It's Not Easy to Be a Man After Travelling to the Future

The other captains finished recruiting their new members and realized the atmosphere in the atrium was tense. They saw the empty space in the middle and saw Li Lanfeng and Shen Rufei standing there. They got a shock and quickly asked the members of Lingtian about what was happening.

When they heard that Shen Rufei requested to battle Li Lanfeng to settle the feud between him and Lingtian, they felt that he was unscrupulous too. They didn’t know why Li Lanfeng accepted the challenge.

Shen Rufei saw the space that was cleared out for them. He raised his leg and kicked a metal chair beside him. The chair broke. He reached out and grabbed a broken chair leg.

Li Lanfeng held onto his broken chair leg tightly. They stood three meters apart and stared at each other.

The atrium was dead silent. Li Lanfeng and Shen Rufei didn’t move. They were looking for an opening in each other’s defense. Once they found it, they would attack it furiously.

A few minutes passed by. Shen Rufei couldn’t find any opening on Li Lanfeng. He thought that Li Lanfeng was just an easy opponent but it seemed like he might be wrong. He felt frustrated.

Li Lanfeng’s eyes lit up. He rushed out and aimed the broken chair leg at Shen Rufei’s head.

Shen Rufei narrowed his eyes. He raised his hand and blocked the attack.

“Bang!” A loud sound erupted as the two broken chair legs hit against each other. Sparks flew out from the impact.

The two people jumped back and slid for a few meters. They distanced themselves and started a staring competition again.

People with sharp eyes saw what had happened in that instant. When the two weapons collided, Shen Rufei raised his leg and tried to sneak an attack on Li Lanfeng. However, Li Lanfeng saw through his intention and blocked his sneak attack. The force produced from this action caused them to bounce back.

Shen Rufei’s heart dropped after this attack. He thought that he could dominate over his opponent but they were on par. In the database, Li Lanfeng’s physical skills were at the peak of Refinement while he was at Qi-Jin.

“You hide yourself well,” Shen Rufei gritted his teeth and said.

Li Lanfeng replied indifferently, “I didn’t hide it on purpose. I just forgot to update my information.” This was the truth.

For these three years, Li Lanfeng persisted in practicing the movements that Ling Lan taught him. When other people were eating, he was practicing. When other people were sleeping, he was still practicing. Everytime he practiced, he felt his bones resisting the changes and felt that they could break at any moment. He had to experience this pain a few times every day. Sometimes, he thought he would die from the pain.

Thinking back, Li Lanfeng was amazed that he managed to survive. He shivered slightly when he remembered back the pain.

However, it was a good thing that he persisted. This foundational actions required persistence. People who practiced it would only feel pain in their first year. In the second year, the pain would gradually lessen but there was no real improvements on his body. Many people would give up and feel that it was a waste of effort and time. However, Li Lanfeng continued on. He trusted Ling Lan. He felt that if there were no results, it meant that he was not practicing hard enough.

Li Lanfeng started to push himself harder. He would only stop after he was exhausted. Sometimes, he was so exhausted until he had no more energy to climb onto his bed. He would sleep on the floor of his dormitory.

After repeating this for months, Li Lanfeng finally felt the benefits. He managed to breakthrough and advanced to Qi-Jin. He had been stuck at the peak of Refinement for a long time so his foundations were strong. Thus, after half a year, Li Lanfeng continued smoothly into the middle-stage of Qi-Jin.

Just like what Li Lanfeng said, he was too busy with his missions and practices so didn’t have the time to go to the assessment department to update his information. Of course, he did have his own thoughts so he didn’t tell Zhao Jun and Li Shiyu about his improvement. He wanted Ling Lan to be the first person to know about this good news.

He wanted to show off his Qi-Jin skills in front of Ling Lan and tell him that he didn’t let him down.

However, Shen Rufei didn’t believe what Li Lanfeng said. When he saw how the rest of the Lingtian members were shocked at Li Lanfeng’s Qi-Jin level, he sneered. He had an idea. “This is weird. You are a good strategist but you can’t even believe in your own teammates…”

Shen Rufei’s words had a double meaning behind them. He was trying to tell the members of the Lingtian Battle Team that they trusted the wrong person.

But, his words were useless. The members of Lingtian were not affected by his words at all. They were stunned at Li Lanfeng’s level of physical skills but they were not unhappy with him. Li Lanfeng had left for three years. If he didn’t make any improvements in these three years, they would instead be worried for him.

The only people that could be affected would be Zhao Jun and Li Shiyu…

However, before they could react, Li Lanfeng smiled at them mysteriously and said, “If they really did care for me, they would know what my true level is.”

Li Lanfeng’s gaze made Zhao Jun uneasy. Was he saying that he didn’t care much about him? That was why he didn’t realize that Li Lanfeng was already at the Qi-Jin level.

He looked at Li Shiyu. Li Shiyu was calm. He seemed to have already known about Li Lanfeng’s advancement to Qi-Jin.

Zhao Jun felt apologetic towards Li Lanfeng. He thought back about the past three years. He had been too busy with missions and practicing his mecha piloting and didn’t spend much time with Li Lanfeng… sob, old friend, it is my fault. Please don’t look at me with those eyes. I will feel even more guilty!

Li Shiyu noticed Li Lanfeng’s gaze too. After a while, he saw Zhao Jun looking at him. He seemed to be asking if he knew about Li Lanfeng’s true power. Li Shiyu recalled how close Zhao Jun and Li Lanfeng were and felt that Zhao Jun would definitely know about Li Lanfeng’s true capabilities. On the other hand, he was always in the hospital and the laboratory. He didn’t spend much time with them…