59: Chapter 59 Combat Skill Library, Learn Combat Skills

The weekly ranking at Modu Ability University differs from the Grade Rankings; the Grade Rankings involve submitting challenge letters and take place once at the end of each month.

The weekly ranking is different; as long as a person is in the Bailian Tower, they can be challenged.

A student cannot refuse a challenge from an opponent ranked within three spots of their own, but they can refuse challenges from students outside that three-Rank range.

Su Mu is currently ranked 7th. If he challenges Zhang San, who is ranked 4th, Zhang San cannot refuse the duel.

If Li Si, ranked 11th, wants to challenge Su Mu, the difference in their Ranks is 4, so Su Mu can refuse the duel.

“Teacher, what happens if I don't make it into the top 20?”

Yang Wendao glanced sideways at Su Mu.

“Don't reach it? Then come to the villa every night to spar with Mu Feng for an hour to improve your actual combat capabilities.”

At the thought of Mu Feng’s nonchalant description of pummeling the top students of the junior year, Su Mu couldn't help but shudder.

“Don't worry! Teacher, I will definitely secure a spot in the top twenty of the weekly ranking.”

“Right! A reminder: it's the top 20 this week. Next week it's the top 15, and the third week it's the top 10.”

“And so on. You must take first place in the weekly ranking at least once before the end of next month.”

‘Damn!’

Su Mu had already started cursing in his heart.

Looking at Su Mu's deathly pale face, the corners of Yang Wendao's mouth finally curled up.

“If you can take first place in the weekly ranking, there's a mysterious grand prize waiting for you.”

Walking home, Su Mu looked back at Yang Wendao's three-story villa and couldn't resist rolling his eyes.

He muttered under his breath, “Damned old man.”

Fortunately, at home, there was the intellectual and beautiful older sister Leng Jing, and the cute, innocent little sister Lin Ruoxi.

...

Returning to university life, Su Mu set aside an hour every day to challenge the weekly ranking.

University life became even busier.

Luckily, the weekly ranking was truly a breeze; when Su Mu challenged the 78th Rank, his opponent actually surrendered immediately.

The end result was that Su Mu obtained the 78th Rank without even seeing the person.

Actually, this situation was understandable. The rewards for the weekly ranking weren't generous, and only the top twenty received anything.

Many students with low rankings who lacked the strength to break into the top 20 would simply give up.

In just two short days, Su Mu challenged nearly 20 students, and his Rank reached 32nd.

From this point on, every opponent needed to be dealt with seriously.

‘weekly ranking Challenge: 32nd Rank Su Mu vs. 29th Rank Cheng Kun.’

...

‘Su Mu wins, Ranks swapped.’

Clutching the wound on his chest, Su Mu walked off the stage.

“Damn! I still ended up getting slashed at the end.”

This time, Su Mu's opponent was a Tier 3 Elementary sophomore senior. Most importantly, this senior had an A-grade Wind-attribute ability coupled with proficient blade techniques.

Every move and stance was as seamless as an antelope hanging its horns, incredibly sharp.

In the end, Su Mu had to trade injury for injury to successfully catch the opponent's flaw and defeat him.

“With these injuries, I can't go straight home. I'll have to go to the old man's place to get treated.”

After being 'baptized' by Yang Wendao and Mu Feng, Su Mu had also started calling Yang Wendao 'old man'.

However, when others were present, Su Mu would still respectfully call him ‘Teacher’.

“Old man! Do you have any medicine?”

Su Mu pushed the door open and walked right in, not caring about getting Yang Wendao's villa dirty; after all, he wasn't the first to do so.

“Oho! That's quite a serious injury.”

Yang Wendao mocked him verbally, but his hand was already pulling out a bottle of healing medicine.

“Stop mocking me. I fought a junior senior two Ranks above me. Being able to win is already something to be grateful for; winning without a scratch is just too difficult.”

Su Mu took the healing medicine and downed it in one gulp, circulating his Source Power to recover quickly.

