Also, if you ever run into that old beggar again, let me know!"
Lei Hu stared at Lin Yi, dumbfounded.
He’d been in the mugging business for a little while now.
Not long, just a few months.
But he’d never seen a victim offer to buy something from their mugger.
Especially since this kid had clearly won the fight.
If he wanted to take the book, Lei Hu wouldn’t dare say a word.
But he was actually paying for it? Lei Hu was completely baffled...
"Oh, right. Next time we meet, bring me your Golden Light Fist. I won’t pay you for that one. Consider it compensation for my trouble!"
Lin Yi added before he left.
Lei Hu could only nod dazedly, watching until Lin Yi’s figure disappeared from sight completely.
After a while, Shengzi and Daqiang, who had been knocked unconscious, slowly started to come to.
They stumbled over to Lei Hu.
"Boss, where’s the kid?"
"Boss, why are you kneeling?"
Lei Hu glanced at them and was about to stand up.
But his expression changed slightly. "Give me a hand. My legs... my legs are numb..."
Shengzi and Daqiang supported Lei Hu, one on each side, and helped him up.
When they saw the nine hundred yuan on the ground, their eyes lit up.
"Boss, did you get this from that kid?"
"I knew our boss was tough! Taking care of that kid was a piece of cake, right? But isn’t this a little... low? I saw him turn in a mission. The money in the reward pouch was definitely more than this..."
Shengzi and Daqiang chimed in, one after the other.
Before they could finish, Lei Hu shot them a fierce glare.
"Cut the damn crap. We’re lucky to even have these few hundred. Let’s go find a place to eat. I’m starving!"
Shengzi and Daqiang hurriedly nodded.
They quickly followed Lei Hu out of the alley.
...
By the time he got home, it was already 1:48 AM.
Lin Dazhi and Liu Hongmei were already fast asleep.
Lin Yi first changed his clothes and took a shower.
After returning to his room, he took out the Star River Qi Transformation Technique.
The whole way home, Lin Yi had been suppressing an urge.
He was just waiting to get home so he could study the book properly.
That feeling of being in the Xinghai had been incredibly real.
It deeply tempted Lin Yi to enter the Xinghai again and explore it thoroughly.
Having changed his clothes, Lin Yi sat cross-legged on his bed.
He opened the book once more...
In an instant, his vision went black.
When he opened his eyes again, he was once more in that vast Xinghai.
But this time, Lin Yi didn’t feel the same dread and unease as before.
Instead, he looked around with curiosity.
Suddenly, in the void directly in front of him,
a dim point of starlight began to brighten.
The light spread and grew, bit by bit,
until a star leaped into Lin Yi’s view.
But this star wasn’t whole.
It had five points, four of which were already bright, with only the last one remaining dim and lifeless.
’This star is so strange. Why are four points lit up, but one isn’t?’ Lin Yi stared at the star, his curiosity growing.
Suddenly, from the dark void,
a rune shot straight toward Lin Yi.
Lin Yi was terrified. He instinctively tried to dodge but found his body was no longer under his control.
When the rune drew near, it gave off a celestial melody.
It was as if a Daoist was giving a sermon from a dais.
As Lin Yi watched in horror, more runes appeared from all directions.
And the sound of the sermon grew louder and clearer.
Golden runes swirled around Lin Yi’s body.
Then, one by one, they rushed into his body and vanished.
Even more bizarrely, the star with the missing point hanging in the void before him...
...its dim point was slowly being filled with light,
until the entire star was completely lit.
BOOM—
Lin Yi clearly felt a massive surge of energy explode within his body.
It spread rapidly through him like a ripple...