Chapter 75 : Chapter 75
Chapter 75. So You Want to Be Harsh, Su Zhan? My Fiancée Shows Her Strength, and You’re the One Left Stunned
Su Zhan’s sudden appearance left both of them feeling as though their minds had crashed on the spot.
“You’re still holding each other!”
Su Zhan struck his cane against the floor, and a force of repulsion instantly pushed the two of them apart.
“Are you trying to anger me to death? Haven’t I already told you that your marriage to Jiang Yichen can only happen if he becomes the Jiang family’s heir?”
“Before that, the two of you are not to have any kind of relationship,” Su Zhan warned sternly.
Su Linyu lowered her head and listened to her father’s rebuke before hesitantly speaking.
“Dad, Brother Yichen has already been working very hard to prepare for the team league.”
“Prepare?” Su Zhan snapped in anger. “Don’t think I don’t know that you’ve been sneaking out. Jiang Yichen, I told you long ago that if you want to win the league championship, then bring Yanhuang Team back.”
“Not only did you refuse to listen, you dragged Linyu into this foolishness with you. There’s only one month left before the league, and yet you chose this moment to rebuild a team. Do you think this is reasonable?”
“You abandoned a team you spent four years developing, only to form a new one in such a short time. Utterly foolish!”
Listening to Su Zhan’s scolding, Jiang Yichen felt thoroughly helpless.
If he explained, Su Zhan would not believe him. If he did not explain, Su Zhan would only get more anxious.
At that point, he was tired of it. He might as well just slack off and keep his mouth shut.
But at that moment, a voice sounded in his mind.
【Ding! Slacker choice triggered.】
【Choice One: Listen to the elder Su Zhan’s advice, earnestly explain your reasons, and tell him about Spark Team’s current strength. Reward: the title ‘Explanation Expert.’
Choice Two: Explain what? He can say whatever he wants, and I’ll do whatever I want. Let them think as they please. Reward: ‘Low-level Slacker Gift Pack.’
Choice Three: Slack off and explain nothing. Results are always the most effective weapon for making others shut up. Have Su Linyu display the results of training. Reward: ‘High-level Slacker Gift Pack.’】
Looking at the three choices before him, Jiang Yichen turned to Su Linyu.
But she immediately stepped in front of him. “Dad, stop yelling at Brother Yichen. So what if he rebuilt the team? With Brother Yichen leading us, we can still win the championship!”
In just seven days, she had broken through from peak Fourth Realm to Fifth Realm Grandmaster.
She believed that after another month, Chu Xingchen and Tang Long would also be able to break through into the Grandmaster Realm.
On top of that, they had all personally experienced the Heaven-rank cultivation arts Brother Yichen had given them. They were terrifyingly powerful.
With the support of the Sacred Art of Radiant Flame, she had only just broken through to Fifth Realm Grandmaster, yet she was already able to withstand over a hundred moves from Uncle Lei.
If they kept cultivating at this pace, they might very well become the league’s greatest dark horse.
“Win the championship?” Su Zhan was so angry that he almost laughed. “Don’t think I know nothing. Of the five members of Spark Team, three are only in the Fourth Realm, and you still want to win the league?”
“My daughter, do not let him fool you. The weakest participating teams all have Fifth Realm Grandmasters. What exactly are you planning to use to fight them?”
Su Linyu slowly lowered her head and clenched her hands tightly.
She knew her father would never listen to her. Ever since she was little, he had arranged everything for her.
The moment she made a choice that went beyond his plans, he would become furious.
Back when the Jiang family was still powerful, he had arranged for the two families to be joined in marriage at an early stage.
He had even taught her time and again that girls had to be proactive and that she should properly nurture her relationship with Brother Yichen.
But later, when her father saw that Brother Yichen had delayed his cultivation for Lin Wan’s sake, leaving his strength lacking and putting his position as heir at risk, he immediately began arranging another path for her and started approaching the Zhou family, never once asking what she wanted.
