Chapter 265
Chapter 265: Their Fingers Intertwine in a Flirty Way
Jiang Tea Tea took a step back, lifted her arms and crossed them in front of her chest in a clear rejecting pose, and said words that could hurt any dog: “Nope, too ugly!”
Huang Da Zhuang’s tail, which had been wagging like a propeller, suddenly drooped. Feeling wronged, he tried hard to prove that he was handsome: “Sister Tea, I am not ugly. In our Canine Family, I count as a handsome male with thick eyebrows, big eyes, a strong body, and long legs.”
“Before I awakened my supernatural power and spiritual power, the elders of our clan already liked how I looked. Now that my supernatural power is awakened, people who like me range from five hundred years old all the way down to eighteen. There are so many of them!”
“I can prove it.” Cheng Xiao Ting came over with five other people and picked up Huang Da Zhuang’s words: “Sister Tea, with Huang Da Zhuang’s build, his looks, his fur, his long legs, not to mention in their Big Yellow Dog family, even in the whole Canine Family, this is the kind of body that the lords like and the females like.”
“Of course, compared to a wolf like me with such a big, strong build, he is still a little worse. He is not as handsome as me, my legs are longer, and I am cooler than he is.”
Huang Da Zhuang: “!!!!”
[This damned wolf. Does he really have to step on me, praise himself, and put me down like that?]
[Wolves and dogs have the same ancestors. We share the same ancestor. His legs are only a tiny bit longer than mine. His beast form is only a tiny bit bigger than mine!]
Jiang Tea Tea snorted with laughter: “Yes, yes, Cheng Xiao Ting, you are right. Our Huang Da Zhuang does not have legs as long as yours, and he is not as handsome as you.”
Sui Xuan Chu, Cheng Lin Yue and the others also started teasing Huang Da Zhuang: “Huang Da Zhuang, you have to keep working hard. Eat more and move more so you can beat Cheng Xiao Ting. If you do not, his legs will still be longer than yours, and his beast form will still be bigger than yours.”
Teased like that, Huang Da Zhuang let out sharp yips and barks, which made everyone burst out laughing. Their laughter gave them even more energy and ideas to tease him.
Their playful voices and loud laughter echoed through the Imperial Military Headquarters, making many people stop and look. These young people were bright and sunny like the morning sun, not knowing how high the sky was or how deep the earth was, and that was a good thing.
After Jiang Tea Tea finished laughing with them, she slowly strolled into the indoor training ground at the Imperial Military Headquarters. Inside the training ground there were already seventy men and women, including Chong Ming’s bodyguard, Major General Xia Wei Yi.
Xia Wei Yi knew them well. When she saw them come in, she came up to greet them and talk with them.
No matter their clothes or their age, Jiang Tea Tea and her group of eight looked very out of place compared to the seventy people present.
Those seventy were models of high rank, great power, and success. Jiang Tea Tea and the others were like tiny grains of millet who had wandered into the home of the gods by mistake.
But luckily, Jiang Tea Tea was a Great Demon Stage who had long been used to big scenes. In front of her, all these people with high rank and great power, well, none of them could live as long as she could.
Sui Xuan Chu was the Empire’s Crown Prince. In terms of rank and power, no one present was higher or more important than he was.
The families of Yan Yu, Orange Sparrow, Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Lin Yue, Zhang Ting Zhou, and Cheng Xiao Ting were also pretty good. Most importantly, they were like newborn calves that were not afraid of tigers. Standing by Jiang Tea Tea’s side, they secretly looked at those people they had only ever seen on the news before.
It turned out that, in human form, these people also had two eyes, one nose, and two ears. They looked kind and friendly, not as scary and strict as they had imagined.
While Xia Wei Yi chatted idly with Jiang Tea Tea, she was very respectful, treating her completely as a strong superior.
Jiang Tea Tea felt good toward this pretty Major General who looked a bit like her maternal grandmother, and they chatted very happily.
About ten minutes later, Chong Ming came in. He wore a neat military uniform, his long golden hair flowed freely, and two big golden dragon horns sat on his head. He brought Zhong Li He and Kong Que with him, as well as several medical staff including Cheng Yuan.
