CHAPTER 460: CHAPTER 287: THE HIGHEST DEFINITION OF CONNECTIONS_4

But Lin Li didn’t feel aggrieved.

Lin Li had a very healthy mindset, with no frustration at missing opportunities or being stuck here.

Instead, he felt quite thrilled — there’s an endless supply of Spiritual Qi here!

Just this alone was worth the price of admission, my gosh!

After living a modern life of scraping every bit of Spiritual Qi, Lin Li now only felt happiness.

The area under his feet might have some reputation in the Cultivation Realm, otherwise, he wouldn’t see a single creature.

But for Lin Li, it’s good news; if he actually saw Cultivators or magical beasts, he’d be worried.

After all, them hitting him was as easy as him playing with gel.

At his current stage, Lin Li would rather be the only person in this world.

As long as lightning doesn’t strike him, the mountaintop is his best cultivation spot; doing some things within his ability and sneaking a bit of Spiritual Qi back to the modern age was enough to make him content.

...

After deciding on the strategy to steal Spiritual Qi, Lin Li had spent his third hour in this world.

Everything was peaceful.

The purple aurora in the sky never reached above the Inverted Mountains.

Now, Lin Li was going to make a slightly risky attempt.

First, he pulled up the system interface so he could return at any time.

Then Lin Li conjured the "Spirit Gathering Celestial Array."

Just like when he conjured it at home, the core of the array stayed in front of Lin Li, while the other materials immediately flew in all directions.

Lin Li held the core, forcibly suppressing the other materials to prevent them from expanding, while his gaze was tightly locked on the sky.

One second, two seconds, nothing happened.

The array began to operate.

At home, where there wasn’t any Spiritual Qi to absorb, the "Spirit Gathering Celestial Array" was like a mouse falling into a rice jar; instantly, Lin Li saw traces of Spiritual Qi appearing around him, converging on the array core.

In an instant, a drop of Spiritual Liquid appeared and dangled perilously, much faster than at home.

Lin Li didn’t pay it any mind, holding it down with one hand while keeping a vigilant watch on his surroundings.

For ten minutes, a bolt of lightning struck in the distance.

"Phew—" Lin Li let out a long sigh of relief.

Confirming that nothing changed around him despite the array’s presence made Lin Li feel much more at ease.

Turning his head, he saw a pool of Spiritual Liquid on the ground’s ’Obsidian,’ continuously vaporizing and re-condensing.

Lin Li promptly conjured the "Duck Blood Bottle" and placed it under the array core to collect the Spiritual Liquid.

—— Lin Li hadn’t brought any liquids this time to the refuge, so there were no other bottles nearby.

At this moment, sensing the greatly enriched Spiritual Qi around him, Lin Li sat cross-legged, continuing to suppress and remain alert while simultaneously absorbing the Spiritual Qi.

The absorption rate was noticeably much faster.

Lin Li wasn’t yet capable of truly controlling the "Spirit Gathering Celestial Array;" honestly, suppressing it from expanding was already quite taxing, and he hadn’t fully developed or utilized it to its potential.

If it were fully developed, how fast would the Spiritual Qi gather?

Curious, but unattainable.

"Buzz—"

Lin Li was dreaming about the future, but heard a buzzing sound from far ahead—compasses were useless, so Lin Li couldn’t specify directions.

Could it be a variable?

When this anomaly appeared, Lin Li immediately retracted the array, becoming highly vigilant and ready to escape at any moment.

But after more than half an hour, nothing happened, everything around remained as usual.

"Seems it’s not because of me," Lin Li continued.

The remaining two hours passed without any other incidents.

...

[0.11.39]

Only eleven minutes of stay time left.

If calculated correctly, Lin Li hadn’t slept for 26 hours, but absorbing Spiritual Qi was inherently a pleasant activity, with six hours of intense focus feeling less tiring than six hours spent in an apocalyptic world.

His "Duck Blood Bottle" was now completely full.

The amount of Spiritual Liquid gathered, who knows how long the "Spiritual Spring" would take to accumulate.

He retracted the array and stored the "Duck Blood Bottle" into the "Qiankun Ring."

Lin Li conjured the combat armor, looked up to the sky, ready to return to the [Warehouse] and escape at any time.

After a few minutes of waiting, a bolt of lightning fell in the distance.

Then the mecha disappeared, followed by the disappearance of Lin Li.

On the Inverted Mountain, only a large amount of real-world supplies that Lin Li intentionally left behind remained.

...

Returning.

In the bathroom, Lin Li stretched and looked at the system; the "Current Reset Price: 20 System Currency" button was already lit up.

Spending 20 system currency to stay for another six hours was, honestly, quite profitable.

The combination of "Random Quality Spirit Stone" + "Fate Talisman" might be removed from his shopping list—at least for November.

Checking the spare device, and calculating the time flow still at 1:160.

Suddenly without the Spiritual Qi to absorb, the fatigue that Lin Li hadn’t noticed overpowered him.

"System, you did a good job..." A simple rinse, Lin Li pounced onto his bed, yawning.

If the apocalyptic world was an October wake-up call, hitting Lin Li’s big head and knocking him out.

The wake-up call from the Cultivation World hit his little head, making him roll his eyes and drool.

Bliss!

Before falling asleep, Lin Li habitually picked up his phone.

Someone had shared software with him.

Good things shouldn’t be kept to oneself.

"Lin Li: Bufan, I just downloaded a domestic 18+ software, loads of people in China are playing it, want one?"

"Bai Bufan: 111"

"Lin Li: ’GoodStuff.666,’ after downloading, change the file extension to .7z and extract it, the password is ’software share’ these four Chinese characters, got it? Don’t try to rename and extract it online from the cloud."

"Bai Bufan: Don’t worry, I’ve been finding resources since I was a kid, not like those internet babies who can’t even eat when food’s fed to their mouths."

That’s good, Lin Li felt reassured and went to sleep.

...

"Bai Bufan: Voice 60s·"

"Bai Bufan: Lin Li!! Damn your ’Driving School EasyPass’!"

"Bai Bufan: You call this a domestic 18+? I really need to control you!"

Lin Li, born into this world, to make himself believe, intentionally kept the same setup as yellow games; not only was the software compressed twice, but he also set a Chinese extraction password.

Darn.

Initially, Bai Bufan really believed it was solid, as good things should be like this.

Fuming, Bai Bufan got out of bed and punched Zhou Baowei, who hadn’t started snoring yet, a few times.

"What’s up?" Zhou Baowei opened his eyes.

"You were snoring, keep sleeping." Bai Bufan said gently.

Zhou Baowei sneered, "Bai Bufan, is there a possibility that I wasn’t actually asleep yet."

Bai Bufan: "?"

"Hold on, wrong—"

...

After being beaten by Zhou Baowei again, Bai Bufan was even angrier, determined to become Jackie Chan the dragon slayer, and took out his phone:

"Bai Bufan: Wang Ze, I just downloaded a domestic 18+ software, loads of people in China are playing it, want one?"

"Wang Ze: 111"

...

The next day, waking up, Lin Li looked at the messages on his phone, dumbfounded——

"Wang Ze: Lin Li, I just downloaded a domestic 18+ software, loads of people in China are playing it, want one?"