Back to the Peak

Chapter 31: Gift

Yin Tiancheng’s title as the Eldest Young Master of Spark City was well-deserved. He had been favored since childhood. His grandfather even said that regardless if he had ordinary talent in the future, the Yin family would be his.

Of course, his talent couldn’t be too bad. His father was a level 5 radiant warrior, and his mother was also level 3. He had been nursed with supplements since childhood. At the very least, he would reach double Cs.

Yin Tiancheng had never suffered any injustice in Spark City. Even if his father brought back several illegitimate children, he did not take them seriously.

His mother had ordinary looks. Because of her talent, she could marry into the Yin Family and bring prosperity to her family. She didn’t care about her husband’s other women, so what did he care about as a son?

Moreover, those useless women who only had looks–even if they had children, they could only reach Yin Jinru’s level. Weren’t they drowned out by him?

After being praised for 16 years, Yin Tiancheng never thought that he would slap himself in public. A person who could force him to do this could only be someone strong, like Gu Changjin. But this person before him was someone with low talent, someone whom Yin Tiancheng completely ignored, and someone who even lived on welfare!

When the wind blades cut his face, for a moment, Yin Tiancheng even felt the threat of death. If the two wind blades did not cut his face but his neck, if Shi Qingyang made more wind blades…

The wound on his face had been rubbed with ointment by the teacher, and Yin Tiancheng became much calmer. However, he still couldn’t control his mocking expression towards Shi Qingyang. He would certainly make Shi Qingyang pay the price!

“Shi Qingyang, I’m the one who provoked you. I’ll just go slap myself,” Yin Jinru said quickly when he saw Yin Tiancheng’s gloomy expression.

Although he was ignorant and incompetent, and even gloated at his misfortune, Yin Jinru knew very well that if Yin Tiancheng was humiliated here, no good fate would await Yin Jinru at home.

Shi Qingyang looked at Yin Jinru with some surprise. Everyone knew that Yin Jinru made trouble all day and asked Yin Tiancheng to help him wipe his ass. But now it seemed that the rumor is wrong: “It was your brother, not you, who fought with me. Can’t he even admit his defeat?”

“Shi Qingyang, the friendship between students comes the first and competition comes second. The school has never supported raising insulting conditions for a duel,” The teacher of the school also said, while talking, he looked at Shi Qingyang with a pale face.

Shi Qingyang had no background. If he really offended Yin Tiancheng, they were afraid all sorts of difficulties would arise in the future! Of course, more importantly, the teachers would certainly be blamed.

Shi Qingyang glanced at the teacher: “Fine. Then just those few people who said dirty words can slap themselves. Anyway, Eldest Young Master Yin didn’t even dare to admit defeat.” He didn’t believe that after he said so, Yin Tiancheng could still fight against this condition.

The people who targeted Cheng Ran just now were all following Yin Jinru. They even wanted to please Yin Jinru. How could they not please Yin Tiancheng? Hearing what Shi Qingyang said, the people waiting nearby slapped themselves in the face.

There were slaps one after another, and Yin Tiancheng finally responded. The duel stopped at the beginning, but his face was injured. He was afraid that others would have lost their impression of him. At this time, if he had other people replace his punishment…

“You stop. I lost. I’ll do it myself.” Yin Tiancheng took a deep breath and slapped himself in the face.

Shi Qingyang watched Yin Tiancheng slap himself seven or eight times. Then he said, “Young Master Yin, you really don’t have to do this. I was just angry and became impulsive. You don’t have to slap yourself.”

For a moment, Yin Tiancheng’s hand was left in the air. He suddenly saw the hatred in Shi Qingyang’s eyes.

In a panic, Yin Tiancheng suddenly thought about Shi Qingyang’s parents.

Shi Zhen and his wife had no other relatives except this one son. His uncle made a rash decision, and his hands and feet were not clean at all. Shi Qingyang targeted him because he knew the cause of his parents’ death, right?

