Chapter 253. Mei Xue’er Breaks Through, Gu Yuan Is Shocked, and Seeks Cooperation with the Jiang Family
Time passed day by day. In the blink of an eye, ten days had gone by.
Beep, beep, beep—
An ear-piercing alarm rang out in the training area.
“Commander Gu, the members in the training area suddenly lost consciousness.”
A woman dressed in the uniform of the Divine Battle Division picked up a remote control and pulled up the surveillance feed of the training area.
Hm?
Gu Yuan slowly put down the information in his hand regarding Huaxia’s Sixth Martial God, then raised his head to look at the surveillance footage.
In the footage, a layer of pink mist filled the air. The moment the Battle Division personnel who had gone in to rescue them came into contact with the mist, they immediately collapsed, their faces flushed.
“What is going on?” he asked.
“According to instrument monitoring, this pink mist contains an extreme charm effect and the ability to make people fall into an illusion. It may have been released by Mei Xue’er, the minister of the Combat Department.”
Gu Yuan frowned. What was Mei Xue’er doing? Did she no longer treat her own people as people?
“I understand. I’ll go take a look.”
He put down the work at hand and made his way to the training area.
As the Divine Contract Holder of the Purple Star Emperor, the pink mist did not affect him.
Gu Yuan walked closer and saw that there was not a single person in the training area. Only a scroll painted with mountains and rivers hovered in the air at the center. It was Jiang Yichen’s Map of Mountains and Rivers and the State.
The pink mist was drifting out from the Map of Mountains and Rivers and the State.
?
Gu Yuan looked puzzled. He glanced around but did not find Jiang Yichen anywhere.
At that, he sighed. He had already grown used to it.
He truly had no idea what kind of students such a slacking instructor could teach.
Sigh! He estimated that Mei Xue’er and the others had probably made no progress in strength over the past ten days.
Gu Yuan felt helpless inside and was beginning to regret his original decision.
He raised his hand slightly, and star power gathered at his fingertip, forming a pitch-black vortex the size of a fist in space.
Under the powerful suction, the pink mist slowly vanished.
“Mei Xue’er, come out.”
Gu Yuan walked to the side of the Map of Mountains and Rivers and the State and spoke.
After a short while, Mei Xue’er did not come out. Instead, Mo Yan, Lingling, Su Linyu, and the others flew out from the map.
“Shh! Old Gu, don’t talk. The minister is breaking through to the Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor. Keep your voice down.”
Lingling placed the index finger of her right hand beside her lips and shook her head at Gu Yuan.
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Gu Yuan’s expression froze. Breaking through to the Eighth Realm!?
That was not right. During the Battle Division’s last physical examination, the experts had predicted that Mei Xue’er would need at least another half a year to break through to the Eighth Realm.
Even with the tenfold cultivation speed enhancement from the Map of Mountains and Rivers and the State, it was impossible for her to break through in only ten days, was it?
“How did she break through so quickly?” he asked in astonishment.
Lingling and the others smiled.
“Isn’t it because you have good judgment, Old Gu? If you hadn’t made Jiang Yichen our instructor, it would have been impossible for us to improve so much in such a short time.” Lingling raised her thumb.
Liang Shan and Mo Yan nodded in agreement.
Su Linyu blinked and smiled. “Brother Yichen provided us with cultivation resources and cultivation arts, along with the Map of Mountains and Rivers and the State. That’s why Sister Xue’er was able to break through.”
Hearing this, Gu Yuan became even more confused. His mental power swept over everyone, and his eyes widened slightly.
In just ten days, Lingling had broken through from the peak of the Sixth Realm to the Seventh Realm. Mo Yan and Liang Shan had each risen by one minor level.
Su Linyu had already reached the fifth level of the Sixth Realm. Tang Long was close to the peak of the Fifth Realm, and Chu Xingchen had broken through to the Sixth Realm during his last Divine Contract. After these ten days, he had also risen by two minor levels.
This… effect was rather absurd.
Once one reached the Sixth Realm and Seventh Realm, even advancing by one level took three or four months. That was under ideal conditions.
How had they improved so much in only ten days?
Gu Yuan simply did not believe that Jiang Yichen could make them improve so quickly just by giving them some cultivation resources and cultivation arts.
