Maybe This Is What They Call Talent

Ye Chen was a little dazed, his mind completely blank.

Form a team? With Lan Lengshuang?

"Old Zhang, you're not joking, are you?!" Ye Chen asked incredulously.

Zhang Daosheng gave Ye Chen a meaningful look. "Joking? Do you think I forced Lan Batian to come over first thing in the morning and even had Lengshuang make the trip just to joke around with you?"

Lan Lengshuang: ...

Ye Chen scratched his head at that. "I guess... that makes sense."

"Young man, I heard you're of the wood element?" Lan Batian slapped Ye Chen on the shoulder.

Although Lan Batian was a little rough, he had restrained his strength somewhat.

But with his power, no matter how much he held back, it still wasn't something Ye Chen could withstand.

In an instant, Ye Chen's shoulder felt as though Mount Tai had come crashing down on it.

Ye Chen was immediately forced down by the immense strength, dropping to one knee.

The Windwing Tiger was a beast of the wind element, but the physical strength of a tiger-type beast went without saying.

Seeing this, Zhang Daosheng panicked. "Lan Batian, do you fucking want to kill Ye Chen?!"

"Oops, oops... My mistake, my mistake. I didn't manage to hold back my strength..." Lan Batian awkwardly scratched his cheek.

"...If I weren't of the wood element, I'd have been slapped to death by you just now." Ye Chen weakly raised his head and looked at Lan Batian.

No wonder Old Zhang calls you Lan Batian.

I almost died before I even got started. If I didn't have a skill as outrageous as Seal-less Healing, you'd probably be kneeling on the ground right now, begging me not to die.

"Hehehe... Not bad, kid. You took one of my slaps and can still talk." Lan Batian's eyes lit up when he heard that.

It seemed Ye Chen's talent was merely a little lacking, while his physical abilities were quite good.

That slap of his had been calculated to leave Ye Chen bedridden for ten days to half a month.

But he hadn't expected the boy to be gasping for breath one second and speaking the next.

With that, Ye Chen at least qualified to form a team with his daughter.

"You broke through?" Zhang Daosheng looked at Ye Chen, drew in a deep breath, and asked in shock.

"Just lucky..." Ye Chen slowly rose to his feet and reached out with his left hand to rub his shoulder.

"If I hadn't broken through, I'm afraid I would've been lying down for two or three days after that slap."

Zhang Daosheng's eyes narrowed slightly.

He was deeply shaken. It seemed he no longer needed to worry about how hard Ye Chen worked.

As long as Ye Chen cultivated diligently, he wouldn't need to concern himself with anything else.

Lan Batian and Lan Lengshuang, however, remained fairly calm. After all, in their minds, Ye Chen had broken through on the third day.

What they didn't know was that Ye Chen had broken through to the second realm—and was even one step away from the third!

"Not bad. Breaking through in three days means you can be considered a genius." Lan Batian nodded, completely acknowledging Ye Chen as one of Lan Lengshuang's teammates.

At that moment, Lan Lengshuang, who had remained silent all this time, spoke.

"If you join my team, you'll have to follow my orders. Correct?"

Her clear, pleasant voice reached Ye Chen's ears, and he nodded.

"I've already chosen the third teammate, but she isn't from our academy. I'll introduce you to each other later." Lan Lengshuang gave Ye Chen a cold look. After saying that, she left on her own without another word.

To her, instead of spending this time getting to know Ye Chen, a support-type cultivator, she might as well spend it cultivating.

Lan Batian watched Lan Lengshuang leave, then glanced back at Ye Chen.

He smiled and said, "Keep working hard, kid."

The two of them completely ignored Zhang Daosheng...

Zhang Daosheng was thoroughly depressed. I'm a Sea-Overturning Realm expert standing right in front of you, for goodness' sake!

Just then, Ye Chen said, "I'm about to burst, Old Zhang..."

Zhang Daosheng's face filled with question marks. "Then go to the bathroom."

Ye Chen was helpless and had no choice but to remove the restriction suppressing the spiritual energy from entering his body.

He had been slapped by Lan Batian earlier, and the injury to his shoulder was extremely serious.

Seal-less Healing began operating naturally, followed by an acceleration in the circulation of the Creation Breathing Method.

Ye Chen had already felt that morning, upon waking up, that the threshold of the third realm was close.

In an instant, that enormous rumbling sound rang out from within Ye Chen's body once again.

His blood energy surged forth, and his physical body strengthened again.

Ye Chen hurriedly sat down and circulated his spiritual power according to the Creation Breathing Method.

At the same time, Lan Lengshuang and Lan Batian stared at Ye Chen with looks of disbelief.

"This... is the aura of the third realm?!" Lan Batian asked incredulously.

Even the usually cold Lan Lengshuang had opened her small mouth wide.

Zhang Daosheng's eyes grew moist. Ye Chen...

A genius! A monster! Breaking through three realms in three days! No... breaking through three realms in two days and one night!

Firmament Academy was saved...

Zhang Daosheng hurriedly turned around and silently wiped away the tears that were about to spill from the corners of his eyes.

Ye Chen's realm stabilization period also came to an end.

He rose to his feet and looked at his hands.

He clenched them, then spread his arms.

Zhang Daosheng walked over to Ye Chen, his heart filled with incomparable excitement.

"Looks like... I bet on the right horse." As he spoke, Zhang Daosheng revealed a heartfelt smile.

Hearing that, Ye Chen smiled as well. "Old Zhang and Old Li trust me so much. How could I not work a little harder?"

A burst of footsteps came from behind Ye Chen. "Good boy! You awakened the third realm. How did you do it?!"

Lan Batian's voice was somewhat hurried. In his view, if Ye Chen could share his method,

Lan Lengshuang could advance rapidly as well, so he was naturally anxious.

Ye Chen froze. You two haven't left yet?

"I don't know either. I was just cultivating, and then... it happened." Ye Chen rubbed his chin before answering.

"How is that possible?!" Lan Batian cried out.

Clearly, he didn't believe Ye Chen's explanation.

Lan Lengshuang also stared at Ye Chen curiously. She had never even heard of such a cultivation speed.

"If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do." Ye Chen helplessly spread his hands, then said to Zhang Daosheng, "Oh, right, Old Zhang, do you still have those Spirit Stones?"

"I do. How many do you want?!" At that moment, Zhang Daosheng had only one thought in his mind: whatever Ye Chen wanted, he would give him!

Ye Chen scratched his head. "To be honest, I absorb Spirit Stones a little too quickly. Only half of the ones you gave me yesterday are left..."

Zhang Daosheng was dumbfounded...

"I estimate that if I cultivated for the entire day, I could absorb five hundred..."

Ye Chen truly never failed to astonish with his words.

Lan Batian's mouth fell wide open, Lan Lengshuang's mind went blank, and Zhang Daosheng tilted his head, his face full of confusion.

"Kid, are you serious? You should know that absorbing five hundred Spirit Stones in a day would be difficult even for someone in the Mountain-Moving Realm. Can your body withstand that absorption rate? No, how could you possibly have such an outrageous absorption speed?!" Lan Batian fired off several questions in succession.

"Maybe... I'm just exceptionally talented?"