Chapter 68 : Chapter 68
Chapter 68. Supreme-grade · Divine Radiance, Now It Is Truly Perfect
“System, open the gift pack.”
【Congratulations, Host. You have obtained: Supreme-grade · Divine Radiance, ten billion in funds, and ten eighth-rank Magical Artifacts.】
Divine Radiance? What kind of thing is that?
Jiang Yichen checked the description.
【Supreme-grade · Divine Radiance: Can be fused with sunlight or moonlight. Any martial artist illuminated by the divine light can have their martial talent subtly improved over time. Skill range: one hundred meters. Duration: unlimited.】
Jiang Yichen smiled.
Now even something that could improve martial talent had appeared. If he used this to train a team, would that not make them absurdly overpowered?
The only question was how fast the improvement would be. If they all ended up with SSS-rank talent, the whole of Huaxia would probably be shocked.
【The rate of improvement varies from person to person. Each case is different.】
In other words, some would improve quickly and others slowly. It depended on each individual’s fortune and their understanding of martial cultivation.
This was perfect now.
He already had cultivation amplification, top-grade medicinal pills, top-tier cultivation arts, and now even something that could improve martial talent.
Perfect!
“Boss, did you say that Miss Su, the Tang Family’s second young master, and the Chu Family’s young master are going to rebuild the team with the two of us?”
At that moment, Lei Zhen spoke in his deep voice to confirm it.
Jiang Yichen lifted his eyes and nodded slightly. “That is right. Is there a problem?”
“A problem? The problem is huge.” Sleep God scratched at his bird’s-nest hair. “Boss, the teams participating in the league are all at least at the fifth-realm Grandmaster level.”
“Miss Su and the other two are still only in the fourth realm. What are they supposed to fight with? Boss, you should think of another solution.”
Lei Zhen nodded. “Boss, Sleep God speaks bluntly, but he is right.”
“It would be manageable if we ran into ordinary teams. The two of us, as sixth-realm Great Grandmasters, could still carry them a bit. But if we run into those top teams from the great families, we would have no chance of winning.”
Su Linyu nodded like a pecking chick. “Brother Yichen, Uncle Lei and Sleep God are right. My strength is too low.”
“If you do not want to ask the former team members to come back, I will go. I have thick skin.” She pinched her soft cheek and winked at him with a smile.
Uncle Feng, standing beside her, bent down and said in a low voice, “Young Master, the championship in this league concerns your position as heir. You should still consider it carefully.”
Faced with the persuasion of all four of them, Jiang Yichen raised a hand to stop them. “Am I the boss, or are you the boss? People grow. Their strength may be a little low right now, but that does not mean it will still be low a month from now.”
“You are all too anxious.”
Lei Zhen, Sleep God, and Uncle Feng all twitched at the corners of their mouths.
Anxious? How could they not be anxious?
There was only one month left before the league began. In that amount of time, even raising one minor level was difficult. How could they not worry?
Where was there enough time for newcomers to grow?
All three of them shook their heads and sighed. This year’s league was finished.
There was disappointment in Uncle Feng’s eyes. The young master’s position as heir was finished too.
Su Linyu rested her face in both hands, unable to hide the worry in her eyes.
Jiang Yichen knocked on the table. “Look at how dispirited you all are. Be more optimistic.”
“Su Linyu!” he suddenly called out in a solemn tone.
Su Linyu jolted upright. “Present!”
“Do you have the confidence to be a good captain?”
“…” Su Linyu bit her lower lip and hesitated for a moment before answering firmly, “Yes, Brother Yichen!”
Since Brother Yichen insisted on doing this, then she would do everything in her power to help him.
Jiang Yichen nodded slightly, then shifted his gaze. “What about the rest of you?”
Lei Zhen nodded. “I will follow the boss’s arrangements.”
A trace of worry appeared in Sleep God’s drowsy eyes. “Whatever the boss says.”
Jiang Yichen blinked and smiled. “Uncle Feng, help me contact Tang Long and Chu Xingchen.”
That youthful promise was finally time to fulfill.
Uncle Feng looked dejected, but he still nodded. “…Yes, Young Master.”
Once the arrangements were made, Su Linyu, burdened with the heavy responsibility of being captain, went off with Captain Lei Zhen to learn how to become a qualified team captain.
Jiang Yichen, having nothing else to do, saw Sleep God rubbing medicated oil near his eyes to keep himself awake.
