Stuck in a Chinese novel

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Enjoy!

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[Status]

[Wei Jun Ruan

Level: 22

HP: 31\\31

QP: 120\\120

Cultivation realm: Qi sense realm]

[Strength: 65]

[Agility: 84]

[Stamina: 81]

[Defense: 54]

[Qi: 24]

[Charm: 40]

[Luck: 18]

[Skill: Qi armament Lv1]

[Effect: Cover yourself with an unstable barrier of Qi. The cost of the skill can be changed depending on how strong you want the barrier to be. At the first level, the barrier would remain unstable no matter what]

[Cost: 50 QP. Additional usage requires 30 QP per minute]

[No cooldown]

[Skill: Qi empowerment Lv1]

[Effect: All combat stats +20]

[Cost: 60 QP per use]

[Cooldown: 5 minutes]

[Skill: Qi Discharge Lv1]

[Effect: Discharge Qi from any part of your body. The amount of Qi discharge depends on the user's control. Maximum discharge at level 1 is 5 QP]

[Cost: QP]

[No cooldown]

Wei Jun read his status and the usage of skills while he exercised. If before he needed to expend some effort to exercise, right now, he was effortlessly lifting weights that normal people wouldn't even dream of.

Wei Jun had a lot of questions regarding the skills that he had. Although their explanation was simple enough, there were things he still didn't understand.

'If I remember correctly, the barriers of the first two cultivators were quite stable since my bullets didn't penetrate them.' Wei Jun asked the system.

[Ignoring the fact that they were one rank higher than you in cultivation, the system doesn't take bullets into consideration]

[It is unstable against Qi, the Qi of another person]

[However, if you remember the second cultivator you fought, the one you used a blast to defeat]

[His Qi was unstable in many areas causing the flames of the blasts to penetrate them]

'I see.' Wei Jun simply said. He somewhat understood what the system meant but since he wasn't experienced when it came to Qi, he decided to hold off on it for now until he had a chance of experimentation.

'So how do I raise the levels of my skills?' Wei Jun asked. The other two skills were somewhat self-explanatory so all they required was experimentation, nothing else. As for the levels of the skills, he was quite curious about them.

[The levels of your skills would increase with the increase in your cultivation rank]

Another simple and easy to understand point that Wei Jun had no qualms about. All that was to properly experiment with those skills and an opportunity for that was coming soon. For that, he needed to give the poor panting people in front of him a break, "That's it for today. And you also have the next two days off. I have business out of the city."

Wei Jun informed them and while four of them seemed overjoyed, one of them asked, "Where to?" Xia Lu had a suspicious look on her face that said, 'It better not be with a girl.'

Wei Jun kept his expression straight because it was indeed with a girl. "I have to go to Shannau City. I have some business with the Chi family there."

Xia Lu still looked suspicious but she didn't pursue the matter. Although no one mentioned it, Wei Jun had changed drastically. Too drastically even to say that he may not even be the same person he was before.

But the change wasn't bad, so even if some were worried, they preferred Wei Jun like he was now so they didn't raise an issue. Xia Lu, along with the rest went out of the gym. Wei Jun did some more practice and lifting but he was still full of energy. Deciding he had had enough, he left the gym and showered after a warm bath.

Dinner was served and everyone retired to their rooms. Wei Jun also slept because he had a long day ahead of himself tomorrow. He needed to do many other things besides just Li Wei's revenge.

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"So where are we going, boss?" Li Wei asked when Wei Jun and her were sitting in the private jet of the Ruan family. Wei Jun didn't know they had jets until Lin Ruan told him. Still, none of them were in his name but the family's so they must be aware of where he was going.

"Shannau City." Wei Jun simply replied. When Li Wei heard the answer though, her face paled as she said, "But, there…" She couldn't find the words to tell Wei Jun that it was a dangerous city, even for them with a multitude of bodyguards.

Wei Jun was aware of the matters regarding the Shannau city. It was the city of outlaws. A simple city from the outside but heavily infested with crime and gangs so much so that no one was safe in there. It was a grade three city just like Yuan Yin City but if Yin Yuan City was shiny and bright, then Shannau City was dark and desolate.

A place where hope was the last thing people had, their day began from despair and ended in despair as they weren't sure what fate awaited them tomorrow. Wei Jun didn't know much about Li Wei's background, but he doubted it would be anything wholesome.

But, none of them mattered to him. All he needed was an excuse to enter the Shannau city and wreak havoc. If it wasn't for Li Wei, then for the sake of money and business, he would have somehow made his way to Shannau City because there was no other easier target than that. A city where law was the last thing, just the kind of place a businessman like Wei Jun fancied.

"You don't have to worry about anything. Just focus on the task up ahead." Wei Jun said without any worry evident in his words or on his face. He really wasn't worried. Ever since he became a Qi cultivator, he had a different kind of confidence in him. He didn't tire out easily, he could focus better and he could even perceive things better than before.

His reflexes, his senses, everything was twice or thrice enhanced than before.

And if that wasn't enough, after a visit to Zi Huan, Wei Jun had enough firepower to rage war over a city of almost 100,000 criminals. His current arsenal was more than enough to destroy the Shannau city. Not everyone was going to be a cultivator but he was hoping there would be a few cultivators because killing cultivators was the quickest and easiest way to gain power for him as of right now.

Of course, that came at the cost of his remaining money so he was now penniless.

[Shouldn't you also be focusing on Run Long right now?]

The system asked because in all this time, except for the first interaction, Wei Jun had made no contact with Run Long.

'There's no need to worry about him.' Wei Jun simply replied. Run Long relied on his cosmetics but the problem was that with the death of Hen Zu, and his corruption out, everyone related to him was being investigated. Of course, that included the people who he had asked to the other way when Run Long would start a company without a license.

With them under investigation, there was no way Run Long would be able to run anything right now. And with the opportunities from the first volume gone and there being not one in the second volume, Wei Jun only needed to worry about the treasures from the last volume which he still hadn't read yet.

'Well, I had been busy the entire time.' Wei Jun said as he glanced at the still-worried Li Wei. Wei Jun ignored her and asked the system to transfer the data of the third volume to him.

[Consuming energy from empowerment to unlock the next and last volume of the first novel]

[Data will be directly transferred to the user]

[Transfer initiated]

Wei Jun began to feel information being poured into his head. He didn't bother to organize the information in his head because he knew it was useless. He expected most of it to be useless and infested with useless dialogues.

And as expected, it was. But there was some very interesting information in there. The location of the last treasure, a manual that would help Run Long raise his power to the peak of the Qi gathering realm.

The manual involved Quan Li and Lin Ruan as well. Wei Jun dismissed that information for now since it had no use. Lin Ruan had no contact as of yet with Run Long and Quan Li was slowly but surely falling for Zhan Yi. They were spending a lot of time together and if Wei Jun had to guess, they might have even gotten to the first base.

He wasn't sure though and that was why, it was his job to be sure. For now, all he knew was that he only had one treasure left to take from Run Long. As for the girls, he lost interest in them after he found out that almost all of them were useless since only Lin Ruan and Quan Li gained him experience points.

Had he known that information beforehand, he might have not worked on the other heroines. He was glad for it though because that was the whole reason he got to know Xia Lu. But going forward, he decided not to involve himself with heroines that only raised the protagonist's influential status.