Chapter 47: Ma Ke's Invitation

  Sitting cross-legged on the cool tile floor of the balcony, a chill ran up Lin Xiao's spine to his brain, causing him to take a deep breath of fresh air into his lungs.

  In his mind, the first layer of Wan Jie's cultivation route appeared like a starry meridian map, every minute and every millimeter was recorded in great detail. Lin Xiao completely imprinted these onto his own soul, as if he were born with them.

  The first layer of Wan Jie Secret requires the assistance of the Baihui, Shangxing and Shenting acupoints on the human head. Three energy vortexes are formed at these three points to attract the primordial energy between heaven and earth.

  Lin Xiao didn't understand these things originally, but after the system branded the first layer of Wan Jie Secret on his soul, he instinctively understood them.

  Take a deep breath, Lin Xiao closed his eyes and placed his hands on his knees, putting his mind in a state of emptiness. He concentrated his thoughts to gather at the Baihui, Shangxing, and Shenting acupoints, using his thoughts to control the formation of three whirlpools of equal size, drawing the ubiquitous primordial energy between heaven and earth towards these three acupoints.

  Everything went smoothly at the beginning, and the thought vortex was successfully completed under Lin Xiao's precise control and strong spiritual power. However, when Lin Xiao began to control the thought vortex to draw in the primordial energy between heaven and earth, he was shocked to discover that this primordial energy was incredibly thin.

  If the Wan Jie Secret Records say that every cubic meter of air can hold 100 units of yuanqi, then in Lin Xiao's current perception, every cubic meter of air contains less than one unit of yuanqi, and may not even have 0.1 units.

  The extremely thin yuanqi almost caused Lin Xiao to lose control of the three vortexes in an instant, fortunately he reacted in time and didn't cause any harm to himself.

  Even so, he was still extremely puzzled in his heart. Why did the amount of yuanqi here differ so greatly from what was recorded in the Wan Jie Secret Manual?

  Lin Xiao clearly remembered that the original words in the Wan Jie Secret were 'In an ordinary world, the yuan energy is very small, and with a thought, you can see the light of ten thousand points', but in fact, Lin Xiao saw only a few light points at most, where did the ten thousand points come from?

  A thousand points of light is the standard for an ordinary world, can't this place even be considered ordinary?

  Five hours later, Lin Xiao had finally accumulated enough yuanqi. After running the first layer of the Wan Jie Secret according to the route, he directly ended his first cultivation session.

  It took five hours to complete one circle, according to the Wan Jie Secret Record, the best number of circles per day is thirty-six, damn it, which country has a day with one hundred and eighty hours?

  After all, the yuanqi is too thin and too thin. It took more than four hours to accumulate enough yuanqi to run a circle.

  Three whirlpools of thoughts dissipated slowly, and Lin Xiao slowly opened his eyes.

  "Xīn ér, things aren't right!" He didn't get up either, and directly sat down to call out Lín Xīn in his heart.

  "What's wrong?" Xiner asked.

  "The amount of yuanqi in the air here is also too little, completely different from what's recorded in the Wan Jie Secret Art!" Lin Xiao said with extreme frustration. "I ran a circle and it took me a whole five hours, this is way too slow!"

  "It's normal!" Xiner said with a matter-of-fact expression: "Brother, the place you're in now is just an ordinary small world. The world level is too low, and it's already pretty good that there's this much yuanqi in the air. Some small worlds don't even have yuanqi energy."

  "What does it refer to by 'ordinary world' in the Wan Jie Secret?" Lin Xiao was puzzled, didn't this small world count as an ordinary world?

  Xin'er couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh when she heard Lin Xiao's question.

  "Brother, the ordinary world recorded in the Wan Jie Secret is not referring to a small world, it's referring to an entire Dacheng world. However, some top-grade Dongtian Fudi in smaller Qian worlds can also possess a considerable amount of yuanqi. As for small worlds, brother, you'd better not have any high hopes."

  "Then can't I cultivate for the time being?" Lin Xiao said with an ugly expression, having just obtained the first layer of the Wan Jie Secret Art, he was eager to cultivate with all his might, but who would have thought that such a problem would arise, it's really disappointing!

  "It's not that you can't cultivate, it's just that it will be much slower. Just like what you said yourself, brother, five hours to run one circle, so if you run two or three circles a day, that's not bad either. Although it's slow, at least it has some effect." Xinger comforted Lin Xiao, but she could only offer verbal comfort for this kind of thing, and there was nothing more she could do.

  "And besides, once you have enough boundary power, you'll be able to open up a complete Small Thousand World, and at that time your cultivation speed will be much faster!"

  "It seems that's all we can do." Lin Xiao shook his head helplessly, "Anyway, it can still run for a circle or two, just enough to replace sleep."

  "That's right! It's best if you can understand, brother."

  Five hours for one lap, ten hours for two laps, even if Lin Xiao did nothing all day, he could only run four laps at most, not even five laps, it was really slow.

  Despite this, Lin Xiao still gritted his teeth and persisted, slowly returning, after all, it was better than nothing.

  ……

  After several days, Lin Xiao clearly felt that his physical quality had improved slightly, the most direct evidence being that his body's combat strength had increased by 0.1 to reach 15.8. Don't underestimate this 0.1, it was the result of Lin Xiao's hard work in cultivating day and night for several days.

  At the same time, Franklin has been receiving assassination missions from Lester in recent days. After assassinating four jurors last time, Franklin this time assassinated a guy named Jackson, and Lin Xiao made another fortune, turning more than 200 million US dollars into 470 million US dollars.

  In just a few days, Franklin made his move again, this time targeting a capitalist named Penny. Lin Xiao took advantage of Franklin's assassination and earned nearly $500 million, bringing the principal amount on him to almost $1 billion.

  Lin Xiao didn't even know how to spend so much money.

  Just then, Mike suddenly came up to him.

  "Hey! Mike, what's this earth-shattering case you've been working on lately?" Lin Xiao teased over the phone.

  "Never mind, I'm hiding outside!" Mack said with a sigh of helplessness: "This time I came to find you, there is an action that needs your help, I don't know if you are willing to participate."

  Ma Ke also knew that Lin Xiao was a rich man now, and for such a high-risk job with an income of less than 10 million, he wasn't sure if Lin Xiao would be willing to take it.

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