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Chapter 239 Welcoming Ceremony
Chapter 239 Welcoming Ceremony
Upon seeing Chen Lie, Ji Lingxuan nodded politely: "Classmate Chen Lie."
Chen Lie hummed in agreement, then looked up at Ji Lingxuan, whose face seemed somewhat disappointed. He casually remarked, "You look quite down. Is it because you're still upset about losing to me on the dueling stage?"
Ji Lingxuan simply shook her head slightly and said, "Chen Lie's mental attack is incredibly powerful. Even if it happened again, I would probably still lose."
I've never heard of any Divine Sense Master who can create illusions to confuse their opponent. Even if I were to reach the Blood Refinement stage, I'd still likely lose using such a method.
In a life-or-death battle, unless one's qi and blood are already so powerful that they can directly dispel the illusion created by spiritual power, or one is a martial artist who has broken through to the fifth level and can control qi externally, they will definitely be defeated in an instant.
"Your martial arts talent is actually quite good; otherwise, you would never have been able to get this far across the three provinces of Sichuan. Losing a martial arts competition is nothing to doubt yourself, is it?"
"Of course not, I just feel a little sorry for those who have high expectations of me." Ji Lingxuan shook her head.
"Just do your best in the martial arts competition. If you frequently suffer mental exhaustion because of these trivial matters, the path of martial arts will inevitably become extremely difficult."
Ji Lingxuan nodded: "That makes sense."
Chen Lie, do you still remember our martial arts exchange we agreed on last time?
"I remember, let's wait a couple of days."
"Alright."
After answering, Ji Lingxuan suddenly asked, "Why did Chen Lie know what I was thinking and create that illusion specifically for me?"
"Of course I don't know what you're thinking. Everything in the illusion varies from person to person."
"I see."
Ji Lingxuan nodded slightly. Her father had disappeared without a trace when she was ten years old, having joined an extraterrestrial exploration team.
At first, she wondered how Chen Lie knew about her family background.
As Chen Lie walked out of the Martial Arts Association hall, Jiang Xiaodong, the deacon of Dongchuan Province, saw him and immediately went to greet him.
"Congratulations, Chen Lie, on winning first place in the Three Provinces Martial Arts Tournament."
"I never imagined your martial arts skills had reached such a level. I've already informed Dongchuan Province; when we return, we will hold a grand welcoming ceremony for you."
"There's no need for that," Chen Lie said, shaking his head.
"How can you say it's troublesome? This is the first time in Dongchuan Province's history that a martial arts champion has emerged from three provinces. Even if it's just to boost morale and inspire the martial spirit of millions of young men and women in Dongchuan, the welcoming ceremony shouldn't be ambiguous, should it?" Jiang Xiaodong quickly said.
Chen Lie said "Oh," and nodded, "Alright then."
"By the way, Chen Lie, there were two people outside who claimed to be your friends looking for you."
"Because you just went with Inspector Bao, I asked them to wait for you outside," Jiang Xiaodong said.
"A friend?" Chen Lie was taken aback, finding it strange, so he said, "I'll go take a look!"
"No need, there are too many people outside right now. I'll go and call them in."
As Jiang Xiaodong spoke, he immediately walked out of the Yunnan Provincial Martial Arts Association.
A short while later, he brought two girls, one older and one younger.
Wei Ranran leaned closer and asked, "Brother Chen Lie, you have friends in Yunchuan too?"
"I don't know, I don't recognize him."
Chen Lie shook his head.
Ruan Liusu, who was walking ahead, saw the red unicorn robe worn by the martial arts champion from afar, and a hint of admiration flashed in her eyes.
However, when she saw Chen Lie getting so close to a girl, she couldn't help but frown slightly.
He's about to get engaged, and he's still getting so close to other girls. He has no sense of propriety at all.
Ruan Liuyun walked ahead and said, "Chen Ye? Hello."
"What did you call me, Chen?" Chen Lie looked up at Ruan Liuyun.
Ruan Liusu whispered to Ruan Liuyun, "He told me that outside, people call him by his full name."
Ruan Liuyun said "Oh," before continuing, "Sorry, it was a slip of the tongue. Hello, Chen Lie!"
"You said you're my friend, have we met before?" Chen Lie asked.
Ruan Liuyun smiled slightly and said, "My name is Ruan Liuyun. I am a first-year student at Blue Star University and Su Su's cousin. We came all the way from Sunan Province to see you today."
"Oh? Why did the entire Jiangsu province come specifically to see me?" Chen Lie asked casually.
Seeing Chen Lie's indifferent attitude, Ruan Liusu was furious.
Despite being so attentive on the surface, Green Bubble put on airs when they met the real person.
"We just happened to be in Yunchuan to watch the Three Provinces Martial Arts Tournament. Did we come specifically to see you? That's just polite talk. Some people shouldn't take it too seriously!"
