Ever since getting the tablet, and after learning how to use it under Ah Bao’s “guidance,” Grandma Grandmaster had completely fallen in love with this magical object called a tablet.
Especially the various offline games inside it.
Matching games, elimination games, Plants vs. Zombies—
They were stupid and ridiculously fun.
“Grandma Grandmaster, stop playing already. You’ve been playing all morning.”
Sheng Ge glanced at the tablet’s battery level.
One bar left.
She pulled out a Lightning Talisman from her storage ring and placed it on the tablet.
Immediately—
Charging complete!
Ah Bao: “……”
The point wasn’t that the tablet was out of battery!
The point was that Grandma Grandmaster had already been gaming for an entire morning!
Looking at Grandma Grandmaster lounging in a chair, practically turning into an internet-addicted teenage girl, Ah Bao wore a melancholy expression.
At his young age, he suddenly felt as though he had entered the mindset of a father prematurely—
The kind who looked at his unmotivated daughter and worried about her future.
Still, what he was even more curious about now was just how many kinds of talismans were inside Grandma Grandmaster’s storage ring.
Why did she have every bizarre talisman imaginable?
And those pills too.
Could it be that besides being a sword cultivator, Grandma Grandmaster was also a legendary talisman cultivator and pill cultivator?
Thinking that, Ah Bao directly asked.
“Mhm, no. Those talismans were all given to me by your Grandmaster Uncle—my eldest senior brother, Venerable Qingcang.”
While playing the matching game, Sheng Ge casually answered her little disciple-grandson’s question.
“Wow, Grandmaster Uncle is amazing! Then what about those pills? Were they also given by Grandmaster Uncle Qingcang?”
“No. Those were given by your Second Grandmaster Aunt—my second senior sister, Venerable Liuli.”
“Wow, so awesome! Legendary talisman cultivators and pill cultivators! I really want to meet them in person someday~”
Ah Bao looked utterly full of admiration and longing.
Sheng Ge stopped moving her fingers and turned to look at him.
“Amazing?”
“But neither of them can beat me.”
Ah Bao: “……”
Well, that was true.
Her eldest senior brother and second senior sister were indeed geniuses.
One ranked first among talisman cultivators, the other first among pill cultivators.
However, the Wuji Sect mainly focused on sword cultivation, and sword cultivators possessed the strongest combat power, making them better suited to protecting the sect.
That was also why, back then, her master had bypassed both her eldest senior brother and second senior sister to choose her as the next sect master.
Unfortunately, after waiting a hundred years, she still never got to become sect master.
“Of course. Grandma Grandmaster, you’re the strongest.”
Sheng Ge gave a proud little snort.
Naturally.
“But if that’s the case, then once these talismans and pills are used up, won’t they be gone forever?”
Ah Bao suddenly thought of another problem.
Looking again at the Lightning Talisman that had already turned to ash, his heart hurt.
Still, since Grandma Grandmaster dared to use them so recklessly, she probably had backup plans, right?
Like maybe…
Grandma Grandmaster actually knew how to make them herself?
Ah Bao stared at Sheng Ge expectantly.
Who would have thought Sheng Ge would only perfunctorily nod before sinking back into her matching game again?
Ah Bao: Children really shouldn’t be allowed to play games!
Ah Bao’s heart ached.
Ah Bao sighed.
Ah Bao was powerless.
And at this moment, there was another group of people downstairs who were also sighing helplessly after waiting there for several days already.
“What? That woman still hasn’t come out?”
“Yeah, Brother Wei. Those two haven’t left the building at all these past few days. No idea what they’re doing.”
At the corner near the entrance of Area A, several thuggish-looking men were discussing something.
“How about we just charge up there directly? It’s just one woman and one kid. Do we really need to waste this much effort?”
One of them complained unhappily.
Brother Wei glared at him.
“Then why don’t you go?”
Did he not want to charge up directly?
But Area A had ability-user guards stationed there.
Among their group, only he and one other person had abilities, and they were just beginner-level ability users. They could not beat those guards at all.
