12: Surprised, brother, did you kill all these?
“I didn't expect Intermediate Blade Technique could also be upgraded to Advanced!”
“Advanced Knife Skill, huh? It's said that an ordinary warrior needs at least ten years to upgrade a basic martial art to advanced.
Even some talented geniuses need four or five years of refinement!
But I've only been at it for less than two days, right?
And I've already upgraded from Elementary to Advanced!”
“Cheating feels so damn good!”
Li Ziyu once again marveled at the Martial God System's power.
However, he did not use his Qi and blood to upgrade his Knife Skill.
After all, Knife Skill is an external attack; no matter how powerful, it still needs the support of Qi and blood.
It's like boxing.
Even if your technique is superb, without physical strength and power, facing an opponent several times stronger than you is still useless.
You hitting someone a few times won't cause as much damage as them hitting you once.
“Upgrade realm!”
Name: Li Ziyu.
Realm: First Grade Intermediate Warrior.
Combat Skills: Intermediate Blade Technique, Initial Body Technique.
System: Martial God System.
Function: Can absorb all things, improve Qi and blood, other functions to be discovered by the host.
Ding, as Li Ziyu's thought landed.
On the virtual panel in his mind, the column representing his realm changed to First Grade Intermediate.
In an instant.
A warm current surged into his limbs and bones.
Nourishing his muscles and bones.
Black impurities also slowly began to seep out from Li Ziyu's body surface.
This time, the impurities seeped out for a longer time than before.
And they were even darker.
At this moment, Li Ziyu's body surface looked as if it had been smeared with a layer of mud.
After a moment, the mud fell off, revealing the skin underneath.
“It's smoother than before, and more elastic too.”
“Moreover, my strength and speed have increased by at least double compared to before!”
Li Ziyu quickly threw a few punches at the air in front of him, creating bursts of whooshing sounds.
Then he drew the long blade from his waist and swung it fiercely at the wall in front of him.
Boom!
The several-meter-high wall collapsed instantly as if struck by a heavy hammer.
Raising a cloud of dust.
“I take back what I just said, my strength is definitely more than double what it was before.”
“My Qi and blood have also increased quite a bit, the exact amount still needs to be tested!”
“The time is just right, I'll take these Shadow Cat corpses back, and then go to the Martial Arts Association for the First Grade Warrior test!”
Thinking this.
Li Ziyu hoisted the still-warm Shadow Cat corpse in front of him onto the wooden sled behind him.
There were already nine on the wooden sled; with this one, it was exactly ten.
This time, he didn't bring a gunny sack.
Nor did he intend to carry these Shadow Cat corpses back.
The combined weight of ten Shadow Cat corpses was almost ten tons.
With his current strength, he couldn't carry them at all.
Even dragging them with the wooden sled was a bit strenuous.
“If only I had a storage ring like in novels.”
“But even if I did, I probably couldn't afford it right now.”
...
The sky was hazy, the moon set, and the sun rose.
As the first ray of sunlight appeared.
The outline of the city wall appeared in Li Ziyu's line of sight.
He had run a bit far this time.
Thousands of meters from the city wall.
It took a lot of effort to drag the Shadow Cat corpses back.
On the city wall.
A Soldier guarding the city yawned, then slapped his own face.
He forced himself to cheer up, his gaze sweeping around the city wall.
Suddenly.
He seemed to have seen something incredible.
His slightly sleepy eyes instantly widened!
He rubbed his eyes and stared intently in a distant direction.
Only to see in that direction.
A young man dressed simply, with a youthful face, slowly walking towards the city wall.
The young man also carried a dark red long blade on his back.
But none of this was what astonished the Soldier.
What truly shocked the Soldier was the wooden sled the young man was dragging behind him!
On that wooden sled, there were actually a full, overflowing pile of Shadow Cat corpses!
Roughly estimated, at least ten!
“Hiss! Holy cow! I didn't see wrong, did I, ten Shadow Cats!?”
“Could all these have been hunted by this young man?”
“What is this young man's strength?? Are young men's strengths all this strong now??”
The squad leader also saw it.
He stared blankly at Li Ziyu's approaching figure for a long time, unable to speak.
Finally, he squeezed out two words through gritted teeth:
“Awesome!”
