Minhyuk’s techniques were extremely strange, and it seemed that it was an instant before he reached the empty street, falling next to her.
Lowering his head slightly, he could see her delicate and beautiful face and she lifted her eyes to look forward. She had a lazy expression on her face, looking as though she didn’t know of the danger that was going to befell her in the next moment.
Minhyuk’s heart pounded as he leaned over to softly say in her ear, “Close your eyes later, and don’t be afraid.”
He had deliberately lowered his voice to seem soothing and hypnotizing, similar to a lover’s whisper. It was a fascinating trick that was easy to dazzle people with and extremely useful, even Fu Yeri couldn’t escape from it.
After saying that, he turned to see her face, only to find that little had changed. It was still the same indifferent and clear look on her face. She even raised her head to look at him, her bright eyes not having the slightest hint of anything in them.
“?” This didn’t look right!
Before he could come back to his senses, the girl in front of him was already lowering the umbrella in her hand to the ground. When she straightened up, a cold glint appeared in her eyes.
The space around them fluctuated suddenly, and a heavy pressure of something unseen pressed down with a thunderous aura. Minhyuk couldn’t help but take a step back, and after stabilizing himself, he raised his head, something flashing in his eyes as he did.
The girl who was only a few steps from him, her clothes were fluttering even though there was no wind, and purple lightning was crackling in her hands.
The sky on this side was gloomy and uncertain, but she stood tall and straight, the purple light dancing on the tip of her slender fingertips.
Five purple lightning shot out instantly, and the five shadows fell down embarrassingly easily. They stared at Lisa with a look of shock on their faces.
They had thought that it was just a regular person from the ordinary world. They had scrambled to grab this task to try to impress the young lady, and they didn’t think of this girl to be significant at all. But they never expected that not only did the other not move, she only relied on her mental power to stop all their movements!
The talents of the five of them weren’t that great, but they had been in the ancient martial arts world for a long time and naturally had some tricks up their sleeves. Even against a genius like Jeon Tzuyu, they would have a few tricks to use on her and hold their own, but they couldn’t even hold out against this girl for a second!
When did the ancient martial arts world have such a monster?
More importantly, this person could easily kill them off with just a finger, but she didn’t do it, and was dragging it out instead!
Under the pressure of the lightning that couldn’t be resisted, her mental powers and illusions, they already felt that death was better than this. At this moment, they were feeling regret from the deepest corner of their heart. Why did they have to take this task? Why did they listen to Fu Yeri?
They wanted to open their mouth and beg for mercy, but they couldn’t make a single sound.
“Did you think the people from the secular world are easy to bully?”
Boom!
“Did you think yourselves to be so great?”
Boom!
“So you’re only good at bullying people from the secular world!”
Boom boom boom!
The five were beaten to an inch to death, and they couldn’t even tell where they were at.
Minhyuk, who was standing to the side with wide eyes, couldn’t believe what he was seeing in front of him.
After a long while, Lisa lowered her hands, and the distorted space was instantly cleared. She leaned over to pick up the umbrella that she had left on the ground, and opened it. Her face was still indifferent, her hair fluttering in the soft breeze and her snow-white face glowed slightly under the light.
The rain was letting up, and the dark clouds in the skies had started to disperse. It seemed like she was the only person left under the clear sky and she walked forward slowly, umbrella in hand.
When she reached the intersection, she stopped suddenly, a light voice ringing out in the empty space. “Mr. Wanqi, please pay attention to your safety before tomorrow.”
Minhyuk finally came back to his senses and reacted, repeating the words she just said underneath his breath. He raised his head to ask something, but then he realized that there was no sign of her on the street any longer!
“Really…” Minhyuk wanted to sigh, but uttered those words instead. He couldn’t spit out any other words anymore, the shock was embedded too deeply in him.
He had initially thought that in the China ancient martial arts world, only Jeon Jungkook could make him jealous of his strength. He didn’t expect to encounter a girl that would have a power that was not any less terrifying than the man.
She was so young!
When he was her age, he was way far behind her.
Minhyuk took a deep breath, and turned to the five people lying on the ground. His crystal blue eyes were cold. “Who sent you?”
There was mental pressure in the voice he used to speak that was comparable to Lisa’s, and using just that little was enough to make the five unable to resist. They confessed everything. “We’re from the Fu family, and it’s the young miss who sent us. She wanted us to… to make sure Miss Lalisa didn’t appear in the capital for a while!”
He used ‘Miss Lalisa’.
“The Fu family? The young miss?” Minhyuk’s eyes narrowed further, applying more pressure in his voice. “What’s her name?”
“Fu… Fu Yeri.” The five of them were scared out of their wits, and they looked at Minhyuk, the horror clear on their faces. With Lisa gone, they thought that could breathe a sigh of relief. They didn’t expect this man to be no less terrifying than her!
What kind of bad luck did they have!
The contempt and hatred toward Yeri increased even more in their hearts.
Fu Yeri? It really was her? How could it be?
