About how my wife resurrected me as tentacles after my death.

Yu Wan was still groggy; her little head was already foggy with thoughts...

She thought she was about to be pulled back...

Continuing with the third round... no, it's already the fourth round, she's lost count.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan simply pulled her into his arms, nuzzled the top of her head, and then let go.

When she stood up, supporting herself on the edge of the bed, her legs trembled slightly with every step.

It's comfortable, but I'm a little too tired to walk anymore...

But she still remembers one thing.

The medicine hasn't been stewed yet.

She walked from the bedroom to the kitchen, stopping twice to lean against the wall for support during those few steps.

The casserole was still sitting quietly on the stove, the fire already turned off.

She leaned against the counter, her hands trembling as she picked up a spoon, turned the stove back on, and slowly stirred the food in front of it.

Chen Yuan lay on top of her head, her entire tentacle limp.

I used a bit too much force just now, and now it seems like I've lost some of my strength...

Although LV.11 is much stronger than before, it still faces a double blow in its desperate fight.

He is still too young.

Yu Wan's hands were still trembling as she strained the medicine into the bowl, but the corners of her mouth were slightly curved...

The more powerful Ah Yuan is... the more comfortable she feels.

Thinking about this, she wondered how she could be so lewd.

It's all Ah-Yuan's fault for giving it to her...

She was led astray, that's it, that's right...

.......

In the afternoon, Yu Wan carried Chen Yuan to the basement.

She placed Chen Yuan on the table and opened the ancient book that she had already read countless times.

Previously, she wanted A-Yuan to return to human form so much that she kept promoting and altering him.

Although Chen Yuan had told her that alienation was feasible and that the promotions after advancement would all be positive.

But she was still worried.

What if? What if there are side effects she didn't discover, or what taboos were omitted from the ancient texts?

Or perhaps, after the alienation reaches a certain point, it suddenly becomes irreversible...

Chen Yuan lay beside her, his tentacle body curled into a small ball, the tip of his tentacle resting on her wrist.

He was sleeping.

The energy expenditure in the kitchen and bedroom was too great, and the entire tentacle is in a semi-dormant state.

But halfway through his sleep, he noticed that Yu Wan's fingers had been hovering over the pages of the book for a long time without turning them.

He woke up and followed her gaze to the book.

The page that was opened in the ancient book was an appendix on the path of ascension, which described two ways to rise from a second-order believer to a bishop.

The first method is a level 6 magic core, an altar ritual, and a blood-drawing spell, just like the previous two.

Another approach is written on the last page of the appendix, but a large piece of that page has been torn off from the bottom right corner.

I can't see anything clearly, but I know that I can complete the advancement path without using a magic core.

Yu Wan frowned and turned to the next page of the book.

The next page discusses topics above the bishop level, which doesn't connect to the previous content.

A level 6 magic core and a level 4 magic core are not even in the same league.

The Alliance could barely manage with its elite hunter squads against level four monsters, but against level six monsters, the entire Alliance couldn't find any combat power capable of dealing with them.

If a level 6 monster were to appear near the Alliance's capital city, the result would not be a siege, but annihilation.

The alliance's strength is still too small, and the same goes for Expedition City.

On a global scale, humanity is nothing more than survivors huddled in a few cities, nothing more...

What could be the other way?

Advancing without needing a magic core sounds like some kind of shortcut.

However, in the realm of forbidden techniques, taking shortcuts often means paying a higher price.

The ancient books clearly describe the rituals of blood sacrifice, but this one has been torn out.

Either the author regretted it, or the person who knew about this method didn't want more people to know.

Regardless of the possibility, it shows that this path is not easy to take.

Chen Yuan also looked at the few incomplete lines of text in the book.

He's leveling up too slowly by relying on basic experience now.

Once he reaches LV.11, the next level requires 100,000 experience points, but he can only earn a maximum of 700 or 800 experience points a day now.

This is despite working day and night.

Eight hundred a day, eight thousand in ten days, eighty thousand in one hundred days.

Just by getting intimate with Yu Wan every day to gain experience, it would take half a year of non-stop effort to level up.

Moreover, these are just the levels from LV.11 to LV.12; the experience requirements for LV.13 and LV.14 will only be higher.

It could be hundreds of thousands, or even millions.

Even if you mess with Xiao Yuwan, you won't have that much experience left.

The only way to make a living is through promotion.

Each advancement for believers involves skipping two or three levels, directly saving hundreds of thousands of experience points.

However, advancement requires a magic core, and the requirement for a level six magic core is extremely difficult.

So, whatever the cost of that other path, we must at least know what it is.

"Ah Yuan..." Yu Wan called out to him.

Chen Yuan slid off her wrist, and the black liquid seeped into her right hand along her fingers.

Her right hand moved on its own, picked up the pen beside her, and wrote a few words on a blank page of the notebook.

[Let's try another way first. Do you remember where these books came from?]

Yu Wan looked at the line of words in her hand and remained silent for a while.

She practically wore out all those books from reading them.

"The book that records the evil god was bought from a bookseller, and... it cost two hundred thousand points."

She witnessed him resurrect a small ant, otherwise she wouldn't have bought it.

Two hundred thousand...?

Chen Yuan's tentacle tip stiffened for a moment.

At the time, Yu Wan didn't know what these points meant.

But later they were so poor they ate nothing but plain white steamed buns every day...

They couldn't bear to eat them, so they ate two a day and saved one to keep.

She also had a lot of things in her house that she could sell, and she didn't know how much they were worth, so she sold them all.

That bookseller probably didn't know the evil god was real; the ants were likely just a trick to fool her.

But... thankfully, everything is alright.

Yu Wan lowered her head and gently rubbed her face against the small tentacle on the table.

The touch was soft, resting on her warm cheek.

If you want to get more information now, you can only go to Expedition City.

The alliance is very strict; worshipping evil gods is a serious crime, and all related books have been destroyed. What can be bought on the black market are only fragments and copies.

There is no other book like the one in Yu Wan's hand that records the complete spell formula within the Alliance.

But Expedition City is different.

Expedition City does not regulate books on cult taboos or similar matters.

So... it's still Expedition City.

During the last assassination mission, she shot the target into a bloody mist with one shot, and he's probably already on the Expedition City's intelligence network.

Now we have to go to Expedition City to find books. This isn't called delivery to the door; it's called delivering goods to the doorstep and then ringing the doorbell.

But apart from Expedition City, there's nowhere else to go...

Yu Wan also thought of this.

She was about to close the ancient book and go upstairs to rest when the communicator on the table suddenly rang.

The screen lit up; it was a message from Lian Qi.

[Sister Yu Wan, the merit points you earned from exchanging for a level 4 magic core have been refunded. The Alliance said it's considered an extra reward for this mission, and the 300 merit points have been returned to your account.]

Yu Wan glanced at the message and then closed the screen.

You'll still get the mission rewards, and the magic cores are practically free.

The alliance did indeed start trying to win her over.

Returning the merits was not a decision Lian Qi could make alone; it must have been the will of those above.

But the next message will probably just be an assignment...