Chapter 50

"My heart!"

Xue Chou held his heart, breathing heavily, his steps unsteady, circling like a drunk, his heart already shattered, and his body severely lacking in blood supply.

"hypnosis!" Jiang Li, beaten to a pulp, now relied solely on a remnant of vitality to support himself, a result of the prenatal breathing exercises, which made his life force much more resilient than others.

At this moment, he lunged forward, his hand gesturing again, but not to attack.

Xue Chou hurriedly dodged, but his eyes were involuntarily drawn, and suddenly, he froze, standing still as if hypnotized.

Xue Chou's heart was shattered, and with insufficient blood supply, his brain cells could not receive enough energy and nutrients. Without the support of the brain, even the strongest mind could not function in the real world.

"How much money do you have?"

Jiang Li spat out a mouthful of blood and focused his mind to ask.

"3.58 million." Xue Chou's voice was numb, and he was about to fall, as he was severely injured.

"This is your personal property. The funds of your gang should also be on you, right?" Jiang Li spat out another mouthful of blood and asked again, feeling that he could not hold on much longer, his brain was about to shut down, and blood was streaming from his nose.

"The funds of the gang are managed by many high-level members, not on me..." Xue Chou fell to the ground, unable to support himself any longer.

"Transfer all the money on you to me quickly." Jiang Li focused his last bit of energy: "The account is... " He knew that if Xue Chou died or fell into a deep coma, all his efforts would be in vain, and even if he found the chip, he wouldn't know the password.

Moreover, if the other party died, it would be impossible to hypnotize them to get up again.

Under Jiang Li's hypnosis, Xue Chou took out his chip and began to transfer the money. His hands were trembling as he entered the password, and with a dazed voice, he said: "Transfer 3.58 million star yuan to the xxxxx account."

This chip was clearly high-end, requiring voice verification and a password.

Ding!

Jiang Li saw a string of numbers appear on his chip and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

All his energy relaxed, and his body almost collapsed to the ground.

"Keep going, don't fall here, keep going!" Jiang Li gritted his teeth, relying on his willpower to stagger away, covered in blood.

At this time, Xue Chou was completely unconscious, his breath weak, and he was likely to die directly.

In the abandoned building, Jiang Li finally put the milky white stone in his mouth and began prenatal breathing. This was a life-saving technique. If he didn't use prenatal breathing to heal his life potential, he would never make it back to Starlight City and would be killed by bandits on the way, even walking was difficult for him.

He felt the threat of death again.

Breathing prenatal breaths, his life potential was mobilized.

After a long time, the sky was bright, and he finally opened his eyes, no longer feeling sore all over. However, he knew that these injuries could not be fully healed by prenatal breathing alone; prenatal breathing was not omnipotent.

This prenatal breathing only protected his life, allowing him to make it to Starlight City for treatment.

He had to return to the hospital for a full-body treatment.

He got up and left.

Three hours later, he finally took the train to Starlight City and went directly to Starlight Hospital for a full-body examination.

In the snow-white ward, Jiang Li lay on the bed, with several doctors arranging the equipment for the examination, then sending him to the operating room for various treatments, including organ repair, bone repair, and nerve repair.

If this had happened 200 years ago during the national era, he would have died from these injuries, but now he could be saved as long as he didn't die on the spot and received timely treatment.

Jiang Li remained very conscious during the surgery, feeling his bodily functions gradually recover.

When he was pushed out of the operating room, he felt as lively as a dragon.

But the chief doctor, a middle-aged man with a serious expression, came to the bedside and dismissed the other doctors and nurses: "Jiang Li, have you taken any life-potential-burning banned drugs? Although you now feel lively, you have severely damaged your life source, reducing the number of cell divisions. Your cells are now very strong, but you can only live to 30 years old."

"What?"

Jiang Li sat up, "How could this happen?"

"You were severely injured this time, and you should have gone into shock and coma, but you managed to make it to the hospital. If I'm not mistaken, you likely took some banned drugs, which strengthened your cells but reduced their division. A person's lifespan is proportional to the number of cell divisions. A chicken with a 30-year lifespan has cells that divide 25 times. A mouse with a 3-year lifespan divides only 12 times. Your cells divide much fewer times than normal, so after this examination, your lifespan is only about 30 years. You need to be mentally prepared."

