Chapter 125 : Chapter 125

Chapter 125. Breaking Through to the Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor, Setting Out for the East China Military District!

Early in the morning, sunlight streamed into the room through the window.

【Ding! Congratulations, Host, on reaching the realm of the Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor.】

Hm?

Hearing the System’s voice, Jiang Yichen groggily opened his eyes on the bed.

After spending five days having fun with Su Linyu, he had broken through to the Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor. Ah... breaking through really was this easy.

Jiang Yichen slowly sat up and opened his personal panel.

【Host: Jiang Yichen

Realm: Eighth Realm, 0th Level (Automatic Cultivation Progress: 0% Automatic Cultivation Speed: 0.0625%/hour)

Blood Qi: 1050823

Spiritual Power: ∞

Talent: Divine Mind User (Max Level), Chaos Body (Perfected to the Pinnacle)

Cultivation Art: Void Scripture (Perfected to the Pinnacle)

Weapon: Void Mirror (currently amplifying the Void Scripture)

Pet: Divine Beast · Bai Ze (Current Growth: 54% (Third Divine Beast Skill can be unlocked))

(Current automatic cultivation speed, “0.0625%/1 hour,” has already reached its maximum value and cannot be increased further. The automatic cultivation speed will decrease reasonably according to cultivation difficulty!)】

The Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor!

In just two months, he had gone from a Second-Realm martial artist to the terrifying level of an Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor.

Even for a peerless prodigy, that would take at least seventy or eighty years. The System was absurdly overpowered.

And with his current cultivation speed of 0.0625% per hour, all he had to do was keep slacking off for a little over two more months, and he would break through to Martial God.

Good grief. Four months after being reborn, he would have lazed his way into becoming a Martial God. This heaven-defying cultivation speed was simply outrageous.

Jiang Yichen sprang up in one motion. Spatial Laws flickered in his eyes, and the surrounding space shifted and folded according to his will.

In only a few moments, he had turned the space inside his room into an invisible maze.

This was the most typical ability of an Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor: control over a domain!

The Seventh Realm was borrowing the power of heaven and earth to form comprehension corresponding to one’s martial talent. Within that domain, a martial artist could only receive amplification, but could not truly control it.

That was why the gap between the Seventh Realm and the Eighth Realm was an abyss without bottom.

Jiang Yichen could not help smiling. With his current strength, going to the Military District Internship would be like walking sideways through the place.

In his previous life, even the chief instructor of the Military District Internship had only been in the Seventh Realm.

With a full set of top-tier equipment, cultivation arts, and talents, even if a Martial God came, he would not be able to do anything to him.

As it happened, before the Military District Internship began in his previous life, those damned instructors had invited a few geniuses from Huaxia to hold the line and crush the recruits’ arrogance, so that the recruits would obey orders during training afterward.

In his previous life, he had been thoroughly beaten around by those prodigies from the East China Battle Department until he had been left in a miserable state.

This time, no matter what, he had to get his payback.

Jiang Yichen remembered it very clearly. Those instructors would always tempt the new recruits by saying that if they could beat them, they would not need to train.

Heh. With his strength, going there would be like a max-level boss accidentally wandering into a beginner village.

Would that not mean he could skip training altogether and continue living his slacking life?

At the thought of the other recruits baking under the blazing sun while he lay back eating iced watermelon, he nearly laughed out loud.

Ah! What a perfect setup!

In high spirits, Jiang Yichen finished washing up and walked out of his room.

“Mom, you came to see us off to the military district?”

As he stepped into the living room, just as he was about to enjoy the loving breakfast Su Linyu had made for him, his mother appeared before his eyes.

Today was the day they had to return to the academy. These new recruits needed to arrive at the military district in advance to sort out their accommodations and daily necessities.

Shen Qingyue nodded slightly. She looked at the lunchbox on the table and said irritably, “You are already so old, yet you still need Linyu to take care of you. In the future, get up and make your own breakfast. You are not allowed to trouble Linyu anymore.”

At those words, Jiang Yichen’s eyes lit up. “All right, Mom—”

But before he could finish, Su Linyu, who was sitting beside his mother, immediately wrapped her arms around Shen Qingyue’s arm and pleaded sweetly, “Auntie, no! If Brother Yichen cannot eat the breakfast I make, I will be very sad.”

“Auntie, please do not worry. I can take care of myself, and I can take care of Brother Yichen too. Please do not stop me from making breakfast for him.”

Shen Qingyue: “...”

Jiang Yichen shrugged helplessly and looked at his mother with an innocent expression.

