Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Yu Li was stunned.

She slightly opened her cherry-like lips.

He seemed quite surprised.

"I've already paid the money to the academy and bought you."

"Of course, I'm not saying that this small amount of money is a permanent buyout for you; this is just a deposit."

Ye Ge smiled and pushed an agreement in front of Yu Li.

Yu Li picked up the agreement and started reading it, looking confused.

"The monthly reward...one million Federal Currency?! Thirty Soul Crystals?!!"

Yu Li was very surprised, and her voice trembled.

For an ordinary child from a poor family who grew up in a working-class neighborhood, one million is an astronomical sum. And for her family, even one soul crystal is something they would have to sell everything they own to afford, let alone thirty soul crystals!

The soul crystal she gave to Ye Ge that day was the money she had saved up over several months while working at the academy as a professor's assistant!

Ye Ge smiled slightly as he looked at Yu Li's reaction: "Let me tell you in advance, think carefully before you sign. This agreement comes with a soul contract, which means that if you violate the contents of the agreement, your soul will be punished."

In other words, this thing is essentially no different from a contract of servitude.

Of course, the same applies to Night Song as well.

Once the agreement takes effect, Yu Li will be considered Ye Ge's person, and Ye Ge will have to support her forever.

"I...I..." Yu Li held the agreement, feeling somewhat apprehensive. She pursed her lips and said, "I don't think I deserve this much money...I'm just an ordinary person, a mid-level deputy...You'll definitely regret signing this..."

Ye Ge wondered, "Regret?"

For just thirty soul crystals a month, you can buy out a secondary profession god to work for you permanently. It's an absolute steal!

"Hmm..." Ye Ge rubbed his nose, considered for a moment, and reluctantly said, "In that case, how about twenty soul crystals per month?"

"I feel...there are still too many feelings..."

"Then ten yuan?"

"Too...too much!"

"Then five yuan it is. My driver charges more than that."

"Five... um..." Yu Li still felt that she was not worthy of five soul crystals a month.

But if she could get that money and those resources, she could give her family a better life...

“Okay… alright…” Yu Li considered for a while: “Then five soul crystals a month.”

"Deal." Ye Ge thought to herself, why does it feel like I'm deceiving a naive and innocent little girl?

When others negotiate, they just drag things out and try to drive the price up.

This girl is something else; she managed to negotiate the price down after all that fuss.

......

The agreement has been signed.

Yu Li gratefully accepted the bag containing gold coins and soul crystals, clenched her little fists, and said with a determined look, "Thank you... Young Master Ye Ge... I, I will definitely work hard for you!"

Night Song: "..."

This silly girl, even if she gets scammed outside, she'll probably still end up helping the scammer count the money.

Ye Ge shook his head: "You don't need to call me Young Master Ye Ge anymore. Just call me Xiao Ye, like Xi Yao and Xue Er do."

"what??"

Yu Li imagined in her little mind the scene of her calling Ye Ge "Little Ye"...

Ahhhh, how is that possible!

That intimate way of addressing someone...it's so embarrassing!

Besides, Young Master Ye Ge is now her boss; that would be incredibly impolite...

"I...I..." Yu Li's cheeks flushed red, "I can't say it..."

Ye Ge shrugged: "Then you can just call me Ye Ge."

“Hmm…” Yu Li felt awkward.

Calling the boss by his first name seems rather impolite, doesn't it?

"The way you address me isn't important," Ye Ge said. "I have work to give you right now."

As he spoke, he placed a list of extraordinary ingredient proportions on the table and pushed it in front of Yu Li.

Yu Li picked up the dosage sheet blankly and looked at it carefully: "This is..."

"I want you to research and create a special magical liquid according to the proportions of the ingredients above," Night Song said. "Its effect is to allow ordinary people to awaken extraordinary powers and become acquired superhumans."

"Awakened... a superpowered individual?!" Yu Li was stunned.

Ye Ge smiled slightly and said calmly, "The reason why human superhumans can control supernatural powers such as superpowers, magic, battle aura, and spiritual energy is because superhumans have TD superhuman cells in their bodies that ordinary people do not have."

"The development and formation of these TD cells are guided by extraordinary genes. These cells help the human body form nodes of soul power within the meridians, allowing the human body to become a carrier of these supernatural energies."

"Humanity's first superhuman was also someone who gradually evolved from an ordinary person after the revival of spiritual energy."

"Theoretically speaking, if we can modify genes and cause the genes and cells in the body to evolve, then ordinary people should also have the opportunity to become extraordinary."

Yu Li: "!!"

If it were anyone else, hearing Ye Ge's idea, they might think he was crazy and that it was absolutely impossible.

Extraordinary talent is determined by genes; it's something a person is born with. How could it possibly be awakened through drug use?

However, in reality, this is something that Yu Li has fantasized about countless times!

From a young age, because she was an ordinary person, she lived and learned alchemy in a circle of extraordinary people, and naturally suffered a lot of discrimination and belittlement.

That's why she felt so inferior.

Yu Li was well aware that there was an insurmountable gap between ordinary people and extraordinary individuals.

It's like a child who is ugly, honest, and not smart; they're bound to be bullied when playing with other children.

Moreover, even for secondary professions, if they want to advance further after reaching the advanced level, they must possess extraordinary power.

Because some high-grade medicines and pills require the combined infusion of extraordinary power to be successfully refined!

As an ordinary person and a side job worker, Yu Li had fantasized more than once about whether she could invent a drug that could awaken extraordinary powers in people after they took it, turning ordinary people into extraordinary beings.

Of course, such thoughts were just random daydreams that she only dared to entertain when she was alone in bed.

Yu Li had once mustered up the courage to bring up this idea to a professor at the college.

However, the college professors reprimanded and ridiculed her mercilessly, appearing extremely angry.

the reason is simple.

Most extraordinary people believe that they are born special, noble, and superior to others.

As a result, an ordinary person came to ask him if it was possible for an ordinary person to undergo genetic modification and awaken their consciousness through the power of science.

If I succeed, wouldn't all ordinary people then have the same status as me?

So what's so special about naturally gifted individuals?

Although what Yu Li said was just a very immature idea, the professor felt very uncomfortable just listening to it.

So after that, Yu Li never dared to mention it to anyone again, keeping it quietly in a corner of her heart.

She never imagined that Ye Ge, as an extraordinary being and a young master of a noble family, would have the same whimsical ideas as her!

So when Ye Ge handed her the list of materials, it immediately caught the girl's eye.

"You...you really think it's possible?" Yu Li's hand unconsciously tightened slightly on the list: "Is it really possible for ordinary people to awaken into superhumans later in life?"

"Why not?" Ye Ge gave a gentle smile: "Nothing is absolutely impossible if you dare to dream about it."

In fact, Ye Ge knew that besides magic potions, there were also some elixirs and sacred fruits in the later stages of the game. After consuming them, one could directly obtain the job change of a cultivator and gain several hundred or even a thousand years of cultivation!

However, the requirements for becoming an alchemist or a cultivator of immortal plants and fruits are much more difficult than those for becoming an alchemist. Alchemists of intermediate level or above must be cultivators themselves and be at least at the Hundred Souls Realm. Since there are already few cultivators, Ye Ge is not considering such a thing for the time being.

"I...I understand!" Yu Li's initial shyness vanished, replaced by excitement. "I'll think of a way...no, I'll definitely do it!"

Ye Ge smiled. This was the first time in all the days he had spent with Yu Li that he had seen determination and confidence in the little girl's eyes.

That was the look of approval after one had set their mind on their goal.

Yu Li usually appears timid, insecure, and lacking in self-confidence.