And even if they could, they still would not dare.
“We can’t keep waiting. We have to think of a way to lure that woman out and deal with her today. Captain Feng has already started pressuring us. If we still can’t finish the job, none of us will have a good ending.”
That’s right.
This group had been sent by Feng Tai to teach Sheng Ge a lesson.
However, although Feng Tai had agreed to help Feng Shuang’er get revenge, he had never taken Sheng Ge seriously in the first place.
He had certainly never considered personally making a move.
In his eyes, she was just an ordinary survivor who had come seeking refuge. Sending a few street punks should have been enough to handle her.
And when these men first received the task, they also assumed it would be incredibly simple.
They had even searched the slums and Area C for one or two days.
Only afterward did they discover their target was actually living in Area A.
That left them both shocked and depressed, and several days had passed with zero progress.
“Wasn’t Captain Feng never really paying attention to this matter before? Why’s he suddenly rushing us now?”
One person asked curiously.
“What else could it be? I heard Miss Feng’s leg suddenly started hurting for no reason these past few days. She’s been throwing tantrums every day and causing trouble for Captain Feng again.”
Another person who knew the inside story answered.
“Sigh, Miss Feng is great in every way except her temper’s a bit bad.”
“What’s wrong with that? Miss Feng’s pretty, she’s a water-type ability user, and she’s also the Second Base Leader’s daughter. So what if her temper’s bad?
“If she took a liking to me, I’d willingly let her beat me up every day!”
“Hahahaha, keep dreaming.”
“Enough nonsense already. Hurry up and think of a solution!”
“Hey, Brother Wei, how about we ask Captain Feng for help?”
The moment one man suggested it, Brother Wei punched him in the head.
“For such a tiny matter, you want to trouble Captain Feng? How’s he supposed to trust us in the future then?”
The man who got hit rubbed his head pitifully.
Unfortunately, a bunch of street punks clearly were not very smart.
Even after thinking until late at night, they still could not come up with a plan.
Meanwhile upstairs, Sheng Ge had finally finished gaming and was now seriously researching how to use crystal cores to restore the spiritual energy inside her body.
They had been constantly traveling before, leaving her no time to study it.
Now that things had temporarily stabilized, naturally she had to consider restoring her strength.
Although every junior she had met so far was ridiculously weak, making it seem as though people of this era were generally unimpressive—
Who could refuse becoming stronger?
Especially in such a complicated apocalyptic world.
Sheng Ge looked at the crystal core in her hand and tried absorbing the spiritual energy within it.
Fortunately, it worked.
Only…
Looking at the crystal core that had already crumbled into powder, Sheng Ge frowned deeply.
There were far too many impurities inside crystal cores.
Not only was extracting the energy troublesome, but even after extraction, the amount of spiritual energy contained within one crystal core was not even a third of what a low-grade spirit stone used to contain.
And if she wanted to fully recover, the sheer amount of spiritual energy required…
Wouldn’t she need tens of millions of crystal cores?
Sheng Ge took out all the crystal cores they had accumulated over these days and counted them.
Less than seven hundred.
Among them, over a dozen were high-level crystal cores with slightly more spiritual energy, but even so—
It was merely a drop in the bucket.
So poor.
Grandma Grandmaster, who had previously thought she had become fabulously rich, suddenly realized she was still a pauper.
After thinking for a moment, Sheng Ge kept one hundred crystal cores and absorbed all the rest in one go.
If other people saw this scene, they would absolutely be stunned.
Because even a Level 3 ability expert could only absorb seven or eight crystal cores at a time at most.
Absorbing several hundred at once like this—
Was this absorbing crystal cores?
This was treating them like food!
What was even more depressing was that after absorbing so many crystal cores, Sheng Ge’s dantian did not show the slightest ripple of reaction.
Meanwhile, in the room next door, Ah Bao was meditating according to his cultivation technique and had no idea that during this short period of time—
His Grandma Grandmaster had already spent their entire family fortune.
Looks like they needed to think of a way to gather more crystal cores.