Chapter 73 : Chapter 73
Chapter 73. Not Training, Just Sunbathing? Jiang Feng: The Advantage Is Mine
Seven days later.
Inside the conference room of the Stellar Training Base.
“Woman, I heard that Jiang Yichen has formed a new team. I ordered you to observe them. What did you find?”
Jiang Feng, dressed in a tailored designer suit, sat there with perfect elegance, his cold gaze falling on Lin Wan, who wore the Yanhuang Team uniform.
Lin Wan rose to her feet and curved her lips into a smile.
“Boss, I couldn’t get into the training base, so this past week I secretly observed the area and questioned the nearby residents. Jiang Yichen has indeed formed a new team called Spark Team.”
“However... Jiang Yichen never had them train. Instead, every morning after the sun came up, he led the Spark Team out to lounge around in the sunlight. He showed no intention of training at all.”
“For seven straight days, it was the same every single day.”
The moment Jiang Feng heard that, confusion surfaced in his eyes.
The members of Phoenix Team, Yanhuang Team, and Thunder Team in the conference room also revealed strange expressions.
Since Jiang Yichen had rebuilt a team, why was he not training them? Why was he leisurely sunbathing instead?
If Jiang Yichen had already given up on the league championship, then he could have simply withdrawn from the competition. Why go through all this trouble?
There was less than a month left before the league. For him not to be anxious at a time like this was deeply strange.
“Woman.” Jiang Feng rose, walked over to Lin Wan, and wrapped his hand around her throat as he whispered by her ear, “You know the consequences of deceiving me, don’t you?”
Lin Wan swallowed hard and nodded nervously. “Boss, every word I said is true. If you don’t believe me, you can send someone else to investigate.”
Seeing that Lin Wan did not appear to be lying, Jiang Feng slowly loosened his grip, the corners of his lips lifting.
“Heh. Man, are you planning to give up? That makes sense. Rebuilding a team in only one month... what do you even have left to fight me with?”
“I told you long ago. Whatever I set my sights on, no one can take away.”
Jiang Feng let out a cold laugh, then continued, “Who are the members of Spark Team?”
“The former captain of Thunder Team, Lei Zhen, Phoenix Team member Sleep God, and also Su Linyu, Chu Xingchen, and Tang Long,” Lin Wan answered honestly.
That only made Jiang Feng’s smile deepen.
During the Martial Exam testing, Su Linyu had been at the peak of the Fourth Realm, Chu Xingchen had been at the Fourth Realm, Fourth Level, and Tang Long had been at the Fourth Realm, Second Level.
Three Fourth Realm members? What exactly were you thinking, man? Using Fourth Realm fighters to face Sixth Realm Great Grandmasters?
It was laughable.
Jiang Feng straightened his collar, then walked back with measured elegance and resumed his seat, his gaze sweeping across the three teams in the conference room.
Every one of them had been poached from Jiang Yichen. The weakest among them was already a Fifth Realm Grandmaster.
As for Yanhuang Team, every member had reached the Sixth Realm Great Grandmaster level. Jiang Yichen, I truly no longer know what you have left to fight me with.
The position of heir was already his.
Jiang Feng cleared his throat twice and looked at the three teams. “This time, I do not care which one of you takes the championship. But if you run into Spark Team, I want absolute domination. And...”
“It would not be a problem even if you leave them gravely injured. Understood?”
His frigid gaze swept across the room.
“Boss, Spark Team has the Su family’s young miss, and the Chu family—”
“Did I permit you to speak?” Jiang Feng cut in directly, his tone icy.
Ye Xiaoxiao of Phoenix Team froze for a moment, then could only shut her mouth and nod in agreement.
The others had no objections either.
“Boss, don’t worry.” At that moment, Jiang Feng, the captain of Yanhuang Team, smiled and said, “I will definitely make Jiang Yichen understand what regret truly means!”
Back at the graduation ceremony, Jiang Yichen had publicly disbanded Yanhuang Team, causing them to lose all face.
Now the chance for revenge had finally come. He would make Jiang Yichen regret the decision he made back then.
He would tell him this plainly: without Yanhuang Team, you cannot win the league at all.
“Very good. I look forward to it.” Jiang Feng nodded in satisfaction.
Although poaching all these people and paying their sky-high termination fees had nearly emptied the savings of both him and his father, it had been entirely worth it.
The humiliation he had suffered during the Martial Exam would be repaid a hundredfold in this league.
“Alright. Go back and continue training. Do not be careless.”
Jiang Feng rose to his feet, his chiseled jaw lifting slightly. “If you lose the championship, then you may as well lose your lives too.”
A chill ran through everyone’s hearts, and they all answered in unison, “...Yes, Boss.”
“You may leave.”
The three teams departed from the conference room. A bodyguard at Jiang Feng’s side bent down and spoke quietly into his ear.
“Young Master, tomorrow is the Family Head’s birthday. The master asked me to remind you.”
