Urban Most Awesome Dad

Chapter 416: Chapter 416: Ruyi Abacus_1

Li Fuqiang was waiting for this very statement from Xu Fan; as long as Xu Fan didn’t outright refuse, everything was up for negotiation, and he could even make concessions on his own terms.

He pursed his lips and said, “Our country has a batch of the most elite soldiers, and we wish to cultivate them further—oh… my apologies, that came out wrong. Here’s the actual plan: each military region will select a hundred of the finest elites to come to Zhonghai and undergo three months of intensive, closed training with your security team members.”

“By the end of the training, I expect that eighty percent of them will have reached the middle stage of the Qi Drawing Realm.”

“During the training period, you will temporarily act as their commanding officer, with the authority to arrange all training activities. To facilitate the completion of your mission, if anyone dares to disobey orders, you may deal with them according to military regulations, even expel them from the training. In short, they will follow your commands.”

“Additionally, to increase your enthusiasm, Protector Xu, I personally promise that if anyone wishes to stay with you after the training, I will agree unconditionally. So, it is up to you to retain them.”

Xu Fan listened quietly. At first, he didn’t take it seriously, thinking that the other party wanted to use his expertise to create a group of super ancient martial artist soldiers. Finding him was indeed the right choice. Such a beneficial and selfless task, he would treat it as a good deed.

When Li Fuqiang made this personal promise, Xu Fan was somewhat touched. Perhaps the other party was tempting him, fearing he wouldn’t give his all and hold back during training, so they used this condition to press him.

However, for Xu Fan, this move was very advantageous. Although he had excellent training methods, he had never had suitable candidates to train.

These were the finest soldiers from the military regions.

From two million active-duty soldiers nationwide, only one hundred were chosen, which spoke volumes about their value.

Of course, Li Fuqiang, a cunning old fox, would not foolishly hand over such talent.

He believed these people were absolutely loyal to the country. If a hundred went, a hundred would naturally return. Even if only one stayed behind, it would be considered his loss. Worse still, he might even lose some of his own security team members.

At the same time, he was also covertly learning Xu Fan’s training methods. Once he acquired those methods, he would be able to independently produce ancient martial artist soldiers.

Marvelous!

However, due to this promise, Xu Fan’s security team was able to rapidly expand in size and quality, gaining a reputation across the world.

Because, Xu Fan didn’t dare to claim that he could keep all one hundred people, but achieving a fifty-fifty ratio was no problem.

Such a great opportunity was hard to come by, even with a lantern. It could even be said that Li Fuqiang had presented him with fifty Qi Drawing Realm elite ancient martial artists, some of whom would even break through to become Martial Arts Grandmasters.

In due time, Xu Fan would be able to take people back to the Xu Family to investigate the truth.

Xu Fan had always been haunted by the need to find his father’s real killer to seek vengeance and to clear his mother’s name. Even if he couldn’t uncover the truth immediately, he planned to forcibly rescue his mother so she could breathe the air of freedom.

With this in mind, Xu Fan was pleased, but he still replied with a feigned difficulty, “Chief Steward Li, you really have your calculations well thought out… oh well, I owe you a favor, so I’ll agree to this request.”

Li Fuqiang breathed a sigh of relief, unable to contain his smile. He hadn’t expected Xu Fan to agree so easily; he had fully prepared to haggle.

Soon, he realized that he too had been short-sighted. If he had known, he would have claimed the number to be three hundred instead of one hundred.

Cherishing a slight regret, he looked forward to the end of the year, when the Flame Dragon Organization would gain a hundred Qi Drawing Realm soldiers to strengthen teams across the country.

After all, even the three members of Little White Flying Eagle in the Zhonghai City branch were only at the Qi Drawing Realm.

In the Flame Dragon Organization, the Qi Drawing Realm members were the most numerous and comprised the massive base level of the organization.

Without them, most missions would require the higher echelons to step in, which would be utterly exhausting.

Clearing his throat, Li Fuqiang smiled and announced, “There’s another matter to declare. Protector Xu, your strength has proven everything. Thus, there has been an adjustment to your position within the organization; you have been elevated from a barren grade protector to a cosmic grade protector, with treatment comparable to that of a department head.”

However, Xu Fan listened with apparent indifference, as if the news brought him no joy, quietly waiting for what was to come next.

Li Fuqiang continued, “The promotion also means adjustments to your job authority and benefits. Cosmic grade protector’s goal is to earn 50,000 Merit Points from missions each year. Due to Protector Xu’s special case, this number needs to be doubled, so, 100,000 Merit Points. Naturally, if you use the security team to accomplish missions for you, that counts as well.”

“Is it always double? Or just for this year?” Xu Fan asked calmly.

Although he was unconcerned, he still wanted to know for clarity. After all, he needed to train his security team, so he might as well make them take on missions procured by the organization. This way, they would be working for him and gaining experience, killing two birds with one stone.

However, Xu Fan was neither working for free nor a volunteer; he couldn’t keep doubling forever. He wasn’t born to work for the Flame Dragon Organization without compensation.

“Not for long, just three years,” replied Li Fuqiang. “Protector Xu, you’re so young, I believe you’ll find this acceptable. After three years, there will be no more such restrictions.”

“Of course, if Protector Xu advances to become a Martial King during that time, thereby earning a promotion to Chief Steward, naturally, there won’t be any more mission restrictions either.”

Li Fuqiang said this mainly because he had insufficient knowledge of Xu Fan and thought that his cultivation was mediocre, his strength solely due to advanced martial arts techniques, which couldn’t rapidly improve one’s cultivation. Hence Xu Fan becoming a King would take much longer than three years—possibly, like other genius ancient martial artists, he might stall forever at the peak of Grandmaster.

Little did he know that his cleverness was leading him down the wrong path, thinking he could calculate everything, only to cause huge mistakes due to his miscalculations.

In reality, it wouldn’t take long for Xu Fan to become a Chief Steward at Li’s level.

Therefore, upon hearing the added conditions, Xu Fan found them inconsequential.

Three years? Probably no one would see that.

He wasn’t an ordinary ancient martial artist. Becoming a Martial Arts Grandmaster and Martial King held no difficulty for him. Xu Fan was contemplating how to refine the Blood Qilin Pill and break through to the Heavenly Venerable Realm in one fell swoop.

“Alright, I agree,” Xu Fan said readily, warming up to Li Fuqiang.

After all, Li Fuqiang was constantly scheming for his benefit. With meticulous calculations, he thought he was reaping great benefits from Xu Fan, but in reality, he was picking sesame seeds and losing watermelons, inadvertently opening the doors of convenience wide for Xu Fan.