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Chapter 6: Promoted to 'Sequence Eight' Swindler
🕑 Added 2025-02-28 15:15:07 +0000 UTCIn the living room, Nan Fusheng recalled what the teacher taught him in class today and decided to try meditation.
Sit cross-legged and calm your mind. Meditation first requires quietness, feeling yourself and nature. This is the first step.
Nan Fusheng had no distracting thoughts in his mind, and soon he calmed down. His consciousness silently felt his insect martial soul, and felt the soul power that was not strong but existed. For the initial meditation, it was enough to just do this step. First, sense your martial soul and soul power, and keep your mind in close contact with them. Only after this step was done, could you continue the real meditation.
In his mind, the insect martial spirit was slowly wriggling, and Nan Fusheng suddenly felt that he seemed to sense something from the insect world.
Although it is weak, it may be able to break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly as long as the time is right.
These weak insects have tenacious vitality. They are the most numerous insects on the continent, and they have existed tenaciously for tens of millions of years.
Even powerful soul beasts are on the verge of extinction, but insects still survive on this land as they did tens of thousands of years ago.
A faint realization made Nan Fusheng vaguely feel that some tiny existences in the air quietly flowed into his body and merged into his still very weak soul power. This fusion was not fast, and there were not many.
But he could feel that his soul power was gradually increasing in this fusion. Even if it was only a little bit of increase, it was very stable and continuous.
After an unknown amount of time, Nan Fusheng naturally woke up from his meditation state, feeling refreshed all over. Was this the feeling of soul power training? Not bad.
Nan Fusheng sensed that his soul power was almost reaching level two, and he only needed to practice for another day to achieve a breakthrough.
The soul power training from soul soldier to soul master is not difficult. As long as one has innate soul power, even if it is only half level, as long as one is willing to work hard, one can successfully reach the tenth level. The only difference is the length of time.
Although Nan Fusheng only had the first-level innate soul power, which he obtained by stealing, his physical fitness was not low. The “magic potion” system itself was a gradual upgrade from “human” to “god”. Now his cultivation speed was roughly equivalent to the “third level” of innate soul power.
At this moment, a loud and excited voice suddenly came from next door, “Great, I have a sister.”
Hearing this voice, Nan Fusheng already knew that Silver Dragon King Na’er had officially moved into Tang Wulin’s home, which meant that he had to speed up the process. At the same time, he could also conduct an experiment he had envisioned before.
Nan Fusheng slowly closed his eyes and recalled a few words with great concentration:
“Blessings to the Immortal Xuan Huang.”
“Blessings to the Heavenly Sovereign Xuan Huang.”
“Blessings beget the God of Xuan Huang.”
“Blessings to the Heavenly Lord Xuan Huang.”
Nan Fusheng kept repeating these words in his mind, and suddenly he felt that the air around him seemed to stop flowing, becoming sticky and strange.
Although his eyes were closed, Nan Fusheng felt as if a ray of light exploded in front of him.
Nan Fusheng opened his eyes, and the diffuse gray fog reflected in his eyes, hazy, blurry and boundless.
After the “Trickster Potion” entered Sefirah Castle, Nan Fusheng continued to silently recite this sentence, and saw a ball of light interwoven with gold, yellow, and red slowly emerging in front of him.
Nan Fusheng simply reached out and grabbed the ball of light, opened his mouth, and threw it into his mouth. The whole process was done in one go without any hesitation.
Immediately afterwards, Nan Fusheng found that his face was turning red, and other parts of his body were experiencing similar changes.
He was very sure that he was now like a steamed shrimp, but his spirit was pulled out and turned into thin needles, which merged into drops of magic potion and pierced into each cell.
It was a feeling of being able to “observe” cells without a microscope. Nan Fusheng stood there and “saw” the invader entering the most subtle area of his body.
During these few seconds, he felt like a robot, undergoing transformation of parts and circuits.
After an unknown amount of time, Nan Fusheng saw his own image reflected in his mind, just as he heard his own singing through the earphones.
With the help of this strange reflection, Nan Fusheng found that he could accurately control facial expressions and body movements.
At this time, he clearly knew that he had been promoted successfully and had become a “scammer”.
Nan Fusheng directly withdrew from the “Source Castle” and began to familiarize himself with his own abilities:
Charm: can improve charm.
Eloquence: Make your words persuasive.
Mind Interference: Create illusions to deceive opponents.
Swindlers enjoy defrauding others and are good at fooling people. In addition, they are agile and fast.
As mentioned before, the “magic potion” needs to be digested. Normally, it takes one to two years for a Sequence Nine “magic potion” to digest. The fastest is one month.
It took Nan Fusheng almost six years. There was no other way because no one could become an extraordinary person when they were just babies.
Nan Fusheng officially played the role when he was 4 to 5 years old. He digested the “magic potion” just when he was about to awaken his martial soul.
And now Nan Fusheng is aware of his own situation. His soul power has successfully reached level two, and his physical fitness has also been further strengthened. His current cultivation speed is roughly equivalent to level five of innate soul power. Once the “magic potion” is digested, he will probably be able to reach a higher level.
However, there is another problem, which is money.
Becoming a soul master requires money. If it were ten thousand years ago, he could still hunt soul beasts, but now soul beasts are almost extinct. The only way to become a soul master is to buy souls.
Unfortunately, souls are still very expensive. Given Nan Fusheng’s family situation, the most they can buy now is the cheapest randomly drawn soul, which only costs
30,000 federal coins.
Nan Fusheng’s family was not wealthy, and “poverty” was the source of all quarrels. Nan Fusheng’s father ran away from home three months after he was born, and his mother was made into a “secret doll” by him. Under such circumstances, she had to support him to grow up smoothly, and most of the family’s money was consumed.
So when Nan Fusheng was over 4 years old, he would sometimes do odd jobs, going wherever he was needed. Obviously, most industries don’t need a child laborer. After all, the federal government also has laws prohibiting the recruitment of child laborers. Of course, if you are a “soul master”, there is an exception.
There are two types of people who would recruit Nan Fusheng: those who feel sorry for him and want to help him, and those who are human traffickers. For the former, Nan Fusheng would only ask for food as payment. For the latter, he would steal whatever he could without mercy.
By doing this, and by occasionally looking for some gangsters for extra meals, and with the family inheritance, he was able to scrape together about 30,000 federal coins.