Hearing that, a plan suddenly formed in Jiang Feng’s mind.
On the birthday banquet of the Jiang family’s head, the Five Great Families and quite a few other powerful clans would all come to offer their congratulations.
If, at the birthday banquet, everyone learned that Jiang Yichen had been leading Su Linyu, Chu Xingchen, and Tang Long in idling away their time under the sun, delaying their cultivation, what would the Su family, the Tang family, and the Chu family think?
They would probably force the three of them to sever all ties with Jiang Yichen on the spot.
Even Jiang Zhentian would likely be disappointed by Jiang Yichen’s slacker behavior.
“I understand. Come with me to prepare a birthday gift.” Jiang Feng regained his usual cold aloofness and said coolly, “Tomorrow, bring Lin Wan to the birthday banquet as well.”
“Yes, Young Master.”
Lin Wan was an eyewitness. That way, Jiang Yichen would have no room to deny it.
Man, just wait to make a fool of yourself in public.
...
Knock, knock, knock!
“Come in!”
“Brother Yichen, this is the weekly report. Take a look.”
In the office, Su Linyu carried over a detailed document and placed it before Jiang Yichen.
It contained a full record of every member of Spark Team, how much each person’s cultivation had advanced, how much progress they had made in their cultivation arts, and more.
Jiang Yichen pushed it aside. “There’s no need to write daily reports or weekly reports. That sort of thing is exhausting.”
“It’s not tiring at all. Brother Yichen works far harder than I do. What I’m doing is nothing,” Su Linyu said stubbornly.
“Huh?”
Jiang Yichen was taken aback. “I work hard? In what way am I working hard?”
Every day, he either lounged in the sun with them or queued up together with Su Linyu to play games at night. It could honestly be said that he had barely exerted any effort at all.
“Brother Yichen, stop pretending. Those Heaven-rank cultivation arts, the top-grade pills, and the cultivation arrays arranged throughout the training base...”
“Chu Xingchen already told me everything. For our sake, so that we could cultivate faster, you must have gone to an enormous amount of trouble and fought hard to secure all of it for us.”
As she spoke, the corners of Su Linyu’s eyes grew red, as though tears might spill out at any moment.
“Brother Yichen looks like he’s slacking off on the surface, but in private he works harder than anyone else. I’ll work hard too, and I’ll lead the team well. We’ll achieve results in the league and repay Brother Yichen.”
Jiang Yichen: (☉_☉)
For a moment, he found himself unable to refute her. He could hardly say something as absurd as, I have a system.
But if one spoke of effort, then yes, he had truly put in effort.
He had worked very hard at slacking off.
Over these seven days, life for Spark Team had actually been quite relaxed.
In the mornings, Jiang Yichen led the team in leisurely sunbathing. In the afternoons, they held simulated battles to build coordination and teamwork. At night, wanting to make full use of their time, they secretly ran off to a corner of the base and stayed late practicing their cultivation arts.
But what troubled them most was how to finish two thousand top-grade pills in a single day.
On the very first day of training, even Tang Long, the team’s biggest eater, had stuffed himself sick.
Under the combined support of multiple arrays, top-grade pills, and Divine Radiance, all five of them had advanced at astonishing speed in every aspect.
Su Linyu had broken through to the Fifth Realm Grandmaster. Chu Xingchen had advanced three levels in a row, reaching the Fourth Realm, Seventh Level.
Tang Long had done a little worse. With his S-grade martial talent, he had only risen two levels, reaching the Fourth Realm, Fourth Level.
As for Sleep God and Lei Zhen, those two Sixth Realm Great Grandmasters were already on the verge of another breakthrough.
The results could only be described as remarkable. Their doubts about Jiang Yichen’s training methods had also grown fewer and fewer.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yichen watched leisurely from the side. Every now and then, he even organized a few little activities for them, or had them queue up together and play games.
It made their slacker lifestyle colorful and lively.
“Oh, right, Brother Yichen. Tomorrow is Uncle’s birthday. Let’s go choose a gift together and give him a surprise.”
Su Linyu suddenly spoke.
Jiang Yichen came back to himself and shook his head. “I already sent a gift. Tomorrow we can just go directly.”
“Huh?”
Su Linyu’s little mouth parted in surprise. “Brother Yichen, you already sent a gift?”
In the past, when Uncle and Auntie celebrated their birthdays, it would have been wishful thinking to expect Brother Yichen to even attend. She had always been the one to deliver gifts to them in his place.
Brother Yichen had never cared about such things before. But now...
He had actually taken the initiative to send his father a gift.
Wow. So her Brother Yichen was this filial. She loved him even more now.
“Then will Brother Yichen come pick out a gift with me anyway? I want to prepare a surprise for Uncle,” Su Linyu said with a sweet smile.
Jiang Yichen nodded. “Alright. Let’s go. It’ll be a good chance to head out, walk around, and get some fresh air.”