Su Xin helplessly said:
"Alright, you all continue searching. Make sure the list is as long as possible. Also, do not include Celestial Kingdom citizens anymore; look for foreign ones and keep the aid amount under eight hundred thousand."
After dismissing the female secretary, Su Xin glanced at the list with a series of amounts rising to several million, only able to force a bitter smile:
"No wonder the Celestial Kingdom—prices are so much higher than Wanghai Country, even the donation amounts for critically ill patients are so high, easily reaching millions."
"If each donation is millions, the result can only be earning dozens of karma points each ti. I'm afraid even with ten billion, it won't generate ten thousand karma points."
"Poor countries are still better."
A while later, the female secretary walked in again with a USB drive, handed it to Su Xin, and said:
"This is the initial screening based on dical data from various countries. The list has two thousand people, all critically ill patients. Mr. Su, does this work for you?"
Su Xin opened the file and scanned the list, satisfied, he nodded:
"Alright, continue with this standard."
Once the female secretary left, Su Xin started transferring funds according to the accounts and amounts on the list.
"Ding! Acquired 45 karma points."
"Ding! Acquired 66 karma points."
"Ding! Acquired 51 karma points."
"Ding! Acquired 63 karma points."...
He donated the full amount to everyone directly.
Although this approach had a low cost-effectiveness, sotis, you can't just look at the cost-effectiveness of money and karma points—you also have to consider the ti spent on the entire donation operation.
If he spent a lot of ti donating only twenty thousand to each target, he probably wouldn't earn too many karma points after a whole day's work.
The key was that the donor recipients' list probably couldn't be sufficiently assembled in a short ti.
Su Xin didn't feel like bothering.
After all, the money was gleaned from others, spending it didn't make him feel pained at all.
Moreover, when the money runs out, he can easily find an excuse to stir up conflict and continue gleaning...
With Su Xin's consecutive donations, his karma points skyrocketed.
Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, fifty thousand...
By evening, he finally emptied the ten billion in his account, not a cent left.
In between, Deng Zhongquan personally delivered a short blade to him, yet he barely acknowledged the other, just took the blade and sent him away.
The feeling of rapidly rising karma points, along with the continuous prompt sounds in his mind, made him fall into a long-lost fervor.
He only snapped back to reality when his phone notified him of insufficient account balance during the last donation.
"Finally done..."
Su Xin exhaled deeply and opened his personal panel to check.
[Na: Su Xin]
[Superpowers: Concealnt Prayer LV4, Unyielding Dead LV3, Other-Transformation LV3, Damage Transfer LV3, Self-Deception LV3, Sword God Slash LV3.]
[Karma points: 152,365.]
"One hundred fifty thousand karma points!"
"Great! Finally, I can upgrade again!"
Su Xin showed a face full of excitent and imdiately issued a command in his mind—
"Concealnt Prayer, upgrade!"
"Ding! Concealnt Prayer upgraded to LV5!"
"Please choose from the following two characteristics: 1. Infinite Crossing, 2. Space-Ti Mark."
[Infinite Crossing: The precursor action of clasping both hands can store energy; each second of stored energy geotrically increases the limit distance for teleportation.]
[Space-Ti Mark: When fulfilling the superpower precursor condition, can instantly teleport, also can record a space-ti mark and store it; upon releasing the space-ti mark under any condition, can teleport directly. If multiple space-ti marks are released simultaneously, the limit distance for teleportation will be multiplied accordingly.]
"Ding! Concealnt Prayer has reached max level!"
"Ding! Congratulations host, for gaining the first max-level superpower, you have exited the newbie protection period and within 72 hours can choose any ti for system upgrade."
"Prompt: System upgrade will result in several changes, the following are the main functional changes—"
"1. Increase the superpower slot setting, the upper limit of the number of superpower slots equals the highest superpower level. "
"2. Activate infinite upgrade function, after a superpower reaches LV5, each level up requires karma points, starting with a base of one hundred thousand and increntally increasing, but post-LV5, no new characteristics will be acquired, only current attributes can be enhanced."
"3. Superpowers can be voluntarily forgotten."
"4. Change task trigger chanism, add a prerequisite: having a spare superpower slot."
"5. Change upgrade chanism; the karma points required for upgrading LV5 and below levels are fixed at ten thousand."
"6. Add a characteristic refresh function; when a superpower is upgraded, spend the karma points consud during the upgrade to randomly refresh the options for upgrading characteristics."
"Please Note: After the system upgrade, if the superpower quantity exceeds the highest superpower's level, please choose to forget the excess number of superpowers within one hour, otherwise random forgetting will occur automatically."
Listening to the string of system prompts echoing in his mind, Su Xin was instantly stunned.
"LV5 is the max level?"
"The system can still level up?"
"Have I left the newbie protection period?"
"There's still a limit on the superpower slots?"
The information in his mind was overwhelming, and all were bombshell news, leaving him montarily bewildered and his head spinning.