Ruan Liusu said coldly.
"Su Su!"
In this situation, Chen Lie, who had just won the martial arts championship in the three provinces of Sichuan, must have his own concerns. So she glared at Ruan Liusu and then smiled and explained to Chen Lie, "Chen Lie, your grandfather works in the southern Jiangsu province, right?"
His name is Chen Shijian, right?
"Oh? You know my grandfather?"
Chen Lie asked curiously.
In his memory, his impression of his grandfather was very thin; he only knew that his grandfather was very biased towards his second uncle's family.
People say that the eldest grandson and the youngest son are the old man's most precious treasures.
However, his father Chen Gequn, the youngest son and his eldest grandson, was quite the opposite in front of his grandfather Chen Shijian.
Chen Lie had only a vague idea of what Chen Shijian did in his previous life, but he knew it was a good job.
Chen Ye, from my second uncle's family, had just applied for the martial arts exam. Chen Shijian sent him sets of rare martial arts crystal cards from Sichuan and many rare tonics and medicines from southern Jiangsu Province. This allowed Chen Ye's blood and qi value to quickly break through 1. However, neither he nor his sister, nor even his eldest uncle's daughter Chen Ying, had received much benefit from their grandfather Chen Shijian.
"That's right, Chen Lie. We've come here to ask you to help us negotiate the release of Xie Dongfeng, who is being held in Yunnan Province."
"Is that the one who caused trouble at the venue just now?" Chen Lie asked.
"Yes, it's him. Because his father and Su Su's father are friends, so—"
Before Ruan Liuyun could finish speaking, Jiang Xiaodong said, "Chen Lie, since this is your friend, I'll handle this."
I'll go talk to Zhang Weifeng in Yunchuan, and he'll definitely release the man!
Ruan Liuyun smiled and said, "Thank you!"
"You're welcome! You're welcome!"
After Jiang Xiaodong finished speaking, he quickly turned and left.
Chen Lie glanced at Ruan Liuyun and Ruan Liusu and asked, "Is there anything else?"
"That's all, goodbye!"
After Ruan Liuyun finished speaking, he immediately pulled Ruan Liusu away from the Martial Arts Association hall.
Once they were away from the crowd, Ruan Liusu shook off Ruan Liuyun's hand that was holding her.
"This is outrageous! It makes it seem like I'm the one who's throwing myself at him!"
Seeing Ruan Liusu's angry expression, Ruan Liuyun couldn't help but say, "Susu, after all, she just won the title of Martial Arts Champion of the Three Provinces, which is the highest honor in the three provinces of Sichuan."
"With so many people—members of the genius team from the three provinces of Sichuan—we definitely have to be careful with our every move."
"Is that restraint? That's just putting on airs!"
"That's not quite right. Isn't it normal for the strongest martial arts genius in Sichuan to be a little arrogant?"
However, he has indeed been neglecting you, his fiancé.
It feels like the neglect is deliberate. No matter what, shouldn't they at least say hello properly?
Could this be a tactic of feigning indifference to lure the prey into a trap?
"What do you mean by playing hard to get? He wasn't like that with Green Bubble!"
"What is it like?" Ruan Liuyun asked.
"Look at him, on Green Bubble, he'd say ten things and I might not even reply once. But now, just because I took the initiative to reach out to him, he's starting to get all arrogant!"
Ruan Liusu directly displayed the Green Bubble chat page on her communicator.
When Ruan Liuyun arrived, he saw that it was indeed her. The other party asked her more than a dozen questions about her well-being, and Ruan Liusu only replied with "hmm", "I know", and "it seems so".
Most of the time, the other party would send dozens or even hundreds of messages all day long, while Ruan Liusu would reply with a single message around 9 p.m.
Recalling the extraordinary young man in the unicorn-patterned scholar's robe in the hall just now, she couldn't help but say, "It's quite a contrast indeed."
However, Liusu, after all, is the top martial arts champion in Sichuan. Even if she doesn't consider her own interests, she still has to uphold the image of Dongchuan, and even the three provinces of Sichuan. Of course, she can't be as caring and attentive to you as she was in Green Bubble.
"What do you mean? He's not deliberately putting on airs?"
"What airs are there to put on? The martial arts champion represents the face of a province, and the martial arts champion of Sichuan Province, to a certain extent, represents the face of the three provinces of Sichuan."
Of course, I can't be as subservient to you as I am in Green Bubble.
"You mean he had no choice?"
"That's possible!" Ruan Liuyun nodded.
"If that's the case, then I won't bother with him!" Ruan Liusu hummed in agreement.
Upon arriving outside the venue, Ruan Liuyun saw Xie Dongfeng being escorted out by two members of the Yunchuan Provincial Martial Arts Association.
Xie Dongfeng saw Ruan Liusu and immediately went up to her: "Liusu, did you rescue me?"
