Chapter 56 : Chapter 56
Chapter 56. So You’re Tripping Me Up? Then It’s Perfectly Natural for an Older Brother to Beat Up His Younger Brother.
【Choice One: Just like in your previous life, bring back the Yanhuang Team and have Lin Wan join it. Use abundant resources to nurture them. Reward: the title ‘King of Cucks.’
Choice Two: Since slacking off gives you everything anyway, it does not matter whether you keep your status as heir or not. Raise a team and compete in tournaments? That kind of hard labor can go to whoever likes doing it. Reward: ‘Low-level Slacker Gift Pack.’
Choice Three: In your previous life, you exhausted both body and mind for the Yanhuang Team. Now, you have disbanded those parasites from Yanhuang. Faced with the powerful Thunder Team and Phoenix Team, you will provide them with abundant resources, nurture them, and seize first place in the league.
As for yourself, you will stay behind the scenes as the boss, send others to manage and operate the teams for you, and simply enjoy the final results. Reward: ‘High-level Slacker Gift Pack.’】
Looking at the three choices before him, Jiang Yichen recalled how wrongly he had given his heart in his previous life. He absolutely could not repeat the same mistake.
Those parasites in the Yanhuang Team could go to whoever wanted them.
He turned his gaze slightly and saw the hopeful looks in his mother’s eyes and Su Linyu’s eyes. He knew they both wanted him to keep his status as heir.
That was fine too. Having that status would not affect his slacking off anyway.
As for the family’s affairs, he could just let other people handle them while he enjoyed the results.
Jiang Yichen took a deep breath and said, “Next, I’m going to prepare for the Huaxia Team League.”
Su Zhan let out an acknowledging sound, and there was a trace more approval in his eyes as he continued, “And how do you plan to do that?”
“Uh... I’ll leave it to other people,” Jiang Yichen said after a brief hesitation.
Su Zhan’s eyes sharpened. “You’re leaving your own matters to others. Then what are you going to do?”
Jiang Yichen thought for a moment. “I think professional matters should naturally be left to professionals. I’ll just be the boss and enjoy the results.”
The moment those words came out, Su Zhan’s face darkened, and Shen Qingyue pressed a hand to her forehead with a sigh.
Hah. Pushing his own responsibilities onto other people. What kind of responsibility or sense of duty was that supposed to show?
Su Zhan gave a cold snort. Leaning on his cane, he seized Su Linyu by the wrist. “Come on, we’re going home. There’s nothing more to say.”
“Dad, it’s fine. I can help Brother Yichen run the team. We can definitely win first place in the league,” Su Linyu said as she struggled.
Su Zhan frowned. “He already disbanded the Yanhuang Team, so what is he supposed to use to win first place in the league? Linyu, he’s using you. Are you still going to stay so stubbornly blind?”
“With his attitude, even if he hadn’t disbanded the Yanhuang Team, he still wouldn’t have taken first place in the league.”
The Yanhuang Team had originally been the number one team in Huaxia. If Jiang Yichen had not disbanded it, then with his current strength, holding onto his status as heir would not have been a problem.
But at the graduation ceremony, because of a woman like Lin Wan, he had lost his reason and disbanded the Yanhuang Team.
Hmph. He had only wanted to see Jiang Yichen’s attitude, and in the end, the boy had chosen to dump his own responsibilities on someone else while he slacked off and enjoyed himself.
He truly was beyond teaching.
Su Zhan forcibly dragged Su Linyu away through the air.
“Dad, Brother Yichen would never use me. And even if he did, that would only mean I have value...”
“Shut up!”
Jiang Yichen watched their figures gradually disappear, then turned to look at his mother. “Actually, my other teams are pretty strong too.”
Shen Qingyue shot him a helpless glare. “If you still want to keep your place as heir, your mother advises you to hurry and get the Yanhuang Team back.”
“I won’t say anything else. Sigh... Just live however feels most comfortable to you.”
She truly had nothing left to say. Such a good opportunity to perform, and he had still managed to waste it.
Then again, she was already used to it. Over the past four years, she had no idea how many opportunities had been placed in Xiao Chen’s path, yet he had never managed to seize any of them.
Fortunately, Xiao Chen’s current strength as a fifth-stage Grandmaster was enough to temporarily keep Su Zhan from forming an alliance with the Zhou family. That at least counted as a bit of good news among a pile of bad.
“Mom, don’t worry. Who becomes champion of the team league is up to me,” Jiang Yichen said calmly.
He was not bragging. Compared to the flashy but hollow Yanhuang Team, the Thunder Team and Phoenix Team had truly been tempered on the border battlefield.
In his previous life, during the private matches he had organized, Thunder and Phoenix had defeated the Yanhuang Team more than once.
“Stop bragging in front of your mother. I’ve seen your teams compete. The Yanhuang Team is the one that stands out the most.”
Shen Qingyue did not believe him at all. “Let me remind you, your cousin Jiang Feng has also been secretly cultivating a team, and its strength isn’t bad.”
“If his results in the league end up better than yours, your mother won’t be able to help you either.”
Jiang Yichen slowly closed his mouth, swallowing the explanation he had wanted to give. “All right. I understand.”
A trace of surprise appeared in Shen Qingyue’s eyes. Since when had this brat become so obedient?
The last time she had mentioned his affairs with Lin Wan, Xiao Chen had gotten angry and talked back. Why was he being so docile this time?
After the graduation ceremony, Xiao Chen really did seem a little different.
