"No." The girl shook her head, looking at He Ao with curiosity.
Then after a brief pause, she pondered, "Does helping you ’restore’ count?"
"Restore?" He Ao was sowhat puzzled.
"It’s..." The girl raised her hand.
The pots and pans that He Ao originally picked up automatically flew up, the dirt fell off, the cupboards automatically opened, arranging the dishes neatly inside.
The fallen dirt landed in the sink and was washed away with a stream of water.
The whole room instantly reverted to its original state, just like when He Ao first awoke.
The girl turned back and blinked, "That’s ’restoration’."
He Ao looked at all this in a daze.
He was not surprised by the action of restoring the pots and pans; he could do that with his Divine Sense too.
But when those pots and pans were restored, he didn’t detect any energy reaction with his Divine Sense.
Which ans, at that instant, those moving pots and pans flew back ’by themselves’.
Is this reasonable? Does this fit the narrative?
He Ao paused slightly, rembering the octagon cage polluted with Divine Sense from last night.
He placed his hand on the dining table in front of him, trying to imrse his Divine Sense into it.
At that mont, the solid dining table, as his Divine Sense went down, in the perception of his Divine Sense, transford into so illusory energy state.
It couldn’t be penetrated.
He Ao withdrew his Divine Sense and looked around the room.
This entire room probably isn’t truly ’physical’, or rather, not rely physical, but has been abstracted into so special form of existence.
"That’s it," the girl across from He Ao looked at his surprised expression, not feeling strange, she lowered her head, "Yesterday when you ca back, you seed almost dead, so I thought about whether I could help you ’restore’, return to a normal physical state, but it failed, I could only restore the things in this room."
"It’s alright," He Ao shook his head and smiled, "At that ti, I had already taken so special ’dicine’, you see, after a night’s sleep, wasn’t I completely restored? Also..."
He paused slightly in his speech, "Your ’restoration’ might not have failed."
His Divine Sense flowed through his body, feeling his body’s unusual state at the mont.
It was then he finally understood where the ’unusual’ was.
His body had a natural ’trend’ of maintaining its original state, that is, ’restoration’.
This wasn’t so definite energy, but a state like a concept acting on every cell in the body.
He Ao raised his hand and picked up the knife on the table, gently sliding it across his finger.
"What are you doing?!" The girl widened her eyes at He Ao, then before he could answer, she imdiately got up and flipped down from the chair, "I’ll go find you a band-aid!"
He Ao opened his mouth, looking at her departing back, eventually smiled and lowered his head, looking at the finger that had been cut.
A bit of blood flowed from his fingertip.
At this mont, his finger had a natural ’restoration’ tendency but couldn’t resist the damage caused by the blade.
This restoration’s margin wasn’t large, it could only perform ’restoration’ on subtle aspects, so more severe injuries couldn’t be directly restored due to breaching the boundary.
Possibly, because fundantally He Ao didn’t belong to this room, this ’restoration’ power was only what the girl applied to him through the room, so the effect wasn’t obvious.
However, there’s a ’bug’ stuck here.
He Ao attempted once more to expand the energy circuit with Divine Sense, this ti he didn’t begin cultivation directly but started to calm down and sense changes in the energy circuit.
Peeling away the enhancent illusion caused by Divine Sense, as consciousness sunk into the energy circuit, He Ao vaguely sensed so minuscule ’damage’ caused by Divine Sense expanding the energy circuit.
This damage was extrely faint, but accumulating over ti, could build up into significant destruction, which is the ’cost’ of this accelerated cultivation thod.
But at this mont, when this damage ford instantly, so invisible state acted on He Ao’s body, ’restoring’ that almost negligible damage.
This ’restoration’ was almost useless for more severe damage, but for such minor damage, it seed like a divine miracle, illogically ’restoring’ it directly.
Theoretically, absorbing energy and the parts of the body being strengthened should also be ’restored’.
Yet because this ’unusual’ power wasn’t strong enough, during restoration, it seed to prioritize restoring damaged body structures first, followed by the strengthened parts.
He Ao slowly absorbed energy, observing the energy’s refinent.
He could feel that indeed, part of his cultivation effect was affected by ’restoration’, but compared to the growth part, it was almost negligible.
He shifted his gaze, glanced at the wound on his finger, it was healing at a slightly faster than normal rate.
This restoration effect originally provided a ’recovery’ bonus, but would limit the promotion speed, if it were Talent Sequences promotion, it might even suffer significant weakening, as Talent Sequences promotion would change cellular structure.
