Chapter Thirty-Six: The Emergence of Shang

  The next day in the morning, Su Wenxi started practicing.

  He is now starting to practice the eighth move of Tai Chi, recently his training has slowed down a lot.

  However, he was surprised to find that a morning's worth of cultivation had actually increased his vitality by another 0.1.

  Ever since he used the Water Spirit Grass to cleanse his Jing and marrow, his body seemed to have become even more flexible. His cultivation also became much easier than before. Those movements that ordinary people couldn't think of, sometimes didn't need Xiao Tian's help, he could easily do them.

  "The eighth move, 1.4's vitality."

  Su Wen calculated that at the beginning, his vitality increased very quickly. He only needed to complete two actions and his vitality would increase by about 0.1, but later on, even completing three or four actions wouldn't necessarily increase his vitality by 0.1.

  Su Wen also understands this situation.

  A person's physical function can easily go from being weaker than average to being the same as average, as long as they persist in exercising, they will eventually reach it. However, if you want to make progress beyond the average level and take another big step forward, the effort required is much greater. This kind of situation is very common in martial arts novels, where the protagonist's progress is usually rapid at first, but slows down later on, mainly because every step forward becomes extremely difficult after a certain point. Su Wen's current cultivation is roughly the same as this.

  On his way to work, he picked up an antique by chance.

  Now every day, Su Wen is making full use of his vitality.

  It usually only consumes about 0.5 of his life force, which doesn't have a big impact on him, and after more than two hours, his life force can recover, so he can collect the next antique. According to his own plan, he needs to collect around three antiques for the Treasure Pavilion every day. Don't underestimate these three antiques, ordinary antique shops, unless they encounter those tomb robbers who have just shipped out goods, otherwise it's good if they can get one or two antiques a day.

  In the antique business, three years without a sale, and when you make one, it lasts for three years.

  Sometimes, good luck strikes and a decent antique is received, which can be resold for hundreds of thousands. But how many people have antiques? So the number of people coming and going from antique shops every day has decreased. Now, Jibaozhai is still doing well, thanks to Yixue's clever strategy, there are many people in and out, and when it gets busy, Zhao You and Ma Cheng can't even eat. Su Wen doesn't think it's a big deal, he's actually very leisurely, mainly because his mind isn't on those antiques at all.

  In his heart, there were more thoughts.

  Jubaozhai was not originally a single antique shop, so why did it develop in the direction of an antique shop later on? He thought that Jubaozhai should be big and strong, and it's best to go in the direction of gathering treasures. As long as they gather all the treasures under heaven, Jubaozhai will surely regain its former glory. Chu Lao didn't have the ability to gather all the treasures under heaven, nor did others, not even the country dared to say that they could gather all the treasures under heaven, but Su Wen had a sense of confidence.

  Because he had the Great Heavenly Dao Recycling System.

  Although the road ahead is still somewhat uncertain, he has almost got a plan. Once his vitality increases a bit more, he will immediately go search for some precious treasures. Perhaps with just one coveted treasure, the Treasure Pavilion can return to the sight of those aristocratic families, rather than being like now, barely scraping by and having already become a mere antique shop.

  Inside the Treasure Pavilion, people come and go.

  Chu Lao is not at the Treasure Gathering Hall today, he seems to be attending some kind of meeting at Jiangning University.

  Su Wen sat on the counter with ease, now doing a job similar to Zhang Bu Fan's in the past. After all, he was also appointed by Chu Lao, and from now on, this Aggregation Inn would basically be managed by him. As for that Chu Fei, whoever wanted to marry her could do so, he didn't care about these things.

  If it were Yuki, he would have considered it.

  It can be said that Yuki has a fatal attraction to any man.

  I don't know if it was a sudden thought of Chu Fei, but that girl happened to walk in with her backpack on.

  "Hurray, dear Second Miss is coming to work." Su Wen smiled, he actually enjoyed bantering with Chu Fei, this little girl was still quite interesting to talk to.

  No exceptions!

