Chapter 310: Image

"My Tian cooked."

Shen Tian immediately recognized that tone.

"Mother."

She hugged his arm.

"My son is becoming so independent."

"I’ve been independent."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

Shen Tian stared.

Yin Suyi smiled sweetly.

"You’ll always need your mother."

Shen Yan’s eyes narrowed.

Then...

She grabbed Shen Tian’s other arm.

"He needs his sister more."

Yin Suyi looked toward her.

Shen Yan looked back.

Silence.

The kitchen temperature seemed to drop.

Shen Tian closed his eyes.

"Again?"

Yin Suyi smiled.

"I don’t know what you mean."

Shen Yan nodded.

"Neither do I."

Shen Tian pulled both arms free.

"No fighting over me."

Both women immediately looked innocent.

"We weren’t."

"You were."

Silence.

Shen Tian pointed toward the table.

"Sit."

Yin Suyi blinked.

Shen Yan stared.

"Both of you."

They sat.

Immediately.

Rose stared.

Then...

Slowly looked toward Shen Tian.

"You really do control this house."

"Someone has to."

Bai Xue raised her hand.

"Can you tell me to sit too?"

Shen Tian stared.

"No."

Bai Xue looked disappointed.

"Unfair."

. . .

After breakfast...

Lin Yue finally explained what she had discovered.

The Crimson Spirit Grass rested inside a sealed glass chamber.

Everyone gathered around the private laboratory.

Lin Yue brought up several scans.

"There’s something strange about it."

Shen Tian leaned against the counter.

"How strange?"

"It reacts to Qi."

"Expected."

"No."

Lin Yue shook her head.

"Not just absorbs it."

She pulled up another image.

"It changes."

Shen Tian looked closer.

Cellular structures.

Microscopic changes.

Lin Yue continued.

"When exposed to normal spiritual Qi, the cells become active."

"But when exposed to your Qi..."

She changed the image.

The structure had transformed dramatically.

"...it adapts."

Shen Tian’s eyebrow rose.

Xu Ning appeared beside him.

[Interesting.]

Lin Yue continued.

"I think this plant doesn’t merely strengthen cultivators."

"It records characteristics from spiritual energy."

Gu Qingya looked toward her.

"Meaning?"

"If someone consumed it..."

Lin Yue hesitated.

"...it might strengthen them according to the Qi it absorbed beforehand."

Xu Ning’s eyes widened.

[She’s right.]

Shen Tian looked toward her.

You knew?

[Not exactly.]

[System descriptions simplify things.]

Shen Tian looked back toward the plant.

Originally...

Chen Mo would obtain it.

His own Qi would feed it.

Then...

He would consume it.

Meaning it would strengthen specifically according to his martial

inheritance.

Shen Tian smiled.

Clever.

Lin Yue noticed.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"You have that look."

"What look?"

Rose answered from behind them.

"The one where someone is about to have a terrible day."

Shen Tian laughed.

Lin Yue looked toward the plant.

"Who was supposed to get this?"

Shen Tian glanced toward her.

She knew enough by now to understand that sometimes...

His strange actions had reasons.

"Someone annoying."

Rose immediately smiled.

"Protagonist?"

Silence.

Lin Yue blinked.

Tang Meilin looked toward Rose.

Gu Qingya sighed.

Shen Tian stared.

Rose shrugged.

"What?"

Shen Tian shook his head.

"Close enough."

Lin Yue looked back toward the plant.

Then...

Her expression changed.

"Wait."

Everyone looked toward her.

"If the plant adapts to Qi..."

She looked at Shen Tian.

"...what happens if we completely overwrite whatever previous energy it

contained?"

Xu Ning’s eyes widened.

Shen Tian smiled.

"Do it."

Lin Yue blinked.

"Really?"

"Yes."

She hesitated.

"This could destroy its original properties."

"That’s fine."

Thirty million yuan.

A protagonist opportunity.

A mythical herb.

Shen Tian didn’t care.

Lin Yue’s research was more interesting.

Her eyes brightened.

"Okay."

Then...

She smiled.

Really smiled.

Excited.

Shen Tian watched her.

She noticed.

Her cheeks immediately warmed again.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"Stop looking at me like that."

"Like what?"

She turned away.

"You know."

Rose whispered to Tang Meilin.

"She’s doomed."

Tang Meilin whispered back.

"Completely."

Lin Yue heard them.

"I can hear you."

. . .

Two days passed.

Qin Hao prepared.

Chen Mo prepared.

Shen Tian...

Barely seemed to.

At least...

That’s what Qin Hao believed.

On the third day...

Qin Hao finally made his first move.

Not against Shen Tian.

Against Chen Mo.

A private property auction was being held in the western district.

The original plot said Chen Mo would purchase an abandoned warehouse for

almost nothing.

Underneath it...

An old underground chamber contained three martial manuals and a sealed

box of spiritual medicine.

Not a massive opportunity.

But useful.

Original Fate Gain...

9,000.

Qin Hao arrived early.

Bought the warehouse before auction.

No drama.

No confrontation.

No bidding war.

Clean.

Simple.

Efficient.

His system immediately responded.

Opportunity Successfully Seized

Chen Mo Fate Loss: 7,000

Qin Hao Fate Gain: 8,000

Current Fate Value: 643,200

Qin Hao smiled.

Finally.

His first clean victory.

No Shen Tian.

No twenty million bids.

No parent company acquisition.

No green eyed bastard smiling from across the room.

Just...

Success.

Qin Hao stood inside the underground chamber.

Three manuals rested before him.

His system scanned them.

Iron Mountain Fist

Cloud Step

Hidden Breath Art

Qin Hao smiled.

"Not bad."

Then...

His phone vibrated.

He froze.

Slowly...

He looked down.

One message.

Unknown number.

Nice warehouse.

Silence.

Qin Hao stared.

Then...

Another.

A photograph.

His warehouse.

Taken from outside.

Qin Hao’s face darkened.

He typed.

Who is this?

Response.

Shen Tian.

Qin Hao closed his eyes.

Of course.

Qin Hao: How did you get my number?

Shen Tian: Rich.

Qin Hao stared.

Qin Hao: That isn’t an answer.

Shen Tian: Rich enough.

Qin Hao sighed.

Qin Hao: Are you here?

Pause.

Shen Tian: No.

Qin Hao looked around suspiciously anyway.

Qin Hao: Then how do you know?

Shen Tian: Bird.

Qin Hao froze.

"Bird?"

Then...

He remembered something from the investigation report.

Shen Family surveillance technology.

Qin Hao walked outside.

Looked up.

Nothing.

Then...

A tiny metallic bird landed on a power line.

Qin Hao stared.

The bird tilted its head.

Qin Hao’s eye twitched.

"You’ve got to be kidding me."

The robot bird chirped.

Qin Hao pointed at it.

"Tell your owner he’s an asshole."

The bird chirped again.

Then flew away.

Qin Hao stared.

His system spoke.

Host.

"What?"

You appear frustrated.

"No."

Heart rate indicates...

"Shut up."

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