Chapter 197
Chapter 197: A Phoenix Clan Flame Sphere Works Just As Well In Your Own Hands
“You still say you are not fast?” Jiang Tea Tea was pulled toward him and backhanded a slap at his face: “If you are not fast, then no one in the whole M31 Star System is fast.”
Chong Ming held the tip of the stick with one hand and caught her swinging hand with the other. He stubbornly refused to admit he was fast: “I really am not fast. You are the one who is fast, not me.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s hand was caught. She let go with the hand holding the stick, curled it into a fist, and punched his stomach: “If you were not fast, you would not be able to catch me. You are fast. I am praising you.”
Chong Ming twisted his body so her punch hit only air and said: “Thank you for the praise. I am really not fast.” In the middle of this turn, there was a loud clang as he flung the stick he had taken from her straight at Zhong Li He.
The stick, of all places, hit Zhong Li He’s knee. There was a heavy bang.
The pain made Zhong Li He lose his balance. He fell to the ground on one knee, looking as pitiful as a man proposing without a bride in front of him.
Chong Ming raised his brow: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, your ally is kneeling and begging for mercy. Are you still going to keep fighting?”
Jiang Tea Tea turned her head and saw that Zhong Li He’s sapphire blue eyes were almost breathing fire. She said: “Whether he kneels and begs is his business. Me beating you is my business.”
Chong Ming grabbed her hand and spun, twisting her arm behind her back, trying to force her to stop.
Jiang Tea Tea let her body drop low, twisted her arm, and kicked at his legs, sweeping at them.
When Chong Ming saw that she did not even care about her own arm, he quickly let go and jumped straight up to avoid her sweeping kick.
Free again, Jiang Tea Tea pushed off the ground with one palm. Her falling body flipped up. She flashed to Zhong Li He’s side, picked up the stick on the ground, and asked him: “If your knee is shattered, can you still fight?”
Zhong Li He forced himself to stand straight, holding back the pain in his knee: “It is not shattered, it just hurts a bit. I can fight. I can definitely fight.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes turned. “My aim with this stick is very good. How about you throw some fireballs?”
“That is good. Let’s do it.” Zhong Li He agreed right away. He stirred his supernatural abilities, formed a fireball, and tossed it in front of Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea swung her stick and hit the fireball. The fireball shot out through the air as fast as an afterimage and went straight toward Chong Ming.
Chong Ming used Call Lightning to strike it. One fireball, two fireballs, countless fireballs.
The fireballs were hit by lightning and burst into sparks that flew everywhere. No one watching the fight could dodge them. Everyone was sprinkled with sparks.
On their clothes, hair, shoes, and skin, as long as a spark landed, it either burned a big blister or burned off a piece of flesh.
Even Kong Que was not spared. He could not dodge either. Many sparks landed on his body, and he could not slap them off.
Seeing that several times Chong Ming could not smash the fireballs with lightning in time and had to dodge in a sorry state, Zhong Li He was overjoyed. He threw out fireballs like they did not cost anything, sending out several at a time.
His wish to defeat Chong Ming made him ignore everything else, including how many fireballs he was throwing out.
While swinging her stick, Jiang Tea Tea quietly wrapped several fireballs with her spiritual power and slipped them into her space knob storage device.
The Phoenix clan’s nirvana rebirth Divine Fire itself was a magical artifact. Since she had come all this way, if she did not get a few magical artifacts to take with her, it would be a waste of this fight.
After more than ten minutes of fireballs blasting around, a sudden huge thunderclap sounded. Right after that, the fire alarm Monitoring System in the Training Ground went off. The water alarm Monitoring System in the ceiling sprayed down like a heavy rainstorm.
Even with water pouring on them, many sparks on the floor, the walls, and the ceiling still kept stubbornly burning.
Jiang Tea Tea, Zhong Li He, Chong Ming, and everyone else at the scene were soaked and looked a little messy.
Chong Ming raised his hand: “For the sake of my warship, the fight stops here today. Another day, we will find a wide open place and keep fighting.”
Zhong Li He pushed his wet hair back and said with pride: “Are you admitting defeat to me?”
Chong Ming let out a laugh and a curse: “Executive Commander Zhong, how about we move to your warship now and keep fighting there?”
Zhong Li He refused on reflex like a total double-standard dog: “No way.”
He knew how fierce and corrosive his fireballs were.
If they went to his own warship and he threw fireballs, what would get burned into ruins would be his own ship. The one who would lose out would be himself. He would never do such a losing deal where he got nothing back but still had to pay.
Chong Ming scolded him with a laugh: “You really are a double-standard dog.”
Zhong Li He lifted his chin proudly: “And what can you do about it…”
“You two can keep talking and playing. I have things to do, so I am leaving first.” Jiang Tea Tea dropped the words, picked up her stick, and walked away through the rain. Her speed-type ability was so fast that in the blink of an eye she was already at the door of the Training Ground.
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Lin Yue wanted to call her and leave with her, but they could not catch up with her speed-type ability. In the blink of an eye, she was gone.
Chong Ming narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction she had gone. He thought that people only ran that fast and that eagerly when they were going to do bad things.
Zhong Li He shouted: “Chong Ming, give me a room. I want to take a shower.”