Minhyuk’s mind was in a mess, the beautiful, flawless face appearing in his mind. Then he suddenly remembered!
That girl, wasn’t she the girl that he investigated for Yeri? The other daughter of Baili Hyekyo?
If that was so, then Yeri’s actions could be explained.
Minhyuk pursed his lips tightly, leaving the place in slow strides. There wasn’t any expression on his face, and he had initially wanted to go to the Fu family’s banquet. However, he was not in the mood right now as his heart in a turmoil.
Before meeting Lisa, he didn’t feel much regarding this elder sister of Yeri that suddenly came out of nowhere. He even had the thought of helping Yeri teach her elder sister a lesson. Now, it all seemed like a joke!
He chuckled lightly, but there was no smile in his eyes.
The five people on the ground only dared to crawl up after the two finally vanished from their sights, and they looked at each other with fear in their eyes.
They were silent, when suddenly, one of their phones rang.
The man picked it up, his face twisting into an ugly expression before he said, “It’s the young miss.”
“Ptui! What young miss!” The other person grabbed the phone, his eyes full of resentment. “Not knowing how big the world is, and thinking she is all that. She didn’t even know the details or information of the person she targeted, letting us rush in to die on our own!”
People in the ancient martial arts world respected power, so even though Lisa had beaten them up, they didn’t hold any grudge toward her. Instead, they had inexplicable feelings of worship toward Lisa.
***
Once the call connected, Yeri flashed a warm smile at the celebrity beside her before walking into a corner to take the call. Before she could say anything, a mocking tone came from the other end, “Young miss, do you know who the other party was? You actually asked us to deal with her? Fu Yeri, I don’t care if you want to die, but don’t drag us down with you! If you land yourself in big sh*t, I don’t want to die with you!”
The voice that spoke was no longer respectful, but full of mockery and anger.
Yeri couldn’t even let out a word before the harsh words were thrown, and the call was hung up without waiting for any response from her.
An angry haze shrouded her pretty eyes. When did people treat Yeri like this? As the most outstanding descendant of the Fu family, she was always sought after no matter where she went. This was the first time someone from the Fu family had shown her such disrespect!
“What a waste of space!” They couldn’t even handle an ordinary person like Lisa. “I’ll let you off today.”
Yeri took a deep breath to calm herself, before plastering a smile on her face. Before even managing to take two steps out, she saw the Fu Enterprise secretary walking over in a rush. “Miss, President Fu requests your presence upstairs.”
“Why so sudden?” Yeri asked hesitantly, looking at the expression on the secretary’s face. Wasn’t Joongki meeting with someone from the top management of Nine Heavens right now?
The secretary glanced at Yeri, and said carefully, “Miss, the president… he didn’t look very happy.”
“Alright, I know.” Yeri felt flustered at the words, but she calmed herself the best she could, heading upstairs.
As they headed up, an elegant man with glasses was making his way down.
“Mr. Mu.” The secretary stopped walking, greeting him politely.
Yeri was taken aback. Although Joongki’s secretary was usually a very approachable person, it was rare to see him displaying such respect.
Because he had been brought up by Joongki personally, his position in the Fu family was not any less than her own. There was also a time when Hyekyo had wanted to formally adopt him, but had been turned down by the secretary himself.
Apart from Hyekyo and Joongki, it was rare for him to even treat her with such respect. Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but glance at this Mr. Mu.
The person carried himself with elegance, and was a refined-looking man. The eyes behind the glasses were sharp, and he looked to be about in his mid-thirties.
How was it that he was able to make Joongki’s assistant treat him with so much respect?
Thinking that this person definitely was not some random commoner, she too nodded at Mr. Mu with respect.
After that Mr. Mu went down, only did Yeri turn to the secretary to ask, “Who was that?” She had a guess inside her mind, but she didn’t dare to believe it.
“That was Nine Heaven’s senior executive.” The secretary said, watching Jinhee leave before continuing upstairs. Just as Yeri was going into the room, he couldn’t help but urge her, “Miss, hurry up and enter. Don’t keep the president waiting.”
In the Fu family, the one who knew Joongki the best was this secretary, apart from Hyekyo.
And that’s why, Yeri became more apprehensive at his words. She opened the door slowly, and Joongki’s calm voice came from the silence around the room. “Close the door.”
Yeri closed the door obediently, and pasting on a smile like usual, she looked at Joongki. “Dad, you were looking for me?”
Joongki picked up a piece of paper, looking at Yeri with no expression on his face. “Yeri, come and look at this.”
It was a piece of paper, a typed out report from the looks of it in plain letters. After glancing at the content, Yeri’s face turned red. She grabbed the paper in a hurry, her face paling drastically after her eyes swept through the words. Her nails were tearing through the part of the paper where her fist was clenched.
How was that possible! Her mind was in mayhem.
“I want to know what you did that made all the elders of the Fu family band together and remove your status as the heir to the Fu family, as well as your place in the Trial Tower.” Joongki’s eyes were sharp behind his glasses, but it also held disappointment. “Do you know how much the Fu family gave for this placement?”
