66: Chapter 66 The Second Round of Investment Begins

He quickly dialed a number and lowered his voice.

“Hello, is this ‘Vulture’?”

“Yes, it's me, Su Zixi.”

“Arrange a desperate man for me to do something; the price is negotiable.”

“This afternoon, Flight HJ7301 to Jinguan City.”

“Yes, that's the one.”

“Find a way to make the plane deviate from its route, fly west, toward the Snowy Plateau.”

The number Su Zixi dialed belonged to a notorious black organization in the martial arts world.

They claimed that as long as you had money, they could accomplish anything for you.

A raspy male voice came from the other end.

“Young Master Su, the Snowy Plateau hasn't been peaceful lately.”

“I heard some terrifying thing has awakened.”

“Even for our people, flying a plane there is a life-or-death gamble. Regarding the price...”

“I'll double the original price, and if your people are lost after the job is done, I'll add another thirty million.”

Su Zixi's voice was full of malice; he was almost shouting.

“Remember, make it look like an accident.”

“Especially that kid named Su Chen—he must die.”

He paused, a lewd smile appearing on his face.

“Also, that female martial artist traveling with him named Jiang Luoli—if she's only injured and not dead, remember to bring her back and hand her over to me.”

Although the Jiang Family was powerful, if this was made to look like an accident, they wouldn't be able to trace it back to him.

At that time, if Jiang Luoli was still alive, who would know if he secretly brought that big-breasted, brainless fool back and imprisoned her?

“Heh heh, don't worry, Eldest Young Master Su.”

“We take people's money to eliminate their disasters. We guarantee they will disappear into the snowy mountains without a trace.”

Hanging up the phone, a gratified smile appeared on Su Zixi's face.

“Su Chen, Jiang Luoli, you forced my hand.”

“My idiot cousin, crashing in a place like the Snowy Plateau... even if you are a martial artist, there's no way you'll survive.”

“Once you're dead, your slot, your opportunities, and even your woman will all be mine.”

...

Meanwhile, at Jianghai City Puxi International Airport.

Su Chen and Jiang Luoli successfully passed through security and boarded the first-class cabin of Flight HJ7301 to Jinguan City.

The environment inside the cabin was comfortable, and there weren't many passengers.

After sitting down in the window seat, Jiang Luoli spoke softly to Su Chen.

“Xiao Chen, I'm going to cultivate for a while. Wake me before the plane lands.”

After saying that, she closed her eyes, and a faint, almost imperceptible blade intent circulated around her as she entered a state of cultivation.

Seeing how hard Jiang Luoli was working, Su Chen couldn't help but smile.

“As expected of the number one prodigy of Great Xia's younger generation of martial artists, Senior is truly hardworking.”

“In that case, I should start working hard too.”

Su Chen sat down in the aisle seat and placed the long case containing the spirit language staff on his lap.

He took a deep breath and muttered in his heart.

“System, top up this extraordinary item.”

From Jianghai City to Jinguan City, they would cross almost half of Great Xia.

With so much time, he might as well start a thrilling investment.

In any case, the time flow of the investment world was completely different from the real world.

A dozen years in the investment world would probably only be about an hour in the real world.

【A-grade extraordinary item 'spirit language staff' detected. Contained energy meets the top-up standard. Confirm top-up?】

“Confirm.”

The long case in his hand trembled slightly, then returned to calm.

Su Chen could feel that the staff inside the case seemed to have lost all its spirituality, turning into an ordinary stick.

【Congratulations Host, top-up successful. Obtained a large amount of energy.】

【Conditions for opening the next round of investment have been met.】

【Start the second round of Angel Investment immediately?】

Su Chen was excited and didn't hesitate.

“Start!”

In an instant, his consciousness seemed to be pulled away. The roar of the plane's engines and the whispers of the passengers quickly faded.

The familiar system interface expanded in his mind.

The investment world selection interface this time was slightly different from before the first round.

Most obviously, the button for the completed 'Investment World 1' was pressed down.

And above the three investment options, a line of small text appeared.

“Hint: After the Host completes two investments, a new investment world will be unlocked.”

Su Chen hesitated for a moment and chose Investment World 2.

【Received.】

【Host confirmation complete.】

【Selected Investment World 2: Martial Arts World, Great Ning.】

【Investment Targets: Cold Sword Immortal Ye Jingjun, Sea Monster Girl Cang Mingyue.】

【Host Identity: A broken sword.】

【The Host will inhabit a sword that was ruined during forging by a divine smith, with only one hour of human transformation time per day.】

【Then...】

【Investment No. 002 officially begins!】

“Investing in two people at once this time...”

“It seems there will be some difficulty.”

Su Chen's consciousness sank into darkness.

The second round of investment had begun.

However, he did not know that just as he started the second round and his consciousness was immersed in another world,

The flight he was on,

Amidst the cold smile of the captain, ‘Vulture’,

Quietly deviated from its scheduled flight path.

Toward that terrifying snowy region to the west, which was shrouded in ominous clouds and currently awakening,

It charged forward without looking back.

...

Meanwhile.

Deep within the Snowy Plateau.

An ice field was in total disarray.

Blood dyed the ice and snow red.

Everywhere were strangely shaped body parts, so thick and bizarre.

They clearly did not belong to humans or any animal currently known to mankind.

Three beautiful figures stood back-to-back, all covered in wounds, their auras weak.

They were Ye Jingjun, Cang Mingyue, and Su Daji, who had rushed over to support them.

Most of Ye Jingjun's white robe had been dyed red with blood.

The ancient sword in her hand had already snapped into several pieces.

Cang Mingyue's azure hair was a mess, her gorgeous dress was on the verge of shredding, and blood foam constantly seeped from the corner of her mouth.

Su Daji, who arrived last, was in the best condition, but not by much.

Her seductive red dress was already damaged in many places, and on her fair, slender waist, there was a gruesome wound deep enough to see the bone.

Surrounding them were several giant beasts with hideous forms and absolutely terrifying auras.

There was the Tiger-bodied, human-faced divine beast, Lu Wu, with a tail thirty meters long.

There was the Di Jiang, shaped like a yellow sack, red like cinnabar fire, with six legs and four wings, a chaotic mass without a face.

And there was a nine-headed, human-faced, snake-bodied monster looming in the mist.

These were the monsters that had appeared on the Snowy Plateau this time.

They were all strange beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas that had crawled out of the revived Kunlun Ruins, far exceeding any modern recorded sequences.

They possessed no intellect, nor did they have any pity for beauties.

All they had was a hunger for the 'food' before them and the powerful spiritual energy contained within that 'food'.

The aura of each one steadily suppressed the three women.

One must know that all three of them were powerful Transcendent Heroic Spirits with strength equivalent to peak 13th-realm martial artists.

To say they were the current peak combat power of Great Xia was not an exaggeration at all.

If the three women were devoured and shared as a meal by the monsters, the monsters' strength might evolve to another level unreachable by humans.

At that time, what would suffer would be Jinguan City below the Snowy Plateau, and the hundreds of millions of people behind Jinguan City.