128: Yuhuatai

“Dragon Team!” “Dragon Team!!” “Dragon Team!!!”

Someone greeted him loudly as he walked out. Long Yuan was initially taken aback but soon realized that since this morning, he had been hand-picked by Lu Shijie to be the captain of the school representative team, so these members now called him “Dragon Team”!

“What Dragon Team? I don’t even play ping pong!!!” Long Yuan complained in his heart. On Earth's China, they possessed great strength in the sport of ping pong, and one of their team captains was known as ‘Dragon Team’, but he certainly wasn't that person.

These team members naturally didn't know what Long Yuan was thinking. Every one of them greeted him with extreme politeness. There was no other way; this was a world where the weak were prey to the strong and the powerful were revered. Respecting the strong was the most basic etiquette, and Long Yuan's performance this morning was enough to win everyone's respect. Although he had been a nobody in the representative team before, he had now become the most sought-after powerhouse here!

“Dragon Team! Can you give me some pointers?” Qin Gui seemed to have been waiting near Long Yuan's training room. Seeing him open the door and come out, he immediately rushed up to ask.

“Uh... Xiao Gui, training needs to be balanced with rest. It's like a string; if it's pulled too tight, it will snap!” Long Yuan said.

“What do you mean?” Qin Gui was startled.

“It means you should eat when it's time to eat, drink when it's time to drink, and train when it's time to train. It's already time to head home after school, so aren't you going back?” Long Yuan smiled.

“Ah... isn't it a bit early to go home? Many of them practiced until almost midnight last night, and I expect it'll be even later tonight. If I go home now, won't I fall even further behind?” Qin Gui lamented.

“Then train hard. I have things to do, so I'm leaving!” Long Yuan waved his hand and left the selection camp... Qin Gui watched Long Yuan's departing figure with a dazed expression, muttering, “He just up and left like that? But then again, he's already so powerful, why the hell would he need to train anymore!!!”

Recalling the actual combat challenge in Cloud Realm this morning, Qin Gui couldn't help but be filled with admiration for Long Yuan. There was no helping it; he was just too cool! He only used two sword strikes to defeat two powerful opponents, one of whom was defeated despite being a whole major rank higher. How were others supposed to compete with that?

Even now, he felt as if he were in a dream. If he hadn't tried it himself, he wouldn't have admired Long Yuan to such an extent. Thinking about how he couldn't even block three moves from that unknown opponent, he realized just how high Long Yuan's current level was!

He remembered that not long ago, he had even tried to bully Long Yuan. Looking back, he wondered what kind of spell he had been under to actually dare provoke such a powerhouse!

“Oh no, I forgot to mention the task my father assigned...” Qin Gui suddenly slapped his head. His father wanted him to recruit Long Yuan into Fengqing Company no matter what, but he had just been dazed, and now Long Yuan had already disappeared... After Long Yuan came out, he didn't avoid the “paparazzi”, which was the protection squad Geng Yun had assigned to him. He first found a place for dinner and then took a bus all the way to Yuhua District... After arriving at the central district, he got off and went to browse the Ye Family Building. He came here mainly to understand the quality and corresponding prices of various Materials. Relying on his photographic memory and his spirit of asking whenever he didn't understand, he quickly gained an understanding of the material situation on each floor of the building and had a good idea of things. Next, he went to browse the market near the County Government Building. After comparing, he found that the Materials sold in the Ye Family Building were generally about five percent cheaper than those in the County Government Building, but he needed to be able to distinguish the quality himself, otherwise he might get cheated!

This wasn't to say that the Ye Family didn't inspect the goods of the merchants entering the market, but rather that some merchants used their own tricks. Although the goods they took for inspection were all good, they might substitute quality goods with inferior ones during the course of business, or use tricks regarding weight and quality if they saw you were easy to deceive, or fake the age and origin, etc. Therefore, one had to choose merchants carefully. If the Materials he needed were sold in the Ye Family's self-operated shops, it was best to buy there for peace of mind.

Of course, this was only a temporary plan. If he needed to purchase in bulk in the future, he would have to find another way. After all, buying here was at retail prices, so the cost would definitely be high. Therefore, he needed to find better channels for bulk purchasing.

By the time he finished browsing the market, it was late. Long Yuan walked out easily with his hands in his pockets, heading toward the Yuhua Terrace Xuan Practitioner villa complex in Yuhua District. This was his main destination for tonight!

With the guidance of the Heavenly Dao Eye, Long Yuan quickly found the Yuhua Terrace Property Management Office. A property company staff member named Tong Xueqin received him. Hearing that he was an owner here, Tong Xueqin couldn't help but widen her eyes and hurriedly began her search. Sure enough, she found that the owner of Villa No. 68 was indeed named Long Yuan!

After looking at the ID card Long Yuan handed over and comparing it with the information in the records, she finally confirmed without a doubt that this seemingly shy youth was indeed the owner of Villa No. 68. This made Tong Xueqin scream in her heart, and her whole being became inexplicably excited... “Heavens, such a young owner; his Family must be either rich or noble, or his parents are noble experts. Should I consider this?” Tong Xueqin's mental activity was particularly rich at this moment. After all, she considered herself a beauty with many pursuers and plenty of backups, yet she had remained single until now. Wasn't it just to catch a golden husband?

As a descendant of the Tong Family, an Alchemy Family from the Second-class Base of Nanming City, she had a strong desire not to be used as a pawn by the Family to be married off at will to satisfy certain Family needs. A woman of the new era must be independent, find her own husband, and control her own destiny!

So she took the opportunity to gain experience at the Alchemist Guild here, and in her spare time, she would work part-time at the “Yuhua Terrace” property company. It wasn't far anyway, and her third uncle, Tong Jingshan, was the president of the Fengyang Alchemist Guild, so he naturally had the money to afford a house in Yuhua Terrace, and Tong Xueqin was currently staying at his home.

Tong Xueqin came here for a part-time job because this was the most high-end community in all of Fengyang. Almost all people with power, influence, and wealth lived here. As long as she hung around here and showed her face often, she would eventually meet her fated benefactor and the husband of her dreams!

Now, as soon as she saw Long Yuan, with her keen observation skills and peculiar sixth sense, she discovered that this handsome young fellow Long Yuan was simply a xuan stone bachelor armed to the teeth with wealth—oh no, a young lad. Setting everything else aside, this Xuan Practitioner villa alone was a ceiling that countless people could never reach in their entire lives! And yet, this ceiling was merely a small starting point for Long Yuan...