After the Breakup I Took It Easy and Became Invincible

Chapter 64. Helping His Father Break Through Beyond the Martial God Realm, Reward: Three Hundred Thousand Flawless-grade Pills

[Option One: Follow your father’s advice and bring back the members of the Yanhuang Team, Thunder Team, and Phoenix Team. Reward: the “Brother Regret” title.

Option Two: Refuse to listen and directly slack off by not even participating in the league. Reward: a “Low-level Slacker Gift Pack.”

Option Three: Persuade your father to take the “Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill” and focus on breaking through beyond the Martial God realm. Then, with even harsher methods, he can make everyone who opposes you shut up for good, while you remain under his protection and properly slack off while enjoying life. Reward: a “High-level Slacker Gift Pack.”]

Jiang Yichen’s gaze swept across the three options, and his eyes could not help shifting thoughtfully.

There was no chance he was going to beg people to come back.

Not participating in the league at all would also work, but his parents would be deeply disappointed.

After thinking it over, the third option was still the best. It would let him slack off while also making the Jiang family even stronger.

“Dad, I actually have a suggestion.”

A strange look surfaced in Jiang Zhentian’s eyes. “What suggestion?”

Jiang Yichen moved closer to his father and lowered his voice. “That pill can help you break through beyond the Martial God realm. Once that happens, will the other four great families still dare have any designs on you?”

“Right now, plenty of people have their eyes on the Jiang family. But as long as you cultivate hard and break through beyond the Martial God realm, you can make them all shut their mouths.”

“Hm?” Jiang Zhentian’s face filled with surprise.

He had already asked the family’s ninth-grade alchemist about the effects of that pill.

But even that ninth-grade alchemist had no idea what the pill, which surpassed the ninth grade, actually did. That was why he had not dared to take it.

This brat had never even studied alchemy, so how did he know?

“Are you certain that pill can do that?” he asked in astonishment.

Jiang Yichen nodded. “Dad, this pill is called the Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill. As long as you are willing to cultivate diligently, helping you break through beyond the Martial God realm will be easy.”

Jiang Zhentian was half-convinced. If he really could break through beyond the Martial God realm, then things truly would be exactly as his son had said.

But beyond Martial God...

No one in the entire world had ever reached such a realm.

Wait a second. Had he not come here to urge his son to strive harder? How had it somehow turned into his son urging him to cultivate diligently instead?

Jiang Zhentian’s face immediately turned stern, and he said coldly, “If your father is the one breaking through beyond the Martial God realm, then what exactly are you going to do?”

“Uh...” Jiang Yichen blinked and smiled. “I have not decided yet.”

In truth, he very much wanted to say that he was going to slack off, but his father would definitely lecture him again, so it was better to avoid the trouble.

Jiang Zhentian also let out a sigh. Looking at his son’s complete lack of ambition, he felt utterly helpless inside.

“Sigh. Let me tell you this: whether I break through beyond the Martial God realm or not, the heir will still be decided by the Team League.”

After giving that final reminder, he took the black overcoat from Uncle Feng’s hand and draped it over his shoulders.

“I still have matters to attend to. If I catch you idling around and playing games again, I will have your mother come deal with you.”

Jiang Yichen shrugged helplessly. His mother might look fierce, but her heart was actually soft.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for making a slacker choice. You have received a “High-level Slacker Gift Pack.” Would you like to open it?]

“Open it.”

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained: one hundred thousand Flawless Spirit-Gathering Pills, one hundred thousand Flawless Qi-Blood Pills, and one hundred thousand Flawless Soul-Nourishing Pills.]

???

The moment the reward appeared, Jiang Yichen’s eyes went blank for an instant.

The drop rate on these high-level gift packs had been rather absurd lately.

Spirit-Gathering Pills, Qi-Blood Pills, and Soul-Nourishing Pills were all basic pills for martial artists, but the words Flawless-grade alone were enough to prove their value.

Even in the Jiang family, the number one family in the land, the basic pills distributed to the younger generation every month were no better than high-grade.

Flawless-grade pills were only used as rewards in family competitions, or as rewards for missions and contributions to the family.

That was because Flawless-grade meant that the pills contained not the slightest impurity or trace of pill toxicity. Even when refined by a ninth-grade alchemist, getting ten such pills out of a hundred batches would already be considered exceptional.

Good heavens. Now he had cultivation manuals, cultivation enhancements, pills, and Magical Artifacts.

That was more than enough to casually raise an extremely powerful team.

The corners of Jiang Yichen’s lips lifted. With this, what was there to fear about Jiang Feng poaching people? Jiang Feng could poach all he wanted.

People who were not loyal could not be forced to stay.

In two days, he would go and see how many people were left.

“Brother Yichen, why are you smiling? If something made you happy, can you share it with me?”

Jiang Zhentian seemed to have urgent business and was already nowhere in sight.

Su Linyu stepped closer and asked curiously.

“It is nothing. Let’s go eat. I’ll treat you to the delicacies of a top private chef.”

Su Linyu nodded excitedly. “Okay, okay~”

...

The next day, at Huazhong Hospital.

