Between 12:05 PM and 12:20 PM, across all 500 Outer Training Planets of the 1,000-Sun Star Domain simultaneously. The 3,000 Elite Combat Trainees of Chief Elder Sha’s division experienced the most maddening, surreal twenty minutes in the history of cultivation!
On Training Planet #1, Chen Ao and his five junior brothers sprinted out of the Green-Sprout Tavern into the central town plaza, determined to provoke somebody. Anybody!—into showing a trace of anger so their [Counter-Slap System Rings] would unlock!
Spotting a long line of forty villagers waiting patiently outside a roasted sweet-potato stall, Chen Ao barged straight to the front of the line, elbowed three burly farmers aside. Snatched the biggest roasted sweet potato out of the vendor’s iron barrel without paying a single coin!
“Hahaha! I just cut in front of forty people and stole your biggest sweet potato without paying!” Chen Ao roared at the top of his lungs, holding his right hand up in the air and staring wide-eyed at the vendor and the forty farmers.
“Come on! Call me a shameless thief! Frown at me!
Raise a fist at me! Give me 1.0 Unit of Hostile Aggro!!”
Instead—
All forty farmers in the line, along with the sweet-potato vendor AND Planet Mayor Lin (wearing his fake tiger-skin vest over his cozy beige [Dad-Box Cardigan]), broke into warm, synchronized applause. Meanwhile, Raising their golden [Plot-Defiance Polite Megaphones]:
