ASER - Chapter 126
Chapter 126: You Think You're Worthy?
"Miss Zhaowu." A'Diao called out to Li Zhaowu politely.
Li Zhaowu thought to herself: Just now he told me to mind my conduct, and now he's calling me so gently? What's he up to?
"Does Big Brother Zhao have something to say to me?"
A'Diao sighed, "Sometimes I really envy you all, being able to study."
Li Zhaowu was quite sharp-witted. Hearing this, she gave a faint smile, "Big Brother Zhao never went to school?"
A'Diao: "I really haven't."
No way, isn't your family incredibly wealthy?
Li Zhaowu was puzzled, but then she saw A'Diao lower her eyes, sigh, and touch her forehead in a practiced sequence. "Back then, my family hired tutors to teach me. There were 12 of them, enough to form a soccer team. They didn't even give me a chance to go to school. Oh, right, I think 6 of those 12 later got into the Central Academy of Sciences."
Li Zhaowu: "?"
Everyone: "..."
From...
A small wave of people had already started to surge with Mental Power.
"That's such a good thing, Big Brother Zhao, and you still envy us?" Li Zhaowu resisted the urge to roll her eyes.
But A'Diao was already lost in her own melancholy. "I do envy you. You don't know the sense of loss from having your family expect too much, yet you can't meet those expectations at all. Back then, when my older brothers and sisters all reached the Forbidden Master realm within half a month, I was still stuck at B-rank. You can't imagine how inferior I felt. I really wished I could put on a disguise and hide wherever I went. And the despicable me grew to dislike my brothers and sisters more and more. Human nature is like that; jealousy is the original sin, you know."
"But what good does jealousy do? Someone told me I needed to find confidence elsewhere, not to compare myself with my brothers and sisters. To look down, at those mediocre people far beneath me. So I ran away. I wandered everywhere, saw everything. The mountains and seas are vast, there are always people better than you, and heavens beyond heavens. My soul finally found satisfaction."
When Li Zhaowu heard "Forbidden Master in half a month," her heart pounded. Half-believing, half-doubting, she probed, "You found your confidence?"
Is this person a Forbidden Master? Or... She didn't quite understand what this Big Brother Zhao meant by these words.
A'Diao: "No, I found you all."
Li Zhaowu: "???"
A'Diao maintained a hypocritical, rakish, yet contemptuous smile as her gaze swept over everyone present.
"What I mean is, all of you present... all you little kids."
"Including those few... little kids standing in the corner watching the show, with no intention of getting involved."
Gu Tang (Gu Yuntang) in the corner: ??? As the former number one of Linzhou Academy who had been constantly playing the fool, he felt at this moment that the other party definitely wasn't talking about him.
He couldn't help but glance at the other corners.
Several corners, several unremarkable cultivators. You couldn't tell at all who this Big Brother Zhao was referring to, but soon everyone realized she had no intention of singling anyone out.
Because...
"All of you, you are the confidence I found."
Fuck!!!
From Dongguo Yaoyun +177777!
From Li Zhaowu +155555!
From Gu Tang +...
From Duan Fei ++++
From Tuoba...
What are geniuses? They are high-quality human talents who can casually explode with hundreds of thousands of Mental Power.
From the so-called former number one, the current number one, or the second, third, fourth, fifth... whether from Yunzhou Academy, Linzhou Academy, Danzhou Academy, and so on.
All of them had their Mental Power blasted out at this moment.
The list scrolled up, but it couldn't stop, so when Dongguo Yaoyun, furious, sneered mockingly.
"Such arrogance! I wonder what your strength is like. How about..."
A'Diao's eyelids twitched slightly as she took out the military insignia of a Commander of Ten Thousand.
With a slap, she slammed it on the table and calmly asked him, "What were you trying to say?"
Dongguo Yaoyun: "!!!"
From Dongguo Yaoyun +222222!
From...
What A-rank cultivation could contend with a Forbidden Master.
What A+ rank cultivation was already comparable to a Forbidden Master.
