Chapter 90 : Chapter 90

Chapter 90. Spark Team vs. Phoenix Team

“All right, I am too lazy to keep lecturing you. The online draw for the Team League preliminaries is today, so remember to do it.”

“The group still has a mountain of work waiting for me, so your mother is leaving first.”

Looking at the several new messages that had popped up on her phone, Shen Qingyue’s brows showed a trace of worry as she put away the Black God Suit blueprint and the Golden Crow Essence Blood into her Spatial Bag.

Jiang Yichen nodded and walked his mother out of the villa.

Along the way, his mother’s mouth never rested for a moment. She kept telling him how wonderful Su Linyu was and how he had to cherish her.

Jiang Yichen fully agreed with that and nodded sincerely in promise.

After his mother left, Jiang Yichen sat in the living room and took out his phone to log into the official website of the Huaxia Team League headquarters.

The moment he entered the draw interface, it immediately displayed the full list of participating teams.

There were a total of fifty-one teams in the competition, and the capital behind them was almost entirely made up of Huaxia’s top-tier and first-rate families. Only they had enough spare money to raise teams.

Jiang Yichen did not hurry to draw lots. Instead, he directly called the league chairman.

“Hello, Chairman Li. There are fifty-one teams in the preliminaries this year, so let my team get a bye, all right?”

“Cough, cough...” The other side seemed to be drinking water, followed by a violent fit of coughing. “Young Master Jiang, this year is different. Ever since your father touched a realm above the Martial God, the higher-ups have been watching more and more closely.”

“In previous years, I could still handle it for you. This time, I really cannot.”

Hearing that, Jiang Yichen frowned slightly.

In his previous life, in order to push the Yanhuang Team to the top of Huaxia, he had privately bought off quite a few connections.

Even the league chairman himself had been won over with money.

Now that there were fifty-one teams, one team was bound to get a first-round bye and advance directly.

It had been the same in the last tournament. One phone call, and the Yanhuang Team advanced immediately.

But now...

“Chairman Li, do not lie to me. Do not forget your villa, your luxury cars...”

“Aiyo, Young Master Jiang, I am really not lying to you. The scrutiny from above has been extremely tight lately, especially regarding your great families.”

Chairman Li’s tone carried a trace of concern as he warned him, “Young Master Jiang, I am afraid Huaxia’s upper ranks are about to make a move against the great families. Let us keep a low profile for a while, all right?”

Hearing that, Jiang Yichen immediately felt that Huaxia’s upper ranks seemed to be looking for an excuse to deal with the great families.

His father had become the first person in Huaxia to touch a realm above the Martial God. The higher-ups likely wanted to make an example of the one standing out and preserve their own authority.

That was why they had sent his father to the Sacrificial Ruins.

However, once his father took the Golden Crow Essence Blood and drew the ancient Divine Artifact Xuanyuan Sword from the Sacrificial Ruins, then it would simply come down to whose fist was harder.

Helplessly, Jiang Yichen hung up the phone and directly pressed the draw button.

After a burst of flashing team names, the result appeared.

[Spark Team VS Phoenix Team]

???

Jiang Yichen looked at his own hand and briefly fell into self-doubt.

The Phoenix Team he had trained was the team that had ranked second in the previous tournament. Its strength had even surpassed the Yanhuang Team.

The preliminary draw system was supposed to evaluate each team’s strength and then create a reasonably randomized bracket.

But the Spark Team had only been established for a month, so how had it drawn the second-ranked Phoenix Team?

Jiang Yichen absolutely refused to believe this was because his luck was bad. When he thought of the fact that the Phoenix Team’s current owner was Jiang Feng, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

It felt like someone had set him up.

Damn it. Chairman Li was playing dirty with him.

So he had piled up excuse after excuse to stop the Spark Team from getting a bye, all so he could help Jiang Feng throw a brutal matchup at his team?

Jiang Yichen directly called in Uncle Feng and instructed, “Take back everything I gave to Li Qiang, the chairman of the Team League. Also, spread the evidence of his embezzlement and bribery through abuse of office. I want him stripped of his post.”