He needed to clean this matter up from top to bottom!

Seeing Yin Tiancheng’s expression, Shi Qingyang knew that in the future, Yin Tiancheng would definitely choose to confront him, which was what he had intended from the start.

Even if the Yin family were very powerful in Spark City, they would certainly not act within the city grounds.He predicted they would act after he had left the city. Maybe they will choose the same tactics as they had in his previous life…

However, it was not certain who was the prey and who was the hunter this time! Moreover, he had Gu Changjin and Cheng Ran, and he had showed his skills this time, so the Yin family would not act until they had investigated him.

As for the future… In a few days, he could call Cheng Ran’s grandfather.

“Qingyang, you won!” Cheng Ran was very happy. Although Yin Tiancheng was polite, Shi Qingyang was his first friend, so he naturally supported Shi Qingyang unconditionally.

“Let’s go back. I’m hungry after such a long wait.” Shi Qingyang smiled.

“Okay.” Cheng Ran nodded.

Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran were the first to go out of the arena. Seeing them go, other talents in the stands left with complicated expressions.

What was the origin of Cheng Ran and Shi Qingyang? What means did he use to perform like this with such substandard talent?

Because of Cheng Ran, many people didn’t like Shi Qingyang at first, but seeing that Shi Qingyang was better than Yin Tiancheng, the mood became complicated again.

At least, their worship of Yin Tiancheng had been completely broken at this moment.

Yin Tiancheng fell behind. After the others were gone, he slapped Yin Jinru in the face.

Some of the dandies who followed Yin Jinru looked at Yin Tiancheng obediently. They didn’t dare to say a word. No one knew what they were thinking.

Before, if Yin Tiancheng had not said that Cheng Ran broke the rules of Spark Academy, they would not have found fault with Cheng Ran. Even if they had found fault with Cheng Ran, they would not have agreed to fight.

Yin Tiancheng himself stood up to fight with Shi Qingyang, but finally implicated them. After returning home, their parents would certainly punish them…

As soon as Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran left the school, they saw Gu Changjin waiting at the door. He glared at Shi Qingyang and said nothing.

Shi Qingyang had nothing now, but he dared to provoke Yin Tiancheng because of Gu Changjin’s existence. That meant he would have to intervene in this matter in the future, which make Gu Changjin unhappy.

But Shi Qingyang confronted Yin Tiancheng because of Cheng Ran. And if Shi Qingyang had not stepped in, Cheng Ran would have been seriously ill after the test.

Gu Changjin, who had learned everything from the dean of Spark Academy, couldn’t help but be afraid when he thought of it.

After registering in the morning, Cheng Ran was free in the afternoon. Cheng Ran continued to make medicine, while Shi Qingyang went back to his room to surf the Internet.

He had only wanted to make some money through the hands of others, but now he needed to find out the situation of the Yin family.

There was also his account “I don’t want to starve”. Shi Qingyang originally intended to use this account to meet Pengcheng Wanli and had never gone online again. Even if someone found something suspicious, as long as he didn’t admit it, others would only think that the computer used this computer as a springboard to connect to others…

Who would have thought that an only 16-year-old boy would be the originator of those things?

In fact, if he hadn’t found out that Pengcheng Wanli was Cheng Ran’s grandfather, what Shi Qingyang gave to Pencheng Wanli wouldn’t be his reformed fighting skills. Instead he would have directly given the Feng family skills to the other party. In this way, he would have grasped Pencheng Wanli’s handle. If Pencheng Wanli wanted to use and show off what he gave, he would directly fall into conflict with the Feng family.

You could imagine how angry they would be if their secret combat skills and potions were known by others.

Of course, if they cooperated happily and kept each others’ secrets safe, then nothing would have happened. It wasn’t as if the Feng family was God and could see into others’ homes. How would they know if others secretly learned their combat skills? Even if they saw, they couldn’t be certain from a glance.

