After hugging and crying for a good while, the husband and wife finally calmed down somewhat. Ling Tianci wiped his wife’s tears away as he said.
“All right, stop crying. Our children are all here, don’t let this become a joke for them.
Yang Su wiped her tears away, and then looked at Ling Xiaotong. “Daughter!”
“Mo… Mommyyy!”
Xiaotong’s lips trembled as her tears came flowing down.
“My daughter!”
The mother and daughter hugged each other.
Ling Tianci looked at Ling’er at this moment, his eyes red. “You’re Ling’er?”
“Daddy!”
Yang Ling’er cried out loud.
The family finally reuniting had caused quite a scene and attracted the attention of many neighbors and people who were walking past as everyone started to talk about them.
“What’s going on?”
“Seems like Ling Tianci’s wife came back?”
While it had not been long since the Ling family had moved into the Great Tang Residence, with Ling Jiu as a famous person in Lantian Base City, everyone naturally knew him. Subsequently, Ling Tianci was well-known too.
In everyone’s mind, Ling Tianci was a single old fart, how did he have a wife?
“Mom, Dad, let’s head in first.”
Ling Jiu saw a lot of people were gathering around and could not help but to remind them.
“Right, right, let’s head in first.”
The family gathered around and entered the villa as they chatted slowly.
Ling Tianci told her about what happened in these peast years, and whenever he mentioned about the trials he went through, Yang Su could not help but cry.
The morning had passed in a blink of an eye. By noon, the family of five was finally done talking, and just as they were getting ready to prepare lunch, a group of guests appeared.
They were all acquaintances, Luo Jia, Wang Chao, the mayor of Lantian Base City and other prominent figures of Lantian Base City had come.
“Brother Ling, if it weren’t for you this time, Lantian Base City would’ve been done for!”
Wang Chao thanked him sincerely. “I’m here on behalf of the 5 million souls in Lantian Base City to thank you!”
“Chief, you’re welcome!”
Ling Jiu smiled. “I’m also a citizen of Lantian Base City, protecting the base city is par of the course. You have save all of the thanks and gratitudes, there’s no need for that!”
“Regardless, we still need to thank you!”
Wang Chao continued. “Inside from coming here to express our gratitude, there’s one more thing. These are the corposes of the Direbeasts you had slain in this Beast Tide.”
“After some simple calculation, you’ve killed a total of 1 Class 7 Direbeast, 21 Class 6 Direbeasts, 692 Class 5 Direbeasts, 4376 Class 4 Direbeasts, and about 700,000 Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3 Direbeasts. We’ve brought all of them here today.”
Ling Jiu said, “Chief, you can keep the corpses for the soldiers…”
“That won’t do!”
Wang Chao refused. “Brother Ling, the Direbeasts you’ve hunted down are probably worth billions of dollars. This is just too big a sum for us to accept!”
Ling Jiu was helpless. “How about this, give me the Class 6 and Class 7 Direbeasts corpse to me, you can keep the rest!”
“This…”
“Chief, don’t refuse, please. We are old acquaintances already, you should understand my character!”
“Well, then.”
After speaking to Wang Chao, Luo Jia came forward, her beautiful eyes were filled with admiration and awe:
“Ling Jiu, I’ve always known that you would one day reach the heights that surpassed me, but I did not expect that day to come so soon!”
“Miss Luo, you flatter me!” Ling Jiu said humbly.
“Ling Jiu, I won’t say much else. If you have the time, come over to the office to give your colleagues some lessons!” Luo Jia invited him.
“Teach everyone some of your training experiences, or tell them about your deeds. You’re now a big celebrity in Lantian Base City, and I believe all of our staff are eager to meet you in person!”
“Is… Is this all right?”
Ling Jiu was stunned.
“What’s not all right?”
What Ling Jiu did not expect was Luo Jia’s invitation was just the start of things.
Over the next few days, Vulcan, Freedom Alliance, and several others Arcana organizations sent out invitations.
Even that afternoon itself, Lantian First Highschool’s principal came alongside the school’s top cadres as they sincerely invited Ling Jiu, the most famous alumni, to give a lecture or two.
This put Ling Jiu in a difficult spot. He did not expect to run into so much trouble after coming home to relax, and it was an even bigger headache than trying to hunt down Direbeasts.
Ling Jiu had no choice, so he symbolically went over to Pangu and Lantian First Highschool.
A week passed in a blink of an eye, and Ling Jiu came to the company’s appraisal department and found Li Kai.
“Ol’ Ling, you’re here!”
Li Kai smiled and greeted him. The two had dinner together last night, and he knew why Ling Jiu was here today.
Ling Jiu nodded and released all of the Direbeast carcasses out.
Aside from the carcasses of the Ironclad Ox-dragon Serpent and the 21 Class 6 Direbeasts, there were also other Class 7 Direbeast carcasses that he had collected in Australia.
He planned to sell all of them today.
“Okay!”
Li Kai perked up and immediately started appraising. After following his master for a good six months, he had now graduated and could handle the appraising alone.
“Ol’ Ling, these are all big hauls!”
“One Class 7 Ironclad Ox-dragon Serpent!”
“One Class 7 Komodo Dragon!”
“One Class 7 Titan Python!”
“One Class 7 Goldwing Holy Light Tiger!”
Li Kai excitedly went about the appraisal while Ling Jiu came to Luo Jia’s office.
“Ling Jiu, you’re here!”
Luo Jia got up and greeted him. In the past, when Ling Jiu came to her office, she could still sit like a boss, but now she cannot…
“Miss Luo, I want to sell something!”
