Chapter 203
Chapter 203: Jiang Tea Tea’s Self-Righteous Little Moves – The Big Golden Dragon Knows Them All
The more than one meter long branch staff swept toward Chong Ming and Zhong Li He. The five colored flames around it turned into a blade of fire that slashed at them.
Chong Ming and Zhong Li He dodged to the side at the same time. The fire blade missed their bodies and struck the ground between them.
In an instant, the dirt between them split open and flipped up. The black soil turned into charred soil, and the air filled with the smell of burning.
“Wow, the power is pretty good.” Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes were full of love and pride for her branch staff, no, her Flame Staff. The magical artifact she had refined with her own hands really was no ordinary thing. Even Chong Ming and Zhong Li He could not face its edge directly.
If she brought this magical artifact back to the demon clan, she could sweep through the whole demon clan. Any mountain estate she liked, she could drive out the great demon stage owner of that mountain estate and take it as her own home.
Chong Ming agreed: “Yes, its power is extremely strong.”
Zhong Li He puffed out his chest, as if he were praising himself: “This is the ancestral Flame Sphere of my Phoenix clan. How could it be weak?”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Makes sense. Let us try again.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she swung the Flame Staff again. The fire light that shot out did not only form a fire blade, it also turned into small Fireballs.
Zhong Li He cursed, dodging while he activated his supernatural abilities. He condensed Flame Spheres to collide with the Flame Spheres she sent out.
Chong Ming used lightning to strike the Flame Spheres coming at him. The Flame Spheres were not just in five pure colors. The five colors mixed to form more than a dozen shades.
With every swing of Jiang Tea Tea’s hand, each spark of fire turned into a Fireball. The Fireballs scattered like a fairy tossing flowers, and more and more of them appeared.
From far away, the firefighting squad and the people led by Kong Que watched. They used shields to defend. Any Fireball that slipped past them was enough to burn a hole right through a shield.
Several times Zhong Li He wanted to counterattack, but he could not break through the rain like Fireballs. He had no choice but to stand his ground and defend.
Chong Ming could have pressed forward to attack, but every time he remembered that Jiang Tea Tea was carrying his youngling, he held back and only defended.
After several dozen minutes, Jiang Tea Tea stopped and pulled back. The bits of light like stars that had fallen on the ground were like dogs that had been let out and then called back with a whistle. They quickly returned to her branch staff, and the five colored flames wrapped around it again.
The once ordinary branch staff now had five colors of fire flowing over it. It looked like a staff made entirely of flames and truly lived up to the name Flame Staff.
When Jiang Tea Tea stopped attacking, Chong Ming looked a bit better. His body transmigration duty uniform had not been burned through in too many places.
Zhong Li He’s duty uniform, on the other hand, was full of holes. The gap between him and Chong Ming was obvious at a glance. Anyone who saw them would definitely say that he was worse than Chong Ming.
Seeing that his moment to show off had not gone well and that his overall image was only so so, Zhong Li He darted to Jiang Tea Tea’s side. His sapphire blue eyes stared at the Flame Staff: “Jiang Tea Tea, this stick you made is not bad. Make one for me too.”
He said excitedly: “If you need Phoenix clan Flame Spheres, I can provide them. I can provide as many as you want. Wow, the more I look at this staff, the more I like it. The more I feel that it is even more fun than rapid fire hot weapons.”
He imagined having this staff. Once he returned to the Phoenix clan, whenever he saw someone he did not like, he could point the staff at them and let them taste the power of the different colored Flame Spheres.
Jiang Tea Tea was still admiring her Flame Staff, unable to put it down. When she heard Zhong Li He’s words, she ran her hand along the staff and covered it with a layer of spiritual power, hiding the flowing flames. Then she shoved the Flame Staff into her space knob storage device: “There is only one Flame Staff. I cannot make a second. Even if you like it, there is nothing I can do.”
Zhong Li He pointed at the big pit behind Jiang Tea Tea: “How can there be nothing you can do? You can go stay in the pit for another ten days and then you will have a second one.”
Keep dreaming.
A magical artifact should be one of a kind.
If she went to make another one, how could it still be called a unique magical artifact?
Jiang Tea Tea refused: “I cannot make another.”
Zhong Li He did not give up: “I can pay you. I can pay rare ores and extra large gemstones.”
Jiang Tea Tea frowned a little: “Extra large gemstones?”
Hearing that, Zhong Li He felt there was hope: “Yes, yes, extra large gemstones. One or two hundred grams, two or three hundred grams, a pound, even several pounds. I can give them to you as necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.”
Jiang Tea Tea reached back into her space knob storage device and pulled out two big baskets that she used to hold Nutrient Fruit. She set them down in front of Zhong Li He: “Are you talking about things like these?”
Zhong Li He looked down and almost went blind from the fire and brilliance of the gemstones on all the jewelry in the baskets. Just from the way they reflected the light, he could tell they were real without even picking them up.
As he stared at the two full baskets, a seasoned Executive Commander of Western Kingdom who had seen countless treasures was still shocked: “Wait, where did you get all these?”
Jiang Tea Tea answered casually: “Some time ago, Chong Ming sent me on a mission. I picked them up along the way.”
“I was planning to bring them back and give them to Chong Ming, but I got busy and forgot. If you had not just mentioned gemstones, I would not have remembered.”
Chong Ming walked over, bent down, and picked up a necklace at random. The main gem of the necklace was green, with smaller red stones around it.
Red and green together were usually very tacky, but because the main gemstone was big enough and the fire within it was bright enough, the whole thing looked very noble and was obviously worth a lot.