“I… I don’t know.” Yeri’s mind was in a panic. She was in the Imperial Capital, and could only rely on the Fu family. If the Fu family had cut her off as the heir, and even her placement in the Trial Tower, then what did she have left?
Thinking of this, she clung to Joongki’s sleeves and looked at him with pitiful eyes. “Dad, I didn’t mean to! Please help me!”
“If you’re wrong, then you’re wrong.” Joongki gently pried her hands off him. “Yeri, I regret all the indulgence that I have given you. You’ve even made a move against an ordinary person. Yeri, when did you become like this?”
Joongki closed his eyes in pain, not wanting to look at his daughter’s face, fearing that he wouldn’t be able to harden his heart if he did. He had always thought that she was the best behaved daughter in the world, so he and Hyekyo had always been indulging in her whims and pampering her every chance they had. He didn’t expect that she would develop into this kind of character.
“Dad…” Yeri looked at Joongki’s expression, her lips trembling, but not able to say another word.
This was the first time Joongki had this sort of expression. He really didn’t care about her now.
Joongki didn’t want to stay in the room any longer, and he stood to leave. “It’s not the most terrible thing, to not be the heir. The most valuable thing about a person is their character.”
The door closed behind him, and only Yeri was left in the room. The regret and dissatisfaction welled up in her immediately!
Her hands trembled as she picked up the paper again, reading each word carefully. She had thought that an ordinary person was nothing to be concerned with, but she didn’t expect to receive a blow that she would never recover from. Now Yeri was beginning to regret the things she did, to the extent that she could feel it like physical pain.
No, wait. There was one more person.
Wanqi Minhyuk!
Yeri took out her phone with shaky hands, searching for Minhyuk’s number before pressing on it.
“The number you have dialed…”
How could this be? This was the first time Minhyuk had not picked up her call.
Yeri cut the call immediately, dialing again, but received the same cold voice.
Over and over again.
Yeri tried until she finally understood, even Minhyuk was ignoring her.
The phone slipped from her hand onto the floor, and her face paled even further. She was… finished, it seemed.
***
In the ancient martial arts world, Jungkook walked out of the cave with Hoseok behind him.
“Boss, we’ve measured the velocity of time. The ratio inside the cave to the outside is 1:7. In other words, while one day has passed in the cave, seven days have passed on the outside.”
The flow of time like this could be reversed using a secret method.
Which was to say, one day outside equals to seven days inside.
Cultivating for seven days inside only equaled one day outside, this was the biggest strength of cyberspace.
“It’s a suitable place for cultivating and training.” Jungkook raised his head to look at the cave. “It can be compared to the speed of the Trial Tower.”
“I don’t think it can be compared to the Trial Tower.” Hoseok shook his head. “This cyberspace is just too weird, I went in with Jaehyun not even an hour, and our mind was already a little confused. Don’t talk about training, staying in there itself would be a problem.”
“I’m from a fox clan (T/N: likely just means he’s cunning) after all, and I can’t control myself sometimes.” Jungkook said lightly. “Record the location down first, I’ll think of a way to use it.”
There were too few resources that were available in the ancient martial arts world now. Except for the Trial Tower, the others were all worthless.
This cyberspace was very useful, the difference in the flow of time would allow them to reach a new level of improvement. Only, it wasn’t just anyone who could use it. Even Jungkook found it hard to deal with it.
Hearing Jungkook himself say the words, Hoseok felt slightly regretful. He really did covet the cave, otherwise he wouldn’t have bugged Jungkook to come over, to the point that he even went through Lisa.
When Jungkook had come in the beginning, he had even changed the way that he usually tormented him.
Hoseok scratched his nose, sighing heavily.
“Boss, Uncle Jeon is here!” Jaehyun shouted from a distance. Behind him was a tall and upright figure, who was very similar to Jungkook, only his face looked more mature than him.
Joowon glanced at Jaehyun and Hoseok, these kids really didn’t know how to hold back in front of him, smiling constantly. They were only serious when they were faced with Jungkook.
This made it seem like he had no authority or was threatening at all! Joowon was a little distressed at the thought, his son was like that, and so his subordinates were the same. Really!
“Dad.” Jungkook looked at Joowon, some suspicion in his eyes. “Why are you here?”
“Can’t I come and see you? I’ve been home for a few days, and yet you’ve not come home once.” Joowon looked back at Jungkook. “Do you have a problem with me?”
“I’m the same even when you’re not at home,” Jungkook replied easily. “If you’re willing to change positions with me, I can come home every day.”
Joowon thought about his son’s usually tightly packed schedule, and immediately clammed up, changing the topic instead. “Cough… I just wanted to come and tell you, your mom has gone out of the ancient martial arts world today.”
A cold glint entered his eyes as Jungkook pursed his lips. “Why?”
“You should be able to guess,” Joowon replied, looking at him meaningfully.
