“And that is all, boss,” Li Wei concluded her report as she kept her eyes on Wei Jun most of the time. Wei Jun kept skimming through the papers in his lap as he said, “I’m not gonna get any better if you keep looking at me like that.”

“I was just worried, boss,” Li Wei replied before she asked, “Should you be doing work so soon? You’re not even discharged.”

“Work, unfortunately, doesn’t wait for me to get better. It’ll keep being piled up, and I’ll soon enough drown in it if piled up any more than this.” Wei Jun replied before he looked at her, “What about the thing I asked?”

“They’ve been placed and ready. I’ll have Mark spread rumors throughout the black market. They’re bound to get to him sooner or later. As for the other one, he hasn’t arrived in the city yet,” Li Wei replied in great detail to Wei Jun’s question.

Wei Jun nodded and said, “Keep me posted on both fronts. They’re both necessary as things stand.”

Li Wei seriously nodded before she asked, “Is there anything else you’d like me to do?” She then leaned in and whispered, “Something personal, perhaps?”

Wei Jun let out a deep exhale before he smiled and said, “As a matter of fact, there is something very~ personal you can do for me.”

Li Wei’s expression brightened up as she asked, “What is it?”

Wei Jun signaled her to lean closer, and as she did, Wei Jun whispered, “Get the tasks I assigned you done by tomorrow.”

Li Wei’s expression soured, but she nodded nonetheless, lazily replying, “Sure, sure. That’s all I’m left to do. What am I? A slave! A slave, I say.”

Wei Jun ignored her bantering and focused on the matters at hand. His utmost goal was to raise his level. That will have to wait, however, until Li Fan Sho got the information Wei Jun needed to spread.

“Make sure nothing goes wrong with this, Li Wei. He should think he was one step ahead of us, understood?” Wei Jun ordered.

Li Wei, dropping her playful antics, nodded and replied in a serious tone, “You will have nothing to worry about, boss. I’ll personally deal with it.”

At her personal assurance, Wei Jun nodded and said, “Good.”

Li Wei wrapped up all the work and left, teasing Wei Jun a little, but he was far from being teased. Once he was alone, he checked his status screen once again to spot any new changes. The Death Qi, which had increased greatly, was a nice surprise.

Yang Qi’s increment was very large as well. Skills were always welcome, though he had to admit that the first one was useless against the power of darkness, or maybe because that very skill was why he was able to hold his ground against the darkness at the moment. The second skill was amazing as well, but the restrictions on it were too tight for him.

Consumption was another thing, and the damage that came with it was severe as well. It wasn’t like the usual pain or injury that he could endure. That damage seemed like it came from a mysterious space and struck something deep inside of him that even his pain tolerance was useless against it.

And considering that a simple command like standing up had taken such a toll and cost, he doubted he could make strong individuals like Yan Rong or Xing Xiaomei do something specific or drastic.

‘Why can’t my luck shine for once?’ Wei Jun asked himself before he took a deep breath. Other than the changes he had observed before, there was nothing else. His ‘Invader’ title hadn’t upgraded yet, but he guessed it might if he were to kill Li Fan Sho.

The problem was that Li Fan Sho’s life was already settled. The starting points were wrong. Wei Jun didn’t know if it was supposed to be like so, but if he were to face Li Fan Sho before, he could have taken many opportunities for him to grow from him.

‘It is what it is, I guess,’ Wei Jun thought as he stood up. His muscles crackled before he did some light warm-up exercises. Once he was ready, he dressed up straight from the inventory and left the hospital room.

No one could tell he was leaving until it was already too late. After all, who would think that a healthy man in a suit would be a patient?

~~

Wei Jun arrived in front of Yue Peng’s office building. He had many things to oversee, but he needed to deal with this one the fastest. An interesting detail he read in Li Wei’s report. Yue Peng was having some trouble with her business overseas. To be more accurate, she wanted to export something, but she needed clearance for that.

From the senator at that. Since the government operated free of the cultivator’s control, they were usually very fearless when facing naive cultivators like Yue Peng, who they knew wouldn’t do anything to them.

