67: Chapter 67 System Upgrade

"First of all, congratulations to all the students who were successfully selected. The three students who were eliminated don't need to be discouraged; you've all felt the gains from these two weeks of special training."

"Settle down for a year, and participate in the sophomore University Ability Competition next year."

Professor Lu Ming lectured the dozen or so students present.

After seeing off the three eliminated students, Professor Lu Ming looked back at the ten students remaining.

"First, thank you for representing Modu Ability University in the University Ability Competition."

As soon as he said this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Happy smiles appeared on their faces.

Professor Lu Ming naturally took in this scene; his mouth, which rarely showed a smile, curled up slightly.

Finally, Professor Lu Ming granted everyone a two-and-a-half-day break, just as Su Mu had hoped.

Everyone was very excited upon learning they could rest for two and a half days.

"Gather at Bailian Tower the morning after tomorrow."

The students below were eager to leave, ready to bolt at any moment.

"Dismissed!"

Before his voice even landed, *Crackle—*

The sound of an electric current rang out, and Su Mu had already appeared at the entrance.

"Holy crap! I thought Su Mu was just a training machine who didn't know the meaning of rest. I didn't expect him to be the first one to run out."

"Yeah! I never expected Su God to have such a side. I really didn't see that coming."

"Uh! Why do I feel like Su God is actually a bit cute like this?"

Huang Yuanyuan, a support-type ability user, looked at Su Mu's hurried back as he ran away and showed a fangirl's smile.

Hearing this, everyone's faces turned pale.

song own: (☉д⊙)

Luo Zhenyue: (;ﾟдﾟ)

Everyone had only one thought in their minds: 'This girl is really bold!'

It was lucky that Huang Yuanyuan was a support-type ability user; only someone who hadn't been beaten by Su Mu could say such things.

"I can finally rest. I've been going crazy these past two weeks. I'm going back right now to sleep for three days straight!"

Cheng Peng said as he stretched and walked out.

"Well, I don't mean to rain on your parade, but we only have a two-and-a-half-day break. If you really sleep for three days, Professor Lu will probably kick you straight out of the Modu Ability University representative team."

Qu Jing said seriously.

"Uh..."

The two were roommates in the same villa; after leaving Bailian Tower, they walked together toward the villa area.

"Hey! Look at those two, where are they going?"

Cheng Peng asked in confusion when he saw that Li Lan and song own were not heading toward the villas.

At this moment, the two were walking in the opposite direction of the villa area.

"I remember Li Lan and song own share a villa. But where could they be going at this hour? That direction isn't the cafeteria either."

"Holy crap! Isn't that direction the Combat Technique Library?"

Cheng Peng's vision went dark, and he cursed inwardly.

"They're so competitive!"

"Are we still going back?"

The two looked at each other, then turned around and walked back to Bailian Tower.

...

Taking the high-speed rail line, Su Mu arrived at Qingyuan Base once again.

"Xiao You, help me plan a route for hunting Vicious Beasts."

"Yes, Master!"

Su Mu walked out of the top-tier suite, having changed into a blue-black combat suit.

To be fair, the top-tier suites at Qingyuan Base were indeed luxurious. Su Mu almost wanted to just move in.

However, the most important thing right now was still hunting Vicious Beasts to obtain conversion points.

An endless killing intent emanated from his black eyes.

Over the past two days, many ability users who weren't very strong but brought back many Vicious Beast corpses had appeared in the wilderness outside Qingyuan Base.

Because of this, a supernatural legend had emerged in Qingyuan Base.

It was said that after a powerful ability user died, his lingering resentment caused him to frantically hunt Vicious Beasts outside Qingyuan Base.

Many low-Rank ability users ran out to the wilderness to scavenge the corpses.

"Did you hear? Old Zhang scavenged over a dozen Rank 2 Advanced Vicious Beast corpses yesterday. He made hundreds of thousands in one go."

"Tell me about it! I'm dying of envy. And I heard someone even scavenged a Rank 3 Vicious Beast corpse today."