What unfathomable cultivation, playing the fool to prey on the strong.
In the face of absolute military merit, all of it was trash.
The moment the military insignia appeared, the entire restaurant fell silent. Li Zhaowu was stunned. She calculated the time this Zhao Ritian had been in the Southern Sea Region. He had just arrived back then. How long had it been for him to earn the military merit of a Commander of Ten Thousand? How many demonic spirits must he have killed!!!
Her mind raced, and she was just about to adjust her new approach to winning over Big Brother Zhao.
"Oh my, it's so lively! Which fellow Daoist just said everyone here is trash?"
"Care to have a chat with us?"
Suddenly, a group of people entered through the main door.
To be precise, five people.
Five individuals wearing Qingzhou Academy uniforms, all of them Forbidden Masters at the Transcendent level.
But what was terrifying was that they all wore the military insignia of a Commander of Ten Thousand on their chests.
Commanders of Ten Thousand on average, and they were younger, more imposing.
"Wow, the military merit of a Commander of Ten Thousand, truly impressive."
The bald young man in the lead rubbed his large bald head. His facial features resembled a fox, his eyes narrowed into slits. He slowly announced his name, "I am Song Erhu from Qingzhou. May I ask for your esteemed name, Your Excellency?"
A royal flush for the whole room?
The expressions of Li Zhaowu and the others changed in unison.
People from Qingzhou Academy actually came out of A Zone, and moreover...
Dongguo Yaoyun's eyes darkened, but he smiled amicably, "Erhu, you're out? You've all become Forbidden Masters? It seems you can call the shots at Qingzhou Academy now."
Song Erhu didn't even bother to look at him, saying flatly, "Haven't you heard that only Forbidden Masters can enter the top ten at Qingzhou Academy? If I didn't break through, people would be stepping all over my bald head. As for you, stop trying to set me up. Call the shots? Do I, Song Erhu, even deserve to?"
Was he cursing himself? No, it was Dongguo Second Young Master, it was everyone here who was inferior to him.
You think you're worthy?!
You think you're worthy of being arrogant in front of him.
What are the geniuses of Qingzhou? They look down on the Five Prefectures, unrivaled!
Tuoba and the others felt suffocated. They suddenly understood the subtle expressions Qu Jiangnan and the other person had when they told them to return.
Because the two of them had long anticipated that due to the special situation in the sea region, the five academies would definitely send their geniuses back.
Then they would naturally meet each other.
And who were the most dazzling in the Five Prefectures?
Qingzhou, Qingzhou Academy, the geniuses of Qingzhou.
"Do you think the top three of my Qingzhou Academy wouldn't kill their own people?"
"Xiao Du, Yin Canghe, and Xu Ye, those three damn perverts, have always killed people like me as if we were dogs."
That's right, he, Song Erhu, was number four at Qingzhou Academy, and the people in his team were ranked fifth, sixth, and so on.
Why did they have to stick together?
It was because the top three were absolute bastards! They had no choice but to band together to survive! Fuck!
Speaking of the top three from Qingzhou Academy, people from other prefectures had probably heard of them too, so they immediately fell silent. But seeing the irritable Song Erhu, who was clearly in a very bad mood, he still turned to pick a fight with A'Diao after berating Dongguo Yaoyun.
That made sense. Song Erhu had always been arrogant and domineering, priding himself on looking down on everyone. Yet, he was born at the wrong time, suppressed by the three great mountains above him until he could barely breathe. It was normal for him to be impatient.
"I, Song Erhu, can't stand it when someone inferior to me acts pretentious in my presence! This Big Brother Zhao, what's wrong? Cat got your tongue?"
As they say, don't act like a badass, or you'll be struck by lightning.
He, Song Erhu, was that lightning.
This Zhao fellow was too arrogant, precisely stepping on his trigger point.
Commander of Ten Thousand? So what if he's awesome? Fuck!