Ruan Liusu glanced coldly at Xie Dongfeng and said, "Xie Dongfeng, are you sick in the head?"
Why are you causing trouble at their annual tri-province martial arts gathering?
"Tassel, I'm doing this for your own good!"
That kid named Chen Lie is no good person at all. Even after I questioned him repeatedly, he didn't dare to step forward!
He didn't even dare to accept my challenge!
How can someone who has absolutely no sense of responsibility be worthy of you?
"You just need to mind your own business; you don't need to worry about me."
"I----"
"Sister Yun, let's go, let's ignore him."
Ruan Liuyun nodded and boarded an airship in the square outside the venue with Ruan Liusu.
On the other side, Chen Ye measured his Qi and blood in his home practice room and then walked out with a sigh.
"My Qi and Blood levels have dropped another calorie. What should I do if this keeps going?"
With martial arts skills in such a sorry state, how could the proud daughter of the Southern Jiangsu Province possibly be interested in his disgraceful ways?
Now he only hopes that his grandfather can get his third uncle and the others to reveal the master, so that he can definitely surpass Chen Lie in martial arts.
Chen Ye sat on the sofa in his living room, immediately put on his communicator, and looked at the poster of his fiancée, Ruan Liusu, on the TV station.
Seeing the smiling girl with a high ponytail and fish-whisker-like hair in the poster, he couldn't help but exclaim, "She's so beautiful! So beautiful, and with such great martial arts talent, she truly deserves to be my future wife!"
Unfortunately, she was too aloof. Over the course of several days, he sent her hundreds of messages on Green Bubble, but she only replied to no more than twenty of them.
"However, aren't aloofness and arrogance standard traits for the top twenty provinces of Earth's elite women?"
Chen Ye sighed. He opened the green bubble on his communicator, wanting to chat with the goddess and cultivate their relationship. Suddenly, a message notification popped up on the green bubble.
"Did the goddess message you first?"
Chen Ye exclaimed in surprise, immediately sat up straight, and opened the message to check.
Liusu: Congratulations, you've become the top martial arts champion in three provinces!
"The top martial arts champion of three provinces? What does that mean?"
Chen Ye was puzzled when he saw the message, but since it was the first time his goddess had taken the initiative to message him, he decided to continue the conversation regardless.
"Haha, our three-province martial arts competition in Sichuan will determine the champion of martial arts in the three provinces."
I saw in the news about Southern Jiangsu Province that they will also be competing against two other provinces that are among the top 20 on Earth to determine a champion from the three provinces.
"By the way, Liusu, have you eaten? Martial arts training is tough, but remember to eat!"
"Our Dongchuan Provincial Dining Hall offers many unique dishes that are beneficial for martial arts training. If you have time to visit Dongchuan Province, I'll definitely arrange for you to try them all!"
In just two minutes, Chen Ye sent out more than a dozen messages of concern and care.
Ruan Liusu, who had just boarded the airship, heard her communicator ringing incessantly, so she took it out and glanced at it.
Green Bubble discovered that it had received more than a dozen messages from "Chasing the Wind Boy".
Seeing these dozen or so messages of concern and care, and recalling the somewhat indifferent attitude of the three-province martial arts champion in the big red floral unicorn robe towards her, Ruan Liusu couldn't help but raise a charming smile on her small face.
She immediately logged out of Green Bubble, put away the communicator, and thought to herself: Serves you right for being arrogant and rude! Serves you right for putting on airs! I'm ignoring you and not replying to you!
After the successful conclusion of the Three Provinces Martial Arts Tournament, Chen Lie boarded the airship returning to Dongchuan Province.
The airship took off like a dragon and sped towards Dongchuan Province.
On the airship, Chen Lie was still wearing a Qilin robe with a big red flower hanging on his chest.
He felt that the two accessories were somewhat inconvenient to wear, so he thought about taking them off.
Seeing Chen Lie's actions, Jiang Xiaodong rushed over instantly.
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"Hey, Chen Lie, what are you doing?"
"I think these two decorations are a bit redundant and I'd like to remove them."
"This is not allowed. This is the annual uniform decoration issued by the Blue Star Martial Arts Association headquarters to the champion of martial arts."
You must wear this outfit to the welcoming ceremony.
"You can take it off anytime after the welcoming ceremony," Jiang Xiaodong said.
Chen Lie nodded and said, "Okay."
The airship flew for more than an hour before stopping outside the Dongchuan Provincial Government Square.
The moment the hatch opened, a deafening sound of gongs and drums filled the air, accompanied by the continuous roar of fireworks.
"The Provincial Government of Dongchuan Province, on behalf of the more than 70 million people of Dongchuan Province, welcomes the triumphant return of the three provincial martial arts champions, bringing glory to Dongchuan Province!"