Jungkook straightened up suddenly. “I’m leaving.”
Just as he said those words, he vanished into thin air.
Joowon: “…” This ungrateful son!
Hoseok: “…” Boss, you’re not finished with this matter yet, is it okay to leave just like that?
Jaehyun: “…” Was it only me who didn’t understand anything at all?
***
At the same time, in the Trial Tower.
Sehun walked out of the Trial Tower, taking the towel from the old man to wipe his sweat, he took a deep breath. He was having trouble adapting to the intensive training in the Trial Tower after the reformation. He looked up and asked, “Grandpa Tang, have my aunt and Taehyung return?”
“Second young master, the young master has not returned to train for three days.” Grandpa Tang furrowed his brows. “He has already lost out three days of training at his peak, if this goes on…”
Grandpa Tang was worried, Taehyung was now well-known in the Tang family, and had performed well in the Trial Tower. The Trial Tower in the ancient martial arts world was the best place to train, the time ratio to the outside is 5:1. Taehyung had been away for only three days, but it was in actuality half a month.
His strength would definitely fall far behind the others.
The mistress and young master were definitely weird, why would they leave at such a critical point of time?
The other people on the outside tried to forget about the Trial Tower because they didn’t have the chance to use it, but here Taehyung was wasting the opportunity that he had been given.
Grandpa Tang couldn’t help but let out a heavy sigh.
Hearing those words, Sehun also frowned deeply. It was going to be the qualifying selection soon, and although Taehyung’s strength was advancing in leaps and bounds, without actual combat training, it wouldn’t matter no matter how strong his strength was, and that was disregarding the fact that other people were also improving as the days passed! Thinking about this, Sehun immediately gave a call to Taehyung.
After a few rings, the call connected. “Taehyung, why haven’t you returned?”
“Cousin, I’ve decided to train outside. Give the placement in the Trial Tower to someone else who needs it!” Taehyung’s voice was a little excited.
“Are you sure?” Sehun frowned harder. “There is no better place to train than in the Trial Tower, you’ve improved so much in less than a month, and you’ve made a name for yourself in the Tang family. At such a critical moment, you actually leave instead? Have you lost your mind?!”
“Cousin, I know this more than anyone else, believe me, I won’t harm myself.” Taehyung understood Sehun’s kind intentions, so he made a point to explain it to him.
After a while, Sehun hung up the phone. He knew that Taehyung was a logical person, but he still couldn’t believe his words.
There was a better place to train other than the Trial Tower in this world?
However, he didn’t bother saying anything else, walking out of the Trial Tower. It was better to talk to grandpa and let him decide.
After the two left, a group of people came out of the Trial Tower. The one in the lead was a young man. “Yin Taehyung has left the Trial Tower, that’s… really the greatest news ever.”
“That’s right. Young Master Wu, do you think Yin Taehyung can compare to you? He’s just an ordinary mongrel, after leaving the Trial Tower, what else can he use to go against you? You’ll definitely be selected to participate in the ranking matches!” The people beside the young man said, not hesitating to flatter him.
Hearing these pleasant words and praises, Tang Wu sneered. “The state he’s in right now suits him the most.”
He would wait to see the look that Taehyung had when he came begging him for mercy!
***
Taehyung hung up on the phone before looking over at Kihyun eagerly. “Wanna fight?”
“I’d rather fight with Xixi.” Kihyun huffed and replied.
Taehyung: “…” I knew that Kihyun made the comparison on purpose, but I couldn’t say anything in retort.
The two of them were on the same ancient martial arts stage, but to Kihyun, beating him was as easy as beating a dog, so Taehyung was both miffed and intrigued by that implication.
It wouldn’t have been weird for, say, Sehun to be able to beat him up with one hand tied behind his back because he had stayed in the trial tower for so many years, but Kihyun had only started learning ancient martial arts! How could such a person beat him so easily?
Taehyung was filled with curiosity, at first.
Then, not a day later, he realized why that was the case.
He had wanted to return to the trial tower after one day here, but after seeing the reality of what was happening on Lisa’s end, he was shook to his core.
That was especially when he saw a big, red bird the size of a car that could fight and speak.
He couldn’t even defeat this bird that could seal all his chi with a single flap of its wings and render him powerless, what was this creature?
The moment he felt his world view crumble was when someone called it Xixi.
Xixi? Taehyung thought that was just a regular bird that Lisa kept as a pet, but it was a legendary beast??
He and Jihyun had planned to amass forces so that they could be a strong protective shield for Lisa in the ancient martial arts world, but as he looked at the training arena filled with people, he wiped the sweat off his forehead with a numb expression from all the shock.
If it really came to that, they would probably be the ones that were protected instead!
“Ms. Lalisa!”
“Ms. Lalisa!”
“Lili!”
“…”
Taehyung’s mind was wandering when a commotion broke out, everyone smiling brightly and looking over in his general direction, and when he looked back too, he saw Lisa that was walking towards them.
