Chapter 1120: Do You Need an Ancestor?
No matter how Jiangnan tried to persuade him, Beifeng just wouldn’t let go!
He absolutely had to have the original hand!
Guan Hu and Zhao Dezhu looked at each other. There was no other way, right? Might as well move it?
So there they were, sweating buckets as they shifted the gold brick. After all, under a thousandfold gravity, doing this kind of manual labor was incredibly exhausting!
(‧̣̥̇ง꒪ͦ⊙꒪ͦ)ง-`/¯¯\´-ԅ(˃᷄⊙˂᷅ԅ‧̣̥̇)
Time ticked by second by second. Beifeng’s mouth was twitching from the pain; who knew how much blood he’d already lost!
(›´□`‹)…
Just then, Jiangnan seemed to be getting tired from feeding him ginseng.
He rubbed his slightly sore arm.
(*乛ʖ̫乛)ﾂ “How about… let me give it a try?”
Zhao Dezhu was taken aback. “I can’t even lift it. You think you can?”
No matter how tough this little brat Jiangnan was, there was no way he could move a gold brick under thousandfold gravity, right?
Jiangnan stuffed a handful of Small Ginseng into Beifeng’s mouth, then slowly stood up and stretched.
٩(*´꒳`*)۶ “I never said I was going to lift it, did I?”
In a flash of teleportation, he appeared outside the heavy training room door.
Everyone looked confused, not sure what Jiangnan was up to.
Jiangnan grinned widely. “Little brother Beifeng, just bear with it, okay?”
For some reason, when Beifeng saw Jiangnan’s smile, a bad feeling suddenly welled up in his heart.
“Don’t…”
Before he could finish, Jiangnan casually snapped his fingers.
“Spatial Displacement!”
The next moment, the gold brick in the thousandfold gravity zone vanished!
In its place, Jiangnan abruptly appeared right where the gold brick had been!
With a loud *BOOM*, the impact of going from normal gravity to thousandfold gravity made Jiangnan bend his knees slightly to resist the crushing pressure.
And his foot ruthlessly stomped down on Beifeng’s hand!
Beifeng’s eyes bulged as he let out another scream of agony!
(›ಥ⊙ಥ‹||) Yoohoo～
You’re sprinkling chili powder right on the wound!
Meanwhile, the gold brick had been displaced outside the heavy training room, smashing a huge crater into the ground.
Jiangnan lifted his foot slightly, beaming brightly.
(ૢง⁼ꇴ⁼)ว “Done!”
Even though the gold brick was incredibly heavy, Spatial Displacement didn’t care about mass—it only cared about volume!
Zhao Dezhu and Guan Hu were both stunned speechless.
Spatial Displacement? Holy crap! Was that Jiangnan’s Platinum-rank skill?
Then their faces darkened.
(̿▀̿益▀̿̿‧̣̥̇)̄
You had that move the whole time and you didn’t use it earlier?
You just watched the two of us bent over there, moving that brick for half an hour?
You’re truly wicked!
Both the new and old students were totally baffled.
What just happened? How did that super heavy gold brick get swapped out?
How did Nan Shen manage that?
[Zhao Dezhu’s resentment value +666!]
[Guan Hu’s resentment value +666!]
Beifeng held up his hand, flattened like a spatula from the gold brick, and said furiously,
ლ(ʘ̆益ʘ̥̆‖)
The hell with “helping others is my duty”!
You clearly could have used that move to move the gold brick ages ago, but you waited until now just to use it?
Just to suck more blood?
I~%?…;#*’!
Feeding me Small Ginseng was just to keep the tap flowing?
[Beifeng’s resentment value +1000!]
And I was just starting to feel grateful to you?
It was all a setup, a complete scam!
Beifeng’s eyes were filled with nothing but resentment.
Jiangnan teleported back outside the heavy training room, picked up the gold brick that had been sitting there for a year, and stuffed it into his Alternate Dimension.
He wore a satisfied smile.
Guan Hu quickly turned the gravity back to normal.
The physical fitness test continued.
Beifeng’s first-place position was now secure—after all, he had been pinned under a gold brick for over half an hour under thousandfold gravity.
But Beifeng couldn’t be happy at all. With a gloomy face, he walked over to the rest area.
Jiangnan teleported right next to him and sat down, handing over a Small Ginseng with a bright smile.
(๐ᵔ.̮ᵔ)つ Ginseng～
“Here, fix your spatula. Wouldn’t want it to affect your homework writing later.”
Beifeng: ???
“Spatula” my ass!
Still, he took it and stuffed it into his mouth. The injury on his hand healed at a visible rate.
There’s no point in fighting with Jiangnan at the expense of your own hand, right?
Jiangnan then smiled slyly and reached his hand out toward Beifeng.
Beifeng frowned.
(￢д￢。) “What? A handshake and we make up? Hah, you think that’s possible? I, Beifeng, have a spine of steel. So what if my physique can’t match yours? I…”
Jiangnan interrupted impatiently. “Blah blah blah, what are you going on about? Pay up, okay?”
“You just ate 128 Small Ginsengs. Ten thousand each! That’s 12.8 million total! Cash or transfer?”
Beifeng’s eyes went wide. “What? You’re charging me for that? So it wasn’t free?”
“You moved the gold brick and crushed my hand, fed me ginseng to keep me alive, and now I have to pay you for it?”
How do you get to have all the good things?
