Cosmic-Level Demon God-Chapter 43 - 40: Good News, Got an SSR; Bad News, No Money to Nurture

Chapter 43: Chapter 40: Good News, Got an SSR; Bad News, No Money to Nurture

Compared to the life force test, which focuses on stirring qi sensitivity and stimulating the body, the spiritual power test is slightly different, requiring a gentler foreplay.

Moments later, a soft, somewhat intelligent female voice sounded in Qin Shi’s ear:

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Soft instrumental music began to flow, like an invisible hand massaging his spirit, helping him calm his emotions and relax his muscles.

Soon after, icy cool sensor patches were attached to both sides of his temples and just above his forehead.

A film similar to VR glasses covered his face, giving a moist, breathable feeling that was friendly to the skin.

With all preparations complete, the soft female voice spoke again:

"Game start, the operation method is as follows..."

In Qin Shi’s vision, it was initially pitch black, like a heavy curtain, but then many erratic flying light spots flashed out.

He had to capture and lock onto them with his gaze, starting from seven or eight and gradually increasing to dozens and even hundreds.

Just like playing a game, the speed of the flying spots would get faster and their trajectories more complex.

"Only reached the eighth level, I wonder how that score is."

Five minutes later, Qin Shi finished this preliminary test that felt like a mini-game.

Not long after, the pitch-black background lit up again.

This time, he faced moving targets that crisscrossed, with their number and difficulty continuously increasing.

"Level eleven, shattered three hundred seventy-five targets."

Qin Shi thought:

"Not only did I have to lock onto the targets and focus my gaze, but I also had to impose a ’destruction’ thought."

Fortunately, the moist film on his face silently moistened his eyes, preventing excessive eye strain and fatigue.

As the background turned pitch black again, beams of red laser shot out, with varying speeds and trajectories.

Qin Shi had to manipulate his character to dodge them. Grazing the character’s body would reduce the health bar, and a direct hit to the vital points would be fatal.

"Two minutes, one hundred twenty seconds, fourth level."

In the subsequent tests, Qin Shi challenged one seemingly simple, yet actually difficult "game" after another.

He felt his scores weren’t too bad, at least he didn’t fail at the first level.

However, Lin Yunqing at the console became increasingly tense, her bright eyes fixed on the exceptionally active spiritual power data, which was soaring like a rocket fighter jet into the sky!

The purpose of these mini-games was to stimulate the tester’s brain for accelerated operation, akin to warming up an engine after starting a car!

As Qin Shi cleared each mini-game, his spirit naturally became highly focused, evolving into a wave-like pattern, similar to an electrocardiogram.

At this moment, this wave pattern was rising at an astonishing speed, like a rare A-share bull market!

"Focus, neural reaction speed, sensory sensitivity...none of these scores are below eighty! Could it be that Assistant Qin broke not the Tendon Limit, but the Divine Barrier?"

Lin Yunqing’s initial excitement vanished, replaced by incredulous shock and horror.

If Qin Shi’s spiritual power reached this standard without breaking the Divine Barrier Limit—

The only possibility would be that he is a natural spiritual cultivator!

"A mechanic must communicate with a Mechanical Soul, and a spiritual ability user must project their consciousness remotely, set coordinate anchors and navigate...hence these paths, apart from requiring life force, also demand a high level of spiritual cultivation."

Lin Yunqing’s expression suddenly twisted, as if discovering an overspend while happily shopping with her salary.

Or like smelling a whiff of fresh beef, only to realize she had no money to buy and feast on it!

She now faced two choices.

Either give up and leave in pain, or make a bold decision and live on noodles for the rest of the month.

Clear out and leave forever, or sell everything and bet big!

"If martial artist is the hottest profession, then mechanic is the best employment specialty.

Developing new stars, building bases, divine machine maintenance, component welding...As long as one becomes a mechanic, with certification, they can choose from thousands of technical jobs, essentially securing a stable career.

There’s no need to mention spiritual ability users, the noble profession, Dongxia’s T0 sequence! Even an Imperial Capital young master or a Hai Province young lord would feel inferior to a spiritual ability user whose future positions are ’Bridge Commander’ or ’Star Sea Navigator’!"

Lin Yunqing was anxious like an ant on a hot pan, discovering an unexploited gold mine but having only a pickaxe at hand made her restless and uneasy.

"Becoming a mechanic requires certification, especially sought-after technical jobs like ’Advanced Fusion Welding,’ ’Machine Soul Maintenance,’ ’Machine Soul Installation and Activation,’ necessitating over $10 million in the first three years of investment.

Spiritual ability users are even trickier; one must get into one of the Four National Universities to study relevant subjects, and after three to five years of relentless efforts to master spiritual travel skills, they can finally graduate.

Having never felt financially deficient before, Lin Yunqing felt a profound sense of powerlessness brought on by poverty while lying in the chair.

