223: "meaning"

In the air.

Xiao Fan shed his Demon King Armor, revealing the dense, crisscrossing scars on his body.

His Face was filled with fatigue, his breathing was rapid, and his body trembled slightly.

He ate supplies while bandaging his wounds.

Beside him.

Three streaks of light sped over.

Kong Fangxiang, Zhuge Tianming, and Lin Xianhuo stood beside him.

Yun Jinyu and Xiao Dingdong had completely lost their combat effectiveness and had been taken away by the Demon War God.

The current situation was clear.

Four against four!

On Yuanhuang Squad's side, Zhuge Tianming was in the best condition, followed by Kong Fangxiang, then Lin Xianhuo, and finally Xiao Fan.

But the four opponents hadn't suffered any injuries; at most, they were a bit more exhausted.

On the surface, it still looked like Xiao Fan's side couldn't win!

But unexpectedly, after a long silence, Meng Tianzong sighed, "Training concluded."

"Come with me."

"Not fighting?" Xiao Fan frowned.

"Not fighting..." Meng Tianzong shook his head helplessly.

"Then you concede!" Xiao Fan said in a deep voice.

He was already a bit hot-headed and really wanted to test how strong this most elite warrior of Shanhai Pass truly was! Because from beginning to end, Meng Tianzong hadn't made many moves.

But Meng Tianzong was instantly enraged. You're already like this, and you don't know how to save me some Face?

Damn it!

"Then let's fight!" Meng Tianzong suddenly turned his head, staring at Xiao Fan, flames rising in his eyes.

Xiao Fan also took a deep breath, preparing to activate his Demon King Armor.

But at this moment, Meng Tianzong suddenly yelled into his earphone, "All units, assemble!"

Hearing this, Xiao Fan's eyes widened abruptly, and he cursed, "You're cheating?"

The Zhenshan Troops had a total of sixty-six people, now reduced by eleven, leaving fifty-one!

If they all assembled, Xiao Fan's side couldn't win even if they fought to the death!

But Meng Tianzong snorted coldly, "Weren't you the first to cheat?"

"Didn't we work hard to research the method for activating your return-to-city device?" Xiao Fan retorted coldly.

"You!" Meng Tianzong's forehead veins popped, "Never mind that, are you still fighting?"

"Four against our fifty-one!"

"Fighting!?"

"No." Xiao Fan pouted and snorted softly, "Can't afford to lose."

Meng Tianzong took a deep breath and said, "Alright, I concede!"

This sudden change caught Xiao Fan off guard. He frowned and said, "You're just going to admit defeat like that?"

Meng Tianzong shook his head, sighing helplessly.

Why didn't he fight?

The purpose of this training was originally to test the practical combat ability of the Super God Class students, not a showdown between the Zhenshan Troops and the Super God Class.

Xiao Fan's age, his practical combat ability, and his performance in this battle.

It was no exaggeration to say that it was enough to be directly recorded in history!

Meng Tianzong could already imagine the scenes of people in Shanhai Pass exclaiming "Awesome!" when the battle details and footage were released.

So, according to the purpose of the training, there was no need to continue.

And if it wasn't for the training, if they had to determine strength between them and Yuanhuang Squad, there was even less need to fight.

Because even if they won the four-on-four fight in the end, would others really think they were stronger?

Wouldn't the people in Shanhai Pass still mock them?

Xiao Fan and the other three were already exhausted. Winning against four crippled soldiers, was that impressive? Could it show that Meng Tianzong was strong? Impossible!

Even if they won, everyone would definitely only say: Xiao Fan is awesome, he fought to the very end, Meng Tianzong lost all Face! The Zhenshan Troops were rubbed on the ground by a few eighteen-year-olds; they don't need to go to the battlefield anymore, they should all go clean toilets!

The most crucial reason was actually that Meng Tianzong himself was unsure.

Winning wasn't glorious indeed.

But the key point was, what if he lost?

If he lost, he could really go find a city wall and bash his head against it to die.

But he couldn't guarantee that he would win!

Who knew what other strange combat styles Xiao Fan had in his head?

Moreover, this group of people were all cheats!

One with astonishing destructive power.

One with Space Laws.

One with Lawful Utterance helping him replenish Space Laws.

One with destiny directly seeing through everything!

Fight for what!

Not fighting!

If they want to fight, go fight the Alien Race!

Finally, this training ended just like that.

However, Xiao Fan did arrange a one-on-one duel with Meng Tianzong, to be held once they were inside Shanhai Pass!

But Meng Tianzong told him, "I'm not the strongest in Shanhai Pass's young generation; there's also Ouyang Guanyue above me."

"He's unlucky, born at the wrong time, and didn't catch this session of the Super God Class."

