Chapter 71 : Chapter 71
Chapter 71. There’s Only One Month Left Before the League, and You’re Taking the Team Out to Slack Off in the Sun?
“What!? Two thousand one hundred top-grade pills per person, every single day!?”
Uncle Feng’s mouth fell open as he stared at the young master in utter disbelief.
Where had the Jiang family gotten such staggering resources? If the family’s alchemists could refine over a hundred top-grade pills in a single day, that would already be considered absurdly heaven-defying.
Yet the young master was giving out more than two thousand pills per person every day. Where had so many come from?
And even among the Jiang family’s direct descendants, each person could receive at most a single top-grade Blood Qi Pill per day. That was already considered the highest level of benefits.
Some of the Jiang family’s collateral branches did not get any at all.
More than two thousand top-grade pills a day... Was that really a benefits package? Could any normal person even think of something like that?
Lei Zhen and Sleep God, who knew nothing about the Jiang family’s internal situation, could only stare at the jade pill bottles in their hands and marvel at the family’s immense wealth.
Damn! So this was how well the Yanhuang Team used to be fed. No wonder their strength had advanced so quickly. In just three years, every member had reached the Sixth Realm.
“Are you satisfied with these benefits? If not, I can…”
“That’s enough, that’s enough, Brother Yichen— no... Godfather! This is already better than I could have imagined.”
Tang Long rubbed his plump face against the jade pill bottle. Even as the young master of a prestigious family, he had been completely won over by Jiang Yichen’s overwhelming wealth.
Chu Xingchen, however, felt guilty accepting so much. Frowning, he said, “I can’t finish that many pills. Ten a day is already more than enough. You should take the rest back.”
“Stop, stop, stop. If you can’t finish them, just eat them like candy. We only have one month. Time is short, and the task is heavy.”
Jiang Yichen cut him off. “In any case, top-grade pills have no side effects and no pill toxins whatsoever. You must use up the daily amount. Otherwise, I’ll punish you. Understood?”
“……”
A long string of ellipses seemed to drift over the five of their heads.
“Did you understand or not?!” Jiang Yichen raised his voice when they did not respond.
The five of them immediately snapped back to attention and answered in unison, “Understood, Boss!”
Jiang Yichen smiled faintly. “Good. Very good.”
Su Linyu looked deeply troubled. They had not even produced any results yet, and they had already received cultivation arts worth a fortune and an unimaginable amount of pills.
And all of it had come from Brother Yichen alone.
Although she did not know how Brother Yichen had managed to obtain all these cultivation resources, he must have gone to tremendous lengths for them. Perhaps he had even done something like last time, when he had gone to Auntie to ask for money and forced the issue by threatening his life.
She clenched her palms tightly, and a trace of resolve rose across her face.
As captain, she had to do her job well. She had to lead the team to real results and repay Brother Yichen.
Su Linyu stepped forward. “Brother Yichen, does our newly formed team have a name yet?”
“A name?”
Hearing that, Jiang Yichen stroked his chin and began to think.
“How about Thunder Team again?” Lei Zhen suggested. “Isn’t that name imposing enough? Strong enough?”
Sleep God shook his head, his tone slow and unhurried. “We can’t use the old name anymore. I thought of one. How about ‘Dream Team’?”
“Sleep God, why can’t we use Thunder Team? I think it’s pretty good.”
“Take a look at the Thunder Team you led. You’re the only one left. It’s bad luck.”
“Oh? Sleep God, you... you’d better not fall asleep next time.” Lei Zhen let out a cold snort.
Sleep God half-opened his eyes, scratched at his bird’s-nest hair, and laughed. “I was just joking. Next time, tone down the lightning a bit. The burns on my backside still haven’t healed...”
Su Linyu and the other two newcomers did not interrupt. They simply listened to the seniors arrange things.
After thinking for a while, Jiang Yichen decided that since he was the boss, he should choose a name he personally liked.
“Ahem.”
He coughed twice lightly. “I’ll name it. It’ll be called…”
All five of them turned to look at him at once, their eyes full of anticipation.
“Slacker Team. That name fits perfectly,” Jiang Yichen said with a smile.
The smiles on all five faces gradually vanished. Tang Long turned to Su Linyu. “Sister Linyu, did you hear that? The boss wants us to discuss it ourselves. Let’s head to the meeting room.”
Su Linyu froze for a moment, then thought it over and nodded. “Alright. Brother Yichen, then we’ll go discuss the team name and come back to gather later.”
Lei Zhen and Sleep God stopped arguing as well. Together with Su Linyu and the other two, they left in silent agreement.
