Army-Breaking Fist Crystal Card

"What? Chen Lie passed the Elite Student assessment? When did this happen?"

Aunt Gao was shocked upon hearing this.

Feng Yuelan said, "It was just a few days ago. He didn't tell me or his father. While other students have their parents accompany them to the Elite Student assessment, he went alone without saying a word, and somehow, he actually passed."

He Zhenming stared deeply at Chen Lie and couldn't help but say, "That's impossible. Did the school lower the standards for the Elite Student assessment? Logically, the difficulty of the Elite Student assessment should only be getting higher."

"Chen Lie, which sections did you take for your Elite Student assessment? Surely it wasn't just the Vitality value, right?"

He Zhenming quickly asked again.

Chen Lie replied, "Vitality, Strength, and Comprehension—those three sections."

"You passed all three sections?"

"Of course."

He Zhenming didn't know what to say. He was certain that the difficulty of the Elite Student assessment was higher now than when he had taken it, which meant that Chen Lie at the same stage was stronger than him.

At this moment, the dishes began to arrive in the private room. Chen Lie didn't stand on ceremony; as soon as the food hit the table, he picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

Before long, the table was filled with a variety of dishes.

After Liu Lianqing returned to her seat, she noticed the silence in the room and couldn't help but say, "Why is everyone so quiet? Just eating?"

"Oh, right, Chen Lie, I forgot to ask last time we met: what is your Vitality value? How far are you from breaking through to 3 Cal?"

Chen Lie held up two fingers to Liu Lianqing without saying a word, continuing to pile food onto his plate.

"2? You're already in your third year of high school; that Vitality value isn't exactly high."

Liu Lianqing couldn't help but click her tongue.

"Mom, stop it!" He Zhenming, sitting next to Liu Lianqing, interjected, "Chen Lie has already entered the Elite Class?"

"Elite Class?" Liu Lianqing paused, then said, "Isn't Chen Lie in his third year? How could he get into the Elite Class?"

"Aunt Liu, that's not quite right. No one ever stipulated that you can't enter the Elite Class once you're in your third year," Chen Lie said.

"But didn't Zhenming fail to get promoted to the Elite Class back then?"

"That's because he didn't meet the Elite Student assessment standards in the first semester of his third year, and by the second semester, the school closed the promotion channel for third-year students."

"Then how did you get into the Elite Class?" Liu Lianqing asked.

"I am in the first semester of my third year, so naturally, I met the assessment standards for promotion and entered the Elite Class."

"But I heard that your Vitality value couldn't even break 1 just a month ago. A month passes, and you're an Elite Student?

Are you lying to your parents? No wonder I thought you looked like such a dishonest kid!"

Chen Lie stopped speaking and handed over his Elite Student ID.

"What is this?"

"Why don't you take a look, Aunt Liu?"

Liu Lianqing took the item Chen Lie handed her and realized it was indeed an Elite Student ID.

"You... you really are an Elite Student. Not bad!"

Liu Lianqing returned the Elite Student ID to Chen Lie, suddenly at a loss for words, and the room grew quiet.

She had arranged for so many neighbors to be in the same room, naturally wanting to use the banquet to show off her son's achievements, with Chen Lie intended to serve as a foil.

But now, far from Chen Lie serving as a foil for her son, her son had become the foil for Chen Lie.

After all, her son hadn't managed to get promoted to the Elite Class back then.

After eating in the room for a while, Chen Lie felt it was enough, so he said to Feng Yuelan, "Mom, I'm done eating. I have things to do later, so I'll be heading off."

"Alright, go ahead then."

Feng Yuelan nodded in agreement.

Chen Lie stood up and said to Liu Lianqing, "Aunt Liu, I'm leaving now."

With that, he didn't wait for Liu Lianqing's response and left the private room.

Chen Lie understood perfectly well why his mother, Feng Yuelan, had asked him to come to the banquet.

Because his grades were so poor, his mother had always been unable to hold her head up in front of the neighbors, and she hoped this banquet would allow her to finally feel proud.

However, his mother wasn't the type to show off by nature, so Chen Lie had only needed to make a brief appearance. Now that the goal was achieved, whether he stayed or not didn't matter.

After exiting the Martial Student Hotel, Chen Lie immediately found a nearby bus stop and boarded a flying bus heading toward the Martial Artist Market.

About an hour later, the flying bus arrived at the station. Chen Lie got off and walked straight into the Martial Artist Market.

Upon reaching the crystal card shop, Chen Lie walked right in.

"Young Brother Chen, you're finally here."

Seeing Chen Lie, Yang Shen immediately rose from his chair to greet him.

"Come, Young Brother Chen, have a seat. I'll go pour you some water."

"No need. Just bring out the blank crystal cards first."

Chen Lie waved his hand, declining Yang Shen.

"I had everything prepared long ago."

As he spoke, Yang Shen placed a small box onto the counter and began to introduce its contents to Chen Lie.

"I contacted quite a few peers to get my hands on these blank crystal cards.

There are fifteen sets in total: five sets of D-rank martial arts crystal cards and ten sets of combat technique crystal cards. Take a look—what martial arts would be suitable to engrave?"

Chen Lie walked over to the counter, glanced at the blank crystal cards, and said, "Have you heard of the martial art called Army-Breaking Fist?"