The young woman was holding a black umbrella in her hand, and in her clear eyes shone galaxies.
“Big Brother Taehyung,” she greeted, smiling softly.
Taehyung was stunned for a moment upon seeing the younger sister of his for the first time in two months, then he smiled brightly and pulled her in for a tight hug. “Lili!”
How did she become even prettier in just a few months?
Meanwhile, Xixi, Jimin and Rosé came over to her too.
The other hundred pairs of eyes were attracted to Lisa, but after they were shouted at by Kihyun, they went back to focusing on their training, only stealing admiring glances over in her direction from time to time.
“Do you have an array here?” Taehyung had become more knowledgeable after being in the ancient martial arts world for almost two months, and when he arrived here he felt a certain mystical aura to the entire training area that covered it like a veil, and it reminded him of the Trial Tower.
He couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but the sense of familiarity was definitely there.
Even though this was an open-air arena, it wasn’t affected at all by the weather outside, as if it were its own secluded world.
Upon hearing Kihyun say that this place was created by Lisa, he was extremely shocked. The trial tower was the treasure of the ancient martial arts world that had training grounds inside that warped time and space, but it was only fitting for its reputation as the birthing ground of many masters in the ancient martial arts world. In fact, it was even treated as one of the ancient martial arts world’s trump card.
Meanwhile, this training ground was created by Lisa alone.
Along with it was the fact that almost everyone in this place had prowess that surpassed their ancient martial arts stage. Without using any chi, a Beginner trainee from here could fight him to a standstill with sheer technique and prowess, and this was the reason that cemented his choice to stay here.
“Yes.” Lisa replied. “There’s five arrays that feed endlessly off of each others’ energy here, actually. I could teach you, if you want to learn?”
Taehyung almost choked at the dismissive explanation. Five arrays that fed off each others’ energies endlessly? Even the Baili Family wouldn’t be able to do something on that scale so easily!
“I probably wouldn’t be able to learn it even if I tried.” Taehyung coughed into his fist as he looked up at Lisa. “I don’t have the natural talent for it.”
“Well do you want to try fighting with me?” Lisa quickly changed the topic, looking up and down at Taehyung. “From the looks of it you’re already in the Tendon Forging stage, but Kihyun told me you were quite weak?”
It had been quite some time after all, and she wanted to see where he could improve.
“Fight?” Taehyung looked up and down at Lisa’s thin frame. “Are you sure…?”
Lisa smiled. “It’s alright, come at me with all you’ve got.”
Taehyung hadn’t had the chance to actually win against anyone after he came here—From Kihyun, Xixi, to even the weakest, Rosé, he was beaten up as easy as pie, and he had been waiting for someone who he could win against.
Even though he had been beaten for three days in a row, but he had improved immensely too.
“Ah, but arrays are forbidden!” Taehyung exclaimed, suddenly remembering that the girl was an expert in that field.
“Of course.” Lisa handed her umbrella to Rosé, before turning back and looking at him. “En garde?”
Taehyung was quite excited about it. “I’ll hold back, don’t worry.”
At this moment, he completely missed the pitying looks the others gave him.
A space was cleared out for them, and Taehyung’s expression turned serious as he looked towards Lisa that was still in a resting position, energy converging in his palm in an effort to showcase his strength. “This is the strongest secret technique in the Tang Family, the Void Lightning Spell, careful!”
As he spoke, he started moving his hands quickly in mysterious-looking motions, and a strong presence started to emanate from him.
Lisa only stood there motionlessly as she looked at his motions until he finished all of them, as if in thought.
“This is a very strong move even though I haven’t perfected it yet!” Taehyung looked up at Lisa, his eyes squinting in concentration.
Under the blue sky, the girl suddenly started moving her fingers in archaic motions too, her fingers like porcelain as
“What is Lili doing?” Jimin was surprised that Lisa hadn’t just beaten the young man up already.
Kihyun’s eyes were stuck to the scene like glue, before he muttered, “…She’s copying his technique.”
“What?!”
At the same time, Taehyung’s expression started to turn from confident to shock as the girl copied all of the movements that he did moments ago completely, and the energy that she generated seemed to be even stronger than his.
Lisa suddenly raised her head, and said, “Come!”
It was the fight between two Void Lightning Spells.
A bright, white flash appeared all of a sudden with a boom, and the next moment, a small crater appeared under Taehyung’s feet.
The dust settled after three minutes, showing the young man buried halfway into the dirt and practically fried, the dust and soot concealing his handsome face as he looked over at Lisa that didn’t even have a speck of dust on her body, the latter looking at him with a smile. “Big Brother Taehyung, are you okay?”
Jimin came over and helped him up, and as he wiped himself with a piece of cloth, he replied emotionlessly. “Not at all.”
Why was he so innocent?
“You’ll get used to it, Oh Great Young Master Yin, Lili was already holding back.” Jimin grinned mirthfully, before tilting his head in the direction of the trainees. “Don’t you see those jealous gazes?”
