Army-Breaking Fist Crystal Card

"What? Chen Lie passed the elite student assessment? When did that happen?"

Aunt Gao was stunned when she heard the news.

Feng Yuelan said, "Just a few days ago. He didn't tell his father or me. Other students have their parents accompany them when they take the elite student assessment, but he went by himself without saying a word. And he actually passed."

He Zhenming gave Chen Lie a long look and could not help saying, "That can't be right. Has the school lowered the standards for the elite student assessment? Logically, the assessment should only be getting harder."

"Chen Lie, what did the elite student assessment test? Don't tell me it was just blood vitality?"

He Zhenming hurriedly asked again.

Chen Lie said, "Blood vitality, strength, and comprehension. Those three."

"You passed all three assessments?"

"Of course."

He Zhenming did not know what to say. He was certain the elite student assessment was harder now than it had been in his day, but did that not mean Chen Lie had been stronger than him at the same age?

At that moment, dishes were already beginning to arrive in the private room. Chen Lie did not stand on ceremony. As soon as the food hit the table, he picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

Before long, the dining table was covered with dishes of every kind.

After Liu Lianqing returned, she sat down in her seat. Seeing how unusually quiet the private room was, she could not help saying, "Why is everyone so quiet? Are we just eating?"

"Oh, right, Chen Lie. I forgot to ask you the last time we met. What's your blood vitality at now? How far are you from breaking through 3 cards?"

Chen Lie held up two fingers to Liu Lianqing. He said nothing and simply kept picking up food.

"Two? You're already in your senior year. That blood vitality isn't very high."

Liu Lianqing could not help clicking her tongue.

"Mom, stop talking!" At that moment, He Zhenming, who sat beside Liu Lianqing, said, "Chen Lie has already entered the elite class."

"The elite class?" Liu Lianqing froze. "Isn't Chen Lie already a senior? How could he enter the elite class?"

"Aunt Liu, that's a strange thing to say. No one ever said seniors can't enter the elite class," Chen Lie said.

"But didn't Zhenming fail to advance into the elite class back then?"

"That was because he failed to meet the elite student review standards during the first semester of his senior year. Then, in the second semester, the school directly closed the advancement channel to the elite class for senior students."

"Then how did you get into the elite class?" Liu Lianqing asked.

"I'm in the first semester of my senior year. Naturally, I entered the elite class because I met the assessment standards for advancement."

"But I heard that a month ago, your blood vitality still couldn't even break through 1. A month later, you've become an elite student?

"You're not lying to fool your parents, are you? No wonder you look like such a dishonest brat!"

Chen Lie said nothing more. Instead, he handed over his elite student ID.

"What is this?"

"Aunt Liu, why not take a look?"

Liu Lianqing took what Chen Lie handed her and discovered that it was actually an elite student ID.

"You really... became an elite student. Not bad!"

Liu Lianqing returned the elite student ID to Chen Lie. For a moment, she did not know what to say and unexpectedly fell silent.

She had arranged for so many neighbors to gather in the same private room because she wanted to use the banquet to show off her son's accomplishments, with Chen Lie naturally serving as a foil.

But now, let alone having Chen Lie serve as a foil for her son, her son had instead become Chen Lie's foil.

After all, her son had failed to advance into the elite class back then.

After eating in the private room for a while, Chen Lie felt he had had enough. He said to Feng Yuelan, "Mom, I'm done eating. I have something to do later, so I'll be leaving first."

"Alright, go ahead."

Feng Yuelan nodded in agreement.

Chen Lie stood and said to Liu Lianqing, "Aunt Liu, I'll be leaving first."

Without waiting for Liu Lianqing's response, he turned and left the private room.

Chen Lie knew very well why his mother, Feng Yuelan, had asked him to attend the banquet.

Because his grades had been too poor, his mother had never been able to hold her head up before the neighbors. She had hoped this banquet would allow her to finally feel proud.

But his mother was not the sort of person who liked to show off. So Chen Lie could only speak up for himself a little more. Now that the goal had been achieved, it no longer mattered whether he stayed or not.

After leaving the Martial Arts Student Hotel, Chen Lie immediately found a nearby bus stop and boarded a flying bus headed for the martial artist market.

About an hour later, the flying bus arrived. Chen Lie got off and walked straight into the martial artist market.

When he reached the crystal card shop, Chen Lie walked right in.

"Brother Chen, you've finally arrived."

The moment Yang Shen saw Chen Lie, he rose from his chair and hurried forward to greet him.

"Come, Brother Chen, please sit down first. I'll pour you a glass of water."

"No need. Bring out the blank crystal cards first."

Chen Lie waved a hand, refusing Yang Shen's offer.

"I prepared them long ago."

As he spoke, Yang Shen placed a small case on the counter and began introducing its contents.

"I contacted quite a few people in the trade to get these blank crystal cards from them.

"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 inscribe on them?"

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

"Of course. It's a C-rank martial art popular throughout East River Province. Its target customers should be elite students. Elite students are generally more willing than ordinary martial arts students to spend money on martial arts, so Army-Breaking Fist crystal cards would definitely be a bestseller on the market," Yang Shen said.

