Kryptonian fate deduction, invincibility starts from killing monsters

As the sun began to set, Shen Lin and Zijing followed behind Sun Zhi, leaving Qiulin County.

After seeing Sun Zhi's figure at the city gate earlier, Zijing had sensed something was amiss.

When she realized that Sun Zhi's destination seemed to align with her own, the corner of her mouth twitched slightly, and she turned to look at Shen Lin, saying:

"Were you originally planning to go to Baoshan Village?"

Shen Lin nodded, a satisfied smile on his face, and replied:

"I did have that intention."

The wealthy woman was very particular; she had given him two Meridian Opening Pills as a deposit before they even set off.

This made Shen Lin extremely excited. While pretending to put the Meridian Opening Pills back into his pocket, he had already activated the system to perform a deduction.

With the two Meridian Opening Pills, plus the remaining demon lifespan he had, Shen Lin managed to open his tenth meridian in one go.

If this trip went smoothly and he could obtain sufficient demon lifespan, opening the final two meridians would be a piece of cake.

The Acquired Realm was just around the corner.

Seeing Shen Lin nod, Zijing pondered for a moment and tentatively asked: "Is it for the three dog demons in Baoshan Village?"

Shen Lin paused slightly and turned to look at Zijing.

He wasn't too surprised that she knew about the demons in Baoshan Village.

After all, even Sun Zhi could contact them, so this extraordinary Miss Zijing naturally had channels to find out.

Perhaps...

He could obtain some information through her channels.

Thinking of this, Shen Lin directly asked:

"Do you know their specific strengths?"

Zijing nodded and said: "Baoshan Village is the territory of Huang Xiaotian, the third leader of the Black Wind Gang. His strength is roughly equivalent to a fifth-level Meridian Opening Realm martial artist. His two younger brothers are also in the Meridian Opening Realm, but because the resources have all been given to Huang Xiaotian, their strength isn't that great; they've only just opened their first meridian."

"You seem very familiar with this Black Wind Gang?"

Faced with Shen Lin's probing, Zijing didn't respond directly but instead asked: "Including the two Meridian Opening Pills I gave you earlier, you should now be able to open more than six meridians, right? Why not choose to break through to the Acquired Realm and continue to work hard hunting demons here?"

"Let's wait a little longer. People always need to have higher pursuits."

Hearing Shen Lin's calm words, Zijing covered her mouth and smiled, saying: "Don't tell me you still want to open all twelve meridians?"

"Why not?"

Shen Lin retorted.

Looking at his earnest gaze, Zijing put away her smile and said seriously: "Leaving aside the difficulty of finding the meridians, even if you have the highest-grade meridian-opening secret technique and can find all twelve meridians, opening them will be a problem.

After the sixth meridian, the difficulty of opening each subsequent meridian will increase exponentially, and the number of Meridian Opening Pills required will be even more astonishing.

Even those large families in the state capital will only choose the most outstanding descendants of each generation to provide them with resources to break through all twelve meridians.

You don't have a prominent family background, and you're wearing this official uniform, so you can't join those prominent sects. Even if you have outstanding talent, your path will only become more and more difficult in the future.

You might even give up hope of opening all twelve meridians, which could affect your mentality, and even breaking through to the Acquired Realm will be affected.

It's best to take advantage of your youth and break through in one go."

It had to be said that Zijing's suggestion was actually very reasonable.

Before reaching the Acquired Realm, a martial artist's lifespan is no different from that of ordinary people.

With a background like Shen Lin's, even if he spent the rest of his life hunting demons, it would be difficult to earn enough rewards to break through all twelve meridians.

But Shen Lin wasn't discouraged by her words at all. Instead, he chuckled and said: "According to you, shouldn't I go to the imperial capital to find a wealthy family to marry into, so that I'd have enough resources to open all twelve meridians?"

Hearing these words, Zijing's body trembled slightly, her face became somewhat unnatural, and she turned her head away, saying: "The descendants of wealthy families in the imperial capital don't lack twelve-meridian cultivators."

Shen Lin couldn't help but sigh and say: "That's true. Those kinds of wealthy families probably don't lack Meridian Opening Pills either."

"No!" Zijing slowly shook her head and said: "The descendants of wealthy families in the imperial capital don't need Meridian Opening Pills to open their meridians..."

After hesitating for a while, she finally continued: "Because those people have been immersed in medicinal baths every day since birth, using the power of those rare and exotic herbs to nurture their meridians and prevent them from being blocked by turbid energy.

Their starting point for cultivating martial arts is the Acquired Realm!"

Zijing originally thought that saying these words would have a huge impact on Shen Lin.

After all, he was already considered a once-in-a-century genius in this small Qiulin County.

But the direction of his lifelong efforts was only the starting point for those wealthy disciples in the imperial capital.

How cruel was that?

But unexpectedly, there was no trace of frustration on Shen Lin's face. Instead, after hearing her words, he became very excited.

That's how it should be.

A tiger doesn't take pride in slaughtering rabbits.

The stronger those wealthy disciples are, the greater the sense of accomplishment when he steps on them to reach the peak.

Shen Lin suddenly seemed to think of something, looked at Zijing, and asked in confusion: "You should have been able to break through to the Acquired Realm long ago, shouldn't you? Why haven't you?"

Since Zijing knew so much about the situation of the wealthy families in the imperial capital, her background shouldn't be simple either.

But the aura on her body was obvious and didn't seem like that of a wealthy disciple with naturally smooth meridians.

Even so, judging from the fact that she could casually take out so many Meridian Opening Pills, her family background must be extraordinary.

It wouldn't be difficult to directly spend Meridian Opening Pills to open all twelve meridians.

But why now...

Seeming to understand what Shen Lin was wondering, Zijing's eyes drooped for a moment, but she didn't answer. Instead, she quickened her pace slightly and walked in front of Shen Lin.

By the time her family rose to prominence, she had already exceeded the age limit and could no longer maintain smooth meridians with medicinal baths.

She had originally planned to directly open all twelve meridians with Meridian Opening Pills when she reached the age of cultivation.

But who would have thought that such a thing would happen...

Zijing sighed softly, suddenly raised her head, and the regret in her eyes dissipated.

So this time, she must retrieve that cultivation technique.

Only in this way could she catch up with those geniuses in the imperial capital, even with a late start.

Only in this way could she gain enough strength to reclaim everything that was lost.

"Baoshan Village isn't far away anymore. Let me tell you about the detailed situation of this Wu family..."