Taehyung: “…”
He wasn’t blind, he saw the pitying gazes sent to him too!
He moaned in pain as he rubbed his arms, feeling pain all throughout his body that was much greater than when he fought with Chanyeol.
As disheveled as he looked right now, he knew that his image was completely shattered.
“I feel like I’m going to make a breakthrough for my Void Lightning Spell…” Taehyung clung onto Jimin’s neck as he replayed the scene from earlier in his head, and as he remembered Lisa’s movements and the spatial energy that she invoked, he felt his understanding of the technique increase!
There were seven stages to the Void Lightning Spell, and he was only on the second stage, but this was already the cream of the crop when compared to the others in his generation.
The technique was too difficult, and it had high requirements to the user’s physical constitution and their latent talent.
Basically, only the people that could actually learn this technique were almost exclusively ones that could train in the trial tower, and it was also why Sehun was worried for Taehyung.
Taehyung had seen Sehun use this skill once, blasting a small hill in the process, and while it was definitely shocking, it didn’t hold a candle to this.
What sort of genius would be able to learn their opponents’ skills while they were casting it like this?
Taehyung felt quite distraught, and a sense of weakness welled up in his heart.
His poor heart couldn’t handle more of this!
“So you get why those people are jealous of you now, don’t you?” Jimin explained. “Even I’m jealous of you, honestly. Lili’s the type to either fight once or not at all whenever she comes, and it was either me or Rosé who got this special treatment in the past, but now you got it!”
Taehyung breathed deeply, before looking over at Lisa who was in the middle of a conversation with shock.
“Big Boss Bai has already controlled all of the forces on the south, and is now focusing on going national.” Not only was Kihyun busy with training everyone, he also had to help Big Boss Bai expand his sphere of influence. “Another bunch of people were sent here yesterday, and even though they’re not as talented as the ones that are already here, they’re more than qualified to stand guard at all our branches.”
“You know about that yakuza group in Japan that’s recognized by the public, right? Work in that direction, and the motto of the Bai Gang is to maintain the peace and safety of the world.” Lisa said, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.
Kihyun: “…” Why was he not surprised that Lisa came up with that idea?
One of the ways that a gang could survive was by expanding their influence and permeating into every organization and changing their public image.
Kihyun naturally knew about the only yakuza in Japan that was recognized by the public which did charity and community service, as well as disaster relief in an effort to gain the trust of the public.
“But we’ve already become trusted in Imperial Capital.” Kihyun mused, going along with Lisa’s suggestion. “That time we gave the cops evidence and helped with their investigation, we even got a brocade flag for them.”
The incident had actually become quite well known in China, and ever since then the Bai Gang had truly started to expand, people from all corners of the world joining the gang and not even thinking of leaving upon being shown all the pros of joining it.
“Big Boss Bai has always been good at this sort of thing.” Lisa nodded. For someone that was expelled from the Bai Family, creating the strongest force in the Imperial Capital was even harder than it sounded. “I won’t go see him today, then, don’t want to bother him.”
Kihyun: “…”
Why does he feel as if Big Boss Bai would beat him up if he knew about this…?
Lisa wasn’t privy to his thoughts, and she only pet Xixi gently before talking with Rosé, her gaze stuck on the people that were training in the arena.
“You got a new role?” Lisa asked in surprise. “But not as the main lead?”
Rosé smiled mysteriously as she talked with Lisa. “Brother Sejin accepted the role for me, and even though it’s not the main lead, it’s much better than a regular lead role.”
After acting in Empire Under Siege, her acting ability was approved by the public, and along with that came millions of followers on her Weibo account, and along with her currently airing web drama, she was about to his twenty millions followers quite soon.
Lisa raised her eyebrows in interest. “It’s a big production?”
In any case, a role that was handpicked by Sejin and had such a reaction from Rosé wouldn’t be anything simple.
Xixi shuffled over and latched onto Lisa again. “Beauty Lisa, why didn’t you bring Haha with you?”
“Haha can’t run around with that wound on his leg, so he’s staying at home with Mama Jihyun.” Lisa replied.
Xixi: Poor dog~
That night when it returned home, it suddenly felt as if it’s entire avian life was a lie when it saw the new and improved kennel Haha got.
After checking on Taehyung, Lisa looked around and went out to have lunch with them, before giving Kihyun another old book and leaving.
She didn’t drive here, but she refused Taehyung’s offer to give her a lift home.
After seeing the thin figure off, Taehyung glanced over at the old book in Kihyun’s hands curiously. “What is this?”
Kihyun leafed through the yellowed pages, and every ten pages or so, there would be a piece of paper that was filled with beautifully written words. “Something that you can’t learn in the ancient martial arts world, believe me.”
Upon hearing this, Taehyung became even more curious as to what this book was, was it even stronger than the ones passed down the ancient martial arts world?
He found that somehow hard to believe.
When he was bought to a room, he suddenly felt as if he lost his sense of reality.
