Chi Tong's Growth

With the Eye of Heaven, he could easily discern everyone's strengths and weaknesses and offer the most accurate guidance.

In just one year, the basketball team's overall strength improved dramatically.

This stunned Xigui Longye as well. He felt that, as the coach, he had become completely useless—he was not even as capable as an elementary school student.

And so, over the first two years, Chi Tong led the team to win the elementary school National Tournament championship twice in a row.

However, Chi Tong did not become famous because of it. Though he was the captain, he usually played the role of passer during games.

Chi Tong could feel that his passing skills had not yet reached Akashi Seijuro's peak level. Still, through the trials of every match, his passing continued to improve.

This also made Chi Tong understand that although he possessed Akashi Seijuro's talent, he still needed to train hard and improve himself.

This year was the last one, as well as Chi Tong's final year in elementary school. As expected, he won, effortlessly claiming a third consecutive championship in the elementary school boys' basketball league. To him, it was as easy as breathing.

Even after the victory, he was not overly excited. He merely revealed a faint smile.

Starting today, he would have to say goodbye to this basketball team.

Already in sixth grade, he would soon graduate. Middle school life after advancing to the next level awaited him.

Several months later, at the Chitong family Manor, Chi Tong ran back and forth across the specially built basketball court. Sweat soaked through his clothes, and beads of sweat rolled down from his temples.

Chi Tong was now twelve years old. Counting it up, he had been in this world for twelve years as well. Over those twelve years, he had undergone earth-shaking changes.

The most obvious change was his appearance: short crimson hair, heterochromatic eyes, an aristocratic bearing, and the regal aura he occasionally radiated.

Chi Tong was now undeniably handsome—the kind everyone loved at first sight, the kind that made flowers bloom and cars get flat tires. The moment he went out, he could charm a whole crowd of lovestruck girls to death. It was not an exaggeration in the slightest.

Name: Chitong Lingyu. Height: 175 centimeters. Weight: 66 kilograms.

As for his abilities: precise passing, one hundred percent steals, Ankle Breaker, and so on.

Simply put, Chi Tong possessed Akashi Seijuro's talent, and therefore all the abilities granted by that talent as well.

But due to the limitations of his body, he could only use incomplete versions of those abilities.

Based on the time needed for his body to mature, he would probably have to wait until high school before he could use those abilities at their full potential, including Zone.

As for Zone, he had no clue how to access it. Whether he would be able to enter Zone in the future was still unknown.

Standing on the court, the heterochromatic eyes of Chi Tong suddenly gleamed with rings of light. The Eye of Heaven activated. What he was about to practice was Akashi Seijuro's signature skill, Ankle Breaker.

The basketball struck the floor again and again beneath Chi Tong's hand, while his feet began moving in a steady rhythm.

As time passed, the movements beneath his feet gradually became faster.

It was as though there truly was an opponent standing before Chi Tong.

No one knew how much time had passed before Chi Tong finally stopped moving.

Then Chi Tong flashed forward, basketball in hand, and darted beneath the hoop.

His gaze sharpened. He bent his knees and crouched down, then pushed off the ground, raising the basketball high as he attempted to slam it into the hoop. Yet when he brought the ball down, he discovered that his height was simply insufficient.

With a dull thud, the basketball struck the rim and flew out of his hand.

The dunk had failed.

After landing, Chi Tong watched the basketball fly away and muttered inwardly, Did I fail?

Trying to dunk now was still too much of a stretch.

Based on that test just now, neither his height nor his jumping ability was enough to support a dunk.

He was not discouraged by this. He was confident that one day, he would be able to dunk whenever he pleased.

Chi Tong had already decided that he would continue joining the basketball club in middle school and further refine himself, striving to raise his strength to the level of Akashi Seijuro in high school before entering high school himself.

As for which middle school he would attend, that was not particularly important to him.

At a luxurious club in Tokyo, Japan, most of the country's prominent figures had gathered here: nobles, businessmen, officials, and celebrities from all walks of life.

This was a true gathering of the upper class. The guests toasted one another, and their laughter and conversation revolved around the future direction of matters both great and small in Japan.

In a corner of the banquet hall, Chi Tong sat quietly alone, his calm gaze sweeping across the various people in attendance.

He had attended occasions like this countless times since childhood and had long grown accustomed to the atmosphere.

To be honest, he did not like this kind of false social etiquette.

Watching his parents being surrounded and flattered by a crowd, he knew it was all because of the Chitong family's status. If the Chitong family had been ordinary, these people would not even spare Chi Tong a glance. Although he had lived two lives, constant exposure to such an atmosphere had changed him somewhat as well.

As the young master of the Chitong family, he possessed privileges and resources that ordinary people could not imagine. That was the allure of standing at the top of the pyramid.

In that instant, a trace of coldness flickered through Chi Tong's calm eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

Just then, a pleasant female voice reached Chi Tong's ears. "Hello, may I sit here?"

Chi Tong turned his head and saw that a girl had appeared beside him at some point.

The girl wore a custom-made red evening dress. Her long black hair fell over her shoulders, its ends slightly curled. Her eyes were a rare pale brown, glowing like amber beneath the lights.

She had a slender figure and fair skin, and appeared to be about his age. Chi Tong was briefly stunned by her beauty. In the twelve years since coming to this world, she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

When the girl saw that Chi Tong had not answered, she asked again in confusion, "Um, may I sit here?"

Chi Tong came back to his senses and nodded politely.

"Uh, sorry. Please, have a seat."

Hearing Chi Tong agree, the girl smiled and sat down beside him.

The girl then took the initiative to speak again. "Hello, my name is Shendai Liufei."

Chi Tong replied.

"Hello. My name is Chitong Lingyu."

"Your eyes are different colors. Were you born that way?"

Shendai Liufei asked curiously.

Chi Tong did not find her question abrupt and nodded.

"Yes, I was born this way."

"Wow, how cute! Judging by your hair color, is that your mother over there?"

Shendai Liufei said, pointing toward a group of noblewomen chatting together.

Chi Tong looked in that direction and quickly spotted his mother. It could not be helped—her long crimson hair was simply too eye-catching.