“I‘m just doing fine. Mind your own business!” Joseph said angrily, not believing his words at all. He turned his face to the other side, not willing to talk to Dr. Franklin again. Dr. Franklin stopped talking and concentrated back on his job of feeling the pulses of Tolly. “Say ah, show me your tongue, Tolly!” "Ah..." After looking closely at the coating on Tolly's tongue, Franklin suddenly shook his head and let out a deep sigh, "Get your affairs in order! " “W-w-what? Get my affairs in order? What do you mean?” Tolly stuttered. “Yeah, you are right! You know I mean that!” Dr. Franklin nodded and then heaved another deep sigh, “Ten days! You’ve got only ten more days to live!” “Ten days!? How’s that possible?” Tolly shouted in disbelief. “You’ve been poisoned, young man! You’re going to die in ten days because of that!” “You’re kidding me, right? You’ve got to be talking bullshit!” Tolly yelled, his face turning into a deathly pale. "No, Tolly, I'm serious. You could have
“What about the second level?” Tolly asked with great curiosity. “The second-level cultivators must be able to lead their energy inside to temper their skins so as to boost the rate of absorption of vital energy from the outside world. with the levels up, flesh, sinews or muscles, bones, fluids, marrow, internal organs, and the brain or the senses will be tempered and strengthened accordingly.” “What do you mean by fluids that’ll be tempered?” Tolly asked again, raising his eyebrows. “Well, tempering fluids is a must-learn technique for the sixth-rank cultivators. Fluids usually mean white, red, yellow, and black ones inside your body, such as blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. But for cultivators, above all, they have to be able to transform their white fluids into vital energy, also known as ki energy.” “That’s amazing! How about the level nine?” asked Tolly. “For the ninth-rank cultivators, they are able to store their vital energy into some place inside their brains c
“But we’ve never known each other very well before. Why are you being so kind to me?” Tolly said warily. “Ha-ha. If I say, it’s all because you are handsome, do you believe me?” she blinked with a smile, “Just kidding! Actually, nothing special. Look, I don’t have much time left. I simply don’t want this technique to be buried with me in the grave.” “Why not find yourself a female disciple? Wouldn’t that be better!?” “I’d like to, but you see, perhaps you are destined to be my disciple!” Invisible Woman laughed. “Good point! Shifu! What a destiny!” Tolly let out a deep sigh, thinking that the important thing for him to do at the moment was to survive and expel the poison from his body. After that, he needed to look for that secret manual to eliminate the side effects of the Lotus Technique. Anyway, he told himself he had to be patient and finished his tasks one by one. “Don’t call me Shifu. Just like before, call me Invisible Woman. We need to keep a low profile and not expose o
“Wait, Hee-hee, wait!” Tolly called out in a loud voice. Yet, what replied to him was a long silence. He got countless questions in his mind, his eyes even turning into question marks. With great disappointment, he was puzzled at what he should do next. Suddenly, with a twitch in his eyes, a status screen popped up before him. He rubbed his eyes a few times, but the screen was still there. And then he pinched his face. It hurt. It was not a dream. With a ‘Ding’, a short text message appeared on the screen, which read, [Quest: you can constantly drive your target crazy, and then you will receive your Wrath points commensurate to how angry your target is. Are you going to accept this mission or not?] Tolly was stunned. His lips curving into a happy smile, he finally saw something before him. He was glad that Hee-hee didn’t lie to him. After reading the message, two tabs flashed into his mind with Yes and No written on the screen. Very excited, Tolly never expected that his H
“Fabulous. Obviously, I’ve received a newbie package.” Tolly whispered to himself excitedly. Without any hesitation, he visualized a ‘yes’ in his mind, and instantly the ‘yes’ button was clicked on the screen. Suddenly, a giant Prize Wheel appeared on the screen. The Prize Wheel was divided into nine parts of different colors. A hand was placed in the center of it. All of a sudden, it started spinning like a whirling fan. Tolly watched intently with great anticipation. What kind of reward would he get? A nice artifact sword? A lovely pet animal? A drop-dead gorgeous girl would be better… Nevertheless, what he expected most would be the Six Sun Manual. Anyway, he didn’t want his bird to fly away. As he was craving the possibilities, the hand finally pointed to the green part of the Prize Wheel. And then five capitalized words appeared on the green part of the wheel: THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION. Tolly was left dumbstruck, even his eyes turned into signs of question marks.
While Tolly was still excited about his system, the stocky boy called Tim smashed at Tolly with his long, black staff.It was such a sudden attack that Tolly was not able to dodge it in time. When the long, thick staff landed on his hips, Tolly screamed in pain.The stocky boy got excited and said,“What do you think of my Howling Staff? Isn’t it nice?” said the stocky boy in an ironic voice while spreading a big grin over his face,“Now tell me the truth, how do you know my name?”“F-f-from your sister Jenny,” stuttered Tolly in pain, “she’s told me about it.”“How dare you call my sister Jenny?” said the stocky boy furiously, “you’re such a lowly bastard. It seems I have to give you more smashes.”When the stocky boy Tim smashed his staff at him again, Tolly immediately jumped away and managed to escape from it just in time.“Kneel down! I’ll spank your ass with my staff. How dare you dodge my smash? You’re making me hit the roof,” yelled the stocky boy.He started to smash again. Y
The stocky boy fell down to his knees. With the staff on the ground, he was totally left dumbstruck.“Hey, Tim,” said Tolly with a smug smile, “are you okay?”Looking at the proud smile on Tolly’s face, the stocky boy really wanted to smack him in the face, but he couldn’t.“Do as you’ve promised, my little master,” said Tolly, “Perhaps this might be the last time I call you this way,”With that, Tolly grinned from ear to ear, which made the stocky boy Tim almost hit the roof. He was not ready to admit his failure yet, so he planned to play dumb.“What did I promise you? I promised you nothing, I guess. You know, I have a weak memory,” said the stocky boy, starting to look into the sky.“All right then. It looks like I have to mention that to you. Call me brother-in-law when there’s no one else in sight. Please do it now, Tim!” said Tolly loudly.“Hemm,” the stocky boy grunted, “What if I don’t call you that?”“Then I’ll tell everyone you’re practicing Muting Staff, not Howling Staff,
It turned out that the strange patterns and pictures on the back of the map were cuneiform used in ancient Assyria or Persia back on Earth. Tolly recognized them at the first sight because he had used to study them for his digging job as a gold miner in his previous life. He had wished to dig out more treasures like antiques or something like that except for the gold in the cave, though he had never dug out any of them apart from broken pottery or dirty boots back on earth. He had regretted he had wasted too much of his time studying those picturesque characters. Yet, today he came to believe what his father had always said to him, “Learn more, Tolly, nothing is useless. One day when you want to do something, what you’ve learned will come to help you one way or another. You’re what you read or learn.” At the moment, he had to admit his father had always been a wise man. He started to read the first line of the cuneiform on the back of the map. It read: ‘Anyone who acquires the S