146: Three bears from hell!

“Congratulations to contestant Wang Xinyang for an excellent clear of the thirtieth floor.”

In another virtual space.

Wang Xinyang killed the beast tide on the thirtieth floor and sat on the ground, panting heavily.

Normally, with his Level 5 Martial Artist realm, killing a group of peak Level 4 beast tides wouldn't exhaust him like this.

But just now, in pursuit of kill speed, he hadn't rested much at all.

Including this thirtieth floor, he had killed nearly hundreds of fierce beasts in total!

He couldn't take it anymore.

“Twenty-ninth floor perfect clear, thirtieth floor perfect clear.

My score shouldn't be too far behind Li Ziyu.”

“I’ll try the thirty-first floor again; if I can't beat it, I'll give up.”

Wang Xinyang thought to himself.

Catching up to Li Ziyu and Ji Wudi was impossible.

Especially that abnormal Li Ziyu, who knew how he usually cultivated.

His strength was simply outrageously powerful.

He didn't aim for first or second; he just hoped not to be too far behind Li Ziyu.

However, he thought that since he had already cleared the thirtieth floor, the gap with Li Ziyu should not be large.

“Hmm, reaching the thirtieth floor should be my limit.”

After this, it’s just a slow grind; I'll probably be eliminated by the thirty-second floor.”

“Thirty-second floor… Li Ziyu should be able to clear up to the thirty-fifth or thirty-eighth floor, so being within ten floors behind Li Ziyu is still acceptable.”

Wang Xinyang scoffed at himself.

He was the most dazzling prodigy of Kyoto Martial Arts University.

Now, being nearly ten floors behind someone, he actually found it acceptable…

“Tsk, no choice, it’s not that I’m too weak, but that Li Ziyu is too strong.”

…

“Such fast clear speeds! Li Ziyu and Ji Wudi have both cleared up to the thirtieth floor! And they are all perfect clears!”

“Hiss, is this the difference between a genius and an ordinary person?! Everyone else is still hovering around the fifteenth floor, while Li Ziyu and Ji Wudi are already twenty floors ahead of them.”

“It's a pity that Senior Wang Xinyang can't keep up with Li Ziyu's pace, but Senior Wang being able to clear up to the thirtieth floor has already set a historical record for the Beast Duel Arena.

If it weren't for Li Ziyu and Ji Wudi, Senior Wang would probably be the undisputed first place this time.”

The spectators in the stands watched Li Ziyu and Ji Wudi's scores rocket upwards, their eyes wide as they discussed animatedly.

Those who could participate in the National Youth Martial Arts University League were all elite students from various schools.

Yet, Li Ziyu could leave these elites among elites far behind.

It was simply like a prodigy versus ordinary people.

It inevitably gave everyone watching a strong sense of frustration.

Indeed, comparing goods makes you throw them away, and comparing people makes you want to die.

The gap between people is truly greater than the gap between humans and animals.

“Above the thirtieth floor, all the beasts that appear are Level 5; I estimate the gap between Li Ziyu and Ji Wudi is about to widen.”

“Look quickly, Ji Wudi’s score increase rate has already slowed down.”

Everyone watched the changes in scores on the virtual screen in the arena without blinking.

Suddenly.

Someone's eyes widened sharply, exclaiming in surprise:

“Holy crap!? Look, Li Ziyu is still getting perfect clears!?”

“Hiss! Thirty-first floor, thirty-second floor, thirty-third floor!!! Li Ziyu's speed above the thirtieth floor hasn't slowed down at all!?”

“He’s still getting perfect clears! And it's one minute per stage! Hiss! How is this possible!”

“Above the thirtieth floor, they are all Level 5 fierce beasts, and they are all groups of Level 5 fierce beasts! Li Ziyu clearing one floor per minute, could it be that he's still instantly killing them with one move above the thirtieth floor!?”

Everyone watched the score, which was far ahead of everyone else, their eyes wide, their hearts churning with turbulent waves.

Before the Beast Battle Royale began, the host had also explained the scoring rules of the competition to them.

Only by clearing a floor within one minute could one receive a perfect clear rating.

They could understand Li Ziyu getting perfect clears before the twenty-fifth floor.

But after the thirtieth floor, the difficulty of the fierce beasts increased dramatically.

How could Li Ziyu still be getting perfect clears??!

Didn't they see that Ji Wudi's clear speed had already slowed down?

“It's already the thirty-third floor! Still a perfect clear. It seems Li Ziyu's strength far exceeds my imagination!”

“The battle with Ji Wudi earlier was far from Li Ziyu's limit!”

On the judging panel, Yu Ningmo couldn't help but lean forward, her beautiful eyes wide and unblinking, staring at the score changes in the arena, a strong surprise flashing in her eyes.

The score was displayed as a bar graph.

At this moment, Li Ziyu's score was like a sharp sword piercing the clouds from flat ground, leaving everyone else's scores far beneath his feet.

“Modu Martial Arts University has truly produced a true dragon this time!”

“To still achieve perfect clears at the thirty-third floor, even in my youth, I couldn't have hoped to match that…”

President Wang Daoyuan, standing beside her, looked at the soaring score rankings and couldn't help but murmur to himself.

At this moment, President Wang Daoyuan suddenly remembered that their Kyoto Martial Arts University had also gone to Xu Jiang City to recruit Li Ziyu.

A strong feeling of regret suddenly arose in President Wang Daoyuan's heart.

He slapped his thigh in anger:

“Damn it! We should have recruited Li Ziyu to our Kyoto Martial Arts University at all costs back then!”

“What a huge loss!”

“Impossible! How can Li Ziyu's speed in clearing beasts be so fast!”

“Isn't he still a first-year student!?”

Coach Niu's face was filled with disbelief as he exclaimed, slamming his hand on the table and standing up.

To battle fierce beasts, in addition to having powerful strength, one also needs to be familiar with the beasts' weaknesses to quickly kill them.

However, familiarizing oneself with the beasts' weaknesses requires years of fighting them to cultivate.

Ji Wudi, to break through back then, had stayed in the dungeon for more than half a year to hone his skills, and his experience in battling fierce beasts was already incredibly rich.

Now, Ji Wudi's speed in killing beasts and clearing stages had slowed down.

How was Li Ziyu still so fast?

And looking at Li Ziyu's clear speed.

He didn't rest at all, directly entering the next floor.

Doesn't Li Ziyu need to regulate his own qi and blood?

Coach Niu's face was gloomy, completely baffled.

Actually, he had already thought of a possibility.

That is, Li Ziyu's strength was already capable of completely crushing all Level 5 fierce beasts!

One force breaks all methods!

But this was too absurd.

Fierce beasts were much stronger than humans.

Moreover, what appeared inside was not just one fierce beast.

…

In the virtual illusion.

A chilling, windswept ice plain.

A biting cold wind howled, and thick ice covered the ground.

When Li Ziyu exhaled, white steam would emerge from his mouth.

Standing facing him.

A fierce beast with shoulders over three meters wide and a body length exceeding six meters, like an enlarged polar bear.

It stood upright like a main battle tank, fifty meters away from Li Ziyu, opening its bloody maw and roaring at him.

Unlike ordinary polar bears.

This fierce beast actually had three heads!

And each head had a different expression.

Indifference, brutality, peace.

It gave off an extremely strange feeling.

The one roaring at Li Ziyu was the bear head with the brutal expression.

“Level 5 peak fierce beast, Hell Three-Headed Bear!”