Episode 347

Miu Zhengtao nodded at Su Jin, then said in a frosty voice, “Since you’ve made the request, my team will grant your wish. Everyone, let’s go!”

By this time, Ke Tong had already been revived. His eyes were bloodshot with anger, since that defeat earlier had been humiliating to him. Moreover, just like Miu Zhengtao, he too, assumed that Su Jin must have used some weapon of sorts. To him, it was impossible for anybody to have this sort of strength. Not even a veteran could achieve this.

Besides Zhou Xinyu, everyone else in Team Vast Ocean charged at Su Jin. But they weren’t that dumb. They were afraid that Su Jin would use the same weapon as before, so they scattered themselves, then came at Su Jin from different directions.

Su Jin scanned the group and frowned as he shook his head. These people were simply too weak. Even Situ Jin or anyone else in his ex-team would have slayed them within seconds.

“Too weak,” Su Jin shook his head. As he shook his head, silver beams flickered around him, causing the members’ bodies to collapse to the ground while their heads went flying. He had used psychokinesis as a blade to slice through their necks, leaving only Zhou Xinyu in one good piece.

Zhou Xinyu knew that Su Jin was very formidable, but she didn’t expect her team to be completely helpless. Her team was ranked at around 5,000 and had two veterans among them. How could it be that not a single one could fight back? And worse still, the entire team perished within one second.

A moment later, the team had been revived and they stared at Su Jin with their eyes wide and mouths gaping. They barely even understood what just happened. Su Jin was still standing where he was and hadn’t even moved. There was nothing different about their surroundings either.

“Did you… did you just use another weapon?” asked Ke Tong.

Su Jin flicked his fingers slightly and a blade made from psychokinesis appeared in midair, floating for a moment before slicing Ke Tong’s head off. He said calmly, “It’s not a weapon. I’m a veteran too, and this is psychokinesis, my Spirit Power.”

“Psychokinesis?! That’s impossible! Psychokinesis is a Spirit Power that’s very difficult to increase or improve, and it’s been called a useless Spirit Power. It can’t be this formidable,” said Miu Zhengtao immediately.

Su Jin shook his head and said in a disappointed voice, “The Handbook never gives out any useless Spirit Power. Xu Ran is an expert in psychokinesis, and he’s ranked highly among the best owners. As long as you can find a suitable method, psychokinesis can be increased and improved. But the problem now is that none of you can hold up against even one move of mine. I’m worried about Xinyu following you guys around.”

“How… how can that be? I’ve met psychokinetic owners before. The best they can do is to read the thoughts of others, and they can only read the minds of those who aren’t strong enough to fend them off. It’s impossible for…” Before Miu Zhengtao could finish speaking, a silvery beam appeared before his eyes. But this time, Su Jin did not slice his head off. He allowed the blade made from psychokinesis to stop right in front of Miu Zhengtao’s face so that he could get a good look.

Miu Zhengtao had a bitter look on his face. That blade was indeed made from actual psychokinesis, except that it was psychokinesis manifested in physical form. The fact that it could be altered according to one’s will and wishes probably made it way more dangerous than a Spirit Power weapon.

Su Jin stopped giving Team Vast Ocean any more attention, since they were too weak and their attitude was too poor, so it was very difficult for them to level up. He turned to Zhou Xinyu and said, “Xinyu, can you tell me what happened now?”

Zhou Xinyu nodded and said, “It’s like this – another team is targeting us and has challenged us to a death match.”

“An inter-team challenge?” Su Jin frowned. Inter-team challenges were something that was implemented after major changes were made to the Handbook Challenges. Team Boning Knife had never been challenged before, but that was only because the team was too highly ranked. Teams that were ranked highly wouldn’t try to challenge each other unless they were certain they could defeat the other team. Living in harmony was preferred.

“Based on the rules for inter-team challenges, I would imagine you guys are good enough to fight the other team, no?” asked Su Jin. Team Vast Ocean was clearly not very confident of winning, which was why they were looking for help.

Zhou Xinyu had a sad smile as she explained, “Team Flying Clouds has an owner who’s very highly ranked, and it seems like he enjoys joining low ranked teams in order to dominate weaker teams like ours.”

“I see,” Su Jin nodded. He and Xiang Nan had predicted that something like that could happen. It had turned out to be true.

“Back out from Team Vast Ocean then,” Su Jin said to Zhou Xinyu. He didn’t have high hopes for this team’s future. Zhou Xinyu was a strategist with great potential, so if she were given a chance to develop steadily, she would achieve much in the future. She shouldn’t be stuck with this team and wait for death to fall upon her.

After seeing the sort of attitude her teammates had toward Su Jin, she felt disappointed in them too. It had been hard enough for her to ask Su Jin for help, since she had hoped to become formidable before meeting him again, and not begging desperately for help. She was willing to set aside her dreams for the team, but the team started off by underestimating Su Jin, and worse, failed to evaluate themselves after being defeated. The first thing they did was to actually suspect Su Jin’s methods.

In a death match, the other person’s methods didn’t matter. If they won, they won. You were dead. But her teammates clearly didn’t understand that part. Such an attitude would only cause them to lose out and suffer in future Challenges.

“Shifu, I know my team has been… pretty rough, but even if I have to leave, I’d like to leave only after this.” Zhou Xinyu bent her head and looked like she wasn’t sure of what to do.

Su Jin sighed, looked at the rest of the team, then nodded. “Alright then. I’ll help you guys to get through this crisis, then I’ll recommend you to another team and you can join that team.”

Zhou Xinyu nodded and immediately thanked Su Jin for being willing to help. The rest of the team stared at Su Jin in disbelief. This guy was actually poaching their teammate in front of them!

Su Jin only needed to scan them with his psychokinesis to find out what was going through their minds. He said to them, “If you’re angry about this, you can come to me directly. You can bring along as many people as you like.”

A silver glint flashed in Su Jin’s eyes and the rest of the team felt like they had just been struck by a giant hammer. A terror gripped their hearts instantly, and they felt that they had to make sure they never stepped on this guy’s toes, otherwise… they would face a worse fate than dying in a Challenge.

“We… understand.” Miu Zhengtao was feeling indignant, but the terror in his heart forced him to put that indignation aside and bow to Su Jin.

Su Jin knew that if he didn’t plant a seed of psychokinesis in the hearts of these people that could control their actions, these people would forget how he had mercifully let them off today once they became powerful enough to fight him, and would go crazy trying to take revenge. But that didn’t bother Su Jin. In fact, he kind of hoped that would happen someday.