“The ‘Glaze Bulwark’ has seven layers. When you reach the seventh layer, you can withstand the strike from a rocket shell or a ninth-rank beast with your body alone!” Tang Ruyan was serious when she gave the lessons.
She was even considering teaching Su Lingyue another combat skill other than the “Glaze Bulwark”.
After all, the “Glaze Bulwark” would only be useful when Su Lingyue was under attack, especially if she only learned the first few layers of the skill. It would be hard for people to tell what skill it was. But the same could not be said for a combat skill. One release and people would know the origin.
Tang Ruyan made up her mind.
But, she didn’t put that into action just yet. She planned on secretly teaching Su Lingyue after Su Ping was away in case he would stop her. There wouldn’t be much he could do once his sister used it in a match. Besides, she could claim she was merely doing his sister a favor.
Since you asked me to teach your sister, what was wrong with letting her know a bit more?
I was showing care to your sister!
“Ninth-rank beasts?”
Su Lingyue could not believe the view that Tang Ruyan was describing. A human’s skill would enable her to stand up against a ninth-rank beast? In Su Lingyue’s mind, humans were born to be weak and had to rely on their pets. Pets were once wild beasts and then were tamed by humans.
Now, Tang Ruyan was telling her that with this skill, she could fight a beast by herself?
Tang Ruyan inwardly sneered at Su Lingyue’s reaction of surprise. She knew that she had stunned the girl. Immediately, Tang Ruyan began to explain the working mechanism and teach Su Lingyue the basics.
The lesson went on for half an hour but Tang Ruyan could still see Su Ping within her sight. She turned to him and said, “Listen, the Tang Family’s secret skill is not a verbal skill, especially the ‘Glaze Bulwark’. Not only does she have to practice it, but she also has to take some herb baths to refine her body. If you have no such herbs, all my lessons will be a waste.”
Su Ping smiled, “What do you need? I’ll go and find them.”
Su Lingyue didn’t know that learning a skill would mean people had to make such a big fuss about it. She felt sorry that Su Ping had to take care of those trivial matters. She told herself that no matter how this waitress would taunt her, she would remain humble and learn the skills!
Tang Ruyan was glad that she could get rid of Su Ping so easily. On the outside, she kept a straight face. “Then, write the names down. I will tell you the herbs needed for learning the first two layers.”
“Sure.”
Su Ping nodded.
Tang Ruyan finished telling him the list of herbs. Su Ping did not waste another second there. He went back to his counter and logged onto the explorers’ website to search for those herbs.
Luckily, those herbs were not rare and he found them in a second-level warehouse except for one that was sold out.
Su Ping checked other higher-level warehouses but found nothing. He frowned. All of a sudden, he thought of someone, the one who was helping him find materials for him to cultivate the Solar Bulwark that came with the legendary battle pet warrior.
He went through his contact list and found the number. The name he came up with for this person was: Supplier of herbs.
“Hey, it’s me.”
He could not remember that guy’s name so he had to rely on that guy recognizing his voice. On the other end of the call, Lin Ziqing was scared to hear the voice. He knew who was calling so he had picked it up at once. He treated Su Ping as he treated Yuan Tianchen. After all, someone that was equal to a legendary battle pet warrior was with this young man and that person seemed to be stronger than Yuan Tianchen.
“Mr. Su, hi, how can I help you?” Lin Ziqing said politely.
If his friends would have seen this, they would think they were hallucinating. This mister had influences in both the legal businesses and underworld businesses. Usually, people would shiver in fear upon hearing the name “Lin Ziqing.” It was unbelievable that he would talk to someone with such respect and politeness.
“Have you found the materials I asked for?” Su Ping asked.
Lin Ziqing had expected what this call was about. He answered at once. “Sir, I’m working on it. We have learned about a location where we can find the herb. We’re trying our best to get it for you.”
“Oh?” Su Ping raised his eyebrows. This came faster than he had thought. Once he got all the materials, he could officially start working on the Solar Bulwark’s next level.
“Hurry!” Su Ping kept pressuring Lin Ziqing because he wasn’t sure whether that person was actually trying his best as he claimed.
“Don’t worry. Consider it done,” Lin Ziqing promised at once.
Su Ping moved away from this topic and switched to the herb that he was looking for. He told Lin Ziqing the name. “Find this one as well and send it to my store as soon as possible.”
“Sure, of course,” Lin Ziqing answered readily.
Lin Ziqing stopped smiling as soon as he hung up. A cloud came over his face. He almost crushed the phone with his hand.
“You’re using me as an ATM, you punk!”
He was a man with pride, being a person who could command the wind and the clouds. However, he had been forced to listen to this young man. He thought of the golden-hair girl from Su Ping’s store, which filled him with both anger and shame. He bit his teeth in frustration.
Su Ping didn’t go back to the test room after he figured out how to procure the herbs.
He went to the pet room, closed the door, and began his own training.
Su Lingyue and Tang Ruyan were still in the test room when Su Ping came out from the pet room at night; he decided not to go and disturb them. Su Lingyue had no matches the next day. The first round of challenges was used to weed out a large number of participants and would last for at least three days, which could give Su Lingyue time to recharge.
During his free time, Su Ping went online to search for information about the other participants who had made it to the second round of challenges in the Crescent Zone. He pulled up the videos of the more outstanding ones.
Su Ping had no more worries after having learned about those participants. Thus, he went back to the nursing pen to cultivate.
Soon, three days passed.
The first round of challenges had ended. Some who had lost during their first turn managed to get to the second round after winning five times in a row in the one-on-one matches. The second round had officially kicked off that day. On this occasion, one hundred would be selected.
In total, there were three thousand who had made it to the second round of challenges!
The passing rate would be one in thirty!
After the second round, all the contests at the branch venues would be completed. Afterward, all the participants would go to the main venue in the uptown area and fight for the Top 1000 places.
After that, the Top 100 would be selected and then the qualifying tournament for the Top 10 places and more!
Each base city would come up with five representatives.
The Top 5!
The entire competition would last for over half a month.
Everything was just beginning at the moment.
On the fourth day.
Same as before, Su Ping drove Su Lingyue to the venue.
“Su Ping, your sole attention is on me these days. I remember you have other customers that bought the Top 100 or the Top 10 packages. Don’t you have to visit them? If they lost…” On their way, Su Lingyue shared her concern with him.
It came as a surprise to Su Ping that his sister still remembered this. “You are the key. As long as you can reach the championship, it won’t affect us much even if the others accidentally lose. It will only have some personal influence. Don’t worry. I did pay attention to their matches. All of them did well.”
With the pets he trained for Su Lingyue and Ye Hao, reaching the Top 100 was not a problem for them. The Liu family might want to stop them but given the random nature of the name drawing, it would be hard for the Liu family to target them one by one. The Liu family had great powers. Still, this was an Elite League that every major family had its eyes on. To secretly switch out opponents would be difficult.
Besides, stopping participants other than Su Lingyue would do them little good. If Su Lingyue won first place, her glory would definitely wash off any other disgrace that other losing customers could bring to Su Ping’s store. The Liu family was aiming to crush Su Ping’s store. They had no personal vendetta against Su Ping’s customers.