Chapter 2: Spell
The five of us walked down the alley to the Fu family’s door. Strangely, the soldiers did not stop us. Perhaps they thought that since we were accompanied by children, we didn’t look like bad guys.
I knocked on the door and yelled, “Open up, I’m Qiu Shuihan, I’m back.”
Soon, there was a rush of footsteps from inside, and my eldest sister, Fu Yeran, appeared through the open door. “Little brother, you’re back! Come in, I’ll give you something good to eat.”
Why does everyone know that I like to eat and give me treats whenever they see me? I was a little puzzled. But I didn’t dwell on it and went into the inner room to prepare to raid the food.
Sister Yufeng had made a lot of delicious food for me, and I gave it my all to raid it. While I was fighting my way through the food, everyone was smiling at me.
After I finished eating, I burped and looked up again. “I’m full,” I said with satisfaction, smacking my lips.
I looked at everyone strangely and said, “Why are you all looking at me? Do you want to eat too? If you want to eat, just say so, otherwise, you should have told me earlier, so that I could have saved some for you.” I shook my head sadly and sympathetically.
Everyone burst out laughing
I looked at the four sisters slyly and said, “I heard that General Lin Yiquan took you four as his daughters. Are you going to work in the dance troupe in the future? I don’t want you to leave.” Of course I didn’t want them to leave. These four were my cash cows.
“No, since we have already agreed with you, of course we won’t go back on our word,” Fu Yeran said. In fact, General Lin wanted the four of them to quit Lianxin, but the four sisters didn’t agree. They wanted to make their own way in the world.
“Really? That’s great, then I can be with you every day.“ I said to Fu Ye Ran, pulling her.
”I want to be with you too.” Fu Ye Ran picked me up and kissed me.
I leaned into her arms, my head resting on her breasts. They were so soft and firm, I couldn’t stop exclaiming. ‘By the way, Ye sister, who are those people at the door? They look scary!’ I pretended to be nervous and huddled into Ye sister’s arms.
“Don’t be afraid, they are good people and won’t harm you. I will tell them later that you are my younger brother, and they won’t give you any trouble in the future.“
I pretended to understand and nodded, of course my head landed on Ye’s breasts.
”Old Zhang, I wonder about our dance troupe…” Fu Wanxin asked
Zhang Zhengli glanced at me and thought to himself, ‘How would I know about this dance stuff?’ But he smiled and said, ”What Miss Fu means is…”
Fu Wanxin smiled and said, “What should we name our dance troupe?”
Seeing me shaking my head, Zhang said, “Lianxin is a good name, and it has a certain reputation, so we don’t need to change it.”
“So will we choreograph the songs and dances ourselves, or will you choreograph them and then let us rehearse them?”
“Well, well,” Zhang really couldn’t answer this time.
I laughed to myself as I watched Zhang Zhengli’s embarrassed expression, and a strange smile could not be helped on my face. Who knew that just then, Zhang Zhengli saw it and gave me a fierce glare. He said with a determined heart, “For this matter, you’d better ask our young master, he planned the whole thing.” The old boy actually betrayed me like that.
Sister Ye patted my head tenderly and said, “Little brother, is it really you?”
Seeing that none of them looked surprised, I knew that my little secret had already been revealed. I guessed it must have been in front of Fu Yufeng in the morning.
“It’s me. I liked you sisters when I saw you, and when I heard that you were in a difficult situation, I came to help,” I said, putting on a cute face.
Fu Yeran gratefully hugged me, “Little brother, thank goodness you came to help, otherwise I don’t know what we would have done.”
“By the way, little brother, what are your plans for the future of the dance troupe?”
“You will be in charge of the choreography and performances, and we will take care of the rest.“ I believe no one in the world knows more about management than I do.
”That’s great. In the past, we were distracted by too many things, which resulted in many unsatisfactory works. But can you manage well?” Fu Yeran was first relieved, but then a little skeptical.
Humph, he doesn’t believe in my abilities. Of course I didn’t say that: “Don’t worry, sister, I’ll find someone to help me.”
“That’s good, it’s best if you bring him to us to show us in a couple of days,” Fu Yeran said.
“No rush, now you guys practice first. By the way, there are two books here, you can take a look.” I handed the books to Fu Yeran. One of them was ‘Music Caprice,’ which talked about a music master’s feelings and thoughts about music. I also added a Heavenly Sound Method in it, which could be used to infect the audience with music through cultivation (its essence is to pursue beauty while pursuing the Way (or Buddha) through cultivation of this method). The other book was ‘Notes on Dance,’ which contained the Dance Immortal Secrets.
