Chapter 152. Rewarded with Top-Tier Ninth-Rank Talisman Paper. Will I Die in an S-Rank Beast Tide?
Rift Valley Town, border watchtower.
“Blind Feng, co, co. This is the recruit squad from the First Military District carrying out the ‘Snake Extermination’ mission. I’m leaving them to you.”
Squad Leader Li led Jiang Yichen’s group of five into a two-room office area inside the watchtower. Neatly arranged docunts lay on the desk, along with an ashtray still giving off thin trails of white smoke.
A middle-aged soldier with a black eyepatch over his left eye slowly lifted his gaze toward them. His right eye stared like an eagle locking onto its prey.
“Old Li, send them back.”
Blind Feng swept his gaze over the five of them and shook his head.
Squad Leader Li knocked on the desk. “What are you doing? How am I supposed to explain this to my superiors if I go back like that?”
“Do you want to explain yourself, or do you want them alive?”
Blind Feng’s voice suddenly rose. “The Great Rift Valley hasn’t been the sa lately. All kinds of Demonic Beasts have started appearing. A situation like this could very well be the precursor to a Beast Tide.”
“Blindman, you’re overthinking it. If there were signs of a Beast Tide in the Great Rift Valley on the eastern border, the higher-ups would have issued orders long ago.”
“Believe it or not, I’m the post commander here, and what I say goes. Send them back.” Blind Feng stubbornly refused to budge.
Squad Leader Li looked helpless. “They’re the strongest talents in the First Military District...”
“How strong could they be? They’re just a bunch of fresh recruits.” Blind Feng sounded irritated as he lit a leaf cigarette, his gloomy face half-hidden in the drifting smoke.
Squad Leader Li raised a hand and pointed at him. “The file I sent you. You’re still the sa as always. You just never like reading anything.”
“Let introduce them. Jiang Feng, Eighth Level of the Fourth Realm. Tang Long, Third Layer of the Fifth Realm...”
A Fifth-Realm Grandmaster!
Hearing that, Blind Feng’s lips slowly left the cigarette holder.
“Chu Xingchen, Fifth Layer of the Fifth Realm. Su Linyu, a Sixth-Realm Great Grandmaster. Team leader Jiang Yichen, a Seventh-Realm Martial King!”
Clang!
Blind Feng’s pipe dropped straight to the floor, producing a crisp tallic sound.
After that, the office fell into deathly silence.
Blind Feng’s right eye widened as he stared fixedly at Jiang Yichen.
A Seventh-Realm Martial King? A recruit who was a Seventh-Realm Martial King? Even he, the post commander, was only in the Sixth Realm.
Still unconvinced, he pulled out the file Squad Leader Li had given him. What was written on it matched Squad Leader Li’s words exactly.
He stood there frozen, shock flickering in his eye.
But Jiang Yichen looked at Squad Leader Li in confusion. When had he ever said that he was a Seventh-Realm Martial King?
What pitifully little experience this man had. I am a mighty Eighth-Realm Martial Emperor, and yet he dares look down on like this.
Jiang Yichen grumbled inwardly.
“Well, Blindman? They can stay now, right?” Squad Leader Li asked.
Blind Feng slowly closed the file and sighed. “Excellent seedlings. Future seeds of the Martial God.”
“In that case... I definitely can’t let you stay.”
“Old Li, the Demonic Beast activity in the Great Rift Valley has been far too frequent this ti. There’s an extrely high chance of a Beast Tide breaking out. You’d better report it up the chain.”
“From my judgnt, it’ll reach S-rank...”
“That’s enough, Blindman. I’m only here to carry out orders. I’m leaving them to you.”
Squad Leader Li tugged at his military overcoat and turned to leave the office.
That left Jiang Yichen and the other four staring at one another.
Blind Feng scratched his head, a headache already coming on.
He had guarded the border at Rift Valley Town for more than thirty years. Over that ti, he had personally gone through six D-rank Beast Tides and two B-rank Beast Tides, and from that he had sumd up many of the warning signs that ca before one.
But the leaders above preferred to trust detection technology and were unwilling to believe in his thirty-odd years of experience.
