Chapter 99
Chapter 99: Old mud loach, hurry up and go find a partner, stop showing off here
Chong Ming’s golden eyes darkened. His deep voice was slow and calm as he said: “So you were pretending all along. I’ve learned something.”
Jiang Tea Tea replied: “No problem, no problem. Please step aside.” She stepped forward, squeezed past Chong Ming, and held out her hand to the bold, gorgeous woman as she said: “Hello, my name is Jiang Tea Tea. I’m very happy to meet you.”
Chong Ming was squeezed to the side. All the personal guards on the training ground stopped training and fighting. They hated that their necks were too short to stretch farther and that their eyes could not pop out so they could listen to gossip and watch gossip better.
Faced with Jiang Tea Tea’s enthusiasm and her accurate description of the problem in her ability level, the bold, gorgeous woman could not help glancing at her own commander in chief.
Chong Ming gave her a small nod.
Only after getting her commander in chief’s approval did the woman reach out and shake Jiang Tea Tea’s hand. She said: “Hello, my name is Xia Wei Yi. I belong to the central personal guard corps of the Empire. My duty is to protect Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s safety.”
Her aura was about thirty percent like Jiang Tea Tea’s maternal grandmother. Her voice did not sound the same, and her expression was not the same either. But that was normal. Her maternal grandmother was a Great Demon Stage demon who was tens of thousands of years old. Not just anyone could look like her.
Jiang Tea Tea tightened her hold on her hand and stirred her spiritual power. The spiritual power flowed from her hand into Xia Wei Yi’s body and spiritual sea, combing through her supernatural ability spiritual power.
Xia Wei Yi’s pupils shrank as she began: “Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate, you…”
Jiang Tea Tea winked at her and said: “Don’t talk. Wait a bit.”
Xia Wei Yi fell quiet and focused on the feeling of her spiritual sea being nourished and combed by a gentle plant-type spiritual power.
The knots, impurities, and old blockages that had piled up in her spiritual sea were being cleared away one by one.
About ten minutes later, the second and third place squads from the supremacy tournament, twenty-five people in total, were brought over. Jiang Tea Tea let go of Xia Wei Yi’s hand and said: “Feel it. How is it?”
Xia Wei Yi felt a comfort she had never felt before. Her bold, gorgeous face came alive as she said: “Very good. My supernatural ability level has gone up. My spiritual sea feels very smooth and very comfortable. Thank you, thank you, Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate.”
Jiang Tea Tea waved it off and said: “You’re welcome. You’re good-looking. I like you.”
In fact, she didn’t need ten whole minutes. Two or three minutes would have been enough to comb Xia Wei Yi. But she wanted to put on a show for that old mud loach Chong Ming, so she dragged it out on purpose.
Xia Wei Yi’s expression stiffened a bit. She stressed her words as she reminded her: “Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate, I am a Tiger Clan woman, not a man.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out an “ah” and said: “I know you’re a woman. That doesn’t stop you from being good-looking, and I still like you.”
She was thirty percent like Jiang Tea Tea’s maternal grandmother, so of course Jiang Tea Tea liked her. On top of that, she had used Xia Wei Yi to add to her own image. She could not be stingy with her praise.
Xia Wei Yi’s face got even stiffer as she started: “You…”
“Misunderstanding, misunderstanding.” Sui Xuan Chu rushed over at once and explained to Xia Wei Yi: “My roommate’s ‘like’ is not the kind of liking a man has for a woman, or a woman has for a man. It’s just a pure kind of like, that she thinks you are cool, fierce, pretty, and strong. It’s just pure admiration.”
If his roommate with no common sense kept this up, she would cause big trouble. Deputy General Xia had almost been scared to death, thinking that Jiang Tea Tea was confessing romantic love.
Jiang Tea Tea suddenly understood and said: “Xia Wei Yi, when I said I like you, you thought I liked you like I’d like a man, that I liked you as love and fell for you at first sight?”
Xia Wei Yi let out a breath and explained in embarrassment: “Sorry, Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate. When I used to have short hair, some women mistook me for a man and confessed to me. No matter how I explained, they wouldn’t believe me. I thought you were also…”
Jiang Tea Tea made a sound of understanding and said: “So there was a lesson from before. No wonder. It’s fine, it’s fine. When I say I like you, it’s like we clicked at first meeting, not love at first sight. Don’t feel pressured. Mostly, you look a bit like someone I used to know, and I’m just liking you for her sake.”
