May 30th, Wednesday, 6:01 in the morning.
Jiang He woke up on time and stretched lazily.
What had happened last night did not affect his daily routine.
After all, Old Jiang had said that the Ultimate Beasts still did not know that the Prophet had already met with misfortune, and they continued to hide and lurk.
In this situation, with only D-rank strength, Old Jiang had no way of searching the entire world to track down their whereabouts…
At least two days would not be enough.
And after two days, he would have stayed for a full week, and it would be time to return to the future.
Therefore, instead of wasting precious time on a futile search—
Old Jiang chose to have Jiang He memorize the abilities, traits, weaknesses, and related information of the remaining six Ultimate Beasts, while continuing to help him improve his combat experience and sharpen his battle skills.
Last night, Jiang He had trained until three in the morning, before finally falling asleep with the help of Word-Spirit.
At this moment, Jiang He woke up, washed up, and went out to eat with Old Jiang.
After breakfast, instead of heading directly to school, he went to a steel factory in the suburbs of Central State, where he found the plant manager and custom-ordered some iron plates and iron rods.
Iron plates were not expensive; even a ton only cost a few thousand yuan.
The manufacturing process was even simpler—no machines were required.
A Transcendent with metal-shaping abilities could easily mold the iron plates into the shapes Jiang He needed.
Jiang He bought these materials in order to renovate the Spatial Storage Pouch—
The spatial tool given to him by Chi Zhenshan had an internal space of eight million cubic meters, equivalent to a cube with a side length of two hundred meters.
The storage capacity was abundant, but if items were piled up haphazardly, it would not only cause chaos but also waste a great deal of space.
In order to be able to quickly retrieve the corresponding items at critical moments, Jiang He reorganized the storage space, constructing giant iron racks layer by layer to divide the space into square compartments.
He divided the cube with a side length of two hundred meters into three thousand two hundred cuboids, each one meter high and fifty meters in length and width.
Each compartment had a volume of two thousand five hundred cubic meters.
Among them, the Ever-Changing Lizard, nicknamed "Big Red," was crammed into a corner, occupying several storage compartments.
"With a storage space this large, even if I stuffed my entire house inside, it still wouldn't take up more than a few compartments…"
After personally organizing the storage space, Jiang He truly felt just how precious this item was.
He could not help but marvel: "Uncle Chi is way too generous!"
"If you're so envious, then just marry Chi Zhilei." Old Jiang said with a smile, "That way, Chi Zhenshan's family fortune would also become yours."
"I've only known Chi Zhilei for a few days, how could I possibly marry her!"
Jiang He immediately saw through Old Jiang's intentions and retorted: "I'm not like you, going through so many things with her."
"And what if White Crane comes back? His wife is Du Lingwei. If he returns and sees that I've married Chi Zhilei, gets furious, and tries to destroy the world to remake it again…"
As he spoke, Jiang He let out a sigh.
Actually, Du Lingwei counted as his first love during his naïve days before awakening.
When he had just awakened, hearing White Crane say that Du Lingwei was his future wife had truly thrilled him.
He had even once thought about what names their children should have…
However, as he got to know Du Lingwei better and drew closer to her—
Because of a vague sense of unease, he had refrained from contacting her too much, and even gradually began to distance himself.
Like in recent days, while Jiang He was busy cultivating, he had not even paid attention to where Du Lingwei had gone.
The main reason was "his future selves."
White Crane's wife was Du Lingwei, so naturally he hoped Jiang He and Du Lingwei would end up together.
Old Jiang's beloved was Chi Zhilei, so of course he hoped Jiang He would grow closer to Chi Zhilei.
And in the future, there would be even more versions of Jiang He.
Each would have their own ideas, their own desires, their own "self-interest."
They were like readers of a romance novel, each representing a different "fandom." Who knew—maybe among them there was even a "single forever faction"…
In such a situation, how should Jiang He choose?
Even though "the readers" could not physically drag him "offline," if they abandoned the "book" in frustration, he would still be troubled!
Just like now—even the Savior himself could not escape worldly concerns, grinning as he fanned the flames: "What's there to be afraid of? Don't you still have me?"
"You're not him, so why follow his path? If he's unhappy about it, I'll confront him myself later. I promise it won't cause you any problems!"
The World Destroyer versus the Savior, fated enemies, right?
And I already know how it ends—Jiang He wins.
Jiang He shook his head.
That was precisely the reason.
Reality was not a "comment section"!
If the future versions of himself fought each other just to prove who was right, reality would suffer for it.
To protect his own world, he could only maintain restraint and keep his distance.
Fortunately, he had plenty of time.
The future was not as short as Chi Zhenshan imagined, but equally long.
He had enough time to meet more people, experience more things… and when he had the power to control everything, then he would make his choice.
At that time, it would not be White Crane, nor Old Jiang, nor any other "future self"…
It would be his own choice.
...
The storage space was so vast that organizing it took Jiang He quite some time.
Afterward, he went to the school's resource warehouse, where he found the warehouse manager and purchased a large number of medicines—such as the mental supplements and physical supplements he had already used several times…
These potions could accelerate a Transcendent's recovery speed, and when combined with supportive abilities, they could achieve near-instant recovery, making them very practical.
In addition, there were also healing medicines, strengthening medicines, and more.
Although their effects were not as powerful as Spell Words like 「Spirit Heal」 or 「God's Gift」—
They could be stacked with Transcendent abilities just like the mental supplements, thereby producing even greater effects!
As for their cost…
Just like breakthrough resources, the Council provided generous subsidies, making them quite affordable.
Jiang He directly bought up to the purchase limit, spending only one million.
Thanks to earning money through Spell Words these past two days, his savings had already soared to nine million!
Even after spending a million, he still had eight million left… and if today's batch of Spell Words sold out, his savings would break ten million.
Now this was truly profit without cost!
The healing medicines worth a million, once stored in the Spatial Storage Pouch, did not even fill a single compartment.
And he still had over three thousand of those compartments left!
Refreshing!
As Jiang He browsed through the resource warehouse's product list, checking to see if there was anything else to further fill his storage space…
At that moment, his phone vibrated.
He pulled it out and saw a group message from Zhong Honglian.
[Zhong Honglian: Sending location. Assemble at the school plaza. The second combat exercise is about to begin.]
It was finally here?
Jiang He had already made full preparations.
He immediately closed the product list and sent back his location.
In the next instant, the familiar scene shifted.
In the blink of an eye, he was standing in the school plaza, surrounded by fellow training students who were appearing one after another.
Zhong Honglian, Chi Zhenshan, You Chunsheng, and the other instructors were standing on the platform of the plaza.
Beside them stood eight unfamiliar young men and women, and behind them loomed a massive stone stele, at least two stories tall, that Jiang He had never seen before.
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