Eternally Regressing in Another World

Yan Fangfei worked in technology, but most of her research touched martial artists. When it came to checking whether a martial artist had anything wrong with them, she was no worse than any divine physician.

Su Mengqing could not help looking at Wang Yue. In front of him she was getting more and more used to letting her clingy nature out, and more and more fond of being the little woman at his side.

Even though, whether by generation or by height, Wang Yue could not match her.

”All right. I want to figure this out too,” Wang Yue agreed readily.

He had long heard of Yan Fangfei and had never met her, not even in his previous life.

He only knew that a few days before Golden Mountain City’s beast tide in that life, Yan Fangfei had been invited to the capital for some academic seminar and had missed the disaster by chance.

Whether that had been coincidence or someone’s design, he still did not know. Today was a good chance to see her up close.

The group came up from underground, crossed a stretch of factory grounds, and entered a large laboratory.

It was very quiet. Plenty of researchers were busy at their stations in the huge lab, yet not one of them made a sound.

Among them Wang Yue spotted Yan Fangfei at a glance, not because he knew her, but because she stood out too much.

Even in an ordinary white lab coat, even when all he could see from this angle was her profile, she was still breathtaking.

There were seven of them, all Nascent Soul or above. Their footsteps made no noise that would startle anyone. They drifted to Yan Fangfei’s side without a sound.

She was holding a test tube half full of liquid, her beautiful eyes fixed on the change inside it.

People said a man looked handsome when he worked with full focus. A woman was the same. That seriousness had a flavor of its own.

Nobody interrupted her. They waited.

Wang Yue got bored first. He watched the tube for a while and saw the liquid really was shifting color at a speed the naked eye could barely catch.

Then he could not help looking at her instead.

The lab coat could not hide much from someone at his level. Yan Fangfei was not tall, about one meter sixty-five. Her figure was not explosive, at least not compared with Su Mengyan and Ling Xueyan, the other two of the Four Peerless of Golden Mountain City. She still had curves front and back, and the mature charm of a grown woman.

What pulled the eye most was the focus on that stunning face.

A beauty was never just a pretty face and a tempting body. Temperament decided it. A woman without temperament was only a pretty shell no matter how good she looked.

The women around Wang Yue were like that. Sharp and valiant, naive and lively, coquettish and sexy. All of them pulled at him.

Yan Fangfei was the same. Beautiful, and full of presence.

They waited almost half an hour before the liquid finally went from colorless and clear to pale blue.

Yan Fangfei put the tube back. Her expression never changed. There was no way to tell if she was disappointed or satisfied.

”Fangfei, can you stop for a moment?” Su Quan finally spoke.

”Yes.” Yan Fangfei’s face did not shift at all at the interruption, or at Su Mengqing, Wang Yue, and the others standing there. After she answered she did not even ask what Su Quan wanted. She only looked at the seven of them with calm eyes. ℯℯ𝑙.

Su Quan was long used to this Yan Fangfei. She went straight to it. ”Xiao Qing and Wang Yue ran into some abnormalities while cultivating. Can you check them?”

”Yes.” Two words again, short and clean.

Wang Yue found that this widely famed beauty was almost like a machine with no feelings, at least on the surface. Expression and mood never seemed to ripple. Even a first-rate mind reader would probably go mad facing her.

After agreeing, Yan Fangfei led the seven of them into a room packed with instruments, pointed at a very strange machine, and said, ”Stand in.”

She named no one, which meant anyone could go first. Bai Yan stepped into it first and stood still inside a glass cover like a phone booth.

Yan Fangfei pressed a few buttons on the console, then looked at the nearby screen.

After a moment, several rows of data Wang Yue could not read at all appeared.

”Cultivation intensity: Nascent Soul first layer. True qi purity: beyond measurable range. Theoretical combat power: unknown. No abnormalities.” Yan Fangfei read the results with no surprise at Bai Yan’s realm.

Hong Ling, Lü Bo, and Zi Yun went in after that. The data came out exactly the same as Bai Yan’s.

Su Mengqing tried it as well.

”Cultivation intensity: Nascent Soul fifth layer. True qi purity: beyond measurable range. Theoretical combat power: unknown. No abnormalities.”

Yan Fangfei had no reaction. Su Quan was stunned.

Su Mengqing’s breakthrough to Nascent Soul had been a major event for the Su Family. Su Quan naturally knew that.

How long had it been since then? Half a month at most, and Su Mengqing was already at Nascent Soul fifth layer. That was far too fast.

Su Quan could not help looking at Wang Yue. If more people could dual cultivate with him, the rise of the three great families would be unstoppable.

Su Mengqing and the others were already confirmed clean. Next was the key figure, Wang Yue. Su Quan grew tense.

”Cultivation intensity: beyond measurable range. True qi purity: beyond measurable range. Theoretical combat power: unknown. No abnormalities.” Yan Fangfei still read it with no feeling at all.

Su Quan froze again.

She knew what this machine could do. At most it could roughly read peak Nascent Soul. With Wang Yue, everything had gone off the scale.

Did that mean his cultivation had already surpassed Nascent Soul?

Even at the three great families’ height, they had never produced a Return True expert. Had a young man broken a shackle that had lasted decades?

”Wang Yue, be honest. What realm are you now?” Su Quan asked, agitated.

”I just broke through to Return True,” Wang Yue said truthfully.

Hearing the confirmation, Su Quan said again and again, ”Good. Good. With you, the three great families have hope.”

Wang Yue had taken an interest in the machine. ”Aunt Fangfei, can this machine’s functions be raised further?”

He did not care much about realm readings. What he cared about was the theoretical combat power.

His true qi was so pure that his real strength far outstripped his realm, but he had no accurate sense of how far that strength actually went.

If the machine could measure even a theoretical number, that would at least be a reference.

”It can. Not for now. My cultivation is not enough.” This time Yan Fangfei said a few more words besides data.

”What realm are you now?” Wang Yue asked.

”Refine Qi first layer,” Yan Fangfei said.

Wang Yue was briefly speechless. When heaven opened one door for a person, it shut another. Yan Fangfei was a genius in technology. Her cultivation talent, though...

”If you wanted to measure combat power at Return True or higher, what realm would you need?” he asked again.

”Nascent Soul... no, Earth Threshold as well.” For the first time there was a hint of uncertainty in her tone.

Wang Yue felt helpless. With Yan Fangfei’s talent, never mind Nascent Soul. Even Earth Threshold was probably a slim hope in this lifetime.

Beside them, Su Mengqing’s eyes flickered. Who knew what she was planning.