100: Chapter 100 Money to Buy Life

"I am sorry. I was wrong. I was blind and failed to recognize your greatness. I shouldn't have doubted your identity. Please, spare me this one time..."

In a panic, Xiao Zei kowtowed repeatedly toward Chu Xuan. He was never a man of backbone to begin with; right now, in order to survive, pride and such were completely unimportant.

"You don't know you were wrong; you are just afraid."

Chu Xuan stood before Xiao Zei with his gun barrel aimed at his head:

"I can sense that within your emotions, besides fear, there is also resentment and unwillingness. Why don't you try it? See if you can steal the gun from my hand and attempt to kill me in return?"

The calm words fell into Xiao Zei's ears like a thunderbolt, causing his entire body to tremble. He could only continue to kowtow and beg for forgiveness: "Grandpa, I was wrong. I dare not. I really dare not..."

"Don't call me Grandpa. I don't have a grandson like you."

Chu Xuan said slowly: "I said that if I wanted to let you test if my bullet could blow your head off, I would definitely do it."

Xiao Zei's face turned ashen.

Chu Xuan suddenly changed the subject: "However, sparing you once isn't impossible, but you need to pay to buy your life. I just don't know how much your life is actually worth?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zei was overjoyed, like a person finding a chance of survival in a desperate situation. He hurriedly pulled out a large handful of silver coins from his person and knelt before Chu Xuan: "I have spirit money. I have a total of 150 spirit money here. I will give it all to you!"

A total of fifteen silver coins were all stuffed into Chu Xuan's hands.

At the same time, a strong sense of malice flashed and vanished, immediately followed by being submerged in deep fear. Xiao Zei lowered his head and continued to kowtow.

The corners of Chu Xuan's mouth curled up slightly. This Xiao Zei must have wanted to launch a sneak attack while at close range just now, but perhaps due to some hesitation, he ultimately didn't dare to make a move.

His head suddenly felt a slight throbbing, a sense of mental fatigue. Chu Xuan frowned slightly and immediately realized the reason; this was due to excessively sensing the emotional fluctuations of others.

His Heart Bewitchment skill was currently LV.2. He could use sound, eye contact, body movements, etc., to simultaneously affect and guide the sight, hearing, cognition, and mental consciousness of up to three targets to varying degrees. The cooldown time was 5 minutes.

However, if he only sensed the superficial emotional fluctuations of a target, after many attempts, Chu Xuan discovered that there was no time limit to this; it could be sensed at any time.

Therefore, ever since boarding the eerie bus, his spirit had been tense, and he had been sensing the emotional fluctuations of others almost constantly.

But now it seemed that although this ability was useful, it would ultimately place some load on his spirit.

Thinking carefully, that 5-minute cooldown time was not just a restriction, but also a form of protection for the user.

Chu Xuan recalled slightly. For ordinary people like Wang Ruozi with average psychological quality, sensing emotional fluctuations was very easy; the other person was like a transparent person in front of him.

But for people like Xiao Zei and Old Wu, who had clearly added points to their spirit, it was not so easy, showing a slight delay and sense of resistance.

From this, it could be seen that the consumption required to use the skill on different people was also different.

Chu Xuan was expressionless, silently calculating. With his current spirituality value, even if he absorbed all the spirit money, it would not be enough to resurrect one more time in this dream.

Thus, his mind stirred slightly.

— — System, exchange two attribute points for me and add them to spirit.

[You have exchanged 2 attribute points.]

[Remaining spirituality value: 10]

[Your spirit + 1]

[Current spirit: 11]

After individual attributes broke through 10 points, the attribute points required to continue improving attributes changed from the previous 1 to 2.

Chu Xuan felt a bit of heartache, but immediately after, when a refreshing coolness permeated his cranial cavity and all the throbbing pain dissipated, he felt it wasn't a loss at all.

These basic attributes were the root of all strength!

However, just the next second, a slight throbbing pain returned, and at the same time, a System prompt appeared.

[Current Rank is suppressed; all your attributes are in the state of personal Rank LV.1.]

[Current spirit: 11-1 (Can be restored when Rank suppression is lifted)]

It doesn't work...

Chu Xuan's gaze was calm. Originally, he wanted to try if there were any loopholes in the spirit attribute, but now it seemed it really didn't work.

Chu Xuan was not discouraged; this was just an attempt anyway. Regardless, attribute points would have to be added sooner or later, so it wasn't a loss.

No longer actively sensing the emotional fluctuations of others, Chu Xuan immediately felt much more relaxed.

Time ticked away, and amidst his thoughts, Chu Xuan just weighed the 15 silver coins in his hand, never speaking.

The scene fell into a brief silence.

Although less than ten seconds had passed, cold sweat was already breaking out on Xiao Zei's forehead. Finally, gritting his teeth, he took off the black-rimmed glasses from the bridge of his nose with extreme heartache.

"This counts as the most precious item on me. It can consume 1 point of spirituality value to view the basic attributes of a target within a certain range. It can be used up to 3 times consecutively, and the cooldown time is to recover 1 use count every 8 hours. If the count reaches zero and you still want to continue using it, then each subsequent use will require spending 10 points of spirituality value."

Xiao Zei offered the glasses with both hands and said with a crying face: "Back then, the captain of the Haicheng Night Watchers wanted to spend 100 million to buy this treasure from me, and I refused to sell it. Now I am giving it to you as an apology, only asking that you spare my life."

Chu Xuan's heart stirred. He took the black-rimmed glasses, and immediately the System sent a prompt.

[Spirituality item detected. Do you want to spend 10 spirituality value to view related information?]

— — No.

Current spirituality value was very precious, so Chu Xuan naturally wouldn't use it casually.

Then, Chu Xuan put on the black-rimmed glasses and found that they were a pair of non-prescription glasses. On the lower part of the left lens, two rows of small characters were faintly visible.

[Remaining use count: 1]

[Cooldown time: 06:20:25]

Just like when contacting the ghost-forbidden lamp, there was a faint, strange power that seemed to want to extract the spirituality within his body.

However, this power was very weak. Chu Xuan only needed a trace of willpower to stop it, and this power disappeared.

Glancing at the still-kneeling, anxious Xiao Zei, Chu Xuan said quietly: "I'll let you go this time, but don't let it happen again."

Xiao Zei kowtowed repeatedly as if grateful. After Chu Xuan waved his hand casually, he backed away on his knees for two meters before slowly standing up, bowing his head, and no longer daring to look at Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan had never intended to kill him, because in the hint from [Future Tang Zheng], he still needed this kid to steal the Buddha artifact, thereby committing a taboo, triggering the Great Buddha's killing rule, and becoming the first unlucky ghost to be insta-killed.

As for these black-rimmed glasses, Chu Xuan had long taken a liking to them, and he also wanted to test whether such spirituality items, once obtained in a dream, could be brought into reality.

Regardless, this was not a loss.