After a while, realizing he could choose any ti within the next 72 hours for the system upgrade, he decided to set aside the upgrade and first study the new features acquired from the upgrade.
First is the Infinite Crossing feature.
After Su Xin carefully read the feature introduction, he couldn't help but exclaim inwardly, "Damn."
With each second of charging, the instant teleportation limit distance grows exponentially.
The normal instant teleportation limit distance is ten kiloters; charging for one second reaches twenty kiloters, two seconds reaches forty kiloters, three seconds is eighty kiloters, four seconds is one hundred sixty kiloters...
Charging for ten seconds equals 10,240 kiloters.
With eleven seconds of charging, he could directly cross back from the Celestial Kingdom to Wanghai Country, almost the farthest distance on White Mountain Star.
Charging for sixteen seconds could reach Crescent Star.
Charging for thirty-one seconds, he might be able to leave his current fixed star system altogether...
Of course, the limit distance is just that, a limit. Concealnt Prayer is essentially a random instant teleportation. Even with one-hour charging, it might still only teleport one ter.
But with this limit distance, his range of activities would be much larger than before.
More importantly, with the existence of Space-Ti Anchor Points, after charging, as long as the Space-Ti Anchor Piints were within the range of the growing limit distance, he could perform precise teleportation through them.
Before leaving Wanghai Country, he had left two Space-Ti Anchor Points in Lening City. Under normal circumstances, he couldn't directly return to Lening City through these Anchor Points, as the distance far exceeded the Concealnt Prayer's limit.
But with the Infinite Crossing feature, he could use charging to continually expand the limit distance until the Anchor Points in Lening City were in range, allowing him to teleport back precisely.
It was much more efficient than previously spending almost an hour to reach the Celestial Kingdom.
It only took eleven seconds.
It can be said that with the Infinite Crossing feature, the importance of Space-Ti Anchor Points increased significantly.
As long as he left a Space-Ti Anchor Point at ho, no matter if one day he reached the end of the universe, he could teleport back with charging.
In Su Xin's view, it was much more practical than any previous features of Concealnt Prayer. If placed together with any previous feature, he would undoubtedly choose Infinite Crossing without hesitation.
But after reading the introduction of the second feature, Space-Ti Mark, Su Xin beca extrely conflicted.
The Space-Ti Mark feature is very simple.
When hands are clasped, he can choose to teleport directly as before or choose to leave a Space-Ti Mark.
Releasing this Space-Ti Mark at any ti, he could teleport instantly.
This effect essentially separates the precondition and result of this superpower. After eting the precondition, he can achieve the result at any ti, which can be understood as delayed teleportation. He could clasp his hands now and teleport tomorrow morning or at any other ti.
Crucially, there was no ntion of quantity limits for storing Space-Ti Marks in the introduction, which clearly implies being unlimited.
He could perfectly perform the clasped hands action thousands of tis in advance. At any mont afterward, he could teleport as freely as he wished.
In a sense, it also ant breaking away from the precondition of clasping hands.
In the two days of arriving at the Celestial Kingdom, although he acted as if he was bold and carefree, he always wore a black robe to hide the drawback of needing to clasp hands to teleport. On so inconvenient occasions, he deliberately avoided teleporting.
It was all to conceal the hand movent.
But with the Space-Ti Mark feature, he no longer needed to intentionally avoid this point.
He always thought the clasped hands precondition of the Concealnt Prayer super annoying, always hoping one day a feature would appear to help him avoid it.
Today, that feature finally appeared.
Another crucial point, the Space-Ti Mark not only helped him to so extent free himself from the clasped hands constraint, making his teleportation highly flexible but also increased the instant teleportation limit distance.
With enough Space-Ti Marks, he could also achieve fast crossings on the entire White Mountain Star.
Of course.
Given the twenty thousand kiloters distance between Celestial Kingdom and Wanghai Country, Su Xin needed to use two thousand Space-Ti Marks, and to accumulate these marks wasn't a short ti.
But compared to the previous teleportation thod, the advantage is in having the Space-Ti Marks ready in advance and using them as needed for instant arrival.
Another advantage is each teleport before was random, but with Space-Ti Marks, it stacks the teleportation limit distance directly until it includes the Space-Ti Anchor Points in Lening City, then uses pinpoint teleportation to arrive.
In practice, it is much faster.
And multiple tis more convenient.
Both Infinite Crossing and Space-Ti Mark features are very practical and extrely enticing to Su Xin.
But he could only choose between the two.
The forr had more potential in teleportation distance, possibly allowing travel across the entire universe.
The latter made teleportation thods extrely flexible, eliminating the biggest drawback of this superpower.
The crux of Su Xin's dilemma is—
Currently, he favors the latter more.
But he also thinks that soday when he gets tired of staying on White Mountain Star and wishes to explore the universe and seek out other cosmic civilizations, Infinite Crossing would give him more chances to realize that idea.
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