99: Chapter 99: All Monsters

"Haha... Old Fan, you really know how to joke." Everyone burst into laughter.

"A fair and delicate Young Master like this wants to be selected for the National Grand Martial Arts Competition?"

"Hehe..."

Battalion Commander Fan Zhijie chuckled but said nothing.

Once they truly entered the Secret Realm, they would understand Jiang Ling's strength.

Calling Jiang Ling a pretty boy?

That was truly the biggest joke he had ever heard.

"By the way, Jiang Ling, you cannot bring your pet with you for the selection; otherwise, it will be judged as cheating!"

Battalion Commander Fan Zhijie reminded Jiang Ling at this moment, "Let your pet wait outside!"

"Alright!"

Jiang Ling nodded and set Medusa down, letting her slither into a nearby patch of grass to lie low!

As time passed, more and more contestants arrived.

They gathered together, looking at each other with intense hostility.

Because this competition was an elimination tournament, everyone was an opponent to one another.

An hour later, all the contestants had arrived. The officer in charge shouted, "Everyone, come and get your bracelets, then enter the Secret Realm in order!"

"Remember, while you can fight each other to seize bracelets, you are not allowed to kill!"

"Otherwise, you will be disqualified!"

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The participating contestants went to the officer's location one by one to collect their bracelets and then entered the Secret Realm.

On an open space outside the Secret Realm, a massive screen began to appear, providing a real-time live broadcast of the situation inside.

Various big shots from the Southeast Military Region had also arrived, sitting in a row of chairs to watch the live broadcast of the Grand Martial Arts Competition selection.

The Military Region Grand Martial Arts Competition was held once every four years, not every year, so each Military Region attached great importance to this selection process.

Whether they could select some outstanding talents was related to the ranking of each Military Region in the Grand Martial Arts Competition.

The ranking in the Grand Martial Arts Competition represented the glory of each Military Region.

"It is said that our Southeast Military Region has produced many outstanding youngsters this year. It's very much worth looking forward to!"

"Our Southeast Military Region's results in the Grand Martial Arts Competition haven't been good these past few years. We get laughed at every time we go out for meetings."

"We can't let them laugh at us again this time."

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Battalion Commander Fan Zhijie and the others also found a place to sit, quietly watching this selection trial to see what good seeds the Southeast Military Region had unearthed over the years.

Jiang Ling took his bracelet and entered the Secret Realm. Looking around, he found it was a very dense forest.

In such a dense forest, anything could appear, and the environment was extremely complex.

Competing in here would be very difficult.

Jiang Ling glanced around and saw that all the contestants were looking at others warily, ready to react at any moment.

Jiang Ling ignored them and took the lead in entering the dense forest.

Everyone had just entered and hadn't started hunting exotic beasts yet. The points on the bracelets were all 0. Even if they snatched someone else's bracelet, it wouldn't increase their score.

The mutual plundering would likely not begin until at least the afternoon.

Jiang Ling darted into the dense forest, sprinting all the way at an extremely fast speed.

Before long, he discovered his first exotic beast.

It was a Level 26 Man-Faced Spider.

The Man-Faced Spider saw Jiang Ling, revealed a hideous grin, and suddenly spat a mouthful of silk at him.

Seeing this, Jiang Ling dodged with a flash, and in the next instant, he swung his blade.

Puchi!

The Man-Faced Spider was directly split in two!

Exotic beasts in their 20s were now like ants to Jiang Ling.

After killing this Man-Faced Spider, Jiang Ling continued forward and encountered several more exotic beasts, basically killing them all in a single hit.

"This time, I must be number one!"

In a corner of the forest, an extremely thin small guy who looked malnourished sat with his eyes closed, listening to the movements of all the exotic beasts in the forest and revealing a cruel smile.

The next moment, his body sprinted out on all fours like an exotic beast.

Sizzle!

A Level 30 Crimson Flame Fierce Tiger that was about to pounce was torn in two by him with bare hands.

"Jie jie..."

He licked a drop of the Crimson Flame Fierce Tiger's blood, showed a bizarre smile, and suddenly charged forward again.

A chorus of wolf howls rang out, extremely noisy and urgent.

Just a few seconds later, everything became eerily quiet.

A dozen or so Gale Terror Wolves had all been torn into countless pieces by this small guy; the scene was extremely brutal.

The small guy let out another terrifying laugh and then continued to sprint forward.

Outside the Secret Realm.

When those military big shots saw this scene, they couldn't help but narrow their eyes slightly.

"Which army is he from?"

"Why does he look so strange?"

"Reporting!"

"He is from the Old A Squad Special Operations Battalion of the 58th Army!"

"The Old A Squad Special Operations Battalion of the 58th Army?"

"No wonder. Only their squad would dare to recruit a monster like this into the army!"

"His behavior is a bit strange, but his strength is truly formidable!"

"Is this the effect of his Supernatural Ability?"

"Reporting, his name is Zhang Kuang, and he is a supernatural mutant!"

"Originally, his Supernatural Ability talent was A-rank Beastification, but he accidentally consumed a strange red ginseng in the wild once, and then a mutation occurred. He seems to have become half-human and half-beast with extreme attack power, even comparable to SSS-rank!"

"So that's how it is. Supernatural mutations are truly hard to say; sometimes they're a good thing, and sometimes they're completely unpredictable!"

"It's good enough that he hasn't lost his mind!"

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The big shots paid some attention to Zhang Kuang, but soon their gaze was attracted by a young man holding a black spear and wearing a black battle suit.

This young man with the black spear had an extremely cold and stern appearance, with no expression on his face, like an eternal rock.

His black spear was like a black venomous snake; wherever it went, everything died!

At this moment, he was facing an onslaught from seventeen blood bats, each three to four meters long. If it were anyone else, they would certainly be in a wretched state.

But he brandished his black spear so tightly that not even a drop of water could pass through. The spear tip transformed into black lotuses that tapped onto those blood bats, immediately triggering bursts of explosions.

In just an instant, all seventeen blood bats of Level 26 or higher were slain.

"Who is this?"

"His strength is quite good!"

"Reporting, his name is Ye Yan. He's an orphan who witnessed his parents and sisters being killed by exotic beasts since childhood. He experienced an early Awakening of an S-rank Supernatural Ability, Night Demon!"

"Although it's S-rank, if it's in the darkness of night, he can erupt with SSS-rank strength!"

"His personality is extremely cold. He once killed over five hundred exotic beasts alone during a mission!"

"The blood of enemies can stimulate his desire for battle!"

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"His personality is a bit strange, but his strength is undeniably very strong!"

"He's a good seed worth cultivating!"

The big shots all nodded.