There is no guarantee for the lottery? So what?

#499 - Chapter 497 Burning Yan Cheng

Yan Cheng flicked his ponytail behind his head and smiled contemptuously, "Brother? No way! If you don't take me, can you even gather enough people?"

Wow, really?

So arrogant?

This Ability King can't even gather ten people?

Qi Jing raised his eyebrows and said, counting on his fingers:

"You're underestimating me, aren't you? Let me count them for you. First, everyone in our dorm except you can come, which is three people.

Then there are four from Zha Yin's dorm, and three senior girls from our team.

Three plus four plus three, that's exactly ten, hahaha! Kid, with you, there's even one extra person! It's good you're not going, I don't even have to think about the extra person!"

"What?"

Yan Cheng also counted on his fingers in disbelief.

Song Jiang, Miao Kui, Bai Xiaoxiao's dorm of four, Senior Sister Han Yinuo and her three.

Isn't that nine?

How did it become ten?

"You kid still wants to take up a spot? Dare to say you can't get into the top twenty?"

"Dare to say! I'm just a first-year newbie, and there are third-year big shots participating. How could I be guaranteed to be in the top twenty?"

"Bullshit, you, a first-year champion, can't beat those non-champions?"

Seeing Yan Cheng's confident look that he would win, Qi Jing leaned back tactically and smiled:

"I don't even have as much confidence in myself as you do, but seeing how much you believe in me, if I get into the top three, I'll generously bring you along."

"Wait, why can those two go directly? Do I have to see if you get a spot?" Yan Cheng opened his mouth wide, pointing at Song Jiang and Miao Kui beside him and complaining.

Who knew that when they were pointed at like this, they instantly shouted at Qi Jing:

"Bro!" × 2

"See, that's called knowing what's what."

Qi Jing very appropriately conjured a pair of sunglasses and put them on his face, blowing a non-existent smoke ring.

Yan Cheng glanced at him:

"Tch, a mere spot, I can do it too! It's just the top twenty, no problem.

Besides, the people from our Loving Heart Home are not weak at all. Maybe we can get into the top three and take me in.

If I really can't get in, it's not too late to call you brother. I won't be like those two, admitting defeat before even going up."

Uh.

So, in the end, he still has to call him brother.

"With your current level, can you beat the seven opponents I faced in the finals of the freshman competition?"

Sword-wielding, sand-playing, rebounding, heart-gouging, kung fu-practicing, rainbow-releasing, egg-controlling.

Although his paintings can create a lot of bombs and props to use on stage, no one will give him a chance to tear them open. He'll either be instantly killed or rebounded. Only the egg-playing one can practice with.

As Qi Jing thought, he suddenly came up with a good idea:

"Old Yan, I'll give you something good that can greatly increase your combat power. Maybe you can really win a spot on your own. How about it, call me brother?"

"Bro!"

Yan Cheng immediately opened his mouth, without the slightest hesitation.

Just now, he was just slightly embarrassed to come down from the stage, so he boasted. Now that he's been given this step, he naturally has to agree quickly.

Besides, if Qi Jing says he can increase his combat power, then he definitely can.

Qi Jing took out a red, spiral-patterned pineapple and handed it to him:

"This is a Natural系 Devil Fruit—the Flame-Flame Fruit. After eating it, you'll gain the power of fire. Fireproofing, fire control, and fire elementalization can all be done.

The price is that after I draw a better Devil Fruit in the future, you won't be able to eat a second one.

How about it, want to eat it?"

Qi Jing had wanted to give this Devil Fruit away for a long time. After all, a Devil Fruit represents an ability. The sooner you eat it, the sooner you can train it.

He had originally planned to give it to someone on the team this semester, and now taking this opportunity to give it directly to Yan Cheng is a good idea.

Because he is very compatible with this fruit.

Yan Cheng's paintings are made of paper. Activating the items in the paintings requires destroying the paintings, and fire is perfect for burning all his paintings on a large scale, quickly making the paintings effective.

"Eat! Elementalization of the whole body is enough. No matter how strong the fruit you draw in the future is, how strong can it be?"

Yan Cheng picked up the Flame-Flame Fruit.

In addition to the benefits Qi Jing thought of, he also thought of a reason.

That is, cool!

It's very slow and tasteless to always tear open the paintings with both hands during combat.

But fire is different.

Imagine, when he holds a painting in his hand, the painting spontaneously combusts, and then all kinds of magical props or bombs are born from the flames. How cool is that!

"Peel the skin and eat it? Or eat it directly?"

Hearing Yan Cheng's question, Miao Kui said:

"Eat it directly, and you must eat it all. But this thing is very bitter, the kind of bitterness that goes to the soul."

After saying that, he and Qi Jing looked at each other and saw the smile in each other's eyes.

You're so bad~

You too~

This thing actually only needs to be eaten in one bite, but such a bitter thing, shouldn't you taste it well?

Song Jiang noticed their eye contact and was very puzzled.

But the excited Yan Cheng didn't suspect anything and directly took a bite.

"Yue~"

The intense bitterness spread to the taste buds, rushing straight to the back of Yan Cheng's head.

He immediately felt an unprecedented torment, like mixing the most unpalatable things in the world together and stirring them into spoiled fish and tofu soup.

The greatest sorrow in the world is nothing more than this.

What mortgage, car loan, what sky-high bride price, what birth, old age, sickness and death, what guaranteed bottom is all crooked, none of them are as bitter as this thing!

"Don't spit it out, swallow it quickly!"

Hearing Qi Jing's voice, Yan Cheng endured the bitter torment and pinched his nose to swallow it into his throat.

"So bitter, this thing smells tasteless, how can it taste so bad."

The unknowing Song Jiang encouraged him:

"Come on, Old Yan, you'll have flame abilities after eating it all."

"I'll try my best."

After experiencing this kind of bitterness, Yan Cheng was very unsure how many more bites he could take. Maybe, he would give up after taking another bite?

Seeing him staring at the remaining fruit with a frown, Qi Jing and Miao Kui's conscience suddenly twitched.

Or should we tell him the truth?

Suddenly, Yan Cheng encouraged himself:

"Continue! I have to eat it no matter how bitter it is. When I become the number one fire man in the world, you guys will have to wash my feet, and you all have to call me brother!"

Qi Jing and Miao Kui smiled at each other.

Forget it, conscience is better left to be eaten by dogs.

Yan Cheng ah Yan Cheng, it's not that I didn't want to remind you, it's just that you're too arrogant.

Qi Jing quietly touched the badge-style recorder on his chest.

I only wanted to record the misery of you eating bitterness, but I didn't expect to also record your boasting appearance.

Tsk tsk tsk.

"Old Yan, come on, waiting for you to blow us up!"

"Come on!"

......

After half an hour of torment, Yan Cheng finally finished eating the Flame-Flame Fruit with great endurance.

He stretched out his hand, as if he was born knowing how to use it, and summoned a small ball of flame.

Looking at the small flame dancing on his palm, a strange emotion appeared in Yan Cheng's heart.

Is this power? The bitterness I ate just now was not in vain!

"I feel like I'm ridiculously strong now! I want to sign up to participate in the war."