Chapter 82
“Of course, this is just my guess; he wasn’t specific, and I don’t know if that’s really the case. The final assessment might be something else entirely; I’m just giving you a heads-up,” Li Nanxing said.
“I understand,” Xiang Beifei nodded.
Li Nanxing was checking his system interface. After a moment, he spent 5,000 system points to exchange for a tortoise shell and handed it to Xiang Beifei. “This is a Hetu tortoise shell. It possesses strong defensive capabilities, capable of withstanding attacks from the late stages of Qi-Controlling. If they raise the difficulty of the assessment, this Hetu tortoise shell can help you,” he said.
Xiang Beifei asked, “Is it permissible to rely on external forces during the assessment?”
“This is an inherently unfair assessment. Protecting oneself is most important. Besides, you must understand that since everyone in this world can awaken a system, any help from the system is within the allowed range,” Li Nanxing said.
The greatest advantage of the system world is exactly this: no matter what system items you use, they are all within the rules. It all comes down to whether you have the strength and can utilize these system items effectively.
[Current Prestige Value: 16000547]
Xiang Beifei’s cultivation wasn’t high; the external help Li Nanxing could offer was limited to the late stages of Qi-Controlling at most. This Hetu tortoise shell was the most suitable item he could come up with.
He had wanted to give Xiang Beifei more life-saving measures, but his system points were at an awkward level.
He needed to spend 16 million to purchase a God Refining Pill. Spending more system points would prevent him from exchanging for the God Refining Pill.
The God Refining Pill was too important to him; he had been stuck in the late stage of Meridian Opening for ten years and couldn’t wait any longer.
——I’m sorry I can’t offer you more help. I must get that God Refining Pill. Once I step into the God Refining stage, if your assessment has not yet started, I will find a way to compensate you with more items.
Li Nanxing silently told Xiang Beifei in his heart.
Xiang Beifei had contributed a whole 100,000 system points to him. He knew he should use system points to exchange for more items to help Xiang Beifei through this assessment, but the need for the God Refining Pill was too pressing, and he couldn’t afford to waste more system points.
“Thank you.”
Xiang Beifei accepted the Hetu tortoise shell. A late-stage Qi-Controlling Spiritual Qi Crystal was still very important to him.
After a while, Li Nanxing added, “Oh, our school offers a reward for the valedictorian, a scholarship of 50,000 yuan. Specific matters will be notified to you later. There is an application process.”
Xiang Beifei’s eyes lit up!
50,000 yuan scholarship!
He had already gathered more than half of the 100,000 yuan tuition fee.
“Thank you, Principal,” Xiang Beifei said again.
“Don’t mention it. You should hear the news by next Monday when you submit your preferences. Now, go celebrate. I believe your grandfather is already eagerly waiting,” Li Nanxing said with a smile.
“Okay, then, Principal, I’ll head back first.”
With the results out, Xiang Beifei had no need to stay at school. Others might spend time celebrating their scores, but he preferred to spend his time on cultivation.
——
After seeing Xiang Beifei off, Li Nanxing closed the door, his gaze returning to the system interface, a sense of excitement building within him.
It’s been ten years!
A full ten years to save up 16 million prestige points, which was indeed a difficult task.
Though he had awakened an S-grade system and his cultivation was higher than many people’s, the system’s tasks became tougher toward the end. Stepping into the God Refining stage was a height many could not reach in their lifetimes.
“Xiang Beifei, I owe you a favor. Once I step into the God Refining stage, if you need any help in the future, I will do my utmost to assist you,” Li Nanxing promised silently.
Li Nanxing trembled slightly as he looked at the God Refining Pill, his eyes filled with intense eagerness!
[Would you like to spend 16 million prestige points to exchange for a God Refining Pill?]
Suppressing his excitement, Li Nanxing responded almost tremblingly: “Yes.”
[16 million prestige points spent to exchange for a God Refining Pill. Exchange successful. Current Prestige Value: 547. System reward is being issued…]
[Reward issuance complete]
Li Nanxing reached out his hand, waiting for the God Refining Pill to appear in his palm.
Ten seconds passed.
His hand was still empty.
“No rush, such a powerful pill.”
Li Nanxing reminded himself.
But the reward was too important for him, and with every second that passed in waiting, it felt like an eternity.
A minute went by.
There was still nothing in his hand!
Li Nanxing wiped off some sweat, feeling uneasy, but still tried to calm himself down, “Don’t worry, don’t worry, just wait a little longer.”
And he waited for three minutes!
Panic began to set in for Li Nanxing!
“Where is my God Refining Pill?” he murmured to himself.
[Reward distributed successfully]
How could this be?
He was over sixty years old and had awakened this system nearly fifty years ago. He was very familiar with his system, as every time he wanted to exchange for something, it happened almost instantly.
So why was today’s system God Refining Pill missing?
[Reward distributed successfully]
The system prompted again.
“No, this can’t be happening…”
Li Nanxing started frantically searching his office. He turned the whole office upside down, but the God Refining Pill was nowhere to be found.
During this time, everyone was on the training field, only Xiang Beifei and he were in the teaching building. Could it be that Xiang Beifei took it?
But he didn’t have the ability to do that, after all, he was a late-stage Meridian Opening practitioner. If Xiang Beifei had taken it, how could he possibly not have noticed?
Besides, knowing the boy’s character, it wasn’t possible for him to do such a thing.
“Could it be that the system has malfunctioned again?”
He had encountered such situations before when there would sometimes be a miscalculation in the system’s database. Once, when he was in the outer realm wilderness, the system had a scanning anomaly, incorrectly estimating the strength of a desolate beast, which had caused him a lot of trouble.
The reason turned out to be that the desolate beast had a bizarre ability that interfered with the system’s judgment.
When he was young, there was also an incident where he had just exchanged for a pill, and just as it landed in his hand, it was suddenly swept away by a gust of wind and disappeared without a trace.
But those were low-probability events. The system had told him that the chance of an S-rank system experiencing an anomaly was one in ten thousand.
“You don’t mean… you don’t mean to tell me that today… on such an important day… the one in ten thousand anomaly has occurred!”
Li Nanxing slumped in his chair, his complexion turning as pale as paper!
How could this happen… Why does the one in ten thousand probability have to occur right now!
Ten years!
If this one in ten thousand probability had indeed swallowed up his system reward, would he then need to collect another 16 million prestige value, meaning another ten years?
He was already sixty years old, how many decades did he have left?
Li Nanxing felt as if all the strength had been drained from his body, listlessly sitting in his chair, panting heavily, and seeming to have aged ten years in an instant.