Chapter 97 : Chapter 97

Chapter 97. A Celebration Party Belonging Only to Spark

The team lounge.

“Brother Yichen, we won. Pretty amazing, right?”

Wearing the Spark Team uniform, Su Linyu pushed the door open, and the moment she saw Jiang Yichen, she immediately trotted over to his side with a radiant smile.

Jiang Yichen smiled and nodded. “Not only were you amazing, you were smart too.”

“Thank you for the praise, Brother Yichen. We’ll keep working hard,” Su Linyu said excitedly, like a child who had just been praised.

“Brother Yichen, with these ninth-rank Magical Artifacts, the championship is definitely ours,” Tang Long said with a grin.

Chu Xingchen, who was still weak and dizzy, also gave a slight nod.

“Ninth-rank Magical Artifacts are powerful, but their weakness is obvious too. Once we use one, we basically lose our ability to keep fighting.”

“If Phoenix Team had prepared for that in advance, we would still have needed Uncle Lei and Sleep God to step in. We’ll have to come up with new tactics for the matches ahead.”

He laid out his analysis with clear logic.

Lei Zhen slapped Chu Xingchen on the back with his large hand and burst into laughter. “Young people really are modest. On the battlefield, as long as you win the match, that is your ability.”

Chu Xingchen adjusted his white robe and smiled as he nodded.

Jiang Yichen’s gaze swept across them, and his heart was filled with satisfaction.

Back when Yanhuang Team had competed in his previous life, he had been anxious to death on the sidelines. No matter what tactics he arranged for them, someone would always mess things up halfway through.

It was exhausting, and all it earned him was resentment from the Yanhuang Team members. It was thankless work.

But Spark was different now. He was completely hands-off, yet they were doing a thousand times better than the Yanhuang Team he had painstakingly raised in his previous life.

“Congratulations on winning our opening match. Come on, I’m taking you all out to celebrate,” Jiang Yichen said happily.

How could he not be happy when his own team had won?

“Yes, yes! Let’s throw a banquet and let everyone know we won,” Su Linyu said cheerfully.

Chu Xingchen frowned slightly. “Wouldn’t that be a little too ostentatious?”

“It’s fine. I just want all those people who looked down on Brother Yichen at your father’s birthday banquet to know that the team Brother Yichen trained has won, and even defeated the second-ranked Phoenix Team.”

Su Linyu’s words were full of pride in Jiang Yichen.

The others froze for a moment, then revealed understanding looks.

Captain, oh Captain. Now that you have won, you are not thinking about rewarding yourself at all. You are only thinking about your Brother Yichen.

“Brother Yichen, what do you think?” Su Linyu asked expectantly.

Back at his father’s birthday banquet, she had been angry when she saw so many people doubting him and refusing to believe in him.

But in front of Brother Yichen, she could only hide those emotions.

Looking at the girl who was thinking of him, Jiang Yichen gently pinched her cheek.

“There’s no need. The joy of winning is something we should enjoy ourselves. What does it have to do with anyone else?”

Su Linyu’s smile dimmed slightly, but she did not throw a tantrum. She simply nodded obediently.

“Then we’ll celebrate by ourselves.”

【Ding! A slacking choice has been triggered.】

【Option One: Spark Team wins its opening match. You decide to throw a lavish banquet and invite all those people who used to look down on you, showing them up in front of everyone. Reward: the title ‘Show-Off Bro’.

Option Two: Now that the team has won, throwing a lavish banquet feels too troublesome. You decide to slack off and enjoy this happiness privately with the team by having a meal together. While rewarding the team, you also get to enjoy the cheerful atmosphere yourself. Reward: ‘Mid-grade Slacking Gift Pack’.】

Not again. System, your delay is getting worse.

【Ding! Congratulations, Host, on making a slacking choice. Reward: ‘Mid-grade Slacking Gift Pack’. Open it?】

Jiang Yichen looked at the reward that had just been credited and shook his head with a laugh.

Good grief. Now there was no need to analyze the choices at all. It just handed out the reward directly.

The Slacking System truly lived up to its name. He could lie around and still receive rewards.

He had just happened to obtain a High-grade Gift Pack at the arena earlier as well, so he might as well open them together.

Maybe he would get a Supreme-grade reward.

“System, open the mid-grade one first, then the high-grade one,” he said inwardly.

