This is what I should do.

After finishing his conversation with Yang Liang, Lin Li began to check the rewards he had received for completing this mission.

【You have obtained the active ability: Heal.】

【Heal: For one minute after use, your hands will possess healing abilities. Based on your current strength and abilities, it will provide a certain degree of healing to injuries at the point of contact within ten seconds. Only one area can be healed at a time, and the same injury cannot be healed multiple times during a single use of the ability.

This ability has a 24-hour cooldown after use.】

A healing-type ability, huh? It looks pretty powerful.

In modern conditions, at least, it's definitely much better than 【Soul Wall】.

Lin Li rolled up his pant leg, revealing several bruises, both new and old, on and around his knee.

If you asked Lin Li how he got these injuries, he wouldn't even know himself.

Taller people can sometimes get a bruise just by crossing their legs in the classroom.

This wasn't a cumulative ability; it showed that he could use it right now, so Lin Li decided to test it immediately.

First, he took a picture of the original injury. Then, Lin Li used 【Charge Up】 before placing his right hand on the bruise on his knee and activating 【Heal】.

There was no unusual sensation in his hand, not even a green light, but his knee felt a cool and refreshing sensation.

Ten seconds passed in a flash. Lin Li immediately moved his hand to another area to continue healing, while comparing it with the photo on his phone in his left hand.

The bruise had faded quite a bit, but that was it; it hadn't even disappeared.

And this was after using 【Charge Up】 for a double healing effect.

However, Lin Li wasn't surprised or disappointed by this result. After all, the ability description also stated that the healing outcome depended on his own strength and abilities.

Lin Li had even prepared for the worst-case scenario—that his strength and abilities wouldn't be able to achieve any healing at all.

Now that it actually had a healing effect, Lin Li was even quite happy.

The one-minute duration passed quickly. By moving his right hand around to different 'battlefields', the bruises on both of Lin Li's knees were much better than before. The areas where the bruises were already fading had even returned to their original skin color.

It would be even better if he could heal the same spot six times in one minute.

The ability test was complete. Lin Li then looked at the new title he had acquired.

【Light of Xiling: When equipped, your whole body will emit the light of the righteous path. The cultivation speed of righteous path techniques will increase by 50%, and the cultivation speed of evil path techniques will decrease by 50%. Evil spirits and demons will subconsciously feel a certain degree of fear towards you.】

After equipping it, he didn't feel anything. After all, the effect could only be seen during cultivation.

His Eight-Stage Body Tempering Art and the Pure Righteous Thunder Control Art should both count as righteous path techniques, right?

If it could increase his cultivation speed by 50%, it would be very useful.

Wait, it wasn't that there was no change at all.

Lin Li narrowed his eyes.

He walked to a corner of the restaurant entrance.

"Damn!"

"The light of the righteous path should be a conceptual term, not actual light, right!"

Lin Li discovered that after equipping this title, his whole body was emitting the light of the righteous path—in a physical sense.

Like the result of drinking too much nuclear wastewater.

Now he could see it. The debuff of this title wasn't the 50% reduction in the cultivation speed of evil path techniques, but that his body would glow when he wore it.

But it wasn't too bad. The light was still quite faint, like a glow stick that had been used for a while. In an environment that wasn't pitch black, it wasn't easily discernible to the naked eye at first glance.

Lin Li only confirmed this after moving to a corner. If it were daytime, it would be even less noticeable.

However, to be on the safe side, Lin Li still switched his title to 【Sky Blood Crow Killer】—there were mosquitoes outside the restaurant.

He had seven spirit stones in his pocket, the richest he'd ever been.

After the autumn trip was over, he could be 'extravagant' for once.

【System Currency: 950 (1050)】

After the 200 system currency reward from this mission arrived, Lin Li's total accumulated system currency had exceeded one thousand.

The 【Shop】 had unlocked a new item slot.

He opened the shop.

【Random Quality Spirit Stone: 20 System Currency (Daily Limit 1) (Sold Out Today)】

【Limit Break Talisman: 50 System Currency (Daily Limit 1)】

【Unlock Refreshable Item Slot 3, requires a cumulative total of 1500 System Currency. (1050/1500)】

【Unlock Refreshable Item Slot 4, requires a cumulative total of 2100 System Currency. (1050/2100)】

"Limit Break Talisman?"

Lin Li checked the item description.

【Limit Break Talisman: Use by applying a drop of blood and sticking it to your body. After use, you will break your physical limits for ten minutes, exhibiting abilities far beyond your normal capacity in all aspects. After the effect ends, your body will enter a state of extreme fatigue for ten to twenty minutes.

This talisman cannot be used two at a time. Using it again within less than three days can easily cause additional damage and burden to the body.】

Just as the name suggested, it was a talisman that allowed one to break their physical limits in all aspects after use.

There didn't seem to be a need for it in the short term. Use this thing to stimulate potential during an exam? That would be too wasteful.

However, Lin Li still bought one.

When materialized, it was a brown talisman with incomprehensible patterns drawn on it, smaller than the palm of his hand overall.

I'll buy two or three as spares. The words 'limited purchase' always have their damn charm.

