Chapter 59: Luli's New Ability

Chapter 59: Lu Li's New Ability

After learning that Pan Shuai, Hao Liang, and Luo Hao had all returned to their normal, former selves, Lu Li finally set his mind at ease.

Although they were now hustling for a living and their social status was indeed inferior to their counterparts in that supernatural worldview, at least they wouldn't just randomly die in some nameless corner with their families completely clueless about why or how they died.

That was fine too.

After some more idle chatter, Pan Shuai opened up, "Old Lu, I feel like you being single every day isn't working out. How about I let my wife set you up on a blind date?"

The image of that disguise-master immediately flashed into Lu Li's mind.

Wait, what was that woman's job again?

Lu Li couldn't remember anymore.

Judging by her personality, though, that woman should have come back to life after the world was reset.

Whatever, let her go wreak havoc on someone else.

Lu Li planned to report her later.

As for right now...

"Forget it. My heart is devoid of sorrow and joy anymore."

Having consecutively experienced the affairs of the three girls, Bai Muli, Luo Qianning, and Huai Xu, Lu Li felt like he would never be able to love again.

Though he didn't know why, their affections came on way too passionately—so passionately that Lu Li, a seasoned man in his late twenties, couldn't quite handle it.

Yet, it had also raised his threshold.

How should he put it? The affections of those monster girls were so intense that he no longer felt anything for ordinary girls.

With perfect personalities, passionate yet mysterious, outrageously good figures, looks flawless enough to break the upper limit of humanity, and peerless temperaments...

Having interacted with three such girls back-to-back, Lu Li found it really hard to take an interest in ordinary human girls anymore.

Besides, he was genuinely tired.

Pan Shuai fell silent for a moment and smiled, "Old Lu, you're mentally tired. Sometimes, after a long time, you really don't want to look anymore, always feeling that being alone is pretty good either.

"But sometimes, late at night, you truly feel lonely. I think you should find someone. Of course, the kind whose soul matches yours."

He didn't mention letting his girlfriend set Lu Li up on a date anymore.

He could tell that Old Lu was genuinely a bit exhausted.

A small gathering among bros didn't require getting dizzy from alcohol.

After sipping for an hour or two, chatting and relaxing, they each went their separate ways.

It started pouring rain right as he reached the residential compound.

True enough, summer hadn't passed yet.

Because he had been drinking, Lu Li didn't drive today.

He rode his step-through scooter down to the underground parking garage and parked it right next to his BMW 3 Series in his designated parking space.

Then he took the elevator upstairs.

The elevator doors opened, and as he walked out into the corridor toward his apartment, he raised an eyebrow.

A kid wearing a high-school-style athletic uniform was sitting with their knees hugged to their chest in the corner against the wall.

The person had their face buried in their arms so their face couldn't be seen; only black hair, about the same length as Misaka Mikoto's in *A Certain Magical Index*, covered the top of their head.

Did they forget their keys and find nobody home?

Lu Li wasn't interested in such things, nor did he care how many family members his neighbors had.

He unlocked his door and went inside.

Naturally, the apartment was completely empty.

No Miss Bai.

No Miss Luo.

Nor any Miss Huai Xu.

There were only three marriage certificates.

Changing into ice-silk shorts and an ice-silk tank top for lounging at home, Lu Li opened a can of iced cola and slumped back onto the living room sofa.

He casually turned on the television, yet began examining the second batch of cargo left behind by Xingtian.

There weren't many items inside, but Lu Li felt their value should be higher than the previous ring.

Moreover, it was evident that this fellow Xingtian had definitely kept an ace up his sleeve.

He really, fucking left behind three secret manuals!

One was called *Divine Skill*.

That's right, concise and to the point, the name was simply "Divine Skill."

Lu Li flipped through it; it was clearly a martial arts manual.

The problem was that Lu Li couldn't understand it.

He had to admit that when it came to martial arts, he was truly an "illiterate."

What acupuncture points, meridians, and all that—he couldn't grasp it at all.

And even if he searched the internet for pictures and explanations of those acupoints and meridians, it was useless.

He still couldn't understand a single thing.

On top of that, this book was written in a semi-classical literary style, though he had no idea why simplified Chinese characters were used...

Anyway, Lu Li wouldn't be practicing this crappy manual anytime soon.

And he had no motivation to practice it either.

On to the next one.

The next book was *Tuna Shu* (The Art of Breath Regulation).

It sounded very basic, and in reality, it was very basic.

This was an introductory manual for cultivating spiritual power.

Anyway, it taught things like absorbing starlight and moon essence to strengthen spiritual power, yada yada.

Hey!

Guess what?

Lu Li still couldn't understand it!

So, scratch that, spiritual power was out of the question for the time being as well.

Thus, Lu Li looked at the final book.

This time, the book taught moves and how to counter enemies.

The name was also quite resounding—*Unrestricted Combat*!

Lu Li's old face darkened.

Unrestricted combat? Could this possibly be Chen Hegao's unrestricted combat?