The chief doctor, a middle-aged man with a serious demeanor, continued: "I have already verified your identity. You are a key student the school is focusing on, aiming to get into Starlight University, but you cannot achieve this by taking banned drugs, which harm your life. Before the Starlight University exam, there is a physical examination. Your current physical condition would disqualify you from even registering."

"What?" Jiang Li's heart ached upon hearing this.

The damage from prenatal breathing and the nutrition drugs he had taken before had almost been compensated, but this life-and-death struggle with Xue Chou, which almost killed him, forced him to use prenatal breathing again, deepening the damage and causing permanent injury to his cells, making him feel a sense of despair.

Indeed, before registering for Starlight University, a physical examination is required. If he was still in this condition, he wouldn't even have the资格 to take the exam.

Starlight University would not allow someone with only a 30-year lifespan to take the exam; they wanted complete geniuses. Even genetically modified people could not take the exam because the original human genes had greater plasticity.

He was not a professional doctor and thought he was fine, but now the examination revealed the severity of his condition.

If he couldn't even take the Starlight University exam, what was the point of being strong?

This permanent damage was caused by prenatal breathing to stabilize his injuries. But without prenatal breathing, he would have died on the way back to Starlight City.

"Doctor, is there any way to compensate for this damage? To restore my life potential and cells to normal?" Jiang Li asked urgently.

"There is a way, but it is very expensive." The chief doctor thought for a moment: "You can buy Moon Spirit Essence and take it daily to activate and gradually enhance the potential of your cells. It would take about three years to recover. Ordinary nutrient solutions have no effect on cell division."

"Three years?" Jiang Li shook his head. "I am in my final semester and have at most half a year. Even if I had three years and took Moon Spirit Essence daily, how much would it cost?"

"There is no way, it is basically impossible to recover in half a year." The chief doctor shook his head. "Of course, unless your mental cultivation can enter a meditative state, controlling your body's endocrine system, and combining it with the consumption of Moon Spirit Essence and Sun Spirit Essence, and purchasing a large amount of drugs that enhance cell potential. This would depend on your own miracle."

"Ah..." Jiang Li sighed, touching the milky white stone hanging from his chest. He did not regret it; without this, he would have had no hope at all.

After leaving the hospital, although his card had 3.58 million more, his mood was gloomy.

"What to do? Although I have gained so much money, the damage to my body is even greater. If this continues, I won't even have the资格 to take the Starlight University exam. A person who can only live to 30 years old will never be accepted by Starlight University." Jiang Li shook his head. "Forget it, even if I don't get into Starlight University, I don't mind. With my current skills, I can live a good life, and my cell potential will be restored. I am only 17 years old, and even if I am 30, I still have 13 years. Can't I fix it by then? I will definitely not use prenatal breathing again."

Thinking about this, his mood improved.

Late at night, after resting, Jiang Li went to the park again.

His body moved much more agilely.

After the battle with Xue Chou, he had a deeper understanding of the essence of combat, and his mental cultivation had deepened.

"Meow..." As soon as he landed, the big black cat pounced over, followed by the Flower-faced Tyrant, the little kittens Daming, Erming, Samming, and Siming, all surrounding him.

"Have you been eating well these past few days, Big Black? I have already prepared enough food and water for you, hidden in the cat house. You must eat well and not waste it, okay?" Jiang Li patted Big Black's head.

Big Black nodded humanly and wrote on the ground with his paw: "We are all fine!"

The five characters, though twisted, were quite lifelike.

"That's good." Jiang Li was initially not surprised, but then he froze, staring intently at the five characters on the ground, almost jumping three feet high: "Big Black, can you write?"

This was earth-shattering news; a cat that could write, possessing near-human intelligence.

Meow.

Big Black bounced twice, then began to meditate, breathing and focusing, sitting cross-legged like a human, with his upper body upright.

After a while, Jiang Li felt his heartbeat, blood flow, and pulse slow down several times.

"Entering deep sleep through cultivation?" Jiang Li was shocked again: "Are you practicing Crystal Meditation? Did you enter deep sleep so quickly?"

It was too fast.

How many days