Chapter 40 Ji Linyuan: Fist is the only true measure of power.
Ji Linyuan patted the "sentimental" "little girl" in his arms, and said with a hint of sarcasm, "You recognize this too?"
“You didn’t hide it,” Chu Jue said. “Even if you did, I would recognize it.”
"Alright, alright." Ji Linyuan patted her, wanting to ask about her current situation, but then remembered that this was not the place to talk, so he cautiously pulled Chu Jue to his residence.
After shifting positions, they were speechless for a moment, looking at each other in bewilderment.
They understood the unspoken understanding they once shared in each other's eyes.
Chu Jue gave Ji Linyuan a military salute, but Ji Linyuan returned the salute with a fist bump.
Their movements didn't align, and they missed each other.
Two people: ...
"Ahem." Ji Linyuan pretended nothing was wrong and asked with concern, "How's it going over there lately?"
Chu Jue thought for a moment and summarized the current situation: "Fortunately, everything is going well for the Third Princess."
"I am as you can see." Chu Jue smiled, meeting her expectant gaze. "And there's Xiang Xing, whom you most want to know..."
Ji Xiangxing, Chu Jue's mecha pilot friend, and Ji Linyuan's biological daughter.
"Xiang Xing misses you very much, even though you've been out of contact for a long time. Long enough that you've been classified as a missing person, but she's still waiting for news of you."
Ji Linyuan's nose tingled, as if she had just peeled an onion, and her eyes also felt itchy. She didn't answer, but Chu Jue could read from her eyes that she also missed Ji Xiangxing.
Chu Jue gave her some time to calm down and then calmly began to recount the events that had occurred over the years.
"...Xiang Xing's design blueprints weren't bound to any devices, and she was heartbroken for a long time after losing them. Luckily, she had your pet electronic cockroach to keep her company... She didn't like it before, but now she treats it like family."
Seeing that she had calmed down a bit, he became concise again and brought up another important matter: "There have been some changes on the beast side. The reason I came here is because an S-class beast self-destructed..."
"An S-class alien beast?" Ji Linyuan frowned. "The alien beast's improvement speed is so rapid."
She was only B-rank when she left many years ago, how come she's S-rank now?
And there's another question: "Wait, you mean you only got here after the monster self-destructed? You were fighting the monster before you arrived?"
"Hmm?" Chu Jue sensed something in her eyes. "Could it be that I'm not actually..."
"..." Ji Linyuan blinked, showing no sign of the composure of a young man. His expression was unfocused as he whistled, "Actually, it was I who summoned you here."
Chu Jue: ?
"You know about the merit system for designers, right?" Ji Linyuan said casually, but couldn't hide the smugness in his voice. "I released it."
Chu Jue: ...
No wonder the designer was so secretive and obediently didn't expose the "system's" privacy. She thought it was some mysterious power from a higher dimension that granted the designer the privilege, but it turns out... it's actually quite similar.
The Ji family has produced many talented people in the field of mechanics, and when Ji Xiangxing, the daughter of the "genius mechanic" Ji Linyuan, suddenly appeared as a mecha pilot, it caused a sensation.
As a young man, Chu Jue supported his friend's career, entrusting his lifelong mecha partner to Ji Xiangxing. Similarly, the equally young Ji Xiangxing, when designing the mecha, frequently consulted Ji Linyuan's suggestions for modifications…
If Ji Xiangxing is the designer's mother, then Ji Linyuan can be considered the designer's maternal grandmother.
When Grandma makes arrangements, as a junior, I naturally have to listen to her.
I never imagined that the designer was already so adept at navigating social situations... The sheer volume of lame jokes is truly impressive.
Designer: 【^w^】
The designer proudly mimicked the expression of a cat without whiskers.
She was still unable to return to her mecha form, but Chu Jue could feel that there was more communication with Ji Linyuan in his mental sea.
Ji Linyuan wouldn't issue these tasks without reason. Before this, Chu Jue had also realized that the "system" was like a riddle teller who would guide her in the right direction. Although it was a riddle, it would always give her appropriate rewards.
"So, why pretend to be the Chengde System?"
Ji Linyuan sighed helplessly: "This is a very long story."
Chu Jue had long since lost the respect he showed when they first met, and had reverted to the way they had interacted years ago: "Make a long story short."