He opened it up, and no, it really wasn't.

This manual actually taught various close-combat methods and moves involving cold weapons.

There were even hidden weapons included.

Moreover, they weren't just for show; they were all very practical.

The key was... the contents inside were all ambiguous.

Things like, "Evade the opponent's vertical chop, then thrust with a palm-up grip directly at the opponent's weak point."

Things like, "Attack instead of defend, strike first by letting the opponent strike later, attacking the openings exposed by the opponent at the very moment they execute a move."

It was entirely filled with stuff like this.

Who could understand what you're writing here?!

If I already knew how to dodge the opponent's attacks and find their weak points, what the fuck would I need your crappy book for?

This felt just like reading a cookbook!

Things like "a dash of salt," "a pinch of MSG," "an appropriate amount of light soy sauce."

How much on earth are "a dash" and "an appropriate amount"?!

That was roughly how Lu Li felt right now.

"Turns out it's completely useless... Didn't Xingtian just make a wasted trip then!"

Lu Li sighed and put away the three crappy books.

However, he was always nonchalant.

Although he couldn't use these three pieces of junk, he hadn't had any need for them in the first place.

Being a rotten salted fish who could muddle through life waiting to die was the best way to live.

Provided the world stopped turning chaotic again.

As for things like gaining abilities and then going out to champion justice and help the weak...

He should save it; living his own life well was enough.

Besides, it wasn't a total loss.

At least Huai Xu had left him something.

That's right, it was that teardrop.
After that teardrop entered his left eye, he discovered that he had fallen ill.

He had contracted a neurological disease called chūnibyō (adolescent delusions of grandeur).

That kind of illness was commonly seen among students in their second year of middle school.

How should he put it...
He had obtained the "Evil Eye of the Truth King."

It was just like colored contact lenses.

Normally, this ability could only operate at a bare minimum level, but once he activated it at full power, the white of his left eye would turn pitch black, his original black pupil would turn crimson, and two rings of golden light runes would appear along the outer periphery.

The inner ring of light revolved clockwise, while the outer ring revolved counter-clockwise.

It looked super edgy.

Yet also super cool.

It belonged to the kind of coolness where if you went to an anime convention, cosplayers would surround you and ask where you bought those contacts.

And the ability was quite powerful.

Initially, Lu Li wondered if it might be an overpowered ability like the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception."

After all, Miss Huai Xu's ability was "controlling the degree of death."

Then even if he, Lu Li, only had a teenage-edition version, becoming able to "see the death points and death lines of all things" shouldn't be too unreasonable, right?

If that were the case, maybe he would have the motivation to work hard trying to translate and cultivate martial arts.

Unfortunately, it wasn't.

Well, if it were the Rinnegan, Tenseigan, Sharingan, or Byakugan, that would have been fine too.

He didn't demand too much.

As it turned out, it still wasn't.

The eye's ability wasn't really of much use to him at present.

That's right, this eye only had two abilities.

One was being able to see things normal people couldn't see.

Like ghosts, monsters, and so on.

As for more... Lu Li felt he could probably see them too.

For instance, other people's life force, cultivated internal energy, spiritual power, and the like.

After all, if it's an ability related to "death," since it can grant death to all things, you should first be able to see all things.

But he couldn't do that yet.

The other ability felt quite chicken-ribs to him.

This eye could see other people's weak points.

Right, it actually matched that *Divine Skill* book quite well.

Too bad he couldn't understand it.

And how should he put it... facing ordinary people, he had ways to deal with them without needing to see their weak points.

No matter how awesome you are, can you beat a firearm?

If I shoot you in the head, will you die or not?

And if they weren't ordinary people, seeing their weak points wouldn't help either.

Even if you see them, you can't hit them.

Unless it's the kind of enemy who feels their defense can't be broken and just lets him hit them at will, those would be easy to handle.

Such brain-dead opponents were probably hard to come by, though.

Therefore, Lu Li gave this ability a very fitting name—the Lustful Eye.

This name had a double meaning.

First, when driven at full power, the color of this left eye would change.

Second—cough.

When he previously went to Fang Yuebai for a meal, he wore sunglasses to test his ability.

As a result, he accidentally looked at her chest and below her abdomen... and saw weak point prompts appearing in those areas.

Must admit, Fang Yuebai really had a lot of weak points.

Aside from those three places, there was also her belly button, above her collarbones, her earlobes, her armpits...

Ahem, ahem.

So the other meaning of the "Lustful Eye" was that this Lustful Eye was truly lustful.

Sighing, Lu Li deactivated the Lustful Eye, then went back to his room to wash up and sleep.

After bustling about for half a day, he ended up with a lustful eye.

It felt completely useless...

Soon, as he fell asleep, his phone received a series of system notifications.

Most of these were very normal news pushes.

However, he didn't see the topmost one.

The time displayed on that one was three hours ago.

From a blind date app.

[A new blind date candidate has applied for a date. Because the other party paid an excessive VIP meeting fee, the application for a meeting has been automatically approved. Please be advised.]