But what disappointed Lin Li a little was that for the refreshable item slot 2, his 【Free Refresh】 button was dim, just like in slot 1.

Was the free refresh count from the system update shared across all slots?

That was too stingy.

Lin Li was really reluctant to spend 100 system currency for a single refresh.

I'll wait and see on Monday. Lin Li felt that his system should update again on Monday.

The reward settlement was complete. Lin Li continued to survey his surroundings, his eyes slightly narrowed, and once again sent a message to Bai Bufan.

「There's milk, come quick!」

"Where, where, where?" Bai Bufan and the others quickly rushed over.

"Over there."

Bai Bufan narrowed his eyes, then rubbed them, and finally opened them wide, staring straight at Lin Li. "This milk... is an old lady's milk?"

"Mhm."

Bai Bufan: "?"

And so, everyone stared at Lin Li.

"You are eroding the trust between us, Lin Li. Haven't you heard the story of the boy who cried wolf?" Wang Ze questioned.

"Let's go. That old lady has too many things. She's been standing there for a long time without crossing the road. Let's go help her." Lin Li chose to ignore them and walked over first. "We should probably accumulate some good karma, so we can tell more dark humor jokes."

Bai Bufan and the others gave Lin Li's retreating back the middle finger, then followed him.

"By the way, Bufan, don't do that 'old thing, zero-frame startup' thing again later..."

"Don't bring up the past!"

This time, there was no belatedly arriving Xue Jian. When he walked to the restaurant entrance, he was stunned to see his students helping an old lady.

He was a little teary-eyed and relieved.

After all, when he saw the old lady place her hand on Lin Li's, Xue Jian subconsciously thought Lin Li's next move would be to flip over and ride on the old lady's back.

He was being too stereotypical.

...

After the dinner session ended, the bus took everyone to the downtown area of Pingjiang City.

"Next is your free time, about two hours. We'll gather here again at 9:30 to go back to the hotel. You can buy things here, go shopping, whatever you want.

But no one is allowed to act alone, you must be in groups. If your phone is out of battery, the teacher has a power bank here, you can take it to charge first."

After arriving at the destination, Xue Jian emphasized to everyone.

"Sigh, I can only hang out with you two again. What bad luck," Lin Li sighed deeply after getting off the bus, looking at Zhou Baowei and Bai Bufan beside him.

"You're not even willing to just say that in your head, are you?" Bai Bufan and Zhou Baowei rolled their eyes. "Go on, go find the class president. The two of us will be fine without you."

"Just kidding, my brothers are always number one in my heart," Lin Li said sincerely.

Chen Yuying and her dorm mates planned to go shopping in Pingjiang City as a group of six. Lin Li naturally wouldn't participate.

Not to mention making things awkward, he could easily become a bag-carrying underling.

He could only wrong himself by hanging out with Bai Bufan and Zhou Baowei.

Bai Bufan sneered at his words. "Alright, Lin Li, let me ask you. Suppose you just won two million in the lottery, but your good brother Zhou Baowei is seriously ill and needs one million... forget it, if it's one million, the question is a bit predictable. Let's say he needs one hundred yuan for treatment. What would you have left in the end?"

Zhou Baowei: "..."

Lin Li also sneered and asked Bai Bufan in return, "Before I answer you, tell me your answer."

"One million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and fifty yuan left, and a lavish funeral that cost fifty yuan," Bai Bufan scratched his head.

"You'd rather spend fifty yuan on my funeral than one hundred yuan on my treatment, you motherf*cker! Bai Bufan!" Zhou Baowei's fists hardened.

"Fifty yuan is really the limit, bro. I really can't spare any more," Bai Bufan said, indicating he couldn't help it.

"Change the question back to one million now, let me save some face," Zhou Baowei sighed deeply.

"Alright, Baowei is still sick with a one-million-yuan illness. So, Lin Li! Now—tell me your answer," Bai Bufan looked at Lin Li.

However, Bai Bufan already knew the answer in his heart. Who would hesitate?

A truly considerate brother shouldn't get sick at a time like this.

Getting sick at this time is very inconsiderate. Getting sick is such a big deal, and he did it without consulting me. He didn't consider me at all. What kind of brother is that?

"Let me calculate," Lin Li began to count on his fingers.

"You still need to calculate this?" Bai Bufan was a little puzzled.

"Probably about four million left and a corpse with no organs that has been married off in a ghost marriage for good luck. Remember to lend me the coffin you bought for fifty yuan, I won't buy one myself," Lin Li concluded after some calculation. "So it's about that much."

Bai Bufan's face froze, his mouth agape.

I'm sorry.

He shouldn't have presumptuously thought he knew Lin Li's answer.

He was ridiculously wrong.

Satan should really get a tattoo of Lin Li on his back.

"You really make the most of everything, you motherf*cker! You've squeezed every last bit of value out of my corpse. A ghost marriage, you can even think of this way to make money! Are you even human?" Zhou Baowei, the person in question, grabbed Lin Li by the collar and began to shake him frantically.

The two of them started fighting, becoming sworn friends—by trying to slit each other's throats.

"Damn it, I just lost two million," Bai Bufan, who was watching from the side, slapped his thigh in annoyance.

(End of Chapter)