"Good heavens! When will such a windfall finally come my way?"

"Stop talking nonsense! Let's go to the wilderness together; maybe we can scavenge two or three Rank 2 Vicious Beast corpses."

Groups of ability users who hadn't even reached Rank 2 flocked to the wilderness to scavenge corpses.

...

"System, open the panel."

[Name]: Su Mu

[Rank]: Rank 2 Advanced

[Source Power Cultivation Method]: Final Thunder Art (proficient)

[Source Power]: 1503

[Divine Soul]: 1234

[Ability]: S+ Rank Thunder-Dark Domain

[Combat Technique]: Thunder Cloud Spear (mastery), Rapid Lightning Chidori (proficient), Eye of Prediction (proficient), Thunder Armor (entry)

[Weapon]: Spear Technique (proficient)

[conversion points]: 10123

"I've finally saved up ten thousand conversion points!

System upgrade!"

"conversion points -10,000. System upgrading."

"Friendly Reminder: The System upgrade will take 24 hours. During the upgrade, the System Space and System Wheel will be unavailable.

The collection of conversion points will proceed as normal!"

Su Mu wiped the Vicious Beast blood from his face, propped his silver-white spear beside him, and took a sip from a bottle of mineral water.

However, most of the water was used to wash the bloodstains off his face.

Just as Su Mu relaxed his nerves, a loud boom suddenly came from the distance.

"Rumble, rumble, rumble!"

"Is someone fighting a Vicious Beast over there?"

Putting away the water bottle, he picked up his spear again and ran toward the source of the noise.

Su Mu knew this kind of noise all too well; it was a Rank 3 Vicious Beast.

Arriving at the source of the sound, he looked at the center of the battle. But after seeing the situation clearly, Su Mu's eyebrows twitched, and his mouth curled into a smile.

"Oho! It's an acquaintance!"

Guan Yue was locked in a struggle with a Rank 3 Elementary Shadow-Fanged Wolf.

However, Guan Yue was only Rank 2 Elementary; she couldn't handle a Rank 3 Elementary Shadow-Fanged Wolf, which was an entire major Rank higher than her, as effortlessly as Su Mu.

Moreover, the Shadow-Fanged Wolf had a skill called Shadow Meld, which could be said to be the natural counter to the Phoenix attribute.

Su Mu wasn't in a hurry; he just stood to the side and watched Guan Yue get beaten.

This kind of thing required learning a lesson. He could certainly step in and finish off the Shadow-Fanged Wolf, but that would mean lacking a proper awe of danger.

In the distance, Guan Yue was once again swatted away by the Shadow-Fanged Wolf's claw.

Spitting out a large mouthful of blood, Guan Yue lay on the ground, unable to stand up.

Seeing that it was about enough, Su Mu threw out a Rapid Lightning Chidori.

A high-pitched bird's cry rang out.

"*Ding! Killed Rank 3 Elementary Vicious Beast Shadow-Fanged Wolf. conversion points +5.*"

The Shadow-Fanged Wolf was hit and killed on the spot.

Su Mu frowned.

Shouldn't a Rank 3 Elementary Vicious Beast give 50 conversion points? Why did it only give 5?

Then Su Mu understood the reason.

It was likely that after the System upgrade, the conversion points from killing Vicious Beasts had decreased accordingly.

"It's understandable. You can't have the wheel rewards upgrade while the conversion points consumed remain the same. That wouldn't follow the law of conservation of energy."

"Hey! What are you doing? Can't you come and help me?"

A resentful voice sounded.

Guan Yue had just breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Su Mu kill the Vicious Beast in one hit.

While she was rejoicing over having survived, she found that Su Mu had been standing there talking to himself.

After being called out, Su Mu finally realized there was still someone lying half-dead to the side.

"Sorry, I was thinking about something."

Guan Yue: ?????

"I'm a great beauty lying here completely helpless, and it's one thing that you didn't even spare me a glance, but you could actually get lost in thought to that extent."