"The Five Great Families of the Imperial Capital: the Song Family, the Kong Family, the Ouyang Family, the Wang Family, the Zhuge... oh, the Zhuge family has been delisted now."

"Ouyang Guanyue was born too early, five years older than you; he's already twenty-three this year, otherwise he definitely would have been a member of the Super God Class."

"He's also Myth-Grade, very strong."

"He's already reached the Martial Venerable Realm, but if he could have entered the Super God Class, with the infusion of Super God Class resources, his Realm should be even higher."

"Only twenty-three!"

Meng Tianzong started chatting very familiarly with Xiao Fan, as if the person who had been fighting to the death earlier wasn't him.

Xiao Fan was also curious, "Then what's his talent?"

"Moonlit Night." Meng Tianzong chuckled, "Didn't the Alien Race produce a Lilith?"

"Ouyang Guanyue's talent is similar to Lilith's; he becomes especially strong at night, and his main combat method is the Dao of the Sword."

"Ying Zheng's Dao of the Sword is also good," Xiao Fan said with a smile.

Meng Tianzong shook his head and said, "I've seen Ying Zheng's combat videos."

"Guanyue and Ying Zheng's paths are different; one walks the path of 'Intent,' and the other walks the path of 'Technique.'"

"Intent?" Xiao Fan raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, Intent!" Meng Tianzong grinned and said, "Honestly, if I used my Intent, you definitely wouldn't last three minutes!"

Xiao Fan twitched his mouth and said, "What I'm asking is, what is Intent?"

"Intent isn't a 'what'; Intent is just Intent, the literal meaning." Meng Tianzong smiled mysteriously.

Before Xiao Fan could retort, he continued, "You should have felt that the Killing Intent in Shanhai Pass is very strong, right?"

"So Intent is Killing Intent?"

"No, no, no." Meng Tianzong shook his head and said, "Killing Intent is Intent, but Intent is more than just Killing Intent."

"Willpower, Mental Energy, etc., can all be categorized as Intent."

"Of course, Killing Intent is the most direct manifestation."

"For example, your teleportation gates, you can teleport randomly, right? Manipulating several teleportation gates simultaneously, that requires multi-tasking, and it's very strenuous for you, right?"

Xiao Fan nodded slightly.

"And this also falls within the scope of Intent. As long as your Intent is strong enough, you can split your focus more and control more power simultaneously."

"Even now, a thousand years after the resurgence of Origin Qi, people's understanding of Intent is still too shallow, so there has never been a textbook specifically written about this."

"However, if that legendary Great General were willing to compile it, he should be able to write the Human Race's groundbreaking work on 'Intent.'"

"Great General?" Xiao Fan asked curiously. Of course, he knew there would be a General in such a place, but he didn't know who it was.

"The Great General is very low-key." Meng Tianzong smiled and said, "I've never seen the Great General either. Only when the Alien Race invades in large numbers does the Great General appear; otherwise, most of the time... no one knows what he's doing."

"Later, I'll take you to see the Great Shanhai Rift. That's where the Killing Intent is strongest in all of Shanhai Pass. The rift is hundreds of meters deep and thousands of meters wide, very spectacular!"

Meng Tianzong spoke with excited emotion.

"That was the battlefield where the Great General and the Alien Race King competed in 'Intent' back then. It directly shook the hundred-thousand-mile land until it cracked open, cracking on the spot, a super explosion!"

"Legend has it that the Great General and the Alien Race King just stared at each other. What I'm saying might sound a bit crude, but that's the truth; they didn't use weapons, they just stood opposite each other in the sky, looking at each other, and the land and rivers shattered!"

"Very terrifying!"

Suddenly, Meng Tianzong proudly pointed at himself and said, "I also have the chance to possess that kind of power, because the Great General is said to only have Divine-Grade talent."

"And you all have the chance to do even better than the Great General!"

Whenever the Great General was mentioned, the smile on Meng Tianzong's Face never faded, because he was a monument, a legend, a belief!

Xiao Fan's expression remained unchanged, because he had never seen or experienced what Meng Tianzong was talking about, so he couldn't empathize or understand what that so-called greatness was like.

Finally, Meng Tianzong took a deep breath to compose himself and said, "Speaking of which, the reason Shanhai Pass has such heavy Killing Intent is to cultivate everyone's 'Intent'!"

"Everything you see with your naked eye now, the forests, the city walls, have all been stained with the blood of countless strong individuals. We never remove this blood; instead, we let it dry naturally."

"And on this blood, there is strong Killing Intent, enduring endlessly. After so many years, with so many strong individuals dead, and so much blood spilled, it has created the current Killing Intent of Shanhai Pass."