Compared to the infinitely promising ’Mechanic’ or ’Spiritual Ability User,’ the martial artist profession felt utterly ordinary.

Their job prospects were ’Senior Engineer,’ ’Divine Machine Chief Designer,’ ’Star Sea Battle Group Officer,’ ’Think Tank Researcher.’

"Each starting with a million-dollar annual salary, organizational benefits, even honored and leading, high-potential, capable, and efficient elite stocks."

Lin Yunqing covered her face with her hands as she watched the waveform on the console’s display stabilize at ’15’, feeling more and more like she had missed a jackpot-winning lottery ticket.

"Dual cultivation of life force and spirit, even from both sides of Qiguang Heng University, few graduates come close to this...all highly sought after. Such promising talents are often picked by the Four National Universities and never stay...

Oh, got it!"

Lin Yunqing twirled her phone, tapped open the communication group [Cosmic Beautiful Girls Group (5)] and began to type softly.

[Super Invincible Tyrannosaurus Battle God: Luck has maxed, drew an SSR on my first single pull, but no money to train it, what should I do? Online waiting, urgent.]

Seconds later.

[Shocking Wave Kill: Suggest selling the account. I’m a student, will accept it for free, thank you.]

[Super Invincible Tyrannosaurus Battle God: Get lost!]

Moments later, another person joined the chat.

[Milk-white Snow: Of course, use someone else’s money to train your card. Rent the account to a salted fish, earn some money while saving costs.]

[Wearing Sophie to Show My Divine Power: Ashue has a point, crowd-fund the card, that’s the way to go. SSR is so rare, someone will surely be willing to pay.]

[Lightning Tornado Slash: Lin Yunqing, you awful woman, don’t let me see you! Or I’ll beat you each time I do***]

Reading through the messages, Lin Yunqing felt thoughtful.

[Friend request sent to "Lightning Tornado Slash"]

[Super Invincible Tyrannosaurus Battle God: Baby, I have a guaranteed return A+ project, interested in joining?]

[Message sent but rejected by the recipient]

Lin Yunqing persisted, continuously sending friend requests.

[Lightning Tornado Slash: Has the outdated martial arts marvel risen again?]

[Super Invincible Tyrannosaurus Battle God: Wrong, currently a seed for Santang Heavy Industry Chief Designer, reserve officer of the Star Sea Battle Group, and a prodigious youth likely to become a martial artist.]

[Lightning Tornado Slash: Too crowded at my place, can’t accommodate.]

[Super Invincible Tyrannosaurus Battle God: Genuine promise, life force fifteen, spiritual power fifteen, currently underage, versatile and fierce.]

[Lightning Tornado Slash: I’d believe that more than you digging out He Lanchan’s Celestial Imperial Secret Collection.]

Lin Yunqing snapped some photos with her mobile and sent the life force and spiritual power test data over.

Then she casually blocked and deleted the contact.

Handling this little rascal isn’t too hard!

She swiftly messaged her brother, Lin Xiaohan.

[Sweetie: Bro, for new enrollments at Qiguang Heng University, how much financial support can they apply for?]

[Lin Xiaohan: It depends on the student’s talent and potential; there’s a comprehensive evaluation.]

[Sweetie: What if I tell you there’s a high school junior, under eighteen, with fifteen points in life force, fifteen points in spiritual power, following the old martial arts path, who just broke through the first mortal body limit. He hasn’t been discovered by the Four National Universities or the Martial Arts Association yet.]

[Sweetie: How much is he worth?]

[Lin Xiaohan: Out of funds again? I get it, just tell me what you want to buy and how much you need?]

[Lin Xiaohan: Next time, come up with a more believable excuse. This sounds fake right away.]

[Sweetie: It’s real! Urgent.JPG]

[Lin Xiaohan: Sis, here’s a fun fact for you: based on the Dongxia Extraordinary Paths List released by Huabei Imperial Capital, having both ’spiritual’ and ’active’ qualities in a mortal body is very rare.]

[Lin Xiaohan: Otherwise, why do you think no one in Dongxia’s thousands of years of expansion has achieved both ’Martial God’ and ’Spiritual Grandmaster’?]

[Lin Xiaohan: The closest examples are Yan Haishan, who became a Martial God in body, and He Lanchan, who was nearly a Saint in spirit yet fell short of Martial God.]

[Lin Xiaohan: If the high school junior you mentioned achieves over thirty points in life force and over twenty-five in spiritual power, the Four National Universities would certainly recruit him.]

Lin Yunqing blankly shut her communication app and looked up at Qin Shi as he stepped out of the testing pod.

Goodness gracious.

Her father sent her to the Youth Palace to reflect, and she stumbled upon a once-in-a-lifetime talent with ’Unity of Spirit and Body’!

After twenty-two years, is the template for the strong female lead Feng Aotian finally going to be activated?

"Urban Noblewoman Finds Old Martial Arts Little Wolf, Love Me and Don’t Stop!"

The grand serialization!

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