At this moment, the atmosphere in the restaurant was extremely awkward. Li Zhaowu, being a fickle person, immediately gave up on trying to win over Big Brother Zhao.
Big Brother Zhao seemed older and not as dominant as those perverted geniuses from Qingzhou. Moreover, Qingzhou was full of powerhouses. Behind these five 18-year-old quasi-Forbidden Masters stood super-strong families that were not inferior to any across the Five Prefectures. Even the second and third strongest families in Qingzhou were not inferior to her Li Clan.
So... Li Zhaowu quickly weighed the pros and cons.
In the crowd, Song Ling, who was already sitting in a corner with a tray and had started eating, observed these people. Her mind, however, could sense the mental strength of Song Erhu and his group.
But the five of them were completely unaware of her.
Lowering her eyes, Song Ling took a sip of milk and glanced at that glutton surnamed Zhao... uh, Big Brother?
What about this Big Brother Zhao's spiritual body?
What she saw was a faint light, similar to others.
Similar? As if!
Moreover, observing how this Big Brother Zhao hadn't forgotten to use his "paws" to grab crab stick snacks even after Song Erhu's group of five appeared... Song Ling had a faint premonition—the five geniuses of Qingzhou, who looked down on everyone, were about to suffer a setback.
However, Song Ling misjudged, because this Big Brother Zhao seemed to have backed down. She didn't say a word.
Wow, how embarrassing.
He must be socially dead right now...
The "socially dead" A'Diao looked out the window. She was waiting, waiting for some people she had already sensed to come in.
To come in and find her.
Fifteen seconds later, just as Song Erhu was feeling bored and about to eat by himself, a surge of bloodlust billowed outside the door, and a group of people entered...
Such a powerful aura.
Ten Forbidden Masters, a large group of A-ranks, and quite a few military officers, including several majors under the Qingzhou Army. Because they had just fought bloody battles in B Zone for a continuous period, their fierce aura was unrelenting, making it hard for everyone to breathe.
But they didn't even look at Song Erhu and his group. Their gazes swept past, and the group rushed over quickly.
Before they even arrived, they were like young swallows returning to their nest.
"Big Brother!!!"
"Big Brother, ah!"
"We finally found you!"
"Bro! Thank goodness we found you!"
The people in the restaurant hadn't even reacted yet when they saw these Forbidden Masters and military officers excitedly run up to the Big Brother Zhao whom they thought would be socially dead.
"Bro, you have no idea what we went through after you left. It was terrifying! We were almost wiped out."
"If only you were there, those tens of thousands of Fishmen would have been nothing! Big Brother is sinister and cunning, unparalleled in the world!"
"Exactly, exactly! Big Brother, when did you get back?"
This group was genuinely excited. You don't know until you compare; only by comparison did they realize how awesome Big Brother Zhao, who had "alleviated their poverty," truly was.
Not everyone can fight such a great victorious battle, winning against superior numbers without any deaths!
Brains, brains are really too important!
Compared to Big Brother, other commanders are trash!
These people were incredibly excited, but the military personnel didn't think they were overestimating this Big Brother Zhao. This was because the Commander of a Thousand had videos recorded by armor during the battle. After these were shown internally within the military, the higher-ups made a direct decision.
"As soon as they mentioned it, I knew this Big Brother Zhao must be you, Mr. Zhao." Qin Yin smiled and saluted.
A'Diao wasn't arrogant. "Major Qin, you're too kind. I am currently just a Commander of Ten Thousand; I don't deserve such a military salute."
"Based on Mr. Zhao's feat of slaying a Level 7 demonic spirit and annihilating several thousand Three-headed Sharks with all your might, and clearing a Level 5 lair with over ten thousand demonic spirits single-handedly—such great merit, even if the military contributions haven't been reviewed yet, is enough to warrant a promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. This address of 'Lord' is appropriate."
"Thank you, Lord, for descending upon this place despite not being from the Five Prefectures, for sweeping away demonic spirits for our Five Prefectures, and for helping to quell the crisis in B Zone."
