Chapter 308 – Xu Xiayan's Shock

Tianfeng Dragonheart District, Wang Family Estate.

Similar to the Xu Family Estate in Longyao City, this was the estate of the Wang Family – one of the eight Super Families. It was territory owned by the Wang Family and utilized exclusively for its purposes.

This estate truly gave off the impression of being a domain. Not only was its land area larger than the Xu Family’s in Longyao City, but it also featured numerous luxurious landscapes and magnificent architectural complexes.

If the Xu Family Estate in Longyao City could be described as a manor, then this place was nothing short of a palace. It was more than sufficient to serve not just as a family estate, but also as an Advanced residential area, affluent district, or villa community.

At first glance, the place resembled a small kingdom – orderly and systematic. Though the security wasn’t overly strict, it was definitely not to be underestimated. Patrol teams of Professionals and bustling servants could be seen everywhere, creating quite a pleasing sight.

The residents here weren’t limited to just the Wang Family members. It also housed servants working for the Wang Family, attendants, and those with deep connections to the family, among others.

Naturally, this included the external Geniuses and prodigies whom the Wang Family had recruited and invested in.

Not only did they possess their own residences within the Wang Family Estate, but they also had dedicated servants and attendants who cleaned daily, prepared meals, and even security personnel, guards, gatekeepers, and Professionals hired by the Wang Family to patrol and protect their homes.

Xu Xiayan was one such individual, owning her own residence within the Wang Family Estate – a standalone villa at that. Nominally, she was the master of this property.

Thanks to this arrangement, after establishing her team and moving in, Xu Xiayan had transformed this standalone residence into her team’s base of operations.

Some members of Xu Xiayan’s team lived here while others resided elsewhere, ensuring this rather magnificent mansion never felt too deserted.

At this very moment, Xu Xiayan was instructing her team members in the mansion’s Underground Training Ground.

“Wrong, your posture is incorrect. With this kind of force application, your attack power will decrease by at least twenty percent. Do it again!”

“You there, yes, I’m talking to you! Stop looking around everywhere. Even if you’re curious about those Advanced combat techniques, you can’t learn them at your current Rank. Start with the basics and don’t aim too high!”

“Wait just a minute! Who gave you permission to spar? Going at it without activating the Alchemy Barrier – are you trying to wreck this place? Go write two-thousand-word reflection papers and bring them to me!”

“What are you looking at? Me? Why are you looking at me? Watch the training videos!”

With a lazy yet somewhat strict attitude, Xu Xiayan guided her team members through their training sessions.

All the team members here were high-potential recruits with good talent. However, they were currently basically lower-Rank Professionals and, unlike the veterans in the team, weren’t familiar with mission procedures and operations. Therefore, they hadn’t been assigned missions yet but were instead kept here for temporary training.Most large teams operate under similar circumstances. Those dispatched on missions are either Upper-Rank Professionals or seasoned veterans familiar with procedures and operations. New recruits with potential must undergo a period of observation and training before being assigned to veteran squads, where they gradually learn mission protocols and practices by working alongside experienced members.

In other words, those currently remaining at the team’s headquarters were all newcomers who had recently joined and were still under evaluation.

Xu Xiayan proved quite dutiful in her role. As Commander, she remained at the base instead of undertaking missions, providing substantial guidance to the newcomers.

Had Su Ming witnessed this scene, he would have been utterly astonished.

After all, the image Xu Xiayan had previously projected in front of Su Ming was either casual or languid, making it difficult to perceive this stern and conscientious side of her.

Truthfully, Xu Xiayan had little choice in the matter.

By nature, she wasn’t particularly strict but rather easygoing.

However, for the team’s benefit, excessive informality during training could adversely affect morale, potentially fostering lax attitudes among newcomers and diminishing their seriousness and rigor.

To prevent this, Xu Xiayan felt compelled to maintain a stern facade in public.

Moreover, without sufficient strictness, many of the impassioned young men present would never keep their eyes in check.

Evidence of this emerged immediately, as several newly recruited boys began stealing frequent glances at Xu Xiayan, their eyes gleaming and faces flushing crimson, barely restraining themselves from drooling.

Clearly, a top-tier mature beauty like Xu Xiayan—with her enchanting figure, distinct curves, and peach-like fullness—represented immense stimulation and temptation for these fervent youths.

