Chapter 6: A Second Talent! Martial God Fang, Wholeheartedly Devoted to the Public Good!

Could it be that, after being a lovestruck fool to the bitter end, he had finally gotten everything he wanted?

That did not seem right either.

Did they not know their own son well enough?

If he had really won her over, he would have started shouting about it before he had even stepped through the door.

“Son, are you all right?” Tang Bingyun asked cautiously.

“What could possibly be wrong with me?”

“Mom, I’m hungry. I don’t want to eat what the kitchen made tonight.”

“I just want a bowl of your wonton noodles.”

Seeing the concern in his mother’s eyes, Fang Qingchen suddenly felt his nose sting.

There was an old saying: while one’s parents were still alive, one should not travel far from home.

Yet in the three years before his death in his previous life, he had not once managed to spare the time to come home and visit them.

He had fought mutant beasts to the death all across the country.

Three times he had passed by home without entering.

There was no helping it. The destructive power of mutant beasts was simply too great.

For every extra minute he delayed, he had no idea how many more civilians would die in cities ravaged by those beasts.

He had no idea how many parents, waiting for their children to come home, would meet a tragic end.

Looking at Fang Qingchen’s slightly reddened eyes, Tang Bingyun did not know why, but her heart suddenly ached for him.

“Look at our son. He must be starving. He’s practically crying from hunger.”

“You and your father keep talking. Mom will go make the noodles for you right now.”

With a gentle, affectionate motion, she reached out and stroked Fang Qingchen’s head.

Then she turned away, quietly wiped the corners of her eyes, and walked toward the kitchen.

Fang Qingchen blinked and dried the moisture from his eyes.

Only then did he raise his head and look at the screen.

His father still wore that same cheerful grin.

It was as if he had seen none of what had just happened.

“You little brat, I haven’t had your mother’s noodles in a long time either.”

“You’d better go eat outside later. Don’t let me see it, or you’ll stir up my cravings.”

He burst into hearty laughter.

Now that he had been reborn and had seen his living father once more, Fang Qingchen naturally felt incomparably excited.

Father and son chatted and laughed for quite a while.

Only when the conversation was at its liveliest did Fang Qingchen suddenly change the subject.

“Dad, I heard that your joint expedition team dug up quite a few good things in that ruin.”

The moment the topic turned to that, Fang Zhenhai immediately perked up.

His face practically glowed as he said animatedly, “What do you mean, quite a few good things?”

“There were tons of good things!”

“Let me tell you, there were no fewer than three suits of Ancient God Battle Armor, each one comparable to an SS-rank martial mecha.”

“You have no idea how exquisite that armor is. It’s practically a work of divine craftsmanship. Honestly, I have no idea how those ancients managed to make something like that without modern high technology.”

“And there was also…”

With a flushed face and dancing brows, Fang Zhenhai launched into a torrent of enthusiastic explanations, listing one treasure after another as if they were all laid out in his palm.

But that was not what Fang Qingchen wanted to hear.

Seeing that his father looked ready to keep talking until tomorrow, he hurriedly cut him off.

“Stop, stop.”

“Dad, don’t bother telling me about those top-tier items. Even if you dug them up, they all belong to the state. We won’t get any share of them.”

“Tell me something else. I heard you dug up a bronze box with a stone about the size of an egg inside it, right?”

“You haven’t given it away yet, have you?”

As he said that, his heart was tense beyond measure, afraid that his father would say it had already been given away.

Fang Zhenhai looked somewhat surprised.

This time, his team’s excavation of the ancient ruin had been a classified operation.

Everything they unearthed was kept strictly secret and never announced to the public.

He had not even told Tang Bingyun exactly what they had dug up yet.

“You little rascal, did you plant an informant by my side? Heh. Uncle Chen told you, didn’t he? That old fellow really can’t keep his mouth shut.”

“That thing does exist, but it doesn’t look like it’s worth much. There’s no energy fluctuation at all, so it’s probably just some kind of gemstone ornament.”