Holding the necklace up in front of Jiang Tea Tea, Chong Ming asked: “Do you know how many star credits a necklace like this is worth?”
Jiang Tea Tea answered honestly: “I have no idea.”
Chong Ming told her: “This single necklace is worth at least over a hundred million. With the matching bracelet, ring, and earrings, the set is worth at least one hundred fifty million to two hundred million.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s expression remained calm: “Then these two baskets must be worth several tens of billions, maybe over a hundred billion.”
Chong Ming did not take his eyes off her face: “Right. So you picked all this up and brought it back for me?”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Yes, for you. I do not like these things. They are not as pretty as the gemstones inlaid in the walls of your bedroom and on your bed.”
She was very satisfied with his bed.
She really liked the gemstones inlaid on his bed.
Very good.
Chong Ming pulled his hand back and casually tossed the necklace into the basket: “Since you are giving them to me, I will just take them.”
Zhong Li He: “!!!!”
[What an act.]
He should not think Zhong Li He did not see the slight lift of his lips and the pride in his eyes.
“Take them, take them, take all of them.” Jiang Tea Tea waved her hand. Whether it was her eyes, her expression, or anything else, there was no desire or liking for these gemstones.
Chong Ming gave the jealous and red eyed Zhong Li He a cool glance, then put the two baskets of gemstones into his space knob storage device. He turned to Jiang Tea Tea and asked: “You must be hungry. Do you want something to eat?”
As a Tree Spirit, Jiang Tea Tea had changed her legs into tree roots in the pit, spreading them through the earth under the grasslands to absorb nutrients. She was not hungry. She could also go without eating.
But the moment she thought about biting Chong Ming’s neck and drinking his blood, not being hungry turned into hungry, and not eating turned into wanting to eat.
Her black eyes lit up and she made a suggestion: “Sure. Let us eat on your warship, and I can drink a little too.”
Of course Chong Ming knew what she meant by “drink a little”: “Ok. We will go to my warship. Wait for me. I will have the warship come down.”
Jiang Tea Tea made a small sound of agreement. While she was waiting off to the side, she filled in the big pit. She did not fill it all the way, but it was no longer so deep or so scary.
After filling the pit, she swept her gaze around. Everywhere she could see was covered in the bare, burned marks of the fire.
Such a huge grassland had been affected because she was refining a magical artifact. It was her fault. She moved to the side and used spiritual power as a medium to perform Summoning Wind, Thunder, Lightning, and Rain.
With a loud boom, deafening thunder exploded in the once clear sky. A strong wind rose, driving dark clouds that quickly covered the sun.
A bolt of lightning cut across the cloud filled sky. Thunder rolled again and again, and in a short time, a light rain fell.
Jiang Tea Tea’s spiritual power, which had just recovered to forty percent, dropped to thirty five percent. Summoning Wind, Thunder, Lightning, and Rain really did consume either spiritual power or life force.
Luckily it was only half a level. She would just cultivate more later. Before the babies in her belly were born, she wanted to restore her cultivation to at least fifty percent.
With fifty percent spiritual power, her ability to protect herself would be stronger, and she would be able to use the Concealment Technique. If she could recover to seventy or eighty percent, then once she used the Concealment Technique, no one would be able to break it.
“The rain is really coming down hard. Before we got on the ship, it was only a light drizzle. As soon as we came up, it turned into a heavy downpour.”
Standing in front of the reception room on Chong Ming’s warship, Zhong Li He looked out through the huge glass window at the pouring rain and sighed.
Jiang Tea Tea’s clothes were a little damp, so she had gone to take a bath and change.
Chong Ming replied: “It is not sudden. This rain was called over by Jiang Tea Tea.”
Zhong Li He turned around like he had just heard some wild story: “Chong Ming, what did you just say?”
He asked again: “Jiang Tea Tea can call rain. What about the wind, the thunder, and the lightning?”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes met his sapphire blue ones: “The wind, thunder, and lightning are the opening act before the rain. She called all of them over.”
Inside, Zhong Li He’s heart churned like stormy waves. With the relationship he had with Chong Ming, he had no doubt that Chong Ming was telling the truth.
More than that, he knew Chong Ming was telling him these things because he trusted him and because they were friends.
Zhong Li He pressed a hand to his chest to steady himself and calm down. His sapphire blue eyes were full of appreciation for Jiang Tea Tea, and his voice was full of regret: “Wind, thunder, lightning, and rain. Even you cannot call those down.”
“This is an ability that breaks the laws of nature. It is an ability that makes weather weapons completely useless.”
“Chong Ming, where did you find such a little darling? She is stronger than you and better than you.”
He could not help muttering: “Oh no, how could you let her carry your youngling? With abilities like hers, you should be training her carefully. In the future, she should stand in your position as Commander in Chief of the Three Armies. No, no, no, Zhen Lin Empire cannot hold her. She should be standing at the very top of the M31 Star System.”
Wind, fire, thunder, and rain, teleportation, and supernatural abilities, she had them all.
She could also use healing.
And she was only eighteen.
Her future was bright.
She should become the number one person from ancient times to the future.
Carrying a youngling and giving birth was not her mission.
Her mission could easily be to unify the whole M31 Star System.
Chong Ming spoke in a low voice: “You are right. She is stronger than the both of us. The fact that she is carrying my youngling was something I did not expect.”
“Bringing her here now means I am training her toward the position of Commander in Chief of the Three Armies. I also want to see how far she can go and how high she can stand with my short term support.”
“I do not want people in the future to say she is my wife, my Prince of the Blood consort. I hope that when people mention her, they say that Chong Ming is really lucky to be her partner.”