Chapter 67 : Chapter 67
Chapter 67. Rebuilding the Team, Reward: a Supreme-grade Gift Pack
“Little brats, I underestimated you...”
Sleep God was pinned down by the Void Hand Seal. His eyes were closed, yet it was as if he could still see everyone clearly.
After saying that, he lay there motionless.
Lei Zhen of the Thunder Team looked visibly shocked. When Sleep God was asleep, even he, at the peak of the sixth realm, could only barely shock him awake.
He glanced at his boss. “Boss, was that a space ability?”
Jiang Yichen gave a slight nod and said calmly, “I practiced a bit of a space-type cultivation art. Wake him up with electricity.”
A space-type cultivation art?
A look of surprise appeared on Lei Zhen’s face. He remembered that his boss had always been weak in martial cultivation.
Space-type cultivation arts were among the hardest techniques to master, second only to time-type ones. This version of his boss felt strangely unfamiliar.
Could it be that the Huazhong Martial Exam video that had gone viral online two days ago was not edited? Was the boss really that incredible?
Half believing and half doubting, Lei Zhen removed the black glove from his right hand. His metallic palm crackled as arcs of electricity gathered with sharp snaps.
Then he slapped a palm onto Sleep God’s backside. Sleep God’s eyes flew open at once, only to close again almost immediately. This would have to be repeated several times before he fully woke up.
“Young Master, when did you ever cultivate a space-type cultivation art? If I remember correctly, none of the Jiang Family Martial Vault’s space arts are this powerful.”
Uncle Feng had already changed into a brand-new white shirt, but he still looked completely baffled.
The recent changes in the young master had become stranger and stranger.
“There was none? Then I just created one. Simple as that,” Jiang Yichen said evenly.
The system made it. What problem could there be?
A self-created cultivation art?
Uncle Feng stood there in a daze for a moment. It was true that once a martial artist stepped into the Grandmaster Realm, they could create their own techniques.
But without ten or twenty years of exploration, it was basically impossible. That was even more true for a top-tier path like space techniques.
He had originally thought the space ability the young master displayed during the martial exam came from that black-and-crimson battle armor. But now it seemed the young master had not only hidden his cultivation, he had secretly been cultivating techniques as well.
He had stayed by the young master’s side for so long and never noticed. It was practically a dereliction of duty.
“Uncle Feng, stop standing there in a daze. Go clean up a meeting room. I have something to discuss with them.”
Coming back to his senses, Uncle Feng bowed slightly. “Yes, Young Master.”
Jiang Yichen’s gaze fell on Lei Zhen, who was currently providing Sleep God with electric wake-up treatment.
In his previous life, Lei Zhen had retired from the military district after an arm was bitten off by a demon beast. But after losing one arm, he ran into obstacles everywhere while applying for martial artist jobs.
In the end, Jiang Yichen took a liking to Lei Zhen’s SS-rank martial talent, “Lightning Dharma King,” and spent an astronomical amount to equip him with a top-tier mechanical arm.
But Lei Zhen had once been a soldier. He cared deeply about victory, defeat, honor, and disgrace, and found it hard to accept outcomes influenced by external interference.
So after Jiang Yichen made the Thunder Team lose to the Yanhuang Team in the previous league, Lei Zhen said nothing on the surface, but he had quietly been earning money ever since.
When Lei Zhen left in Jiang Yichen’s previous life, he paid him back for the mechanical arm Jiang Yichen had bought for him, the contract penalty, and the training expenses, all with four years of interest added on top.
Jiang Yichen let out a sigh, but inwardly, he was actually rather pleased.
So the people he had raised for four years were not all ungrateful ingrates after all.
“Linyu, let me introduce you. This is Lei Zhen, the captain of the Thunder Team...”
Hm?
Jiang Yichen turned his head, and his words abruptly stopped. Su Linyu was staring at him blankly, the admiration in her eyes almost spilling over.
He lightly patted her cheek. “Why are you spacing out?”
Su Linyu snapped back to herself. “Sorry, sorry. It is mainly because I can see Brother Yichen getting more and more amazing. I am so envious and so full of admiration~”
“I have decided. Starting today, I am going to work even harder too, so I can keep up with you, Brother Yichen, and help you do more and more.”
“...” Jiang Yichen was speechless. “If you do everything, then what am I supposed to do?”
“Huh? Brother Yichen can just take it easy. Did you not say that taking it easy is what you like?”
