410: Explosive surprise

The daily settlement rewards are as follows:

Successfully completed the delivery job: Strength +1, Agility +1, Physique +1, Spirit +1. Your verbal deterrence increased by 20%, and the range of your distance-based Martial Skills or spells increased by 30 kilometers.

That was all.

Yesterday's work only involved delivering packages, and the settlement rewards on the panel were simple and easy to understand.

However, the content within stirred Shen Bei's heart, making him tremble with excitement!

"I really did hit the jackpot!"

Shen Bei stared at the text record, taking a deep breath.

It must be said that the rewards for this delivery job were truly excellent value for money.

The Strength attribute increase was a result of carrying packages.

As for Agility, there's no need to mention it; Shen Bei ran incredibly fast when chased by the security guard.

Physique doesn't need to be brought up; he even unloaded an extra truckload of packages after work.

Although this wasn't part of Shen Bei's job, since he wasn't off work yet and had nothing else to do, he helped unload the truck.

He didn't expect to have an unexpected gain.

"Effort brings reward."

Shen Bei nodded silently; this was a true reflection of him.

Amazing!

The increase in the Spirit attribute, however, was truly beyond Shen Bei's expectations.

After much thought, it was likely due to his significant emotional fluctuations during phone calls, asking customers to come down and retrieve their packages.

After all, before revealing that they were Martial Artists, these customers could be incredibly annoying.

Some even demanded that he carry ten catties of rice up for them.

Damn it, they treated delivery people like free laborers.

Shen Bei had gotten into many arguments with customers.

While Shen Bei was pleasantly surprised by the increase in the four-dimensional attributes, he didn't pay much attention to it.

The most important aspects were the last two entries.

One was that his words became more threatening...

"This is a bit of a waste."

Shen Bei couldn't understand how this 'verbal attack' could be categorized under the Fifth Dimension Attribute.

Who doesn't know how to taunt?

Even without this attribute before, didn't he still infuriate his enemies?

Shen Bei looked down on this attribute from the bottom of his heart.

He threw it into the trash bin of his mind.

A useless attribute.

The other entry was what surprised Shen Bei the most.

"The range of distance-based Martial Skills or spells increased by 30 kilometers!"

Shen Bei's eyes widened, and he exclaimed in his heart: This is absolutely insane!

One must know that even Bai Wei, a Divine-Grade Martial Artist, when Cultivating the Instant Shadow Return to Origin Pact, could only maintain a range of about 10 kilometers.

And he, a Seventh Rank Martial Artist, who had just learned this spell the day before yesterday and worked a temporary job yesterday, had already surpassed Bai Wei today, leaving her three streets behind!

"Is this increasing based on my movement distance?"

Shen Bei pondered for a moment, then nodded; only this answer fit the current situation best.

This is so smooth!

Having a cheat is awesome!

It saved him Cultivation time.

If Bai Wei were to hear this news, he wondered what she would think, would she even commit suicide?

"Distance-based..."

Shen Bei stroked his chin, muttering to himself: "Can the Seven Stars Steps also cover 30 kilometers in one step? After all, this Martial Skill is also distance-based!"

Thinking of this, Shen Bei immediately jumped out of bed, startling Jian Tong, who hugged her small quilt and grumbled: "What are you doing, making a fuss so early in the morning."

These words... were a bit off, making it sound like they were doing something bad.

"Never mind."

Shen Bei got dressed and ran out of the villa to the backyard.

He took a deep breath.

Martial Skill: Seven Stars Steps!

He took a step...

Whoosh!

Shen Bei opened his eyes again, looked at his surroundings, and then...

Went back to eat breakfast.

30 kilometers, what nonsense!

It was still one step, seven steps away.

At this point, Shen Bei understood that the Seven Stars Steps was simply seven steps, a Martial Skill with a fixed distance.

In other words, there was no room for growth; it wasn't the right material, no matter how much it was polished, it wouldn't become a useful talent.

The Instant Shadow Return to Origin Pact, however, was different; it had immense room for growth!

