Free Web NovelChapter 1104: Chapter 1104: The Old Captain
"Before discussing my matters, Pei Yan, you should meet your acquaintance! After all, the coming matters will need her assistance." Elder Cen spoke, raising his hand to point behind Pei Yan and said with a smile.
Without turning around, Pei Yan could feel the source energy emitted from the space fluctuation behind him and knew who it was. He chuckled and said, "Big sister, you’re back! You didn’t suffer any losses at Lin Ruxue’s place, did you?"
"Consider yourself conscientious. If you had first asked about your own little matters, you’d have been in for a beating! Hmph, at least my effort to get the Power of Origin from her for you wasn’t in vain."
As she spoke, Lin Junzhao stepped past Pei Yan and tossed the wooden box in her hand into his, without glancing at him. She walked straight to Cen Xiaoran, looked at him and sighed, "I was the one who made you like this, but if you hadn’t done so, you could have lived peacefully for five or six more years. I wanted you to have a good ending."
At this, Lin Junzhao restrained Pei Yan’s attempt to open the wooden box and interjected, "Don’t open it! It’s not time for you to absorb it yet."
"Oh!" Pei Yan responded, suppressing the excitement in his heart, looking at the two people in front of him and becoming curious about their upcoming conversation.
"Living peacefully, I’ve lived that life for a long time since retiring from the hall, it was meaningless! Instead, returning to the investigation hall during this period has been particularly fulfilling." Elder Cen raised his head, the breeze lifting his scattered gray hair, squinting at this seemingly ageless woman before him, he smiled, "I have no children, so I don’t expect to enjoy family happiness, and besides a few old friends, I’m fond of people in the investigation hall, these juniors. Rather than spending these last years aimlessly, I’d better leave something for the younger generation, giving them more chances to survive this crucial battle. This way, I can live up to my deceased colleagues and the parents of these children."
"Alright, you’ve made up your mind, I respect your choice. Have you picked someone suitable? Is it this kid?" Lin Junzhao said, glancing at Pei Yan beside her. When Pei Yan heard it was related to him, he immediately took a step forward.
Elder Cen saw this and shook his head with regret, "I did think about passing it to him. For this, I hesitated for a long time. I believed my ability could be best inherited through him. But after watching many of his battles, I painfully gave up on this decision. He is already strong enough, with powerful calculation abilities that can substitute for my powers in his combat. Comparatively, transferring my abilities would be more beneficial to someone else."
"Cen Hall, you want to transfer your ability?" Pei Yan then realized what the elder wanted to do. Even if Lin Junzhao, with her now restored strength, executed it, transferring powers would not instantly kill the recipient like the transfer of a Divine Artifact. But given Elder Cen’s current physical state, he couldn’t withstand the pain of the source energy separation process. He would inevitably die after the ceremony.
"Yes, take it as my last gift to you young folks." Elder Cen said this, waving his hand to stop Pei Yan from speaking further, adding, "This is my decision, no one can change it. Consider it this old man’s last wish."
With Elder Cen saying so, Pei Yan naturally had nothing more to say. He could only bow his head, admiring the elder’s open-mindedness and selfless spirit, silently accepting this fact.
"My ability can’t go to you, but someone else wants to test you." Elder Cen spoke, looking at Yue Yong beside him, "Old Yue, tell this child about the remaining matters."
"Alright!" Yue Yong replied, stepping forward to Pei Yan, while Lin Junzhao humbly stood behind Elder Cen, pushing his wheelchair toward the edge of the field.
"I want to spar with you." Yue Yong opened with a puzzling statement to Pei Yan.
"Uh, sure! If the senior is willing to teach me, I would be...."
"Hey, don’t talk about teaching and all that flattery!" Yue Yong waved his hand to interrupt Pei Yan’s politeness, straightforwardly saying, "I’ve seen your matches. Setting aside the messy stuff, just with your mechanical abilities alone, I am not your opponent. Sparring with you, how would I teach you anything? Isn’t that embarrassing?"
The elder’s candid words left Pei Yan speechless for a moment. As he tried to figure out what the elder was planning, the elder added, "I’ve heard from Xiaolin that you currently have fused three methods of using Qi, correct?"
"Yes!" Pei Yan was stunned for a long time before reacting to the fact that the "Xiaolin" he spoke of was Elder Lin. With a wry smile, he nodded and replied, "I absorbed an ability from a prisoner in the Secret Prison, which allows the collection and release of various gases. I also obtained the power to compress air from the Demon Race traitor Lelajin and reclaimed the ability from Di Xin to inject Qi into someone’s body through their defense. Besides that, I...."
"Alright! Alright! I know all that! You said you got the ability to use collected gases from a Secret Prison inmate, but do you know who captured him back then?"
"It was you, wasn’t it?" The answer was obvious, given the setup, so Pei Yan asked with a smile.
"Heh, it was me!" Yue Yong pointed at his own nose and laughed, "Quite the coincidence! I’m also an Awakened in Qi abilities."
"Oh!" Pei Yan’s eyes lit up. Now this was interesting. He knew that the same ability could be perceived by different people, and different individuals developed different branches of their powers. Witnessing three people with the same ability at one time was a rarity in the Superpower Realm.
"So, I want to spar with you, without using other powers! Just use your three types of Qi abilities and your own source energy. I hope I’m not making things difficult for you?"
"Not at all! You’ll be guiding me in this area, and I couldn’t ask for more!" Pei Yan answered with excitement but suddenly thought, "But here? Old captain, I’m not being boastful, my Qi abilities are quite destructive." freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
"Understood!" Yue Yong said, taking out an object that looked like a compass and warned Pei Yan to stand back. He then tossed it into the air, and they both retreated to the sides as the object expanded under the activation of source energy. When it landed, it did so with a dull boom, revealing a platform occupying most of the training ground.
Pei Yan was all too familiar with this thing. Not only had he circled this platform for some time, but his first close-to-real combat also took place on it. This thing was a miniaturized, improved version of the platform used in the Daoist Realm Sword Discussion Conference.
