased.
“The cries of my little girl these few days have disturbed the two of you, please don’t blame us. Here are a few Qi Gathering Pills as apology gifts!”
With that, Xu Mu handed over a bottle filled with Qi Gathering Pills.
“Qi Gathering Pills?!!”
The couple was shocked.
One Qi Gathering Pill was worth one lower-grade Spirit Stone, which was equivalent to their monthly rent, and from the sound of Xu Mu, it appeared that he wouldn’t have only put one pill in the bottle.
“This, this is too valuable, Friend Xu, you should keep it!”
Jia An verbally declined, but his hand was somehow too weak to refuse.
His wife, Li Moqing, even had bright eyes and couldn’t help reaching out her hand.
Xu Mu smiled and placed the pills in Jia An’s hand, which he wanted to take but didn’t dare to.
“It’s a small gift, not worth mentioning, in the future, if there’s anything wrong, please be lenient!”
He only put three Qi Gathering Pills inside, not too many or too few, enough to build good neighborhood relations.
“Friend Xu is too polite! We’re all neighbors, we should be helping each other! It’s normal for kids to like to cry! In fact, we both quite like children!”
Jia An put the Qi Gathering Pills into the storage bag, and his smiling face became extremely sincere.
Li Moqing’s unhappy face also broke into a warm smile.
These few days, Little Ling’er’s crying made the couple quite annoyed, but because of embarrassment, they didn’t say anything.
But now.
Hmm!
That crying sound was actually quite pleasing to the ears!
“The two of you are understanding, I am grateful!”
Xu Mu thanked them again with a fist and palm salute.
“Friend Xu!”
Jia An looked left and right down the small alley behind Xu Mu, ensuring that there was no one nearby before lowering his voice to say: “I recently noticed you’ve been pretty close with old Sun. Be careful, two days ago, I saw him entering the house of the Brothers of Li Family!”
“Thank you for the warning!”
Xu Mu’s eyes flickered, but he didn’t say much else.
He bid his farewell and left!
As for the house on the other side, there was no need to visit, as it was temporarily vacant.
Upon returning home, thinking about Sun Daocheng’s actions over the past few days, Xu Mu began to feel restless.
“This old troublemaker must be dealt with!”
Though he couldn’t be one hundred percent sure that Sun Daocheng was plotting against him, Xu Mu could not take the chance.
For his wife and daughter’s sake, this issue must be nipped in the bud.
He returned to the storage room and opened a newly purchased book of spells to the page where the Invisibility Technique was recorded.
After memorizing it carefully and pondering over it, he began practicing.
Like most of the low-level spells, the Invisibility Technique is easy to learn but hard to master.
It took Xu Mu less than an hour to learn.
He borrowed Ye Yingying’s bronze mirror and placed it in front of him.
Xu Mu made the spell sign, and the spiritual power in his body surged, transforming into a magical mana, covering his entire body.
In the mirror, he disappeared abruptly.
However, after only three breaths, his figure reappeared.
“The duration is too short, and it dissipates with even the slightest movement! It’s completely useless!”
But this was also to be expected.
The effects of tier-one skills are minimal.
If every spell had astonishing power, everyone would practice spells, and who would bother to buy magic artifacts.
Especially at the entry-level stage, it’s not even worth the effort.
Many cultivators give up after a brief exploration.
It’s a real waste of time.
With that time, it would be better to concentrate on improving one’s cultivation level, earn money, and buy more powerful magic artifacts.
However, Xu Mu was different.
He had a system!
When he opened the system interface, it showed the Invisibility Technique as expected.
[Invisibility Technique at Entry level; 1/100]
Already familiar with the process, Xu Mu directly invested 99 points.
[Invisibility Technique at Proficiency Level; 0/200]
It’s not hard to reach proficiency from entry-level. If Xu Mu devoted himself to practice, he could achieve proficiency in one or two months.
So, the practice experience was easily integrated.
Recently, he had gained some insights through the continuous use of the system.
Using Luck Value to improve skills in the early stages is not cost-effective.
Normal people’s practice of spell techniques gets harder the more they progress, and there are bottlenecks when breaking through levels.
Luck Value completely ignores this.
The experience at the entry level and the experience at the grandmaster level, both consume the same amount of Luck Value.
However, in reality, the difficulty of increasing one point of experience at the grandmaster level might be dozens of times more difficult than at the entry level.
In this case, it’s better to practice on your own at the beginning, and when it becomes difficult to progress later, use Luck Value. This is actually the most cost-effective way to use it.
But this time, in order to eliminate the crisis as soon as possible, he had to use Luck Value.
Xu Mu used the Invisibility Technique again, and this time he was able to stay invisible for more than five breaths and make slight movements with his body.
However, it was still not what he wanted.
Xu Mu was a bit hesitant.
If he can’t achieve the desired effect in the end, isn’t the points he invested wasted?
He took a deep breath, suppressed these messy thoughts, and began to advance again.
Since the decision was made, there should be no more hesitation.
[Invisibility Technique +50]!
[Invisibility Technique +50]!
[Invisibility Technique +50]!
…
[Invisibility Technique at Mastery Level; 0/400]
This time, Xu Mu performed the invisibility spell, and he could remain invisible for twenty breaths and move slowly.
Sadly, it still didn’t achieve the effect he wanted.
Continue to advance!
[Invisibility Technique +10]!
[Invisibility Technique +10]!