39: The wind and clouds are surging, heading to the core area
Inside the Martial Exam arena.
A tiger-shaped ferocious beast, drooling, with scarlet eyes, and a body larger than an elephant, constantly clawed at the ground, leaving deep gouges.
It roared loudly at the black-haired young man in front of it.
Roar!
The ferocious beast roared, transforming into a bolt of lightning, charging towards the young man like a tank, like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami raging.
Compared to this ferocious beast, the young man was like a small boat in a tsunami.
Tiny, insignificant.
But just as the ferocious beast was about to tear the young man apart, he moved.
He didn't make any major movements; his body simply shifted several meters to the side out of thin air, and the ferocious beast missed.
The ferocious beast intended to continue its attack, opening its mouth to bite the young man, but before it could even open its mouth.
The young man suddenly rose, leaped up, and delivered a lightning-fast whip kick, striking the ferocious beast's face with a thud.
Roar.
A pained cry.
The ferocious beast's head, comparable to a small car, was directly twisted by the young man's whip kick.
Following that, its feet left the ground, and its body, weighing over ten tons, was actually sent flying into the air, spinning backward.
With a loud crash, it slammed into a three-story building dozens of meters away.
It directly caused the three-story building, constructed entirely of reinforced concrete and standing for decades, to collapse with a roar.
“Excellent, after cultivating my Body Movement to its peak, my dodging ability has become even stronger.”
“In actual combat, ferocious beasts below First Grade Warrior peak can't even touch me.”
“And my strength is several times greater than before!”
“It's no exaggeration to say that in the realm of First Grade Warrior, I should be in the T0 tier!”
He flashed to the front of the ferocious beast, delivered another punch, and killed it.
Hearing the system prompt in his ear, Li Ziyu nodded with satisfaction.
Four days had already passed since the Martial Exam began, and after these two days of hunting, he himself couldn't count how many ferocious beasts he had killed.
He killed every one he saw, from the edge of the examination area all the way to the core area.
He was now just one step away from the central area.
By the end, he was somewhat numb, and he was tired of hearing the system prompts in his ear.
If the ferocious beasts in these Martial Exam arenas hadn't been specially treated by the authorities beforehand, given the number he had killed, they would probably have lost themselves to consciousness invasion by now.
However, he had gained a lot these past few days.
His Knife Skill, Body Movement, and Body Refinement Method had all reached the peak realm!
Even the defensive Battle Skill he later cultivated had been cultivated to Advanced.
“Open system panel.”
Name: Li Ziyu.
Realm: First Grade Advanced Warrior.
Battle Skills: Peak Savage Bull Body Tempering Method, Peak Body Technique, Peak Blade Technique, Advanced Vajra Body, Swift Wind Blade Technique.
System: Martial God System.
Function: Can absorb all things, improve vital energy and blood; other functions await the host's own discovery.
“I don't know if other cities have people like me who have cultivated all their martial skills to the peak, but in Xu Jiang City, besides me, there should be no one else!”
He was relatively humble and didn't claim to be invincible as a First Grade Warrior.
But Li Ziyu felt that being T0 was definitely a sure thing.
After thinking for a moment, Li Ziyu tapped his right wristband a few times, opening the points wristband.
The entire examination arena's ranking appeared before him.
First Place: Li Ziyu, 3800 points.
Second Place: Nangong Ao, 1200 points.
Third Place: Wang Long, 980 points.
Fourth Place: Xia Lin, 970 points.
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“It's indeed first place, and the points are nearly three times higher than the second place!”
“It seems the Martial Exam champion of Xu Jiang City is secure, and the scores for those four prestigious schools are also enough. I just don't know where I'll rank nationally.”
Li Ziyu thought to himself. His personality was to either not do something, or if he did, to do it to the best of his ability.
Since he had decided to attend the four prestigious schools, he would compete for the national champion title!
After a moment of thought, a glint flashed in Li Ziyu's eyes.
His gaze was firm. Gripping his battle blade tightly, he moved, rushing towards the central area.
“It is said that there is a Second Grade ferocious beast in this central area, specially prepared for genius examinees who want to compete for national rankings. Killing it can earn dozens of times more points than usual.”
“Go there!”
“Did he leave?”
“He left, phew, the pressure was terrifying.”
