Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 323 Each with their own charm, breaking through simultaneously

Suddenly, a strange trend has emerged online. I don't know which genius came up with it, but many sellers are claiming: "Our products are top-notch in quality. Even the world's largest zero-dollar shopping blogger, Mysterious Armor Man, is interested in them."

“Our cattle and sheep are raided by mysterious armored men every year, which shows that the quality of our cattle and sheep is extremely high, absolutely top-notch, and among the best in the world.”

"The selection of the mysterious armored man is trustworthy."

Various groups jumped on the bandwagon, and many multinational corporations also claimed that their flagship products had been looted by armored men, releasing the news through official channels. Some even announced it at new product launches, accompanied by messy photos of their looted warehouses, providing visual evidence.

Li Xiang: "..." What the heck? Is this some kind of attempt to ride my coattails? But he really couldn't refute it, because he'd genuinely read it; what the other person said was true. Can't people even complain? But, the way it sounded, it was definitely an advertisement.

Then many people shouted, begging the mysterious armored man to come and loot his goods.

"Dear Armor Warrior, Mr. Armor, Armor Man, although my factory is small, the goods are meticulously made and the quality is no less than that of the big factories. Please come and visit. My warehouse is always open to you."

Li Xiang: "..." I saw you were poor and couldn't bear to rob you, and besides, I didn't know what your stuff was like. I wouldn't even look at off-brand stuff.

Let alone off-brand wines, like Penfolds wines, those low-end products like Bin2, Bin8, and Bin128 are far inferior to even the 407, and Li Xiang wouldn't even give them a second glance.

Indeed, the selection of the mysterious armored figures must be of the highest quality.

Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui privately teased Li Xiang, saying that someone else had taken advantage of his popularity.

However, Li Xiang didn't care; he considered it a small compensation after plundering the other party.

Looking at the three beautiful young women, Li Xiang thought to himself, since he had already taken in Chiba Yukio, he couldn't be too lenient with them. So he took in Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui one after another.

He was worried that if someone else were to reap the rewards of his hard work in cultivating them, he would suffer a huge loss. Taking them in gave him peace of mind.

Little did they know, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui thought the same thing. As for whether or not they had a formal title, they didn't care.

"Brother finally made his move on me!" Yao Yao was extremely excited, and she put on a show of wildness and courage.

Her online nickname, "The Ever-Changing Demoness," is truly well-deserved. She is ever-changing, bringing Li Xiang all sorts of different experiences, and can even create a little Yao Yao to "deal with" Li Xiang together.

It's safe to say that being with Yao Mei means you'll never lack novelty.

She can not only change her appearance and figure as a whole, but also be adept at changing individual parts. For example, her tongue can be divided into many strands, or into different shapes, lengths, and thicknesses, with unparalleled flexibility.

Her skillful application of this technique was entirely due to her single-mindedness; she truly mastered it to an art form.

Zhao Xueqing, on the other hand, possesses a "flower fairy" constitution, which gives her a different flavor. She is rather reserved and maintains a certain air of composure throughout the interaction, appearing somewhat restrained. However, when Li Xiang grasps the vine-like tail that grows from her tailbone, he is completely subdued.

That strange vine, neither quite a vine nor quite flesh, was extremely sensitive. When the energy of dual cultivation reached its peak, the flower buds at the end of its vine would produce a large amount of "spiritual dew".

This extremely precious elixir has miraculous effects on both external and internal injuries, so it must be carefully collected, and not a single drop should be wasted.

Li Xiang initially thought Lei Xiaohui might be the most ordinary, but to his surprise, she had a fiery constitution. When she was aroused, her body temperature would soar to around 45 degrees Celsius. If she went to the hospital for a check-up at that time, the doctor would definitely think that she was burning up and in danger of dying.

When an ordinary person has a fever exceeding 42°C, it is called hyperpyrexia, which can cause symptoms such as convulsions, fainting, and shock. It can also damage the brain and lead to death at any time.

But Lei Xiaohui was completely unharmed. Her inner Dao fire was brimming with spiritual energy, and she was in an unprecedentedly good state.

Those who are extraordinary cannot be judged by ordinary standards.

After the three women cultivated with Li Xiang, their minds settled down, their spiritual energy became more active and circulated more smoothly, and their cultivation speed increased significantly compared to before.

The dual cultivation method "Starry Sky Concerto - Phoenix's Cry in Nine Melodies" truly lives up to its reputation as the sixth-ranked extraordinary skill among the thousands of breathing techniques in the system. Everyone can learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses. In particular, Li Xiang was able to share his own cultivation insights with them in this way, which was many times more efficient than explaining things to them normally.

San Niu and Li Xiang both broke through their cultivation levels. Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui both advanced three levels, but Yao Yao only advanced two levels. She became a little anxious and asked Li Xiang to give her extra lessons.

In the end, Yao Yao also broke through another realm, catching up in cultivation, and felt proud of herself.

Yao Yao joked, "Brother, you're like Tang Monk's flesh. After eating your... I've made rapid progress and my appearance has become even more beautiful."

Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui wholeheartedly agreed, saying that this one time with their brother was equivalent to several years of hard work.

However, when they thought of Li Xiang's prowess, they felt a mix of sweetness and fear, because they were no match for him at all. Both of them had to give up after less than thirty minutes.

Only Yao Yao had a clone to help her, and she was able to hold out for more than two hours before being defeated.

In terms of "combat strength," they felt they were far inferior to Yao Yao. However, each of them had their own strengths in their special abilities, and neither of them underestimated themselves.

For example, Zhao Xueqing is an expert in botany, and she will be indispensable in overseeing the farm in the underground city in the future.

Lei Xiaohui's fire ability is ruthless and extremely powerful. In a life-or-death battle, Yao Yao is no match for her.

The three girls almost reached the sixth rank one after the other, and each of them had three new supernatural ability runes born, floating and sinking in the newly condensed spiritual energy vortex.

Zhao Xueqing's previous superpowers were "Vine Manifestation", "Spiritual Dew", and "Plant Communication (Spiritual Plant Synesthesia)". Now, her three new superpowers are "All Things in the World", "Wood Spirit Transformation", and "The Other Shore Flower Bride".

"All Things in the Forest" is a wood-based domain that can expand into a plant kingdom with a radius of about one kilometer. All plants enter an active state and can be manipulated to form giant ancient war trees to fight together.

"Wood Spirit Transformation" is a life enhancement technique that can convert spiritual power into life essence, instantly repairing serious injuries to oneself or teammates. When the user has white hair, attacks will have a withering effect.

"The Bride of the Other Shore" is a poison-based control ability that can summon a sea of ​​highly poisonous datura flowers. The pollen has a hallucinogenic effect, the thorns contain paralyzing toxins, and the flower core nurtures poisonous vine puppets.

Lei Xiaohui's previous superpowers were "Flame Spirit Weapon", "Flame Vehicle" and "Starfire Leap". Now her three new superpowers are "Seven Rings of Blazing Sky", "Burning Wind Calamity Fire" and "Summoning Bifang".

Among them, the "Seven Rings of Blazing Sky" is a composite defense: seven layers of flame shields provide automatic protection, and each broken layer will trigger a fire meteor counterattack, with the final layer transforming into a phoenix phantom to attack.

"Burning Wind and Calamity" is the awakening of wind-based superpowers, fusing wind blades and flames into a crimson-gold tornado. Wherever it passes, metal melts and rocks crystallize, and its movement trajectory can be continuously controlled. As for the third superpower, "Summoning Bifang," it is a manifestation of fire spirits. Bifang is a firebird in ancient mythology. Lei Xiaohui can summon Bifang phantoms with powerful flames that burn away evil spirits. When its feathers fall off, they turn into small fire spirits that self-destruct.

Yao Yao's previous superpowers were "shapeshifting", "cloning", and "charm". Now, her three newly awakened superpowers are "Thousand-Faced Demoness", "Bone-Corroding Fragrance", and "Mirror Flower Water Moon".

"Thousand-Faced Demoness" is a group illusion technique that can simultaneously affect the cognition of hundreds of people, weaving a collective illusionary scene. When combined with shapeshifting techniques, it can achieve a temporary "collective cognitive alteration" effect. This effect currently lasts for about a few hours, but its power will increase with the improvement of cultivation level.

"Bone-Corroding Fragrance" is a form of biochemical control. Activating this inscription can secrete special pheromones that directly control the behavior of the victim through the olfactory nerve. In advanced forms, subconscious commands can be implanted.

"Mirror Flower Water Moon" can create nine physical clones, each possessing 30% of the main body's combat power. Upon death, they transform into water mist traps to imprison enemies, and the main body can switch positions at any time. This skill, which allows for repositioning at will, is similar in concept to Lei Xiaohui's "Spark Leap".

Li Xiang also benefited greatly from them. For example, when he cultivated with Zhao Xueqing, he gained enhanced wood-type resistance and increased his toxin immunity by at least 50%. When he cultivated with Lei Xiaohui, a trace of "pure fire" attribute was even born in his body, but it still belonged to the "Earth Pivot Evolution Record". It just had an additional skill: the ability to manipulate earth fire and lava fire. This was something he didn't have before.

By cultivating with Yao Yao, Li Xiang's resistance to illusion magic broke through the critical threshold, allowing him to see through mental manipulation below his own level.

In addition, Li Xiang once again condensed a vortex of spiritual energy and stepped into the thirteenth stage.

In recent days, he has successively cultivated with four women: Qianye Xuexu, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui, and has gained considerable benefits. In addition, he has been traveling and training outside for more than a month, which has laid an extremely solid foundation. Therefore, it is only natural that he can break through to this point.

This time, a special ability inscription accompanied it, called "Pupil of Penetration," which can see through illusions and deceptions, and can directly see the trajectory of energy flow, predict the composition of enemy spells, and reverse analyze them.

This should belong to the same category as the previous "Night Vision," both being eye-related superpowers. In other words, "Phantom Eye" is still a minor superpower inscription, and these two should be able to be combined after reaching the Saint rank.

