38: Chapter 38, Part 1

As soon as Song Zhihao finished speaking, several Class 1 students beside him immediately began searching the ranking board for Chu Xiu's name.

Before the actual combat training set off, Zhang Daxian and Song Zhihao had already clashed, and the conflict arose because of Chu Xiu. Naturally, these lackeys following by Song Zhihao's side knew exactly who Zhang Daxian was talking about.

Their gazes quickly swept across the ranking board, and they soon found Chu Xiu's name at the 120th position.

When they saw Chu Xiu's rank and points, these Class 1 students all burst into loud laughter and began taunting him one after another.

"Song Zhihao is right. Zhang Daxian, open your eyes and take a good look! The Chu Xiu you keep talking about hasn't even made it into the top hundred!"

"A good-for-nothing who only has 126 points up until now—if he can rank in the top three, I'll live-stream myself eating a pound of shit!"

"I'll eat two pounds! Hhahahaha!"

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"These kids are still too young!"

Seeing this scene, Yang Cheng by Zhang Daxian's side and the surrounding teachers wore helpless smiles on their faces and shook their heads.

Only these scoring teachers knew that Chu Xiu's 126 points were all accumulated on the very first day.

After that first day, Chu Xiu had never returned to the temporary camp, so his points naturally hadn't been updated.

Calculated based on the speed at which Chu Xiu acquired 126 points on the first day, within the seven days of this actual combat training, Chu Xiu's points would break 800. That was nearly two hundred points higher than Han Ziyue, who was currently ranked first.

Especially Yang Cheng, who had met Chu Xiu's Snow Crystal Silver Lion and knew deep down how extraordinary it was. Chu Xiu definitely had the strength to seize first place.

Up ahead, watching the Class 1 students continuously taunting him, Zhang Daxian simply crossed his arms and looked at them as if they were clowns.

Among everyone present, only he himself knew just how terrifying Chu Xiu's strength was. Therefore, even upon seeing Chu Xiu's current point ranking, he still wasn't flustered in the slightest.

"Roar—"

Right at this moment, a deafening lion roar suddenly came from behind.

This sudden sound startled most of the students whose attention was focused on Zhang Daxian, and they hurriedly turned around to look.

Hearing the noise, Song Zhihao, Han Ziyue, and others at the front of the Class 1 procession also turned their heads, casting their gazes toward the back of the team.

"What a majestic and domineering lion!"

When everyone's gaze landed on the Snow Crystal Silver Lion—which stood over two meters tall at the shoulder and exceeded four meters in length—a gasp of amazement flashed through everyone's hearts.

"What kind of beast is this lion? How come I've never seen it before? And why does the aura emanating from this lion feel so much stronger than my Xiaobai?"

Unlike the others, the moment Han Ziyue in the Class 1 team saw the Snow Crystal Silver Lion, a sharp glint burst from her eyes, and shock filled her heart.

Because she sensed a formidable pressure coming from the Snow Crystal Silver Lion.

She was already a 5-star Black Iron Tier Beastmaster, and her beast, the Ice-Winged Falcon, had even reached 6-star Black Iron Tier. She should logically have had no rivals among all the students in No. 1 High School.

Yet now, she actually felt immense pressure from the Snow Crystal Silver Lion. Clearly, the Snow Crystal Silver Lion's strength was no weaker than her Ice-Winged Falcon, enough to pose a threat to her and her beast.

Even a genius like Han Ziyue felt such immense pressure from the Snow Crystal Silver Lion, let alone the other students.

Facing the powerful aura released by the Snow Crystal Silver Lion, the group of students close to it turned somewhat pale in the face and hurriedly made way.

Soon, a path even wider than when Zhang Daxian had appeared was cleared by the crowd. Everyone stared in shock at Chu Xiu, who was riding on top of the Snow Crystal Silver Lion on the outer perimeter.

"It seems I've come back rather late."

At this moment, Chu Xiu, riding atop the Snow Crystal Silver Lion, thought this with surprise as he looked at the hundreds of students present. Without further hesitation, he urged the Snow Crystal Silver Lion to walk toward the vicinity of the temporary camp's gates.

Under the gaze of hundreds of eyes, Chu Xiu calmly removed the backpack and extra beast-skin pouch from the back of the Snow Crystal Silver Lion, stacked them onto the large table in front of Yang Cheng, and said with a smile, "Teacher, I'm back to submit my mission!"

With that, he unzipped the backpack and undid the drawstring of the beast-skin pouch, dumping out all the beast ears he had hunted over these past few days.

In the blink of an eye, these beast ears piled up into a small mountain on the tabletop, almost filling the entire table.

"Th-this many?!"

"Did he slaughter all the fierce beasts in Qingshan Town all over again?"

"How is this possible! How could he have so many beast ears?!"

Seeing this scene, the students in the back widened their eyes in shock, an expression of disbelief plastered across their faces.

Especially Song Zhihao and his few Class 1 student lackeys beside him; their expressions grew grave.

Among them, the complexions of the two students who had just spoken about eating shit were particularly unsightly.

Based on their current visual estimation, even if that pile of beast ears belonging to Chu Xiu were all from ordinary-grade fierce beasts, there would still be over four hundred of them.

Coupled with Chu Xiu's original 126 points, breaking 500 points was an absolute certainty. 500 points would definitely secure a spot in the top three!

In front of Chu Xiu, Yang Cheng also wore a look of surprise as he gazed at the pile of beast ears.

But he did not forget his duty, and immediately began counting them publicly.

After a full quarter of an hour, he finally finished counting all of Chu Xiu's harvest.

"Four hundred and fifteen right ears of ordinary-grade fierce beasts, thirty-seven right ears of Black Iron Tier fierce beasts, totaling 1,155 points. Added to the original 126 points, Chu Xiu has obtained a grand total of 1,281 points, ranking first!"

After counting all the beast ears, the surprise on Yang Cheng's face grew even more pronounced as he smiled at Chu Xiu, saying, "1,281 points, Chu Xiu, you've given me quite a big surprise once again!"

Although he knew Chu Xiu's beast already possessed Black Iron Tier strength, he hadn't expected Chu Xiu to achieve such a high score—his points were actually double that of Han Ziyue, the universally acknowledged top genius of No. 1 High School.

This meant that the strength of Chu Xiu's beast was more than a notch stronger than Han Ziyue's!

"Ahem, just so-so."

Hearing Yang Cheng's praise, Chu Xiu smiled calmly, as if all of this was only natural.

"Hiss, 1,281 points? Did I hear that right?"

"Han Ziyue only has 635 points, yet Chu Xiu's points are actually double Han Ziyue's."

"I'm afraid after today, the title of No. 1 High School's top genius will change hands."

"Over a thousand points, how did he pull that off?"

"I don't know how he pulled it off, but right now I just want to watch someone live-stream eating shit."

"Hahahaha, if you hadn't mentioned it, I would've forgotten about those two little gluttons from Class 1."