Su Linyu lowered her eyes, looking utterly helpless.
But just then, a warm hand gently stroked her hair, and she looked up.
“Brother Yichen, I...”
Jiang Yichen smiled faintly and leaned close to whisper in her ear.
As she listened, light gradually returned to Su Linyu’s eyes.
Su Zhan’s brows furrowed tightly. Even with the strength of a Martial God, he could not hear what Jiang Yichen was saying.
It was as though some mysterious force had blocked it out completely.
Looking at the two of them, his expression turned helpless.
He did not want to be harsh with his daughter either, but Jiang Yichen had no ambition whatsoever. He was not even fighting for the position of heir to the Jiang family.
If his daughter married into the Jiang family like this, what benefit would it bring her or the Su family?
He was the head of the Su family. He had to make choices for his daughter.
“That’s enough.” Su Zhan’s tone finally softened. “Jiang Yichen, go back. I’ll say this one last time. The league championship will determine who becomes the Jiang family’s heir. Think it over carefully.”
“You would do best to bring back the Yanhuang Team, the previous champions. As for the new team you formed, their strength is too low—”
Chirp!
Before he could finish speaking, the cry of a bird rang throughout the room as crimson Radiant Flame wrapped itself around Su Linyu’s entire body.
The instant the Radiant Flame was released, waves of fire spread through the entire room, yet not a single object was burned.
But the scorching heat rushing toward him carried a pressure that made the heart tremble.
The words at Su Zhan’s lips died instantly as he stared fixedly at the flames surrounding his daughter.
With the powerful perception of a Martial God, he could tell at once that this was no ordinary fire.
It could burn not only the flesh, but the soul as well.
Su Zhan struck his cane against the ground and released his pressure, trying to extinguish the Radiant Flame, but it had no effect whatsoever.
“The flames cannot be dispersed. Could this be the Vermilion Bird’s natal true flame, the Southern Radiant Flame?!”
Su Zhan’s eyes shook violently as he stared at his daughter in utter disbelief.
The reason the SSS-grade talent 【Vermilion Bird Blaze】 was called Blaze was because it could burn the body and possessed the terrifying temperature of Vermilion Bird fire.
But it could not possibly reach the level of burning the soul and being impossible to extinguish.
Yet his daughter’s flames...
“Dad, I’ve already broken through to Fifth Realm Grandmaster, and all of it was thanks to Brother Yichen.”
Su Linyu spoke with complete confidence. “Dad, if I use these flames in the league, would that be enough?”
“What!?”
Fifth Realm Grandmaster!
Su Zhan was struck with shock. How many days had it even been?
It had only been around ten days since she reached peak Fourth Realm, and now she had broken through again?
His face filled with astonishment as he sent a strand of spiritual power into Su Linyu’s body.
“It really is Fifth Realm Grandmaster! And her Blood Qi and mental strength are far stronger than others of the same level. This...”
Su Zhan did not even know how to describe it.
Every breakthrough into a new Major Realm was extraordinarily difficult. No matter how talented one was, it was still possible to be stuck at a major bottleneck for half a year or even a year.
Simply put, it was a matter of insufficient accumulation.
But his daughter had broken through to the Fifth Realm in only ten days. How was that even possible?
“Jiang Yichen, you were the one who helped Linyu break through to the Fifth Realm? How did she manage to enter the Grandmaster Realm so quickly?” Su Zhan asked in disbelief.
Jiang Yichen smiled. “It was all her own hard work. I only offered support.”
“Brother Yichen, stop being modest. Without the Heaven-rank cultivation arts you gave me, and without the more than two thousand top-grade pills every single day, there’s no way I could have broken through to Grandmaster so quickly.”
Su Linyu hurried to defend him, pushing all the credit back onto him.
???
Heaven-rank cultivation arts and two thousand top-grade pills every day?
Listening to something so absurd, Su Zhan was completely dumbfounded on the spot.