“What kind of book is it?“ Fu Yeran took the book from me and flipped through it casually. A look of surprise appeared on his face, and the more he flipped through it, the more delighted he became. ‘Little brother, where did you get this book?’
”I asked my parents for it, so you can just take it,” I answered casually.
Hearing that it belonged to my parents, Fu Yeran accepted the book and then handed it to his younger sister to look at. The three sisters’ faces also revealed a look of surprise and joy.
“I’ve been out for a day and I still have to go home, so I won’t be playing with you,“ I said.
”Ah, then you should go back soon, or your aunt and uncle will really worry,“ Ye Niang said with concern.
”Then I’ll go, and I’ll come see you tomorrow,” I waved goodbye to them.
That night, I sat in the “Room of No Wonders” and practiced Taiyi Xuangang while improving my spiritual power. Because I was in harmony with my spiritual body, my spiritual power was extremely large, but most of it was dormant. All I had to do was concentrate on cultivation and guide the dormant spiritual power to come out. But right now I don’t have the skills to guide it. In the past two days, I’ve noticed a strange phenomenon: with my spiritual power, which is a hundred times stronger than others, I should be able to release it as long as I understand a spell. Unfortunately, I sadly discovered that I can’t even release a third-level lightning spell. In the end, I discovered that I can’t release any spells beyond the first level I cannot cast, but all other types of spells can be used. Damn, what a world, there’s even shit like this. Also, it seems that ordinary training methods can no longer enhance my spiritual power. This may be a plateau phenomenon. So the goal of my training today is to find a way to use offensive spells above the second level.
Using the technique of dividing the mind into two, half of my mind gathered energy to cast a first-order Fireball spell, while the other half observed the entire process of casting. The energy of the fire element quickly gathered, and under the influence of my spiritual power, small sparks appeared in the air of the dark room, just like the stars in the sky shining brightly. The sparks were quite far apart, so I tried to condense them, but it didn’t work. Then I tried to summon a fireball, but it didn’t work either. Just as I was about to release the fireball after successfully condensing it, it suddenly dispersed. Undaunted, I tried several other high-level attack spells I knew, but all the energy I gathered when I cast them dissipated. I then used defensive and auxiliary spells, and they were all successful. Everything went normally.
After countless painful and frustrating attempts, I discovered the reason—a reason that made me both laugh and cry—because my spiritual power was too strong, just exceeding a limit. Within this limit, when an offensive spell is cast, the repulsive force between the energies is less than or equal to the binding force of the spiritual power, and the spell can be used smoothly. However, beyond this limit, the repulsive force between the energies is greater than the binding force of the spiritual power, and the spell cannot be completed. This limit is about 110 times the mental strength of an ordinary person, and it seems that I have just passed this limit. The reason I was able to use first-order offensive spells is because the energy formed by these spells is far apart and the repulsive force is very small. After calculating with the super brain, I learned another piece of news, which is both good and bad news: I can use high-level offensive spells, as long as my mental strength can exceed another limit. The bad thing is that this limit is 30,000 times that of an ordinary person.
I couldn’t help but burst into tears. I had thought that with my powerful spiritual strength I could rule the world, but now I have ended up like this, and my dream of being invincible has been shattered. Fortunately, defensive and supportive spells can still be used, and I am still unbeaten. I quickly cheered up when I thought about it.
It seems that I can only train my spiritual power now, but what should I train? Even if I can break through the plateau phenomenon, the current training methods will only increase my spiritual power slowly, and each year I can only increase the amount stored in my brain by the current amount. In other words, if I want to increase it to 30,000 times, it will take me 300 years. Forget it, in that case, it’s better not to train.
Right, I should contact the robots and zombies now. I opened my spiritual power and started to contact them. I seemed to have forgotten one thing: this place was more than 2,500 li away from Changbai Mountain.
My spiritual power expanded and searched for the target. Once, no result. Twice, still no result… Target found, exact location cannot be determined… Severe interference, exact location cannot be determined… Target coordinates determined, can contact… Contact confirmed… Energy insufficient, contact interrupted.