When everyone in the training room saw him, they all straightened their backs at once, their faces turning serious, and saluted him: “Commander in Chief!”
Under the collar of the Commander in Chief’s perfectly smooth uniform, there were fresh teeth marks on his neck. The Prince of the Blood’s consort was right here in the Imperial Military Headquarters.
Heavens, no wonder no one knew who the Prince of the Blood’s consort was. It turned out she was right under the Commander in Chief’s eyelids, watched by him himself.
The warm and eager Prince of the Blood’s consort had their cold, strict, self-disciplined Commander in Chief walking around the Imperial Military Headquarters with a bite mark on his neck, showing it off. The Commander in Chief loved it.
Chong Ming nodded to everyone as he walked, and at the same time walked toward Jiang Tea Tea.
Xia Wei Yi, who had been standing on Jiang Tea Tea’s left, stepped aside to give up her spot.
On Jiang Tea Tea’s right, Sui Xuan Chu held down Cheng Xiao Ting, who was about to move away, telling him not to go.
Cheng Xiao Ting, feeling timid, in turn held down Cheng Lin Yue. Cheng Lin Yue, scared, pressed down on Huang Da Zhuang. And so on down the line, all seven of them stayed where they were.
Chong Ming walked to the spot Xia Wei Yi had given up and stood beside Jiang Tea Tea. He looked at everyone and said: “Hello, everyone. I called you here today because healer Jiang Tea Tea will help calm your spiritual power and comb your spiritual seas.”
“She can comb one hundred people at a time, so I had all of you come together so she does not have to run back and forth.”
“Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea’s healing is not free. After she finishes combing all of you, a bill will be sent to your accounts within twenty-four hours. After you look over the bill, just transfer the healing fee to the account written on it.”
“Of course, if any of you have a problem with the fee and do not want to pay it, you can apply to leave right now.”
Apply to leave?
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
To be able to come here at all, they had first been scared, thinking they had done something wrong, and had gone over every event from the last eighteen generations of their ancestors.
Now they knew it was not that their ancestors from eighteen generations back had committed some crime. It was that the Commander in Chief valued them and was giving them their own shortcut and special benefits.
Besides, looking across the whole M31 Star System, what healer could heal one hundred people at a time? None. There were simply none.
There were not even healers who could heal two or three people at once. Jiang Tea Tea could heal as many as one hundred at a time, and the Commander in Chief trusted her enough to let her treat them. That showed she was even stronger than they had thought, even stronger than what they had heard about her in the news.
Seeing that no one spoke, Chong Ming went on: “Since no one has any objections, get ready and wait a little.”
Everyone answered in unison: “Yes!”
Chong Ming looked at Jiang Tea Tea: “Are you ready?”
Jiang Tea Tea gave him a sideways glance: “I am ready.”
As soon as Jiang Tea Tea finished talking, Sui Xuan Chu and the other seven people hurriedly flopped down onto the ground with a series of thuds, answering together: “Sis, Sister Tea, we are ready too.”
Zhong Li He asked in confusion: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, what are they doing?”
Jiang Tea Tea explained: “Oh, when I calm the restless supernatural power and spiritual power of many people at the same time and comb their spiritual seas, I tend to be pretty harsh. Most people cannot stay standing. They hurt so much they fall to the ground, hold their heads, and yell.”
“They were scared of falling last time, so they found a place to lie down first.”
Zhong Li He said as soon as he heard that: “Then can I find a chair to sit on?”
Jiang Tea Tea replied: “You can even bring out a bed and lie on it if you want.”
Zhong Li He at once looked at Kong Que.
Kong Que knew him better than the worms in his own belly. With just that look, he took a chair out of his space knob storage device.
Zhong Li He sat down on the chair and left half the seat open for Kong Que. He patted the empty spot beside him and said: “Kong Que, come, sit here.”
No matter the time, place, or setting, he never hid his favoritism toward Kong Que.
Under everyone’s gaze, Kong Que sat down. He had to give the Executive Commander lord face, no matter when or where.
Xia Wei Yi also sat down on the floor.
Cheng Yuan did the same. With a slap, he lay flat on the ground in a clean, neat move.
