225: Chapter 225 The Third Round of Investment Concludes

Reality, High Martial Arts World.

[Host detected as deceased.]

[The third round of investment has ended.]

[Calculating investment rating and rewards...]

"Hoo!"

Feeling the texture of the stone bed beneath him, Su Chen sat up abruptly.

Inside the cave dwelling, it was deathly silent.

There was not a single person around.

At some unknown point, the white mist outside the cave dwelling had begun to dissipate.

Su Chen spread out his divine sense, only to discover with some surprise.

Those three familiar divine senses had already vanished.

"They left?"

He muttered to himself, somewhat astonished.

That shouldn't be right.

Given the three of them's near-pathological possessiveness, the moment he finished "cultivating" and got up, they should have appeared before him simultaneously!

Just as Su Chen was scratching his head in confusion, the system's investment rating arrived.

[Rating calculation complete.]

[The investment rating for this round is: SS+.]

"Can I not even break the limit of SSS?"

Su Chen was somewhat annoyed.

In this round of investment, he believed he had done the best he could in the role of "King Zhou."

But clearly.

Because he ultimately failed to prevent the fall of the Yin Shang Dynasty.

Therefore, there was only an SS+ level rating.

After so many rounds of investment, Su Chen had long since discovered the secret to the system's investment.

For ratings above the SS level, the method of acquisition had little to do with the investment target themselves.

It was mainly related to the richness of his life.

"I wonder what kind of magnificent achievements one must complete to get an SSS level investment rating..."

Su Chen shook his head with a bitter smile and clicked on the choose-six-out-of-seven rewards after the investment round ended.

[1. Supreme Joy Secret Technique (Gold, Talent): A joy secret technique without any side effects; as long as you dual cultivate, you can increase both the Host's and the other female cultivator's cultivation and aptitude.]

[2. Instant Transmission (Purple, Skill): Cooldown of ten days; allows the Host to instantly teleport to any location within a two-thousand-kilometer radius and mask all divine senses below the Fourteenth Realm.]

[3. Human Emperor Destiny (Gold, Destiny): The Host will become the chosen one, possessing the power inherited from the Human Emperor lineage, capable of freely mobilizing the national destiny of Great Xia for their own use.]

[4. Charm Technique (Purple, Skill): The Host possesses a natural charm; upon using this skill, you can bewitch and manipulate the will of any person of the opposite sex for your own use, but the greater the gap in cultivation, the shorter the duration of the effect on the target.]

[5. Unaccepted by the Heavenly Dao (Gold, Talent): You will become an existence spurned by all Heavenly Daos, but by defying the heavens all the way, you are destined to obtain more than others (Translation: Invincible at the same level).]

[6. An ordinary doll identical to your appearance (Unknown, Souvenir): A doll made in your likeness, a relic left behind from ancient times, sewn by some unknown, skillful woman.]

[7. An ice soul mirror (Unknown, Souvenir): Also left behind from ancient times, but for some unknown reason, it seems to have lost its magical power and is just an ordinary souvenir.]

"System?"

Su Chen narrowed his eyes.

"If I remember correctly, I asked you for this ice soul mirror back then, right?"

"And now you're giving it to me again as a reward for finishing the investment?"

[That's up to you. Take it or leave it.]

"You...?"

Although he said that, Su Chen still chose to select rewards 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7.

As for 5?

He had already experienced the feeling of being unaccepted by the Heavenly Dao enough in the investment world.

In the investment world, he had already played to the max; in the real world, he'd rather play a stronger version of the character.

The rewards for this round of investment made Su Chen blush.

Out of embarrassment.

Reward 1 was clearly turning him into a cauldron constitution.

As for this 4...

That was even more like a succubus.

Su Chen dared not imagine what would happen if Zhuge Jinyu and the others, or Su Daji, who had truly chased him into the real world, discovered his changes.

The kind of "kidney-depleting crisis" he would have to face.

Thinking of this, Su Chen walked out of the cave dwelling.

Looking at the empty area outside the cave dwelling and the white mist that was almost completely dissipated, a trace of unease welled up in Su Chen's heart.

Where were Zhuge Jinyu and the other two?

In the distance, through the gradually thinning white mist, Su Chen could see clearly.

The contestants who had participated in the Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony had already left this place.

His investment this round must have taken quite a long time.

Now, the three women, Zhuge Jinyu and the others, had also left.

In other words, it was very likely that he was the only person left in the entire dungeon world.

Su Chen suddenly remembered.

Before Zhuge Jinyu and the others left, they had told him something.

The three of them who had manifested before him were only avatars.

As for their true bodies, they were over at the East Sea.

It seemed that some trouble had broken out over there as well.

And as Transcendent Heroic Spirits, they were there to suppress it.

"The East Sea...?"

Su Chen pondered for a moment, then his figure flew out.

In the High Martial Arts World, there were almost no enemies that could pose a threat to them.

If there were any, they could only be the new monsters that had appeared during the process of accelerated Spiritual Energy Recovery on Blue Planet.

Right now, the three of them had given up maintaining their avatars, so there must definitely be trouble at the East Sea.

Regardless, Su Chen had to rush to the East Sea to see what was going on.

...

Meanwhile.

Jianghai City, the old residence of the Jiang Family.

This was a cluster of ancient, simple buildings located right in the center of this top-tier international financial metropolis.

With layer upon layer of courtyards, it demonstrated the formidable strength of the Jiang Family, a top High Martial Arts clan in Jianghai.

The inner courtyards appeared particularly deep and secluded.

In the innermost room of the West Wing, the doors and windows were tightly shut.

Outside the carved wooden windows, there were even specially installed alloy bars.

It was said that these alloy bars could prevent destruction by any martial artist below the Ninth Rank.

It had been seven days since Jiang Luoli had watched Su Chen being taken away by the three Transcendent Heroic Spirits and had left for home in disappointment.

During these seven days, she had not left this small room.

There were no lights on in the room, only a small nightlight by the bedside, casting a dim, warm glow.

At this moment, Jiang Luoli was sitting in the corner of the large bed, hugging her knees.

She was still wearing the same dress she had worn when she rushed back from the Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony seven days ago.

Only the hem of the dress was wrinkled, and the cuffs were stained with some dust from an unknown source.

Her long, slightly wavy hair, which had originally been carefully styled, was now scattered somewhat messily over her shoulders, with a few stray locks sticking to her cheeks, making her look exceptionally poignant and beautiful.

She bowed her head slightly, her gaze falling emptily upon her interlaced fingertips.

Seven days.

She had been under house arrest in this boudoir where she had grown up since she was a child for seven full days.

Ever since she returned from the Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony that day.

As soon as she stepped through the gate of the Jiang Family, what awaited her was not concern or comfort, but the disappointed gazes of her parents.

Her older brother, Jiang Fengyu, had unexpectedly fallen during the ceremony.

This tragic news was too great a blow to the Jiang Family.