Chapter 1287 - 1147: Everyone Has Their Own Fortuitous Encounter

Chapter 1287: Chapter 1147: Everyone Has Their Own Fortuitous Encounter

After Qu Jianlei activated the Defense Array, he stated very directly, "The speed of your Advancement really exceeds anything I imagined."

Nutrient Injection had already organized his thoughts. "I don’t know if you’ve ever heard the word ’Nirvana’?"

For the word "Nirvana," she used the pronunciation from Huaxia—of course, not very standard.

Qu Jianlei pondered it carefully, then froze again. "Damn... you mean Nirvana?"

His pronunciation was much more standard.

"Yeah!" Nutrient Injection nodded without hesitation. "Your Divine Text System inheritance really is much stronger than mine."

Qu Jianlei didn’t care about his praise—this was originally his previous body’s native language, okay?

After thinking for a while, he asked in surprise, "So you’re saying that before you met me, you were already Supreme?"

"That’s right," Nutrient Injection nodded. "To impact Above Supreme, I borrowed the method of Nirvana..."

When he was impacting Above Supreme, he had already arranged all related matters.

The reason he chose a remote Garbage Star was because very few people paid attention to that place, and it also lacked the conditions for impacting Above Supreme.

Nutrient Injection didn’t really have any enemies, but his path of Cultivation was too shocking; there were definitely people who felt uncomfortable about it.

He was simply taking precautions in advance, which was why he made such arrangements, including quietly choosing a relatively stable family.

Unfortunately, he still encountered betrayal.

The betrayer didn’t know his entire plan, but after discovering he’d been missing for a few years, they secretly caused some damage.

And at that time, after Nirvana, not only was he weak, he had also lost his previous memories and was living in extreme hardship.

Fortunately, he had also entrusted some relatively reliable people, who found him on the Garbage Star and carried out the corresponding treatment.

Once he recovered his memories, those who had harmed him were of course dealt with, including the betrayer.

Back then, his people even wanted to wipe out the entire Garbage Star, but he stopped them—because the boss was still there.

During his recovery, he also sent many people to the Garbage Star to search for Qu Jianlei.

However, this matter... still couldn’t be made public; otherwise it might bring a catastrophic disaster down on Qu Jianlei.

In Little Jing’s impression, the boss possessed an extremely astonishing Divine Text System inheritance, but the resources on the Garbage Star were really too scarce.

He didn’t believe Qu Jianlei could rise rapidly in a short period of time, so ensuring the other party’s safety was the top priority.

Moreover, he was formally impacting Above Supreme, and during this process, he still had to avoid drawing others’ attention as much as possible.

He had always been a cautious person; after experiencing that betrayal, his whole being had almost not been saved, so naturally he became even more careful.

Precisely because of this, his people searched the Garbage Star for many years and still couldn’t find any trace of Qu Jianlei.

As for Bentley, the traitor from Central City, he had once entered their field of view, including the team he was part of.

But there was no evidence showing this man had any necessary connection with Qu Jianlei; on the contrary, he was very close to the Military fugitive Xiao Moshan.

Under such circumstances, the support Bentley received should have come from other external forces.

And this group had already gone into hiding, making them very difficult to track down...

In short, Nutrient Injection really did go to look for the boss and used quite a lot of methods, but in the end, he still failed to get what he wanted.

Later, not only did Rhine take notice of Qu Jianlei, Qinghu also came knocking on the door.

So he decided to go see what the background really was of this person who possessed so much knowledge of the Divine Text System.

The first time Nutrient Injection peeped at Qu Jianlei, he Perceived a familiar aura.

But he still felt this whole thing was really a bit bizarre—your Cultivation speed can’t be faster than mine, right?

After intermittent observation later on, he finally confirmed that this was indeed his boss from back in the day!

But then a new problem came up: how was he supposed to reveal his identity to Qu Jianlei?

First, the other party’s vigilance was too high; second, he himself... basically, he was just very hesitant.

It was probably that "the closer you get to home, the more timid you become" feeling; he didn’t want to approach too abruptly.

So after coming into contact with Qu Jianlei, Nutrient Injection displayed his abilities and sincerity in all aspects.

Thus the distance between the two rapidly closed, and Qu Jianlei finally accepted him.

This time, what had happened really couldn’t be hidden anymore, and he didn’t want to wait any longer either, so he came clean.

Of course, when Nutrient Injection was recounting these things, he simply skipped over some parts that shouldn’t be said.

For example, Qinghu’s failure to report what he knew—he deliberately avoided that. Maybe the other party could guess it anyway; in any case, he could never sell out his own people.

After listening, Qu Jianlei remained silent for a long time.

Although he had already guessed part of the truth just now, this news to him... still needed some time to digest.

After a while, he finally spoke. "Back to that question: if you make a move, what kind of backlash will you face?"

He really lacked a sense of security; even though Nutrient Injection had already explained things very clearly, he still needed to understand the other party’s weaknesses.

—If you trust me, your former boss, then spell it out.

Of course, from another angle, this also came from his concern for Little Jing.

Main thing is, it all depends on how the other side looks at this problem.

At these words, Nutrient Injection’s face darkened, then he let out a soft sigh, but answered without the slightest hesitation, "Lifespan..."

