46: Chapter 46 Double Rewards! Mission! I'm really not human!

"Wuhu!"

"I didn't expect this final exam to be actual combat!"

For Lu Qingyun, no cuiqiao pill, no martial art, and no spirit mist water could compare to the thrill of hunting fierce beasts for real!

That meant tangible experience points and a permanent increase in HP!

Furthermore, while this assessment was supposedly about free hunting in this forest, in reality, all the true dangers must have already been cleared out.

Otherwise, even though the students of Tianjiao Camp possessed impressive combat power, a group of martial artists who were at most in the Aperture-Opening Realm would be slaughtered if they happened to run into a Xiantian fierce beast!

Chief Instructor Meng Xiaochuan naturally could not allow such a thing to happen.

Grabbing a refined long saber, Lu Qingyun walked straight out of the camp.

And the moment he stepped out of the camp, the system's notification sounded in his mind.

[Mission: The Monster's Counterattack. In the vast magical jungle, a group of young and greedy adventurers has accepted a quest to hunt down monsters. As a member of the monster race, even if you are just a small Slime Warrior, you should contribute your own strength to the counterattack!

As a future great BOSS, you must have the powerful strength to fearlessly face the adventurers' swarm attacks!

Objective: Defeat all young adventurers and let them know who the true master of this jungle is!

Reward: Experience and HP gains during the mission are doubled, BOSS Initial Mechanism × 1!]

Just what the doctor ordered!

Upon hearing the rewards for the new mission, Lu Qingyun's expression immediately turned to one of wild joy!

Double the gains!

Another powerful BOSS Initial Mechanism!

"The slaughter... begins!"

Lu Qingyun held his long saber and stared straight ahead.

A burst of force was released from his legs, propelling him like a cannonball into the dark, deep forest!

Inch Explosion Force, a movement technique that was extremely close to an explosive martial art, consumed a massive amount of energy and was supposed to be used only during combat to catch opponents off guard.

But for Lu Qingyun, he used it simply to travel!

With several consecutive bursts, his speed reached the extreme, leaving the group of students trailing behind him stunned.

"Holy crap! Using this kind of martial art just to travel? Is his body made of iron or something?!"

"Could I have misheard the rules? Is this actually a race instead of a fierce beast hunting mission?"

"If I'm not mistaken, that martial art should be Inch Explosion Force... No, that's not right, my eyes must be playing tricks on me. How could Inch Explosion Force be used like that? You'd be exhausted after using it a few times, and the goal isn't to get to the fierce beasts faster just to be their lunch."

"This speed is just ridiculous! I feel like even the wind-attribute Awakened Qing Feng wouldn't be able to keep up."

"What's the point of being fast? Just passing is good enough. I'm not even asking to get into the top twenty; I just want to kill enough Tongqiao fierce beasts to not lose points. As for those rankings... let those ruthless people fight over them."

...

At this moment, on the training ground, Chief Instructor Meng Xiaochuan frowned slightly.

Standing opposite him was a tall, incredibly beautiful girl dressed in blue.

"You just joined the camp today, and I've looked at your file. Your strength is at the entry-level of the Aperture-Opening Realm, and it was forcibly raised in a short period of time. Combined with your status as a post-natal Awakened, to be honest, you can only be considered average in this Tianjiao Camp."

"My suggestion is that you participate in the final exam after undergoing some training for a period of time."

However, the girl in blue standing opposite him shook her head stubbornly, her voice like a clear spring.

"I want to... try."

"I want to see just how big the gap is between me and the true prodigies!"

Luo Qingxue's eyes were full of determination.

She had been mentally prepared before coming to Tianjiao Camp.

But upon learning that despite her massive improvements over these past few days, she still didn't amount to much in the entire Tianjiao Camp, she felt more excitement than disappointment!

This meant that she still had a lot of room for improvement!

She wasn't asking for any specific ranking in the final assessment; she just wanted to be able to graduate normally.

By then, she would surely have undergone a complete transformation!

