madnovel Chapter 196 I'll Listen to You
Chapter 196 I'll Listen to You
Chapter 196 I'll Listen to You
After leaving the training ground, Chen Lie went to a restaurant for a meal.
On the way, he ran into Luo Zhixun.
Upon seeing Chen Lie, Luo Zhixun immediately asked, "Chen Lie, are you alright?"
"What could possibly be wrong with me?"
"I heard Lu Qingyun challenged you to a duel? Hope you weren't hurt?"
Chen Lie said, "No, I didn't lose."
"Your strength has truly surprised me; even Lu Qingyun is no match for you."
"It seems I'm not far from reaching the pinnacle of Qi and Blood," Luo Zhixun said.
Chen Lie nodded and said, "More or less."
"So, you've already completed the skin and flesh refining steps?" Luo Zhixun's eyes flashed.
"Not yet." Chen Lie shook his head.
"No? How could you have almost reached the pinnacle of Qi and Blood if you didn't?" Luo Zhixun asked, puzzled.
"All that's left is to refine the skin and meat," Chen Lie replied.
"Huh? Doesn't that mean there's still a gap between that and the Qi Limit Realm?"
Luo Zhixun was taken aback. She had started refining her body half a month ago and was now only one step away from completing it. Thanks to the extraterrestrial martial art "Thunderous Tiger and Leopard Body Tempering Technique," her body refining speed was already very fast.
Chen Lie hasn't refined his skin and flesh yet. Even if his martial arts progresses rapidly, it will still take him at least a month to complete these two steps.
"The difference is not significant," Chen Lie said.
Hearing Chen Lie's reply, Luo Zhixun could only nod: "Then our strengths are similar, we must find time to have a good exchange on martial arts."
"Okay, I'll go eat first."
"Okay, see you later!"
Luo Zhixun smiled and waved to Chen Lie.
After saying goodbye to Luo Zhixun, Chen Lie went to the restaurant, got lunch, and started eating.
After finishing his meal, Chen Lie went to the resource search application office of the Martial Arts Association.
Upon entering, Chen Lie approached the counter and said, "I'm here to apply for a martial arts resource search."
The staff member looked up at Chen Lie: "Please show your identification."
Chen Lie nodded, handed his student card to the staff member, and stepped forward to verify his identity.
"Hello, Chen Lie, your identity has been verified and is correct."
The optical brain system indicates that you are a Grandmaster Seed Member of the Provincial Youth Genius Group, and you now have three opportunities to search for resources.
Opportunities to search for resources will not expire at the end of the month, but will automatically carry over to the next month.
"Should we use all three of these opportunities?" the staff member asked.
Chen Lie said directly, "We used them all."
"OK!"
The staff member operated the computer for a while and then handed Chen Lie a request form to search for resources.
"You can write down three rare martial arts treasures on the application form."
However, please note that you must fill in martial arts resources that can be found within the eight provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi; otherwise, the search may fail and your opportunity will be wasted.
"Okay, I got it!"
Chen Lie nodded. He didn't dare to fill in any particularly rare martial arts resources on the application form. Instead, just like last time, he filled in three 800-year-old spiritual herbs, making the conditions extremely lenient.
After finishing writing, Chen Lie returned the application form to the staff.
The staff member took the application form and quickly entered the information into the computer.
He then said to Chen Lie, "Chen Lie, the resource search is complete. If nothing unexpected happens, we should have results within a week."
Please pay 25 points.
"good!"
Chen Lie nodded and used his student card to earn 25 points.
After checking his points balance, Chen Lie found that he still had 173 million points left, which was the balance after he was awarded 10 points as a Grandmaster Seed.
After leaving the resource search area, Chen Lie felt a deep sense of inadequacy in his resources.
"Now that my cultivation progress has increased, my need for cultivation resources will only grow larger and more extensive in the future."
Next month's competition among the genius team members is a must-win for the one million points needed to become the martial arts champion.
The rewards for winning first place in the Three Rivers Martial Arts Tournament are sure to be generous; don't miss out!
As Chen Lie spoke, he walked to the Martial Arts Association's flying bus stop and took the flying bus home.
On the flying bus, Chen Lie received a message on his communicator.
I saw that it was a message from the provincial youth genius group's general group.
Gu Tian: "Congratulations to Chen Lie and Song Yixuan for being selected as Grandmaster Seed Members."
Your information will be reported throughout Dongchuan Province by all major official media outlets, allowing the 70 million people of Dongchuan Province to celebrate your achievements in martial arts.
After glancing at the message, Chen Lie left the Genius Group's group chat.
In the next ten minutes or so, Chen Lie indeed received several news articles from Dongchuan Province's official media.