Ling Jiu went straight to the point.
“Sell things? Sure!”
Luo Jia showed an excited look. For Ling Jiu to be able to kill the Beast Lord in seconds, and with his current strength, he should be able to pull out some rather rare items.
“These two items first!”
Ling Jiu took out two Crystal Demonic Orchids. He intended to go on a selling spree this time, and sell off all of the useless stuff on him.
“This is the Crystal Demonic Orchid?”
Luo Jia’s body shook as she carefully looked at the Crystal Demonic Orchid for a moment before saying. “The Crystal Demonic Orchid is a top-level treasure of heaven and earth, so two of them is worth 200 billion and 2000 contribution points.”
“Sell it!”
“Okay!”
“Then there’s these!”
Ling Jiu took out five energy crystals.
“Are these… energy crystals?”
Luo Jia was shocked.
“Yep!”
Ling Jiu nodded.
With Ling Jiu’s confirmation, Luo Jia could not help but gasp.
“Ling Jiu, the energy crystals are true top-level treasures of heaven and earth and are very useful for Ultimate Arcanists. Are you sure you want to sell them?”
“Yes!”
Ling Jiu nodded.
“I really don’t know what you had gotten in Australia that you could take the energy crystals so lightly.”
Luo Jia smiled bitterly but continued, “The energy crystals are ultimate treasures of heaven and earth. Each is worth 2 trillion and 20,000 contribution points!”
“Five is worth 10 trillion and 100,000 contribution points! Are you sure you want to sell it?”
“Yes!”
After selling the 5 energy crystals, Ling Jiu finally had enough contribution points, and he started to buy things. “Miss Luo, give me three Bottled Tree Hearts!”
The Bottled Tree Heart is a natural treasure of heaven and earth that could provide deep awakening, but it did not mean it could not perform the first awakening of one’s Arcana.
In fact, its effect on the first awakening was very good.
Moreover, unlike the Crystal Demonic Orchid with its hallucinating side effects, one only needed to nap after consuming the Bottled Tree Heart for them to awaken their Arcana.
Ling Jiu bought three Bottle Tree Hearts for his father, mother, and sister.
Using a top-level treasure of heaven and earth for deep awakening to perform a first awakening was indeed a little extravagant, but money made things move as one would say.
“Three top-level Ultimate Gene Arcana secret techniques!” Ling Jiu continued.
“Ling Jiu, you’re buying this for someone else?” Luo Jia asked in surprise.
“Yeah.”
Ling Jiu nodded. Although he already had his own Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique, the company had rules that the secret techniques he purchased could only be used by himself and could not be given to others or taught to others.
However, that did not mean that he could not buy it for someone else. As long as one had enough money, they could buy it for someone else, and the number that you need to buy corresponded to the number of people that you are buying for.
“Buying three Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique in a single go, that’s just a pure show of force.”
Luo Jia was in awe.
“Three Gene Arcana strengthening elixirs!”
“Three Life-enhancing fluid!”
“Three top-level Dimensional Pockets!”
“Three Water of Life units!”
After returning home in the afternoon, Ling Jiu handed the goods to his father, mother, and sister. At Ling Jiu’s urging, they consumed them one by one.
First was the Water of Life that could increase one’s lifespan by 30 years, and next was the life-enhancing fluid that could strengthen one’s body, and finally was the Bottled Tree Heart that could awaken one’s Arcana.
His mother was already a Level 3 Arcanist, so the Bottled Tree Heart gave her Fire Manipulation Arcana a deep awakening, causing her Arcana to be even more powerful.
After his father and sister consumed the Bottled Tree Heart, both of them had successfully awakened their Arcana.
His father’s Arcana was Lightning Manipulation, and Xiaotong’s awakening was much more bizarre as she awakened two different Arcanas.
One was Ice Manipulation.
The second was a very bizarre Arcana that took him a good part of the day to understand what it was. It turned out that it was a rather strange one:
Fusion.
Yes, Fusion!
Xiaotong could temporarily fuse with inanimate objects, and obtain their characteristics. Like when she fuses with metal, her body would be as strong as metal, and if she fused with water, she could take on liquid form!
This was a very bizarre Arcana, and if it was developed well, it would be extremely powerful. Just think about it, how would it be if she fused with top-level cold weapons?
Like the Zanderman Alloy?
Like the Sands of Annihilation?
Like the Venom Suit?
In all, as long as it was well-developed, it would be very extraordinary!
Immediately after, Ling Jiu got them to consume the top-level Gene Arcana Strengthening Elixir and then taught the trio the Ultimate Gene Arcana Secret Technique.
Of course, as his mother had learned an intermediate Gene Arcana Secret Technique before, learning the Ultimate Gene Arcana Secret Technique was not too difficult so she could study it herself.
Ling Jiu mainly taught his father and Xiaotong.
After teaching them the Gene Arcana Secret Technique, he also guided them on their Arcana control.
Time passed unknowingly, and a month then passed in a blink of an eye.
With Ling Jiu’s teaching and the effects of the various treasures, his father and sister made great progress, and had broken through to Level 2, and becoming a Level 2 Arcanist.
Of course, the two’s combat ability was still too poor and belonged to the weakest of Level 2 Arcanists. Even so, protecting themselves should be no problem.
That morning, the family was having breakfast when a group of uninvited guests showed up.
The leading figure was a heroic-looking female bodyguard in leather clothes and pants.
“Ling Hua, you’re here?”
Yang Su was not at all surprised to see her bodyguard.
“Chairwoman, are you all right?”