With that kind of bearing, returning to Jiang City... would give her more confidence to conquer that man!

Seeing Luo Qingxue's determination, Chief Instructor Meng Xiaochuan relented.

In any case, they weren't unprepared for this final exam.

They wouldn't intervene when encountering ordinary dangers, but if students were to face real life-threatening crises, they couldn't just sit idly by.

"Fine. They've already headed out in advance."

"Go grab a weapon you're used to, and after that, it's up to your own performance."

After speaking, Chief Instructor Meng Xiaochuan seemed to think of something else. He opened his mouth to Luo Qingxue and said something that left her extremely confused.

"When hunting fierce beasts, try to stay away from other students. Especially... a boy who is very handsome."

Although Luo Qingxue felt puzzled by this, she still nodded.

After all, she was used to hunting fierce beasts alone before coming to the training camp.

As for the "handsome boy"... hearing this description actually made a figure appear in the back of her mind.

After leaving the training ground, she didn't go to take the weapons distributed by Tianjiao Camp.

Instead, like most people, she used the higher-quality weapon she had brought with her.

While heading to the camp gate, Luo Qingxue passed by a building filled with the smell of medicine.

An exceptionally violent and surging force swept out from that building, making her feel faintly alarmed.

Furthermore, at the same time, she saw Chief Instructor Meng Xiaochuan, who had just spoken with her, fly directly into that building, his expression serious, as if something major had happened.

Although she was curious, she hadn't forgotten her main purpose.

After leaving the camp, she also disappeared into the dense forest.

...

Swish—!!

A saber gleam tore through a massive fleshy body, and endless blood rained down, nourishing the surrounding trees.

[Killed LV12 Arm-Through Wood Ape, Level Experience +954, Max HP +678...]

[Sword Intent +1]

Lu Qingyun stepped over the divided body without stopping.

He didn't even bother to take the proof of kill, his mind solely focused on searching for targets!

Rip—!

Not far away, a boy holding a blue combat saber was panting heavily.

His arm was trembling from the constant, forceful chopping, but opposite him, a fierce beast with exceptionally hard scales had already fallen to the ground.

Deep wounds were constantly gushing blood, which flowed even faster with its heavy gasping.

"Just one last slash!"

Su Muyang, after panting for a while, gripped his combat saber tightly again. He walked forward step by step.

And just as he raised his combat saber high, preparing to slash down fiercely and claim the life of this first fierce beast, a flash of a saber gleam made him instantly alert, causing him to retreat nearly ten meters!

It was precisely because of this retreat that Su Muyang saw that saber gleam land on the fierce beast he had painstakingly beaten to a critical state, the one that was just one slash away from being killed!

Puchi—!

The saber gleam sliced through the scales as if cutting through tofu, piercing through it with ease!

At this moment, he saw the person in the distance who had unleashed that saber gleam!

Instantly, his eyes turned extremely cold!

"Friend, you stole the fierce beast I worked so hard to kill; I'm afraid that's not very moral."

Su Muyang was filled with rage at this moment!

Whoever encountered this situation would be unable to suppress their anger!

He had clearly spent a massive amount of physical strength and time, and was finally about to get his first win.

But at this very moment, someone had swooped in to steal his fruit!

All his effort had gone down the drain!

If it weren't for the fact that he was also a saber practitioner and recognized the terrifying sword intent contained in that previous saber gleam, and realized he couldn't beat the other person, he would have already charged over with his saber to fight.

However, what Su Muyang didn't expect was that the person who landed the final blow didn't have the slightest intention of taking the proof of kill from the fierce beast.

They didn't even pause for a second; after killing the scaled beast, they just turned around and left!

This level of decisiveness was as if they had specifically come over just to help him land that final blow.

This couldn't help but make Su Muyang fall into self-doubt.

"Could it be that I misunderstood him? Did he just see that I was too exhausted and come over to help me finish it off?"

"This situation really seems to be the case..."

"He was so helpful, and yet I maliciously speculated... I'm really not human!"