fantasy novels Chapter 8 Leaving the Squad
Chapter 8 Leaving the Squad
That evening, Chen Yuan practiced for an extra two hours before going back to his room to rest.
Of course, what Chen Yuan called rest was actually meditation, and he had gradually gotten used to this rhythm of cultivation.
Perhaps because of Qin Wei, Qin Zhan didn't dare to contact him again in the following days.
Chen Yuan was happy to have some peace and quiet, and he trained according to the training plan every day, watching the data on the panel slowly improve.
There was a little incident in the middle, when Qin Wei called to tell him that she had broken through to the advanced student level and would soon receive the Purple Light Dew to become a martial artist.
Chen Yuan congratulated her over the phone, which angered Qin Wei so much that she hung up immediately and never called back.
Time flies, and October is here in the blink of an eye.
"I disagree!" Qin Zhan looked at his daughter with a serious expression. "You can't go into the wilderness area yet."
Qin Wei stubbornly replied, "I'm already a formal martial artist, why can't I go?"
Qin Zhan laughed angrily: "A novice warrior who hasn't even mastered the Five Hearts Facing the Sky technique, and you're already in such a hurry to go to the wilderness to die? That's utter nonsense!"
"Qin Wei, have I been too lenient with you?"
Hearing her father call her name, Qin Wei instinctively shivered, realizing that her father was truly angry this time.
The incident stemmed from a phone call Qin Zhan made earlier. He wanted to gather the members of the wilderness team and arrange a time to enter the wilderness to hunt monsters.
Qin Wei had recently been promoted to a formal martial artist and, after purchasing the secret manual she had long desired from the Limitless House, she had been eager to put it to practical use.
So just as Qin Zhan was about to call Chen Yuan, Qin Wei stopped him and told him that she also wanted to go to the wilderness area.
This led to the argument between father and daughter.
Faced with her angry father, Qin Wei mustered her courage to retort: "You're not going into the wilderness area right away. Give me a few days, and I'll be able to master the Five Hearts Facing the Sky very quickly."
"According to the martial arts instructors' predictions, with my aptitude, I'll most likely gain a thousand kilograms of strength after my first absorption of cosmic energy. At that point, I'll be a mid-level warrior," Qin Wei declared confidently. "You were even willing to take Chen Yuan to the wilderness. Once I break through to mid-level warrior, plus the Thunder Blade manual, how won't I be stronger than him, who only practices a C-level manual?"
"You even bought the Thunder Blade?!" Qin Zhan's voice suddenly rose eight octaves.
The Thunder Blade is a secret manual created by Thor, one of the three strongest beings on Earth. Its original name was Nine-fold Thunder Blade.
However, due to the increased strength of Thor in recent years, the original Nine-fold Thunder Blade has now reached the fifteenth level, so calling it Nine-fold Thunder Blade is no longer appropriate. Therefore, the name of the manual was simply changed to Thunder Blade.
However, while the Thunder Blade is powerful, it is also known as the most difficult sword technique in the world to learn, causing many confident geniuses to fail miserably.
"In recent years, although advanced martial arts manuals have seen a general price reduction, the first level of the Thunder Blade still requires five million Chinese yuan to purchase." Qin Zhan said with exasperation, "You only have ten million yuan in start-up capital, and you're just wasting half of it on buying the Thunder Blade, which you might not even be able to learn?"
"It's not five million, it's ten million," Qin Wei corrected seriously. "And I get a 50% discount on my first purchase. I bought the first three levels of the Thunder Blade for ten million."
Moreover, Qin Wei had her own reasons: "The martial arts instructors all said that I have an extremely high talent for swordsmanship and recommended that I buy a more powerful manual. Moreover, I need to take advantage of the first half-price discount, which is my only chance to come into contact with a high-level manual."
"So you just bought the Thunder Blade?" Qin Zhan laughed angrily. "Don't you even know your own limitations?"
"I'm sure I can learn it." Qin Wei gritted her teeth. "So please don't stop me from going into the wilderness. I desperately need a lot of real combat experience to hone my swordsmanship. You wouldn't want to see me fail to learn the Thunder Blade because of a lack of practice, would you?"
After Qin Wei finished speaking, she didn't give Qin Zhan a chance to refute her, turned around and strode upstairs: "I'm going to cultivate, you must wait for me in the wilderness!"
Watching his daughter's retreating figure, Qin Zhan remained silent for a long time before taking out his phone: "Hello, Xiao Yang? Tell the others to postpone entering the wilderness area. I'll let you know the specific time later."
Chen Yuan knew nothing about the matter between Qin Zhan and his daughter. For him, daily cultivation had become a habit, and watching his strength gradually increase brought him an indescribable sense of accomplishment.
Time quickly passed to mid-October, and on this day, two uninvited guests arrived at Chen Yuan's home.
As Chen Yuan looked at the two young men in black uniforms outside the courtyard gate, memories surfaced in his mind.
They were both members of Qin Zhan's team in the wilderness area, named Yang Fan and Wang Meng, and both possessed the strength of advanced warriors.