“It’s black and ugly. I figured you wouldn’t like it either. I was just about to have your Uncle Chen take it back for his daughter to play with.”

“You want it?”

Fang Zhenhai said it very casually.

Given his status as a Half-Step Martial God, this was the sort of thing that could be settled with a single sentence.

As far as the state was concerned, only the items in the ruin that could directly enhance a martial artist’s combat strength were truly valuable.

As for antique curios, they were worthless.

“No, I really like it. Dad, you absolutely have to bring that thing back for me!”

“You must not give it away.”

“And if you find any more bronze boxes and black stones like that in the future, you have to save them for me.”

Fang Qingchen clenched his fist excitedly.

He let out a long breath.

At last, the worry hanging over his heart finally settled.

He had gotten it at last!

Fang Zhenhai was still somewhat puzzled.

“What can you even do with that thing?”

Fang Qingchen lifted his wrist.

“String it into a bracelet.”

“Understood!”

Father and son understood each other perfectly.

They were just about to chat a little longer when the image on the large screen suddenly began to distort.

Fang Zhenhai’s voice also started breaking apart.

Fang Qingchen knew at once that the signal was about to cut out.

His father waved at him through the screen.

“Son, I won’t be able to attend your talent awakening ceremony tomorrow.”

“But I prepared your gift long ago. It’s hidden under your bed. I guarantee you’ll like it.”

“I believe that my son, Fang Zhenhai’s son, is absolutely no worse than anyone else!”

“I awakened an S-rank talent back then. You, my son, will definitely be even stronger than I was!”

“Go all out… don’t carry any… mental burden…”

By then, the signal had already deteriorated badly.

Fang Qingchen nodded forcefully.

He waved to say goodbye to his father.

The image on the screen froze, then went black.

A few broken fragments of speech drifted out intermittently.

“Xiao Wang, write this down carefully. The ruin contained two suits of Ancient God Battle Armor.”

“Don’t write it wrong… public property, we absolutely can’t…”

The video call ended.

Fang Qingchen’s face was full of excitement.

This kind of black stone sealed inside a bronze box had only a tiny chance of appearing in the oldest ruins.

At this point in time, no one had yet discovered its true purpose.

It was handled very casually.

It was not until five years later that someone accidentally activated one.

Only then did the world learn its true use.

Once fused into the body, it could grant a person another martial talent.

It could open a martial artist’s second martial talent!

Because of that, it came to be known as the Divine Talent Stone!

That discovery directly overturned the iron law that a martial artist could possess only one martial talent.

It shocked the entire world!

Overnight, the Divine Talent Stone became a national-level strategic resource!

On the black market, it was auctioned off for an astronomical price!

It was worth a fortune!

In his previous life, Uncle Chen’s daughter had originally possessed only a B-rank martial talent.

But after fusing with this Divine Talent Stone, she had risen straight to the heavens in a single leap!

She awakened a second talent—an SSS-rank martial talent of the highest order!

From then on, she shot to fame. With the blessing of dual talents, her realm advanced at lightning speed, and she became the youngest female Martial God in Great Xia!

At the time, Fang Zhenhai had regretted it bitterly.

Fortunately, in this life, Fang Qingchen had finally gotten his hands on it first!

After happily finishing the bowl of wonton noodles Tang Bingyun had made for him, he went and enjoyed a long, comfortable hot bath.

Only then did he return to his room feeling thoroughly content.

The moment he bent down, he pulled an exquisite box out from under the bed.

When he opened it, a transparent crystal sphere the size of a fist appeared inside.

Within the sphere, countless motes of light flowed and turned, as enchanting as a galaxy.

And this!

This was the gift Fang Zhenhai had gone to tremendous lengths to prepare for his son’s talent awakening!

And it was also the gift that, in his previous life, Fang Qingchen would personally give away tomorrow—

To Lin Wanxing!