Chong Ming’s gaze fell on Xia Wei Yi’s face and then slid over to Jiang Tea Tea’s face. That person she resembled, was it the same woman he was looking for?
Xia Wei Yi finally relaxed completely. A bit of shyness flashed in her eyes as she said: “Being like someone you used to know is my honor. Thank you for liking me for her sake and helping me comb my spiritual sea.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled and waved her hand: “You’re welcome. Go back to your work. I’ll go back to my schoolmates.”
After she said this, she grabbed the back of Sui Xuan Chu’s collar and tugged. “Let’s go. What are you still doing here?”
Being dragged away, Sui Xuan Chu complained: “What am I doing here? I’m here helping you explain how scary your words sounded. Others almost thought your sexual orientation was not normal.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a little laugh and said: “You’re the one whose orientation is not normal. Your uncle’s is not normal either. You two both have abnormal orientation.”
Sui Xuan Chu: “…”
She was the only one who dared to insult his uncle to his face like that.
[Hero, absolutely a hero.]
But he still wanted to mourn for her for three seconds.
His uncle had absolute tolerance for excellent people and also absolute power to train them. The kind of training that worked them half to death.
Deputy Officer Ai walked up to his own commander in chief, snapped to attention, and saluted as he said: “Commander in Chief, the top three squads from the supremacy tournament of the thirty military academies are all here.”
Chong Ming nodded. His gaze swept over them. Other than Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu, everyone else stood straight with heads held high, looking at him with eyes full of worship.
He walked to stand in front of them. His voice was deep and authoritative as he said: “Congratulations to all of you for getting the best personal and squad results in the three-month supremacy tournament, bringing glory to your schools and adding a beautiful line to your own records.”
“As a reward, there are still five hours before we arrive back at the Capital Planet. In these five hours, you may challenge my personal guard deputy general and her subordinates for sparring.”
“You can also ask them to guide you in how to attack the enemy at close range and cause the greatest casualties.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “…”
[Didn’t we come to the training ground so he could release his oppressive aura of supernatural ability?]
[How did it turn into sparring with his personal guard team instead?]
[Do her babies not need to eat and be comforted?]
Except for Jiang Tea Tea, everyone else was overjoyed. Someone gathered their courage and asked: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, do you mean that whenever we see personal guards on the training ground, we can challenge them to spar and have them guide us?”
Heaven, heaven, the personal guards were the combat ceiling of the Empire. Sparring with them and getting their guidance was something they didn’t even dare dream about.
They were really too lucky. This extra reward was not something normal military academy students could get. It was like a huge prize dropped on them from the sky.
Chong Ming nodded and promised: “Yes. They can guide you. If you have any questions or confusion, you can ask them.”
Other than Jiang Tea Tea, everyone in the three squads smiled so hard their eyes became slits. It was like a Beast God Festival. They shouted: “Ahhh, to spar with the commander in chief’s personal guards is such an honor, such a precious lesson.”
“This is great. I’ve heard for a long time that any one of the commander in chief’s personal guards can crush a group of people one-on-many. We haven’t even started fighting yet, and I already feel their strong pressure.”
“Mother, Dad, I’ve made it. I can even spar with the commander in chief’s personal guards. Once this gets out, won’t it make so many people jealous? When I go home, my parents will treat me so kindly and hold me in the palm of their hands.”
“Commander in Chief Chong Ming, thank you, thank you so much for giving us such a big surprise.”
“Commander in Chief Chong Ming, long live the commander in chief, long live the commander in chief…”
Jiang Tea Tea got goosebumps all over from their shouting. This group really did blindly worship that old mud loach Chong Ming.
She admitted that old mud loach was strong, but it was not to the point of “long live, long live, long, long live.” He couldn’t live that long anyway. Three to four hundred years was probably the limit.
While they were cheering happily, Jiang Tea Tea lifted her foot and slowly backed away, moving toward a corner she had picked out.
She had only taken a few steps and was still far from the corner when, unexpectedly, Chong Ming opened his mouth and called: “Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate, as the individual top scorer of the supremacy tournament, don’t you want to spar with my Deputy General Xia?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s steps stopped. She lied without blinking and said: “I just combed Xia Wei Yi’s spiritual sea and used up a lot of my supernatural ability. What I need now is rest, not sparring.”
