Chapter 272: Chapter 232: Eastern Capital Military Academy, Exploded

There’s a price for every meal.

And a debt for every gift!

He was now a living example of that old saying.

"Is there anything else, Teacher Gui?" Gao Neng was genuinely afraid Teacher Gui would come back into the dorm.

"Nothing else. You’re confined to your dorm for the next three days. And remember, without my permission, you are not to take a single step outside this room for those three days!" Gui Zian finally said, gritting his teeth.

"What about food?"

"I’ll have Kong Kun and the others bring it to you!"

"Thank you, Teacher Gui!" Gao Neng said immediately, then quickly slammed the door shut.

SLAM!

A sharp crack.

Gui Zian’s expression froze. He shook his head and quickly departed.

As for Gao Neng, he quickly gathered the pile of multicolored ores from the floor, then pulled out another heap from his backpack.

’Just one of these stupid ores is worth eighty million to a hundred million?! I’ve really hit the jackpot this time! Keep going, keep going... I still have fifty or sixty more here. I’ll upgrade them all in one go!’ Gao Neng felt like he had just kicked open the door to a new world. A golden highway to the heavens was unfolding before him.

’Eighty million for a single piece.’

’Even if the others are of lower quality, they should be worth at least thirty million, right?’

’A hundred pieces!’

’That’s at least five or six billion, easy!’

’And what’s the cost?’

’Gao Neng did a quick calculation. Upgrading a better crystal ore cost around one to two million, while a lesser one only cost a few hundred thousand. Upgrading all one hundred pieces would cost a little over one hundred million at most.’

’I’m rich!’

’Money is the one thing I have!’

’I’ll never be able to spend a billion.’

’The more I upgrade, the more I’ll make.’

’This is an insanely huge profit.’

Gao Neng immediately took out the largest one—a crystal ore easily the size of a human head. It looked exceptionally crystalline.

"Use Source Ability on this crystal ore. Evolve to the next tier!"

"Ding! 2.8 million Alliance Coins deducted from Host!"

"Evolution successful. Crystal ore has evolved into ’Rhythm of the Earth’s Core.’ Quality: High-Grade. (Rhythm of the Earth’s Core is a hard ore produced in the deepest parts of the earth, possessing a unique vibration.)"

’Not bad. Continue!’ Gao Neng’s eyes were glowing with excitement.

...

「City of Hope, a small courtyard」

Li Tiannan looked at the notifications of deductions on his phone, which had finally stopped. He slowly let out a sigh of relief.

"BEEP. Task complete. Gao Neng has been confined for three days!"

"Hahaha... You little brat, trying to play games with me? You’re still too green! Confined for three days! Let’s see you try to use my card now!" Li Tiannan laughed out loud as he read the new text message.

And then...

A new notification popped up.

"Notification: A charge of 2.8 million Alliance Coins has been made to your bank card ending in 0568. Reason for deduction: Unknown."

"Notification: A charge of 2.3 million Alliance Coins has been made to your bank card ending in 0568. Reason for deduction: Unknown."

"Notification..."

"..."

CRASH!

A table shattered into pieces.

"Song Tianyun! You brat! You don’t want to be principal anymore, is that it?! Fine! So you even dare to defy a supreme military order now! Good for you, Song Tianyun! If I don’t fucking destroy you, then I’m not Ghost Eyes Li Tiannan!" Without a moment’s hesitation, Li Tiannan dialed Chen Yichuan’s number.

"RING... RING..."

"Elder Li, good day!" Chen Yichuan’s voice quickly came through the phone.

"Good my ass! Shen Changsheng is still in the Eastern District cleaning up the mess, but you’re back in the Eastern Capital Military District. Eastern Capital Military Academy is your responsibility right now, isn’t it? Do you have any idea they’re about to fly off to the heavens over there? Enforce military discipline! Go enforce military discipline for me right now! I want to see every last teacher and the principal of Eastern Capital Military Academy—and that includes Song Tianyun—I want to see them all running on the athletic field!"

"Running?" Chen Yichuan was confused.

"Yes. For three days and three nights. You will personally supervise. Go now! If I don’t see them running for three days and three nights, then you, the Vice Commander, can go run yourself! Understood?!"

"Understood! I will carry out the order without fail!" A drop of sweat trickled down Chen Yichuan’s forehead.

’What the hell?’

’Make all the teachers at Eastern Capital Military Academy run on the athletic field for three days and three nights? And he wants me, a Vice Commander, to personally supervise? What in the world did that old fox Song Tianyun do to piss off this reclusive old master?’

...

Eastern Capital Military Academy was in an uproar!

Principal Song Tianyun, three vice-principals, and several hundred faculty members were all on the athletic field for "training." And there was only one item on the agenda: run till you drop.

Three days and three nights...

Song Tianyun had lived for decades, and he had never run like this in his entire life.

The worst part was how wide-reaching the order was. It was so broad that even the grandmothers working in the logistics and exchange department weren’t spared.

Every single one of them was dragged onto the athletic field to run like mad.

What’s more, Vice Commander Chen Yichuan from the Military Department was personally supervising. He wouldn’t let them stop until the time was up. Aside from water breaks, even their bathroom time was restricted.

It was truly a once-in-a-century sight.

The entire student body of Eastern Capital Military Academy was, to put it mildly... utterly dumbfounded.

Gao Neng, however, was oblivious to all of this.

He spent the entire three days locked in his dorm. Fang Tangtang had knocked on his door, as had Kong Kun. Feng Qingqing had come by as well.

But they were all just delivering his meals.

And strangely, the food was always from restaurants, not the cafeteria.

’Did the cafeteria shut down?’

Gao Neng didn’t ask any questions. He was busy focusing on his practice of the *Supergravity Electromagnetic Storm*. In three days, he had basically mastered it. The only thing he lacked was real combat experience.

Not only that, but he had also discovered something wonderful during those three days.

After he entered the fourth tier...

...his cultivation speed had actually increased instead of decreasing!

’What’s going on?’

Gao Neng didn’t know.

But he did know one thing: on the fourth day, Gao Xiaomeng woke up.

*(Author’s Note: Posting this 5,000-character Chapter for now. Didn’t have time to write 6,000 characters and split it into two Chapters! I’ll write an 8,000-character update tomorrow! Special thanks to chenhao13360 for the 20,000-coin tip and Xiao Xiao Yue Yin for the 10,000-coin tip!)*