World version update

Chapter 3: Ungraded Talisman
Shopkeeper Chu instinctively raised the scalpel in his hand to resist, but the sharp scalpel broke the moment it touched Lu Yan's fist.

That thin layer of golden light was as hard as fine iron, and the fragile scalpel was completely unable to defend against it. The blade splattered all over Manager Chu's face, leaving streaks of blood.

"Oh!"

Lu Yan punched Manager Chu in the face without reservation, and his tall and fat body fell heavily on the medical bed.

Shopkeeper Chu was hit so hard that stars appeared in his eyes and blood gushed out of his mouth and nose. For a murderer who had already killed dozens of people, this injury was not fatal but instead aroused his hostility.

He dodged Lu Yan's second punch with agility that was beyond his physique, then grabbed Lu Yan's neck with a grim smile on his face.

"You little bastard, you deserve to die!"

But before his hands could touch Lu Yan, they were blocked by a seemingly thin layer of golden light. Only at this moment did he finally see clearly what was wrong with Lu Yan.

"what is this?"

The smile on Manager Chu's face disappeared, replaced by confusion and panic.

He had not noticed Lu Yan's use of the small golden talisman before, and he thought the broken scalpel was just an accident.

It was not until he clearly saw the golden light floating on Lu Yan's body that Manager Chu felt that his decades of life experience seemed to have been completely overturned.

However, what responded to his question was Lu Yan's fist.

As the punch landed, steel collided with flesh and blood, and Shopkeeper Chu's hand bones broke into pieces.

The palm seemed to have turned into a pool of mud, the white bones pierced the flesh and blood flowed out in large quantities, and the intense pain had occupied the mind of Shopkeeper Chu.

"Ah!!! You deserve to die!!!"

The irrational shopkeeper Chu was still as ferocious as ever. He opened his mouth and tried to bite Lu Yan's neck with his teeth, but he was responded by Lu Yan's iron fist.

All of Manager Chu's teeth had fallen out under the iron fist, and dozens of teeth were stuck in his throat and blocked his trachea before he could spit them out.

One punch, two punches, three punches. Lu Yan waved his fists expressionlessly, as if he was repeating some mechanical work.

Manager Chu's face was already a bloody mess, his collapsed nose bone was embedded in his head, and grayish-white substances were constantly overflowing from his facial features.

It was not until his fist was scratched by broken bones and caused a sharp pain that Lu Yan stopped punching.

At this moment, Shopkeeper Chu was deader than dead. The cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training who was so high and mighty half an hour ago was now just a miserable corpse.

Sitting on the medical bed nearby, the small golden talisman covering Lu Yan had lost its effectiveness in the previous battle, which was why Manager Chu's broken bones were able to injure Lu Yan.

As a low-grade spiritual talisman that does not require mana to activate, the effect of the small golden talisman itself is relatively limited.

Lu Yan looked at the fallen body and a relieved smile appeared on his face.

"After all, I won!"

According to the original plan, the safest approach was to take away the things in the basement and then move away from Lingfufang before updating the version.

This can directly avoid a collision with Manager Chu and cause unnecessary danger.

But Lu Yan was unwilling to give in!
After working hard in the Lingfu Workshop for three months, enduring threats to his life and exploitation even more cruel than that of the capitalists, how could Lu Yan understand what was going on if he simply ran away?

In addition, there is another very important point, that is the magic soul flag in the basement.

Although the soul flag is made by cruel means, it must be admitted that it is definitely a magic weapon with great potential and the most precious thing in the entire Lingfufang. Lu Yan will not deliberately kill innocent people to refine the soul flag, but he will not have any psychological burden if he just uses the soul flag that is almost refined.

For Lu Yan, who will inevitably experience several version updates and changes in the future, the key is to improve his strength as much as possible so as to deal with crises.

It can be used as a magic weapon in the fairy-tale version. If Lu Yan escapes from the Lingfufang, the magic soul flag will disappear with the version changes.

If you want to get the Soul Banner, Lu Yan must always hold the Soul Banner in his hand.

However, the Soul Banner is a magical weapon. If an ordinary person like Lu Yan comes into contact with it for a long time, he will be devoured by the resentful soul. Moreover, there is a high probability that there is a backup plan in the formation used to forge the Soul Banner. If he touches it rashly, it will only lure Manager Chu back early.

So Lu Yan decided to wait for the version update in the basement, and briefly touch the Soul Flag at the moment of the update to allow it to go through the version update changes together.

If you stay in the basement, you might be bumped into by the returning storekeeper Chu, which is quite dangerous.

Lu Yan chose to pin his hopes on version updates. As long as he entered a world version similar to the urban version without supernatural powers, he would be able to make Manager Chu lose his cultivation in the middle stage of Qi training.

Even if it is not the urban version, the changes in other versions and the different extraordinary systems may also bring a glimmer of hope for Lu Yan.

Without the suppression of cultivation, and with Lu Yan having prepared several rank-less talismans in advance, the probability of killing Manager Chu was extremely high.

Fortunately, Lu Yan won the bet!

Among the three options in the version update, an urban version appeared. The magic monk in the middle stage of Qi training turned into an ordinary person and was easily killed by Lu Yan.

He had prepared several low-grade talismans in advance, and even only used up one small golden talisman.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan looked at the corpse on the ground with a smile on his face.

"I still have to thank Shopkeeper Chu for the talisman."

Those inferior talismans were drawn by Manager Chu himself and were sold in the Talisman Shop.

However, the target audience of the No-grade Spirit Talisman is the powerful and wealthy among mortals. Since the demand is scarce and there are not many stocks in stock, they must be reserved in advance. Therefore, the number of No-grade Spirit Talismans drawn by Manager Chu is not large.

During the three months, Lu Yan secretly replaced and hid some of the inferior talismans among the talisman papers in the warehouse, thus preserving them.

If there was no grade-less talisman, even if Manager Chu had lost all his skills, the level of ferocity he displayed would be far greater than that of an ordinary person, and Lu Yan would most likely not be his match.

After a short rest, Lu Yan finally had the mind to look around.

Underground factories, frozen corpses, organ trading, seeing these things, some of the rumors he had heard in the previous urban version suddenly flashed through Lu Yan's mind.

Luocheng, where Lu Yan lives, is a small third-tier city. Some elderly people in the community have been seriously spreading the news of organ trafficking for a period of time.

"I thought it was just an urban legend, but I didn't expect it to be true. Moreover, this organ trading factory in the Xianxia version corresponds exactly to the basement where Shopkeeper Chu sacrificed and refined the soul flag."

“It seems that although the different versions cannot completely correspond one to one, there are still some commonalities in some places.”

Keeping this in mind, Lu Yan was not in a hurry to leave.

The killing of Manager Chu just now caused quite a commotion, but it did not attract other people, proving that there should be only Manager Chu in this underground factory.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Lu Yan also wanted to sort out the harvest and the soul flag he brought with him.

(End of this chapter)