Having gotten no results from Chen Feng, Shen Qian and Huo Ling'er walked side by side toward the school gate.

"Shenqian, are you going to try to rank up?" Huo Ling'er asked with some anticipation.

"I'm not going." Shen Qian shook his head. He was still thinking of going back and calling Ding Yi to see if the other party knew the secrets of the extraordinary quasi-martial artist.

"Oh, okay then. I'll have to take a day off in a couple of days, then I won't have any more chance to play..." Huo Ling'er lowered her head in disappointment.

"Do you know what a quasi-martial artist is?" Shen Qian asked casually, somewhat distracted.

"Ah, how did you know I took leave to try and become a superhuman quasi-martial artist?" Huo Ling'er asked in surprise.

"Huh?" Shen Qian was stunned. "What did you say?"

"Someone from my family came to supervise my breakthrough to the Transcendent Quasi-Martial Artist realm, otherwise I wouldn't have wanted to take leave." Huo Ling'er glanced at Shen Qian and asked, puzzled, "By the way, how did you know?"

“I…you told me about this a couple of days ago, you’ve forgotten.”

He spoke calmly and casually to conceal his inner turmoil.

I knew it! How could a girl with tens of thousands of yuan in pocket money a month come from an ordinary family? But this is just too much of a coincidence. It's like someone just happens to deliver a pillow when you're sleepy.

Shen Qian glanced around before dragging the bewildered Huo Ling'er into the school's grove.

"Sink, sink before... what are you going to do..."

It was pitch black all around, with only the dim light from the streetlights filtering in. Huo Ling'er was extremely nervous.

If I really wanted to do something, wouldn't you have already run away?

Shen Qian was somewhat puzzled.

"We're good friends, right?"

"Yes." Seeing Shen Qian's serious expression, Huo Ling'er breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and added, "You are my best friend in Jingcheng."

Shen Qian roughly knew that Huo Ling'er had only recently transferred to the school, so he didn't delve into the details and quickly asked, "Then can you tell me the method to break through to the Transcendent Quasi-Martial Artist realm?"

"Okay!" Huo Ling'er nodded, but then sighed, "But I don't know what the method of body tempering is..."

"You didn't know?" Shen Qian asked, puzzled. "Weren't you preparing to break through to the Transcendent Quasi-Martial Artist realm?"

"My elders at home are worried about me trying to succeed on my own, so they came to Jingcheng to oversee things for me. I just need to follow their instructions, so I'm not entirely sure about the details," Huo Ling'er explained.

There are people to guide you when you break through to a higher realm...

Before sinking in, I couldn't tell if I was envious or jealous. Luckily, I also have a system as my daddy.

This was the only way I could comfort myself before sinking.

"Besides the body-strengthening method, what else do we need to prepare?" Shen Qian asked after thinking for a moment.

"We also need a medicine, what's it called again... Ah, I remember now, it's called 'clotting agent'!"

Coagulation solution?

Shen Qian wrote down the name, then asked, "Where do you live again?"

“I rented an apartment in the north, at No. 32 Wangjing Road, called H7 Apartment… Why are you asking me for the address?” Huo Ling’er asked, blinking her big eyes.

"I'm going to steal from your house."

"Tch!" Huo Ling'er rolled her eyes. "If you're not going to play games, I'm going home first. There won't be any trams running late."

"Go ahead, go ahead."

Watching Huo Ling'er walk away, Shen Qian shook his head. "Why don't you believe me? I really did go to steal something..."

Yes, he planned to use the system to get Huo Ling'er's body-refining method for free.

Based on Shen Qian's speculation, the system lacked the corresponding knowledge reserves, most likely because similar body-refining methods were rarely recorded in books, or the channels through which they were recorded were too secretive. However, he had the opportunity on the day Huo Ling'er attempted to break through the barrier.

Of course, if that doesn't work, we can ask Ding Yi; that's a Plan B.

However, the medicine needs to be prepared first.

Shen Qian was confident about this. The system had absorbed the knowledge from so many books in the Martial Arts Bureau's Medical Research Institute. Surely it couldn't be that it couldn't even produce the prescription for "blood clotting agent"?

...

On the third day, in room 303 of a hotel along Wangjing Road.

Shen Qian stood by the window, gazing at the luxurious apartment across the street. His bracelet was flashing, indicating that Huo Ling'er had replied to his message.

Huo Ling'er: "Why are you so free today? You've been chatting with me the whole time!" (Animated emoji of a child holding a question mark above their head)

Of course, it's so I can keep track of your activities and start freeloading...

Chen Qian: "Haha, I don't know why, but I really want to chat with you today (animated emoticon of the birth of Calabash Brothers)."

Huo Ling'er: "Okay... alright, Shen Qian, I'm not quite used to you being like this."

Chen Qian: "Hmm?"

Huo Ling'er: "I just feel like something's weird... (cat's shy animated expression)"

As Shen Qian was pondering how to reply, Huo Ling'er sent another message: "Ah, my second aunt is urging me, I have to go into seclusion, let's talk later!"

After saying that, Huo Ling'er logged off.

Has it started...?

Shen Qian turned around and went to the bedside, picked up a glass bottle, his gaze somewhat unfocused.

The glass bottle contained a pale blue potion, the "blood clotting agent" he had made after leaving the system running, but there was something strange about it.

Shen Qian was initially worried that the raw materials would be hard to find or that something unexpected might happen, but in fact, after only two hours of idling, when he opened his eyes again, he was already holding a bottle of blood clotting solution in his hand.

Everything went incredibly smoothly.

The most fundamental reason is that... he actually had the main ingredient of the coagulation compound on hand!

After leaving the Martial Arts Bureau that day, Shen Qian took a spiritual herb that Wei Sijian had originally intended to use for experiments from him. Afterwards, Shen Qian threw it into the cabinet and forgot about it.

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