lovenovelstory #499 - ten years
#499 - ten years
Hearing this, Zhang Chen turned to look at Dugu Qiu, then slowly said, “I didn’t ask anything of you. Saving you was simply my intention, not driven by utilitarianism. I don’t need your repayment, and you don’t need to repay me. Let’s just leave it at that, and forget each other in the jianghu.”
After speaking, Zhang Chen ignored Dugu Qiu and instead focused his attention on his own golden finger, continuing to study the time skill.
To him, studying the time skill was far better than wasting words with Dugu Qiu.
Zhang Chen’s eyes were fixed on the golden finger interface. This time acceleration skill was extremely useful, such as taking away an opponent’s lifespan. Although it could only increase it by one year per day at the moment, as he continued to level up, one slap could directly cause the opponent to lose ten thousand years of lifespan, turning them directly into withered bones.
“If I could change time acceleration into time reversal, then this skill would be even more awesome. I might even have the opportunity to return to the past and compete with those ancient gods. No, who says I don’t have the chance to master time reversal? As long as I keep upgrading the golden finger, one day I will have the opportunity to master time reversal.” Zhang Chen’s heart trembled at this thought, and his eyes turned to his own skill interface. He saw that his control of time was still at the beginner level, and the required experience points were only ten million.
“With only ten million experience points, my skill can be upgraded. How many years and months can I create with a single thought?” Thoughts flickered in Zhang Chen’s mind, and he looked again at the Bashe space. His Bashe space already contained the residual energy from the Ascension Pool, plus the continuous energy generated by the Ascension Pool every day. Zhang Chen felt that as long as he converted the energy in the Bashe space, he should be able to gather enough points to upgrade his time skill.
As for accumulating enough energy to upgrade the Wood Authority? Now that Dugu Qiu, this old boy, has been marked by him, was he still afraid of not having lifespan to use?
Moreover, Zhang Chen also had an idea in his mind that he could use the power of time to accelerate the growth of the Tongtian Jianmu. As the Tongtian Jianmu grew, the innate energy absorbed every day would increase, and the energy generated by the Ascension Pool would also increase. At the same time, the points he accumulated would also rise steadily.
Currently, the points generated by the Ascension Pool every day were only about 100,000. If he could accelerate the growth of the Tongtian Jianmu for thousands of years, how much energy would be generated every day?
The uses of time acceleration were too many!
At worst, he could cultivate spiritual herbs and then devour them to convert them into points.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen’s heart stirred. He left only a small amount of energy in the Bashe space to wrap the items inside, and then Zhang Chen directly used the mouthparts of the innate mosquitoes to devour all the energy of the Ascension Pool.
His Bashe space was too low-level to devour the energy of the Ascension Pool, but his innate mosquito mouthparts had no taboos.
With the conversion of massive energy, the points on Zhang Chen’s body quickly accumulated, soon breaking through the ten million mark.
“Not bad! Not bad!” Zhang Chen looked at his golden finger interface, revealing a satisfied expression.
[21 Skill (Unranked): Time Acceleration (0/10,000,000)]
[Note 1: You can accelerate an item by one year by using the skill.]
[Note 2: The same item can only be accelerated once per day]
[Points: 10,000,000]
Zhang Chen glanced at the golden finger interface, and the next moment, he directly clicked on it. Then, the golden finger interface changed:
[21 Skill (Tier 1): Time Acceleration (0/100,000,000)]
[Note 1: You can accelerate an item by ten years by using the skill.]
[Note 2: The same item can only be accelerated once per day]
[Note 3: If you use mana to activate it, you can perform additional activations, which are not counted in the number of times. Activation condition: one yuan cycle!]
[Points: 0]
“Ten years!” Zhang Chen’s breathing was a little disordered. Even if the same item could only be accelerated once a day, the time was still long. Increasing it by ten years a day would be a thousand years in a hundred days.
The most important thing was the skill notes. Mana could be used to activate the power of time without limit, which meant that as long as your mana was sufficient, tens of millions of years could pass in the blink of an eye. However, the mana required to interfere with time started at the accumulation of one yuan cycle of mana.
How much mana was one yuan cycle?
A total of 129,600 years, Zhang Chen didn’t even have a fraction of that.
“But I have finally seen hope. When my cultivation reaches a higher level in the future, one day I will be able to break the limit of mana accumulation. By then, accumulating hundreds of millions of years of mana, wouldn’t it be like the world collapsing in an instant, directly turning the opponent into ashes?” Zhang Chen was very happy in his heart.
“What are you thinking about, kid? Your breathing is actually disordered. If you have any requests, just ask. Don’t be shy.” Dugu Qiu was adjusting his body while asking Zhang Chen, his voice full of anticipation.
As he actively mobilized the power in his body to absorb the golden core power, Dugu Qiu’s speed of absorbing the golden core was more than ten times faster, his complexion began to gradually turn rosy, and the aura on his body became more stable.
Zhang Chen glanced at Dugu Qiu without speaking, but was thinking about how to avoid Dugu Qiu and first increase the growth period of his Tongtian Jianmu by ten years.
