Chapter 81 : Chapter 81

Chapter 81. Father Breaks Through Beyond the Martial God Realm, Shocking the Entire Audience!

[Option One: Just like in your previous life, be heartbroken because Lin Wan is leaving you. Tell Lin Wan that Jiang Feng is not a good person and beg her to stay. Reward: the “Top-grade Simp” title.

Option Two: Faced with humiliation, you directly lie flat and ignore it. He can say whatever he wants. What does it have to do with you? Just leave. Reward: “Low-level Lie-Flat Gift Pack.”

Option Three: A lie-flat life requires a cheerful mindset. Maintain your love for life, and please do not swallow your anger in silence. Reward: “High-level Lie-Flat Gift Pack.”]

Jiang Yichen looked at the three options before him and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Humiliate me? Make me uncomfortable? Fine. Then I’m about to lose it.

“Hmph, Jiang Yichen, we are completely finished. You have no idea how many times better Young Master Jiang Feng is than you,” Lin Wan said arrogantly.

Jiang Yichen laughed. “Where do you get the nerve? Do you really think you’re worthy of currying favor with the Jiang family?”

Lin Wan froze for a moment, and her gaze turned cold. “Jiang Yichen, you’re just jealous—”

“And what gives you the right to say that in front of me?” Jiang Yichen cut her off on the spot. “Uncle Feng, slap her. Throw her out.”

Uncle Feng, who was standing behind him, immediately perked up when he heard that and strode forward.

Lin Wan’s expression changed instantly, and she hurriedly said, “I belong to Young Master Jiang Feng. How dare you touch me—”

SLAP!

“Young Master is the heir of the Jiang family. A commoner like you dares to speak rudely to him? You deserve to be hit!”

The moment Jiang Yichen gave the order, Uncle Feng did not hesitate in the slightest and struck her across the face. The slap left Lin Wan dizzy and disoriented. A bright red handprint instantly appeared on her cheek, and at last she could no longer hold that arrogant head high.

During the young master’s four years at university, Uncle Feng had found Lin Wan unbearable countless times. He had wanted to hit her for a long time.

After slapping her, Uncle Feng directly grabbed both of Lin Wan’s arms and prepared to throw her out of the Jiang residence.

Jiang Feng finally snapped out of his stunned daze. Why was this not going the way he had imagined?

“Stop right there! I invited her here. How dare you, man!”

Uncle Feng paused and looked toward his young master.

Jiang Yichen walked over and patted Jiang Feng on the shoulder. “Little brother, have you lost track of who outranks whom? I am the heir of the Jiang family. How dare you question me?”

Jiang Feng clenched his fists at those words, veins bulging on his forehead, but that was indeed the truth.

Within the Jiang family, Jiang Yichen’s status was higher than his.

“Man, I advise you not to get too smug. After the league ends, you won’t be the Jiang family’s heir anymore,” Jiang Feng said through gritted teeth.

Jiang Yichen gave a casual oh and looked at him provocatively. “But I am right now. Go on, hit me. Do you dare?”

Jiang Feng’s fists cracked loudly. “Man, you have successfully enraged me!”

“To hell with you.” Jiang Yichen lifted his leg and kicked Jiang Feng in the backside. “Watch fewer idiotic CEO dramas when you have nothing better to do.”

Jiang Feng lost his balance and nearly stumbled to the ground. Rubbing the spot where he had been kicked, he revealed an expression of utter humiliation.

The guests nearby, who had been chatting casually, could not help shaking their heads at the scene.

“The Jiang family’s eldest young master really is just like the rumors say. He has a strange temperament, a filthy mouth, and none of the bearing expected of a scion of a great family.”

“Haha, the Jiang family’s eldest young master is far from as simple as he looks. Did you watch the Huazhong martial exam livestream last time?”

“Wasn’t that just edited footage? Even a Martial God from the Tang family couldn’t control fifty Magical Artifacts, much less a junior.”