At this point, I had already fallen into a deep sleep. This inter-spatial connection had almost exhausted my mental energy. If it weren’t for the wonderful connection between intelligent brains, my mental energy would have long been lost. It was precisely because of this connection that I was finally able to establish contact with the robot. However, I also exhausted my mental energy at the last minute, and my brain forced me to rest, sending me into a deep sleep.
I finally woke up the next morning. After sleeping for sixteen hours, I was extremely full of energy. That incident yesterday gave my spiritual power another leap, increasing it by a full 100%. This method is quite good. I can cultivate my spiritual strength in this way, and after 300 days I will reach that limit. However, I didn’t know that this kind of thing could only happen once. Although I can still increase my spiritual strength using this method, it is impossible to increase it by an outrageous 100% as I did the first time. I can only increase it by a tenth of the original amount, and the later it gets, the less it will increase.
Today, I still stayed in the “No Wonder Room” and did not go out. I wanted to practice more to increase my ability to protect myself. I did not want to be a burden to others. I once again established contact with the robot, and it took some effort again, but it was obviously much better than last time. I must have impressed the super brain during the last search.
“Number One, is there anything going on there?” I asked Robot Number One, of course mentally.
“Master, nothing much. The five patriarchs came by and asked us to convey that all is well. The workforce for digging iron ore and gold ore has already been prepared, and some of the iron ore has been mined. They hope that the master will come and guide the production of steel and weapons.“
”I have something to do now. I’ll go there tomorrow, but for now you’re under my command, and I have some work to do.“
”Yes, master.”
I took over the command of this robot and commanded Robot 1 to go up.
Entering the first floor, I first started the transport vehicle. The vehicle started moving, transporting the iron ore piled in the hall to the production line. I then started the production line, and the flames in the furnace began to rise, and steelmaking began, but only one production line was started.
I returned to the first floor and started modifying the weapons production line with the rest of the robots, and of course modified one production line. I entered the commands, methods, and procedures for transformation and production into the computer of No. 1, and then my spirit exited the robot’s computer and returned to my own body. My spiritual power could no longer support me, and as soon as it retreated, I sat cross-legged and began to restore my spiritual power using the Daoyi Jue and Qian Gui Xin Fa. Thanks to the fact that my spiritual power had doubled, I was able to stay with the robot for an hour. Four hours later, my spiritual power had finally recovered.
After eating “breakfast” (it was almost noon), I was running Tao Yi Jue and Qian Gui Xin Fa while thinking about how to activate offensive spells. Later, I discovered that even if I wanted to move defensive spells, their energy would immediately dissipate. This gave me an idea. If I don’t have to consciously move the position of my offensive spells, then maybe… I can just do it as soon as I think of it. But as far as I know, there are no offensive spells that don’t require moving the position. Generally, the caster accumulates energy around their body, and then sends out the energy to attack the enemy.
Oh yes, I heard that in magic there is a fourth-level ice ring spell, which involves accumulating magical energy around oneself, compressing it, and then relaxing one’s mental energy… Compression? No way. Right now, my mental energy can barely gather energy, let alone compress it. Right, I can form a fireball, ice cone, or electric ball on the target’s head, and then let it fall freely. Haha, but I think the fire net, ice net, and electric net attacks have better effects. I can also form a sea of fire at the target’s feet, and gather a large fireball at the target’s feet, and then suddenly suck the air above away. That fireball is still…hehe, I didn’t realize that spells could be used like this. I have to hurry and try it.
So I declared the retreat complete, and once I left the palace, I went up to Zhenlong Mountain.
Now I’m aiming at a large stone. First, I create a sea of fire around it. Hehe, others can at most create a sea of fire in the general area in front of the target, but I’m afraid only I, this little monster, can do it at the exact location. Okay, the first experiment is a success. For the second experiment, I create an ice cone above the stone. The ice cone appears out of thin air and falls downwards. With a “puff” sound, the top of the large stone suddenly explodes. It seems that the initial sea of fire burned it too badly. I tried the ice net again. This time, the big stone turned into a small stone, and the whole stone was peeled off. Not bad, not bad. It turns out that the combination of the fire sea and the ice net has an amazing effect. Let’s call it the mercilessness of water and fire.
