Chapter 145: The Final Carnival: In the Name of the Group!

Night fell, and lanterns were lit.

The entire Ascension Group did not fall silent because of the night. Instead, it plunged into an unprecedented grand carnival.

On the night before departing for Falling Sun Sacred City, Chu Feng did not hold any solemn oath-taking assembly, nor did he deliver any impassioned, morale-boosting speeches.

Instead, he did the opposite and hosted a grand banquet in the Main Peak Plaza, grandly titled the “Ascension Group First Outstanding Employees Commendation Conference and Group Annual Gala”!

In the plaza, voices roared like a tide, and lights blazed brightly.

On the ground paved with top-grade spirit stones, hundreds of banquet tables crafted from thousand-year spirit wood were laid out.

On the tables were all kinds of spirit fruits and delicacies that were priceless on the market, as well as West-tier demon beast meat roasted with pure fire spiritual power from the “True Lord Lieyang–brand power bank”, exuding an intoxicating aroma.

At the center of the banquet, a spring eye from a spirit vein was even drawn in through a formation. What gushed forth was spirit spring wine carrying a faint hint of sweetness.

All Group disciples, whether inner or outer sect, regardless of rank or position, were gathered here at this moment, faces filled with heartfelt joy and pride.

“Wu Hao!”

Under the gaze of all eyes, Chu Feng stepped onto the temporarily constructed high platform, holding a golden list in his hand.

“Here!”

Wu Hao was so excited that his face flushed red as he leapt onto the stage in a single bound.

“Wu Hao, Chief Operating Officer of the Group, followed the Group from its humble beginnings, diligent and conscientious, bearing hardship without complaint.”

“In this ‘Anti–Hostile Merger War’, he coordinated the overall situation and deployed resources with precision, making the greatest contribution!”

Chu Feng announced loudly,

“Accordingly, he is hereby awarded the ‘Ascension Group · Gold Medal Meritorious Contributor’ medal! Reward: zero point five percent of the Group’s original shares! One hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones!”

As soon as the words fell, Wu Hao’s eyes instantly reddened.

A golden medal carved from an entire block of supreme-grade spirit stone, engraved with his name and the words “Meritorious Contributor”, was personally hung around his neck by Chu Feng.

That heavy weight made him feel as though he was dreaming.

“Th–thank you, President!”

Wu Hao was so excited that his words failed him, bowing deeply toward Chu Feng.

“Next, Zhang Daniu!”

“Here!”

The honest and simple Zhang Daniu scratched his head and walked onto the stage.

“Chief Security Officer Zhang Daniu, loyal and steadfast, brave beyond compare, always the vanguard in every battle, shedding blood for the Group and blocking blades for the President!”

“He is hereby awarded the ‘Gold Medal Meritorious Contributor’ medal! Reward: zero point five percent of original shares! One hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones!”

“Hehe… this was all what I should’ve done.”

Zhang Daniu hugged the gold medal, which was even bigger than his face, grinning from ear to ear.

…

Zhao Wuji, Liu Changqing, Wang Xuanfu… one founding elder after another received rewards so generous they made others’ eyes burn with envy.

Immediately afterward, the family members of disciples who had fallen in the war were invited onto the stage.

Chu Feng personally presented them with double compensation payments and a massive sum of “Group Hero Profit Sharing”, and publicly announced that all children of heroes would automatically receive qualification to enter the Group’s “Core Elite Training Program”, with all cultivation resources fully borne by the Group!

Watching those family members break down in tears of gratitude, the hearts of all disciples below the stage were wrapped in a warm current.

For the first time, they felt so clearly that they were not risking their lives for a cold, heartless sect, but striving for a “home” that valued loyalty and righteousness and would never forget a single contributor!

At this moment, the atmosphere was pushed to its first climax.

“Next, let us welcome with the warmest applause our Group’s ‘Honorary Supreme Ancestor’, True Lord Xuantian, to come up and say a few words!”

Chu Feng smiled as he cast his gaze toward True Lord Xuantian below the stage.

True Lord Xuantian froze for a moment, then, under the crowd’s fervent gazes, braced himself and walked onto the stage.

Looking at those youthful, spirited faces below, eyes gleaming with fervor and ambition, True Lord Xuantian felt a thousand emotions surge through his heart.

Once upon a time, he had regarded this young man who had turned the sect upside down as a flood and ferocious beast.

