Chapter 89 : Chapter 89

Chapter 89. Auspicious Blessing—Is This a Conceptual Skill?

[Congratulations on unlocking the Divine Beast’s second skill: Auspicious Blessing.]

[Auspicious Blessing: Bai Ze can bestow a blessing upon any living being. For a short period of time, the blessed individual will possess ultimate fortune. If they face an exam, they will certainly pass. If they enter a competition, they can unleash strength ten times greater than usual and are guaranteed to win.

Note: Each living individual may only be blessed once. The blessing cannot be repeated.]

Hm?

Jiang Yichen’s eyes widened slightly. A blessing that granted ultimate fortune, guaranteed success in exams, and guaranteed victory in competitions.

What the hell? Was this some kind of conceptual skill?

He cursed inwardly in astonishment. If this were used in the Team League, would it not be outright cheating?

Jiang Yichen sighed to himself. Cannot win? Sorry, then I will simply bend the rules.

That said, the current Spark Team did not even seem to need it.

Twenty days had passed, and under the five members’ grueling training, their strength had undergone a qualitative leap as well.

Chu Xingchen and Tang Long had both broken through to the fifth-realm Grandmaster stage, while Tang Long’s martial talent had even risen to SS-grade.

Tang Long’s father was so delighted that he directly held a grand banquet to celebrate for him.

Su Linyu had also broken through two layers and was now at the fifth realm, second layer.

Lei Zhen, however, was a bit special. He had already been at the peak of the sixth realm, and if he broke through to the seventh-realm Martial King stage, he would no longer be eligible to participate in the Team League.

So during this past month, he had focused on consolidating his cultivation and making up for the shortcomings in his earlier realms. His strength had become increasingly solid, no longer as unstable and hollow as before.

As for Sleep God, he remained somewhat mysterious. Every day, he was still struggling against sleep, and no obvious change in his strength could be seen.

But after cultivating the god-tier Grand Dream Scripture, his whole aura had begun to change quietly.

After all, he was Sleep God. Only when he was actually asleep could one see his true strength. Once he got onto the battlefield, Lei Zhen could just knock him unconscious, and that would settle it.

Thinking over the Spark Team’s progress, Jiang Yichen nodded in satisfaction.

He walked out of his room and into the living room.

Breakfast that Su Linyu had brought over was set on the dining table, with a note pasted on top.

‘Brother Yichen, I went to the base to train first. The match is tomorrow, so I am sorry~ I cannot keep you company for breakfast. Please forgive me.’

Jiang Yichen was no longer surprised by this. For the past twenty days or so, it had been more or less the same.

Ever since he told Su Zhan not to force Su Linyu into doing things she did not like, Su Linyu seemed to have become even more devoted... purely devoted.

Even though training every day was already exhausting enough.

One day, when it was pouring rain at night, he had been scrolling through short videos and accidentally shared a food video.

Su Linyu assumed he was hungry, and at one in the morning, she braved the heavy rain to bring him a late-night meal.

Jiang Yichen had truly been stunned. Even in his previous life, he had never gone that far, yet this girl had done it.

Fortunately, in this life, he would not fail this pure devotion.

Jiang Yichen smiled as he ate the breakfast Su Linyu had brought him. It was exceptionally delicious.

Tap, tap, tap!

At that moment, the sound of high heels striking the floor came from the doorway. Jiang Yichen did not even raise his head before he knew who had arrived.

“Mom, what brings you here today?”

Shen Qingyue, dressed in a white-patterned soft satin qipao, looked thoroughly displeased. “I came with Linyu, and I have already been waiting for you for three hours.”

Jiang Yichen froze, sensing at once that something was off, and quickly pulled his mother over to sit by the table.

But Shen Qingyue grabbed his ear. “It is already nine o’clock and you still have not gotten up. Linyu prepared breakfast for you at four-thirty, then went to the training base at five-thirty, while you have been taking it easy quite comfortably.”

“All right, all right, I was wrong.” Jiang Yichen helplessly changed the subject. “Mom, what did you come to see me about?”

“Can I not come see you? You spend all day with no proper shape at all. Just look at how hardworking Linyu is.”

Shen Qingyue frowned. “And yet here you are, doing nothing serious all day. Even if you are already a fifth-realm Grandmaster now, you still cannot neglect your cultivation.”

“And you, the owner of this team, do not manage the team at all. You leave everything for Linyu to worry about alone. How are you supposed to prepare for tomorrow’s league like this...”

Jiang Yichen listened to his mother’s nagging concern and kept nodding beside her, fully agreeing with everything she said.

As for whether he would actually do any of it, that was another matter entirely.

Just then, however, the system’s voice rang out.

[ Ding! Slacking-off choice triggered. ]

[Choice One: Listen to your mother’s advice and begin cultivating diligently. Reward: the title “Hardworking Bro.”]

[Choice Two: Ignore it directly. What does it have to do with them? It is enough for me to take care of my own matters. Reward: “Low-grade Slacking-off Gift Pack.”]

