destiny eternal calamity

three days later.

Li Wei felt that his dantian had been completely restored.

Thanks to the restoration effect of the "Return to Nothingness" technique, the process was indeed much faster than expected.

These past few days he has been shuttling between the Baron's mansion and the Princess's mansion, and only went to a few shops to collect debts elsewhere.

It's difficult to maintain the high price of thirty taels for perfume if it's sold too much, so he limited the sales.

With a limited production of 3,000 bottles per month, and a sell-out period, the monthly sales revenue can reach 90,000 taels.

After deducting costs and the commission for shopkeeper Xu Niangzi, Li Wei would receive around 70,000 taels of silver. In comparison, the rouge shop's original profit of a meager 1,000 taels of silver seemed pitiful.

Wenhai Pavilion invested all the money it earned in building newsstands and hiring newspaper deliverymen in other places. It even lost money in the first month, but fortunately, Her Highness the Princess made an additional investment, so it didn't lose money.

As for Juweixuan, it earned Li Wei nearly ten thousand taels of silver in the first month.

This is already quite a lot, but it still seems a bit small compared to the perfume business.

It just goes to show how easy it is to make money off women.

In front of Xiao Shuying, Li Wei put all the silver into his spatial ring, as did the gold from before.

These silver coins can also be absorbed by the system within the ring and converted into recharge points.

With this ring, it's much easier for him to spend money on in-game purchases; he no longer needs to try and hide from Aunt Ying.

He kept the extra thousand-odd taels to cover the daily expenses of the Baron's mansion.

This leaves you with 485960 recharge points.

Li Wei still felt he didn't have enough money. That day, he spent over 200,000 in one go. He was only at the Qi Sea Realm now, and he didn't know how much more money he would need to spend to break through to the Eternal Tribulation Realm.

He could ask Long Bilin for it, but he couldn't explain why he needed so much money.

He had a vague feeling that the system was not allowed to exist in this world, and if he leaked it, it might lead to some bad things.

The previous terrorist attack involving the Great Sun Tathagata Palm was investigated for two days and then dropped without any resolution.

After Zhao Yuqing's true strength was revealed, the title of "Celestial Maiden" proved to be utterly useless.

Otherwise, how could the incident of attacking the celestial maiden have been simply forgotten?

Li Wei sighed, realizing that one must still rely on one's own strength.

With that in mind, he began to compress his inner energy.

After he opened his dantian to its limit, his true qi had reached twelve units, almost doubling.

At this moment, with the seven internal energy techniques circulating within his body, Li Wei's dantian was surging with true qi, and the pressure was increasing.

When the pressure limit that the technique can generate is reached, the total amount of true qi is close to twenty units.

With just one compression, his cultivation level reached the late stage of the Qi Sea realm.

This is because his mastery of internal energy far surpasses that of ordinary people, allowing him to generate greater pressure from internal energy.

His physical body is far from reaching its limit.

Previously, the main limitation to his ability to compress true qi was the strength of his physical body. After practicing the Wanfa Guixu Jin, this limitation became extremely high.

That wasn't all; he took out a "Sheng Yuan Pill" that Long Bilin had given him and swallowed it.

Instantly, the true energy that had already reached its compression limit solidified even more.

Li Wei once again activated his internal energy, pressing the newly generated Hunyuan True Qi into his dantian.

Finally, the total amount of true qi reached a full thirty units.

This is already the limit for an ordinary Qi Sea martial artist.

In the Qi Sea Realm, the Dantian can generally be opened and compressed about five times.

And this was only Li Wei's first breakthrough in compression!

After this compression, Li Wei will have to wait another day for his true energy to fully stabilize before he can continue to open up his dantian.

The next day, Li Wei went to the princess's residence and found that Zhao Yuqing had almost recovered, three days earlier than Granny Wang had predicted (seven days).

This is undoubtedly thanks to the power of returning to the void.

"Let's have a fight!" Zhao Yuqing called out.

Li Wei agreed, and the two of them set up their stances in the square in front of the main hall of the princess's residence.

Long Bilin, Long Xiaoxiao, and Xiao Shuying were also watching the battle from the sidelines.

Swords and blades have no eyes, so the two of them took off their weapons and practiced their fist and foot techniques.

With ten perfected external martial arts skills as a foundation, plus the evasion of the Five-Step Plum Blossom Stakes and the grappling technique of pulse-grabbing, Li Wei was not afraid at all.

After a brief standoff, Zhao Yuqing made the first move.

She appeared behind Li Wei as if she had teleported.

Li Wei's footwork faltered, and the Five-Step Plum Blossom Stakes were initiated.

Dodging the attack, Li Wei clenched his right fist and threw a punch.

Zhao Yuqing didn't dodge and threw a punch at her.

Li Wei's body had been tempered, and his punching power was now close to 600,000 jin.

Zhao Yuqing's strength was comparable to his, but her physical body was much stronger.

After all, the opponent had already used the Myriad Laws Return to Nothingness Force to temper their body.

However, Zhao Yuqing's mastery of body-refining techniques was probably inferior to his, which is why their strength was evenly matched.

That makes sense, even if she is a reincarnated person, she obviously did not bring her cultivation with her in this life.

Even if she has a deep understanding of the cultivation technique, physical memory can only be formed through arduous cultivation.

Unlike a system, it can directly customize the physical memory of the corresponding cultivation method and transmit it to Li Wei.

Zhao Yuqing was startled; she hadn't expected Li Wei to improve so quickly.

The two distanced themselves, and Zhao Yuqing narrowed her eyes slightly, "I really underestimated you, Li Wei."

"Now, I'm going to get serious."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Wei saw Zhao Yuqing kick her leg and disappear instantly.

In an instant, he felt air currents rushing towards him from all sides.

For a moment, they were at a loss as to which direction to defend.

Li Wei frantically parried hundreds of moves, until finally a blade-like palm gently rested on his neck.

Li Wei understood what she meant; if she could put her hand on his neck, she could naturally put a knife to his neck as well.

"I lost!"

"You flatter me." Zhao Yuqing withdrew her hand and clasped her hands in a salute.

This competition gave her some new insights.

Li Wei is indeed a top-notch punching bag!

"Commander Zhao, what was your final move?"

"That? You won't be able to learn it," Zhao Yuqing said with a smile, seemingly understanding his meaning.

She wasn't lying; the ability to create that effect was an innate talent, not some kind of technique.

So although she won against Li Wei, she wasn't particularly happy.

If she didn't use her talent and relied solely on martial arts, she could no longer consistently outclass Li Wei...

Li Wei scratched his head and didn't say anything. If he didn't have the system, he would just be an ordinary person.

According to Senior Sister Yan's description, the Heavenly Maiden is the "savior" of this world, a protagonist template that is obvious at first glance. It is only natural that she has some talents that ordinary people do not have.

The onlookers were puzzled. Li Wei had suddenly started attacking randomly for no apparent reason, which was how Zhao Yuqing managed to find an opening.

Xiao Shuying, in particular, sensed a familiar aura emanating from Zhao Yuqing just now.

I feel like I've sensed this aura somewhere before.

After thinking for a moment, she finally realized what that aura was...

Eighth-tier cultivation technique, Heavenly Demon Chaos!