Chapter 69 : Chapter 69
Chapter 69. I Only Set Up a Few Arrays. What Are You All So Surprised About?
Boom! Boom!
A series of thunderous rumbles came from inside Uncle Feng’s body. Under the impact of his surging Blood Qi, the barrier of his realm began to collapse inch by inch.
His breakthrough was right in front of him.
Excited, he dropped to the ground and sat down hard, circulating his cultivation art to guide the Blood Qi within him as it charged toward the fourth stage of the seventh realm.
He did not even notice Tang Long and Chu Xingchen slowly approaching from the distance.
“Hero Chu, the team’s training base is just ahead,” Tang Long said, carrying a bag on his back as he checked the navigation on his phone.
Chu Xingchen lifted his eyes and looked ahead. When he saw the shabby, timeworn training base that seemed as if no one had cleaned it for ages, his expression stiffened.
Tang Long was stunned as well. Jiang Yichen was, after all, the eldest young master of the number one great family. How could the training base be this old and run-down?
“Hero Chu, why do I feel like we got fooled?”
“If Brother Yichen really remembered the promise we made after graduating from high school, he should not have found a training base even worse than my family’s team base,” Tang Long said helplessly.
Chu Xingchen frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head. “When walking the world, the most important thing is credibility. Whether Jiang Yichen fooled us is his business. Keeping the promise is mine.”
“There you go. Hero Chu is always so official.” Tang Long gave him a thumbs-up.
The two of them stepped up to the entrance, but the closer they got to the training base, the stranger their expressions became.
“Hiss! Something is wrong with the Spiritual Energy concentration here. It is even higher than in my family’s secret realm.” Tang Long looked astonished.
Buzz!
A powerful fluctuation of Spiritual Energy suddenly rippled through space. Startled, Chu Xingchen and Tang Long turned to look.
Beside the guard booth at the entrance, Uncle Feng’s Martial King aura was rising, and the surrounding gravity was quietly increasing.
“It is Uncle Feng...”
“Do not go near him. He is breaking through.” A violet demonic aura stained Chu Xingchen’s eyes, allowing him to see through Uncle Feng’s body as if with penetrating vision, clearly observing the movement of his Blood Qi.
Yet that was not what truly surprised him. When his gaze shifted to the entire training base, his eyes widened slightly.
“Formations. Layered formations, at that. With this level of complexity, I am afraid even a ninth-rank Array Master would struggle to set them up.”
Under the insight of his SS-rank Demonic Eyes, the formations laid throughout the training base appeared before him.
But he could not see through their effects. They were far too profound.
“Huh? What formations, Hero Chu?” Tang Long was completely baffled. He looked again and again, but saw nothing at all.
Chu Xingchen withdrew his gaze, and a faint smile rose to his lips. “Jiang Yichen still has some credibility. He did not fool us.”
To set up formations this complex and profound over the entire training base—
Just the cost of hiring an array master would already be astronomical. Where would there be money left to renovate the training facilities?
Tang Long remained confused, but he smiled and said, “As long as we were not fooled, that is even better. The three of us brothers can fight in the Team League together again. Hahaha.”
By the time the two had finished chatting, Uncle Feng had completed his breakthrough, his face full of excitement.
Fourth stage of the seventh realm! After eight years, I finally broke through.
His eyes could not help turning moist. He alone knew the hardship of eight years of bitter cultivation.
“Uncle Feng, congratulations, congratulations on your breakthrough.” A genial smile appeared on Tang Long’s plump face.
Uncle Feng lifted his gaze and saw that the two had arrived. He quickly stood up from the ground and returned to his usual dignified butler-like manner.
“Thank you!”
“Come with me. The Young Master asked me to take you to the training grounds and introduce you to the other three team members.”
Chu Xingchen and Tang Long nodded and followed Uncle Feng into the training base.
The base’s office area.
“Uncle Lei, how can I become a good captain?”
Inside the office, Su Linyu asked Lei Zhen with eager curiosity shining in her eyes.
Lei Zhen scratched his head. He might have been the captain of the Thunder Team, but he was not especially skilled in this area either.
Otherwise, the Thunder Team’s members would not have been poached away.
Lei Zhen pondered for a long while before saying, “Back when I was in the military district, our squad leader once said that to become a good leader, the first thing you need is authority.”
“Authority?” Su Linyu tilted her head and thought for a moment. “How do I have authority?”
Lei Zhen considered it, then raised one finger. “Let us do this. You are the captain now, and I am a team member. I have made a mistake. How would you handle it?”