“……” Jiang Yichen twitched at the corner of his mouth. “Uncle Feng, is that name really so bad?”
Uncle Feng: “……”
More than ten minutes later, the five returned to the training ground and decided on the name Spark Team.
In Su Linyu’s words, “A spark symbolizes a small but resilient kind of strength. It means that a single spark can start a prairie fire.”
Seeing that all five agreed, Jiang Yichen gave up on the name Slacker Team.
“Brother Yichen, then what’s our training task for today? Sparring to build coordination? Or some other kind of training?”
Su Linyu raised her little fists, eager to get started.
Jiang Yichen did not answer immediately. Instead, he considered the best training method.
In his previous life, he had been a boss. He was highly experienced in developing and training teams.
But this life was a little different. He had the system, which meant his methods of training would naturally be completely different.
“Boss, the first lesson for new members joining a team is to test their strength first, then let them build coordination and develop chemistry with one another…”
“With the top-tier resources you’ve given us, it’s not as though we have no chance at all of fighting for the Huaxia Team League championship within a month.”
The seasoned Lei Zhen laid out his own set of methods.
Chu Xingchen and Tang Long nodded. Lei Zhen’s words made perfect sense.
“If we want to achieve anything in the league with only one month left, then we have to go through high-intensity hell training,” Su Linyu agreed as well.
Jiang Yichen, however, shook his head. With the support of the arrays rewarded by the system, wasting time on that sort of thing simply was not worth it.
For martial artists, martial talent was the key to increasing cultivation speed. He should first use Supreme-grade · Divine Radiance to raise their martial talent.
“Lei Zhen, go move six lounge chairs and place them somewhere on the training ground where they can get sunlight.”
Lei Zhen did not understand what he meant, but he did as he was told. Together with Uncle Feng, he carried over six lounge chairs and set them down in the sunniest spot.
Jiang Yichen nodded, took out a pair of sunglasses, put them on, and lay back comfortably in his chair, basking in the sunlight.
Lei Zhen and the other five were utterly baffled. They had no idea what he was trying to do.
“Brother Yichen, weren’t you about to assign today’s training? Why are you leisurely sunbathing instead?” Su Linyu asked.
Jiang Yichen pulled down his sunglasses and smiled. “Today’s training task is…”
He pointed at the lounge chairs. “Lie down and sunbathe. Close your eyes and rest your mind. A good mindset is the most important thing when facing challenges.”
“Come on, hurry up. The sun feels great on your body.”
Then he lay back down again and resumed enjoying himself.
The five of them: “……”
Uncle Feng shook his head. There was only one month left, yet the young master was still thinking about slacking off. Now he was even leading the entire team to slack off with him.
Winning the league championship had already been a very slim hope to begin with. If they kept slacking off like this, then no matter how good their cultivation resources were, they would still have no chance.
“Boss, at a time like this, how can we sunbathe?” Lei Zhen asked anxiously.
Su Linyu looked just as worried. “Brother Yichen, we don’t have time to sunbathe. We have to seize every second and work hard, harder, and even harder than that!”
Chu Xingchen and Tang Long were both still only in the Fourth Realm. Reaching the Fifth Realm within a single month would already be extraordinarily difficult.
If they kept slacking off in the sun, there would be even less hope.
Jiang Yichen sighed. “I’m the boss, so listen to me. Sunbathing is a form of cultivation too.”
Seeing that he insisted, the five of them could only shake their heads helplessly and lie down in the chairs, bathing in the sunlight.
Jiang Yichen was the team’s boss. They had to obey him.
【Ding! Slacker choice triggered.】
【Choice One: Put the new team through one month of hell training and actively prepare for the Huaxia Team League. Reward: the title ‘Devil Instructor.’
Choice Two: Training a team already exhausted me in my previous life. I’m not doing it again in this new life. Let them fend for themselves. Reward: ‘Low-level Slacker Gift Pack.’
Choice Three: Now that you possess Supreme-grade · Divine Radiance, what’s the point of working so hard to train them? Lead the new team in sunbathing together and enjoy the warm, beautiful sunlight. Reward: ‘High-level Slacker Gift Pack.’】
???
The sudden system notification left Jiang Yichen a little dumbfounded.
I already made my choice, so why are you only prompting me now? Does the system have lag too?
As he was thinking that, the system’s voice rang out again the very next second.
【Ding! Congratulations, Host, on making a slacker choice. Reward: ‘High-level Slacker Gift Pack.’ Would you like to open it?】
Jiang Yichen: ???