Rebirth and Cultivation in the City

"Xia Wei'er!"

After Lin Shaocong had cashed the check, he learnt from Tang Yi the name of that mixed-race beauty and was instantly so happy that he couldn't stop grinning, praising her name for sounding nice.

Seeing Lin Shaocong with that silly lovestruck expression, the girl named Xiao Wen by his side couldn't help but snort in disdain.

"Alright, fatty, did you cash the check?" Tang Yi asked.

Only then did Lin Shaocong snap back to reality, taking out a bank card from his pocket, "Ah! Cashed it, cashed it, after deducting a ten percent commission, a total of 5.4 million Xuan Country currency was exchanged!"

Any transaction completed within Treasure Tower would have a ten percent commission taken by the Tower, a rule that had been established for over a hundred years, and to this day, no one has dared to flout it. Tang Yi was also well aware of this custom.

"This 5.4 million, between the two of us brothers, that's 2.7 million each!" Seeing Lin Shaocong about to refuse, Tang Yi said with a smile, "Fatty, if you still consider me your brother, then don't refuse. Besides, you were the one who paid for that piece of green and white jade, so it's really me who has taken advantage of you!"

Seeing Tang Yi say this, Lin Shaocong no longer insisted on refusing, but the thought of suddenly having more than two million made him smug.

Lin Shaocong strutted over to Xiao Wen, flaunting the bank card in his hand, "Xiao Wen! How about that? I've always told you, 'Don't look down on the young and poor.' I, Fatty, am now a millionaire too!"

Seeing Lin Shaocong's nouveau riche demeanor, Tang Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly. He stepped forward, snatched the bank card from Lin Shaocong's hand, and handed it to Xiao Wen, saying with a laugh, "I'm going to buy that pile of gambling stones!"

Tang Yi knew the value of those raw stones and was determined to have them. Now that he had money, naturally, he wanted to buy them all and take them away.

Watching Xiao Wen vindictively enter the enormous amount into the POS machine, Lin Shaocong's face immediately showed an expression of agony.

However, Tang Yi didn't care at all; compared to formidable strength, wealth simply didn't appeal to him.

After swiping the card, Tang Yi found several burlap sacks and stuffed all the gambling stones from the counter into them, then, amid the shocked expressions of Lin Shaocong and Xiao Wen, he exerted strength in his hands and directly lifted the two sacks, each filled with several hundred pounds of gambling stones.

"Holy cow, dude, you're like Hercules reincarnated!" Lin Shaocong said with a look of admiration.

"I won't be going back these next few days. Can you ask for leave from school for me?"

After dropping that line, Tang Yi shouldered the two sacks and headed straight downstairs.

When Xu Ye, who had opened the door for Tang Yi and Lin Shaocong earlier, saw Tang Yi leave Treasure Tower not long after entering, carrying two full sacks, he was immediately puzzled.

The people by his side immediately leaned into Xu Ye's ear and recounted everything that had happened upstairs.

"Oh? Quite an interesting kid!" Xu Ye smiled faintly, his words loaded with meaning, "If Lin Lao San knew that the pile of gambling stones he had been sitting on for seven or eight years not only had someone gamble out treasures worth millions all at once but also had them bought out in one fell swoop, I wonder what his expression would be, whether he would cry or laugh!"

After leaving Treasure Tower, Tang Yi hailed a cab and went straight out of the city to a remote mountainous area. He found a rarely traversed cave and plunged right in.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!..."

Upon entering the cave, Tang Yi smashed all the raw stones from the two sacks to pieces. After the dust settled, the ground was littered with fragments, amidst which could be seen sparkling and translucent jade stones of various colors: red, green, white, yellow.

If a knowledgeable jade stone expert were here, they would scold Tang Yi mercilessly for squandering such wealth, for these jade stones were clearly very valuable. If one were willing to take time to cut them slowly, many priceless fine jades could be crafted from them.

However, now, after Tang Yi's violent smashing, these fine jades had turned into fingernail-sized pieces of jade shards, greatly diminishing in value.

But for Tang Yi, he only needed the spiritual energy contained within the jade stones, so there was no difference between whole jade and smashed shards.

Tang Yi carefully picked out these jade shards, one by one, and then swept the remaining stone debris out of the cave.

Immediately after, Tang Yi drew an array on the ground, sat in the center of the array, and placed the jade shards at the formation eyes.

The Spirit Gathering Formation, a most basic array, as the name implies, is to help cultivators gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to accelerate their cultivation speed.

However, with the cultivation Tang Yi had in his previous life, the Spirit Gathering Formation he mastered was naturally out of the ordinary.

As long as there were Spirit Stones or Spiritual Medicines placed into the formation eyes of the Spirit Gathering Formation arranged by Tang Yi, the cultivation speed would significantly increase.

With the operation of the "Tai Xu Breathing Scripture," Tang Yi entered a state of Void Spirit, his breathing gradually slowing down while the intensity of his breaths steadily increased.

At the same time, the Spirit Gathering Formation began to activate, and the jade shards in the formation eyes slowly exuded wisps of milky halos, which were the purest spiritual energy in the world.

No sooner had this spiritual energy emanated than it was directly inhaled by Tang Yi, and with the operation of the "Tai Xu Breathing Scripture," it spread throughout his meridians and limbs, aiding in the strengthening of his physical body.

Postnatal Body Refinement, Innate Energy Refinement; only when the physical body is sufficiently strong can it contain more True Qi.

However, once the spiritual energy was lost, those originally crystal-clear jade stones began to gradually lose their luster and turned into insignificant stone debris.

As time passed, more and more jade stones turned into worthless stone debris, but the aura on Tang Yi's body became thicker and heavier, like a slumbering lion that upon awakening, would rule over all directions.

When the last piece of jade stone completely lost its spiritual energy and turned into stone debris, Tang Yi's closed eyes suddenly opened, a flash of sharpness passing through his pupils.

"Bang!"

Tang Yi fiercely threw a punch, hitting the stone wall beside him, and the entire cave shook violently as if there were an earthquake, showering down sand and stones, the world turning dark.

In the darkness, one could see Tang Yi's silhouette, his skin shimmering with a faint metallic luster, and beneath that, a soft jade luster.

Copper skin, jade bones, the pinnacle of the Postnatal.

"Whew!"

Tang Yi exhaled forcefully, and a Gale blew through the cave, driving the sand and stones out of the cave.

"Who would have thought, reaching the pinnacle of the Postnatal so smoothly!"

Even Tang Yi himself was somewhat surprised by the strength he had demonstrated.

However, Tang Yi knew that this time he had completely relied on the Array and jade stones for such an astonishing cultivation speed.

To think that the jade stones he had consumed this time amounted to tens of millions in market value, and to continue maintaining this cultivation speed, more jade stones would be needed, which would be an astronomical figure calculated in billions.