Had she not maintained strictness, she might have become their metaphorical “midnight snack” for bedtime fantasies, with countless lewd scenarios inevitably playing out in their imaginations.

Thus, Xu Xiayan had to be stern.

Even if strictness couldn’t fully prevent such thoughts, maintaining appearances remained necessary.

To this end, she even scolded her own juniors whom she had brought to Tianfeng City.

“Bai Ruxiang! Bai Xiaoyan! Stop whispering over there! Pay attention!” Xu Xiayan pointed at the two sisters and shouted.

“Yes!”

Naturally, Bai Ruxiang and Bai Xiaoyan didn’t dare slack off. Despite being drenched in fragrant sweat and flushed red, they persevered in their training with undiminished effort.

The two were practicing a combat technique they had recently learned.

This was one of the combat methods collected by Xu Xiayan’s team specifically for nurturing new talent.

As techniques originating from Tianfeng City—obtained by Xu Xiayan with the Wang Family’s backing—their quality was undoubtedly superior.

At the very least, the combat technique Bai Ruxiang and Bai Xiaoyan were currently practicing far surpassed in depth and sophistication anything they had learned from the Bai Family.

Consequently, both sisters trained with exceptional dedication.Especially Bai Ruxiang, who was no longer young—a year older than Bai Xuefei, nearly thirty—and still remained a Lower-Rank Professional. Her potential might not seem particularly low in Longyao City, but in Tianfeng City, even if she wasn’t at the very bottom, her talent was far from impressive.

At the very least, with Bai Ruxiang’s current strength and potential as a nearly thirty-year-old Three-Star Professional, she was clearly unqualified to join Xu Xiayan’s large team.

If not for Bai Xuefei being recruited into Xu Xiayan’s team after joining the Wang Family, allowing Bai Ruxiang to benefit from the connection and be accepted alongside Bai Xiaoyan, no one in a Super Family like the Wang Family would have noticed her, let alone specifically invited her to join their team.

If someone had, Bai Ruxiang would have suspected ulterior motives—perhaps they were only interested in her looks.

This drove Bai Ruxiang to train with extraordinary diligence.

Xu Xiayan naturally noticed Bai Ruxiang training until she was drenched in sweat, drawing sidelong glances from many younger members around her, and inwardly nodded in approval.

After all, they came from the same Base City, so Xu Xiayan couldn’t help but show some favoritism toward Bai Ruxiang and pay her extra attention.

Moreover, Bai Ruxiang was Bai Xuefei’s older sister. Since Xu Xiayan had recruited Bai Xuefei and made her a member of the team, she felt responsible for her sister as well.

Currently, Bai Xuefei, due to her status and strength as an Upper-Rank Professional, had been assigned by Xu Xiayan to an elite squad within the team, carrying out missions alongside other Upper-Rank Professionals.

As for Bai Xuefei’s older sister, even if she was older and had limited potential, out of consideration for her younger sister, Xu Xiayan was determined to train her to the limits of the Three-Star level, reaching the constraints of the human body.

Once Bai Ruxiang reached the peak of Three-Star and encountered the human body’s constraints, her strength within the team would no longer be so embarrassing.

The team had plenty of older members stuck at the Three-Star Peak level, unable to advance beyond the threshold to Upper-Rank Professional.

If Bai Ruxiang reached that level, she wouldn’t have to mingle solely with the younger members.

If she could break through the constraints and advance to the Upper-Rank Professional tier, it would be a tremendous gain for both Xu Xiayan and her team.

Thus, over these days, Xu Xiayan had given Bai Ruxiang plenty of extra training, and by extension, Bai Xiaoyan had also benefited from this special treatment.

This meant that among those originally brought by Xu Xiayan to Tianfeng City, only Su Ming and Wang Yihan had not received her direct guidance.

Wait, that wasn’t entirely true—Su Ming had been taken care of as well.

The villa and the terminal were both sponsored by Xu Xiayan as a gesture of friendship, and Su Ming hadn’t forgotten that.

In contrast, Wang Yihan had been taken away by the main family upon returning to the Wang Family, and her current situation remained unknown.

Xu Xiayan had been keeping an eye on news about Wang Yihan.

Of course, she hadn’t neglected to monitor Su Ming’s whereabouts either.

“Commander.”

A man approached Xu Xiayan and called out to her.