“This, these books are…” Taehyung inhaled deeply in disbelief as he looked around the room in awe. There were just a few books, barely more than twenty of them, and attached to these books were explanations and details—Most of them were written in Lisa’s neat and tidy writing, some were written in Kihyun’s stubby handwriting, while the rest held handwriting that he recognized as Jungkook’s.
He flipped through one of the books, then another, and another…
“So these books are just…Placed around here without any protection?” He asked, belatedly noting the dryness of his throat.
Any one of these could cause a large commotion in the ancient martial arts world!
“Yeah.” Jimin replied nonchalantly.
Taehyung: “…Aren’t you guys afraid that someone would steal them?”
“You’re assuming that everyone can come in here, and those that can aren’t stupid enough to steal from this place.” Jimin replied with a chuckle.
Taehyung looked at these books as he breathed another sigh of relief from choosing to stay here.
After half an hour, Big Boss Bai was filled with sorrow when he was told that he missed Lisa.
Lisa was walking in the slums with her umbrella in hand, greeting everyone that passed her familiarly and getting gifted a bunch of snacks as she did.
She accepted the offerings, not knowing whether to laugh at the situation, before sneakily keeping them into the system inventory while no one was looking.
After twenty minutes, she came to the side of the road, and took out her phone to get a taxi.
[Ding! Daily Good Deed Mission activated: Help the mission objective fix their car.]
[Mission accomplishment reward: 20 points]
Suddenly, a system notification rang in her head.
After that, the system spirit flew out and pointed over in the direction in front of her. “It’s that one, Beauty Lisa!”
Lisa’s gaze followed the system spirit’s finger all the way to a white car, and right at that moment a woman in a beige cardigan stepped out of it, looking at her car in distress.
It was hard to tell how old the woman was just from her appearance.
“Do you have any tools? I can help you.” Lisa said as she walked over.
The woman turned around, and her eyes met the ones of a young woman that seemed to have walked straight out of a painting. “Yes, but are you sure you can fix it?”
“Of course.” Lisa popped open the hood of the car familiarly.
Upon seeing that she seemed to know what she was doing, the woman took out a toolbox from the trunk of the car and handed to this unknown girl.
The girl bent down and started fixing it seriously, and motions that would seem crude when someone else did it looked particularly elegant when she did it, as if she weren’t fixing a machine but a piece of art.
The woman picked up the umbrella that was set on the side of the car and raised it above Lisa’s head.
“Thank you.” Lisa raised her head and smiled at her politely, and even though her fingers were practically coated with motor oil, she didn’t even furrow her brows as she resumed fixing it.
“I should be the one thanking you! Ah, my surname is Shu, so you can call me Auntie Shu, if you don’t mind?” The woman liked the girl quite a lot.
Lisa smiled, before closing the hood of the car. “Well, Auntie Shu, can you try and start up your car?”
[Ding! Mission accomplished! 20 points have been rewarded!]
The woman didn’t try and start up her car immediately, but instead took out a bottle of mineral water to let Lisa wash her hands, along with a clean handkerchief.
Lisa thanked her before accepting the handkerchief and cleaning her fingers one by one.
After being together with Jungkook for such a long time, one of the things she learned the most from him was his cleanliness.
There was only a single bottle of water, so Lisa couldn’t clean up her hands thoroughly and even the handkerchief was stained with motor oil.
Auntie Shu smiled and took back the handkerchief with a smile. “It’s alright, let me see if it worked.”
She gave Lisa her umbrella, before reaching into her car and turning the key experimentally. Even though the girl seemed to be quite sure of her results, she was still to young, so the woman didn’t have high hopes.
The next moment, the car whirred to life.
Auntie Shu blinked in surprised for a moment, before looking at Lisa with an elated surprise. “Good job, young lady!”
Upon being told by the girl that she was waiting for a taxi, the woman immediately volunteered to send her to her destination.
Lisa didn’t refuse and got onto the car, telling Auntie Shu the address of Nine Heavens.
The car drove into the city center and stopped.
“Thank you, Auntie Shu.” Lisa got off the car and thanked the woman again.
“It’s no problem, I wouldn’t know what I could have done if you weren’t there!” Auntie Shu waved it away, thinking that the girl was too humble.
It was only after the girl disappeared from her view that she belatedly realized that she didn’t even have her name, but after that, she realized that it was because the girl didn’t want to leave her name.
Auntie Shu shook her head and chuckled, because it sure was the first time in a long while she had met someone that wasn’t trying to butter her up for personal benefit.
Then, the white car disappeared in the traffic.
After scaling up on their operations, Nine Heavens Group bought an entire building, and Lisa stood at the entrance for a while, looking at the buildings around it and confirming to herself that it was a place with good fengshui for a business before walking in.
There were two receptionists in delicate makeup that were unfamiliar to her, probably newly hired, and they were helping a middle aged man. The man had a thick ethnic accent and looked quite humble, and after listening in on the conversation for a while, she realized that he was here to apply for the position of bodyguard.