“You should learn a life-saving Combat Technique. The ones you've learned so far are all offensive types. While the Lightning-type is indeed an element focused on killing, it won't do if you have absolutely no means of self-preservation.”

Feeling his wound improve significantly, Su Mu spoke up.

“It's not that I don't want to, but so far I haven't come across any Lightning-type defensive skills.”

When Su Mu was at the Thunderbolt Martial Arts Hall before, he had searched for defensive Combat Techniques.

There were none at all!

“Have you been to the Modu Ability University Combat Technique Library yet?”

Yang Wendao asked.

“No!” Su Mu replied, sounding confident despite being in the wrong.

Yang Wendao took a deep breath, not knowing what to say.

“Go to the Combat Technique Library yourself and see if there are any Lightning-type defensive Combat Techniques.”

After saying that, he kicked Su Mu out of the villa.

“Wait, let me change my clothes.”

Su Mu was still wearing his C-grade combat suit. Although the wound had stopped bleeding and was mostly healed, it was still a mess.

In the end, Su Mu just found a random teaching building and changed his clothes in the restroom.

He walked out of the restroom wearing casual sportswear.

“Xiao You, navigate to the Combat Technique Library!”

“Understood, Master. I have planned the optimal route for you.”

Ever since Su Mu got the AI Xiao You, he never had to memorize directions again.

Technology truly changes lives.

“By the way, Xiao You, tell me about the Combat Technique Library.”

Su Mu hadn't visited the Combat Technique Library since entering Modu Ability University, mainly because most of the Combat Techniques he learned were provided by the System.

If he hadn't discovered a shortcoming during today's duel, Su Mu wouldn't have had any plans to learn a new Combat Technique for the time being.

“Master! The Combat Technique Library is where Modu Ability University stores its collection of Combat Techniques. It contains 15,642 D-grade, 7,317 C-grade, 4,839 B-grade, 1,532 A-grade, and 432 S-grade Combat Techniques, along with several SS-grade and SSS-grade ones.”

“It has the largest quantity, the most complete variety, and the widest scope of collected Combat Techniques among all Ability Universities.”

“Currently, D-grade Combat Techniques in the library are free for all students to read. C-grade are 1 credit each, B-grade are 10 credits each, and A-grade are 100 credits each.”

“S-grade and above are calculated specifically based on the individual technique.”

“The above is the description of the Combat Technique Library from the Modu Ability University forum.”

“Alright!”

Su Mu unconsciously quickened his pace.

The Combat Technique Library of Modu Ability University was magnificent.

It had 17 floors in total. The eight basement floors housed D, C, and B-grade Combat Techniques.

The ninth to eleventh floors housed A-grade Combat Techniques.

The twelfth to seventeenth floors were all for S-grade and above.

Su Mu took the elevator straight to the ninth floor; he didn't care for anything below A-grade.

Besides, Su Mu had the universal combat technique learning card, allowing him to learn any Rank of Combat Technique with one click.

“Xiao You! Help me filter for Lightning-type and Dark-type Combat Techniques related to defense and life-saving.”

There weren't many life-saving techniques for the Lightning-type, but there should be quite a few for the Dark-type.

“Understood, Master! I have filtered the techniques you need.”

Su Mu then began to browse the Combat Techniques.

Most were Dark-type; there were only two Lightning-type techniques, and to be honest, Su Mu wasn't very interested.

They were all techniques to increase one's own speed.

For example, the A-grade technique 'Thunder Shadow' could use lightning to activate bodily functions, significantly enhancing speed.

The Dark-type techniques were all similar to transforming into a shadow to increase movement speed; they were practical, but not very strong.

He still needed to check the S-grade area.

He had Xiao You filter for the required techniques again.

However, this time the techniques were even scarcer, with only two Lightning-type and three Dark-type Combat Techniques.

“These two are pretty good.”

Su Mu opened one of them; it was titled:

Thunder Armor!