Chapter 68: The Money-Hungry System-chan

When Ling Xiaoyou woke up again, it was already noon.

She felt someone gently stroking her small head.

Looking up, she saw Hong Lingyan scrolling through her phone, while using a green healing light to ease her pain.

“Awake, Xiaoyou.”

Sensing movement under her hand, Hong Lingyan looked down and met Ling Xiaoyou’s open eyes.

“I’m awake. I feel terrible, like someone was hitting my head with a hammer while I slept.”

Ling Xiaoyou nodded her small head, sat up from the floor, and spoke.

“That’s normal. You absorbed too much information at once. Feeling like that is expected.”

Hong Lingyan explained, then stood up and stretched.

“It’s already noon. Let’s go eat, Xiaoyou.”

“Okay!”

Ling Xiaoyou nodded eagerly, instantly tossing thoughts of spells and cultivation aside.

As the saying goes, if you’re not enthusiastic about eating, your brain has problems.

Ling Xiaoyou considered her small head to be quite clever, so she was always proactive about meals!

After eating lunch in the cafeteria with Hong Lingyan, Ling Xiaoyou returned to Hong Lingyan’s private room.

Because she had other matters to handle, Hong Lingyan told Ling Xiaoyou to practice alone and promised to join her when finished.

Ling Xiaoyou had no objections.

After asking Hong Lingyan about the details of the cultivation technique, she returned.

At this moment, she sat cross-legged on the smooth floor, spiritual energy pouring continuously into her body.

Ling Xiaoyou’s new technique was called the .

From the name alone, it was clear this technique was related to illusions and water.

It enhanced the power of such spells and made Ling Xiaoyou’s body more compatible with them, allowing her to master them faster.

Of course, for someone like Ling Xiaoyou with System points, it was almost unnecessary.

Ling Xiaoyou opened her eyes.

A faint blue glimmer flashed in them.

She exhaled softly, feeling refreshed and clear-headed.

This cultivation method was quite good.

Most importantly, its cultivation speed was fast.

If Ling Xiaoyou’s previous cultivation speed was 1, then now it was 3!

Not just double, but triple!

After experiencing the new technique, Ling Xiaoyou didn’t rush back into cultivation.

Instead, she decided to allocate points to her spells first.

She opened the System Panel, skipped the older spells, and focused on the newly learned techniques.

After thinking for a moment, she decided to spend 40 Happiness Points to raise each spell to the ‘Integration’ level.

After adding the points, countless streams of knowledge flooded her mind.

But unlike when Hong Lingyan transmitted knowledge earlier, there was no painful swelling—only a gradual, satisfying fullness.

After fully accepting the ‘Integration’ level understanding of the spells, Ling Xiaoyou shook her small head and pinched her smooth chin in thought.

There were still 91.35 Happiness Points left (the extra 0.1 was given by the Little Hungry Girl).

How should she allocate them now?

Hmm, wait, better check how many points are needed to upgrade to ‘Mastery’ first.

Ling Xiaoyou recalled the shock of needing ten thousand Happiness Points to upgrade from ‘Expert’ to ‘Transcendent’, and subconsciously puffed out her cheeks.

System-chan was great at everything—except being a money-grubber!

Thinking this, Ling Xiaoyou clicked to see the cost of upgrading to ‘Mastery’ and immediately pouted:

“As expected, upgrading to the next level needs 100 Happiness Points.”

Ling Xiaoyou roughly guessed the points needed for each spell level increase.

From ‘Entry Level’ to ‘Integration’ required 10 points, ‘Integration’ to ‘Mastery’ needed 100, and to ‘Expert’ would take 1000.

No need to say more about what comes after.

If Ling Xiaoyou was right, the next ones would be ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, ten million!

Good news: each upgrade just adds a zero!

Bad news: the zero goes to the end of the number!

Ling Xiaoyou couldn’t even imagine how she could ever earn enough Happiness Points to reach ten million.

Was she supposed to save the world or something?

She couldn’t do that!

“Stupid System-chan, I’m never speaking to you again!”

Ling Xiaoyou huffed and immediately closed the System’s spell panel.

She didn’t have 100 Happiness Points to upgrade spells—and even if she did, she couldn’t bear to spend that much!

It was better to consider adding Attribute Points instead!

Still, after saying that, she opened her attribute panel.

Looking at her status, she thought for a moment, then tried adding one point to her speed attribute, which was already at 21.

A prompt appeared: ‘Confirm payment?’

Ling Xiaoyou was stunned.

The result left her with mixed feelings.

‘Would you like to spend 10 Happiness Points to increase your speed attribute?’

‘Yes/No’

So after reaching 20 points, each additional attribute point costs 10 Happiness Points…

Ling Xiaoyou was speechless.

It seemed slightly better than upgrading spells, but spells only needed to be leveled up once!

But attribute points had to be added ten times!

Doing the math, it was hardly any cheaper than spells!

Right now, Ling Xiaoyou just wanted to pull System-chan out of her body and lecture her—what kind of ridiculous values were these?

Where was she supposed to find so many Happiness Points?

At that thought, Ling Xiaoyou suddenly paused.

Unbidden, a cold, beautiful silhouette floated through her mind.

She quickly shook her head, snapping out of it.

She had no intention of flattering Bai Shuanglian!

“Hmph, I’ll just stop adding points for now! Greedy System-chan, I won’t fall for your tricks!”

Ling Xiaoyou huffed, deciding not to spend any more points and directly closed the System Panel.

This time, she really closed it!

Besides, her current training goal was to master the spells—she was already at ‘Integration’ level!

That was much more impressive than just basic mastery!

At least in combat, it was enough to use them skillfully—and even combine several spells together!

As for attribute points and such, she could just ask Sister Ling about which to improve after further training.

Then she could target the right ones and add them!

“Oooh-hmm, I’m not adding points now, I’m not adding points now~”

Ling Xiaoyou hummed a nonsense song she’d just made up, singing lyrics meant for System-chan in her heart, and left the training hall under the gaze of others who found her cute.