He let out a sigh and slowly rose to his feet. “You’re all geniuses of Huaxia. I truly couldn’t bear to let anything happen to you, which is why I wanted you to leave.”
“Since you’re staying, I’ll do everything I can to guarantee your safety.”
If things truly unfolded the way he expected and an S-rank Beast Tide appeared, then even Jiang Yichen, a Seventh-Realm Martial King, would not be able to stop it.
Jiang Yichen nodded in understanding. “Outpost Commander Feng, don’t worry. We’ll be careful.”
Safety? What a joke. Even if a Beast Tide really showed up, it could go against the system rewards of several tens of thousands of seventh- and eighth-rank talisman papers.
“No need to call that so formally.” Blind Feng shook his head. “Just call Old Feng. As long as you don’t call Blindman.”
The five of them instantly understood why the mont Squad Leader Li and Outpost Commander Feng opened their mouths, the air between them had been full of gunpowder.
“Co on. I’ll take you to the watchtower dormitory.”
Jiang Yichen and the others nodded slightly and followed behind Blind Feng.
Only Jiang Feng remained where he was. Blind Feng’s words about a Beast Tide breaking out had frightened him so badly that his face had gone pale.
The hand he had slipped into his pocket trembled slightly, and panic stirred in his heart.
Jiang Feng took a deep breath, steadied himself, turned around, and followed Blind Feng.
There were only two rooms in the watchtower dormitory, each with four beds.
Since Su Linyu was a girl, Blind Feng gave her a room of her own.
As for Jiang Yichen and the other three n, they were forced to squeeze into a cramped four-man dormitory.
Jiang Yichen, who was used to presidential suites, found himself rather miserable. After they took turns showering, he lay on his bed and contemplated life.
Then he rembered that he still had not opened the High-Level Gift Pack he had obtained that day.
Might as well open it casually.
“System, open the gift pack,” he said inwardly.
【Congratulations, Host, you have obtained: Petrification Reversal Elixir ×100, three Ninth-Rank Nine Palaces Heavenly Qian Talismans.】
?
What kind of thing was a reversal elixir?
Jiang Yichen opened the description.
【Petrification Reversal Elixir: Can remove the petrified state inflicted by the mythological creature Snakefolk and restore life signs.】
Jiang Yichen stroked his chin and recalled hearing in his previous life that after the Great Rift Valley Ruins opened, a snake woman had appeared and turned many people to stone.
But the research institute had tried many thods, and none of them had been able to turn those people back.
This was actually quite a practical item.
Jiang Yichen glanced over it and moved on to inspect the three ninth-rank talisman papers.
Now this was sothing extraordinary.
Ninth-rank talisman paper was the highest grade of talisman paper in all of Huaxia. Only one top-tier talisman master had ever succeeded in refining one, and only once.
It was called the ‘Cloud-Scouring Phoenix’ Talisman, and to this day it was still kept in the Huaxia Headquarters Museum.
That alone showed just how valuable and prestigious ninth-rank talisman paper was.
Jiang Yichen eagerly opened the description.
【Nine Palaces Heavenly Qian Talisman: After activation, it functions similarly to a formation. It can manipulate the power of the five elents to form a massive palace that traps enemies. It can also be used together with other offensive talismans to launch all-encompassing attacks against enemies within the palace.
Note: Area of effect: 720,000 square ters.】
It sounded pretty impressive. He just did not know whether it would actually be useful.
Jiang Yichen thought for a mont. In any case, he had three of them. He might as well test one out when they were clearing out the Snakefolk.
Using a ninth-rank talisman paper just to test its power—if that reached the ears of a talisman master, they would probably be furious to death.
Jiang Yichen smiled faintly, pulled the blanket over himself, and went to sleep.
Beside him, Tang Long and Chu Xingchen were discussing grand topics like affairs of state and the Great Cataclysm.
anwhile, Jiang Feng took the disc out of his pocket and glanced sideways at Jiang Yichen on the lower bunk.
His gaze struggled for a long ti, but in the end, he gritted his teeth and stopped thinking about all those useless distractions.
Win. Win by any ans necessary.
Jiang Yichen, tomorrow will be the day you die.
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