Chapter 378 - Old Friends. Qin Zhou

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

At the thought of having at least two hundred million purple crystal points going into his account, Zhang Che smiled so widely that his eyes could no longer be seen.

The Zhen family was really the angel of fortune... oh, no, strictly speaking, the money wasn’t given to him by the Zhen family. But, without the Zhen family making this move, it was impossible for Zhang Che to receive such a huge fortune for no rhyme or reason.

Naturally Zhang Che didn’t know that the Zhen family thought they were guaranteed to win the match, too, and had similarly placed heavy bets on themselves at the various large lottery companies.

So, if Zhang Che really were to claim the final victory, the money he won could really be counted as the Zhen family gifting him.

After placing his huge bets, just as Zhang Che was planning to take advantage of the lunch break to visit Miss Tienan at Bei Du University, he received a call from Luo Wenjun.

“Damn, Brother Zhang you’re awesome indeed! You actually got into a fight with the Bei Du city’s Zhen family!” Luo Wenjun’s boisterous voice came over the moment the call connected.

“I just came back from the beast world, and this news is everywhere. You’re really something! How is it, are you confident in the fight? Although there’s nothing much this brother can help you with, I can help you gather two mid-tier epic-quality beast cards if I sell off the Wind God Leopard.”

Zhang Che felt very moved after hearing this.

The Wind God Leopard was a high-tier epic-quality subdued beast! Although it was only seven-stars, many people would be willing to exchange two mid-tier epic-quality beast cards for it.

After all, the Wind God Leopard wasn’t considered weak among the seven-star epic-quality beasts. It was totally worth two mid-tier epic-quality beast cards.

“I appreciate Brother Luo’s sentiments, but I already have enough mid-tier epic-quality beast cards. I won’t be able to use them even if I had more,” Zhang Che replied. He wasn’t being pretentious; he truly didn’t need them.

Under normal circumstances, two epic-quality subdued beasts were enough to let a beastmaster display his strength to the fullest.

The False Domains of the epic-quality beasts would basically restrain one another if there were more than two, and would instead fail to display the might they could have.

As such, using two for battle and one as reserve was totally enough.

Moreover, what Zhang Che was truly counting on was definitely not epic-quality subdued beasts.

That would be the case if he was facing powerful exotic beasts; he would need to rely on powerful subdued beasts to take them on. However, when facing beastmasters, Zhang Che was absolutely confident he could find an opportunity to cut down his opponent with the two swords.

After all, mid-tier beastmasters were unlike high-tier beastmasters, whose physiques were altered with soul force, developed to superhuman standards. Facing the lightning-quick swords, they could only withstand them if they were wearing an epic-quality or higher armor.

However, how could such epic-quality exotic beasts that focused on defense be so easily killed?

Even Zhang Che didn’t dare to guarantee he could slay a defensive-type epic-quality exotic beast!

“But, if Brother Luo trusts me, you can use this opportunity to earn a fortune. Do you dare to?”

After he heard that he could earn a fortune, Luo Wenjun’s breathing hastened. He immediately replied loudly, “Hahahaha, since Brother Zhang has said that you can let me earn a fortune, then this brother has to give it a try no matter what!”

Luo Wenjun was very confident in Zhang Che’s strength. He could still vividly recall the scene of them hunting the Wind God Leopard.

That was a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast! Although it wasn’t able to employ its False Domain due to childbirth, its defense wasn’t affected greatly after all.

In the end, Zhang Che managed to slay the Wind God Leopard with a single slash! What level of an attack was that!?

Seeing Luo Wenjun being so confident of him, Zhang Che told Luo Wenjun about the bets by the lottery companies in detail.

In the end, Luo Wenjun immediately decided to use all the assets under his name, including the high-tier epic-quality Wind God Leopard, as a security for a loan and bet it all on Zhang Che’s victory.

“Brother Zhang, it’s you who introduced this opportunity to me. When the time comes, I’ll split all revenue with you equally. Let’s get rich together! Hahahaha!”

Zhang Che was immediately moved.

Although he didn’t know how much were Luo Wenjun’s other assets worth, just the high-tier epic-quality Wind God Leopard should be able to exchange for forty-million purple crystal points at the very least, right?

With just that, Luo Wenjun would be able to earn a hundred and fifty million purple crystal points! If he split half of it with Zhang Che, that was at least seventy million purple crystal points!

However, Zhang Che suppressed his thoughts and shook his head, rejecting him, “No, no, no. This brother has already placed heavy bets on myself. Thank you for your kind sentiments, though!”

“No, no. You have to accept it. If you didn’t tell me about this, I might not dare to bet everything I have on it!”

Luo Wenjun knew that since Zhang Che dared to persuade him to place the bets, this proved that he was sufficiently confident in this battle.

The two exchanged words back and forth. In the end, they agreed on giving Zhang Che a third of whatever Luo Wenjun earned.

After ending his call with Luo Wenjun, Zhang Che was smiling so brightly that his eyes could no longer be seen.

-I wonder if those who bet on the Zhen family will want to kill me after finding out about this?

-But, who freaking told you to bet against me?

-You deserve it, even if you lose everything!-

Zhang Che wouldn’t pity those people. Every one of them bet against him; didn’t that mean they thought he would die during the battle?

If he calculated things that way, they were all his enemies. So what if he won a little bit of money off them?

——

That night, Huang Juyun sent news to Zhang Che, informing him that they had decided where the arena deathmatch would be set three days from now. The location was somewhere in the desert over at Qin Zhou.

Of course, Huang Juyun only told Zhang Che the exact location. He didn’t report it to the brass with the date, afraid that the Zhen family would play some tricks.

The Huang family would only inform them of the location the day before the match, leaving just enough time for them to hurry over.