Ji Linyuan elbowed her, but Chu Jue easily dodged it.
She had no intention of continuing her "attack," and instead reprimanded him in a mock-serious manner: "Just listen to me."
"Okay, I'll listen."
Ji Linyuan then began to recount this "long story" with satisfaction.
"In the year 327 of the Star Calendar, I was on a secret mission..."
Before he could even finish listening to the beginning, Chu Jue couldn't help but interrupt, "...This is way too long."
The year 327 of the Star Calendar was thirteen years ago.
"Never mind that." Ji Linyuan glared at her, but still sped up the process. "Anyway, I came here because of this matter."
"We arrived here around... in the year 332 of the Star Calendar."
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Eight years ago, Ji Linyuan and her mecha "Xiang Cang" arrived here by accident.
"What kind of place is this?" Ji Linyuan touched the hair on his arm, feeling that there was an unpleasant and eerie atmosphere about this place.
"Xiang Cang," she called out in her mind. Receiving no response for a long time, Ji Linyuan sensed something was wrong. "Xiang Cang?"
She lost contact with Xiang Cang.
The wristband's coordinate display was now invalid, leaving Ji Linyuan momentarily at a loss. She didn't know how her investigation was related to this place; based on her understanding, this wasn't the destination she had deduced for t's jump.
She subconsciously searched her mind and found that Xiang Cang was in a weakened state. She couldn't establish a strong connection with him at this moment, but she should be able to gradually recover through the nourishment of her spiritual power.
"Never mind." Ji Linyuan relaxed considerably after learning that Xiang Cang was unharmed. Even if the destination was slightly off, they could still observe from a new location.
As planned—though with some deviations—she began to observe the new world.
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This place is too strange, Ji Linyuan thought.
Defective products can be seen everywhere.
In the Empire, the fact that defective goods weren't destroyed was already the greatest act of mercy the Emperor showed after his dispute with the nobles. Keeping them secretly at home was fine, but if they wanted to show their faces in public, it would indeed be more difficult.
And this defective guy actually managed to stand up straight and say to her, "Hey, a mature woman? Or a new face? Come over and get to know us guys..."
Although he couldn't understand what he was saying, Ji Linyuan judged from his smug expression that it wasn't anything nice, and casually picked at his ear. Without using his depleted mental power, he killed him on the spot with just a few hand-to-hand combat moves.
After killing the man, Ji Linyuan was almost arrested and imprisoned.
Having shrewdly escaped, Ji Linyuan took a deep breath: It seems this place is different from the Empire. She doesn't have a genius daughter and a genius disciple as her backers, so she still has to be careful.
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Ji Linyuan acted cautiously as always, but often felt out of place.
Over time, she realized that the women here didn't seem like women at all; they were more like "defective products."
Defective products are openly referred to as "men"—meaning both fertile and strong.
The women's physiques have shrunk, which is a complete violation of the rules left by our ancestors. They have neither land nor strength.
She often heard men propagating those ideas:
"Women are not suited for spiritual cultivation; they are simply not cut out for it."
Yes, she already knew that what was similar to spiritual power here was called spiritual energy.
However, the spiritual energy here is weak, far less than that of spiritual energy.
The matter Ji Linyuan was investigating had become subtly connected to this, making her pay extra attention to this place.
In addition, those voices also said:
"Women are less logical, less resilient to stress, and more prone to emotional outbursts, while men are more rational."
Recalling the "rational creatures" he had encountered when he first arrived, who would smash things everywhere when they got excited, Ji Linyuan laughed out loud.
"What strength can a woman have? Even breaking a bottle cap requires skill. Being gentle and weak is much more feminine; leave the heavy lifting to men. What can a woman accomplish with that little strength?"
They can do something like smashing a defective product with a single punch.
"Men are still physically stronger. The God of Psionic Energy is definitely a man, which is why he naturally favors men."
...What is the God of Psionic Power? The father god of men?
Father God? Is he a newborn? Ji Linyuan immediately complained to Xiang Cang, who was now able to converse normally but could not show himself.
Oh, and they also said:
"These are all determined by physiological structure."
When it comes to physiological structure, Ji Linyuan is even more familiar with it—the physiological structure of a defective product is indeed that of a defective product, otherwise it wouldn't have earned that name.