Jiang Feng, dressed in a tailored designer suit, walked through the hospital entrance under the escort of bodyguards holding an umbrella over him.

“Young Master, I have already paid the breach-of-contract penalties and poached all eight of the members from Young Master Yichen’s Thunder Team and Phoenix Team.”

“Eight?” Jiang Feng frowned. “Weren’t there ten people total between those two teams?”

“Yes, Young Master. It is just that the captain of Thunder Team and one member of Phoenix Team refused. They said that Young Master Yichen had shown them kindness.”

Jiang Feng narrowed his eyes slightly. “Kindness? In front of money, that is worth nothing. Increase the offer. There is nothing I set out to do that I cannot accomplish.”

“Yes, Young Master.”

Jiang Feng gave a small nod and walked gracefully into the ward in the indigent wing. He could not help lifting a handkerchief to cover his nose and mouth.

“It is filthy here,” he said with disgust in his eyes. “Which room is Lin Wan in?”

“Ward Three.”

Escorted by the bodyguards, Jiang Feng entered Ward Three. The moment Lin Hai’s family of three saw the strangers arrive, they all stopped grieving.

“Who are you people?” Lin Hai stood up and shielded his still-unconscious daughter.

Jiang Feng sneered and waved a hand toward the bodyguards. “No one is allowed to question me. Throw them out.”

The instant the order fell, the two bodyguards at the door dragged and shoved Lin Hai and the other two straight out of the room.

If they dared say a single improper word, the bodyguards answered with a direct slap that left them dizzy and disoriented.

“I am giving you three minutes. Wake her up.”

Jiang Feng’s eyes were cold, and his tone allowed no defiance.

A bodyguard opened a briefcase, took out a green injection, and administered it into Lin Wan’s arm.

Not long after, green light began to glow from Lin Wan’s body, and the deep claw wounds around her bandaged waist slowly healed.

Lin Wan’s eyelashes trembled as she struggled to open her eyes. Her face was pale and utterly bloodless.

Her injuries had not actually been that severe to begin with. If Jiang Yichen were still around, she would have been transferred to a VIP ward and fully recovered in less than half a day.

But her parents had no money. They could not afford such expensive medicine.

She realized that Jiang Yichen truly seemed to have stopped caring about her. In the past, even if she merely cut her finger, he would insist on taking her to the hospital for a full-body examination.

Lin Wan pressed her cracked lips together. Her blurry gaze fell upon Jiang Feng, and surprise flashed through her eyes.

“Jiang Yichen, you bastard, why did you only come now? Do you have any idea how much pain I suffered because you were late?”

“You had better—”

But as her vision gradually cleared, her words suddenly came to a halt. The person before her was not Jiang Yichen, but his cousin Jiang Feng.

“Y-you...”

Jiang Feng raised his hand and seized Lin Wan by the throat. “Woman, without my permission, you dared speak to me in that tone and even mistook me for Jiang Yichen.”

He gave a cold snort. “Very good. You wanted to use this method to get my attention. I must admit, it feels rather novel.”

Lin Wan’s body was already weak, and although Jiang Feng was not using his full strength, she still felt the pressure of suffocation.

“Now I am giving you a choice,” Jiang Feng whispered beside her ear. “A choice to join the Yanhuang Team.”

At those words, a trace of light instantly returned to Lin Wan’s eyes. She said with difficulty, “Y-you... speak...”

“One month from now, during the Huaxia Team League, I want you to compete against Jiang Yichen’s team.”

“But my strength...”

“I do not need your strength. I need you to humiliate him viciously and make him feel regret.”

When Jiang Feng said this, his expression became somewhat frightening. He intended to repay the humiliation of the martial exam to Jiang Yichen many times over.

Now that he had absorbed the Yanhuang Team, and poached eight members from Thunder Team and Phoenix Team, there was already no suspense whatsoever over the league championship.

But winning the title alone was far from enough to vent the hatred in his heart.

He wanted Jiang Yichen to taste what it felt like to be humiliated as well.

And the person to do it could not be himself. For someone of his status to do it personally would only demean him.

On the contrary, Lin Wan, the woman Jiang Yichen had loved for four years, was the most suitable choice.

“Woman, Yanhuang belongs to me now. As long as, after Yanhuang wins the championship, you publicly humiliate Jiang Yichen without mercy, I can give you a chance to join the Yanhuang Team.”

Lin Wan’s eyes widened, and her hand trembled as she clenched it tightly.

Thinking of everything Jiang Yichen had done to her recently, of how he had not even visited her after she was injured, and of how he had threatened her family—

What right did he still have to deserve her attachment?

Now the chance to rise up was right in front of her. Perhaps following Jiang Feng would be a hundred times better than following that useless Jiang Yichen.

Jiang Yichen, do not blame me for being heartless. I only want to climb higher and have a better future.

“I agree. I will repay all the grievances I have suffered by returning them a hundredfold to that bastard Jiang Yichen,” Lin Wan said weakly.

Jiang Feng slowly released the hand around her throat and wiped his fingers with a white handkerchief. “Woman, you made the correct choice.”