A Man Like None Other - Season 4 Episode 17

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“It isn’t a waste. Hurry, take a seat!” Zeke brought Yasmin to her seat hastily.

Yasmin wiped her hands with a wet tissue and glanced at Jared. “How do you feel after spending half a day here? Have you realized how ridiculous your demand is? I can’t believe you asked for herbs that are over a hundred years old. Do you think it’s that easy to get that? Though my cousin is rich, it doesn’t mean you can spend her money freely!”

Hearing her words, both Zeke and Frida blanched in shock.

“Stop it!” Zeke glared at her before turning to Jared apologetically. “Jared, I’m really sorry. Yasmin didn’t mean any harm.”

Yasmin glowered at him. “Zeke, have you gone nuts? How dare you yell at me? Did I say anything wrong?” she demanded.

“Stop it, Yas!”

Frida immediately tugged Yasmin aside. Zeke went after them.

They both took turns to talk to Yasmin in a low voice.

Yasmin’s expression changed as she glanced at Jared a few times.

Soon, they returned to their seats. Yasmin seemed a little awkward.

A corner of Jared’s mouth lifted as he broke the silence. “Let’s eat!”

They began enjoying their lunch. Yasmin’s hand trembled as she deliberately looked away from Jared and Tommy.

After lunch, Jared gave Zeke a list of herbs and told the latter to prepare the listed herbs.

That afternoon, Jared remained in his hotel room. He gathered the snow lotus and the herbs over one hundred years old he got from Trinity Herbs to craft the energy condensing pill.

Jared remained impassive as he glanced at the herbs worth hundreds of millions. After pulling the curtains close, he gathered some spiritual energy in his core and directed it to his fingertip to create a tiny blue flame.

“Go!”

Jared gave a wave, and the blue flame intensified before covering all the herbs on the ground.

Closing his eyes, Jared started mumbling something under his breath. The blue flame flickered and burnt all the herbs. Slowly, the herbs turned to thick plumes of smoke.

Suddenly, his eyes snapped open as he roared, “Materialize!”

The smoke gathered together as though it was alive and gradually formed a round-shaped pill.

Half an hour later, Jared let out a long breath. The smoke promptly dissipated to reveal a green pill floating in the air.

“It’s done!”

Delighted, Jared leapt to his feet and took the pill.

His hands were trembling as he held the pill crafted out of herbs amounting to hundreds of millions!

Opening his mouth, he swallowed the pill.

Boom!

A huge burst of spiritual energy rushed to his head. Jared felt like his entire being would explode from the sensation.

He immediately crossed his legs on the bed and used the Focus Technique to absorb the intense spiritual energy.

Finally, Jared’s eyes snapped open when the sun went down. His six senses were all invigorated, as he could even sense a small bug buzzing on the bustling street underneath his hotel.

“Oh, I’ve attained Level Nine Energy Cultivation! It’s Level Nine!”

Jared took in the spiritual energy in his core and burst out laughing.

He never expected that one energy condensing pill would aid him to attain Level Nine Energy Cultivation. I didn’t spend the hundreds of millions in vain!

Level Nine was the top level of Energy Cultivation. Once he achieved Foundation Phase, he could enter Nameless Island.

It was easy to rise through the ranks of one cultivation level, but it would be hard to attain the next phase. He would need an opportunity to achieve that.