Chapter 16: Free Shipping!

However, if he had to cooperate and become her backup, his body's various qualities would be plundered by the other party.

Xiang Beifei was pondering whether this exchange was worth it.

He didn't have much cultivation anyway, and being plundered by Liu Qianrou of those powers felt like a loss.

At this moment, Liu Qianrou spoke again, "Xiang Beifei, you must not give up hope! Keep pushing, and if you encounter any difficulties, feel free to come to me."

Liu Qianrou had already lowered her stance significantly, constantly watching her system panel.

—I've been so gentle and considerate, so why haven't you become my backup yet? You fool, admire me quickly! I am running out of time!

She was getting impatient.

If it weren't for getting through the newbie period, she wouldn't bother talking to such an N-level person!

Xiang Beifei then asked Xiaohei, "How much power does this plundering equate to? How much power do I have for her to plunder?"

Xiaohei said, "According to the other's system conversion, the strength of an ordinary person is about 500 points, Qi-Controlling period is about 1000 points."

1000 points, losing 1 point doesn't hurt at all.

"Then, can the power that was plundered be recovered?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"Yes, but the Spiritual Qi Crystal I swallowed yesterday has leftovers, which can be converted into 300 system points; you can use those to offset the loss," Xiaohei woofed.

Alright then!

Since that's the case, I might as well go along with it.

"Thank you, Qianrou, I didn't expect you to care about me so much."

Xiang Beifei looked at Liu Qianrou, his face sincere.

He had already confirmed that he could choose independently whether to participate in someone else's tasks.

Liu Qianrou's system panel displayed a line of text:

[The other party has expressed gratitude to you, you have gained a potential backup, backup value +1, please work hard to develop him into your official backup]

[You conversed with a potential backup, your communication skills were plundered from the other party, your communication skills +1]

...

"Where! Where! We are all classmates, mutual help is natural."

Liu Qianrou gave Xiang Beifei a gentle and thoughtful smile.

But a hint of scorn flashed in the depths of her eyes.

—Hmph, if it wasn't for the system, would I care about you, an N-level Awakener? Don't even look in the mirror, I, an S-level genius girl, am out of your league! You pathetic thing, being sold and still clueless!

Liu Qianrou sneered disdainfully in her heart, but outwardly she remained demure and graceful.

Potential backup only meant that there was a chance to become a backup; this relationship was unstable, and not much ability was plundered; any boy could become her potential backup.

But an official backup was the target she wanted to develop.

Her backup value had already reached twenty-three, just seven more backups to go before she could get that Cultivation Technique. With the task at hand urgent, she had to quickly look for her next target.

Xiang Beifei shrugged his shoulders; he clearly knew what Liu Qianrou was thinking—such outwardly sweet girls were deeply scheming.

But he didn't mind.

Once Liu Qianrou found another seven backups, that Cultivation Technique would be his.

With her ability, she should probably finish today, right?

"By the way, Xiaohei, if she completes the task and I'm not around her, will the reward still come to me?" Xiang Beifei asked.

Xiaohei wagged his tail, carefreely woofing, "Within a certain distance, express delivery is postage free!"

"Awesome!"

Postage free—those two words sounded so comforting.

Xiang Beifei couldn't help but think of every time he shopped online; the same product, one store sold for 89 yuan but added 10 yuan shipping, another sold for 99 yuan but with postage included.

He would definitely choose the latter.

Not for anything else, just for "postage free."

Truly.

Xiang Beifei quickly arrived at his classroom.

There were already about a dozen people in the classroom, all of whom had awakened their systems yesterday. Most of them looked excited, pondering how to complete their tasks, but some had furrowed brows, seemingly finding their system tasks quite challenging.

Xiang Beifei's deskmate, Lu Ze, had awoken to the "R-level Dungeon System," a video game-type system, which he would complete by clearing game levels.

This was a virtual game where he would be taken by the system into relevant game scenarios. For each level cleared, the system would provide corresponding rewards.

As a beginner, he had ten lives per day. When Xiang Beifei checked the other's system panel, he found that Lu Ze had already cleared six levels, but he had used up all his lives for the day, looking like he had stayed up all night gaming hard.

He was now somewhat troubled, as the rewards from clearing six levels were far from enough to help him enter the Qi-Controlling realm.

Xiang Beifei was wondering whether he could participate in this kind of system himself?

It wouldn't be bad if he had the chance to help him play the game as well.

He wanted to understand the characteristics of each system, so as to have a better grounding in the world governed by these systems.

However, his relationship with Lu Ze wasn't too bad, so he wasn't going to scheme for Lu Ze's system rewards, and he would return them even if he did obtain them.

——

"Morning."

Kong Xiuwen yawned as he sat down next to Xiang Beifei, shoved his school bag into his drawer, and lay down on the desk sighing.

"Morning."

Xiang Beifei looked at Kong Xiuwen's system panel and saw that he had finally completed a task.

Which meant that he had lost five strands of hair!

Of course, compared to 150,000 strands of hair, this was just a drop in the ocean.

"You look out of sorts, did you stay up late?" Xiang Beifei asked.

Under his dark circles, Kong Xiuwen said, "You would never believe what I did last night."

He tugged at his thick hair, both sentimental and exhausted.

He still couldn't accept the fact that he had awakened the "Bald System."

"Definitely doing a system task, it's the same for everyone." Xiang Beifei said.

In fact, he had slept quite soundly last night.

"Yeah! I'm so tired, was up all night studying!"

Kong Xiuwen said listlessly.

Xiang Beifei looked at Kong Xiuwen's system shop, where the hair Kong Xiuwen lost while doing his tasks could be used as currency to be exchanged.

One strand of hair could be exchanged for a drop of Stimulating Elixir.

Five strands of hair could be exchanged for a Qi-Controlling Pill.

And Kong Xiuwen had already stepped into the Qi-Controlling realm.

S-class systems are indeed powerful!

So far, all the S-class System Awakeners Xiang Beifei had encountered had become cultivators in the Qi-Controlling realm within a day.

Including Liu Qianrou, Xiao Sa, and Kong Xiuwen.

As for the class president, Zhuo Jing—

Xiang Beifei glanced around the classroom and spotted Zhuo Jing sitting in the front row.

Yesterday, this guy had tried to fish for appreciation by showing off in a phony display, and Xiang Beifei, unable to watch any longer, happily accepted his system rewards.

But he was suddenly surprised to find that Zhuo Jing had also stepped into the Qi-Controlling realm!

Without his Qi-Controlling Pills, how could he have reached the Qi-Controlling realm?

Xiang Beifei couldn't help but look at the task Zhuo Jing's system had posted:

"[Record a wild video and upload it, achieving 500 likes on social networking sites]"

By now, Zhuo Jing's appreciation value had reached 619.

"What kind of video could have gotten him 619 likes overnight?"

Xiang Beifei was very curious.