“I will take you.” Chong Ming answered him. Then his sharp gaze swept over the others: “Dismiss here. Go wash up, go change clothes, and go to the healing room for a full body checkup.”
Everyone jumped to their feet and answered with loud voices: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Kong Que followed behind Zhong Li He, who was dripping wet. Zhong Li He walked side by side with Chong Ming and asked curiously: “The bite mark on your Adam’s apple looks so fresh. Your partner is on your warship. You are not going to bring her out and show her off in front of me?”
Chong Ming looked straight ahead and said coldly: “She is shy.”
Zhong Li He clearly did not believe that. He took a big step so he was in front of Chong Ming, then walked backward facing him: “She is already your partner and she is still shy? That Chong guy, with the friendship between us, do you really have to hide her like this?”
Chong Ming glanced at him. His brows did not even twitch. His voice stayed flat: “I am not hiding her. She really is shy. For now she does not want anyone to know she is my partner.”
Zhong Li He frowned when he heard that and asked without thinking: “Does she feel that being your partner is something shameful?”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes went cold. He walked around him without a word and strode off.
Zhong Li He turned his head to look at Kong Que: “Did I say something wrong?”
Kong Que glanced at the Commander in Chief Chong Ming walking away and answered in a soft respectful voice: “You did not say anything wrong. You are completely right.”
Zhong Li He grinned: “I also think I am not wrong. If his partner does not want others to know she is his partner, that just means she looks down on him.”
“Oh my, Beast God above, the dignified Commander in Chief of the Three Armies of Zhenlin, The Empire, is being looked down on. This is big news that will shock all of Interstellar Space.”
Kong Que reminded him calmly: “Executive Commander, keep your smile down. Do not gloat in front of me.”
Zhong Li He chuckled: “Right. Gloating in front of you is useless. Come on, keep up with him. I want to go over and mock him to his face, kick him when he is down, and make him mad.”
Kong Que felt alarm bells ring: “Executive Commander, no, no, no…”
Before he could finish, Zhong Li He had already run after Chong Ming. He called out to annoy him: “Chong Ming, your partner thinks marrying you is something shameful. It is fine. Love is just me loving you more and her loving you less.”
“With your status, position, looks, and ability, just show your most domineering side. I believe she will bend to you and fall for you in three to five days.”
Chong Ming gave a cold snort: “You talk like you have a lot of experience.”
[He did not deny it. Did that mean my guess was right?]
Zhong Li He got excited. He told a bold lie and sold Kong Que out right away: “I do not have much experience, but our Kong Que does. He is in love. He is about to have a partner.”
“You are saying Lieutenant General Kong Que is in love?” Chong Ming was a little surprised. He turned his body to the side and looked at Kong Que walking behind them. His voice was not too loud and not too soft, just right for Kong Que to hear.
[What? Who is in love?]
[Who is in love? To trick the Commander in Chief, the Executive Commander is making things up about me like this? That is too much.]
To make him believe it, Zhong Li He nodded hard: “Yes, he is in love. The one he is in love with is a phoenix hen from our Phoenix clan.”
“In beast form, she has bright, colorful feathers. In human form, she has a tall figure. The two of them are very loving. They said that after they register their marriage, they will have at least twenty eggs.”
Chong Ming looked at Kong Que with a meaningful gaze: “So you want to have twenty eggs.”
Kong Que could not tear down the Executive Commander’s lie. He could not say anything. He forced a smile.
Zhong Li He quickly added: “Yes, yes, yes, he said so himself. At least twenty eggs. Now tell me, I have no experience, but he has experience. Does that count as me having experience?”
Chong Ming smiled: “We can count it as you having experience.”
Zhong Li He at once smiled like a cat that had just stolen a fish: “If I have experience, then your partner not wanting to see people does not mean she does not want to see me. Why do you not let her come see me, or let me go see her? I can talk to her for you. As the Madam of a nation’s Commander in Chief and the consort of the regent Prince of the Blood, she has to face the public. How can she not see anyone?”
Chong Ming’s smile faded: “Thank you for your kindness. I understand. Right now she is carrying my youngling. She does not need to face you or the public. She only needs to face me.”
Zhong Li He’s mouth twitched. So after all that talking, he was not going to let him see his partner at all.
[So annoying. It is not like I am trying to steal his woman or spy on his partner. I am just curious what kind of woman can win him over.]
Zhong Li He did not give up: “The gift I prepared for your partner.”
Chong Ming reached out his hand: “Give it to me. I will pass it on for you.”
Zhong Li He refused: “No way.”
Chong Ming pulled his hand back: “Then forget it.”
Zhong Li He was so angry he almost formed another fireball to throw at him.
Chong Ming’s steps grew faster and faster.
Zhong Li He could only follow behind, huffing in anger.
Chong Ming led him to a room not far from his own quarters. Just as he opened the door to let him in, there was a loud boom from the direction of his own room.
Chong Ming’s face changed. He forgot all about Zhong Li He. He stirred his supernatural abilities and was about to teleport to his room when he saw that the door to his room had been blasted with a fireball, leaving a hole.
A fireball rolled out through the hole, rolled across the floor, and then went out and disappeared with no sparks left behind.
Zhong Li He rushed to his side and asked in surprise: “That fireball just now was a Flame Sphere of my Phoenix clan. Chong Ming, did you kidnap the phoenix hen of our Phoenix clan?”