But combined with the Martial Arts Training thod of Divine Sense expansion, it instead helped He Ao eliminate negative effects.
It’s a case of negatives making a positive.
However, this ’restoration’ power...
After brief contemplation, He Ao’s consciousness continued to sink, experiencing the ’unusual’ of this ’restoration’.
Then he tried releasing a bit of Super mory strength.
In the next instant, his skin puffed up swiftly, distorted, squirming flesh surged under the skin.
He Ao imdiately retracted the Super mory strength.
The twisted flesh quickly cald down.
Indeed, the ’special physique’ of this body ca from the power of this house.
Of course, not the ’restoration’ effect the girl applied to He Ao now, but the power that flowed into his deepest being when Loren lived in this house for almost a year.
In the ’unchanging house’ data provided by Reid, it ntioned that so tenants would hear footsteps outside the house late at night after living for a month.
Most tenants moved out because of this.
When He Ao heard this news, he had a thought, which was, why hear it after ’one month’.
Loren too heard footsteps about a month later.
Initially, he thought the girl was deliberately scaring people, but now it seems there might be another possibility.
This ’unchanging house’ was ’assimilating’ its tenant.
The longer the living ti, the deeper the connection with this house, and the deeper the mystical assimilation.
Loren’s ’special physique’ wasn’t because he had so innate immune physique, but because he himself had been ’assimilated’ to so extent by this house.
During the long nine-month residency, he himself had been ’polluted’ by the house’s ’unusual’.
And this ’pollution’, inherently repels other higher positional grade powers.
Therefore, after the advent of Super mory strength, this ’pollution’ reversely resisted the Super mory strength.
Of course, it couldn’t truly resist the complete strength of Super mory, but during He Ao’s current state of restraint, it expressed an approximately strong D-level pollution resistance.
After He Ao was bestowed the ’restoration’ enhancent by the girl, this resistance further increased.
He Ao tried again, this resistance increased to strong C-level.
At this level, He Ao could even slightly summon so Super mory strength to enhance the Mind Reading Ability, even forcibly alter part of an enemy’s ’thought process’.
However, this ’resistance’ isn’t true ’resistance’, but rely the ’unchanging house’s’ power’s opposition to Super mory.
Therefore, when He Ao massively releases Super mory strength, it would also trigger intense resistance from the ’unchanging house’ power within his body, making this body more prone to mutate crazily into a monster.
At the sa ti, because of this reason, when He Ao’s body could withstand the power of Super mory in later stages, these forces from the ’Unchanging House’ would instead beco interference with his use of Super mory, becoming an unstable factor that needs suppression.
However, that’s at least C-level, even B-level matters.
At initial stages, this thing was at least helpful to He Ao, and the girl’s ability to directly ’restore’ him might also be due to ’Loren’ being partially assimilated by this house.
During the promotion process, he might also try to expel these ’abnormal’ powers from his body.
In principle, these assimilative powers from the house were not ’good’ in themselves.
If Loren originally lived in this house, with the passage of ti, if Loren were completely assimilated, perhaps he would beco one of the ’souls’ in this house.
Just because of He Ao’s special existence, this kind of ’assimilation’ beca ’help’ in the short term instead.
However, the assimilation of this house is so elusive, that He Ao didn’t even discover it using Divine Sense scanning. If it weren’t for the effect of ’restoration’ guiding him to delve deeper, he might not have detected this assimilation.
This ’assimilation’ probably doesn’t occur on the surface layer of the world, but rather in the deep layer of the world; it is so kind of conceptual thing.
Furthermore, even this incomplete assimilation power can resist the powers of Super mory from Angel Designation.
This indicates that the ’Unchanging House’, or the so-called ’abnormality’, cos from a being of extrely high positional grade, is an extension of this being’s power.
High positional grade of rules-based abilities, above an Angel? Divine Being or, Usurper God?
And then there was last night’s dream.
Loren’s ’specialness’ — does it really just stop at this house?
"Here," a soft voice ca from beside him, and a transparent waterproof bandage was handed over, "You hid it at the very bottom of the cabinet, I was wondering why I couldn’t find it."
The girl rubbed her ssy hair, "You bought the stuff, and you didn’t even remind where it was."
"Because I couldn’t rember either," He Ao smiled, took the bandage, and applied it over the wound, "Thanks."
"You’re welco." The girl scratched at the ssy hair on her head, then seed to realize sothing.
She gently touched her head, "Restore!"
The ssy hair instantly beca a smooth brown ponytail.
Then she saw He Ao get up, walk to the door, and open the door, one foot stepping out of the door.