“Sleep God, how long has it been since I came to this training base?”
“About half a year.” Sleep God’s voice drifted out like a murmur from a dream. “Boss, your whole heart was set on the Yanhuang Team. The training facilities at this base have not even been maintained for months.”
Jiang Yichen looked out through the floor-to-ceiling window at the old training grounds below and the wooden stakes snapped cleanly in half.
After Yanhuang won the championship in his previous life, eighty percent of the cultivation resources and funds had been tilted toward them, while the other teams received very little.
The newly recruited members all had at least A-rank martial talent. Since they could not see any hope, it was normal for them to leave. Everyone had their own ambitions.
“Sleep God, take me around the training base.”
Jiang Yichen stood up. It was the perfect time to set up the Rapid Cultivation Array, the Spirit-Nourishing Array, the Blood Qi Array, and the others throughout the training base.
As soon as Sleep God heard that, his spirits rose, and some of his drowsiness faded.
“Sure, Boss. If I stay by myself, I get sleepy easily.”
The two of them went downstairs and walked along the wall, where tufts of grass had begun to grow. Sleep God yawned nonstop the entire way. To fight off the drowsiness, his mouth never stopped moving.
Even the little weeds by the wall corners could inspire him to make up some motivational story about grass breaking through the soil.
“Boss, look over there at the training field. I remember when you brought me back from the streets four years ago, I was filthy all over and did not fit in with the others at all.”
“But after I fell asleep once, the way they looked at me changed. It turned into fear.”
“You were the only one who was never afraid of me and never thought I was dirty, Boss. Even though you treated every team member the same back then, I was still really, really touched…”
As he introduced the training base, Sleep God started reminiscing about the past again.
This was almost an inevitable part of it. Whenever he was alone and bored, he did the same thing.
Jiang Yichen listened quietly, nodding from time to time, though most of his attention was focused on setting up the arrays.
“System, set up the arrays.”
【Confirming range. Setting up Rapid Cultivation Array... Setting up Blood Qi Array... Setting up Spirit-Nourishing Array... Setting up Dao-Comprehension Array...】
“Activate Supreme-grade · Divine Radiance and fuse it into the sunlight.”
【Divine Radiance has been activated. Confirming range. Effect is now taking place...】
As a series of prompts sounded from the system, Jiang Yichen nodded slightly.
At the side, Sleep God, who was still immersed in his memories, suddenly stopped under the bright sunlight.
He felt his Blood Qi and mental power begin to boil, and questions that he had never been able to understand suddenly became clear in an instant.
That feeling only came when he was about to break through a realm.
Could it be that I am about to break through again?
Feeling the changes in his body, Sleep God was baffled by this sudden transformation.
But... with the sunlight shining on him, he suddenly felt so warm. So sleepy...
Hiss!
Sleep God’s eyes, which were about to close, suddenly flew wide open as he sucked in a sharp breath.
“Awake now?” Jiang Yichen released his hand.
Sleep God quickly rubbed the flesh at his waist. It hurt, it hurt!
“Boss, I feel like the concentration of Spiritual Energy around us suddenly got higher. For that instant, I actually had the feeling that I was about to break through. Did you feel that too?”
Hearing that, Jiang Yichen nodded slightly to himself. The reaction had come this quickly. That two-hundred-percent increase in cultivation speed really was no joke.
“I did not feel anything. Keep walking.”
Sleep God gave a half-believing little “oh,” then continued walking while yawning and reminiscing about the past.
At the entrance to the training base, Uncle Feng, having already contacted Tang Long and Chu Xingchen, stood there properly waiting for the two of them to arrive.
But all of a sudden, the Blood Qi inside his body started boiling. The bright sunlight shining on him made him feel as though he were basking in a warm spring breeze.
“T-This is a sign of a breakthrough?”
Uncle Feng was shocked.
He had been stuck at the third stage of the seventh-realm Martial King for eight years, and he had consulted quite a few scholars who studied cultivation systems.
They had all told him that his potential was exhausted and that he would remain forever at the third stage of the seventh realm.
He had tried cultivating diligently as well, but it had never had the slightest effect.
So what was going on now?
Why had it suddenly...
Before Uncle Feng could figure it out, the Blood Qi throughout his body began to boil violently. Overjoyed, he exclaimed, “After eight years of accumulation, I am finally about to break through!”