Su Linyu thought it over for a while. A captain was similar to a leader. She had to have enough authority to win the trust of the team members, but she also had to balance strictness with kindness.
That was what people said online, anyway. First apply pressure, then give kindness. That should definitely work.
She suddenly sprang to her feet and put on what she thought was a fierce expression.
“I am warning you. If you dare make a mistake again...”
Seeing this, Lei Zhen nodded slightly. It was starting to look the part.
“I will take the blame for you!”
???
Su Linyu’s next sentence left Lei Zhen frozen in place.
What was that supposed to be?
“Uncle Lei, how is this? Strictness and kindness together?” Su Linyu asked sincerely.
The corner of Lei Zhen’s mouth twitched. He had no idea how to answer.
Boss, were you serious when you chose the captain?
Just as he stood there speechless, he suddenly felt the surrounding environment change.
Hm? Why has the concentration of Spiritual Energy increased?
Then the Blood Qi in Lei Zhen’s body began to stir, seeming to grow more quickly.
He froze again. What was going on?
It was not just Lei Zhen. Su Linyu also felt the Blood Qi in her body roiling, as if a breakthrough was on the way.
A look of surprise appeared in her eyes. She had only reached the peak of the fourth realm a week ago, so why did she already feel another breakthrough coming after playing games with Brother Yichen for three days?
Su Linyu could not help recalling what Brother Yichen had once told her: there was no need to rush breakthroughs. Relax your body and mind, cultivate your state of mind well, and breakthroughs would come naturally.
Wow! So Brother Yichen was telling the truth. That method really works.
As expected of my idol. Even his understanding of cultivation is so unique, and the results are obvious.
Unable to help herself, Su Linyu touched her flushed cheeks with both hands, thinking of Brother Yichen with eyes full of admiration.
“Miss Su, Miss Su!”
Only when Lei Zhen called out to her did she slowly come back to herself.
“What is it, Uncle Lei?”
“The boss sent a message. He told us to gather at the training grounds. Let us go.”
Su Linyu smiled sweetly. “All right, all right!”
A few minutes later, at the training grounds.
Lei Zhen, Su Linyu, Chu Xingchen, and Tang Long stood in a neat line, their eyes bright and full of spirit.
At the very end, Sleep God stood with half-lidded eyes, looking as though he could fall asleep at any moment.
“Let me introduce them. This is Chu Xingchen, and this is Tang Long. They are my good brothers. They will be joining the team and fighting in the league together with us.”
Jiang Yichen introduced them openly and naturally.
Chu Xingchen and Tang Long, however, both froze slightly. They had not heard Jiang Yichen use the words “good brothers” in four years.
From the graduation ceremony onward, it really did feel as though Jiang Yichen had undergone a complete transformation.
Chu Xingchen and Tang Long stepped forward and greeted the other three.
Jiang Yichen nodded slightly and had Uncle Feng carry over the Myriad Cultivation Arts Chest.
“Now that the new team has been formed, as the boss, I prepared a welcoming gift for you.”
The five of them became interested at once, their eyes falling on the chest on the ground.
“Brother Yichen, what is inside?” Su Linyu asked curiously.
At the thought of receiving another gift from Brother Yichen, her heart filled with joy.
“Martial cultivation arts. Pick whatever you like.”
Jiang Yichen opened the chest, but the cultivation arts inside could not be seen. It was a container with a spatial interior.
He raised his hand slightly, and the chest trembled. Then book after book of cultivation arts flew out as if they had sprouted wings, circling through the air.
It was as though those cultivation arts were not lifeless objects at all, but possessed thoughts of their own as they wheeled through the sky in search of suitable masters.
The sight of those countless cultivation arts dancing through the air left Lei Zhen and the other four utterly amazed.
Uncle Feng’s expression stiffened even more.
Young Master, did you empty out the entire Jiang Family Martial Vault?
After circling in the air for a while, three streams of light shot downward from among the ten thousand cultivation arts, landing in the hands of Lei Zhen, Tang Long, and Chu Xingchen.
Lei Zhen hurriedly looked down.
High Earth-tier · Three Thousand Thunder Movement: When cultivated to the Great Completion stage, it is comparable to a Heaven-tier art.
!?
High Earth-tier! And at Great Completion, it is even comparable to a Heaven-tier art.
Cultivation arts of this grade were reserved for the children of top great families. Small families and ordinary martial artists did not even have the qualifications to come into contact with them.
Lei Zhen was stunned. The boss was being far too generous.