Ch. 32
Chapter 32. The Heavenly Dao Sermon, and My Future Wife Broke Through Again
The Heavenly Dao Sermon!
Anyone who listened to it could enter a state of enlightenment!
Jiang Yichen looked at the scriptures dancing across the sky, mixed with incomprehensible Sanskrit chants.
What kind of gibberish is this? Why can’t I understand a word of it? Why do I not feel like I’m entering enlightenment at all?
【To provide the host with a better slacking-off experience, everything related to cultivation will be handled and delivered by the system.】
Uh...
That was kind of cool.
Jiang Yichen suddenly understood and gave the system a thumbs-up.
For the sake of his grand slacking-off career, the system really had gone to great lengths.
“Damn, could this be a martial chance encounter?”
“I can’t understand it, but I feel my Blood Qi surging. It’s like something inside my body is about to emerge.”
“This is a sign that martial talent is about to awaken. This is a heaven-sent opportunity. Everyone, close your eyes and listen carefully.”
“...”
The anglers gathered behind them immediately sat down on the spot after sensing the changes in their bodies, then closed their eyes and listened seriously to the Sanskrit chants.
In this world, martial opportunities were things one could only encounter by chance, never seek out by design. Most of them existed either in the wilderness overrun by demonic beasts or inside mysterious ruins.
Ordinary people and ordinary martial artists simply had no way to come into contact with them.
Jiang Yichen sat back down in his chair.
“Brother Yichen, what is that? After listening to it, I can vaguely feel signs of a breakthrough. I even suddenly understood techniques I could never grasp before.”
Su Linyu scratched her head blankly and asked curiously.
She had begun to realize that, after spending the last few days with Brother Yichen, he felt more and more different from how he used to be.
It was not just the way he treated her. It was also the way he spent money freely, casually brought out precious cultivation resources, and now even fished up all these strange and unbelievable things.
None of that had existed in the old Brother Yichen.
Jiang Yichen smiled, lifted Bai Ze from her arms, and gently said, “I probably fished up some kind of martial opportunity. Do not delay any longer. Calm your mind and comprehend it.”
Su Linyu tilted her head, and three question marks practically appeared above it. You could fish up a martial opportunity?
Still, she did not ask further. A martial opportunity was indeed something that came only by chance and could not be wasted.
Su Linyu sat down cross-legged, closed her eyes, and quietly listened to the Sanskrit chant coming from Heaven’s Gate.
Jiang Yichen leaned back in the reclining chair and gently stroked Bai Ze.
【Growth Progress: 16%】
Not bad. Even the Heavenly Dao Sermon could increase Bai Ze’s growth progress.
Only 4% more to go. It would not be long before its divine beast skill was unlocked.
Propping up his left cheek, Jiang Yichen looked at Su Linyu’s fair, delicate face. Beneath her small nose was a full, cherry-like mouth, and when she pursed her lips, two faint dimples appeared at the corners.
All of a sudden, he felt as though his rebirth had activated some kind of future-wife raising plan.
The key point was that this future wife was completely devoted to him. She cared about everything, and she was always looking after his feelings.
This kind of happiness was worlds apart from the way he had fawned over Lin Wan in his previous life.
There was none of that anxiety or worry that came from never getting a response.
Instead, she would take even an offhand remark seriously. Just because he had casually mentioned fishing, she had gone out to buy equipment and study guides for it.
The corners of Jiang Yichen’s lips curved upward slightly as he watched her quietly.
About three minutes later, the gate in the sky slowly closed. The scriptures flew back into it, and the incomprehensible Sanskrit chant disappeared from their ears.
But those who had entered enlightenment still had not awakened. Some of them were drenched in sweat, while others were wrapped in Spiritual Energy...
As for Su Linyu, her entire body ignited with Vermilion Bird Blaze, and her aura steadily rose. In just a short moment, she broke through from the eighth level of the fourth realm to the ninth.
Three minor breakthroughs in two days. At this rate, you were almost catching up to the system.
Jiang Yichen quickly checked the system panel.
【Host: Jiang Yichen
Realm: Fourth Realm, Eighth Level (Automatic Cultivation Progress: 83%)
Blood Qi: 22012
Spiritual Power: 9850
Talent: Divine Sense Amplification, Chaos Body (Automatic Cultivation Progress: 34%; reaches 40% for mastery; cultivation speed: 0.5%/hour)
Cultivation Art: Void Scripture (Automatic Cultivation Progress: 39.1%; reaches 40% for mastery; cultivation speed: 0.5%/hour)
Weapon: Void Mirror (currently amplifying the Void Scripture)
Pet: Divine Beast · Bai Ze (Current Growth Progress: 16%)
(Current automatic cultivation speed: ‘1%/hour.’ Maximum reached. Cannot be increased further. Automatic cultivation speed will decrease reasonably according to cultivation difficulty!)】
The moment he saw the panel, Jiang Yichen’s confidence instantly returned.