After Li Ziyu left, the two female examinees who had been secretly watching from the side, not daring to come out, finally emerged from the ruins.
Xu Mengyao's best friend, Xiaoya, patted her ample chest with a relieved expression and said:
“Even a First Grade Advanced ferocious beast couldn't withstand a single punch from Li Ziyu. What is his strength, exactly?”
“With this kind of strength, he's at least a First Grade Peak Warrior, right!?”
“Fortunately, he didn't discover us, otherwise, if he held a grudge against you, Mengyao, for breaking up with him, and sought personal revenge, we would be in trouble.”
Xu Mengyao didn't respond to her best friend's words, merely staring blankly in the direction Li Ziyu had disappeared, her face filled with unspeakable bitterness and regret.
Thinking back to five days ago.
Li Ziyu still belonged to her.
Now, she didn't even have the courage to stand in front of Li Ziyu.
She could only hide like a mouse, witnessing Li Ziyu's valor from the side.
“If heaven gave me another chance, I would never make the choice I did back then…”
“Damn it! 3800 points!?? That's three times more than me??! Li Ziyu, that sly fox, he actually hid his strength, damn, damn, damn!”
“How does he have so many points? How many ferocious beasts did he kill? Cheating! Li Ziyu must be cheating!”
Central area.
Nangong Ao's face was extremely grim as he saw Li Ziyu's name at the top of the ranking.
He was so angry that he kept punching the wall, not even noticing the blood on his hands.
“I am the strongest in Xu Jiang City! An unknown nobody, he must have cheated to get such a high score!!”
After venting, a hint of unwillingness flashed across Nangong Ao's face.
Among the Martial Exam students in Xu Jiang City, he had always been the most dazzling.
When had someone else ever stolen his thunder like this?
The thought of the outside world's reaction upon seeing Li Ziyu's points made Nangong Ao feel as if he had swallowed a fly.
“Hmph! To that Second Grade ferocious beast!”
“I don't believe Li Ziyu's strength can kill that Second Grade ferocious beast. As long as I kill it first, I can prove to the outside world that my strength is superior to Li Ziyu's!”
Nangong Ao thought, reining in his emotions, and with a whoosh, transformed into a yellow afterimage, rushing towards the very center of the central area.
“Hiss?! 3800 points? Is that fake? Isn't that even more impressive than Nangong Ao?”
“How could there be someone stronger than Nangong Ao in Xu Jiang City?”
A certain area in the central district.
Wang Long sat on a ferocious beast's corpse.
While ravenously tearing at an energy bar, he scanned the points ranking, his face changing between cloudy and clear.
“Monster, to reach 3800 points, this could already be the champion of Su Province, damn it, how am I supposed to catch up!?”
“Nangong Ao's mood is probably worse than mine right now. From what I know of him, he will definitely go to the central area to hunt that Second Grade ferocious beast to prove his strength.”
“Then… I'll go take a look too!”
“I want to see just how strong that person named Li Ziyu is.”
As someone who dreamed of surpassing Nangong Ao.
Wang Long had thoroughly studied Nangong Ao's personality.
From his understanding of Nangong Ao, he would definitely impulsively go to hunt that Second Grade ferocious beast.
Perhaps that person named Li Ziyu would also go.
No!
He definitely would!
Thinking this, Wang Long didn't bother to eat slowly anymore.
He quickly shoved everything into his mouth and swallowed it, heading straight for the very center of the examination arena.
“3800 points, Student Li Ziyu, have you finally started to exert yourself?”
“You're even more impressive than I imagined, truly beyond my expectations…”
Xia Lin looked at the name far ahead on the ranking, her beautiful eyes sparkling with a strange brilliance, and she murmured to herself.
“Strong and handsome…”
Xia Lin seemed to think of something, and a blush unconsciously crept onto her fair cheeks.
However, looking up at the drone filming her not far away in the sky, she realized, and rubbed her cheeks in annoyance:
“Oh, what am I thinking about?”
“I hope Student Li Ziyu doesn't see this, or it would be embarrassing.”
Collecting her thoughts, Xia Lin looked towards the central area again, her eyes thoughtful:
“The Martial Exam is almost over. They should all go to that Second Grade ferocious beast. I'll go take a look too!”
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