The receptionists didn’t know Lisa, and one of them smiled at her politely and asked, “Hello, is there anything we can help you with?”
“Hi, I’m here to see Manager Luo Yoongi.” Lisa nodded back politely, before telling them her reason for coming here.
“Do you have an appointment?” The receptionist pulled out a notebook, flipping through it to see if there were any notes of such an appointment.
The answer to that was affirmative, but it wouldn’t have been noted down in that notebook.
Lisa was about to call Yoongi when someone spoke up form behind her, “God Lalisa, you’re here! I thought Yoongi tricked me!”
Namjoon walked over with a bright smile, starting to talk with her excitedly.
Three of the most important people in Nine Heavens was Mu Jinhee, Luo Yoongi and Yu Namjoon, and the most mysterious of the three was Namjoon who was in charge of the web development department.
As the receptionists, they had only seen Namjoon only once from far away, and this was the first time they saw the elusive man up close.
More surprising to them, was how Namjoon seemed like a respectful lackey in front of Lisa.
They looked at Lisa for a long while, not knowing who it was, but soon enough they came up to the answer to that question and were stunned.
“Director Cheng gave you those clips, right?” Lisa asked. “This is the first lead role that Ning Jieun acted as, so you have to put a hundred and twenty percent into it and make it as perfect as you can!”
It was the best if they could premier it before the international movie awards, so that Jieun might get considered as one of the nominees of the best lead actress prize.
“We’ve been very busy with the virtual world, lately…” Namjoon grumbled, before looking at Lisa with an expectant expression. “If you come and help us, we’ll definitely make this as quickly and as well as we can!”
Lisa only fixed him with a stare, before patting his shoulder. “You can even deconstruct the source code, I’m sure you can do it even if I wasn’t there.”
Namjoon: “…”
The two got to the web development room, and all of the employees there were busy with work, a couple of them discussing heatedly sometimes, and Lisa walked over to the host computer and looked at the threads of code that were being calculated on it. “Lil System, don’t you think something’s missing?”
“Yes, Beauty Lisa. It isn’t so simple to create and run a virtual world because it has to hold the consciousness of countless people, and there’s too much data involved.” The system spirit knew the problem with a single glance. “You should create an intelligent processing system that can keep the entire system stable and safe.”
“Are you an intelligent processing system?”
“I’m the highest grade artificial intelligence in the entire world, of course I am!” After it said so, it floated there dumbly in the air, realizing that it had basically sold itself off.
The young man sitting at the host computer was You Huan, one of the freshmen at A University that was scouted by Yoongi because of his talent, and when he knew that Yoongi belonged to Nine Heavens, he was greatly surprised and in disbelief.
He was brought to the company in a dazed state, and upon seeing all the renowned hackers and programmers working there, he felt as if he was dreaming.
On every computer in the department held countless softwares and codes that surpassed his recognition, and after only three days he felt as if he was in a completely new world, and it was no wonder why everyone was so focused and enthralled.
He was working on the virtual world just like everyone else, but they seemed to have run into a wall when the code couldn’t even run.
It had been three days since they were stuck like this, and even Namjoon couldn’t think of a way to resolve it.
As You Huan was scratching his head in frustration, a hand reached over and took the mouse over from him.
He raised his head and saw a familiar face, and for a moment he didn’t even know how to react. “Beauty Lisa?”
He knew who she was, because what student of A University would he be if he didn’t, but he never expected to see her in this place.
Lisa: “…Scoot over for a bit, will you?”
You Huan got up from his seat, still dazed as he looked at her, and Lisa sat down and started typing on the keyboard. “As my lil’ system, it is your duty to help me out! Let’s get started on that intelligent processing system.”
The lil’ system: “…Okay.”
A page of code appeared on the monitor, and then it started rolling down quickly with data and code while those lithe fingers typed so fast on the keyboard that it was hard to even track with the naked eye.
Everyone in the room had already surrounded her, and was watching her with awe.
You Huan was completely stunned. “D-Did she just-”
“Solve all our problems we had in the past three days? Yes, yes she did.” Namjoon replied, looking at Lisa work attentively.
After a final decisive tap on the keyboard, Lisa got up from the seat. “That should do it for the mainframe of an intelligent processing system.”
Namjoon: “…” Now he feels useless!
Everyone else: “…” They were used to it, but it was still too much of a shock!
Meanwhile, You Huan stood there as if he became a statue.
Lisa went to find Yoongi, but neither Jinhee nor Yoongi were at their offices, so she sat there at Yoongi’s office before a secretary came up to her with a pile of documents.
Lisa: “…”
The phone suddenly rang, and it was Jackson that called her.
Jackson’s tone was urgent as he spoke: “Beauty Lisa, my master and I have to go see someone important, can we meet tomorrow?”
“It’s alright.” Lisa replied. “Don’t forget to bring your silver needles.”
Jackson hummed affirmatively in reply before hanging up hastily.
Next chapter will be posted tomorrow❤