The news content consisted of photos and text about Chen Lie and Song Yixuan being recognized as potential Grandmasters.
After glancing at the news for a few moments, Chen Lie turned off his communicator.
Not long after, the flying bus arrived at the station, and Chen Lie got off the flying bus.
Just as Chen Lie reached his doorstep, his communicator rang.
He picked it up and saw that it was actually his mother Feng Yuelan's classmate.
Chen Lie answered the phone immediately.
"Chen Lie, are you practicing martial arts right now?"
"No, what's wrong, Mom?"
"Could you come over to Mom's workplace? I need to talk to you about something."
"Okay, I'll be right there, I should be there in about half an hour."
Chen Lie hung up the communicator and immediately turned around and headed to his mother's workplace.
Chen Lie recalled that because his father was in the military, his mother was the deputy director of an office in the military affairs office of Changdong City. This was a relatively low-level leadership position in the military's external affairs department, and her treatment was much worse than that of a municipal worker at the same level, who was at the deputy county level.
I took the air shuttle bus again to the military office in downtown Changdong.
It took Chen Lie about half an hour to finally arrive at the door of the military affairs office.
As soon as I entered, a staff member approached me and asked, "Hello, what kind of service do you need?"
"No, I'm looking for someone."
"Looking for someone?" the staff member asked, puzzled.
"I'm looking for my mother. She's the deputy director of the military affairs department, and her name is Feng Yuelan."
"Looking for Director Feng? I'll go ask him."
Just as the staff member was about to leave, a girl who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old walked up.
Then he approached Chen Lie and asked, "Are you Chen Lie?"
Chen Lie nodded.
"Aunt Feng asked me to pick you up. Come with me."
After the girl finished speaking, she turned and walked towards the second floor.
Upon hearing this, Chen Lie followed.
After arriving at the door of an office with the girl, Chen Lie followed her inside.
As soon as he entered the door, Chen Lie saw his mother, Feng Yuelan, talking to a woman in her early forties.
Upon seeing Chen Lie, Feng Lanke stood up and went over to him: "Chen Lie, you've come?"
Chen Lie hummed in agreement, then asked, "Well, what did you want to see me about?"
"Did it interfere with your martial arts practice?"
Feng Yuelan knew that the competition for the provincial youth talent group would be fierce, and that every second counted in martial arts training, so she would not easily delay her son's time.
"No, I'm already home," Chen Lie said.
Feng Yuelan then said, "I asked you to come here because I wanted you to sign something."
A few days ago, your dad and I discussed it and decided that since you are at a crucial stage in your martial arts training, there's no need for him to keep his military merit.
I'm preparing to use my military merits to exchange for the martial arts resources you need. I'm currently filling out the application form for exchanging military merits.
Since your dad isn't here, you can sign in his place.
"Okay!"
Feng Yuelan took out a "Military Merit Exchange Application Form," handed it to Chen Lie, gave him some money, and pointed to the application form, saying, "Just sign your name here and here."
Chen Lie took the pen and, as his mother had instructed, signed his name in two places on the application form.
The woman next to her, who was around forty years old, said, "Yuelan, I remember that Gequn's military merits are worth quite a bit of money, right?"
Even rare martial arts treasures can be exchanged.
"Yes." Feng Yuelan nodded.
"Such a precious thing, just used up like that?"
"When it's time to use it, we should use it. Our child works hard to practice martial arts. We parents can't help with anything else, but we can't be stingy with these things, can we?"
"Besides, this military merit was originally intended for his son by his father," Feng Yuelan said.
"I remember Chen Lie had a younger sister, right? How could his daughter be willing to give his military merits to his son?"
Parents should treat all their children equally.
In response, Feng Yuelan simply said, "There's nothing we can do; my son definitely needs resources right now."
"Oh? Chen Lie's martial arts achievements are so good that he actually needs martial arts treasures?" The woman looked at Chen Lie.
Feng Yuelan introduced, "Chen Lie, this is your Aunt Mei. You met her a few years ago, don't you remember?"
Chen Lie naturally forgot about people who were practically strangers to him.
On both occasions, Feng Yuelan explained to Chen Lie that the middle-aged woman's name was Wang Mei, who was Feng Yuelan's colleague and also worked in the military department.
After being introduced, Chen Lie finally addressed her as "Aunt Mei" and then said, "My martial arts achievements are barely passable."
"What level is 'barely passable'? Is there any hope of joining the genius training camp?" Wang Mei asked.
"I've already left the gifted youth training camp."
"You're out? You're 19? So you're already in school?"
Chen Lie simply shook his head.
After signing the form, Chen Lie gave it to his mother.