“Exactly. If he really had that ability, his martial exam ranking wouldn’t have been in the eight-thousands.”

“Don’t speak too soon. Sooner or later, you’ll realize how different he really is.”

“...”

After Jiang Yichen finished dealing with the two of them, Uncle Feng threw Lin Wan straight out the door, while Jiang Feng could only swallow his anger in silence, muttering Jiang Dongnian’s words to himself.

Anyone who wishes to achieve great things must learn to endure.

The team league was not far off now. Once he won the championship and became the Jiang family’s heir, he would make this man pay the price.

Jiang Feng shot Jiang Yichen a vicious glare, brushed the footprint off his dark trousers, covered his backside, and quickly left.

Jiang Yichen grinned. To be honest, this little brother of his was rather cute, but he really did need to be disciplined.

In his previous life, after Jiang Feng became the heir, he had not only arranged all the hardest, most miserable tasks for him during his internship in the military district, but had also secretly transferred away the resources their parents had given him.

Now it was his turn.

“Let’s go. The birthday banquet is about to begin.”

Jiang Yichen took Su Linyu’s hand, but she stood there without moving.

“What’s wrong?”

“Brother Yichen, I was wrong.”

Jiang Yichen: ?

Su Linyu looked apologetic. “When I saw Lin Wan just now, I thought Brother Yichen was the one who had invited her. I thought... you still couldn’t let go of Lin Wan...”

Jiang Yichen was slightly taken aback. For a girl to take the initiative and admit she was wrong was something rare to him.

In his previous life, when he had been together with Lin Wan, Lin Wan had always been the proud one. Every single time, he had been the one humbly apologizing like a dog.

Smiling, he pinched Su Linyu’s cheek. “Then what else were you thinking?”

“I was also thinking... maybe I’m too sensitive. I shouldn’t be so selfish. After all, Brother Yichen and Lin Wan had four years of history together. I should learn to be understanding. I should learn to give Brother Yichen time to move on. It’s all my fault.”

Su Linyu held his right hand in both of hers and smiled at him. The two little dimples on her cheeks were beautiful, yet also heartbreakingly pitiful.

Jiang Yichen: (☉_☉)

He felt helpless inside. This was self-PUA.

No matter what the problem was, she always thought it was her own fault. This girl...

Jiang Yichen sighed. He was different. Rather than making things hard for himself, he would rather make things hard for others.

If someone said he was crazy, then that someone was the one with a problem. If a whole group of people said he was crazy, then they had obviously colluded beforehand.

In any case, he refused to suffer mental exhaustion and chose instead to enjoy a beautiful life.

“You are not allowed to overthink things like this again.”

Su Linyu nodded repeatedly. “Mm-hm, I’ll listen to Brother Yichen.”

The two of them found their seats at the open-air banquet venue and sat down.

Most of the banquet guests were people from the Five Great Families of Huaxia and other first-rate clans. Aside from the Zhou family’s patriarch, the patriarchs of the Tang, Chu, and Su families had all come.

It could be said that the very highest tier of Huaxia’s elite had gathered here.

“Brother Yichen, we’re here.”

Tang Long and Chu Xingchen had arrived as well, and they waved at him.

Jiang Yichen had Uncle Feng arrange for the two of them to sit over here.

“Brother Yichen, do you know what happened? Yesterday I was lying down in the sun, and all of a sudden I felt like my martial talent had improved. It was unbelievable.”

Tang Long hugged his own arm and rubbed his chubby face against it, looking so delighted that he was practically numb with happiness.

Jiang Yichen arched his brow. Well, well. He had not expected that among all the team members, the one with the lowest strength would be the first whose martial talent improved.

Tang Long’s martial talent was the S-rank “Copper Wall and Iron Bastion,” which allowed his body to become harder than steel itself. Combined with the Heaven-rank cultivation art “Primordial Vajra Barrier,” he was a perfect front-line tank on the battlefield.

“I feel something too, but it seems like I’m still just one step away,” Chu Xingchen said, feeling the same way.