"Then let's do this. Inscribe Army-Breaking Fist on the five sets of D-rank martial arts crystal cards, and inscribe Skyshattering Fist on the ten sets of combat technique crystal cards."

"Certainly!" Yang Shen nodded repeatedly.

"Then I'll begin."

As he spoke, Chen Lie picked up two D-rank martial arts crystal cards and began inscribing Army-Breaking Fist.

He empowered both crystal cards with two streams of mental power at once. In barely half a minute, the two transparent crystal cards had turned bright yellow.

Once the mental power inscription was complete, Chen Lie placed the two crystal cards on the counter.

"Th-that's it?"

Chen Lie glanced at Yang Shen and nodded slightly.

Yang Shen was utterly shocked. In just half a minute, a set of C-rank martial arts crystal cards worth more than a hundred thousand star yuan had been made?

Mind Readers were far too good at making money!

Next, Chen Lie began inscribing the next set of martial arts crystal cards.

Although he had not seen many of Blue Star's Mind Readers, he could say with certainty that his mental power was thousands upon thousands of times more condensed than that of Blue Star's native Mind Readers. His mastery over mental power was likewise beyond anything Blue Star's Mind Readers could compare to.

If a native Blue Star Mind Reader needed to expend 100 points of mental power to inscribe the same set of C-rank martial arts crystal cards, Chen Lie might not even need 1 point.

Half an hour later, Chen Lie had infused all fifteen sets of crystal cards with mental power.

Of them, he had inscribed the D-rank martial art Skyshattering Fist on the ten sets of combat technique crystal cards, while he had inscribed the C-rank martial art Army-Breaking Fist on the five sets of D-rank martial arts crystal cards.

"It's done. All fifteen sets of crystal cards have been fully inscribed."

Chen Lie arranged all thirty crystal cards one by one across the counter.

Yang Shen hurriedly said, "Army-Breaking Fist is a bestselling C-rank martial arts fist technique in East River Province. Even at 120,000 star yuan per set, it would still be in short supply.

"As for Skyshattering Fist, I sold the previous ten sets of Skyshattering Fist crystal cards for 60,000 star yuan per set.

"How about this? We'll price Army-Breaking Fist at 120,000 star yuan per set, with Brother Chen receiving 80,000 star yuan from each set. Skyshattering Fist will sell for 60,000 star yuan per set, with Brother Chen receiving 40,000 star yuan from each set.

"For all fifteen sets of Psionic Crystal Cards, I'll pay you 800,000 star yuan. How does that sound?"

Chen Lie thought for a moment and said, "Wouldn't my share be too high?"

"Not at all!"

Yang Shen immediately said, "Brother Chen is a Mind Reader. How can you undervalue yourself?

"Even if a Mind Reader cooperated with a giant Cloud River Province enterprise like Spirit Wind Group, they would still take the lion's share of the profits, let alone when dealing with a small trader like me.

"Now that Brother Chen thinks highly enough of me to choose to work with me, it is my honor.

"Besides, once these Psionic Crystals are sold, my profit will be no less than 300,000 star yuan. Even if I ran this shop for two or three months, I might not earn that much.

"Furthermore, other shops don't have these martial arts crystal cards, while mine does. That will bring enormous benefits to my shop as well.

"I'm already satisfied with gaining so much. Please don't say anything more, Brother Chen."

"Fine."

Hearing that, Chen Lie nodded as well.

"This is a Free Star Yuan Card. I just transferred 800,000 star yuan into it. Brother Chen can spend directly with it whenever you need to, no password required."

As he spoke, Yang Shen handed Chen Lie a black Star Yuan Card.

Chen Lie accepted the Star Yuan Card and put it into his pocket.

After giving Chen Lie the money, Yang Shen put away the fifteen sets of crystal cards one by one.

"Brother Chen, if you have nothing to do later, there's a martial arts restaurant behind the martial artist market. Let me make the arrangements. How about we go have a meal?" Yang Shen suggested.

"Sure."

Chen Lie nodded at Yang Shen's suggestion. Although he had eaten some food at the He family's banquet before coming here, he had held back. That banquet had cost, at most, only a few thousand star yuan per table and had to be shared among so many people, so it had not been much of a meal. Eating another meal would not hurt.

"Good. Then please wait a moment, Brother Chen. I ordered some crystal card packaging boxes from a shop outside the market. Once I finish packaging these crystal cards, we'll go."

"Alright."

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

Chen Lie sat in the chair behind the counter and casually looked over the martial arts crystal cards currently in stock.

He discovered that even a crystal card shop only displayed two or three hundred sets of martial arts crystal cards on its counters, many of them combat technique crystal cards.

"So the cost of a set of martial arts crystal cards really is extremely high."

Even crystal card shops did not dare stock too much inventory. Or rather, they only had enough capital to purchase that many crystal cards.

"In that case, I won't have to worry about martial arts resources for a while."

Chen Lie murmured to himself. In just over half an hour, he had earned 800,000 star yuan. Without the means of a Mind Reader, it would have been impossible even to dream of such a thing.