【Congratulations, Host, you obtain: Celebration Party Gift Box】

【Congratulations, Host, you obtain: 100,000 Top-grade Foundation-Nourishing Pills, 10 billion in funds.】

...Another day of terrible luck.

Jiang Yichen glanced over the rewards. The 100,000 Top-grade Foundation-Nourishing Pills were actually useful.

Over the past month, Su Linyu, Chu Xingchen, and Tang Long had broken through too quickly. Even though they had been taking Top-grade Pills, their foundations would still become unstable in future cultivation.

The Foundation-Nourishing Pills would be perfect for consolidating their foundations and gradually stabilizing their floating realms.

The team league would last for a month, so they had plenty of time to steady themselves.

In any case, with the overwhelming advantage of ninth-rank Magical Artifacts, there was basically no suspense left in the upcoming matches.

Jiang Yichen smiled faintly and turned his attention to the Celebration Party Gift Box that had come from the mid-grade pack.

【Celebration Party Gift Box: Automatically arranges a party venue for the Host. Martial artists participating in the party have a chance to receive a permanent increase to one of the following at random: comprehension, mental power, Blood Qi... The maximum bonus is 5%.】

Hm?

A permanent boost!

Jiang Yichen froze. This was honestly a little outrageous.

That 5% might not mean much to him. After all, he could grow stronger just by slacking off and level up while lying down.

But for other martial artists, that 5% was no trivial matter.

A 5% increase in comprehension could be a godsend when trying to understand profound cultivation arts or break through to the next realm.

A 5% increase in Blood Qi was even more extraordinary. The standard for a fifth-realm Grandmaster was 100,000 points of Blood Qi. Raise the upper limit by 5%, and you had 5,000 more Blood Qi than everyone else.

That meant permanently staying 5% ahead of other martial artists.

What a good item.

“Brother Yichen, where are we going to celebrate?” Su Linyu asked.

Jiang Yichen came back to himself and thought for a moment. “Let’s keep it simple and go to my house. My top private chef definitely won’t disappoint you.”

The moment those words were spoken, all four of them lit up.

The last time they had played games with Jiang Yichen, Su Linyu had carried him through several wins in a row.

The boss had been so happy that he invited the whole team to his house for dinner. The dishes made by that top private chef had been so fragrant that people practically drooled.

“Great, Brother Yichen. Let’s go,” Tang Long said at once, suddenly full of energy. Even the exhaustion from using the ninth-rank Magical Artifact seemed to fade by more than half.

Jiang Yichen rolled his eyes at him and teased, “You’re already round as a ball, and you still want to eat?”

Tang Long rubbed his plump belly and grinned. “It’s good to be a little fat. That way I never suffer any losses. I take up two seats all by myself.”

Jiang Yichen was speechless. He glanced over the group, then suddenly realized someone was missing.

“Lei Zhen, where’s Sleep God?”

“Oh, he went to the hospital to see Huang Lu. Sigh. Boss, you know what Sleep God is like. He’s usually drowsy and never seems serious, but he cares deeply about his friends,” Lei Zhen explained.

Jiang Yichen understood as soon as he heard that.

If Sleep God were not that kind of person, he would never have stayed behind in the first place. He would have run off with Huang Lu long ago.

After all, she had been the captain who led him for four years. It was good for him to go see her.

“Then let’s go. Send Sleep God a message and tell him to come over later.”

Lei Zhen nodded with a smile. “No problem, Boss.”

After using the Celebration Party Gift Box, Jiang Yichen immediately cast the Great Void Art, and the scenery around them changed in an instant.

A moment later, they had arrived inside his luxurious villa.

But the sight before them left all four of them staring blankly.

Inside the hall, the crystal chandelier spilled light like a waterfall. On one side, a walnut spiral staircase was draped with a velvet carpet, while a graceful piano symphony drifted through the air.

Was the setup really this grand?!

All four of them turned to look at Jiang Yichen in unison.

Su Linyu exclaimed happily, “Wow! Brother Yichen, so you had already prepared all this for us. You really put your heart into it.”

“Brother Yichen, and this is what you call keeping it simple? This is even more exquisite than your father’s birthday banquet,” Tang Long said in amazement. Brother Yichen’s words were always so modest.

“...” Jiang Yichen gave an awkward laugh. All he could say was that the system was incredible.