[Choice Three: When facing your mother’s concern, arguing with her is meaningless and will only create conflict. You slack off by listening, nodding in agreement, and leave whether you do it or not as your own affair. Reward: “High-grade Slacking-off Gift Pack.”]

[Congratulations, Host, on making a slacking-off choice. Reward: “High-grade Slacking-off Gift Pack.” Open now?]

?

Jiang Yichen froze. He was gradually realizing that sometimes, the system only displayed the prompt after he had already made the slacking-off choice.

Was it directly giving him the reward now? What a wonderful system!

As Jiang Yichen listened to his mother’s lecture, he used his mind to tell the system to open the gift pack.

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained: Simplified Black God Suit Design Blueprint ×1, ten billion funds.]

A Black God Suit design blueprint?

What use was that?

He opened the description for the blueprint.

[Simplified Black God Suit Design Blueprint: Imitates the Black God Suit’s approximate functions and makes large-scale production possible.]

Jiang Yichen narrowed his eyes slightly, and his gaze could not help drifting toward his mother.

At that very moment, Shen Qingyue also stopped nagging. She took out the Black God Suit from her Spatial Bag, and there seemed to be a hint of disappointment in her eyes.

“Xiao Chen, here, take this battle armor back. The R&D Department has studied it for a whole month and still could not figure it out.”

As she stroked the Black God Suit, regret showed on her face.

If they could crack it and put it into production, they would absolutely be able to monopolize Huaxia’s battle armor industry.

But this black-and-crimson battle armor was far too profound. The technology it used was completely unheard of to them, and they simply had no place to start.

She truly had no idea where Xiao Chen had found such a miraculous suit of battle armor.

Seeing this, Jiang Yichen immediately understood the purpose of the design blueprint, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

“Mom, I have a way.”

He took the design blueprint out of the system space, along with a card loaded with one hundred billion funds, and handed both to his mother.

“This is the design blueprint for the battle armor, along with funding for the research.”

Shen Qingyue froze. Looking at the blueprint and the card in her hand, she stared at her son in astonishment.

When had this brat become so sensible?

“Mom, do your best,” Jiang Yichen said encouragingly. As he took it easy, everything depended on his parents working hard.

In his previous life, his mother had worried herself to exhaustion supporting the team he had cultivated, and she had poured a great deal of money into it.

In this life, he absolutely had to repay her.

His mother returned the card and smiled as she pinched his cheek.

“Your mother will take the blueprint, but you keep the money. Buy Linyu some gifts and treat her well.”

“You helped your father comprehend the Laws, so Huaxia increased the Jiang family’s resource allocation by ten times. Your father and I are not short of money.”

“Oh, right. Your father may not be able to watch your team shine brilliantly in the league. He is leaving tomorrow.”

Hm?

Jiang Yichen froze. “Leaving? Going where?”

“The Huaxia Commander-in-Chief is sending him to explore the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor Sacrificial Ruins. He is leaving tomorrow.”

The Sacrificial Ruins!

Jiang Yichen was shocked.

In his previous life, when those ruins had opened, Huaxia had sent two eighth-realm Martial Emperors to explore them.

But neither of them ever returned. They had simply vanished without a trace.

Only later, when the ruins fully opened, did everyone learn that an ancient Divine Artifact, the Xuanyuan Sword, was hidden inside the Sacrificial Ruins. The moment a mortal body approached it, it would be instantly killed by its sword qi.

In the end, Tang Wuji, the Tang family’s Martial God, who possessed the awakened SSS-grade Invincible Golden Body, relied on his powerful physique to obtain the Xuanyuan Sword.

Now his father had only just comprehended the Laws, yet Huaxia was already sending him on such a dangerous mission.

The intention behind it was a little too obvious.

Jiang Yichen knew that in order to preserve its own leadership, Huaxia would secretly move to suppress powerful great families.

In his previous life, the Jiang family had more or less declined in just this way, step by step.

His eyes turned slightly, and he took out a jade bottle radiating scorching heat from the system space.

“Mom, give this to Dad and make sure he takes it.”

Golden Crow Essence Blood could allow someone to reconstruct a divine body. If his father obtained the ancient Divine Artifact Xuanyuan Sword, then he would be able to sweep aside everything.

Feeling the scorching aura coming from the jade bottle, Shen Qingyue looked astonished. “What is this?”

“Something that strengthens the body.”

Doubt flickered across his mother’s face, but she still accepted it. Looking at her son, she said, “All right, I will not disturb you any longer. Tomorrow is the Team League, so you should make some preparations as well.”

“No matter whether you win the championship or not, your mother will not blame you. Doing your best is enough.”

The worry in her eyes was difficult to hide. After all, she had learned about the Spark Team from Su Linyu earlier that morning.

Two sixth-realm cultivators and three at the early fifth realm. She was certainly astonished by the speed at which Su Linyu, Tang Long, and Chu Xingchen had improved.

But with that sort of strength, they might not even be able to squeeze into the top ten of the Team League.

She sighed inwardly.