Chapter 72 : Chapter 72
Chapter 72. Just Lying There Is Too Boring. Get Some Snacks to Munch On.
Well now, the delay really has kicked in.
Jiang Yichen smiled faintly and did not pay it much mind. He simply told the system to open the gift pack.
【Congratulations, Host. You have received: 5 Ninth-rank Magical Artifact Selection Packs, 1 box of High-grade Martial Artist Snacks.】
Ninth-rank Magical Artifacts!
Jiang Yichen’s brows lifted slightly. In all of Huaxia, Ninth-rank Magical Artifacts were top-tier weapons. The price of a single one could rival an entire city in Huazhong.
They were second only to spirit artifacts, and even Eighth Realm Martial Emperors did not necessarily possess one.
That was because Ninth-rank Magical Artifacts were simply too difficult to forge. A top-tier artificer might devote most of his life to produce just one.
Their power was unimaginably terrifying. They could split heaven and earth and let their wielder kill opponents beyond their own level.
As for the spirit artifacts possessed by Martial Gods, not a single artificer had ever successfully forged one.
Every last one of them had been discovered within world ruins.
It could be said that Ninth-rank Magical Artifacts already stood at the very peak of Huaxia.
If he gave each member of Spark Team a Ninth-rank Magical Artifact, how were their opponents supposed to play?
The team league did not impose an upper limit on weapon rank. It only required that weapons could not be below Sixth-rank Magical Artifacts.
Even the organizers probably would not expect him to equip his team with top-tier Ninth-rank Magical Artifacts.
Jiang Yichen smiled. When the league began, he would give each of them one. They could simply crush their opponents outright.
Then he looked at the other reward.
【High-grade Martial Artist Snacks: Snacks processed from powerful spiritual herbs. Different varieties provide different cultivation buffs.】
Oh?
Eating snacks could give cultivation buffs?
Now that was interesting.
Jiang Yichen immediately took out a very large wooden crate from the system space. When he opened it, he found it filled to the brim with unfamiliar snacks.
He casually picked up a few bags, and prompts instantly appeared on them.
【Scallion Stick: Removes hidden cold energy from the body and helps Blood Qi circulate smoothly.】
【Big Blade Vegetarian Meat: Its extreme spiciness stimulates the brain and nerves, allowing martial artists to refresh their minds and improve their focus on a single task.】
【Wangzai QQ Candy: Keeps a martial artist in a cheerful mood at all times, allowing cultivation to yield twice the result with half the effort.】
【...】
Looking at those unfamiliar snack names, Jiang Yichen felt a bit resistant.
As the young master of the number one family, he had never eaten such things before. Looking at those gaudy red and purple snack packages, he had to admit they were a little intimidating.
He tore open the wrapping of a Scallion Stick, pinched one between his fingers, and cautiously put it into his mouth.
Hm?
Jiang Yichen’s eyes lit up. It was not exactly delicious, but it had a very distinctive taste.
To sum it up in one sentence, it was edible!
“Come here for a moment.” Jiang Yichen beckoned to the five people sunbathing on their lounge chairs.
The moment they heard him, all five sat up.
“Boss, are we finally starting the real training—”
“Come, come, come. Eat these snacks while you sunbathe. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be too boring?”
Jiang Yichen had Uncle Feng carry over a pile for each of them and set the snacks down by their sides.
The smiles on Su Linyu and the others’ faces stiffened. It seemed they had overthought things.
Was the boss really going to carry slacking off through to the bitter end? But they only had one month.
As the captain, Su Linyu cupped her cheeks in both hands, her eyes full of worry.
If Spark Team failed to achieve anything, Brother Yichen would definitely be heartbroken.
But with this kind of training method, how were they supposed to get results?
The path of martial arts had always been one of pushing upstream against the current. Once one had talent, the only way to reach the peak was through unceasing bitter cultivation.
“Why do you look so worried?” Jiang Yichen handed her a piece of Wangzai QQ Candy. “Have some candy. Sweet things make people happy.”
Su Linyu looked at him, reached out to take it, unwrapped the flashy packaging, and popped it into her mouth.
“Wow, it’s so sweet. Brother Yichen, where did you buy this candy? I’ve never had it before.”
As the sugary sweetness flooded her mouth, Su Linyu’s troubled expression from before vanished completely. Her mood brightened in an instant.