Uncle Feng froze for a moment, then nodded. “Yes, Young Master.”

After watching Uncle Feng leave, Jiang Yichen’s gaze slowly shifted to the comments on the official website.

“The annual Team League has started again. This time, I absolutely have to win back all the money I lost betting in the last tournament.”

“Oh, stop it. You have been losing for years, damn it. Your wife even ran off. That is hilarious.”

“I heard this year’s league is a bit different. The Jiang family is going to decide the heir based on who wins the championship. The news says only Young Master Jiang and Young Master Jiang Feng have been privately training teams.”

“Then Young Master Jiang will definitely win. Is there even any need to think about it? The Yanhuang Team he trained...”

“The person above must be living deep in the mountains, right? The Yanhuang Team was disbanded by Young Master Jiang a month ago. I also heard that his Thunder Team and Phoenix Team were both poached away by Jiang Feng.”

“What?! Then does that not mean this year’s championship already belongs to Young Master Jiang Feng?”

“That is basically already the truth. Just look at the draw bracket.”

“...”

Once the bracket was posted in the comments, everyone’s attention immediately locked onto Spark Team VS Phoenix Team.

After netizens clicked in to check the Spark Team’s profile, they discovered that the team belonged to Young Master Jiang and had been established less than a month ago.

Comments poured in one after another.

“Haha, then there is really no suspense at all. Tell me, how is a team that has existed for less than a month supposed to beat the team that ranked second last year?”

“I heard that the head of the Jiang family has touched a realm above the Martial God, but sadly his son cannot even hold onto the position of heir. What a mighty father, yet such a worthless son.”

“The betting channel is open, brothers. I am putting my money on the Phoenix Team. This time I am definitely earning my money back!”

“...”

Looking at the comments from the netizens, Jiang Yichen shook his head slightly.

He had trained the Phoenix Team himself, so he naturally knew them better than anyone.

Although every one of them was a sixth-realm Great Grandmaster, aside from their captain Huang Lu, who cultivated an Earth-rank Cultivation Art, the rest were only at the Profound-rank level.

Their highest martial talent was merely SS-grade.

As for their weapons, they were only using Seventh-rank Magical Artifacts.

Their cultivation arts were inferior, their martial talents were inferior, and their equipment was inferior as well. How were they supposed to win?

As for the gap in realm, Jiang Yichen was not worried in the slightest. If heaven-defying cultivation arts and top-tier equipment still could not allow one to defeat enemies above one’s level, then there was truly nothing left to say.

Jiang Yichen tossed his phone aside. He could not be bothered to argue online with a bunch of mindless fools.

After casually tidying himself up, he made his way leisurely to the training base.

...

At the Zhou family estate.

“Senior Patriarch, the league matchups are out. Spark Team versus Phoenix Team. Li Qiang really does know how to handle things.”

Hearing that, Zhou Mingyuan nodded slightly, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The Phoenix Team was made up entirely of sixth-realm Great Grandmasters and had ranked second in the previous tournament.

Dealing with a team that had only been established for a month and had three fifth-realm Grandmasters in its ranks could not have been easier.

And Jiang Yichen only had the Spark Team in his hands now. If his team could not even make it through the preliminary round, then Jiang Feng becoming the heir would be all but certain.

“Oh, right. Any news from Heavensteal?”

“No. The people Heavensteal sent out have still not been seen. Even Li Ming, one of Huazhong ten most renowned doctors, has vanished without a trace.”

Hearing that, Zhou Mingyuan narrowed his eyes slightly. “It seems Su Zhan has already noticed something. The plan to win Su Zhan over is now completely impossible.”

He sighed, gently swirling the teacup in his hand, deep in thought.

At this point, there was only one path left to take: make Jiang Feng the heir and maintain a good relationship with Jiang Dongnian.

Once Jiang Zhentian could no longer endure the power of Laws and died from his body exploding, that would be the best chance to move against the Jiang family.

The corners of Zhou Mingyuan’s lips curved upward slightly, revealing a look of satisfaction.