Zhang Chen was thinking about the various uses of the power of time, his eyes looking at the distant sky, and the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curl up again.
“I said, what are you smiling foolishly about? If you have any conditions, just say them.” Dugu Qiu looked at Zhang Chen’s silly smile and felt that this kid probably had a problem in his brain.
“If you really feel bad about it, give me a few powerful mysterious objects, which can be considered as repaying my great kindness.” Zhang Chen, listening to Dugu Qiu’s nagging, proposed a compromise.
Hearing this, Dugu Qiu’s expression froze. He was a poor man, his pockets were empty, and he didn’t have any mysterious objects except for the Rod of Judgment.
However, not having it didn’t mean he couldn’t get it!
“Are you sure you want mysterious objects?” Dugu Qiu said.
Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this. He wanted to devour some mysterious objects or raise some mysterious objects to generate experience points.
Dugu Qiu stroked his chin and pondered for a moment, then took off an ancient ring from his left hand and handed it to Zhang Chen: “This ring is a natal object that I accidentally refined when I was transcending the tribulation and becoming a Yang God in the past. It contains my information and can be regarded as my token. When you go to the capital in the future, just go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to find me. This ring is the proof. I will not only prepare mysterious objects for you, but also reward you with wealth and glory.”
Speaking of this, Dugu Qiu said to Zhang Chen: “I don’t know why, but I, this old ancestor, find you, kid, quite pleasing to the eye. Why don’t you recognize me as your godfather? I have no children in my life. If you recognize me as your godfather, I will definitely treat you like my own son in the future.”
Hearing Dugu Qiu’s words, Zhang Chen turned to look at Dugu Qiu, and saw that the other party’s eyes were sincere, not joking at all. Moreover, Zhang Chen had planted the Six-Syllable Mantra sticker in the other party’s heart, and at this time, he could vaguely sense the other party’s sincere feelings, which were definitely not false words to deceive him.
Zhang Chen was a little tempted. He was walking alone in this world, and there were powerful opponents staring at his children. He also needed a backer.
It was just that recognizing a eunuch as a godfather, if this were to spread, how would Zhang Chen behave in the future? Wouldn’t he be laughed at by the heroes of the world?
Dugu Qiu’s eyes were full of earnestness, staring at Zhang Chen, with a hint of heat in his eyes: “Kid, what do you say? Just give me a straight answer whether you will do it or not. If you become my godfather’s son, no one in this world can bully you again in the future.”
Zhang Chen was silent, he was thinking about how to refuse. He didn’t want to recognize a eunuch as his godfather. If it spread, it wouldn’t sound good after all.
“What? Do you think I’m not worthy to be your godfather?” Seeing Zhang Chen sitting there and hesitating for a long time, a hint of hesitation appeared on his face, Dugu Qiu suddenly became unhappy, and even his words carried a bit of coldness.
Zhang Chen glanced at Dugu Qiu and secretly thought it was not good. He had spent a golden core to help Dugu Qiu, for the sake of the Longevity Tree Coffin, and to build a relationship for himself, so that he would have a helper when he encountered something in the future. However, at this time, seeing Dugu Qiu’s face changing, Zhang Chen knew that if he didn’t come up with a suitable excuse, he would not only fail to build a relationship, but would instead offend the other party.
So Zhang Chen sighed faintly: “Does your Lordship know my identity?”
“Your identity? Could it be that there is some trouble with your background? You can rest assured that no matter how big the trouble is, it is not a trouble here with me.” Dugu Qiu’s words were full of confidence.
“My name is Zhang Chen, my father: Zhang Chengke.” Zhang Chen uttered the heavy words.
He had learned his father’s real name through Xie Xuan long ago. As the chief manager of the inner court and a confidant of the Emperor, the old eunuch would not be unaware of the weight of the three words Zhang Chengke.
So, after hearing the three names ‘Zhang Chengke’, the old eunuch couldn’t help but exclaim: “Zhang Chengke of the Zhang family, one of the eight great families in the capital?”
“That’s right!” Zhang Chen said.
“You are Zhang Chengke’s son?” The old eunuch repeated, seemingly unable to believe it, and was still repeatedly confirming.
“It is I!” Zhang Chen said.
In the end, he didn’t want to recognize a eunuch as his father. It was just that in the face of Dugu Qiu’s eagerness, he didn’t know how to refuse properly, so he simply said a reason that Dugu Qiu had to give up the idea.
If he directly refused Dugu Qiu, a powerhouse of his level, he would definitely be resented by the other party. The most important thing was that this old guy was a eunuch. If he directly refused, would the other party become angry from embarrassment?
Zhang Chen said with a wry smile: “I have a great trouble on my body. Whoever touches me will be implicated and will follow me to be unlucky. When I first saw you, old man, lying wounded in the mud, I suddenly thought of my dead old father for some reason. After seeing you, I felt close to you, so I didn’t hesitate to waste that golden core to save you. But I know my own affairs. I am now in a quagmire. You are an innocent outsider. I can’t drag you into the quagmire. I can’t be so selfish!”
Zhang Chen said with great emotion at this time.