Chapter 1006: Hu Jinyu, You Old Dog! Get Out Here!

"Jingming, I've already asked—Hu Jinyu and Li Yang are both at the headquarters building."

Su Qingli said softly after receiving Liu Wei's reply.

They had left the Spark World a while ago.

It's just that there was no signal over Antarctica, so they couldn't send messages, and had to wait until they entered Great Xia's territory before sending the inquiry.

"Good, let's head straight to the martial arts hall headquarters." Xu Jingming nodded.

Good that both of them are here—saves him the trouble of hunting them down one by one. He can deal with the two of them together.

Whoosh—

The fighter jet changed direction, rocketing straight toward the martial arts hall headquarters.

They had already entered Great Xia's territory, and the headquarters' city of Ningnan was not far.

At the Obsidian-class fighter jet's extreme speed of nine times the speed of sound, they would arrive very soon.

"Director Hu, all the paperwork is in order, right?"

Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall headquarters building, top floor, the director's office.

Li Yang stood with his hands behind his back before the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the entire Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall.

Ever since coming here, he had grown very fond of looking out like this.

"All in order."

Hu Jinyu, standing beside him, said with a smile: "There's no problem with any of the paperwork. Even if Su Qingli took it to the National Council, there wouldn't be a single slip."

"That's good."

Li Yang nodded. "Also, has tonight's meeting been announced to everyone?"

"It's been announced. I guarantee it'll go exactly according to your plan!" Hu Jinyu said hurriedly.

"Excellent. After planning for so long, the day to reap the harvest has finally arrived!"

Li Yang was in excellent spirits.

Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall had deep foundations and a large membership within Great Xia.

But the hall was almost a public-interest operation, rarely placing mandatory demands on its members.

A relaxed environment did indeed attract more people to join.

But leaving so many people unused was an absolute, enormous waste!

If this entire group were all put to use by the Li family, the Li family's power would swell several times over!

They might even produce another three or four ninth-rank powerhouses!

And tonight, he would announce the change in Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall's policies.

Then, the hall's entire living force would be put to use by the Li family!

"Just thinking about that picture feels wonderful."

A smile surfaced on Li Yang's face.

It was just right—his Hao'er had already reached the peak of eighth-rank. With a few more resources piled on, breaking through to ninth rank wouldn't be a problem.

Just as he was lost in his own imagination, a thunderclap-like explosion suddenly rang out from outside the window:

"Hu Jinyu, you old dog! Get out here!!"

"Hm?!"

Hu Jinyu and Li Yang both looked toward the window at the same time.

With the spiritual force of these two ninth-rank mid-tier ability users, they could very easily sense that the voice came from a fighter jet two kilometers away.

"It's Xu Jingming's fighter jet."

Hu Jinyu showed a smile. "Looks like they've already left the Spark World."

"Haha, then let's go! Let them know who calls the shots at Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall now!"

With a great laugh, Li Yang and Hu Jinyu flew out of the office one after the other.

"Holy crap? Who's this bold, daring to call Director Hu an old dog?"

"No idea, but I can bet something big is about to happen!"

"Something's off. Hearing that voice, why do I feel oddly familiar with it?"

"..."

That voice also startled everyone else within the Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall compound.

Whether inside the building or outside, people one after another looked up at the sky.

They then saw a black fighter jet streak over like lightning and hover above Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall.

"That's... Inspector Xu's fighter jet! The directors are back from the Spark World!"

Someone recognized the fighter jet and shouted excitedly.

The next moment, the hatch opened, and Xu Jingming and Su Qingli stepped out of the cabin side by side, walking through the air.

"It really is the directors!"

"Awesome!"

"Great, great, great—back for one day and already calling the vice director an old dog! Truly worthy of Lei Di, just as fiery!"

"..."

Countless excited murmurs rose up.

One pair of excited gazes after another looked toward Xu Jingming and Su Qingli in midair.

During this period, the changes at Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall had left everyone's hearts unsettled.

Now, at last, their backbone had returned!

"Su Qingli! Your disciple is so ill-bred—just how exactly did you raise them?"

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Li Yang and Hu Jinyu flew out of the martial hall building one after the other, Hu Jinyu—flames swirling around his body—shouted harshly.

The procedures were done anyway, so he couldn't be bothered to keep playing the obedient deputy hall master.

"My disciple—it's not your place to lecture them!"

Su Qingli snorted coldly, and her SS-rank Upper Purity Doushen Shenlei erupted with a roar!

Crackle-crackle—

Cyan lightning flowed, and that ferocious aura actually forced Hu Jinyu's A-rank fire-element ability back inside his body.

"This aura..."

Hu Jinyu's expression shifted slightly. "Your ability has evolved to SS-rank?"

He had spent several years around Su Qingli; he knew perfectly well.

A mere S-rank Jade Purity Doushen Shenlei absolutely could not suppress him to this extent!

"What? Scared now?" Su Qingli looked at him, expression cold.

"What would I be scared of? Evolved or not, what does it have to do with me?"

Hu Jinyu still talked tough.

But the next moment, he suddenly noticed something off about Xu Jingming beside him.

Xu Jingming hadn't deployed his Thunder Dragon Wings, yet he was hovering in midair all the same!!

The moment his spiritual sense swept over him, Hu Jinyu's pupils contracted sharply, and an expression of incredulous terror surfaced.

"What is it?"

Li Yang sensed his abnormality and frowned inwardly.

Hu Jinyu was a veteran mid-tier ninth-rank Law Saint—how could his mental fortitude be this poor?

"Xu... Xu Jingming, you've broken through to ninth-rank?"

Hu Jinyu ignored Li Yang, pointed straight at Xu Jingming, his voice trembling.

"Oh? Your perception is still fairly sharp, I see."

A cold smile curled at the corner of Xu Jingming's mouth; he stopped concealing his aura, and it exploded with a roar!!

Boom—!!

A pitch-black, black-hole-like SSS-rank Chaotic Doushen Shenlei erupted with a roar, violent black arcs of electricity leaping across the surface of his body.

Every leaping pitch-black arc devoured the light, even making the air seem to twist and collapse around it.

The entire Thunderclap Wu Guan headquarters region was as if a god of demons had descended upon the world.

Shrouded within Xu Jingming's suffocatingly ferocious aura!!

"Ninth-rank! Lei Di has actually broken through to ninth-rank?"

"What terrifying pressure! Even stronger than Hall Master Su!"

"Ninth-rank with SSS-rank? This must be the first person in our Great Xia's history, right?"

"..."

Countless gazes turned toward Xu Jingming, and the rising murmurs were filled with shock and disbelief.

Even Liu Wei, standing at the martial hall entrance, wore the same stunned expression.

She had originally been expecting Hall Master Su to make a move.

She never expected Xu Jingming to play a royal flush right off the bat!!

"Impossible! Before entering the Spark World, you had clearly just broken through to eighth-rank!"

Li Yang roared at Xu Jingming.

He felt his entire worldview collapse.

Two months—from lower eighth-rank to lower ninth-rank.

Neither now, nor in any previous civilization era, was there any such record!