Jiangnan looked completely justified. “No duh! You think you eat for free?”
Beifeng slammed the table and stood up. “Who are you calling an idiot?”
Jiangnan stared back. “Don’t pay, and you’re a freeloader! Hurry it up! Not even a Dao Heaven dares to stiff me! What do you think you are?”
“I’m not even charging you a nursing fee! If you don’t pay, fine. All that blood you lost was replenished by Small Ginseng. I’ll just drain it all back, okay?”
As he spoke, a small whip extended from his back, surrounding Beifeng.
Beifeng shuddered violently. A wise man knows better than to court danger.
Now wasn’t the time to clash with Jiangnan.
“Fine, I’ll pay! But… I don’t have that much. There’s only a little over nine million in my card.”
Jiangnan was stunned. “No way? Your Beifeng family is that poor? Last time I squeezed Chen Lang, he casually handed over over a hundred million!”
Beifeng’s eye twitched. You really do specialize in sucking one family dry, don’t you?
Dad wasn’t wrong to prepare for the worst.
“That’s all I brought! I can’t take more from home.”
His father had heard that the Chen family lost quite a bit of money.
So this time, he repeatedly warned Beifeng not to get ripped off, and only gave him a bank card with ten million.
And absolutely refused to give him any more for fear of being scammed.
Sure enough, he hadn’t even been at Pioneer Academy for a full day, and he’d already blown all ten million on Jiangnan!
And he still owed over two hundred thousand?
Jiangnan was surprised. Everyone was this sharp now?
“Ahem… I won’t take your money if you don’t want to give it. How about trading me a special skill instead?”
“Let me ask you one thing: does your Beifeng family need an ancestor?”
Beifeng nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.
“Need an ancestor” my ass!
He’s obviously got his eyes on my Beifeng family’s spirit pattern curse array!
“Hah! Dream on! You think my Beifeng family’s spirit pattern curse array is as worthless as the Chen family’s spiritual force cloak?”
“Even if I told you, you wouldn’t be able to learn it. The meanings of those advanced curse texts and their combination methods are secret treasures!”
“They’re the crystallization of my Beifeng ancestors’ wisdom. Unique in the whole world! You think you could learn them?”
“Plotting after my Beifeng family’s spirit arts? Don’t even think about it! It’s just over ten million, right? I’ll give it to you!”
With that, he transferred all the money from his card to Jiangnan, then went over to Luo Changge and borrowed over two million to fill the gap.
“We’re square! I’d advise you to save your breath. My Beifeng family’s spirit pattern curse array is not something you can learn.”
After saying that, he turned and walked away.
Jiangnan hurriedly waved. “Hey hey hey! Don’t go! There’s no special skill that I, Big Brains Jiang, can’t learn!”
“Seriously! Do you need an ancestor? I, Jiangnan, am a professional ancestor-for-hire! 22 years in the business, zero negative reviews!”
But Beifeng ignored him completely, walking off with a cold laugh.
Jiangnan pouted in displeasure.
Clearly, after what happened with the Chen family, all the major families were on guard and not going to walk into the trap.
But Beifeng was right. The Chen family’s spiritual force cloak was just a special way of using spiritual force.
The Beifeng family, on the other hand, not only had spiritual force applications but also those complex curse arrays, which were their true treasure.
Jiangnan had never had any talent for curse texts; everything looked like ghost-scrawls to him.
Of course, the weight-increasing curse text was an exception.
But just thinking about it made Jiangnan itch with curiosity.
Maybe he should try getting the Luo family’s skill first?
It seemed to be a body-strengthening type of spirit art!
But Luo Changge was also being too well-behaved. What was wrong with the younger generation of these families nowadays?
Not a single one was taking the bait.
How frustrating.
The physical test continued in batches. Luo Changge struggled his way to the 30x gravity zone and barely passed.
But in truth, his bones could handle up to a hundred times gravity; it was just his muscle strength that couldn’t support it.
As for the others Jiangnan had trained, like Wang Zhan and Xiang Zu, they easily reached forty-something times gravity, very good scores.
Ye Xingxuan even semi-dragonized and charged to 50x gravity, and she still hadn’t gone all out.
One person who surprised Jiangnan was Zhou Yuqing. Even though she was a wave-type with a weak constitution, she still sweated buckets and managed 33x gravity, showing she usually trained her body too.
Though her legs shook like rubber bands, she still passed.
In the end, nearly 10,000 people failed the physical test, unable to reach 30x gravity.
Most were squishy backliners who had been positioned behind the team before, with extremely weak physiques.
But Pioneer Academy wasn’t looking for that kind.
No matter the power type, a pioneer had to have the ability to face danger alone, so they wanted well-rounded fighters.
Even if you were a magic-based fighter, your physique had to keep up.
The over 10,000 new students who were weeded out could only return dejectedly, while the remaining students were to stay overnight and face the next day’s tests.
It was almost evening by now. Guan Hu led the new students to temporary dormitories for the night.
And scheming Jiangnan still stubbornly followed behind the new students, looking for opportunities to scam… ahem, make money.
Just as everyone reached the dormitory area, they were all shocked by the row after row of agony masks imprinted on the steel plates on the wall of the boys’ dormitory.
“Whoa! What’s this? The academy has such artistically inclined architecture?”
“This… whose face is this? Looking at this wall, I can almost feel the agony the person went through!”
“Hmm? Why does it look familiar? It’s like one of those perverts from before, isn’t it?”