Cultivators on the Basketball Court

The sun blazed overhead.

Outside the Mountain Cave, feeling the warmth of the sunlight, Yi Chen could not help taking a deep breath.

The fresh air and warm breeze were far better than the damp, dark Mountain Cave, giving him the feeling of being reborn.

But although it was bright and sunny outside, danger lurked everywhere.

The best course was to gather enough Thorn Fruit as quickly as possible, then return to the Mountain Cave and honestly study the New Cultivation Method.

He carefully surveyed his surroundings. Once he was sure there was no danger, he headed toward the patch of thorn bushes according to the memories of the body's former owner.

"What's going on? He has only been out of the Mountain Cave for a month and a half, and he has already forgotten the way to the Small Woods?"

"We're done for. I just checked the map—there's a Roaring Tiger in that direction."

"There are thousands of roads, so why did he choose the one and only road to death?"

"Staff, hurry and contact the warship on Exile Planet. Have it use lasers to kill the Roaring Tiger."

"It's useless. The most important rule of Exile Planet is that those Serious Criminals must never be allowed to escape."

"The Federal Government chose A518 Planet as an Exile Planet because the entire region around it is filled with Cosmic Storms and Meteorite Swarms. Only Large Warships can withstand them."

"Other than that, there is only one Large Unmanned Warship in the outer space around Exile Planet. And it is a Large Unmanned Warship whose space-jump equipment, weapons system, and Mecha system have all been destroyed."

"That way, even if those Serious Criminals have not had their memories erased, they still cannot access the warship."

"Even if they got into the warship, they would have no way to escape Exile Planet."

"Conversely, people outside cannot invade the AI Brain of the Large Unmanned Warship and secretly help these Serious Criminals by controlling the weapons system or Mecha system aboard it."

"I was originally hoping that, as its creator, he could test what risks the Chaos Art might have. Now look at this—he is actively seeking death..."

The viewers in the Live Stream Room all sighed and lamented.

Roar!

The situation seemed to unfold exactly as the viewers in the Live Stream Room had expected.

The Roaring Tiger had an acute sense of smell. Even from more than a hundred meters away, it caught Yi Chen's scent.

After an earth-shaking roar, it violently kicked off with its hind legs.

Dust flew into the air.

Its body, two meters tall and three to four meters long, leaped four or five meters through the air as it pounced toward Yi Chen.

In the distance, Yi Chen's heart jolted.

Yet, unlike what the Roaring Tiger had expected, he was not frightened stiff by its roar, trembling all over and unable to move.

On the contrary.

After that brief shock, Yi Chen immediately flooded his legs with Spiritual Power.

He turned and sprinted!

It happened in one fluid motion.

He was twice as fast as the Roaring Tiger.

In the blink of an eye, he vanished from sight.

The Roaring Tiger stopped, staring in the direction Yi Chen had fled, utterly disheveled in the wind.

Its bright, glittering eyes were filled with bewilderment.

It had seen fast runners before, but they generally had long legs.

This was the first time it had ever encountered prey with only two short little legs that could run so fast.

Meanwhile, Yi Chen sprinted five or six hundred meters. Only after confirming that he had shaken off the Roaring Tiger did he stop.

Then he began trying to circle around it and make his way to the thorn bushes.

Inside No. 10 Live Stream Room.

More than twenty million viewers were dumbfounded.

Every one of them was even more bewildered than the Roaring Tiger.

They all suspected that something was wrong with their eyes.

"What did I just see?"

"How was he faster than the Roaring Tiger?"

"The scan data shows that his speed just now reached thirty meters per second?"

"How is that possible? With his current physical condition, even ten meters per second should be nearly impossible. How could he reach thirty meters per second?"

"You have to know that without taking Genetic Serum, the world record is only twenty meters per second."

"It's Spiritual Power—the Spiritual Power stored in his Qi Sea. My God, Spiritual Power can be used like that?"

Someone checked the earlier scan data and finally discovered the real reason.

When Yi Chen accelerated to flee, Spiritual Power surged out of his Qi Sea and flooded into his legs, causing his speed to skyrocket severalfold.

Once this discovery was confirmed, the entire Live Stream Room exploded like a pot boiling over.

Spending half a month to improve one's physical condition by thirty percent was already shocking enough, leaving people unable to understand why the Chaos Art was so astonishingly effective.

