Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
A few days later, Jiang Chen finally finished the main items necessary for Project Dark Soldier. Then he simply had to wait for the endless production occurring on Zhong Ling Mountain.
Everything was automatic. He only had to pay a visit to check up on the progress every few days.
It occurred to him that this day was the test day of the Hero Palace, so he removed his disguise and left Zhong Ling Mountain without a trace with the help of tactical formations.
At the same time, at the Hero Palace…
Several grand elders had gone to Jiang Chen’s place. Judging from their expressions, they were there to scold him.
“There is a tactical formation?”
They had intended to intrude directly, but were stopped by the tactical formation, so they hesitated.
At this moment, Ying Wushuang walked out. She asked in confusion, “Elders, how can I help you?”
“Wushuang, why are you at Jiang Chen’s place?”
The grand elders were very surprised. Although they knew about Ying Wushuang’s task, they hadn’t expected them to live together.
They thought of what they had gone there for and a possibility occurred to them.
One of the grand elders asked, “Wushuang, isn’t Jiang Chen here?”
“No. I don’t know where he is these days,” Ying Wushuang answered.
The elders had unreadable expressions.
Jiang Chen wasn’t home, but Ying Wushuang was. The relationship between the two didn’t seem so simple.
“Wushuang, let me ask you one thing. Why didn’t you report Jiang Chen’s expenses sooner?” a female grand elder asked aggressively.
Ying Wushuang vaguely realized what they had come there for. She said honestly, “I’ve been busy with practicing, so I’m not staying with Jiang Chen.”
“Really? Ying Wushuang, how could you trick the elders for Jiang Chen’s sake?”
She hadn’t expected the elder to question her directly.
“Elder Snowbrow, what do you mean?”
Grand Elder Snowbrow was more than fifty years old, but she was still paying much attention to her clothes and hair. She looked elegant, but it was difficult to hide the traces of aging. When she spoke, the crow’s feet on her face became extremely obvious.
As a woman, she felt disgusted that Ying Wushuang was living at Jiang Chen’s place.
Elder Snowbrow sneered and pointed at a corner in the yard that wasn’t very far away. She said, “You haven’t seen him, but you’re living here. Haven’t you seen that, either?”
Ying Wushuang looked over and was surprised.
There was a sailing ship. It looked different after the improvements made by the puppets.
It was magnificent, like a man after he put on armor.
In the eyes of the grand elders and Ying Wushuang, this represented money.
Ying Wushuang had no idea when Jiang Chen had bought a ship. She had been preparing for the test at that time.
“Ying Wushuang, what excuse do you have?” Elder Snowbrow shouted.
“Elder, I don’t have an excuse. I can’t tell Jiang Chen what to buy. It’s true I haven’t reported it, but the month isn’t over yet,” said Ying Wushuang.
If they were only accusing her of neglecting her duty, Ying Wushuang would have had nothing to say, but she couldn’t stand the scornful tone of Elder Snowbrow. His explanation sounded like she had been hiding something from the elders intentionally.
“How dare you! Ying Wushuang, you ended up in a bad way because of men. And now, once again, with Jiang Chen. Do you need men that much? Don’t you know how to behave?!” said Elder Snowbrow.
“You!”
Ying Wushuang’s scars hadn’t completely recovered yet, and Elder Snowbrow had touched a delicate subject so ruthlessly.
“Wushuang, Jiang Chen spent this month’s quota again in the past few days. And he spent all of them to buy materials.”
“According to you, he’s been gone from the Hero Palace for several days. We think he might have gone to other fields to sell these materials.”
The other grand elders said.
Ying Wushuang knew nothing about it. But at the thought of Heaven Halo Bead and other practicing equipments, she shook her head and said, “It’s unlikely.”
“Huh.”
Grand Elder Snowbrow curled her lips and smiled scornfully, “Ying Wushuang, so you’re really close to Jiang Chen, aren’t you? Do you trust him that much?”
“Elder, please don’t slander me,” Ying Wushuang said angrily.
“Did I say anything wrong? Jiang Chen isn’t home, but you are living in his yard. What does that mean?”
Ying Wushuang said, “I’m here practicing, preparing for the test. That’s all.”
“Okay!”
Grand Elder Snowbrow laughed oddly and said, “Yeah, now I remember. You said last time that Jiang Chen bought those materials so he could build practice equipment. I assume that was just a lie you made up? You’re cooperating with Jiang Chen to take wealth away from the Hero Palace.”
Ying Wushuang flew into a rage. At the same time, she was thinking that the equipment Jiang Chen had built were worth more than a year’s quota.
In comparison, the grand elders that she had respected so much weren’t even comparable to Jiang Chen.
“Elder, you’re overthinking it. That’s all I have to say,” said Ying Wushuang.
“You’re still denying it?! Tell us the truth. Where is Jiang Chen?”
“I really don’t know. Elder, the test will begin soon. I should go,” said Ying Wushuang.
“You didn’t take part in many tests last year, yet this time you have to go? I think you’re escaping!” Elder Snowbrow said coldly.
Ying Wushuang finally experienced what it felt like when fire singed one’s eyebrow. She was panicked. She had been working hard for so long, and she had promised Jiang Chen.
“You can’t go if you don’t tell us where Jiang Chen is!” Elder Snowbrow shouted.
The other grand elders didn’t speak.
“She can’t go? How impressive!”
Suddenly, Jiang Chen’s voice was heard. They saw him walking over slowly.
Ying Wushuang couldn’t help but smile when she saw him. Even she herself didn’t sense the smile. She felt like bright sunshine was piercing through dark clouds.
“Jiang Chen!”
The grand elders looked at each other. They hadn’t expected him to show up himself.
“Where have you been these days? What did you do with the materials you bought?” asked one of them.
“Just ask me what you want to know directly, elder.” Jiang Chen shrugged his shoulders and said, “You want to know whether I’m doing business with the quota granted to me, don’t you?”
The grand elders were surprised at his frankness.
“Jiang Chen, the ten million upper-grade yuan stones are an award the Hero Palace gave you—”
“Precisely speaking, I did turn the materials into money,” Jiang Chen interrupted the grand elder who was speaking and answered directly.
“Hehe, you poor people. You just can’t help showing your lowly nature whenever you have the chance. I never agreed to grant you a quota of such a large amount. So I was right,” Grand Elder Snowbrow scorned.
“Elder, I’m actually unhappy with the quota. Maybe you’d better cancel it.”
Jiang Chen said, “Is twenty million an extreme number in exchange for the method to help Reaching Heaven States who haven’t developed their extraordinary meridians develop two?”
“Why didn’t you reject it when you didn’t have any money with you? Now that you’ve earned some, you’re tougher?” Grand Elder Snowbrow said.
“It’s fine. I can give the money back to you.”
“Haha, you spent all of the twenty million…”
“I’ll not only give you back the twenty million, but to pay my gratitude to the generosity of the Hero Palace, I’ll give you back ten times that. No, a hundred times.”
Then Jiang Chen took out two Golden Dragon Cards.
“What?!”
They were all surprised. They were in a daze for a long time.
People who could be issued a Golden Dragon Card had to own more than ten million. Actually, they had to own at least one hundred million.
