Chapter 543: Chapter 543: Return to the Original Timeline! System Upgrade!

After obtaining the fragment, a cold, mechanical voice sounded in Qin Yun’s mind: "Host, the fourth fragment has been located. Do you wish to return to the original timeline?"

"I can go back now?"

Hearing the system’s voice, Qin Yun was even more excited.

He looked at the little girl in front of him, thought for a moment, took out all the money on him and handed it to her, saying, "Xiaoyou, give this to your mom and dad."

Looking at these things, Xu Xiaoyou nodded her little head and said, "Okay."

Watching her run off into the distance, Qin Yun gripped the Exotic Fragment in his hand and said in his heart, "Return!"

Swoosh!

In an instant, the three combined fragments within the Wealth Gathering Array Source in Qin Yun’s mind began to violently fluctuate.

As they fluctuated, the space around Qin Yun also rippled, and then his whole person directly vanished.

...

This was a remote mountain village. Inside the village, houses were scattered here and there. Apart from the roughly car-wide road in the middle, the rest at this moment were all dirt paths.

The weather was slightly overcast, with not much sunlight.

In the past few days, the weather had been bad, with constant drizzle, causing puddles all over those dirt paths and making them look very muddy.

Even today the sky was still gloomy.

"Sigh, once it rains this road is hard to walk on."

"After I graduate and start making money, I’m definitely going to build a proper road for my family."

"Hehe, Qian, your goal is so great, I support you."

"I’m waiting for our little Qian to turn into a rich lady and then keep me."

In one part of the village, a few girls were chatting and laughing about something.

They looked very young, just in their early twenties, and were full of youthful energy.

As they were talking, one of the girls suddenly exclaimed, "Look, there’s someone over there."

The place she pointed to was beside a muddy pit. Next to the pit was a person, with half of his body inside the mud hole.

"Who is that?"

"Did someone fall? Should we go help them up?"

"Look at how dirty he is, probably a vagrant or beggar. I heard my mom say there are two beggars in the village and told me to be careful, to quickly shut the door if I see them coming."

"Don’t help. If we help and he falsely accuses us, we’ll be in trouble."

"Yeah, just leave him."

Among the four girls, three said this.

At this moment, the "beggar" they were watching seemed to move a little.

"System, can’t you transmit me more steadily? If my constitution wasn’t strong, I’d probably be dead from that fall." The "beggar" cursed in his heart.

This "beggar" was exactly Qin Yun, who had just returned from 15 years ago. When Qin Yun first went back 15 years, he’d been slammed down once, and now he’d been slammed again, even harder this time. He felt like his bones had fallen apart and couldn’t move for over ten seconds.

Facing Qin Yun’s complaint, the system played dumb again. Only the Wealth Gathering Array Source in his mind emitted waves of longing, wanting to absorb the Exotic Fragment Qin Yun had brought back from fifteen years ago and was still gripping in his hand.

Although he was unhappy with the system, Qin Yun still released his suppression on it.

Swoosh!

The fragment instantly disappeared and appeared inside the Wealth Gathering Array Source.

This was the fourth fragment!

As soon as it appeared, it directly teleported and, like a magnet, firmly snapped together with the other three fragments, fusing into one piece.

"Another piece added! How much balance will it increase this time?" Qin Yun thought expectantly.

The balance was tied to the upgrades of the Wealth System and the expansion of Celestial Fortune, so of course he wanted it to expand faster.

As he was thinking, streams of information directly appeared in his mind.

"Name: Qin Yun."

"Level 3 Wealth Gathering Array: None"

"Level 2 Wealth Gathering Array: 112 arrays (112 arrays in use)"

"Level 1 Wealth Gathering Array: 194 arrays (194 arrays in use)"

"Balance: 6,451,615,000"

The Wealth System information appeared again, which didn’t surprise Qin Yun at all.

Right after it appeared, a voice sounded in Qin Yun’s mind.

"Due to an unknown anomaly, the Wealth System is now updating. Host, please wait... Updating..."

With this voice, in less than three seconds, one part of this information suddenly changed.

"Name: Qin Yun."

"Level 3 Wealth Gathering Array: None"

"Level 2 Wealth Gathering Array: 112 arrays (112 arrays in use)"

"Level 1 Wealth Gathering Array: 194 arrays (194 arrays in use)"

"Balance: 9,451,615,000"

"System update completed."

"Balance has not reached ten billion; insufficient to unlock the Level 4 Wealth Gathering Array."

...

As the voice fell, Qin Yun looked at his balance, and his face suddenly lit up with immense joy.

"Three billion! The Wealth System directly added three billion!"

The first Exotic Fragment had erased the Seven Deadly Sins punishment.

The second Exotic Fragment increased the Wealth System balance by one billion!

The third added two billion!

Now the fourth had added three billion!

At this moment, the balance of Qin Yun’s Wealth System had quietly reached over 9.4 billion!

And last month his profit had already exceeded seven hundred million!

This month’s profit couldn’t possibly be lower than seven hundred million! Which meant that on the first of next month, the balance of Qin Yun’s Wealth System would truly break through ten billion!

On the first of next month, the Level 4 Wealth Gathering Array would unlock!

Once it unlocked, the expansion speed of Celestial Fortune would immediately increase by a large margin.

Feeling happy inside, Qin Yun also heard what those few girls were saying.

He glanced slightly around.

"Where is this place?" Qin Yun wondered.

Obviously, the system had once again transmitted him to some unknown location.

It had been the same before. He had vanished from his own villa, but was transmitted to an alley fifteen years in the past, and that alley definitely wasn’t where his villa was.

"Are you alright?"

Just then, one of the four girls suddenly asked. Her face was ordinary, her clothes were ordinary too, clearly the most inconspicuous of the four.

"Hey, Wen, you can’t help him up."

"If you help, this guy might latch onto you and extort you."

"You silly girl, I’ll use my phone to take pictures for you."

Seeing Lin Wen wanting to help up the "vagrant" Qin Yun, the other three girls spoke up at once, and one of them—a tall, best-looking girl—held up her phone to take photos.

These days, cases of old people lying on the ground and extorting their helpers still happened, making more and more people afraid to do good deeds.

Qin Yun struggled a bit. Just now he’d only just been dropped, so he’d been a little out of it, but now over ten seconds had passed, and with his physical fitness, he quickly recovered.

He exerted some strength and stood up, saying to Lin Wen, "Thank you."

"Huh? My phone’s broken?"

Checking his belongings, Qin Yun found that his phone and everything else on him had reappeared.

But the phone was now covered in mud, and who knew how much dirty water had seeped inside. Qin Yun couldn’t even turn it on.

Because he’d fallen straight into the mud pit, half of Qin Yun’s body was caked in mud. Even his face and hair were smeared, making it impossible to tell what he actually looked like.