“Three days from now at Qin Zhou, huh?” Zhang Che nodded. He was very satisfied with the Huang family’s efficiency.

The desert at Qin Zhou was simply too suitable for the Earthen Rock Demon to display its strength! Zhang Che didn’t care that such terrain would affect the Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise’s strength negatively.

In his opinion, those two epic-quality subdued beasts were only going to be used to confuse the Zhen family. Although even Huang Juyun didn’t think it would, wouldn’t it deceive the Zhen family even more effectively? It would be great if it could display its strength, but it didn’t matter even if it couldn’t!

—–

The next day at noon, Zhang Che went to Bei Du University during lunch break and found Miss Tienan. The two had their meal together at the school canteen, and Zhang Che assured the worried and frightened Miss Tienan, telling her not to worry about the duel two days from now.

“Zhang Xiaoche, I’ll ask for a leave to go cheer you on!” Huang Tielan said with an indisputable tone as she took a small bite of her food.

This matter was related to her boyfriend’s life and death. Of course Huang Tielan wouldn’t be willing to skip the event.

Zhang Che was taken aback. Afterwards, he nodded and smiled, “Okay, remember to apply for your leave. If not, your teacher will think I abducted his student and come looking for me. I don’t want to die an innocent death!”

Before leaving for the beast world, Zhang Che gave Huang Tielan a lot of “homework” to do. With his reference sources, Huang Tielan’s cultivation fluid concocting improved by leaps and bounds. Although she still couldn’t come up with a working recipe by herself, her progress was hopeful.

It was very likely that Huang Tielan could become an official beast card cultivator by the end of the semester. With such success, it wasn’t strange that Miss Tienan received much attention from the teachers at school.

——

After finishing their lunch, Huang Tielan still had classes in the afternoon. Zhang Che had no choice but to leave Bei Du University unwillingly and drive home.

During the two hours in school, although the two had attracted the gazes of many youths, there weren’t any bullshit incidents of male students challenging Zhang Che, despite Miss Tienan being the belle of the freshmen of Bei Du University.

Well... the title was given to Huang Tielan by Zhang Che. There wasn’t a vote on that in school, be it official or only between the students.

On his way home, Zhang Che received a call from an unknown number on his personal terminal.

He creased his brow, thinking. He didn’t know who else knew his number. In the end, he connected the call, and heard a slightly familiar voice on the other end.

“Brother Che? It’s great that you’re fine!” Zhang Che recognized the voice. It was Zheng Hongru’s.

Thinking back on it, it had been over three months since he was sucked through the black door. Zhang Che had honestly almost forgotten about the four of them.

When he came back from that incident, all kinds of matters came one after another. Zhang Che really didn’t have the time to contact the four greenhorns he had to babysit.

“Mhm, Old Zheng, are you and the others doing well? I had too many things to take care of after I returned and forgot to contact you guys. I’m really sorry about that. Find a day and come to Bei Du together, I’ll apologize properly to you then!”

“What are you talking about, Brother Che? We weren’t able to help you when the incident happened, and we all felt very sorry to you. We’re all really happy now that you’ve finally returned safely!” Zheng Hongru sounded very excited.

After the incident, the four of them called Zhang Che every day for a period of time. In the end, there was no response and they gradually gave up hope, thinking that Zhang Che would never return.

It was only recently, after the news of the Bei Du’s arena deathmatch spread, that the few of them discovered there was someone called Zhang Che involved.

The four of them had enrolled into the beastmaster major in a university in the southeast. They basically stuck together, be it eating, living, whatever. After a discussion among themselves, they had Zheng Hongru try to call Zhang Che’s number again, and this time the call really went through!

Zhang Che couldn’t help but lament after hearing Zheng Hongru talk about this. -Did news about the arena deathmatch spread throughout Hua Xia?-

First it was Luo Wenjun, and now it was Zheng Hongru and the others. It seemed like the news had really reached everywhere.

Immediately, Zhang Che thought of another problem.

With the news spreading so wildly, information on his Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon and the Purple Crystal Tortoise had probably spread as well, right?

After all, the informant had probably witnessed the scene of him killing Zhen Long and the twenty-some beastmasters. Naturally he would have seen those two capable babies of his clearly, too.

“Then, will the news spread to Bei Mei?”

Thinking up until this point, Zhang Che couldn’t help but crease his brow tightly.

There was no need to doubt this. Large factions all over the globe were probably paying attention to the details of the conflict between the two large clans in Hua Xia.

With that, the Miyazaki Clan and that mysterious pharmaceutical company in Bei Mei would probably realize that the culprit responsible for their fight was Zhang Che. After all, no matter if it was the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon or the Purple Crystal Tortoise, their features were too obvious. Anyone who had seen them wouldn’t forget them.

“So what if they know? Times are different now. Do I still have to be afraid of them?”

Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly. Let alone the fact that both the Miyazaki Clan and the mysterious faction from Bei Mei region were severely weakened after their fight, even if they were still at their peak, Zhang Che wasn’t afraid of them.

No matter how wide their influence was, it was impossible for them to come to Hua Xia and find him for revenge openly. At the most, they would only send a few experts to sneak around in the dark.

Zhang Che truly wasn’t afraid of that.

With his current strength, it was almost impossible for anyone to kill him, no matter how strong they were, save for a high-tier beastmaster with a divine-quality subdued beast.

As for his mother’s protection, Zhang Che could totally hand over the two epic-quality subdued beasts his father-in-law had given him to Liu Gang’s squad after the arena deathmatch.

With that, Liu Gang’s tiny squad would be strong enough to ensure his mother’s safety.

Moreover, as long as Zhang Che killed the Zhen family’s mid-tier beastmaster representative in a dominating fashion, the Miyazaki Clan and the mysterious faction from Bei Mei would have to think twice before exacting revenge on him!