See? What could he possibly do about it?

Unable to withstand Su Linyu’s pleading, Shen Qingyue could only nod. “What a silly girl. If your uncle ever told me to get up at five in the morning to make breakfast for him, he would be in for it.”

She glared at her son. “If you ever dare bully Linyu again like you did before, I will break your legs.”

Jiang Yichen nodded furiously like a pecking chick. He had seen what his father’s married life was like.

A dignified Martial God still had to obediently put on an apron and go into the kitchen when faced with his Sichuan-Chongqing mother.

And on top of that, his mother controlled the financial power of the household. Every time his father needed money, he had to go through a long round of begging for it, yet in front of Jiang Yichen he still liked to save face by saying he was the head of the family and getting money was effortless.

Tsk, tsk, tsk!

After thinking about it, Jiang Yichen still felt that having a pure-love fiancée was better.

Smiling, he opened the breakfast Su Linyu had made and ate it happily, his heart full of sweetness.

As always, Su Linyu sat there smiling sweetly while watching him eat.

Whenever she saw him finish the breakfast she had prepared, an incomparably happy expression would appear on her face.

After breakfast, his mother drove the two of them to the academy, reminding them of all sorts of things along the way.

“The East China border is terribly hot, so Linyu, make sure to protect yourself from the sun.”

“Xiao Chen, military training is harsh, and carrying out wilderness missions is still somewhat dangerous. You need to be careful too. You cannot be as lazy and loose there as you are at home.”

“...”

Jiang Yichen carried the suitcase his mother had prepared for him and listened to her nagging, a smile tugging at his lips.

She really was still the same mother who loved to worry.

Once they arrived at the academy, before she could even see them onto the transport heading for the military district, she was called away by a phone call.

With his father away, all kinds of matters at the Jiang Group had fallen onto his mother’s shoulders. She truly had it hard.

Holding Su Linyu’s hand, Jiang Yichen boarded the train. It was already full of Central China graduates chatting excitedly about the military life awaiting them.

The moment he stepped aboard, quite a few students cried out in surprise and surrounded him with pens and paper.

“The captain of the champion team! Goddess Su, can I get your autograph?”

“Young Master Jiang is incredible. Over one summer vacation, you directly formed a team and won the championship.”

“...”

All the praise from his classmates left Jiang Yichen feeling rather pleased. He accepted it all readily, without the slightest bit of false modesty.

He had done something this impressive, so why the hell should he pretend to be humble?

“Brother Yichen, over here, over here!”

At that moment, a familiar voice rang out.

Tang Long, who was sitting in the back row, stood up and waved at him.

After putting down their luggage, Jiang Yichen and Su Linyu walked over.

“Brother Yichen, you have been living in a world for two these past few days. Why did you not invite us out to have fun?”

Jiang Yichen glanced at Su Linyu and smiled. “So you could come be a third wheel?”

“I...” Tang Long was instantly speechless.

Chu Xingchen smiled faintly and touched the sword at his waist. “Uncle Lei enlisted too. We may run into him again in the future. But where did Sleep God go? There has been no news from him in the group chat.”

He pulled out his phone. Sleep God had not shown up once these past few days.

Tang Long also looked puzzled. “I even wanted to go to the base and spar with Sleep God, but he was gone too.”

“I do not even want to expose you. You were looking for someone to cling to, were you not?” Jiang Yichen said.

Tang Long was not the least bit embarrassed. He raised a thumbs-up and said, “Brother Yichen, you really see people clearly.”

“...” Jiang Yichen was speechless. Then he explained, “You both know Sleep God’s strength. His whereabouts now are classified at the Huaxia national level. Even I do not know.”

Tang Long and Chu Xingchen nodded in understanding.

Comprehending Laws in the Sixth Realm really was heaven-defying. He had definitely been taken in by the state.

“All right. I just wonder whether we will ever see Sleep God again,” Tang Long said nostalgically.

But Chu Xingchen said with certainty, “Our Spark Team is one whole. We will definitely reunite again.”

“That is right. Spark Team will never disband,” Su Linyu said with equal conviction.

Jiang Yichen smiled faintly. Seeing how united they were made him happy as well.

“Students, please fasten your seatbelts. This train will be traveling at the speed of sound. The destination of this trip is the ‘First Military District on the East China Border.’”

The broadcast announcement sounded, and the students immediately fastened their seatbelts. The train slowly accelerated until the scenery outside the window blurred into streaks.

And so, their military life began!