The other men and women who had never had their spiritual seas combed by Jiang Tea Tea still stood. They did not sit and did not lie down.
Ai the deputy officer took out a chair for his own Commander in Chief as well, and he himself sat down next to Xia Wei Yi.
Chong Ming sat down on the chair. At the very moment he sat, a strong wave of healing spiritual power spread out from Jiang Tea Tea beside him. It split into eighty or ninety streams and rushed toward every person present.
Right after that, they heard the sound of thumps. As the healing spiritual power entered their spiritual seas and combed them, some people hurt so much that they could not stay standing and fell to the ground.
One person fell, then a second, then a third, then a fourth, then more than ten, then dozens. All the ones who had been stubborn with their mouths fell to the ground.
Zhong Li He, who was not stubborn, laid his hand over the back of Kong Que’s hand, to comfort him, to help him, to tell him that he was here.
Kong Que turned his hand and laced their fingers together, so tight it was as if he were using all his strength to lock Zhong Li He’s fingers in his own.
Zhong Li He’s first thought was that it was not that he and Kong Que had decided to intertwine their fingers on purpose. It was that Jiang Tea Tea’s healing came at them too fiercely, making Kong Que hurt so much that he gripped his hand tight.
Jiang Tea Tea’s so-called healing-type spiritual power was simply her own spiritual power. A demon’s spiritual power was not gentle at all. It was like a knife. No matter how high or low anyone’s supernatural power was, it stabbed straight into each person’s spiritual sea.
It did a big, sweeping, forced cleaning and cutting of their agitated supernatural power, their restless spiritual power, and the impurities in their spiritual seas.
Some people were already holding their heads, not caring about their image at all, rolling all over the floor in pain, crying out again and again, feeling as if life was not worth living.
Jiang Tea Tea lowered her eyes and looked at Chong Ming. He seemed like nothing was happening to him. Her pitch-black eyes turned, and she sent a separate stream of spiritual power straight at Chong Ming.
Chong Ming lifted his head to meet her gaze and crooked his finger at her, silently telling her to lower her head and come over.
Frowning, Jiang Tea Tea took a step forward and stood in front of Chong Ming. When she bent at the waist, she just happened to block the lines of sight of the people rolling around on the ground who might look over. She opened her mouth and silently mouthed: “What?”
Chong Ming opened his light-brain wrist terminal and typed a few words for her to see: “You already did deep combing of my supernatural power, spiritual power, and spiritual sea at the First Hotel.”
“After that, every time you calmed the agitation of my supernatural power and combed my spiritual sea, it has never been as deep as at the First Hotel.”
Jiang Tea Tea stared at the screen, then sent him a look as sharp as a knife.
[You dog. You old loach. You bastard.]
That one night at the First Hotel, he had taken her first night as a Great Demon Stage.
As a Great Demon Stage demon who was several thousand, almost ten thousand years old, her whole body was like treasure.
If a Great Demon Stage demon stronger than she was was killed and eaten, even if the person eating could not reach ascension, they could still gain eight or ten thousand years of spiritual power.
If she were thrown into an alchemical furnace and refined into alchemical pills, then as long as a mortal who ate those pills could hold on and did not explode and die, living for several hundred or even a thousand years would not be a problem.
Chong Ming acted like he did not see her knife-like glare. His eyes swept past the tips of her ears, which were burning red, and the corners of his mouth curled up in delight. Then he asked in a serious tone: “For the more than eighty people here, about how long will it take before you finish combing them so they are no longer rolling on the floor in pain?”
Jiang Tea Tea straightened up and gave him a fierce glare, then answered loudly: “It depends on the person and on their level of supernatural power. Some are fast, some are slow. At least thirty to one hundred and twenty minutes are needed.”
Chong Ming raised his hand and pointed at Zhong Li He and Kong Que, who were sitting on the chair not far away: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, look at the two of them. They are sitting so close, their hands are clasped so tight, they are supporting each other so steadily.”
“Can you think of a way to make them roll all over the floor, looking a total mess, so I can record a video and use it to threaten Executive Commander Zhong Li He into giving me more benefits?”