CHAPTER 45: CHAPTER 45: DONG, DONG, DONG!

After returning home, Su Tu put away the boxes left by Li Hu.

The Star Tempering Potion is suitable for use during the Breaking Acupoints, but he still can’t use it now, and he plans to light a stick of Heart and Spirit Incense before going to sleep.

This thing can calm the heart and spirit, enhance the heart and spirit. Although he did multiple Dao Gatherings during the day, his experiment is not done yet. If he can exploit the BUG of Dream Gathering Dao, he would be too comfortable.

"This is the main event..."

Su Tu solemnly sat on the sofa, looking at the last unopened silver box in front of him, his eyes serious.

This box contains the full 5 million cash left to him by Li Hu.

million!!

In both this life and the previous one, as a person of two lifetimes, he had never seen a million in cash with his own eyes.

He took a deep breath and then opened the box, and what came into view was stack after stack of red notes.

However, unlike the excitement he imagined, Su Tu felt unexpectedly calm.

"5 million, it doesn’t seem as much as I thought."

After realizing how grand and magnificent this world is, the astronomical numbers of the past seem to lose their luster. Just the cultivation resources he has gathered in these days far surpasses a mere million.

At this moment, his mindset seemed to undergo some subtle change.

People often run for gold and silver, but the world is vast, the universe infinite; this gold and silver are merely materials to assist him in ascending to the heavens.

It’s not transcendence, it’s just like he suddenly broke out of a certain restriction. At this moment, he felt his heart and spirit were incredibly clear.

What he wanted once was just to get into a good university, have a decent job, and earn a decent salary, but now all this has changed....

Suddenly, a system prompt popped up abruptly.

[You have broken the cognitive distortion, Spiritual Wisdom Proficiency +100!!]

[Spiritual Wisdom (Middle Tier): 283/1000]

The always slowly growing Spiritual Wisdom, suddenly increased by a hundred proficiency,

It should be noted, Su Tu fought a life and death battle with Kashashitsu yesterday, and did not increase by 100 proficiency at once either.

Staring at the prompt in front of him, Su Tu’s pupils suddenly shrank.

"Cognitive distortion, what kind of cognitive distortion existed in me, or rather, what cognitive distortion did I break!"

Su Tu quickly thought.

In that instant, he seemed to break through some primal shackle, but exactly what it was, he couldn’t immediately tell.

His mind frantically recalled everything that happened today.

"5 million, in that situation, why was money the first thing I thought of!"

Su Tu suddenly remembered that on the road when Li Hu took him to the dojo in the morning, clearly, he still had a lot of doubts and questions, but at that time he started thinking about the five million left by Li Hu.

This was extremely unlike Su Tu’s character, as if when touching something like money, his persistence towards certain things would be weakened, or even erased.

"Is this also a method to block Ancestor Star’s Martial Arts Dao..."

Thinking about the things he had been exposed to these days, Su Tu turned his head and could see that for so many years, there seemed to be many extraordinary news vaguely transmitted in life, but they are often forgotten by the public in no time.

Even he himself would unknowingly forget those things.

A terrifying thought suddenly emerged in Su Tu’s mind.

"Could it be that someone changed the cognition of everyone on Ancestor Star, using...."

"Money as a medium!"

Looking at those red banknotes, an inexplicable feeling arose in Su Tu’s heart, to what extent must one be strong, to change the cognition of the living beings of an entire planet!?"

At this moment, Su Tu had a more profound understanding of the strength of Martial Arts Dao.

"It seems there are still many things I don’t know." He thought to himself.

However, essentially, this can be considered a good thing, he not only touched on some possibly existent truths but also let Spiritual Wisdom’s proficiency increase dramatically.

You must know, Spiritual Wisdom is the first skill Su Tu raised to the Middle Tier, all of which was achieved by doing paper after paper.

But now, Fighting and Strengthen Body both have surpassed Spiritual Wisdom in progress.

Moreover, both can quickly enhance proficiency through Martial Arts Dao.

But so far, Su Tu has not found any skills that can rapidly enhance Spiritual Wisdom, his current only way to enhance Spiritual Wisdom is paper by paper, one point at a time.

It sounds a bit inexplicably bitter.