  "Hmph!" Chufei glared at Suwen, "You're here, how am I supposed to go to work? I'm going to school."

  Chu Fei turned around and left.

  Su Wen couldn't help but smile, it's already almost July now.

  Every year around this time, many universities are successively on summer vacation, and Jiangning University is no exception. Su Wen still knows Chu Fei's situation very well. This girl is currently in her third year at Jiangning University, majoring in a field similar to Su Wen's, called something like Cultural Relics Research, which was what Old Chu had forced Chu Fei to apply for back then. Once university students reach their third year, the fourth year is no longer worth mentioning. The fourth year, put simply, is just about finding jobs and taking graduate exams for university students.

  Chufei will not take the postgraduate entrance examination.

  That is to say, Chu Fei is now basically liberated.

  Watching Chufei leave, Su Wen poured himself a glass of boiled water. When he realized that his vitality had recovered to 1.4, he casually picked up an ancient painting, which was painted by a Qing dynasty painter and worth tens of thousands of dollars, but Su Wen simply placed it on the table.

  Inside Jiangning University.

  In front of Chufei stood a big man over 1.9 meters tall.

  This man is very powerful, with a muscular body and dark bronze skin. His face looks somewhat ferocious. If an ordinary person saw him, they would definitely steer clear of him. However, every time Chu Fei got into trouble, she would always look for this guy. Who made this guy so good at fighting?

  His name is Cheng Jin.

  The president of Jiangning University's Guwu Club, specially enrolled student.

  "Xiao Fei, has someone been bullying you?" Cheng Jin asked.

  "Really!" Chufei looked pitiful, "Brother Chengjin, you must help me. My grandfather wants to find a husband for me, but that guy is as thin as a monkey, has no skills at all, and now he's still freeloading at my house, eating our food, drinking our wine, and even thinking of...me..."

  Cheng Jin heard this and angrily said: "Xiao Fei, don't cry. Where is that guy? I'll go deal with him right now. He dares to bully even the last sister of our Gu Wu Society, it seems he doesn't want to live."

  "Cheng Jinge, then you must teach him a good lesson." Chu Fei continued.

  "Of course, I'll beat him out of his wits!" Cheng Jin clenched his fists.

  "Uh-huh, I believe Brother Cheng Jin." Chu Fei thought to herself with a hint of delight.

  "That little Phil, you haven't told me where that guy is yet?" Cheng Jin scratched his head.

  "Chu Fei hastily said: 'This afternoon, he will come to our school. At that time, I'll point him out to you.'"

  "Alright, call me in the afternoon." Cheng Jin was very righteous.

  A man came running over from that direction.

  "Director Cheng, what's going on?" The man asked, very curious.

  "Somebody bullied Xiao Fei, I'll beat him up." Cheng Jin said simply.

  "When he beats someone up, it's a must-see. The man was extremely excited, as he loved watching Cheng Jin take action - the moves, the force, were absolutely on par with those of martial arts stars. Many people said that if it weren't for Cheng Jin's slightly inferior looks, becoming a martial arts idol would be easy, but despite his somewhat lacking appearance, Cheng Jin still had a large following of brainless fans in school, and his eight-pack abs dazzled the eyes of many girls."

  "Alright, it's settled then." Cheng Jin also thought it made sense, "This way, that guy should never dare to show up in front of Xiao Fei again."

  The man was a big mouth, and in less than half an hour, the news had spread like wildfire.

  It is said that Cheng Jin is going to teach a lesson to a young man who eats soft food, so many people didn't attend the afternoon class, and more than 100 people asked for leave.

  The news spread, and the bizarre incident at the library entrance was quickly covered up. Some people who were still searching for who had thrown so many women's items at the library entrance quickly shifted their attention elsewhere. Of course, there was another reason - many of the women's products that had been dumped at the library entrance were things that others had lost a long time ago and were now being discovered, with some people even feeling happy about it. However, three pieces and two packets of sanitary napkins remained unclaimed, with no one daring to take them.