"Damn it, that's crazy!"

Watching the stunning female boss walk away with the delicate girl from the terrace again, Shen Qiang felt his world collapsing.

Ever since his special military recruitment, this female boss had been appearing and disappearing unpredictably.

She appeared during his romp with Su Xiaonuan, she appeared in his half-dream half-awake state, and she appeared as soon as he got home.

Completely without warning, couldn't she just make a phone call?

Helplessly raising his eyebrows, Shen Qiang glanced at the phone in his hand.

So heavy!

The phone was as thick as a pack of cigarettes, quite large in size, and looked like a shrunken version of a brick.

He scanned the instruction manual briefly.

It simply introduced features like global signal coverage with no blind spots, waterproof up to three hundred meters, and an operational temperature range from minus 60 degrees to 110 degrees Celsius.

Satellite positioning, navigation, a whole bunch of common and various other functions, but beyond that, Shen Qiang operated the phone a bit.

He found the operating system of the phone to be somewhat different from common smartphones.

Yet, he couldn't pinpoint the difference.

What was more interesting were the many bizarre small apps on the interface.

For example, "Risk Control Database," "Blacklist," "Danger Response Guide," "Character Background Investigation," "Bounty Hunters," "Points Redemption Mall," "Heavenly Net," "Night Market," etc.

Shen Qiang casually tapped to open the "Blacklist" application on the phone.

A huge red warning confronted him.

Then, a very blurry photo appeared on the phone screen.

Below the photo, red lettering indicated.

Wanted number s7, Danger level: SSS.

Name, unknown. Place of origin, unknown. Cultivation: Above Dao Fruit Stage. Characteristics: Left-handed. Area of activity: Inner Mongolia. Ability; Hundred Ghosts Soul Refining.

Shen Qiang was shocked.

A criminal at the Harmonization stage?

This was tricky.

Because in the Cultivation World, cultivators experience four significant stages of qualitative transformation.

They are Qi Condensation, Nascent Soul, Mixed Element, and Mahayana.

Shen Qiang's current level of cultivation was at the first stage of qualitative transformation for practitioners, which required him to condense Qi into a liquid state — in simple terms, to refine the True Qi in his meridians into a liquid-like substance.

This might sound elusive, but it's essentially the same as the liquefied gas we use for cooking.

Ordinary gas can be used for combustion but is gone after it burns.

Compressed into a liquid form, it occupies less space and can evaporate continuously.

Take Shen Qiang, who was at the early stage of Qi Condensation, for example. After condensing the True Qi in his body into liquid form, it only amounted to a tiny strand of hair.

But once Qi Condensation is complete,

The amount of True Qi in Shen Qiang's body could no longer be simply measured in multiples, as the quality of the True Qi itself would have undergone a transformation.

The second stage of transformation is the Nascent Soul stage.

The Nascent Soul, to put it simply, is akin to cultivating a soul-state version of oneself within one's own body.

In theory, if the Nascent Soul is still intact, then even if the physical body is destroyed, the cultivator can be considered still alive.

Moreover, Nascent Souls have different abilities.

The simplest use of a Nascent Soul is to utilize it for constant cultivation, twenty-four hours a day, somewhat like what Qingxuan is currently doing. Of course, the efficiency of cultivating with the Nascent Soul is definitely worse, probably only about one-third of the cultivator's own speed, even though cultivating for twenty-four hours is no simple feat.

Therefore, more people generally use the Nascent Soul to refine Magical Treasures, such as controlling Flying Swords.

Usually, only cultivators who are at or beyond the Nascent Soul Stage are able to use Flying Swords proficiently.

The most obvious sign is that after reaching the Nascent Soul Stage, one can perform Sword Flight.

And the real reason why Pollia only dares to claim invincibility below the Nascent Soul Stage lies exactly here.

Because once Plague Source invades a person with a Nascent Soul, the Nascent Soul, being a Spiritual Body itself, will resist. Those with lower skills will certainly still be suppressed by Pollia, but if it is a Nascent Soul that has refined a Magical Treasure...

If you have a Flying Sword or another Magical Treasure in hand, then whether Pollia can win becomes a question.

So this is also why Shen Qiang was willing to spend so much money to buy the "Daluo Heavenly Tribulation Heart Sutra".

Because only with a strong enough Plague Source can she ensure her invincibility in battle.

The third Quality Transformation Period is the Mixed Element.

During this period, the Nascent Soul has grown into a Primordial Spirit, and the difference from a physical body is not significant. It is almost equivalent to possessing a Body Separation. Cultivators who have reached this stage have mastered some of the basic rules between heaven and earth, able to spontaneously generate Primordial Energy, endlessly.

Moving mountains and overturning seas is no difficult task; the strength of their cultivation is so great that they have completely transcended ordinary cultivators.

This S7 wanted criminal's Dao Fruit Stage is a step further after reaching the Mixed Element Realm, utilizing the basic rules they have mastered to create their own, most suitable rules.

This is what is known as, refining rules into Dao Fruit.

Given Shen Qiang's current level of cultivation, if he encounters such a powerful being, he really wouldn't even have time to react before being killed.

Dismiss the warning.

Shen Qiang was shocked to find that the top five wanted criminals on the blacklist all have cultivation realms above the Mahayana Realm, and from the sixth to the fifteenth, all are above the Mixed Element Realm.

Looking further down, there appears to be a peculiar gap.

The lowest cultivation realm for those on the wanted list is above the Nascent Soul Stage and below the Mixed Element Realm.

This is not difficult to understand. Cultivators in this period are advancing towards being stronger, they usually immerse themselves in cultivation and rarely concern themselves with mundane affairs, thereby avoiding conflicts and disputes.

Moreover, in the eyes of true powerhouses, cultivators at this stage are still quite weak. If they truly commit a terrible crime, they are likely to be swiftly eliminated, posing not much of a threat.

Beyond that, the vast number of wanted criminals fall below the Nascent Soul Stage, a stage with a particularly large base of cultivators.

Body Refining Stage, Spiritual Movement Stage, Qi Condensation Stage, Foundation Establishment Stage, Golden Core Stage.

To ordinary people, they are all terrifyingly powerful superhumans, but in the eyes of the strong, they are mere trifles, so after committing evil acts, they usually manage to hide. Therefore, there isn't much to say, and if Shen Qiang uses Plague Source and cooperates with Pollia, nearly all of those he encounters could be taken down.

He closed the blacklist.

With great interest, Shen Qiang casually opened the "Bounty Hunters" app.

Want revenge? This is the right place!

The full-screen advertisement claim, displayed for three seconds, comes to an end.

The interface that appears next makes Shen Qiang startle.

Most Wanted List!

The first thing to catch the eye is three photos side by side.

The first photo features a middle-aged man with a face covered in bluish-black stubble and a scar under his eye. The second, a lean man with a sinister gaze. And the third photo, surprisingly, was of Shen Qiang's aloof and never-approachable, arrogantly preening yet peerlessly beautiful female boss...

Qian Shanxue!

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