She studied her son for a moment, then nodded. “Come on. I’ll take you out.”
Jiang Yichen followed after his mother, and the Black God Suit receded from his body like a retreating tide.
Observing the black-and-red armor from up close, shock rose in Shen Qingyue’s eyes. This armor was a little too advanced.
“Xiao Chen, where did this armor come from?”
“Oh, I mooched it for free.”
“...” Black lines rose across Shen Qingyue’s forehead, but she did not pursue the question. “Lend it to your mother for a few days so I can study it. Your father’s birthday is in ten days. I’ll return it to you then.”
If she could figure out this black-and-red armor, the Jiang family’s armor business would surpass that of the other great families.
Jiang Yichen was stunned for a moment. After thinking it over, he nodded.
He took out the Black God Suit along with that pill, the Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill.
“Mom, this is the birthday gift I prepared for Dad. Take it back with you too.”
A gift?
Shen Qingyue’s expression immediately turned strange. Staring at the sandalwood box her son had handed her, she found it hard to believe.
She pressed the back of her hand against his forehead. “You don’t have a fever. Xiao Chen, why did you suddenly think of giving your father a gift?”
Jiang Yichen’s expression turned awkward as he recalled his father’s birthday in his previous life. Not only had he failed to go, he had not even given him a gift.
It was only after his father had died together with the ninth-rank Beast Emperor that attacked the Huazhong Region, sacrificing himself to protect his mother and him, that Jiang Yichen had been overwhelmed with regret.
“Isn’t this just a son’s filial piety?” he said with a laugh.
Shen Qingyue looked suspicious, but she still accepted the wooden box and put the Black God Suit into her Spatial Bag.
“Filial piety isn’t just about giving gifts. Come home and visit when it’s your father’s birthday.”
Shen Qingyue pinched her son’s cheek, and a touch of relief appeared at the corner of her lips.
Xiao Chen finally looked a little more like a proper human being.
“All right. I’ll go,” Jiang Yichen agreed.
【Ding! Congratulations, Host, on making a slacker choice. Reward: ‘High-level Slacker Gift Pack.’ Would you like to open it?】
The reward had arrived.
Jiang Yichen did not hesitate. He opened the low-level gift pack from last time first, using it as a warm-up before opening the high-level one.
【Congratulations, Host, for obtaining: ten seventh-rank Magical Artifacts.】
【Congratulations, Host, for obtaining: Ancient Extreme-Speed Cultivation Formation, ten billion in funds.】
No Supreme-grade item this time.
Looks like next time he would have to use a mid-level gift pack as a warm-up. The odds should be a little higher that way.
Jiang Yichen relaxed and began checking the rewards.
There was no need to mention the seventh-rank Magical Artifacts or the ten billion in funds. His system space was already piled high with that sort of thing.
【Ancient Extreme-Speed Cultivation Formation: Can be deployed within a certain area. Martial artists inside the formation can receive a 100% cultivation boost for one month. (Consumable)】
Hm?
A 100% boost to group cultivation?
If he used this on a team, wouldn’t they soar straight into the sky?
Jiang Yichen smiled faintly. The league had already not been much of a challenge to begin with, and now victory was going to be a complete stomp.
System, you really were not giving him any chance to work hard.
“What are you standing around in a daze for? The martial exam is over. Are you leaving or not?”
Jiang Yichen snapped out of his delight and quickly followed his mother toward the exit of the martial exam grounds.
...
At that moment, standing at the exit was Jiang Feng, dressed in a custom-tailored suit, his gaze cold and sharp.
“He still hasn’t come out. With Su Linyu’s strength, she might not be a match for the Ink-Poison Octopus, but getting Jiang Yichen out of there shouldn’t have been difficult.”
“Could something have gone wrong?”
The corners of Jiang Feng’s lips curled upward. If Jiang Yichen had met with an accident, then the position of heir would be his without question.
“Haha, man, I only meant to teach you a little lesson. Too bad your luck was a bit worse than expected.”
“I said it before. Whatever catches my eye, no one can take it from me...”
“What are you babbling about?”
But suddenly, an extremely familiar voice interrupted Jiang Feng’s muttering to himself.
He whipped around at once. When he saw Jiang Yichen standing right in front of him, completely unharmed, his heart jolted.
Only when he spotted Shen Qingyue did he understand.
“Do I need to report what I’m saying to you? Man, do not cross the line!”
Jiang Feng steadied himself and spoke in an aloof tone.
Jiang Yichen smiled faintly. “You think I don’t understand the things you did? So you’re openly playing games in front of me now, huh?”
Jiang Feng froze. Has Jiang Yichen discovered it?
“Man, I do not permit you to question—”
Before he could finish, Jiang Yichen kicked him directly. “Your older brother isn’t just going to question you today. I’m going to beat the hell out of you too!”
Jiang Yichen grabbed Jiang Feng by the collar and smashed a punch into his face, making him let out a piglike scream on the spot.
“Man, you dare lay a hand on me—”
Smack!
Jiang Yichen slapped him hard across the face. “So what? It’s perfectly natural for an older brother to beat up his younger brother.”
He stood up and began kicking him wildly, all the while saying, “Little brother, actually I don’t really want to hit you either, but people online say if you’re going to beat your little brother, do it early. My heart aches too, you know.”
He said that, but there was not the slightest restraint in his kicks.
Jiang Feng screamed miserably on the ground again and again.
Even Shen Qingyue, standing to the side, was left dumbfounded.