As his cultivation level broke through, the attributes of the various inscriptions within his numerous spiritual energy vortexes also increased accordingly. Among them, "Extreme Speed" increased by about 7%, reaching Mach 15, while "Great Strength" increased by about 5%, reaching 27 jin.

The warehouse has also expanded again. Previously, the side length of the interdimensional warehouse was 4096 meters, but now it is 8192 meters. It is cube-shaped, and the spatial volume has been expanded to: 8192 meters × 8192 meters × 8192 meters, totaling 549.76 cubic kilometers.

It became completely empty once again.

Li Xiang was actually alright; his foundation had always been solid. When he reached the critical point, he would press on three to five times before finally breaking through.

However, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui, having slept with Li Xiang several times, each advanced three levels in just a few days, making their cultivation somewhat unstable. Therefore, Li Xiang took on the role of tutor at home, guiding Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui's cultivation to ensure their cultivation was solid and stable. This would greatly benefit their future development.

The three women were all extremely diligent, working overtime at night to practice. This was because they were busy with various jobs during the day.

Meanwhile, Li Xiang's farm work was not delayed. With the help of his earth-elemental ability, it was done quickly, well, and in an orderly manner.

Because of her pregnancy, Zhang Youyou stayed at home to rest. When she was bored, she often chatted with Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui. When the three women went to the provincial capital on business trips, they would also visit her.

When Zhang Youyou saw that the three women had all displayed the sixth level of cultivation, she was stunned and quickly asked, "How did you cultivate? How did you become so powerful in just a few days?"

The three girls chuckled and told Zhang Youyou the truth without trying to hide it from her.

Zhang Youyou: "My goodness, you guys were able to level up three times just by cultivating with Brother Xiang? I've cultivated with Brother Xuan so many times, and I'm still only at the second level. I'm far behind."

When she turned to Xu Xuan and told him, Xu Xuan felt ashamed, but then glared at his wife and said, "How can we compare?"

Li Xiang is a pervert, how can this be compared?

This kind of thing depends on talent. Li Xiang's talent is clearly astonishing.

However, Xu Xuan was not worried that Zhang Youyou would have any unrealistic ideas about Li Xiang. Firstly, the two already had a child, and secondly, they had been childhood sweethearts since they were young, and their relationship was extraordinary.

Moreover, Li Xiang might not even be interested in her. Jiang Cai'er and Luo Feifei are beyond question; they are celestial maidens high above. Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui are also far superior to Zhang Youyou, like fairies descending to earth.

Zhang Youyou was just envious.

Xu Xuan said, "Actually, you have nothing to envy. Although they get a lot of benefits, they are ultimately just mistresses and can never become wives."

“That’s true, but…” Zhang Youyou hesitated.

Xu Xuan asked, "But what?"

"But many people are against marriage and may not necessarily yearn for it."

In fact, marriage is just that—marriage. Many people live their entire lives happily and freely without ever getting married.

Li Xiang helped Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui consolidate their cultivation levels, and then went to Africa alone.

The supplies there were alright; Africa has always been poor and there wasn't much of anything good there. But there were a lot of wild animals there. He had checked the information and found that there were also many bat caves in Africa.

Africa is one of the regions with a high concentration of bat diversity, with many bat caves distributed throughout its tropical and subtropical areas. These bat caves are usually naturally formed, suitable for bats to live and breed. For example, there are many bat caves in the baobab trees of Madagascar.

In addition, the African continent is home to many other wild animals, such as African lions, hyenas, African elephants, African leopards, black rhinos, African buffalo, giraffes, zebras, antelopes, and chimpanzees.

On his way to Africa, Li Xiang stopped in India for three days, taking the offerings from various temples and robbing some wealthy people of high castes. He then crossed the Arabian Sea and arrived in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya.

Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui had previously practiced dual cultivation with Li Xiang either in hotels or in the wild, without a fixed location. They figured that now that the garment factory had just been renovated and the construction team hadn't handed it over yet, and there were plenty of empty rooms in the second phase of the shelter—they had already chosen their own five-bedroom, two-living-room suites—why not continue the renovations? This would make it much easier to manage the garment factory's business later.

Resources in the underground city are scarce, and many of the houses used for living are not big enough. The number of five-bedroom, two-living-room suites is extremely limited, with no more than eight in total. Given their status, they can naturally each own one.

Li Xiang had made a promise when they were choosing the place, so now, while Li Xiang was away, the three of them excitedly began designing a plan and preparing for the renovation, hoping to give Li Xiang a surprise in the future.

Yao Yao also designed a special love room to serve as her love nest with Li Xiang. When Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui saw it, they also added their own designs, but in completely different styles.

However, they all have one thing in common: they have excellent sound insulation.

As for the expenses, they paid for them themselves. With their current wealth, the renovation costs were nothing. When Li Xiang returned this time, he also secretly gave them a lot of supplies, including a box of gold and jewelry for each person. And those stores, as well as the live-streaming sales by Yongye Media, were all making amazing profits.

(End of this chapter)