As Li Ziyu approached.
Before Li Ziyu could even speak.
The squad leader immediately ordered the Soldiers to open the city gate and quickly went to meet Li Ziyu.
Once closer, he tentatively asked, his attitude somewhat respectful:
“Brother, did you kill all these?”
After speaking, he couldn't help but glance at the pile of corpses on the wooden sled behind Li Ziyu.
“Yes.”
“Good luck, I encountered many.”
Li Ziyu nodded with a smile.
After receiving Li Ziyu's affirmative reply, the squad leader's gaze towards Li Ziyu changed.
A student who hasn't even graduated yet, single-handedly hunted ten First Grade Intermediate fierce beasts, Shadow Cats, in one night?
He wasn't a novice who hadn't fought fierce beasts before.
He knew better than anyone how terrifying fierce beasts were.
If an ordinary person encountered a Shadow Cat, even a fully armed special forces squad would probably be wiped out!
Yet, they were hunted by this young man who hadn't even graduated yet, all by himself!?
And a full ten of them?
The squad leader's gaze towards Li Ziyu was different now.
His eyes unconsciously filled with awe when looking at Li Ziyu.
If seeing Li Ziyu single-handedly hunt one Shadow Cat yesterday only gave the squad leader some appreciation for him as a junior.
But now, he completely treated Li Ziyu as an equal!
After all, even he, at Li Ziyu's age, couldn't achieve such a record as Li Ziyu did!
“Brother, after graduation, have you considered coming to our Eastern War Zone to develop?”
The squad leader's attitude was fervent.
After Martial Artists finish martial arts university, they can choose to join the army.
A genius like Li Ziyu, if they could recruit him to their Eastern War Zone, that would definitely be a great merit!
“Uh, we'll see, I haven't even taken the Martial Exam yet.”
Thinking about these things was too far off, after all, he hadn't even participated in the Martial Exam yet.
After chatting with the squad leader for a while longer, Li Ziyu walked towards the Zhenwu Pavilion.
However, he didn't drag the wooden sled; the squad leader specially arranged a military truck for him, which Li Ziyu didn't refuse.
After all, dragging it to Zhenwu Pavilion would be too conspicuous.
...
Zhenwu Pavilion.
Tang Xuan yawned.
He pushed open the door of Zhenwu Pavilion with sleepy eyes.
He was sleeping comfortably when he was woken up by a call from a staff member.
Although he was a Second-Level Martial Artist, full of energy, and could go days and nights without sleep, it was no big deal.
But being suddenly woken up, he was still a bit displeased.
However, hearing that Li Ziyu had come to trade fierce beasts again, Tang Xuan put on his clothes without a word and came to the shop.
The reason for such importance.
Firstly, he felt that the young man had good potential and was worth his investment.
Secondly, several other shops in Xu Jiang City had recently started to gang up against him.
In these days, due to the suppression from his rivals, the number of Martial Artists coming to Zhenwu Pavilion to sell fierce beast materials had significantly decreased.
This was also one reason why he valued Li Ziyu so much.
He wanted to find a stable source of goods.
“This time it should still be Red-Eyed Rabbits.”
“If I'm lucky, there might be two Shadow Cats.”
“But that's probably impossible; Li Ziyu hunted one during the day, so it's unlikely he'd hunt a second one so quickly.”
“After all, Martial Artists also need rest.”
Tang Xuan thought.
He pushed the door open and entered.
As soon as he entered, he froze in place.
His gaze was fixed on the neatly arranged Shadow Cat corpses in the main hall.
He couldn't speak for a long time.
“Boss Tang? Do you still buy Shadow Cat corpses here?”
It wasn't until a hand waved in front of his eyes that Tang Xuan came to his senses as if waking from a dream.
He quickly withdrew his astonished gaze from the Shadow Cats and turned to the young man in front of him.
The young man's face still carried some of the youthfulness of a high school student, and he was excitedly staring at him.
However, Tang Xuan now dared not underestimate him in the slightest because of his age.
Instead, the young man's figure at this moment seemed incredibly mysterious in his eyes.
To be able to hunt ten Shadow Cats at such a young age?
This young man's strength is terrifying!!
“Yes! Old Brother Li! Fierce beast corpses, however many you have, I'll buy them all!”