No one had expected Spiritual Power to be even more valuable.

By consuming only a small amount of Spiritual Power, someone who could not originally even reach ten meters per second could suddenly surge to thirty meters per second.

"By that logic, if Spiritual Power were infused into someone's arms, wouldn't their strength increase severalfold?"

"Infusing Spiritual Power into vital points—my God..."

"The Chaos Art is simply miraculous. The only question is, what exactly are its side effects? Normally, the more obvious the benefits, the greater the side effects."

"If the side effects are within an acceptable range, then even if it has already reached its limit, the Chaos Art is still absolutely worth learning."

The viewers in the Live Stream Room were both excited and worried.

A1637 Planet.

"Spiritual Power can be used like this too?"

In the locker room, Jiang He took a moment to enter No. 10 Live Stream Room and take a look. He was instantly dumbfounded.

Then he fell into wild ecstasy.

So much so that, when he finally came back to his senses, he discovered that he had absentmindedly followed his teammates back onto the court.

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Only a few minutes into the second half, the Mad Bull Team had widened its lead again and was already more than thirty points ahead of the Glory Team.

Inside the arena, more than half of the Glory Team's home fans had already left.

Those who remained were drowsy and listless.

"Jiang He, get on the court!"

Seeing that the overall situation was beyond saving, the head coach could only give up on the game and substitute out the equally dispirited starters.

Jiang He sprang to his feet.

Together with several other substitute players, he stepped onto the court.

Three possessions later, Jiang He finally received a pass from a teammate.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately flooded his legs with a small amount of Spiritual Power.

As a shooting guard, he already had decent ball-handling skills. The reason he was still a fringe player even on a weak Class C Basketball League team was entirely because his shooting percentage was too low and his explosive physical ability too poor.

His shooting percentage could not be changed in the short term.

Then he would drive in for a layup.

Jiang He suddenly accelerated.

The player guarding him only saw a blur before losing sight of his target.

When he turned his head again—

Jiang He had already charged beneath the basket and easily laid the ball in for two points.

What was going on?

Whether the players on the court or the few remaining spectators, all thought their eyes were playing tricks on them.

At the sideline, the Glory Team's head coach's eyes lit up.

Over the past few days, he had felt that Jiang He seemed to be in pretty good form during team practice.

He had not expected him to be this good.

The game resumed.

Swish...

The Mad Bull Team's substitute point guard had just dribbled the ball into the frontcourt. As he studied the situation on the court and considered which teammate to pass to—

A black shadow flashed before his eyes.

The next second, the basketball was gone.

He had been stripped?

The Mad Bull Team's substitute point guard turned his head in annoyance.

In an instant, his mouth fell open, and he stood frozen in shock.

He saw Jiang He soaring high into the air and smashing the basketball into the hoop.

Four straight points, plus a steal.

The spectators in the arena finally came alive.

And this was only the beginning.

Over the past four or five days, Jiang He had already broken through to the Qi Condensation Realm Second Stage.

The Spiritual Power in his Qi Sea was not much.

But it was more than enough to support a game and a half.

Dunks, layups, steals...

Jiang He transformed into a god of war on the court, unstoppable wherever he went.

Even in the fourth quarter, when the Mad Bull Team saw their advantage shrink drastically and began sending in starters whose overall strength far exceeded that of the substitutes—

Jiang He remained the brightest star on the court.

Although the game was still lost, he had not lost.

In sixteen and a half minutes of play, he posted an astonishing stat line of twenty-five points, six rebounds, four steals, and two assists.

After the game, the media reporters should ordinarily have interviewed the best player from the winning side.

But this time, they stopped Jiang He instead.

It was Jiang He's first time being interviewed. When asked why he had performed so outstandingly today, he was so excited that he answered the wrong question and spoke incoherently.

"Thank Yi Chen. Thank him for creating the Chaos Art. Even if the Chaos Art has terrifying side effects, he is still the god in my heart!"

"If he stood before me, I would be willing to worship and kiss his toes in the most devout manner!"

Thanks to that interview, on that day, not only did he take part in a post-game interview for the first time.

As a substitute player in the Class C Basketball League, he also overshadowed every sports star on A1637 Planet and made the front pages of major sports media outlets around the globe.