Chapter 97: Chapter 94: Rising Above the Rest (Double Chapter) (Part 2)
This is Jiang Ye’s next goal.
"Ye, come out to eat." Outside the door, Li Anping’s voice called.
"Coming."
Jiang Ye stood up. Coincidentally, he had some things to tell his parents.
Living room.
Jiang Dahai, Li Anping, and Jiang Ting sat at the table.
"Brother, I’ve already served you some rice." Jiang Ting blinked her big bright eyes and said, "I served it for you."
"Why are you being so obedient?" Jiang Ye pinched her tender cheek.
A year had passed, and the little girl had grown quite a bit, almost reaching his chest.
Her skin was fair, graceful, and she had a charming beauty that could put a fish to shame and make birds fall out of the sky.
"I’ve always been obedient." Jiang Ting puffed her cute cheeks, a bit shy from being pinched by her brother.
Li Anping teasingly scolded, "Ye, stop teasing your sister and sit down to eat."
"Okay."
After sitting down, Jiang Ye said, "Dad, Mom, I have something to tell you, and you need to prepare yourselves mentally."
Jiang Dahai and his wife exchanged glances.
"Go on," Jiang Dahai said with a smile, "We’ve been through so many storms and waves, how could anything scare me now?"
Jiang Ye nodded and slowly said, "I just received three hundred thousand dollars."
"Cough cough cough! Cough cough cough!"
Jiang Dahai was suddenly choked.
Then he stared at Jiang Ye with wide eyes, "What?"
"How much?!"
Jiang Ye cleared his throat and repeated, "Three hundred thousand. After passing the second level Preparatory Star Profession, the Examination Bureau subsidizes one hundred thousand per month."
"The other two hundred thousand is a reward from the principal and the City Lord."
Silence.
A moment of silence.
Jiang Dahai and his wife were stunned.
"Th...three hundred thousand?" Jiang Ting’s eyes also widened with surprise; to the little girl, even ten thousand was an unimaginable fortune.
Three hundred thousand, how much delicious food could that buy!
"Dad, we can live a good life from now on." Jiang Ye said with a smile.
After the initial shock, Jiang Dahai quickly came back to his senses.
"Ye, you should use the three hundred thousand to improve yourself." Jiang Dahai immediately refused, "We can tighten our belts, but you must get into a good college."
Jiang Ting quickly nodded and said, "Yes, yes, brother’s cultivation is important, I can go without candy."
"How much does candy cost anyway?" Jiang Ye pinched her cheek again.
Jiang Dahai said seriously, "Anyway, right now, you should focus everything on the college entrance exam."
"Dad, I recently got fifty thousand as well. Our family doesn’t lack money for now, so you don’t need to worry."
"Alright." Jiang Ye didn’t say more.
"Brother, can you stop pinching me?" Jiang Ting’s face was still being pinched, and she murmured with a blushing face, "I’m not that little anymore..."
"Hahaha." Jiang Ye finally let go.
...
Three days later.
Jiang Ye, along with a group of students from the same school, embarked on the journey for the second Star Sky Refinement.
The location was the same as the first Star Sky Refinement, in that water-blue cubic building.
What surprised Jiang Ye was.
During this Star Sky Refinement, Zhao Qingli directly broke through on the spot, shattering her own Life Shackles, and reaching the First Break Realm.
Becoming a ’Star Sky Martial Arts Master’!
"It seems it has become even harder to surpass the class leader." Jiang Ye watched this scene, deeply moved.
Zhao Qingli glanced at him and snorted lightly, "Want to surpass me? Don’t even think about it before the college entrance exam."
"Then I’ll surpass you in college." Jiang Ye was very confident in himself.
Zhao Qingli snorted coldly but didn’t say more. She indeed recognized Jiang Ye’s potential.
...
Zhao Qingli’s breakthrough further motivated Jiang Ye.
This time during the Star Sky Refinement, he stayed for a full five days.
In theory, he could have stayed longer.
However, this time the Star Envoy wasn’t as accommodating as Star Envoy Liu last time and started urging people to leave after five days.
Even so, Jiang Ye refined a total of thirty thousand strands of Star Energy.
Through this Star Sky Refinement, the strength of his physical body significantly increased once again.
He was now a step closer to that elusive First Break threshold.
Upon returning home.
Jiang Ye took out a briefcase from the cabinet.
"Click~" The briefcase opened.
Inside lay a golden-bronze fruit, resembling ginseng.
"Upper Grade Yellow Tier Martial Ginseng." Jiang Ye thought to himself. This was something he exchanged with Zhao Qingli using his spoils from a previous task.
Until now, he hadn’t used it.
"Let’s try its effects." Jiang Ye took out the Martial Ginseng, eyes full of anticipation.
Martial Ginseng was incredibly expensive.
Just this small 500g piece was worth one hundred thousand Federation coins!
Originally, he planned to use it during a bottleneck period.
But now, with the thirty hundred thousand windfall, he didn’t need to be so frugal with it.
"Crunch!" Jiang Ye bit off a piece of the fruit.
Instantly, a strong bitterness spread throughout his mouth.
But within moments, the bitterness transformed into a peculiar sweetness, sweeping through his entire body from top to bottom.
At this moment, Jiang Ye’s muscles, blood, and meridians seemed to develop a sense of taste.
They could savor that sweetness.
Without time to be surprised, Jiang Ye instantly began circulating his cultivation technique, actively refining the energy.
"Hmm?"
As soon as he started cultivating, he was immediately immersed in an indescribably wonderful sensation.
In Jiang Ye’s vision, he could clearly sense his own meridians and blood vessels.
As the cultivation technique operated, he became fully aware of the changes in his whole body’s meridians.
"Inner vision of oneself?"
Jiang Ye was astonished: "Not only that, but the operation of the cultivation technique also feels much smoother than before."
"Is this the effect of the Martial Ginseng? It’s truly amazing!"
With something akin to inner vision’s effect.
His cultivation speed could be increased by several times at least!
Not to mention, the Martial Ginseng itself could enhance the operation speed of the technique.
Jiang Ye quickly sank into cultivation, seizing every moment.
[Star Martial Advancement Technique: Entry (50%→54%)]
Before he knew it, a notification quietly flashed across the panel.