If I gather some fire energy in front of the target and then suddenly add water energy…? I secretly channeled my spiritual energy and formed a field of fire energy in front of the stone. This went well, but as soon as I gathered water energy, the fire energy became unstable. I reduced some of the fire energy, and almost immediately the fire energy stabilized. I discovered that as I gathered more water energy, the fire energy had to be reduced. There seemed to be a limit to the total amount of both, and when it finally stabilized, the ratio of the two was about 2:1 (fire and water). Before formally activating my spell, I used the Taoist method of defense to create a protective shield in front of me. Then, using mental power, I separated the fire and water energies, evenly distributing the water energy within the fire energy. Then, suddenly withdrawing my mental power, the fire and water energies instantly merged together. With a loud bang, I suddenly flew up into the air, somersaulting a few times before landing heavily on the ground in a beautiful arc, ending up on my back. Unexpectedly, Yuri and Yuli, who were standing behind me, were also caught up in the air current, but they were much better off than me. Yuri awkwardly performed a flying squirrel in mid-air and stumbled to a stand on the ground, while Yuli quickly said “wind wings” in mid-air and flew erratically in the air for a while before landing.
When the two saw me fall to the ground, they hurried over and helped me up. Needless to say, my face was covered in dirt, my nose was broken, my mouth was crooked, and my eyes were dazed.
“Young master, are you okay?” Yuli asked anxiously.
“Can I be okay? My nose hurts like hell,” I said, covering my nose. “But I have to go check my work first,” I said, ignoring the two of them and breaking free of their embrace to go to the explosion site.
There was nothing at the scene, except for a large pit in the ground, the stones in front of the pit were gone, and a tree had fallen.
“This spell has a good effect, quite good,“ I nodded with satisfaction. This spell can be called ‘explosive’.
”What happened?“ Hearing the loud noise, the people from the Hidden Dragon Team and the Sleeping Tiger Team rushed over and asked.
”Nothing happened, you guys go practice your kung fu,” I didn’t want anyone to know my secret.
Nothing happened? Seeing that I was covered in dirt, everyone’s eyes said they didn’t believe me, but since the young master had spoken, everyone had to leave.
There is one last spell to do, and I need to find a target, preferably something alive. Hey, that little bird on the branch is just right. I formed a field of fire energy at the bird’s feet, and while allowing it to take shape, I sucked the air above it away. I saw the flame suddenly shoot up at the bird’s feet. The little bird let out a miserable cry and fell from the tree. I ran up to take a look, and the effect was not bad. The bird meat was impossible to eat, it was burnt too black. I thought to myself, if I add the third fire, hey…!!! Let’s call this spell “Fire Pillar”.
The Yuri siblings standing next to me felt a chill run down their spines after watching my spell and hearing my evil laugh.
It took me 30 days to teleport the Orc mining team of 3,000 to Dragon Mountain and set up a magic barrier to prevent the sound of mining from attracting too much attention. During these 30 days, Zhang Zhengli and his apprentice took 20 people from the Hidden Dragon Team to Changbai Mountain (actually to the northeast), first to contact his old friends, and second to find a sales channel for weapons. Zhang’s old friends are from a few martial arts schools, and the northeast is relatively chaotic, with many martial arts schools and frequent skirmishes, so there is a large demand for weapons. The trip was to inquire if there was a desire to purchase, and third, to recruit a group of people to serve as our agents in the northeast. But after thirty days had passed, the two men had not returned.
During these thirty days, my spiritual power has also improved greatly. Now I can communicate with both robots and zombies at the same time. Somehow, as long as I connect with any robot, I can connect with the others, but I can only connect with the zombies one at a time. I think it may be because they are constructed differently.
Milan Capital has reopened for business and business is booming. I have specially designed more than ten types of clothing for home, banquet and work use. Do you know which ones sell best? They are the work clothes, followed by the home clothes. None of the banquet clothes have sold because the customers are now ordinary people. Two days before the opening, I hired 40 to 50 children for 20 copper coins each to go around the streets advertising: Milan Capital is reopening, and to thank our loyal customers, all clothing will be 30% off on June 16; Milan Capital leads the world in new trends, and our craftsmanship is among the best in the empire; the first 100 people to buy clothes on June 16 will receive a gift. In case anyone missed my announcement, I hired people to post flyers all over the city. For this, Milan Capital was criticized by the city planning department for damaging the environment and affecting the city’s appearance.
To celebrate the opening, I renovated Milan Capital, dividing it into two parts. One part is larger and more down-to-earth, called the Popular Department, while the other part is more noble and elegant, called the Elegant Department, which is for the upper class. I even bought some beautiful and talented women from the slave market, teaching them how to dress, take care of themselves, and match clothes, so that they can work as Elegant Department service staff.