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Wei Jun looked at his platoon with clear scorn in his eyes. The dungeon that should have taken them fifteen minutes to clear took an entire sixteen minutes and one second. Wei Jun was beyond annoyed and said, "Tonight's training would be double."

The downcast expression of the platoon was a sight to behold. Still, none of them even thought of talking back. To them, the nighttime training after the military training was a nightmare.

They did anything and everything to avoid their squad leader's mood which was terrible most of the time. Their squad leader's promotion was soon and once he was made corporal, they thought they would be free of the reign of terror of their squad leader. However…

"I've decided to take you all with me." Wei Jun said with a gracious smile after the hellish training that night. They were strong enough for Wei Jun to acknowledge them. Wei Jun would rather have his entire squad led by him than move on and do all of it again.

That was why he decided to train them very hard and raise their cultivation rank. With the knowledge from the system, cultivating them wasn't anything difficult.

As expected, the day he made corporal, all of them made private first class as well. Since Wei Jun's speed was quite good, he was granted the opportunity to join a higher-ranked squad, as a subordinate, or lead this one with lesser rewards.

Wei Jun chose to lead rather than be led. Wei Jun and his squad were also granted a vacation of two days so Wei Jun left the military base and made his way to his city in a helicopter.
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Once he was back in the city, the first person he visited was Yue Peng, the woman who earned him big bucks and asked for money.

"…" Yue Peng just silently looked at him. People like Yue Peng, people who had authority, were easily able to dodge the military service with excuses. In the first place, she wasn't even a cultivator but even those who were had used various means to avoid their service period.

"What?" Wei Jun asked.

"Nothing," Yue Peng said, "I just didn't expect you to be such a patriot."

Wei Jun wisely ignored that comment and asked, "How much have you made me?"

"781 million." A number that Wei Jun would have been happy to hear just a while ago. After all, he had to destroy the entire Tian family just to get a billion, 1000 million. However, right now, a billion was nothing to him. He needed at least ten times of that. The first thing he had set his eyes on was the cultivation techniques for body cultivators.

With only those could he increase his physical stats. According to the system, he could create a cultivation technique on his own but given that he could even understand the full basics of Qi, creating a cultivation technique on his own was a pipe dream.

"Only?" Wei Jun asked, causing Yue Peng to cork an eyebrow in response. However, she didn't say anything about it nor did she find Wei Jun's words ridiculous. She just smiled and said one word, "Clean."

Wei Jun's expression brightened when Yue Peng showed him a chart of all the earnings, even the backhanded ones and once she did, Wei Jun smiled so much that he instantly purchased one item from the shop and slammed it on the table.

"What is this?" Yue Peng curiously asked, looking at the strange blue pill.

"Eat it." Wei Jun said before he said with a threatening smirk, "You need to become a part of me as well."

With the way Wei Jun said it, any woman would have found it uncomfortable but Yue Peng was different. Every bone in her body was telling her to do as Wei Jun said. She picked up the blue pill and with a little hesitation, swallowed it without even chewing it up.

After an hour, Wei Jun left her office leaving her red as a tomato. As he did, he said to her secretary, the new one, "Miss Peng will not be receiving anyone for some time now. Cancel all her appointments."

Wei Jun didn't have the authority to order Yue Peng's subordinates but everyone knew that Wei Jun was, in a way, Yue Peng's boss. In her absence, his words were the law. Even in her presence sometimes, his words held more pressure than hers.

Besides, the secretary was sensible enough. A young man had left a young woman's office after coming back from the military after a long time and said that the woman would be unable to receive anyone for some time.

The meaning behind it was clear to which, the secretary hurriedly nodded, "Yes, Sir."

For an entirely different reason than the secretary, Wei Jun left Yue Peng's building completely satisfied and made his way to Ruan Enterprises.

He went straight to Lin Ruan's office and a scene like before occurred again. This time, however, he didn't need to waste money to awaken her and just cleansed her using pills, and when he left her office and said the same thing, the secretary looked at him with a disgusted expression. Wei Jun chalked it up to his precious host's rotten personality, unaware of the fact that in just one day, he created two rumors that would sweep across the city.

Finally, he went to the restaurant where he was scheduled to meet Mark Wilson. Mark was already there and Wei Jun got straight to the point by placing another set of constitution-strengthening pills. The system had recommended so and Wei Jun delivered.

Aside from that Wei Jun gave him the same stuff as well. "Consider this a bonus for the job well done. Also, you will need this because you are going to do some dangerous missions for me from now on. You will need to be this much stronger after all."

Mark Wilson didn't know what that was about but he had long since learned to now argue with Wei Jun. He simply nodded and returned with the pills and the additional stuff after Wei Jun asked him to say a simple 'Yes' which he did without hesitation, unaware what he was getting into.

Wei, however, remained in his spot. Including Natasha, it was now six.

[Numbers of party members: 6\\10]

Wei Jun didn't want to thoughtlessly add party members to his team because it would be difficult to take care of them if they were useless. However, not one of them was useless.

Yue Peng would now be entering the world of business where cultivators ruled. She needed strength to not be suppressed at that point. The same was the case with Lin Ruan.

As for Mark Wilson, he would be venturing into even more dangerous locations and bringing him information such as the one he brought him about the evil cultivation faction which he used to engage the entirety of CSF.

Mark Wilson was irreplaceable when it came to information gathering. However, his only weakness was his zero cultivation but since he was a mage, Wei Jun couldn't help with that.

However, Wei Jun didn't have anything for mages in his inventory but that was only before the latest system and shop update.

[The system shop has been updated]

[Additional items from the 'Overseer' have been added to the shop]

'Overseer' was the entity in the system and according to it, when he was alive, he was a cultivator and a mage hybrid so it made sense if there were items related to the mages in the inventory.

[Elixir of vitality]

[Tier: A]

[Increases defense and stamina by 100% permanently]

[Limitations: Only for mages]

[Cost: 10,000,000]

The price of this thing was one billion but Wei Jun was willing to spend that much on a promising candidate. Also, as his party members would increase in their rank, his power would also increase.

He didn't get the same effect when Xia Lu increased in her rank for some reason but Wei Jun wasn't disheartened because he soon received this notification in his system a few days ago.

[Your party member Natasha has achieved the fourth circled heart in her magical journey]

[Your INT equivalently increases]

[Error]

[The user does not possess an INT stat]

[Would you like to create an INT stat?]

[Yes\\No]

[Otherwise, the obtained stats would be randomly distributed among the user's current stats]

Wei Jun was stumped over that decision so he asked the system.

[It's a stat for mages]

[Mages need a clear head]

[This does that]

[A clear mind also helps to make the mana flow better so increasing it makes storing mana very easy]

[In simpler words, if Qi is the main stat of cultivators, then INT is the main stat of mages]

'What would happen if I obtained it?' Wei Jun questioned. Would he be able to use mana as well?

[No idea]

[Since I was both a cultivator and a mage]

[I can't really tell whether Qi was affected by this stat or not]

Wei Jun fell into serious thought. He didn't know what it would to do him but he wasn't sure how it could adversely affect him.

'It's always nice to have more options, but…' Wei Jun finally made a decision and clicked…