CHAPTER 639: DISAPPEARING EMAIL

Chapter 639: Disappearing Email

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The blanket was Li Qingran's final boundary.

The young girl was quite reserved, and her taking the initiative already required tremendous courage from her.

Expecting to see her charming and diligent appearance right now was still somewhat difficult.

Chen Huaian wasn't in a hurry either - if she wouldn't show him, then she wouldn't. Sooner or later he would see.

When Li Qingran helped him, there would come times when he would help Li Qingran.

When that time came, he wouldn't let Li Qingran see either. If Li Qingran wanted to look, they could make an exchange with each other.

Heh heh heh~

All part of the game!

While enjoying himself, he checked what recent updates the Electronic Girlfriend game had.

The battle pass up to Great Perfection Nascent Soul had ended, followed by the battle pass from early Nascent Soul to early Unity Realm.

The price was still acceptable for him currently - only requiring ten thousand top-grade spirit jade.

The spiritual energy converted from spirit jade was even more abundant than from Spirit Stones, roughly about ten times that of Spirit Stones.

He could only say it was fortunate he managed to seize the premium Celestial Jade Marrow last time, otherwise he'd probably be bankrupt by now.

【Limited Time Special: Electronic Girlfriend Super Rebate Battle Pass, only 10,000 top-grade spirit jade for thousand-fold rebates!】

The battle pass introduction page still carried that Tencent game style, fully loaded with money-squeezing vibes.

From early Nascent Soul to early Unity Realm, totaling five major realms, with only one core reward at Great Perfection Nascent Soul, and all other rewards being Supreme Blind Boxes. Besides these, each minor realm could obtain one resource box.

These resource boxes corresponded to each stage of Li Qingran's cultivation - he just needed to send them to Li Qingran on time.

The consumables like Spirit Stones and elixirs in the basic resource boxes were enough for Li Qingran to cultivate to the next minor realm.

Sometimes they weren't even fully used up, since his disciple was the type who would suddenly gain enlightenment and break through for no particular reason.

"But what exactly is this core reward?"

Chen Huaian stared blankly at the second-to-last glowing grid on the battle pass.

The box had a question mark on it, with a sword-shaped shadow beneath the question mark.

It couldn't possibly be that the core reward was just a sword, could it?

That would be rather pathetic.

Li Qingran had already grown accustomed to using the Su Xian Sword, and with Xiang Tiange's help, she learned to nurture the Su Xian Sword and enhance its grade. Although the Su Xian Sword was somewhat lagging behind Li Qingran's progress now, Li Qingran showed no intention of changing swords. ℝаＮꝋВЁṡ

Every time he mentioned getting her a better sword, this girl would hug the Su Xian Sword dearly.

Saying things like: This Su Xian Sword is a token of love, she wants to keep using it forever, until the end of time.

Although Chen Huaian found Li Qingran quite amusing, he didn't say anything and let her have her way.

After all, this girl didn't really need to engage in any battles.

"Mmm—!" Chen Huaian sighed.

With this sigh, the sensation instantly grew more intense.

This little girl seemed to have received encouragement, whether she learned it herself or figured it out naturally, employing every trick in the book.

Chen Huaian quickly focused his attention on the Electronic Girlfriend system announcement.

【System Update Announcement! (Click to expand)】

"It really updated!" Chen Huaian frowned.

This game system was utterly unreasonable - it never mentioned updates, forcing him to check himself, otherwise he wouldn't even know what had been updated.

【Detected that the player's affection level with the Electronic Girlfriend has reached the maximum baseline stage. To provide players with a better gaming experience, the development team plans to adjust the time flow rate from the previous 1:12 ratio to a 1:24 ratio.】

【One day for the player on Earth Star equals 24 days in the Cangyun Realm. The version update will commence three days later in Cangyun Realm time, and can be completed without requiring the player to log out. Thank you for your support of the Electronic Girlfriend game!】

"Damn, adjusting time again without saying a word!"

Chen Huaian's vision darkened.

This game was encouraging him to stay in the Cangyun Realm permanently.

If one day on Earth Star meant nearly a month passed here, wouldn't Li Qingran be desperately lonely? Those ninety-thousand-plus pages of "Missing Master" records were still fresh in his memory!

"Although I'd love to spend every day immersed with my little disciple in shameless, heaven-and-earth-forgetting days, but... I simply can't cultivate here..."

Chen Huaian frowned deeply.

To quickly improve his main body's cultivation, he needed to be on Earth Star.

To accompany Li Qingran, he needed to be in the Cangyun Realm.

How could one possibly have the best of both worlds in this life...

Right at that moment.

Another system announcement email popped up.

【Dear Player, since you cannot balance the cultivation improvement of both your main body and avatar, after discussion by the development team, we now provide you with the following permissions:

〈1〉Each day you have 3 hours of cultivation time in the Cangyun Realm. During this time, your physical body will be transported to the Cangyun Realm, and cultivation gains can be completely brought back to Earth Star.

〈2〉When cultivating in the Cangyun Realm, your Great Ascension Stage cultivation will be sealed, and game functions completely disabled. You may choose to exit cultivation state, upon which game functions automatically restore and Great Ascension Stage cultivation automatically returns.

〈3〉You may use Cangyun Realm resources to improve cultivation, but due to rule barriers between the two worlds, the effects you obtain are only one-fourth.

Above, wishing you enjoyable gaming.】

After Chen Huaian finished reading the email, before he could even react, the email automatically deleted itself, completely disappearing from the game's mailbox as if it had never appeared.

Meanwhile, all the previous announcement emails remained intact.

"Must be a bug..."

Chen Huaian scratched his head.

He had reason to suspect the email had been recalled, but soon spotted an hourglass below the status bar showing 〈Remaining Cangyun Cultivation Time: 3 hours〉.

"No bug?"

Chen Huaian felt excited inwardly, his body trembling along.

Good, excellent!

Even though he could only cultivate in the Cangyun Realm for three hours daily, it was completely sufficient for him. By utilizing time well, even if his cultivation speed wasn't as fast as Li Qingran's, at least he wouldn't remain stagnant.

After a while, Li Qingran emerged, taking a long deep breath.

She nestled in Chen Huaian's embrace, her large eyes blinking unwaveringly as she gazed at him.

Sometimes just quietly listening to her master's heartbeat was a blissful thing.

She could sense that her master was in high spirits.

Was it because of her?

"Why are you staring at your master? Does your master have flowers on his face?"

Chen Huaian reached out to brush aside the sweat-dampened hair sticking to Li Qingran's cheek.

He glanced at Li Qingran's flushed face, feeling a pang of tenderness stirring within him.

"You've worked hard, disciple."

"Master knows his disciple has worked hard?"

Li Qingran poked Chen Huaian's chest, her eyes curving into smiles.

"This Venerable One naturally knows." Chen Huaian cleared his throat lightly.

"Then will Master compensate his disciple?"

"How should I compensate you?" Chen Huaian pondered.

What good things could he give Li Qingran.

Elixirs, cultivation methods, magical instruments...

But it seemed Li Qingran lacked nothing.

Yet the next second, the soft, delicate body in his embrace propped itself up.

Scorching breath drew near.

"Like this." Li Qingran hummed softly.

Suddenly cupping Chen Huaian's face, she planted a deep kiss on him.

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