Later, he had been shaken by Chu Feng’s methods and the blueprint he painted, signed the “Performance Agreement”, and half-pushed, half-willingly boarded the pirate ship.

And now, watching the Group grow stronger by the day, watching that terrifying potential that even the Falling Sun Sacred Sect viewed with alarm, all that remained in his heart was relief.

Relief that he had not made the wrong choice back then.

Under Chu Feng’s “encouraging” gaze, True Lord Xuantian took a deep breath and slowly spoke with the Dao-infused voice unique to a Nascent Soul Ancestor:

“This old man… has lived for over a thousand years, seen countless geniuses, and witnessed the rise and fall of countless sects. But this old man has never seen an existence like the Ascension Group…”

From the perspective of someone who had “been through it”, he spoke of his journey from initial opposition, to later observation, and finally to boundless expectations for the Group’s future.

“The times have changed.”

True Lord Xuantian sighed at last,

“Clinging stubbornly to old ways will only lead to elimination. Only those like the President, who dare to break conventions and embrace change, can lead us toward an unprecedentedly brilliant future! This old man is willing to fight another five hundred years for the Group!”

His words rang out with force, completely unifying the last trace of ideological disagreement within the sect.

With even the Supreme Ancestor giving his full support, what was there left for them to hesitate about?

The atmosphere of the banquet reached its peak.

Finally, Chu Feng stepped onto the high platform once more.

The entire venue instantly fell silent, all eyes focusing on the man who had created miracles.

He did not utter any grandiose declarations, nor did he paint any more empty promises.

He simply raised a cup of spirit wine, swept his gaze across the crowd, and spoke calmly, yet clearly enough to reach every ear.

“I remember that just a few months ago, we were still a ‘small workshop’ of a few dozen people in the Chores Courtyard, counting every low-grade spirit stone.”

“I remember that when we first launched the ‘Wolf Mentality Pill’, the entire sect regarded it as heresy.”

“I remember that when we fought a ‘price war’ with the Aotian Alliance, our capital chain almost broke.”

“I remember that when the Heavenheart Holy Land army pressed upon us, everyone thought the end of days had arrived.”

He calmly recounted the Group’s journey from nothing to where it stood today, revisiting every crisis and every hard-won victory.

Below the stage, many old disciples who had followed him since the Chores Courtyard listened on, their eyes slowly reddening.

“And now,”

Chu Feng’s voice suddenly rose. He lifted his wine cup high, eyes blazing, as if they could pierce the night sky and behold a far broader world!

“We are about to head to the center of the Mortal Realm! To test our strength against the true prodigies and the true giants!”

“We are going there not for the Qingyun Sect, nor for the Eastern Wasteland!”

“We are representing the ‘Ascension Group’, to tell the entire world—”

“A new era has arrived!”

“And we are the pioneers!”

He drained the wine in his cup in one gulp and smashed the jade cup fiercely onto the ground, producing a crisp explosive sound, raising his arm and shouting:

“In the name of the Group!”

“In the name of the Group!!”

“Long live the Group! Long live the President!!”

All disciples went completely mad at this moment! They raised their wine cups high, exhausting all their strength as they roared and bellowed. The sound wave shot straight into the clouds, almost shaking the stars from the heavens!

Chu Feng stepped down from the high platform, feeling this colossal force condensed to its peak—this force called “human hearts”. Under the scouring of this fortune, the cultivation bottleneck within his body let out a crisp “ka-cha” sound.

Foundation Establishment late-stage peak!

Just one step away from condensing a Golden Core!

And right at this moment—

“Boom!”

Not far away, the tightly shut alchemy room door, protected by layer upon layer of formations, burst open!

A figure, carrying exhaustion and barely concealed excitement, walked out from the surging sea of pill qi.

It was Leng Yanran, who had been in seclusion for many days!

In her hands, she carefully held a jade box.

Even through the jade box, an indescribable, profound pill qi—one that seemed capable of stirring the laws of heaven and earth—instantly spread outward.

In the plaza, all cultivators who sensed this pill qi, whether at the Qi Refining stage or Nascent Soul stage, felt at that moment as if their divine souls were gently brushed by a warm hand. Their comprehension of the “Dao” instantly became several times clearer!

Leng Yanran walked up to Chu Feng and opened the jade box.

In an instant, tens of thousands of rays of rosy light shot into the sky!

A pill of dazzling brilliance, as if containing the birth and extinction of an entire world, its pill qi even transforming into dragon and phoenix phantoms in midair, lay quietly within.

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