Feng Yuelan introduced Chen Lie: "By the way, the one who brought you in just now is your Aunt Mei's daughter, Zhou Yunshu. She attends Wuke High School in Yunchuan Province. She is a junior this year and just transferred to Dongchuan Provincial Key High School a few days ago, which is the high school you used to attend."
Upon hearing his mother's introduction, Chen Lie wanted to greet Zhou Yunshu, but saw that Zhou Yunshu was looking down at her communicator.
Wang Mei reminded her at that moment, "Yun Shu, your family is saying hello to you."
Zhou Yunshu looked up at Chen Lie and said, "Hello!"
Chen Lie nodded and replied, "Hello."
Feng Yuelan said to Chen Lie, "Son, there's nothing for you to do here. Go and do your own thing."
"it is good."
Chen Lie nodded, pushed open the door, and left the office.
After Chen Lie left, Wang Mei asked, "Yuelan, I remember your son should be a senior in high school this year, right? Did he get into the genius training camp?"
"I went in, but I'm out now," Feng Yuelan said.
"What do you mean? I remember the genius training camp uses a bottom-ranking elimination system, where the worst performers are eliminated. Could it be Chen Lie—"
"Of course not!" Feng Yuelan shook her head.
At this moment, Zhou Yunshu came across a news article pushed by the official media of Dongchuan Province on the martial arts channel of the communicator.
The title is "[Introduction of Chen Lie and Song Yixuan, the two newly added Grandmaster seeds in the Dongchuan Province Genius Team]".
Upon seeing the title, Zhou Yunshu immediately clicked to view the content.
The more she looked, the more alarmed she became. The picture and text in the news push were none other than Chen Lie from earlier.
Is he a member of the Dongchuan Province Youth Genius Group, or even a potential master?
"Aunt Feng, you just said that Senior Chen Lie and I are in the same high school group. We entered the genius training camp and then came out. Did he get promoted to the provincial youth genius team?" Zhou Yunshu couldn't help but ask.
"How did you know?" Feng Yuelan asked curiously.
"I just saw the information pushed by the official media of Dongchuan Province. Senior Chen Lie has been selected as a Grandmaster Seed Member."
Wang Mei asked in surprise, "What? Chen Lie is a member of the provincial youth genius team?"
Feng Yuelan admitted, "Yes, we just made it into the provincial-level genius team."
"Chen Lie's martial arts aptitude is that high? I didn't even know your son was shortlisted for the provincial youth genius team. You've done a great job keeping it a secret!" Wang Mei said.
"I really didn't make a fuss."
"No wonder Chen Lie needs martial arts treasures to practice; his talent is worthy of it."
"How come you can't help but show off with such a successful son?" Wang Mei couldn't help but ask.
Feng Yuelan simply smiled and did not reply.
"Aunt Feng, could you ask Senior Chen Lie to add me as a friend on Green Bubble?"
"I've always been in Yunchuan. I'm quite unfamiliar with the environment when I first came to Dongchuan. Chen Lie is from the same school as me, so I can ask him for advice," Zhou Yunshu said.
"Okay, then I'll go back and talk to him," Feng Yuelan said.
"Thank you, Aunt Feng. I'll add you a green bubble first, and you can send me Chen Lie's student information," Zhou Yunshu said.
"good!"
Feng Yuelan took out her communicator, left Zhou Yunshu with a green bubble, and sighed that her son was really popular with girls now.
Joining the provincial youth genius group truly makes him a dragon among men.
She used to think that her son was not good enough for Lu Qingchan, the daughter of Chen Lie's father's comrade-in-arms, but now she sees that he is a perfect match for her.
Even if they suddenly become the sons of the powerful and wealthy.
Meanwhile, Chen Lie arrived home on a flying bus.
As soon as I entered the house, my younger sister, Chen Xingyao, came to greet me.
"Brother, has the Lord finally come?"
Chen Lie hummed in response and asked, "What's wrong?"
Chen Xingyao said, "Today, a strange person came to the school looking for me. He claimed to be from the headquarters of the Blue Star Divine Sense Master Association. He said that I have a great talent for divine sense and invited me to join the Blue Star Divine Sense Master Association."
Chen Lie asked, "So, how are you?"
"At the time, I didn't know anything and just thought about it some more. Then he explained to me in detail how great the Blue Star Divine Mind Master Association was, how many privileges I could enjoy, and how I would never have to worry about cultivation resources again."
I didn't give him an answer then; he'll be visiting my parents tonight.
Chen Lie nodded and asked, "So what are your thoughts? Are you willing to join the Blue Star Divine Sense Master Association?"
"I don't understand anything, brother. You do what you say. If you tell me to do something, I will do it."
"Isn't this person supposed to visit tonight? Let's wait until he arrives," Chen Lie said.