The Yin family was nothing to the Cheng family, but to him, it was undoubtedly a huge enemy. Shi Qingyang knew that it was not a simple thing to deal with the Yin family.

After logging back into “I don’t want to starve”, Shi Qingyang began to help people answer their doubts and make good friends in the Combat Skills Exchange forum. At the same time, he browsed various information on RadiationBattle.net.

Shi Qingyang’s main concern was, of course, information on Spark City. He entered the city area subforum of RadiationBattle.net and soon saw Spark City.

Here, people from the Radiation Energy Guild of Spark City released various missions, people from the same city communicated with each other, and some experts from Spark City introduced themselves

Shi Qingyang started searching page by page and found the original post related to his father’s death.

Some of them said in their posts that this matter was fishy. Maybe he was plotted against by someone. But most people didn’t believe the culprit to be Shi Zhen. They hadn’t even heard of him. How could the patrol team target him?

Shi Qingyang stared at the online name of the person who said that this matter was fishy, and began to check all kinds of news of the Yin family. The aphid farm next to the land rented by his parents was opened by the Yang family, the in-laws of the Yin family?

The Yin family had a good reputation in Spark City, but the Yang family had a very bad reputation…

To deal with the Yin family, you could start with the Yang family. Maybe he could catch Yin Jinru, and the leader of Spark City…

In every city, there was a City Lord, who was also directly appointed by Central City. The city lord was mainly responsible for coordinating the relationship between inspectors, administrators and judicial officers. However, his real power is not large, and was often overseen by others. But was he really willing to be subservient?

He was now clearly standing opposite to the Yin family, and there was also Gu Changjin, who suddenly appeared around him. While he wanted to find someone to deal with the Yin family, would someone also be going to find him?

The instant messenger on the computer suddenly rang. Shi Qingyang only added Cheng Xuze. At this time, there would be no one else looking for him.

“I don’t want to starve, finally, I’ve been waiting for you. The prescription you gave is very good. I’ve asked Ran Xue to make the finished product.” Cheng Xuze’s voice was very excited.

“Very good, but you must remember that you must not divulge this prescription. If released, I may not do anything, but someone else may move on the Cheng family.”

Cheng Xuze gave a “click” in his heart and quickly promised: “I will keep it a secret.”

“As long as you listen to me, I will make the Cheng family prosperous.” Shi Qingyang typed another line.

After chatting with Cheng Xuze, Shi Qingyang went to Gu Changjin: “Grandpa Gu, can you take me out of town the day after tomorrow?”

“Out of the city? You just offended the young master of the Yin family. If you dare to go out of the city at this time, you won’t be afraid of being ambushed outside?”

“Grandpa Gu, aren’t you there?” Gu Changjin’s strength is very strong, and the forces behind him cannot be underestimated. How could the Yin Family move rashly?

He dared to offend Yin Tiancheng like that. From the beginning, he planned to take advantage of the reputation of the Cheng family.

“Even if I am here, you will have class the day after tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow I will apply for a ‘free pass’. Grandpa Gu, can you also apply for one for Cheng Ran?” Shi Qingyang asked again.

Gu Changjin hesitated for a moment and nodded.

After Gu Changjin came out, Shi Qingyang went to the training room of the radiation combat building alone.

He repeated training over and over again, until he was exhausted…

When Shi Qingyang left the rented independent practice room, he could send out eight blades at a time. As soon as he went out, he felt that someone was following him from a distance.

And not just one person, but two.

Shi Qingyang walked back slowly. When he passed a gift shop, suddenly a woman in her thirties gave him a wink: “Little friend, do you want to buy a gift to give away?”

Shi Qingyang didn’t go much along this road. It was indeed the first time someone greeted him. Shi Qingyang walked in with a smile and saw various gifts.

“Shi Qingyang, do you know that someone is following you?” Just as he entered the toy store, a teenager followed him in.

“Isn’t it you?” Shi Qingyang asked back. At the same time, he recognized the person in front of him. Wasn’t this young man his old rival, He Ming?