Qin Yin was truly moved, but it was actually traceable. After all, this was a formidable person who had wiped out nearly twenty bandit lairs in just two days.
He was moved, the people from Station No. 3 were proud, but the others were... greatly shocked.
They were speechless.
The restaurant was dead silent, but amidst the emotional fluctuations, they frantically sent Mental Power to A'Diao.
From Song Erhu +320000!
From Dongguo...
This wave from the entire restaurant generated over twenty million Mental Power. Adding the previous two or three waves, it had already reached fifty million. Plus the over one thousand Mental Power remaining after exchanging for "Appoint Soldiers Summon Generals" earlier, she now had over sixty million Mental Power on hand.
A'Diao appeared calm on the surface, but inwardly she smiled: Very good, but am I satisfied?
"You're too kind. Regardless of where one is or who one is, as a person of Tang Song, one should fight for home and country. What's there to talk about merit."
"As for that Level 7 demonic spirit, I really didn't kill it alone. I killed it together with the Young Marquis of the Han Clan from Hanzhou. However, we separated later, and I don't know if he met with misfortune outside. If he died, then I've lost another brother."
From Han Zhuo +299999!
Alright, you dog! I knew you were also staying at Sea-Sky One Hue, and even disguised yourself!
Hiding from me, are you?
A'Diao chuckled inwardly but maintained a calm expression, turning to look at the others from Station No. 3.
These were people whose favor and reputation she had carefully cultivated before, so naturally, she had to maintain it. Therefore...
She sighed and patted the shoulder of a Forbidden Master. "Although you all came to find me, a few of the brothers who fought alongside us that day are not here. I know they will remain in that sea region forever."
Everyone's eyes turned red.
Although this was a common occurrence, it was true... they had developed feelings for each other.
"But you have returned, and that is a fortunate thing."
"Are you in the group chat?"
Everyone nodded.
A'Diao picked up her phone, looked down, and typed rapidly with a series of clicks. When she was done, she looked up at everyone and said lightly, "Celebrate the living, mourn the dead."
Before everyone could react, A'Diao walked out on her own.
As soon as she left.
Looking very casual.
But basically, all the cultivators in the Southern Sea Region wilderness main group chat heard their phones dinging and donging. They opened them to see.
Red envelopes in the group chat.
Opened.
Easily tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and some even got millions of Star Coins.
How many people in one group? And how many groups were there?
Everyone was breathless.
Didn't that amount to over a billion going out?
Tian Zhongye suddenly scratched his head and couldn't help asking, "Can you guys help me see if the number of zeros is right... Is this one million?"
Rao Xueya glanced at it, her face turning green. "It's ten million."
Tian Zhongye: "?"
The way the students from Danzhou Academy looked at him... you could almost see sour pickle juice oozing out.
Song Ling looked at the few thousand Star Coins she had received, her expression slightly peculiar.
Although she didn't lack this money, but... her mood was a bit subtle.
But this person surnamed Zhao was terrifying. Even the five strongest families in the Five Prefectures couldn't raise such a magnanimous and imposing descendant.
Unfathomable.
When the restaurant fell silent again, the general manager of Sea-Sky One Hue personally came over.
"Everyone, I'm here to inform you that Mr. Zhao just left to report to the Military Department for his military position. But he said that from today until she leaves the Southern Sea Region, all expenses for food and lodging for all cultivators at Sea-Sky One Hue will be on his tab."
"He's paying."
Very good, another billion.
The people in the restaurant: "..."
Many people looked at the expressions of Song Erhu, Dongguo Second Young Master, and the others.
Song Erhu suddenly felt that his resentment towards the three great mountains above him had vanished, because he had been crushed by another, even bigger mountain.
Where did this peerless, formidable man come from?!!
Little kids?
Who were the little kids?
Of course, it referred to everyone present, whether they were geniuses of the Five Prefectures or geniuses of Qingzhou.
To be arrogant in front of Big Brother Zhao, were they worthy?
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