"What’s up?"
The girl seed puzzled.
"Just doing an experint." He Ao withdrew his foot.
He could sense that when he left the house, the ’restoration’ power on him seed to begin to decay.
And when he returned to the house, the ’restoration’ power would instantly replenish.
He looked up at the girl, sowhat puzzled, "Can you leave this house?"
Upon hearing this question, the girl seed montarily dazed and then shook her head, "I cannot leave this house."
She seed to rember sothing, her body starting to stiffen, "I have to wait for mom and dad to co back and pick up. If I leave, they won’t be able to find when they return."
She tightly grasped the edge of the table, her chestnut-red eyes losing focus, "I cannot leave this house."
Crack—Ding—Dong—Bang Bang Bang——
The furniture throughout the house began shaking violently at that mont.
A faint sll of burnt began to perate the room gradually.
"Alright, you don’t need to leave," at that mont, a hand caught hold of the girl’s shoulder, a calm voice echoed in her ear, "There’s no need to think about it anymore, everything is over."
Accompanied by He Ao’s words, the girl’s unfocused gaze regained color, and the shaking furniture around them quieted down.
He Ao withdrew his hand, looking at the girl in front of him.
"What were we just talking about?" She looked at He Ao, sowhat confused, seemingly forgetting the previous topic, "Sorry, I seem a bit tired, I might need a rest."
"Take a rest," He Ao raised his wristwatch to glance at the ti, it was now 8:01 AM, the chat with the girl hadn’t lasted long, he looked at the girl, "I might need to go out for a while."
"Are you going to school?" The girl widened her eyes, looking at him questioningly.
"Today is Saturday, I’m not going to school," He Ao shook his head with a smile and then continued to ask, "Do you want to eat sothing?"
The girl’s eyes brightened all of a sudden, then she hesitated and shook her head, "No need, I already ate a lot just a mont ago."
"Alright." He Ao didn’t say much, he walked to the door and picked up the jacket hanging behind the door.
The girl watched He Ao open the door, preparing to leave, and watched as the door closed slowly, sowhat lost in thought, she lowered her head and softly said, "Big guy, you’ll co back, right,"
The sound was very low, almost audible only to herself.
Bam——
The door was almost entirely shut.
Click——
In the next instant, the closed door was slowly pushed open a crack once more, a hand reaching in from outside, gesturing an ’OK’ sign.
And a gentle young voice, "I will."
Bam——
This ti, the door closed completely.
The girl looked blankly at the closed door, seemingly shocked that He Ao could hear that too.
But after a brief shock, her gaze gradually gathered, transforming into a soft smile.
She leaned over the dining table and fell asleep just like that.
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Smoke District
An unmanned taxi rolled through the snow-covered streets, gradually parked by the roadside, and He Ao lifted his head, watching the physical fitness numbers bouncing up in his field of view.
There still existed ’restoration’ power on him, and at this rate, it would decay to ineffective levels about 8 hours after leaving the apartnt.
Within these 8 hours, he could maintain the highest cultivation speed.
His current cultivation speed was about 1 point in physical fitness every half hour, reaching 16 points in eight hours, primarily limited by the surrounding energy concentration, as the super high energy concentration in morning Dawn Energy plus Spirit Gathering Array wasn’t always available.
However, this speed was still quite fast, and even doing nothing, as long as he returned ho on ti, he could reach D-level by tonight.
Of course, He Ao wouldn’t actually do nothing.
Martial Arts training from E-level to D-level were within the system-labeled ’Essence Refinent and Qi Transformation’ major realm, with promotion difficulty sowhat weaker than Talent Sequences.
If so blood food were available, mixed with the ’Qi of Heaven and Earth’, it could further accelerate the cultivation.
Well, it would be even better to set up a permanent Spirit Gathering Array, though the materials aren’t easy to collect.
He Ao got off the taxi and glanced at the familiar old building in front of him.
He walked into the building, passing through the rundown lobby, stopping in front of a butcher shop opposite the elevator on the first floor.
The boss saw He Ao approaching and cheerfully called out, "Loren? Haven’t seen you in a while, anything you need today? I’ve got top-quality goods here!"
He Ao didn’t glance at his counter but asked, "Boss, seen my ’coach’ around lately?"
"What’s wrong, Gemu went missing?" The boss looked at He Ao, sowhat puzzled, "He’s your coach, if you don’t know where he went, how would I know."
At this, he paused slightly, seemingly recalling, "But I think I saw him yesterday and the day before; isn’t his place just upstairs? You could go check."
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