“Not me!” He Ming immediately said, frowning firmly, “Take care of yourself. Don’t think you are invincible because you have a little skill.”

“Thank you for your advice,” Shi Qingyang replied.

“I will definitely surpass you!” He Ming gritted his teeth. Shi Qingyang had always been better than him when he was a student. Originally, he thought that after he measured his double C+ talent, he would be able to firmly defeat Shi Qingyang. However, he didn’t expect that Shi Qingyang had done such an amazing thing at the opening ceremony, whereas He Ming couldn’t even induce the surrounding radiant energy up to now.

“I’ll wait.” Shi Qingyang nodded, then turned his head and focused on the toys in the corner of the gift shop.

He Ming specially came to remind him. It was kind of him, but Shi Qingyang didn’t intend to involve him in this matter.

“You’re so old. You still need to buy toys?” He Ming looked at Shi Qingyang with some disgust.

“Can’t I?” Shi Qingyang asked back, and finally took a fancy to a little white rabbit robot. He’d only given Cheng Ran a box of sweets before and had wanted to give Cheng Ran another gift for a while. Now he could buy one.

When it came to Cheng Ran, he didn’t seem like he’d like toy models of tanks, so Shi Qingyang might as well send some toys. Gu Changjin was like a monk and couldn’t take care of a child at all, so Cheng Ran had probably never played with things like these.

“How could you choose a rabbit!” He Ming looked at Shi Qingyang’s twisting robot rabbit with disgust.

“Why are you still here?” Shi Qingyang asked, puzzled.

“This place is my family’s!” He Ming looked at the rabbit Shi Qingyang held. It could only talk to people and sell meng, a toy deeply loved by children.

“How about a 20% discount?” Shi Qingyang immediately asked.  It wasn’t easy to make money. He never spent it indiscriminately.

“You are Mingming’s classmate, of course it’s not a problem.” The woman at the door came in, smiling attractively.

Might be, He Ming would get implicated with him anyway?

When Shi Qingyang returned to the villa, holding the rabbit by its ears, it was mealtime. Cheng Ran and Gu Changjin had already started eating. Seeing him, Cheng Ran was obviously surprised: “Qingyang, Grandpa Gu said you wouldn’t be home for dinner.”

“I came back early.” Shi Qingyang glanced at Gu Changjin and gave Cheng Ran the rabbit: “I bought it for you.”

“Is this a rabbit?” Cheng Ran was surprised and quickly found the switch.

“Hello, xiao gege1,” the rabbit immediately spoke.

“Hello, this is Cheng Ran. What’s your name?”

“I don’t have a name yet. You can call me and give me a name!” the rabbit said.

“A name for you… Shall I call you Xiao Bai2?” Cheng Ran held the rabbit in his arms and didn’t want to put it down. When he continued to eat, he put the rabbit to the side and looked at it from time to time, smiling.

Shi Qingyang was suddenly a little jealous, but not for too long.

After dinner, Cheng Ran turned his attention to Shi Qingyang: “Qingyang, how about I join you in bed tonight?” When he slept with Shi Qingyang yesterday, he didn’t have any nightmares at all.

Gu Changjin’s chopsticks suddenly snapped.

Shi Qingyang glanced at Gu Changjin. He said, “Grandpa Gu, you’re the one who set the highest level of security shielding for Cheng Ran.” He really had no intention of abducting Cheng Ran right now. After all, he still had to take his revenge.

Who knew how someone like Cheng Ran had grown up…

“I’m going to remove the security shielding immediately!” Gu Changjin spoke with conviction.

T/N

Looks like Cheng Ran is finally gonna go through some sex ed hahahaha
(Or is he?…)

Footnotes

1 – Xiao gege: Just thought it sounded cuter, as “little brother” loses some impact. (return)

2 – Xiao Bai: Leaving it spelled this way. Means “Little White”, common pet name the same way you’d name a pet with brown fur Cocoa or something. (return)