Finally, for some reason, the focus shifted back to women:
"Women are still the most malicious towards other women, haha, haven't you heard the saying 'Beware of fire, theft, and best friends'?"
Ji Linyuan found this even more difficult to understand.
Even though she already knew this place "very" well, and the women here rarely harbored any ill will towards her—although they would still say some strange things that she couldn't understand, Ji Linyuan knew that their malice was far less inexplicable than that of the defective women.
Where do these beliefs come from? Are they just passed down by word of mouth, one rumor after another, until they become the truth over time?
Ji Linyuan found it hard to understand. She had some ideas in her mind, but tried to put them into practice only to repeatedly run into obstacles.
It wasn't until she failed time and time again that she discovered the root of the problem.
Women are too "weak"—they can't see themselves clearly because of those words, and they lack self-confidence.
Might makes right, and she needs to teach women spirituality.
Although she was also a "newly promoted" spiritual practitioner, after repeated explorations with Xiang Cang, she discovered that spiritual power and mental power had no core difference, only the difference between primary and advanced levels.
Of course, spiritual power is that low-level one.
Regardless of whether it's high-level or low-level, in Ji Linyuan's understanding and scientific judgment, these have always been things that only women are good at.
She began compiling teaching materials, very privately, to teach spiritual practices to women she knew.
Okay, actually, to some extent, it plagiarized some things from "Introduction to Mental Power" and "Ten Methods to Improve Your Mental Power".
Ji Linyuan had already prepared a pair of handcuffs and was looking forward with satisfaction to the arrival of the protectors of her home planet to pursue her across the stars, all because she hadn't paid the copyright fees.
Unfortunately, her home planet didn't. Her home planet was too kind and generous; a whole year had passed, and no one had even noticed that she had come here.
Ji Linyuan put aside his random complaints and began his "lecture".
...She, who teaches people how to fight, is also supplementing her essential courses in the childcare pod here.
The new teacher, looking quite professional, explained:
"First of all, I want to make one point clear to everyone—spiritual energy is closely related to genes. Women have more than a thousand protein-coding genes on their X chromosome, while men only have a few dozen."
"This also means that women have an innate advantage on the path of awakening and advancing their spiritual energy."
"Feel yourself. Feel the presence of life force—women are born with this life force. You must believe that you are born with the gift of 'perception'."
She encouraged them, but many of them seemed not to understand.
Or perhaps they don't believe it?
Ji Linyuan attempted to provide an example:
"The X chromosome has a powerful immune regulatory function, which is one of the amazing things about women. Most women bleed menstrual blood every month due to the shedding of the uterine lining, which is what we know as menstruation."
"During this period, psionic energy will be exceptionally strong."
"Our menstruation is an enhanced effect of human evolution, a ferocious beast carrying the scent of blood. Isn't it more suitable to kill enemies when blood is flowing?"
"The easily provoked killing intent fuels emotions, which in turn release spiritual energy—"
...He accidentally let his mental energy slip out, and Ji Linyuan quickly corrected himself. Luckily, no one noticed, and he had already prepared all the necessary knowledge points.
Ji Linyuan encouraged him:
"If you don't believe me, try experiencing it for yourself—"
"Your lower abdomen! Your uterus—its very existence grants you spiritual power from birth!"
The women moved in sync with her.
Ji Linyuan continued: "Relax, take a deep breath."
After a two-minute relaxation period, Ji Linyuan asked cheerfully, "Has anyone sensed the spiritual energy?"
No.
This answer overwhelmed Ji Linyuan. She found it too strange; there was clearly no difference, so what was the difference...?
One of the more composed girls answered a beat slower: "Yes."
"Oh?" Ji Linyuan's eyes lit up. "That's great."
See? She said there was nothing wrong with her teaching materials.
It seems to be a people problem.
"As an outstanding student, it is up to you to teach by example and spread this knowledge to everyone."
After saying this, Ji Linyuan was certain that he saw speechlessness on the girl's face.
Hehe, but she didn't care.
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"...This story sounds familiar," Chu Jue mused.
Ji Linyuan remained calm, stroking his chin as if feigning profundity: "Oh, really?"
"Um?"
"You still found out," Ji Linyuan said inscrutablely. "I have a code name, called..."
“Ling Yu”.
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Author's Note: Ji Linyuan: I am Ling Yu, are you not satisfied?
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