“Well...” Jiang Yichen could not really explain it. He placed a pile of snacks beside her. “If you’ve never had them before, then try more of them. Then keep sunbathing.”
Su Linyu blinked, suddenly feeling much less troubled.
Since Brother Yichen would not let them cultivate openly, then she would meditate, regulate her breathing, and recite the methods of the Sacred Art of Radiant Flame to secretly continue her cultivation.
With the cheerful state brought on by the Wangzai QQ Candy, Su Linyu’s thoughts instantly became much clearer.
She lay back, closed her eyes, changed her breathing rhythm, and began drawing in the surrounding Spiritual Energy.
But the moment she started cultivating, she was so startled that she nearly jumped.
Her body seemed to become a whirlpool, frantically absorbing the Spiritual Energy around her, tempering her bones, and increasing her Blood Qi.
The speed was comparable to cultivating at home at three times the normal rate.
Su Linyu was inwardly astonished. She was only meditating and regulating her breathing, yet it was already three times faster than her previous bitter cultivation. What was going on?
She opened her eyes and stared in shock.
Seeing Brother Yichen lounging there in sunglasses, eating snacks, and basking leisurely in the sun—
He was not only handsome, but unbelievably amazing too!
“So sunbathing can actually speed up cultivation? How did Brother Yichen come up with a method like this? It’s so incredible. He’s amazing...”
Su Linyu murmured softly to herself. She believed more and more in Brother Yichen’s claim that one must first cultivate the mind before cultivating the body. Once one’s state of mind improved, breakthroughs would come naturally.
She withdrew her gaze and opened the Sacred Art of Radiant Flame.
To her surprise, she discovered that her thoughts were incomparably clear, and her ability to comprehend had increased by more than threefold.
Wow. So this was Brother Yichen’s training method. It was simply incredible.
I have to hurry and cultivate.
It was not only Su Linyu. When the others saw that Jiang Yichen had no intention of changing his mind, they could only lie back in the sun as well, close their eyes, and regulate their breathing.
After only a short while, they opened their eyes in shock.
“Damn! Why does it feel like the moment I enter a cultivation state, my cultivation speed becomes more than three times faster than before?”
Tang Long tugged at Chu Xingchen’s robe. “Hero Chu, did you feel it too?”
Chu Xingchen nodded slightly. It was not just that his cultivation speed had increased. His martial talent seemed to be changing slowly as well.
His Demonic Eyes could now see more clearly and more deeply than before.
Chu Xingchen glanced at Jiang Yichen, then lowered his gaze and grabbed the snacks beside him.
He tore open a bag of potato chips, closed his eyes, and cultivated again, only to discover that his mental perception had become even sharper.
There was definitely something unusual about these snacks.
Using his Demonic Eyes to peer through to their essence, Chu Xingchen discovered that the ingredients used to make them were all incomparably precious spiritual herbs.
He froze.
First came the complex stacked arrays laid out across the training base, then Heaven-rank cultivation arts and top-grade pills, and now even snacks that could boost cultivation speed.
Was the Jiang family not supposed to be beset by internal and external troubles? How did they still have such immense wealth for Jiang Yichen to squander so freely?
He shook his head, unable to make sense of it. “Just cultivate. We only have one month. Jiang Yichen may not be in a hurry, but we cannot afford not to be.”
Tang Long nodded, then sat cross-legged on the lounge chair with his eyes closed, guiding the Blood Qi within his body.
Chu Xingchen gritted his teeth and took a bite of the Big Blade Vegetarian Meat. The extreme spiciness sent heat rushing straight into his brain, and his focus rose dramatically.
He immediately opened the Heaven-rank High-grade Myriad Swords Return to Origin. After reading it only once, he memorized it with astonishing clarity.
It felt as though he had just opened the gates to a cheat code.
Lei Zhen had also immersed himself in cultivation, and astonished expressions kept appearing on his face.
Problems he could not solve before suddenly became clear.
Was the boss’s training method really this miraculous? Could it be that a joyful state of mind was actually the shortcut along the path of martial arts?
He did not understand it, but he was thrilled.
At the far end, Sleep God lay there, eating one bite of Big Blade Meat after another. That brain-piercing spiciness drove away all his drowsiness.
Jiang Yichen lowered his sunglasses. Seeing that all of them had entered a cultivation state, he nodded with a smile and continued lying there in the sun, relaxed and at ease.