They wouldn’t dare to do the same thing to Sun Ruan if the situation were like that. Still, Wei Jun wasn’t there to fix the issue. He was there to handle it his way. Yue Peng was now his subordinate, and his subordinates needed a certain skill.

A skill that Yue Peng didn’t have. Wei Jun was there to depart that skill that day.

Wei Jun arrived outside her office, and when Yue Peng’s secretary was about to stop him, she stopped when she saw who it was.

“Is the meeting in progress?” Wei Jun asked. Surprised how Wei Jun knew about it, the secretary nodded and said, “They’ve been in there for about ten minutes. Miss Peng has told us not to disturb them.”

“I see,” Wei Jun simply replied and entered the office. Yue Peng was busy talking to two men, one thin and the other on the fat side. When she sensed someone entering, she was about to lash out but stopped when she saw who it was. Wei Jun placed a finger on his lips and made a hushing motion.

The two men noticed him enter and turned their heads to see who it was. As they did, their expression visibly turned troubled.

“If you have time, I’d like to talk to you after this,” Wei Jun said before he added, “Please, carry on.”

Needless to say, the two men were no longer haughty when they talked to Yue Peng, but they were still under the illusion that the law was on their side. Suppressing their fear and flaming their courage, they looked at Yue Peng and said, “Miss Peng, as you know, the permit is there to make sure nothing illegal comes into the empire.”

“It is all for the safety of the empire,” The fat man said with a disgusting expression.

Yue Peng clenched her fists as if she wanted to punch them both, but she calmed down in the end and said, “Look, you know my company has a clean track record. And you know who the guarantees are.”

The two men nodded, but they were still adamant, “Unfortunately, you will either have to grant the government access to your merchandise.”

“You know I can’t do that, right?” Yue Peng asked. Access to their merchandise meant anything could go missing, and all she’d be able to do was to pursue legal matters, which wouldn’t help her.

“Then I’m afraid nothing can be done,” The fat man replied.

“So you mean to say that you hold the decision to this deal?” Wei Jun intervened as he stood next to the window on their left, looking out the window while also checking a decorative cane in Yue Peng’s office.

It was golden with intricate patterns on it, and anyone could tell it was expensive.

“I’m afraid that’s the law, Mister Ruan,” The fat man replied, even though he was hesitant this time.

Wei Jun nodded, and before anyone could react, he turned around and penetrated the fat man’s chest with the golden cane.

“Kguh!” The fat man was in disbelief over what had suddenly happened.

“Ahh!!” The other man also jumped, screaming, while Yue Peng remained frozen in her spot.

“Quiet. Sit. Don’t panic.” Wei Jun uttered three commands to the other man, who had stood up in panic and was about to run away.

[QP -1000]

Wei Jun noticed that even though he had given three commands, the consumption of the skill had been the same, and there was no backlash at all this time.

‘I guess I’ll test it on smaller level cultivators,’ Wei Jun decided as he looked at the man sitting next to him with a calm expression on his face as if the man dying next to him didn’t mean anything to him.

Wei Jun equipped a silenced gun from his inventory and made his way to the other side of the table, next to Yue Peng.

He put the gun in front of her. She was still in shock, her eyes fixed on the slowly dying fat man. Wei Jun placed his hand on her shoulder, which brought her out of her shocked state, and she slowly turned to look at him.

“Kill the other one,” Wei Jun simply commanded.

“But…” She tried to argue. Anyone could tell she was apprehensive, but Wei Jun interrupted her, “These men have tried taking something that was yours. Something you built with your own blood. You need to let them know of the consequences.”

Yue Peng was still at a loss, but she didn’t know when her hands picked up the gun and aimed it at the man who was as calm as the serene wind.

Wei Jun bent down and whispered in Yue Peng’s ears, “Calm your breath. Aim where you want to shoot, and just push the trigger.”

His words were like magic to her ears as she didn’t know when, but the next moment, she pulled the trigger, multiple times at that.

Once the gun was empty, she dropped on her table, her body heaving greatly.

Wei Jun took the gun from her hands before he stored both the bodies in the inventory.

Then he used his Yang Qi to burn any blood in the room, a trick he had learned from the system, and left the heavily breathing Yue Peng to deal with the current situation.

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