21: Wang Dali with bad intentions

“Hey, hey, hey! Soldiers, you’re abusing your power! Why can he leave the city, but we can’t?!”

“Exactly! He looks younger than us, and he’s not even wearing a combat uniform. He’s clearly a novice. Why aren’t you worried about him encountering danger outside the city?!”

“Right, why aren’t you asking him for his Warrior badge?”

The squad leader looked at the group of arguing teenagers with a strange expression, but didn't argue back.

He just quietly took out his phone from his waist, unlocked it, opened the photo album, pulled up a picture, handed it to the teenagers, and said:

“See for yourselves.”

Curious, the group gathered around. The moment they saw the photo, their eyes widened instantly, and they gasped:

“Hiss! Shadow Cat? A First Grade Mid-level ferocious beast, Shadow Cat? Is that a Shadow Cat he’s dragging behind him? Ten Shadow Cat corpses?!!!?”

“Holy crap!! Could it be that the handsome guy killed all of these? He hunted ten Shadow Cats by himself?!”

“How is that possible? What is his strength? Even those prodigies who are expected to contend for the top spot in the Xu Jiang City Martial Exam can’t do that!?”

The squad leader looked at the group, who were all dumbfounded and swallowing hard, and couldn't help but feel a secret satisfaction:

“Now you know why I let him pass, don’t you?

If even one of you can reach his strength, even if you don’t have a First Grade Warrior badge, I will let you pass unconditionally!”

… …

It was still a ruined city, with moss-covered broken walls and debris everywhere. Faintly, one could still see the plaques of humanity’s past civilization.

Inside a large building.

A black-haired young man with a tall, straight posture and blade-like eyebrows stood facing a Shadow Cat whose fur was pitch black and whose body was larger than a Northeast Tiger.

Facing such a massive, ferocious beast, radiating a terrifying aura,

a normal person would have long since been scared out of their wits.

But the young man’s expression was calm.

Not only calm, he even took the initiative to attack. The long blade in his right hand dragged sparks across the hard floor, and his entire body transformed into an extremely fast afterimage.

He lunged forward fiercely.

Clang!

In the dim light, a black blade shadow flashed, as if electricity was born from thin air.

Pfft.

A black head, still showing ferocity in its eyes, shot into the sky amidst a spray of blood.

Ding, killed a First Grade Mid-level ferocious beast, Shadow Cat, blood energy +0.005.

Name: Li Ziyu

Realm: First Grade High-level

Combat Skills: Elementary Swift Wind Blade Technique, Elementary Savage Bull Tempering Technique, Intermediate Blade Technique, Initial Body Technique.

System: Martial God System.

Function: Can absorb all things to increase blood energy. Other functions are to be discovered by the host.

When he was tested at the Martial Arts Association, his blood energy had already reached 5.99. After entering the city, he casually killed a ferocious beast, which directly raised his realm to High-level.

“As my level increases, the blood energy gained from killing ferocious beasts lower than my level is getting less and less.”

“Before, killing a Shadow Cat would increase my blood energy by 0.01. Now, it’s directly halved.”

“It seems I need to go deeper, to locations further from the city walls, to hunt higher-level ferocious beasts!”

Li Ziyu skillfully packed the Shadow Cat’s corpse while frowning in thought.

He had been in the Wilderness Area for an unknown amount of time, and he couldn't remember how many Shadow Cats he had killed.

He only knew that by the end, he could no longer carry all the Shadow Cat corpses.

Some that he killed nearby, he gathered all their corpses in one place, planning to call people to transport them back after he finished hunting.

As for those that were more scattered, he had no choice but to abandon them.

Li Ziyu’s heart bled; these Shadow Cat corpses were all money!

Each one was worth tens of thousands.

However, his harvest from this trip to the Wilderness Area was significant.

The Second Level Savage Bull Tempering Technique he received from the Martial Arts Association had already been mastered by him!

After mastering it, the only feeling he had was that his body was now much sturdier than before!

His blood energy felt as if it had been tempered, and it was also thicker and more solid than before!

Li Ziyu had tested it.

After cultivating the Body Tempering Technique, the quality of his blood energy had increased by at least twenty percent!

In other words, his defense, endurance, and strength had all increased by twenty percent across the board!

Previously, when he faced a Shadow Cat, even when using Swift Wind Slash, it would take two slashes to kill it.

But now, he could kill it in one slash!

Terrifying, truly terrifying!

No wonder Battle Skills were so expensive; turns out the effect is so great.

Li Ziyu mused.

After a brief rest in place, Li Ziyu glanced at the sky.

The sky was still glaring. He took out his phone and checked; although there was no signal in the Wilderness Area, the time could still be displayed.

16:00

“It’s still early to go down the mountain. Anyway, I brought enough dry rations, so I’ll continue deeper to hunt higher-level ferocious beasts!”

Picking a direction, Li Ziyu held his battle blade with both hands and cautiously walked deeper into the wilderness, sticking close to the buildings.

… …

Xu Jiang City, Hong Su Martial Arts Hall.

“You said you have a classmate whose blood energy test was only 0.8 a few days ago, and today it directly rose to 5.99?”

In a spacious training room, Wang Dali looked at Bai Haoran, who was frantically hacking at a target, with a surprised expression.

Last time, he met Bai Haoran bringing a female companion here for a blood energy test.

He casually mentioned, asking Bai Haoran if he wanted to sign up for his sprint training class.

There was no news for two days, and Wang Dali had almost forgotten about it.

Unexpectedly, Bai Haoran suddenly came to Hong Su Martial Arts Hall today to find him, specifically asking to sign up for his fast-track class.

This made him overjoyed, after all, it was one hundred thousand yuan. Even for him, a First Level Peak Martial Artist, it was not a small sum.

And there was no such thing as a fast-track class; it was just a matter of tricking the other party for a few days, and then giving them a temporary blood energy boosting pill at the end.

This was simply money for nothing.

“Can you tell me more about your friend’s situation?”

Wang Dali said with flickering eyes.

Bai Haoran felt annoyed whenever Li Ziyu was mentioned, so he casually told Wang Dali all the information he knew about Li Ziyu.

Wang Dali listened.

He lowered his head.

His eyes flickered even faster, as if he was quickly calculating something.

If Bai Haoran had stopped his hacking motion, he might have heard Wang Dali muttering:

“To increase blood energy so much within three days, even for a blood energy talent awakened, it shouldn’t be this fast.”

“That kid named Li Ziyu definitely encountered some kind of fortuitous encounter!”

A moment later, a sharp glint flashed in Wang Dali’s eyes. He looked up and said to Bai Haoran:

“I just remembered I have something to do. Today’s training ends here!”

After saying that, he left Bai Haoran, who was looking confused, and walked out of the training room with his blade.