"Of course! It's a C-rank martial art popular in Dongchuan Province. Its target audience is primarily elite students, and elite students are generally more willing to spend money on their martial path than ordinary martial arts students. Therefore, Army-Breaking Fist crystal cards are sure to be a bestseller on the market," Yang Shen said.

"Then let's do that. For the five sets of D-rank martial arts crystal cards, engrave Army-Breaking Fist. For the ten sets of combat technique crystal cards, engrave Void-Breaking Fist as before."

"Of course, no problem!" Yang Shen nodded repeatedly.

"Then I shall begin."

With that, Chen Lie picked up two D-rank martial arts crystal cards and began the engraving process.

He channeled his divine sense into the cards simultaneously, and in just half a minute, the transparent crystal cards turned a bright yellow.

Once the divine sense engraving was complete, Chen Lie placed the two cards on the counter.

"That... that's it?"

Chen Lie glanced at Yang Shen and nodded slightly.

Yang Shen was utterly shocked. In just half a minute, a C-rank martial arts crystal card, which could sell for over a hundred thousand Star Dollars, had been manufactured?

Divine Sense Masters were truly capable of making money!

Immediately afterward, Chen Lie began engraving the next set of martial arts crystal cards.

Although he hadn't encountered many Divine Sense Masters on Blue Star, he could be certain that his divine sense was thousands of times more refined than that of the local practitioners, and his techniques for controlling mental energy were far beyond anything they could compare to.

If a local Divine Sense Master needed to expend 100 points of mental energy to engrave a single set of C-rank martial arts crystal cards, he likely wouldn't even need to use 1 point.

Half an hour passed, and Chen Lie had successfully infused all fifteen sets of crystal cards with his divine sense.

Among them, he had engraved the D-rank Void-Breaking Fist onto the ten combat technique crystal cards, and the C-rank Army-Breaking Fist onto the five D-rank martial arts crystal cards.

"It is done. All fifteen sets of crystal cards have been fully engraved."

Chen Lie laid the thirty crystal cards out on the counter one by one.

Yang Shen quickly said, "Army-Breaking Fist is a best-selling C-rank martial art in Dongchuan Province; selling them for 120,000 Star Dollars a set will definitely result in demand exceeding supply.

As for Void-Breaking Fist, I sold the last ten sets for 60,000 Star Dollars each.

How about this: we price the Army-Breaking Fist at 120,000 Star Dollars per set, with you taking 80,000, and the Void-Breaking Fist at 60,000 per set, with you taking 40,000.

For these fifteen sets of psionic crystal cards, I will give you 800,000 Star Dollars. How does that sound?"

Chen Lie thought for a moment and said, "Wouldn't that be giving me too large a share?"

"Absolutely not!"

Yang Shen immediately replied, "Young Master Chen is a Divine Sense Master; how could you belittle yourself so?

Even if a Divine Sense Master were to cooperate with a behemoth like the Lingfeng Group in Yunchuan Province, they would still command the lion's share of the profits, let alone with a small merchant like me.

The fact that Young Master Chen thinks highly enough of me to choose to cooperate is my honor.

Besides, if I were to flip these psionic crystals, my profit would be at least 300,000 Star Dollars—money I might not even make after minding this shop for two or three months.

Furthermore, having martial arts crystal cards that other vendors don't have will be a tremendous benefit to my shop.

I am already satisfied with gaining so much; please, Young Master Chen, say no more."

"Very well!"

Hearing this, Chen Lie nodded.

"This is a Free Star Dollar Card. I have just transferred 800,000 Star Dollars into it. Young Master Chen, if you need anything, just use it; no password is required."

As he spoke, Yang Shen handed a black Star Dollar card to Chen Lie.

Chen Lie took the card directly and tucked it into his pocket.

After handing over the money, Yang Shen collected the fifteen sets of crystal cards one by one.

"Young Master Chen, if you aren't busy for a moment, there is a Martial Dao Restaurant behind the Martial Artist Market. Let me arrange a meal there; how about it?" Yang Shen proposed.

"That works!"

Chen Lie agreed to Yang Shen's suggestion. Although he had eaten a little at the He family banquet before coming, he had been quite restrained. That banquet cost at most a few thousand Star Dollars per table, and with so many people sharing it, it was hardly filling, so another meal was certainly welcome.

"Great. Please wait for me a moment. I ordered some custom packaging boxes for the crystal cards from a shop outside the market. Once I finish packaging these, we shall go."

"Proceed!"

Seeing Chen Lie agree, Yang Shen immediately left the shop and headed toward the outside of the market.

Chen Lie sat on the chair behind the counter, turning his head to glance casually at the martial arts crystal cards currently in stock.

He discovered that for a shop, there were only two or three hundred sets of martial arts crystal cards on display, many of which were just combat technique cards.

"It seems the cost of a set of martial arts crystal cards is indeed extremely high."

Even the crystal card vendors didn't dare to stock too much inventory, or perhaps their capital was so limited that they could only afford to bring in so many.

"It looks like I won't have to worry about martial dao resources in the near future."

Chen Lie muttered to himself. In just over half an hour, he had earned 800,000 Star Dollars—something that would be unthinkable without the methods of a Divine Sense Master.