Face-Slapping System



Roland dropped Stacey off the Sparkling Buds. As planned, One and the others stayed behind to protect her safety. They scattered around the Sparkling Buds, ready to deal with any situation that might occur.

On the other hand, Roland and Janine switched places as he allowed her to drive. They then started their two-hour journey towards Tree Town.

Tree Town was located at the southernmost part of Fore City. It was a small town with a populace of a little over 40,000 people.

Tree Town was over a hundred kilometers away from Fore City. Normally, the journey there would take 3-5 hours if one was taking a bus, including all the stops along the way. However, as they were traveling with their own vehicle, Roland estimated that they should be able to arrive there in 2 hours or 3 hours max, depending on if there was any traffic along the way.

The Ronda Civic was quite comfortable to ride at. It has a lot of space and was actually quite large for a sedan. The speed was also good, with Janine driving, Roland thought that they might even be able to arrive at their destination with less time.

Janina placed her phone on the dashboard. It was running the map, and the destination was already set in advance earlier by Roland. He was familiar with Tree Town, so he spotted the lot location quite easily in the map.

He took a glance and noticed that Janine seems to be still using an old model phone. She was using her personal phone for work, hence, Roland said that she should change her phone into a new one and that he would just reimburse it.

Janine gritted her teeth. She wanted to reject it at first, but after hearing Roland's explanation about the phone being used for work, she just decided to accept it.

"Actually, if you need something work-related, you should just say it to me directly. Your father also has a work phone separate from his personal one," Roland explained seeing Janine's subtle reaction.

Janine nodded her head, recalling that it was indeed the case. In truth, she actually knew of such things. The gas money used for the car was naturally not hers. It was given to her by her father, in which he said came from Roland himself. She just thought that there was no need to buy a phone just for work matters as she can just use her own phone for it as it doesn't have much use for her anyways.

In any case, since Roland has already said that she should buy a work phone, then she could do nothing but agree to it.

What followed the little interaction was a deadly silence inside the car. Janine continued to drive as Roland gazed out of the window, the ever-changing view flashed past his eyes as the car drove past them.

Janine would take a glance at him from the corner of her eyes from time to time, her heart kept on fluttering, as if deliberating a life and death situation as she looked at Roland's handsome face.

On the other hand, Roland was quite unaware of her subtle gazes. Right at this moment, his eyes and mind were focused at the Face-Slapping Store.

Just yesterday, he recalled that the system had mentioned that there were new products available in the shop. He was already very sleepy yesterday, so he did not bother checking it, he was also a little busy this morning, so he neglected it. It was only now that he had nothing to do that, he decided to view it, curious about the new items that the System was talking about.

Roland scanned the items available in the store and immediately saw the new items that the System was talking about.

'This…'

Seeing the new list of items in front of him, Roland was a little shocked.

Cultivation methods?

Cultivation Pill recipes?

Cultivation Weapon blueprint?

Roland blinked and rubbed his eyes a few times and realized that he was indeed not seeing things.

The new items that the System was talking about were actually cultivation related items.

It must be noted that just yesterday, he was still worried about cultivation related matters. He was worried about his ignorance about this aspect, especially the fact that he was not a cultivator himself, when he realized that he had slowly come into contact with such people in the recent days.

He was quite elated when the System rewarded him with the cultivation knowledge and the cultivation method, thinking that he would no longer be as ignorant as before. However, it was only when he absorbed the relevant knowledge that he realized how vast and dangerous the cultivation world was.

Aside from mystical spells and mystical techniques, cultivators could also use other means to further strengthen themselves and gain advantage of their opponents. A great example would be the cultivation weapon and cultivation pills. Either of these two can turn a perilous situation around when two cultivators of the same strength were fighting on equal footing.

For example, a cultivator might possess a cultivation pill that allows them to recover their heaven energy amidst a battle, allowing them to cast more spells than their opponent. Similarly, a cultivator might possess a cultivator weapon or item, such a weapon that could hurt the sturdy body of cultivators that was already refined and strengthened repeatedly through various means.

In any case, either of these two were valuable help that any cultivator dreamed of possessing.

Given the fact that he would be able to concoct or forge a weapon, Roland would have a major advantage over his opponents in the future. Not only that, he would also be able to arm his allies without a problem in the future given the fact that he has the materials needed to forge and concoct such items.

However, in order to do that, he must first have the relevant knowledge on how to forge and concoct such weapons and pills first.

Do not count the chickens until they hatched!

Roland calmed his turbulent emotions and scanned the cultivation items even more. He heaved a sigh of relief after seeing that the Cultivation Pill and Cultivation Weapon forging knowledge was indeed available in the shop for him to buy.