"Brother Yang, Brother Wang, what brings you here today? Is there something you need to tell me?" Chen Yuan greeted the two men as he remembered them, and opened the courtyard gate at the same time.
"Chen Yuan, we won't go in. We have something to tell you." Yang Fan looked at Chen Yuan, his expression somewhat stiff.
"Oh, please go ahead," Chen Yuan replied with a smile, seemingly unaware of the coldness in Yang Fan's tone.
Seeing this, Yang Fan exchanged a glance with his companion, and then said, "We hope you will leave the wilderness team."
As he spoke, he stared intently at Chen Yuan, trying to exert pressure.
"I see. I have no objection. I can withdraw." Chen Yuan nodded, then asked curiously, "But have you asked the captain about this?"
"We'll talk to the captain, you just need to agree." Seemingly surprised that Chen Yuan agreed so easily, Yang Fan immediately relaxed, and his expression no longer serious.
He smiled at Chen Yuan, seemingly afraid that he might change his mind, and said in a reassuring tone, "Chen Yuan, the wilderness area is very dangerous. To be honest, your performance last time was very unsatisfactory to everyone."
"In that case, you can train for a while longer and join us when you become a high-level warrior, then no one will have any objections."
Chen Yuan didn't care about this. He didn't plan to enter the wilderness area with the team again anyway, since he had too many secrets and it would be easy for people to discover something was wrong.
Upon hearing Yang Fan's words, he simply nodded casually and said, "Okay, I understand."
Seeing that Chen Yuan agreed so readily, Yang Fan glanced at his companion Wang Meng. Seeing that he had nothing to say, he said, "Since that's the case, there's nothing else. We'll leave now to leave you after you've finished practicing."
"Take care." Chen Yuan closed the courtyard gate.
Yang Fan and Wang Meng walked along the path, gradually moving away from Chen Yuan's house. Only then did Yang Fan whisper to his companion, "Old Wang, don't you think Chen Yuan agreed a little too readily?"
Wang Meng's expression was strange: "Whether he agrees readily or not has nothing to do with us. Isn't it good that the goal is achieved?"
"I'm just worried that kid might be cheating." The more Yang Fan thought about it, the more he felt something was off about Chen Yuan's behavior; there was a mysterious quality about him that he couldn't quite figure out. "Should we secretly investigate what he's been up to lately?"
Wang Meng couldn't understand Yang Fan's thought process and suddenly turned to stare at his companion: "Yang Fan, what happens to Chen Yuan has nothing to do with us. We were just entrusted by Miss Qin Wei to kick Chen Yuan out of the team."
"Now that we've achieved our goal, I'm warning you, don't cause any unnecessary trouble."
Just a few days ago, Qin Wei finally mastered the basics of "Five Hearts Towards the Sky," and as she said, her strength increased by 1000 kilograms upon absorbing cosmic energy for the first time, allowing her to be promoted to intermediate warrior on the spot.
Therefore, Qin Zhan had no reason to stop Qin Wei from joining the team, and the news of Qin Wei joining the team made several young men in the team cheer with joy.
After all, female martial artists are rare these days, especially someone as young and beautiful as Qin Wei. Apart from Qin Zhan, the captain, everyone else in this wilderness team is a young man in his twenties. Everyone knows that Qin Wei has feelings for him.
However, before joining the team, Qin Wei made a request behind Qin Zhan's back—she didn't want to be in the same team as Chen Yuan.
Both are now intermediate warriors, but one is a beautiful female warrior with a promising future, who is cultivating the ultimate secret manual, Thunder Blade, while the other is Chen Yuan, who is cultivating a C-level secret manual and can't even beat a low-level beast soldier in actual combat. It's obvious which one to choose.
Apart from Qin Zhan, who was still kept in the dark, the rest of the team had unanimously decided to kick Chen Yuan out of the team, which led to Yang Fan and the other two coming to persuade Chen Yuan to leave.
"Is it because of Qin Wei? Well, that's fine." In the courtyard, Chen Yuan, who was practicing his sword, paused for a moment, then continued his practice as if nothing had happened.
It wasn't that he was deliberately eavesdropping, but rather that his recent practice of the Spirit Wind Sword Technique had made Chen Yuan's perception of his surroundings increasingly acute. Even though Yang Fan and the other man had already gone far away, their conversation still drifted into Chen Yuan's ears on the wind, allowing him to understand the cause and effect of their conversation.
However, Chen Yuan didn't care about these things. Rather, he felt that the other party had given him an excellent reason to leave the team, so he didn't have to think about how to persuade Qin Zhan.
Sure enough, in the days that followed, Chen Yuan overheard that Qin Zhan's team had set off for the wilderness area, but no one contacted him.
Chen Yuan was not in a hurry and continued to cultivate step by step.
On October 16, Chen Yuan's proficiency in the Hibernation Method surpassed the beginner level, and he mastered the second stage of deep sleep.
On October 21, the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing (a classic text on tendon and bone marrow washing) was successfully completed.