In another seventeen hours, he would break through to become a fifth-realm Grandmaster.
But for martial artists, breakthroughs between major realms were the hardest of all, and they required a large amount of cultivation resources to prepare for.
Otherwise, there was a seventy percent chance of failure.
But he was different. The system handled breakthroughs automatically, so he was not worried at all.
Both the Void Scripture and the Chaos Body were also close to reaching mastery, which meant his strength would rise another level.
Ah, slacking off felt so unbelievably comfortable.
Jiang Yichen was smiling so broadly that his mouth nearly twisted.
Beep—!
At that moment, the flames around Su Linyu suddenly took the shape of a Vermilion Bird and flew into the sky, soaring proudly above the Qinglin River.
Hm?
Had her martial talent evolved?
Jiang Yichen froze for a moment. Su Linyu’s awakened SSS-ranked 【Vermilion Bird Blaze】 had originally inherited only the Vermilion Bird’s power of flame.
But under the potential-stimulating effect of the Heavenly Dao Sermon, it had actually become capable of taking shape. That clearly meant her martial talent had advanced to an even higher level.
In this world, the rank of one’s martial talent determined a martial artist’s upper limit. The higher the talent, the better.
But it was still nowhere near my Supreme-grade.
Jiang Yichen smiled.
After circling in the air for a while, the flaming Vermilion Bird merged back into Su Linyu’s body.
She slowly opened her eyes, and a trace of crimson flame swept past the corners of them.
“Wow, Brother Yichen, I think my martial talent evolved, and I even reached the peak of the fourth-realm Martial Master!”
Su Linyu wrapped herself around Jiang Yichen’s arm in excitement. “Brother Yichen, you’re amazing. You even knew the Qinglin River was hiding a martial opportunity.”
“I’ve realized that as long as I stay with Brother Yichen, I’m both happy and lucky.”
“Oh, right, Brother Yichen, after listening to that Sanskrit chant, your realm must have broken through too, right? Or maybe your talent improved?”
Thinking of that, Su Linyu looked at Jiang Yichen with eyes full of delight.
If Brother Yichen’s strength improved, then as long as he passed the graduation assessment, her father would have no reason to go to the Jiang family and cancel the engagement.
Jiang Yichen’s expression stiffened, and he shook his head.
A trace of disappointment flashed through Su Linyu’s eyes, but she quickly hid it.
“It’s okay. Brother Yichen can fish up so many incredible things, and you even discovered the martial opportunity hidden in the Qinglin River. I admire you more than anything in the world.”
Jiang Yichen burst out laughing. “Your mouth really is sweet, isn’t it?”
“Not at all. In my heart, Brother Yichen is the most perfect person in the world,” Su Linyu said, lifting her chin with absolute conviction.
Jiang Yichen was so embarrassed by the praise that he could only continue fishing, but a notification came from the Fishing Rod of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
【Current Durability: 0 (Unable to continue fishing)】
It was only afternoon, and it was already worn out? Was it really this flimsy?
Jiang Yichen had no choice but to put the rod back into system space. “That’s enough fishing for today. Let’s head back.”
Su Linyu pointed at the empty bucket and said blankly, “But we still haven’t caught any fish.”
Jiang Yichen rubbed his chin. That was true. Going home empty-handed was not a great look.
“Me, me! Benefactor, you can have all the Qinglin Fish I caught.”
“Same here. If you hadn’t discovered the martial opportunity in the Qinglin River today, we never would have awakened our martial talents. Please accept this small token of gratitude.”
“Benefactor, mine’s the biggest. Take mine.”
“...”
The anglers behind them all came forward carrying their fish keepers and piled them in front of Jiang Yichen.
Benefactor?
Jiang Yichen raised an eyebrow. In this world, the difference between martial artists and ordinary people lay in whether or not they could awaken martial talent.
Once someone awakened martial talent, even if it was the lowest grade, they would still receive excellent treatment from the state.
It was practically the same as changing one’s fate against the heavens.
Jiang Yichen did not refuse. He picked out the largest Qinglin Fish from among them. “I’ll just take this one. You can keep the rest.”
Some of the anglers, seeing that he had not taken their fish, even wanted to give him money to express their thanks.
Jiang Yichen waved them off, carried the fish in one hand, and left with Su Linyu along the narrow path choked with weeds.
Beneath the setting sun, one tall and one short, both of them were smiling brightly.
“So this is the life of a martial artist? Fishing when there’s nothing to do, with a girlfriend by your side... it feels so blissful.”
“Stop dreaming. That kind of life is probably only possible for high-rank martial artists. Ordinary martial artists are all running around trying to break through their realms.”
“Oh, right, I recorded what just happened. If I upload it online, it’ll definitely blow up. Hahaha.”
One of the anglers was so emotional that he even dropped to his knees and bowed toward Jiang Yichen’s departing figure.
“Mom, I finally fulfilled your last wish. I became a martial artist. Can you see it from heaven?”