One had to know that the resources and cultivation arts provided by the Divine Battle Division were already the best in Huaxia, yet he had never seen Mei Xue’er and the others’ strength increase so rapidly.
“Stop trying to fool me. The Battle Division has allocated a large amount of resources to you, yet your strength never improved this quickly. How many resources could Jiang Yichen possibly give you? Tell me the truth!”
His tone was stern.
Everyone: “…”
Lingling and the others looked at one another, helpless expressions appearing on their faces.
“Old Gu, sometimes we have no choice but to admit how deep the foundation of Huaxia’s number one family truly is.” Liang Shan stepped forward and took out the remaining Top-grade Pills he had not finished eating.
Lingling also revealed a sorrowful expression as she pulled out a God-level Cultivation Art from behind her. “Old Gu, in Jiang Yichen’s eyes, the Battle Division is far too shabby.”
Mo Yan turned his folding fan over, and the word “Correct” appeared on it.
Su Linyu, Tang Long, and Chu Xingchen snickered at the side without saying anything.
Gu Yuan looked at the expressions of the three of them, then lowered his head slightly. His pupils suddenly contracted.
The jade bottle Liang Shan handed over was filled with Top-grade Pills. Although they were only basic pills, each one was worth over a million, and they were still in short supply.
Gu Yuan leaned back slightly, then took Lingling’s cultivation art. His eyes were full of doubt. “This is…”
“A God-level Cultivation Art that Instructor Jiang gave us. One book for each person!”
As soon as those words came out, Gu Yuan felt that the cultivation art in his hands had become scorching hot. He nearly dropped it onto the floor, but fortunately, he caught it with quick reflexes.
Good heavens!
God-level Cultivation Arts could only possibly appear inside ruins, such as the Eight-Nine Arcane Art that Perfected Yuding had passed on to Chu Xingchen.
They were either exclusive inheritances or pitifully rare.
Jiang Yichen, you gave one to each person? Are you wholesaling them?
Could the Jiang Family withstand you squandering things like this?
Gu Yuan flipped through the cultivation art, his expression filled with disbelief. This cultivation art was even more heaven-defying than a Heaven-rank Cultivation Art.
If it was not God-level, then what else could it be?
“Are you certain this was given by Jiang Yichen?” Gu Yuan confirmed once more.
Everyone nodded in unison.
Gu Yuan blinked. After taking quite a while to recover, he took a deep breath and said, “You see? My judgment really is extraordinary. Jiang Yichen was born to be instructor material.”
His earlier disappointment over Jiang Yichen not being present as an instructor completely changed.
Lingling and the others also nodded with incomparable agreement. Over the past ten days, they had already been completely convinced by Jiang Yichen’s inhuman wealth.
Gu Yuan returned the pills and cultivation art to Lingling and Liang Shan, then coughed lightly twice. “Continue cultivating. Listen carefully to Instructor Jiang. If anyone dares disobey, I will personally educate them.”
“Yes, Chief Commander Gu!” everyone replied solemnly.
Gu Yuan nodded in satisfaction. When he saw them walk back into the Map of Mountains and Rivers and the State, he could no longer conceal his astonishment.
“The fact that the Jiang Family can give Jiang Yichen these resources, and even allows him to casually give them to others, is enough to prove how abyssally deep the Jiang Family’s foundation is. We must immediately have the Business Department begin cooperation with the Jiang Family.”
“If we can obtain the Jiang Family’s support in Top-grade Pills, Ninth-Rank Talismans, top-tier cultivation arts… it would be like a fish returning to water for the Divine Battle Division.”
Gu Yuan immediately picked up the phone and called the Business Department.
At that moment, in the Jiang Group, inside the chairman’s office.
“Chairwoman, Chairwoman.”
The secretary knocked on the door with an anxious expression. Shen Qingyue frowned slightly.
“Come in.”
“Chairwoman, the Divine Battle Division sent people to discuss cooperation with us. They said they want to purchase our Top-grade Pills, Ninth-Rank Talismans, and cultivation arts above Heaven-rank on a long-term basis…”
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As Shen Qingyue listened, her eyes widened slightly.
Huh? The Jiang Family had these things?