“You all spar, you all stay busy. Don’t count me in. I’ll just sit on the side and cheer for you. Go, go, go.”
Hearing that she had used up a lot of power on her, Xia Wei Yi, even if it was because she liked her for someone else’s sake, still showed worry in her eyes and asked: “Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate, do you want to go lie down in the healing department for a bit?”
Jiang Tea Tea waved and said: “No need. I can rest by myself. You all go do your thing. Don’t worry about me.”
Sui Xuan Chu was so jealous.
He also wanted to go sit on the side with his roommate.
But with his uncle there, he didn’t dare.
Deputy General Xia was clearly prepared by his uncle for him. Today he was going to get beaten up.
There were three squads, thirty-two people in total, not counting Jiang Tea Tea.
Xia Wei Yi led the other thirty-one personal guards in one-on-one teaching and one-on-one sparring.
Among the thirty-two military academy students, the one with the highest supernatural ability level was a white male dragon at four S level. He challenged Xia Wei Yi.
The heaven’s favored child in his schoolmates’ eyes, the excellent child in his family’s eyes who was supposed to carry his race’s future, turned into a soft, limp little earthworm in Xia Wei Yi’s hands, with no fighting power at all. She pressed him down and beat him.
The four S white male dragon was beaten so badly he could not fight back. He started doubting his entire dragon life, his mentality collapsing and his defenses breaking. He almost transformed into his dragon beast form to attack Xia Wei Yi.
Cheng Xiao Ting, Huang Da Zhuang, and the others, sparring with Da Ma Zi from the personal guard corps and a few other subordinates, were being slammed to the ground again and again, spitting blood like crazy and stubbornly refusing to admit defeat.
Sui Xuan Chu had been right. His uncle had called Deputy General Xia out just to beat him up. Sure enough, after she finished beating up the four S white dragon, she started beating him.
The four S white dragon was no match for her. He, as a three S dragon, was even less her match. He couldn’t even release his Imperial Clan bloodline suppression. He could only be pressed down, beaten, and kicked.
On his uncle’s turf, as Crown Prince and future sovereign ruler of the Empire, even if he was beaten to death, he could not mentally break, and he could not surrender. He could only endure the searing pain, endure the heavy injuries, and climb back up again and again to be beaten again.
“The Golden Dragon Imperial Clan’s special youngling milk is not suitable for you.” Chong Ming walked to Jiang Tea Tea’s side, glanced at the milk she was slurping, and reminded her.
Jiang Tea Tea leaned against the wall like she had no bones. One foot was braced on the ship wall, and the other foot was on the ground. She clicked her tongue as she watched Huang Da Zhuang and the others get beaten until they spat blood. Then she answered Chong Ming: “Whether it suits me or not, once it’s in my stomach, don’t I know best? If you don’t like watching it, you can get me a hundred crates of something else.”
Chong Ming did not agree to get her a hundred crates. Instead, he asked: “Why did you suddenly expose your plant-type supernatural ability? That is not like your usual personality of hiding things as much as you can. Did you run into some problem you couldn’t solve that made you change your mind and expose yourself, even using my deputy general as practice?”
She had used his deputy general for practice to build her name recognition and expose her so-called plant-type ability. He saw at once that she had an agenda.
No wonder he could be the Commander in Chief of the Three Armies and the Prince Regent of the Empire. Just look at that level of intelligence and that calm bearing. It really made people jealous.
Jiang Tea Tea pulled back her gaze, turned her head, lifted her chin, and looked at Chong Ming as she spoke in a very sarcastic, blame-shifting tone: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, if it weren’t for you thinking that me eating a lot and drinking a lot meant something was wrong with me, and sending me to your healing department for body checks all the time, would I have needed to expose myself?”
“And you’re saying I used your deputy general as practice. You, a grand Commander in Chief of the Three Armies and the top leader of the Empire, have everyone around you with spiritual seas so blocked it’s like they’re all constipated, and you still don’t find anyone to heal them. How do you have the nerve?”
“And you yourself, with all your different types of supernatural abilities clashing with each other and your spiritual power in constant turmoil, listen to my advice. Either hurry and go find a partner, or quickly find a high level healer. Even if they don’t comb all your supernatural abilities and spiritual power, at least they can suppress those two or three mating heat cycles you have every year.”