At the same time, Shen Bei secretly rejoiced that he had originally looked down on the Instant Shadow Return to Origin Pact, but now that he had Cultivated it, it was truly full of surprises.

...

These past few days, Shen Bei went out to deliver packages during the day.

Although the four-dimensional attributes increased slowly, of course, this was relative to Shen Bei.

For other Martial Artists, it was still an incredibly explosive existence.

But the range of the Instant Shadow Return to Origin Pact continued to increase.

It had now grown to 300 kilometers!

The exponential growth even made Shen Bei click his tongue in amazement.

Awesome!

It was truly too awesome!

Shen Bei's ultimate goal was to increase the range of this spell to tens of thousands of kilometers.

For no other reason.

According to Shen Bei's estimation, as his strength increased, the time he spent in the underground caves would inevitably become longer, and he would delve deeper and travel further.

One must know that, according to the information Shen Bei had currently obtained, there were other places beyond the Central Continent.

To Breakthrough to Divine-Grade and enter a completely new Realm, one had to leave human strongholds and travel a very long distance.

And Shen Bei naturally wouldn't permanently station himself in the underground caves; he simply intended to retreat once he gained an advantage.

Therefore, using the Instant Shadow Return to Origin Pact for instant long-distance jumps was imperative.

"Besides increasing the range, there's another urgent matter to resolve."

Every night, Shen Bei studied how to Seal his True Qi onto river pebbles.

These were anchor points; without effective anchor points, attempting long-distance movement and jumps would be pure fantasy.

And after many days of study and training.

Shen Bei had increased the duration for which a river pebble could serve as an anchor point from an initial one minute to about an hour.

But this was clearly insufficient for Shen Bei's needs.

"It needs to be at least a year, as a baseline."

Shen Bei sighed.

Currently, he had not found a way to increase the anchor point's duration; he could only rely on continuous training to extend its effective time.

Although it was a bit frustrating, he could only take it one step at a time.

Fortunately, Shen Bei was not in a hurry.

...

One day.

Shen Bei flipped through the calendar.

There was still one month until the start of the second semester of his senior year.

Shen Bei calculated the time and itinerary with his fingers, then turned to Jian Tong and said: "I'm going on a long trip."

Jian Tong sat in the corner with her arms crossed over her chest, like an invigilator, with a bowl of untouched savory tofu pudding in front of her: "Going to the underground caves? School is about to start."

Shen Bei shook his head: "No, I'm going to Chuan Prefecture."

Jian Tong immediately became alert: "Is there a little vixen making your heart itch?"

Shen Bei straightened his back, put on an air of importance, and said in a steady voice: "For an excellent man like me, having three wives and four concubines is quite normal, isn't it?"

Jian Tong pulled out a knife and said sinisterly: "I'll cut off your little thing!"

"That hurts!" Shen Bei clicked his tongue: "You know how big it is yourself."

"You want to die, don't you!"

"I'm going to do something serious." Shen Bei took a deep breath: "It's about the odd object mask."

Hearing this, Jian Tong touched her nose and started eating the tofu pudding.

Jian Tong couldn't help much with this kind of thing, so she just nodded.

As for the 'little vixen' comments, they were just joking.

However, Jian Tong still had a selfish motive.

The day before Shen Bei left, she demanded it seven times, completely putting Shen Bei into a sage-like state.

Shen Bei, with dark circles under his eyes, looking as if he had been thoroughly worked over by a vacuum cleaner, took a car to Shen City. Shen Bei was to depart from here, taking a 'freight truck' to Chuan Prefecture.

That's right.

Not a high-speed rail, nor a plane.

But a freight truck!

To continue increasing the range of the Instant Shadow Return to Origin Pact, Shen Bei found a job online as a cargo escort, whose job was to ride in the truck, guard the goods, and arrive at the destination.

Shen Bei knew perfectly well that this job was a complete trap.

But who was Shen Bei?

An existence that walked sideways in the country, he didn't care what kind of trick it was; if anyone dared to trick him and prevent the settlement panel from activating, he would break it with one punch!