He was dressed rather formally, like a noble young master in a suit, around the same age as Xu Xiayan.

Holding a terminal in his hands, he called out to Xu Xiayan while casting an admiring glance her way.

“What is it?”Xu Xiayan did not look at the man, her gaze still fixed on the newcomers as she maintained her stern demeanor and continued questioning.

“I have something to report,” the man said, his adoring gaze unwavering, his tone gentle. “It’s news about that fellow townsman you asked us to pay special attention to.”

“That guy’s news?” Xu Xiayan finally turned her head to look at the man.

The sternness on her face thawed slightly, replaced by a hint of exasperation.

“I remember your last report mentioned that little guy went to apply for forming a team, right?” Xu Xiayan placed her hands on her hips. “So what happened now? Did he hit a wall?”

Heaven knows how dizzy she felt when she first learned Su Ming had gone to apply for team formation.

“He just arrived in Tianfeng City, a newly debuted One-Star Sorcerer, penniless with only the residence I gave him and a small gift – and that guy actually dared to apply for forming a team?”

Xu Xiayan was nearly driven mad by Su Ming’s audacious move.

She couldn’t imagine how a newly debuted One-Star Sorcerer who hadn’t even completed a single mission, with zero Contribution Points to his name, could possibly form a team.

A newly debuted One-Star Sorcerer as Commander, and penniless too – who would be willing to join such a team?

Xu Xiayan had been so furious at the time she nearly couldn’t resist calling Su Ming directly to scold him.

But after reconsidering, Xu Xiayan decided to simply let it be.

“Let that little guy hit a wall for once.”

Only after experiencing setbacks would that guy understand that surviving in Tianfeng City wasn’t as easy as he imagined.

“Perhaps after hitting a wall and realizing the difficulties, he’ll come back to ask for my help.”

Then, she might be able to seize the opportunity to make him join her team.

This was exactly what Xu Xiayan had in mind.

Unfortunately, Xu Xiayan was destined to be disappointed.

“He didn’t hit a wall,” the man shook his head. “Not only did he not hit a wall, he’s about to become the talk of the town.”

“The talk of the town?” Xu Xiayan was taken aback, confused. “What do you mean?”

“See for yourself,” the man handed his Terminal to Xu Xiayan.

Without ceremony, Xu Xiayan took it and saw the intelligence displayed on the Terminal screen.

At first glance, Xu Xiayan stood up in astonishment.

“What? Four people joined his team at once? And three of them are Upper-Rank Professionals?”

Xu Xiayan couldn’t believe her eyes.

“Surprised, aren’t you?” the man kindly reminded. “There’s even more surprising news later.”

Indeed, the subsequent content was even more astonishing.

Because among the four who joined Su Ming’s team, not only were three Upper-Rank Professionals, but each had extraordinary backgrounds.

Especially the one leading them.

“Chi Qian?” Xu Xiayan was utterly shocked, exclaiming in disbelief. “This Chi Qian – is she the same Chi Qian I know?”

“That’s right,” the man nodded. “That Chi Qian who once became a female legend in Tianfeng City through her own efforts has joined the team of that fellow townsman you’re watching. And she brought along survivors from her previous team.”

The surprise and astonishment on Xu Xiayan’s face gradually faded, replaced by a furrowed brow.”Why?” Xu Xiayan frowned. “Why would they join a newly established E-rank team?”

“That’s what many people want to know,” the man said. “It’s probably related to Chi Qian’s request.”

It was no secret that Chi Qian had been pursuing Dragon Demon Saliva throughout the year.

She had repeatedly emphasized that she would join any team, regardless of its status, as long as they could bring her Dragon Demon Saliva.

Now, Chi Qian had joined an E-rank team that she normally wouldn’t have considered, just as she had promised, and suddenly appeared with former companions who were believed to have sacrificed themselves. This inevitably sparked wild speculation.

“Could it be that Chi Qian needs Dragon Demon Saliva to save her companions?” Xu Xiayan frowned deeper. “Don’t tell me that little guy actually managed to produce the Dragon Demon Saliva she wanted?”

“Like I said before,” the man spread his hands, “that’s what many people want to know.”

Xu Xiayan immediately fell into deep thought.

After a while, Xu Xiayan threw the Terminal back to the man.

“It seems I need to have a gathering with that little guy.”

(End of Chapter)