He was inwardly astonished. He had never imagined that simply basking in the sun could improve one’s martial talent. It was utterly absurd.

Improving martial talent was an extremely difficult thing. In some cases, it required divine relics from ancient ruins before such an improvement was even possible.

Unable to figure it out, he could only attribute the reason to the formations in the training base.

Jiang Yichen gave a faint nod. The effect of Supreme-grade · Divine Radiance really was somewhat remarkable.

“Oh, right, Brother Yichen, the banquet has already started. Why hasn’t your father arrived yet?”

Tang Long raised his head and looked at the empty seat of honor, unable to stop himself from asking.

“Just wait a little. He’s been in seclusion recently to break through beyond the Martial God realm. He should be done soon.”

Beyond the Martial God realm?

Tang Long and Chu Xingchen both froze. They had heard before that Jiang Zhentian was trying to break through beyond the Martial God realm, but he had failed several times.

So what did Jiang Yichen mean by saying it should be soon?

It was not just the two of them who were puzzled. As time passed, the guests throughout the venue also began discussing it among themselves.

“What’s going on? The banquet has already started, so why hasn’t Patriarch Jiang, the guest of honor, shown up yet?”

“I heard that Patriarch Jiang entered seclusion ten days ago to break through beyond the Martial God realm. I suppose he still hasn’t come out.”

“He’s trying again? Didn’t he fail several times already?”

“Sigh, who knows? Let’s wait a little longer. If this keeps up, I’ll give my present and leave.”

“...”

At the center of the venue, Su Zhan, who was stroking his cane, frowned and looked at Shen Qingyue beside the seat of honor. “Sister Qingyue, where is Jiang Zhentian? We’ve all been waiting for half an hour.”

Shen Qingyue also looked anxious as she tried to calm everyone. “My apologies, everyone. Please wait a little longer. Zhentian should be done soon.”

Zhou Mingyuan narrowed his eyes and said in a mocking tone, “Patriarch Jiang certainly has quite the airs. Let’s just keep waiting, I suppose. After all, the Jiang family is the number one family.”

“I heard Patriarch Jiang is in seclusion trying to break through beyond the Martial God realm. I’m afraid he’s going to stand us up.”

Tang Wuji, the Tang family patriarch, frowned. “Breaking through beyond the Martial God realm? That kind of seclusion would take at least a year or half a year. In that case, Madam Shen, I’ll be taking my leave first.”

Chu Ningfeng, the Chu family patriarch, also rose to his feet, clearly displeased. If Jiang Zhentian was in secluded cultivation, then why hold a birthday banquet at all, only to stand everyone up?

As for breaking through beyond the Martial God realm, that sounded even more absurdly unrealistic.

The Zhou family patriarch had been in seclusion for five full years, yet there had still been no sign of him breaking through beyond the Martial God realm.

Seeing Tang Wuji and Chu Ningfeng preparing to leave, Shen Qingyue’s brows knit slightly together. She shot Zhou Mingyuan a cold glance, clearly displeased.

Jiang Zhentian, if you make the Jiang family lose face before the four great top families, then when you come out of seclusion, just wait until I make you kneel on a durian.

“Madam Shen, then I shall also take my leave,” Zhou Mingyuan said as he stood and turned to go.

Su Zhan also shook his head and sighed, using his cane to push himself to his feet.

But at that very moment, the clear sky above suddenly filled with dark clouds.

In the space around them, a powerful force caused all of them to halt in their tracks.

“My old friends, since you’ve come, why leave in such a hurry?”

Dark clouds churned across the sky. Jiang Zhentian, draped in a black coat, walked through the air itself. With every step he took, space rippled and trembled.

The pressure descending over the venue grew even stronger.

Wisps of white light coiled around Jiang Zhentian’s body, and his eyes shone brilliantly, like a god descending into the mortal world.

The power of laws! Beyond the Martial God realm!

Zhou Mingyuan, Su Zhan, and the other two had their pupils contract violently.