Chapter 649: Breakthrough Again! Upper Sixth Tier!

"The Holy Church's celebration?"

Xu Jingming's sword brows rose. "What's that for?"

"I came all this way — you're not going to make me stand here and talk to you, are you?"

Catherine blinked her eyes and said playfully:

"But I can give you a little hint first — if you take part in this celebration, you'll definitely benefit."

"Talk if you want, forget it if you don't." Xu Jingming lifted his eyelids and said firmly.

Catherine froze at his words.

As the Holy Maiden, wherever she went wasn't she adored by tens of thousands? When had she ever been so brushed off?

But it just so happened that she was the one who needed to beg Xu Jingming to take part.

"I'll treat you to a seat at a café, will that do?"

Catherine bit lightly on her red lips with her pearly teeth, saying with a touch of embarrassed annoyance.

"That's more like it."

Xu Jingming nodded and instructed Xia Lan beside him:

"Xia Lan, when you have time later, go investigate what kind of people those media folks were just now.

Once you've identified them, use our martial arts hall's name to deposit 100,000 Blue Star coins into each of their accounts.

Go find the hall master afterward to get it reimbursed."

Xu Jingming didn't know many mentors from the Elite Training Camp, and he couldn't be bothered to deal with those people.

So as early as half a month ago, he had appointed Xia Lan as his mentor assistant to handle his affairs.

Xia Lan's actual authority was, in fact, about the same as an ordinary mentor at the training camp.

As for paying the media, naturally it was to get them to cover the matter better.

"Understood."

Xia Lan nodded, then hurried off to handle it.

"Huh? Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall actually sent me money?"

"I just received it too."

"100,000 Blue Star coins — Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall really is generous!"

"......"

Xia Lan moved quickly.

Just a few minutes later, the group of media people who hadn't even left the Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall compound yet received SMS notifications of the deposits arriving.

Surprised, they all expressed admiration for Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall's generosity.

100,000 Blue Star coins was nothing to high-tier ability users.

But for their group, most of whom were only first-tier ability users —

or even media people who weren't ability users at all, just Awakened ones — it was already a lot.

"Now that's what I call class! This is class!"

"Exactly. Working for that guy George, not only do you get no payment, you have to put up with his arrogant attitude — I've had enough of it for a long time."

"They're both prodigies — how can the gap in how they treat people be so huge?"

"......"

George's attitude toward their group of media people couldn't even be called arrogant — it was outright ignoring them!

Each one with his nose in the air, he'd toss out a single sentence and have them come over.

As if saying one extra word would dirty his mouth.

Originally, George was a seventh-tier Grandmaster, and the remaining trainees were all sixth-tier ability users.

It wouldn't have mattered if they were arrogant toward these media people — after all, the two sides simply weren't from the same world.

But between people, the most fearsome thing is comparison.

Compared to George, Xu Jingming was stronger, younger, yet treated them very kindly.

He had even specifically transferred money to their accounts.

By that comparison, George's class was simply far too small.

"Strong in ability, friendly to his own people, yet ruthless enough to be called vicious toward his enemies.

This Lei Di is truly a remarkable figure!"

Someone spoke up in admiration, drawing agreement from the rest.

Although the transferred funds only bore the name Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall, with no other information at all,

they understood Xu Jingming's meaning — he simply wanted them to amplify today's events further, the more publicity the better.

That way, it would deliver the heaviest blow to Holy Spirit Martial Arts Hall!

This undoubtedly demonstrated from another angle Xu Jingming's meticulous mind and ruthless style.

Understand though they might, they had no intention of obstructing it.

Holy Spirit Martial Arts Hall wasn't theirs anyway.

If it took a hit this time, it had nothing to do with them.

It was all George's own doing......

An open-air café within the Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall compound.

With few customers, the midday sunlight poured down, gilding the entire café with a layer of golden film.

It was winter now, and the noon sunlight falling down wasn't hot at all — instead, it was rather warm and pleasant.

"Tell me then — what's so special about this celebration of yours?"

Xu Jingming sat in a chair, leisurely sipping coffee.

Sitting across from him was Catherine.

She was wearing a simple T-shirt and a black short skirt today.

Beneath the short skirt, a pair of long slender legs were casually crossed together, so white under the sunlight they were almost dazzling.

At this moment Catherine was still a little huffy.

Hearing his words, she puffed out her full chest, parted her vermilion lips, and said proudly:

"Our Church's Sacred Festival is held once every half year.

At the festival, you can hear the gospel and truly witness a miracle!"

"A miracle?" Xu Jingming was a little surprised.

He had never believed in gods; the so-called miracle was most likely just something fabricated by high-level ability users.

But seeing Catherine looking so earnest, he grew a little curious.

Could there really be some miracle happening?

"What time is the festival tomorrow?" Xu Jingming asked.

New Year's Eve was the day after tomorrow, so he still had time tomorrow.

He was free anyway, so he might as well go see what this so-called miracle was really about.

"Tomorrow at 11 a. m., right at St. Peter's Square in the very center of the central district."

Catherine's eyes lit up and she quickly replied:

"Tomorrow I'll be going on stage as a priestess, so you can come find me a little earlier."

"Alright." Xu Jingming nodded.

After Catherine left, Xu Jingming had lunch, then returned to his villa.

Although he planned to spend the next few days relaxing, he still couldn't drop his basic training.

"First, temper the body."

Xu Jingming sat cross-legged on the floor of the training room and took off his shirt.

Brilliant golden Lei Ting surged out wildly, bombarding the surface of his body.

The skin of his upper body quickly reddened, but at the same time became tougher.

Xu Jingming spent two hours on the Doushen Shenlei Indestructible Body, and after finishing the tempering of his physique.

He began practicing the ability training method again.

The elemental energy in the air was absorbed into Xu Jingming's body as if being whale-swallowed.

Continuously strengthening his flesh and spirit.

When over four hours later, the training ended.

Xu Jingming was pleasantly surprised to discover that a plus sign had actually appeared after the tier on the system panel!

"Looks like 650,000 ability points is the critical threshold for advancement; this one session of cultivation just met the point-addition requirement for promotion!

Then, let's begin the promotion right away!"

With a thought, Xu Jingming fiercely pressed the add-points button on the panel!

Ability points -650,000!

Level: Sixth-Tier Mid → Sixth-Tier Upper!

【Physique】: Qi-Blood → Qi-Blood!

【Spirit】: He → He!