37: Chapter 37 Just because of that piece of trash?

"How is it? Did you find any clues?"

Just as Yang Cheng had a speculation in his heart, Principal Han Xianming walked in from outside the tent and said to Yang Cheng.

"Principal, there are already some leads..."

Hearing this, Yang Cheng immediately turned around and reported to Principal Han Xianming his speculation after just seeing through the surveillance footage that Chu Xiu and Zhang Daxian walked out from the direction of the beheaded savage.

"Hmm, your speculation should be correct. In that case, tomorrow's actual combat training will proceed as usual, and we will return to Linjiang City six days later."

After listening to Yang Cheng's report, Principal Han Xianming gently nodded, expressing agreement with his speculation.

"Alright, Principal."

Hearing this, Yang Cheng also immediately nodded in response and then withdrew from the tent.

On the other side, after Chu Xiu and Zhang Daxian returned to the temporary camp, they were led by special personnel to the rest area of Class 2 to rest, and nothing happened through the night.

The next day, everyone in the temporary camp, just like before, was each distributed a bottle of water and a portion of dry rations before leaving the temporary camp entirely to continue their field combat survival.

Everything was so orderly and methodical, as if the Heavenly Demon Society's attack last night had never happened at all.

"Daxian, I am still planning to leave alone today. Let us part ways here."

At the main gate of the temporary camp, Chu Xiu looked at Zhang Daxian beside him and said to him.

"Uh-huh, Brother Chu, I'm just waiting for you to win first place in this actual combat training. I can't wait to see how wonderful Song Zhihao's expression will be then, hahahahaha!"

Hearing Chu Xiu's words, Zhang Daxian laughed heartily.

Having witnessed the terrifying strength of the Dark Blade Mantis, he had a profound understanding of Chu Xiu's strength. Even the vast majority of teachers in No. 1 High School were not as powerful as Chu Xiu, and the first place in this actual combat training undoubtedly belonged to Chu Xiu.

Regarding Zhang Daxian's words, Chu Xiu smiled indifferently, then summoned the Snow Crystal Silver Lion from his Beast Taming Space, rode it to leave rapidly in one direction, and vanished from Zhang Daxian's sight in the blink of an eye.

"Huorong Hound, let us go too!"

Zhang Daxian withdrew his gaze, summoned his beast, and said to the Huorong Hound, then flipped over to ride on the Huorong Hound's back, letting the Huorong Hound carry him running towards another direction.

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Except for encountering the attack by the Heavenly Demon Society savages on the first night, Chu Xiu and the others' actual combat training in Qingshan Town was calm and peaceful for the next few days.

During the following six days, Chu Xiu never returned to the temporary camp and kept slaughtering fierce beasts within the range of Qingshan Town.

Coupled with his powerful strength, he was able to slaughter a massive number of fierce beasts every day.

Besides that, the Snow Crystal Silver Lion he contracted in Qingshan Town, under the 256-fold growth acceleration of the SS-grade Beast Space, only took a short six days to elevate from Black Iron 3-Star when first contracted to Black Iron 9-Star.

Equivalent to an improvement speed of one star per day, and this was even without the assistance of mana nutrient solution and other beast taming resources.

If there were sufficient mana nutrient solution and beast taming resources, the level of patronized Snow Crystal Silver Lion would only be higher.

"Today is already the last day of coming to Qingshan Town. It is getting late, time to go back."

At a dilapidated street corner on the edge of Qingshan Town, Chu Xiu cut off a right ear from a Black Iron Tier fierce beast, a Lion Mastiff killed by the Snow Crystal Silver Lion, glanced at the setting sun, and put the right ear in his hand into the animal skin bag on the back of the Snow Crystal Silver Lion.

This animal skin bag was woven four days ago by him using the wolf skin from a wasteland wolf.

During these six days, the number of fierce beasts slaughtered by Chu Xiu was huge. The backpack distributed by the school could no longer hold the spoils of war from the fierce beasts he hunted, so he had to make an extra animal skin bag to hold the spoils.

At this moment, this animal skin bag on the back of the Snow Crystal Silver Lion was also almost filled by him.

"Snow Crystal Silver Lion, let's return to the camp!"

After putting the Lion Mastiff's right ear into the animal skin bag, Chu Xiu leaped, landed on the back of the Snow Crystal Silver Lion, and said to it.

"Roar!"

He saw the Snow Crystal Silver Lion let out a heaven-shaking roar, and then it strode its steps and sprinted wildly towards the center of Qingshan Town.

Outside the temporary camp in the center of Qingshan Town, more than half of the students had already gathered at this moment.

Near the end of the actual combat training, almost all the students scattered across various places in Qingshan Town had returned.

At the entrance of the temporary camp stood a huge display screen, showing densely packed names, which was impressively the leaderboard.

Besides these students, teachers from No. 1 High School like Yang Cheng stood at the very front, counting the last batch of spoils brought back by the returning students, and recording points for ranking.

"Teacher Yang, I, Zhang Daxian, am back!"

Just as the sun was setting in the west, a loud shout suddenly came from the back of the crowd.

The students who heard this shout consciously made way one after another. Zhang Daxian rushed in front of Yang Cheng riding the Huorong Hound just like that, and placed his backpack onto the table in front of him.

"Actual combat training stipulates that hunting and obtaining the right ear of a Normal-tier fierce beast counts as 1 point, and the right ear of a Black Iron Tier fierce beast counts as 20 points."

"13 right ears of Normal-tier fierce beasts, 2 right ears of Black Iron Tier fierce beasts, totaling 53 points. Coupled with the points from the previous six days, student Zhang Daxian has obtained a total of 421 points in this actual combat training, temporarily ranking second in the entire school!"

Under the gaze of everyone, Yang Cheng finished counting the beast ears in Zhang Daxian's backpack and said loudly.

As his voice fell, on the leaderboard in front of the temporary camp hall, Zhang Daxian's ranking rose from the original third place to second place.

"Oh my, I didn't expect that I actually won second place, suppressing even Song Zhihao from Class 1. Not bad, not bad, hahahahaha!"

Looking at his ranking on the leaderboard, Zhang Daxian laughed loudly, intentionally magnifying his voice, while provocatively looking towards the direction of Senior Year 3, Class 1, his gaze falling on the tightly frowning Song Zhihao.

"Hmph, dead fatty, you just had better luck and got one more point than me, what is there to be smug about!"

"Besides, in every actual combat training, only the champion is qualified to receive rewards. What is the use of you competing with me for second or third place!"

Looking at Zhang Daxian's smug expression, Song Zhihao also stood out with a gloomy face and shouted loudly at Zhang Daxian.

"Whether I want rewards or not is minor; the main thing is being able to suppress you by a head, hahahahaha."

"And, your latter sentence is wrong. Do you think you can really firmly hold the third place? When my Brother Chu comes back, you will immediately drop out of the top three rankings!"

Compared to Song Zhihao's gloomy expression, Zhang Daxian was extremely happy.

"Hahahahaha, this is simply the biggest joke I have ever heard!"

"Just based on that trash Chu Xiu who only contracted a beast a month ago, does he deserve it?"

However, hearing Zhang Daxian's words, Song Zhihao sneered instead, casting his gaze toward the leaderboard at the very front. On the leaderboard, Chu Xiu only had 126 points, ranking outside the top hundred.