Crossover: In Little Garden, Becoming a God Through Once Proven, Forever Proven

"What would I do?"

Zhang Lingyu watched the fight below, placing himself in it and thinking about what he should do next.

"I'd try to expand my perception to its limit and pinpoint those grains of rice first. Then I'd think about how to attack."

Zhang Lingyu worked out a plan for the fight in his mind and gave his answer.

Meanwhile, in the arena.

"Careful! Something invisible is attacking us! Don't move around-sense it first!"

The people in the arena had also realized what was happening. They immediately stopped where they were, afraid to move. After all, they had no way of knowing whether that energy had already filled the space around them.

They activated their protective techniques and expanded their perception to the limit, trying to sense where the tiny attacks were.

But the moment one man fully opened his perception, he was stunned.

"W-white as far as I can see!"

The man looked at Qin Qi, astonishment on his face. He sensed nothing, nothing at all around him.

There was nothing around the person who had just been defeated either. But if there was nothing there, how had that person been defeated?!

In the very instant he wondered, the invisible attack arrived. It enveloped his body in a flash and devoured all his Qi.

"Hm?!"

Zhang Lingyu watched the scene with a look of confusion. "He should have expanded his perception. Why didn't he notice anything?!"

"This... although that translucent grain of rice is tiny and very hard to detect, it still shouldn't be like this!"

Zhang Lingyu didn't know why the man had stood there without moving. The attack was right in front of him.

"Lingyu, do you think Qin Qi couldn't think of something you thought of? Wouldn't he have prepared for it?"

"Look carefully. His aura has long since enveloped the arena. Sometimes, the smaller something is hidden, the harder it is to find."

"But if it encounters someone observant, it can still be seen."

"And sometimes, even if it isn't hidden at all and is openly brought out for you to see, you still can't see it."

"Right now, Qin Qi is like someone who has put a drop of water into the ocean. Now you have to find that drop in the seawater. Isn't that simply impossible?"

The Old Celestial Master narrowed his eyes as he watched the arena and spoke.

"I see. Thank you for the lesson."

Realization dawned on Zhang Lingyu's face. He nodded and spoke.

"Don't be so quick to admit defeat. Keep thinking. What should you do next?"

The Old Celestial Master looked at Zhang Lingyu and shook his head slightly. Learning a lesson wasn't just something to say; it meant actually making a change.

If you didn't change, saying it a hundred times was useless.

"Next, if I can't see it and can't get close, I can only put some distance between us and attack from afar."

"That attack does have the ability to devour Qi, but it takes time. If I activated a protective technique and rushed out at top speed, I think it might work."

Zhang Lingyu pondered for a moment before answering.

The person in the arena seemed to be remotely controlled by Zhang Lingyu, his thoughts exactly the same. He protected himself with a defensive technique.

Then he tried to force his way into the distance, but the instant he took a step, he felt a force!

A force in front of him was pushing him, while one behind him was pulling him. It was the same on his left and right.

It was as if he were trapped in a whirlpool, unable to move at all. Even with all his strength, he could only take a single step.

By then, the power of Spin had devoured all the Qi in his body.

"The three of you are merely exhausted. You won't be left with any injuries. A little rest will do."

Qin Qi withdrew that Qi. Rather than absorb the Qi he had devoured, he dispersed it directly into the world.

In a continuous battle, this Qi could be used to attack enemies, but the match was over now, so there was no need for it. As for devouring Qi to recover his strength...

A certain vampire named Alucard had already demonstrated it for everyone: don't casually absorb other people's things. You don't know whether there's something wrong with them.

A certain demon named Doma had also demonstrated it for everyone: don't casually eat things. You don't know whether they're poisonous.

Meanwhile, Zhang Lingyu, watching the fight end below from atop the platform, felt at that moment that the three people weren't the ones who had lost.

He was the one who had lost. Every action and thought of his had already been predicted and countered accordingly.

All his actions had done was take him one step closer to defeat!

"It seems... I lost the moment I stepped into the arena."

Zhang Lingyu murmured to himself. The moment he stepped into the arena, he had entered his opponent's domain. His opponent hadn't left him any chance of victory.

Chapter 64: Ma Doraemon Hong, the Sky over Mount Longhu Has Gone Dark Too!

Elsewhere, Lu Jin and Lu Lin.

"Great-grandpa, can Threefold Reversal do something like that too? How come I can't?!"

Lu Lin watched the match in the arena, then turned blankly to look at Lu Jin. Although there was a difference of one level between them,

they were both cultivating Threefold Reversal, weren't they? Why was he like a fool, incapable of anything but hand-to-hand combat?!

"It's all right. Don't worry."

Lu Jin patted Lu Lin on the shoulder and spoke.

"Whew."

Lu Lin breathed a sigh of relief. He thought his great-grandfather would say that once his cultivation was higher, he would be able to learn it, but the truth wasn't what he thought.

"Don't worry. Your great-grandpa can't do it either. Back then, not one of the many people in the Three-One Sect could."

"We all relied purely on hand-to-hand combat. Your martial uncle came up with this way of using it himself."

"But don't worry. Once you switch to the new cultivation technique and get some guidance from your martial uncle, you'll be able to master it in sixty years at most."

Lu Jin spoke.

"S-sixty years! Great-grandpa, you're joking, right?!"

Lu Lin looked at the arena. He didn't think it was that hard; he felt he could do it himself.

He just needed someone to tell him how to control Qi. It seemed pretty ordinary.

"I'm not joking. Laymen watch the spectacle; experts see the intricacies."

"In theory, Threefold Reversal allows you to disperse and reassemble your body at will, but you have to cultivate to the second level at least."

"The second level of the new version."

"It took me nearly a hundred years to cultivate to the point of reconstructing the three dantians. You're talented, and your martial uncle has modified the technique."

"With my guidance on top of that, you should have hope of breaking through to the second level in about sixty years."

"Then you'll still have to learn how to control your Qi. That's extremely delicate work. In roughly seventy or eighty years, you'll be able to reach your martial uncle's current level."

Based on Lu Jin's experience, sixty years was already the best possible outcome. If something happened along the way, even a hundred years might not be enough for him to succeed.

"Martial uncle is ridiculously strong!"

Lu Lin watched Qin Qi walk out of the arena and swallowed. Before, he had only known his martial uncle was strong. Now he knew just how strong!

The skill he would gain from more than a hundred years of cultivation would only be about as good as one of his martial uncle's ordinary basic attacks!

In his twenties, he was already much stronger than people over a hundred years old. To use a game analogy, he was cheating!

If he hadn't turned it off, he was cheating!

[Not long after you left, many people came to speak with you again. You dealt with them.]

[Then you called Liu Wukui and the others back and received the records of all today's matches from them.]

[You looked at the detailed records and smiled. When you activated the second mode, the flow of Qi in these people's bodies became perfectly clear.]

[Your super intelligence told you that this was now the age of super technology. You took your things and left.]

[First, you put away the second version for yourself to watch, learning how the cultivation techniques of the various schools and sects circulated and extracting what was useful to you.]

[Then you put the first version up for sale on the Outsider website, along with detailed information on each opponent.]

[That wasn't all. You also took the videos to the Old Celestial Master, Lu Jin, Tian Jinzhong, and others of high status, asking them to help comment on the fights in the videos.]

[Once you had versions of the videos with comments from famous figures, you took them to trade with other famous figures you weren't as close to.]

[You gave these videos to their descendants, children, and disciples for free. In exchange, they also had to comment on the fights in the videos.]

[You collected the comments from these famous figures and sold them separately, selling each person's version once. With many people's comments, you sold them many times over.]

[You even offered a discount for buying them as a bundle: one percent off. At the same time, your betting pool also made a huge profit from this round of matches.]

"S-so much money."

Fu Rong frantically punched numbers into a calculator. Finally, as she looked at the enormous figure, her eyes turned into money symbols.

"Boss... are you tired? Would you like some tea? Let me massage your legs."

Fu Rong served Qin Qi tea and water, kneaded his shoulders, and massaged his legs. She no longer made any attempt to hide her fawning expression. At that moment, she was utterly tempted by money.

"You did a good job. I won't short you a cent of the bonus you're owed. Also, how are the devices I asked you to install on the mountain coming along?"

Qin Qi wasn't stingy. He had made money, so Fu Rong and the others who had done the work would get their bonuses. Only when everyone profited could the business last.

"They're all installed. They only need a day to scan everyone on the mountain. But boss..."

"Have those people from Quanxing really sneaked in? This is Mount Longhu. Don't they value their lives?"

The devices Fu Rong had installed were Scouters made by Ma Doraemon Hong according to Qin Qi's requirements.

They could detect abnormalities in Qi. If someone using a disguise on the surface of their body was detected, they would be marked and their appearance recorded.

"Whether they come or not, we lose nothing. We needed these to collect information anyway. All right, stop fawning over me and go help Old Master Bi keep an eye on the betting pool."

"The situation wasn't clear in the first round, so people weren't quick to place bets. But by the second round, everyone has a general idea."

"Now is when the betting pool really gets started. And adjust the odds the way I told you."

Qin Qi smiled, picked up his tea, and took a sip. Making money was the least important goal, collecting Outsider cultivation techniques was the second, and the first goal still needed to wait and see.

"Got it. But boss, did you set Zhang Chulan's odds wrong?"

"That guy looks sure to lose. Why did you raise the odds on his opponent so high?"

Fu Rong looked at the odds sheet Qin Qi had given her. The second-round matchups were already out, and Zhang Chulan's opponent was the Azure Talisman God.

Normally, the odds for a famous Outsider like that should have been one to one, but Qin Qi had set them at five hundred to one.

"That's right. I'm betting Zhang Chulan can win. And even if he loses, I won't take a loss. Let's treat this little bit of money as entertainment."

Qin Qi spoke with a smile. The money he would pay out was nothing to him. He was doing this to dig a pit for people.

Fu Rong suddenly felt a chill down her back, but she couldn't figure out why. After asking Qin Qi a few other questions, she left.

"Hehehe, sorry, boss. How could Zhang Chulan possibly beat the Azure Talisman God? I'll gladly take this money."

"I'll put this month's wages and bonus on this one. If I win, I'll be financially free right away!"

Fu Rong grinned with a sinister chuckle, then bet all her money. She even urged Liu Wukui to join her.

"Kui'er, come earn some spending money with me."

"No. The boss treats us so well, Sister Rong. What you're doing isn't right. I won't do it."

Liu Wukui was a straightforward, good kid, and she refused outright.

"Kui'er, this little bit of money is nothing to the boss. You're just not good at math, so you can't work it out. Otherwise, you'd know if you did the sums."

"The money the boss makes from this Luotian Grand Ceremony will be enough to last us a lifetime-no, ten lifetimes!"