This increase of a hundred proficiency is already equivalent to Su Tu doing a hundred papers.

"There must be a way to quickly enhance Spiritual Wisdom." Su Tu believed the system wouldn’t be so stingy.

He gathered his heart and spirit and put those five million away, along with that box, into his parents’ cabinet.

As for the cognitive distortion that might exist above money, its implications are too big, it is not something he, a small Twelve Acupoints Martial Artist, could manage.

Those stacks of red banknotes were put away by him, but what Su Tu did not know was, at the moment he closed the cabinet door.

On a planet unknown light-years away from Ancestor Star.

A figure sitting under a tree of gold and silver opened his eyes, emanating a jeweled radiance all over, where his feet touched, everything jingled and jangled, like mingling gold and silver, resembling interwoven jewels.

"Interesting, someone on Ancestor Star broke the ’Heart Knot’ I planted."

"What is that brat doing?" he asked.

"Young Master is challenging the Celestial Pride List." A voice sounded from the unknown.

"Tell him to go to Ancestor Star as soon as possible after the challenge, try to find this person."

"Yes, does Young Master need..." That unknown voice harbored some gloom, the Daoist Master spent efforts to plant a heart knot on Ancestor Star, and someone dared to break the Daoist Master’s heart knot recklessly.

"Need what, are your brains fried? Just because of staying too long on New Star, really forgotten you’re also human?"

"Tell that brat to find that person, then try to make friends, harmony brings wealth, harmony brings wealth, on a place like Ancestor Star, people who can break a heart knot themselves, they are too qualified to create wealth with me..."

The figure murmured, eyes sweeping over endless deep space, where his gaze reached, things of gold and silver were scattered across All Realms.

....

"Brother Xi, weren’t you supposed to carry me, what’s with the 0-12!"

Su Tu stared at the fallen Darius on the computer screen, speechless.

Originally, he was planning to take a break, then grind some proficiency a bit.

But Chen Xi voice-called him, insisting on duo queuing, saying he’ll carry him.

Thinking about balancing work and rest, Su Tu started a match.

"How is that my fault!! How is that my fault, it was your initiation!" Chen Xi’s voice came from the other end, righteously.

Seeing his Yasuo, 12-1-10, Su Tu just laughed in anger, the last round was eventually sneakily won by him.

Since elementary school, this guy has never not screwed up, every time claiming he’ll ensure a win, but every time he messes up the most, Su Tu got used to it, after all, winning is great, but friends are the highest tier in gaming companions.

After the game ended, the two started another round of mutual banter as usual.

"Not talking to you anymore, dad wants to rest." Su Tu said.

"Damn, you’re like some old official, always sleeping so early every day, by the way, lately you’ve been living alone, be careful, don’t open to just anyone who knocks." Chen Xi suddenly spoke mysteriously.

"What’s up?" Su Tu curiously asked.

"Don’t you know!! Recently there have been supernatural incidents in North Sea, they say a weirdo appears at the doorsteps of those who live alone in the dead of night."

"And knocks two short ones and a long one on your door, if you open it, the weirdo will rush into your home, if you don’t open, then...something terrifying will happen."

Chen Xi deliberately lowered his tone, trying to create a spooky atmosphere.

Listening to this, Su Tu remembered he might have seen this while scrolling through videos during the day, but his attention was drawn by those openly appearing martial artists, so he didn’t watch that video attentively.

Thump! Thump! Thump~

"Yes, yes! That’s the knocking sound, two shorts one long, you know this, why pretend, you even knocked it yourself!" Hearing a sound coming from the other end of the voice chat, Chen Xi said.

"I’m also a high-intensity internet surfer okay, what’s not to know, talked enough, sleeping now." Su Tu said nonchalantly, then hung up before Chen Xi could say anything else.

After hanging up, Su Tu’s expression suddenly changed.

He hadn’t knocked any two short, one long...

Thump, thump, thump~

Thump, thump, thump~

That eerie knocking sound echoed in the room, the security door shaking with the knocks, an indescribable chill climbed up from the soles to Su Tu’s spine.

He squinted slightly, looking at the door, his gaze radiating a dangerous aura.

"Is it a beast? Or what?"

Yet the only response was...

Thump, thump, thump~