Su Linyu smiled sweetly and patted her chest with confidence. “Brother Yichen, just go do whatever you like. Leave everything else to me. I will work super, super hard.”
Uh... fine then. There was nothing he could say to that.
Jiang Yichen shook his head with a smile. As they walked toward the meeting room, he told her about Lei Zhen and Sleep God’s past.
Su Linyu listened carefully, taking notes in her little notebook.
More than ten minutes later, under Lei Zhen’s electric therapy, Sleep God finally woke up.
The first thing he did after waking was clutch his bird’s-nest hair and mutter to himself, “I killed someone again. I did not mean to.”
It took quite a while to calm him down. Only then did Sleep God settle down, and once they entered the meeting room, he kept apologizing to everyone nonstop.
Seated at the head of the table, Jiang Yichen raised a hand. “Enough. Sleep God, calm down.”
“I cannot, Boss. If I stay quiet, I will get sleepy.” Sleep God held up his heavy eyelids with his fingers, his eyes bulging like Ultraman’s.
Strangely enough, though, the whites of his eyes were no longer bloodshot, and even his heavy dark circles had disappeared.
“...” Jiang Yichen looked at Lei Zhen. “The team is down to just the two of you now, right?”
A look of shame appeared on the bearded Lei Zhen’s face. “I am sorry, Boss. I could not persuade them.”
“How about you go in person, Boss? For the sake of the four years you spent raising them, they would definitely come back on their own.”
There was only one month left before the Huaxia Team League, yet all the team members had been poached away. A team without cohesion was the responsibility of him, the captain.
“That is right, Boss.” Sleep God also chimed in, trying to stay alert by talking. “If you go personally, they will definitely come back. Otherwise, we will not even have the qualifications to enter the league.”
Su Linyu and Uncle Feng both nodded as well. They clearly agreed with the suggestion.
Jiang Yichen thought it over. A team had to have five people to register for the league.
Su Linyu could fill one slot.
But they would still be two people short. Where was he supposed to find them?
【Ding! A take-it-easy choice has been triggered.】
【Option 1: To make up the registration numbers, contact the former team members who left and offer them a higher price to persuade them to come back.
Reward: the “Advice Bro” title.
Option 2: If you cannot compete, then do not compete. Just disband and admit defeat. Whatever.
Reward: an “Intermediate Take-It-Easy Gift Pack.”】
The moment Jiang Yichen saw that the second option only offered an intermediate gift pack, his eyes instantly lit up.
Holy shit! The Supreme-grade Gift Pack is here.
His gaze dropped lower.
【Option 3: In your previous life, you once promised your companions that you would build a team together in the future and shine brilliantly in the league, but you had long since cast that promise aside for Lin Wan.
Now that you have lived this life again, as the boss, call your former companions back into the team, take part in the 30th Huaxia Team League, and enjoy the glory they bring you.
Reward: a “Supreme-grade Take-It-Easy Gift Pack.”】
Companions?
A nostalgic look surfaced in Jiang Yichen’s eyes. Back when they graduated from high school, he had made an agreement with Chu Xingchen and Tang Long.
After graduating from college, they would form a team together and compete in the Huaxia Team League.
But later, because of Lin Wan, he had completely forgotten about it.
Back then, they had all the fiery spirit of youth and had sworn they would win a championship.
Now, however, they had drifted farther and farther apart, each walking their own road, with no intersecting paths between them.
Jiang Yichen sighed inwardly. Thinking about it now, he could not help but feel a little regret.
Now he had cultivation arts, medicinal pills, and amplification arrays, all of them practically cheats. With the system in hand, winning the league championship was hardly difficult.
So why not pull Chu Xingchen and Tang Long into the team? It would count as making up for a regret from his youth and letting himself feel at ease.
When you are taking it easy, your state of mind matters more than anything else.
Jiang Yichen swept his gaze across the four of them and said solemnly, “No. If people want to leave, then even if you drag them back, they will not truly fight for their boss.”
“I have decided to rebuild the team. Su Linyu will be the captain, Lei Zhen the vice-captain, and the members will be Sleep God, Tang Long, and Chu Xingchen. That makes exactly five people.”
The moment those words came out, the meeting room fell into dead silence. Even Sleep God, who had been relying on talking to keep himself awake, went blank.
【Ding! Congratulations, Host, on making a take-it-easy choice. You have obtained a “Supreme-grade Take-It-Easy Gift Pack.” Would you like to open it?】