"Oh come on..." When Qu Jianlei heard this answer, he was completely speechless.

He’d had a few guesses; considering how frequently Nutrient Injection had made moves before, he felt the backlash couldn’t be that serious.

Leaving this time aside, in the past the other party’s strikes weren’t that heavy—A-level or Supreme-level power, but the frequency really wasn’t low.

—He’d actually forgotten this guy once even faked a successful charge into Supreme. That was really over the line...

Going by Qu Jianlei’s understanding, with the force Nutrient Injection had used earlier, he figured the guy would... at least suffer a bit of backlash?

Now that he heard the consequences were this severe, he really was quite shocked.

After a brief silence, he asked again, "So this move you made today, how much of your lifespan did it shave off?"

"I’m not too sure about that either," Nutrient Injection replied casually. After that brief moment of dejection, he’d gone back to being indifferent.

"Above Supreme... a Fake Nascent Soul has a lifespan of nine hundred years. My rough feeling is, with my current condition, I might not even make it to eight hundred."

Of course this included some of his other actions. After he advanced to Fake Nascent Soul, it’s not like he’d never made a move.

Qu Jianlei thought for a bit and asked again, "What’s being shaved off is lifespan... Is that just your own perception, or is there some established theory?"

Nutrient Injection shot him a surprised look. "That’s just the consequence of Nirvana Advancement. You don’t know?"

Am I supposed to know? The corner of Qu Jianlei’s mouth twitched. After a phoenix undergoes Nirvana... it has to burn its lifespan?

But in the next instant, he felt a surge of curiosity. "When you say ’that’s just how it is,’ who’s the one that fed you that notion?"

Nutrient Injection blinked and pondered a moment before speaking. "Not gonna lie, the whole Nirvana concept, I got it from the Divine Text System."

Qu Jianlei wasn’t surprised at this explanation at all. Without the relevant inheritance, would you even know how to pronounce the word ’Nirvana’?

He nodded. "Go on."

The tone did sound a bit like an imperative, but Nutrient Injection didn’t feel the least bit offended.

Even if he was now above Supreme, he himself admitted his Cultivation Level was only at Fake Nascent Soul.

"My inheritance came from my master..."

Back in the day, his talent was shocking. Even when he was still at A-level, many people had high hopes for him and tried to recruit him in all sorts of ways.

In the end, it was an elderly Supreme who stepped up and said he wanted to take him as a disciple, a proper master-disciple inheritance kind of thing.

That Supreme had his own agenda, but that wasn’t important. What mattered was the condition he offered: I have a path beyond Supreme!

Nutrient Injection obviously couldn’t resist that kind of temptation. Even though he was only A-level at the time, he already saw becoming Supreme as a sure thing.

Long story short, turns out his master had also gotten an Obsidian inheritance—this universe is big enough that some people’s luck is just insane.

Unfortunately, his master wasn’t a Fire Attribute constitution and couldn’t walk the "Nirvana" path. He’d tried it himself, but ultimately failed.

He couldn’t stand the thought of the inheritance being lost, so after observing many juniors, he finally came across Nutrient Injection when his own lifespan was nearly used up.

From this you can see that Nutrient Injection’s fortune was anything but ordinary. On top of his god-given talent, fate literally dropped this chance in his lap.

Hearing this, Qu Jianlei lightly patted his own forehead. "Then... is the inheritance you got complete?"

Nutrient Injection shook his head. "Not exactly complete... It’s still one generation removed from my master. But I can give it to you so we can study it together."

Qu Jianlei pondered a moment and spoke. "That... isn’t urgent. Better get into the array and start Replenishing Qi sooner rather than later."

By this point in their exchange, the knot in his heart had entirely unraveled.

He was indeed very curious about the inheritance Nutrient Injection mentioned, but it wasn’t something that had to be handled right away.

He already had plenty of Cultivation material on hand that he was in the middle of analyzing, all of it quite important.

The main issue was that after that battle, Nutrient Injection’s body was severely depleted and badly needed replenishing.

Nutrient Injection, however, wasn’t in a rush to enter the array. Having finished telling the story, he clearly felt much more relaxed.

He held out a hand and spoke with a roguish grin, "I’ve called you boss so many times, you gotta give me at least a few hundred capsules, right?"

"A few hundred..." Qu Jianlei rolled his eyes helplessly. "I don’t have that many left either!"

But that was just talk. With Little Jing back, his mood was actually great, so he took out two hundred capsules and handed them over.

"Go Replenish Qi, we’ve still got more battles coming up."

In the blink of an eye, two days had passed. That really wasn’t enough time for everyone to rest up; they hadn’t even fully finished Replenishing Qi.

But it was close enough. As long as they could handle the upcoming fight, any fine-tuning beyond that would just be a matter of slow, patient work.

In fact, just the consumption over these two days left Mu Guang clicking his tongue in amazement. "We’re burning through hundreds of thousands of Energy Blocks a day..."

He’d seen big money before, but once you reach above Supreme, there are plenty of things besides Cultivation that cost a fortune.

Like collecting other Cultivation resources, or running all sorts of experiments for Breaking Through.

For this kind of extravagant Cultivation... all he could do was sigh: so it really is poverty that limits my imagination, huh.

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