44: Attitude change, fat lady

“Li Ziyu is amazing! My idol!”

“So strong! Li Ziyu, can you reveal your actual strength?!”

“Student Li Ziyu! I want to have your babies!”

“Ah! Student Li Ziyu is looking at me!”

“What do you mean looking at you? He’s clearly looking at me!”

Several school beauty-level junior students, seeing Li Ziyu’s gaze directed their way, quickly puffed out their chests, smiled, revealing dimples, and displayed the most brilliant smiles of their sixteen years.

Some even directly opened their phones, held them up, and showed their Flying Letter friend codes.

As soon as Li Ziyu exited the Wilderness Area, Mayor Wang Jiannan, surrounded by a group of principals, walked towards him.

Behind Wang Jiannan followed a group of people who looked like teachers, and Li Ziyu even spotted his own teacher, Liu Yanfang, among them.

From a distance, Wang Jiannan extended both hands to Li Ziyu, a smile on his face, his expression so amiable as if Li Ziyu were his long-lost nephew:

“As expected of our Xu Jiang City’s Martial Exam top scorer! Not only is his strength formidable, but he’s also so handsome and talented!”

“Good!”

“Good!”

“Good!”

Wang Jiannan uttered three “good”s in a row.

As he spoke, he secretly appraised Li Ziyu from head to toe.

The more he looked, the more astonished he felt.

Li Ziyu stood before him, giving him the sensation of facing a drawn sharp blade, with an unparalleled keenness piercing the sky.

But when he changed his perspective again.

The unparalleled keenness disappeared.

Li Ziyu’s aura, once again, resembled a towering mountain, giving a sense of profoundness and impregnability.

Wang Jiannan was secretly startled; Li Ziyu’s strength was even greater than he had imagined.

He could even feel a sense of danger from him.

This was too exaggerated.

One must know, he was a Third-Level Martial Artist.

Although only at the initial stage, in Xu Jiang City, besides the Martial Arts Association President who could suppress him, he hadn’t felt this sensation from anyone else for a long time.

Today, he felt it from a boy under seventeen years old.

Wang Jiannan couldn’t help but smile even more brightly.

Li Ziyu had seen Wang Jiannan speak on television and knew his identity, so he also responded with a smile.

“Hello, Mayor.”

“Haha, Student Li Ziyu, truly a prodigy of our Third High School! I’ve been following you since you enrolled. I recognized early on that you were no ordinary person!”

“And sure enough, you directly became our Xu Jiang City’s Martial Exam top scorer!”

“Truly a great roc spreading its wings ninety thousand miles! An astonishing debut! An astonishing debut!”

At this moment, another excited and amiable voice sounded before Li Ziyu, and at the same time, Li Ziyu felt his hands being tightly grasped and shaken up and down.

Li Ziyu recognized this as Principal Liu Youde of his school.

However, to say he had been following him since enrollment was a bit too absurd.

Aside from seeing Liu Youde speak during enrollment, he had never seen him at school otherwise.

Li Ziyu was speechless for a moment.

But before Li Ziyu could speak or pull his hand back, he felt a tightening grip.

Liu Youde gripped his hands firmly, leaned closer quietly, and lowered his voice to a whisper only they could hear:

“Student Li Ziyu, you’ve brought glory to our Third High School. As Principal, I will personally sponsor you one million great xia currency!”

Seeing Li Ziyu’s expressionless face, Liu Youde gritted his teeth and continued to speak:

“Plus twenty Qi Blood Pills!”

Li Ziyu immediately smiled; one Qi Blood Pill was fifty thousand great xia currency.

Twenty pills, he was just about to use Qi Blood Pills to test his latest ideas regarding the System.

Thinking of this, Li Ziyu, with a brilliant expression, also grasped the Third High School Principal’s hand and shook it up and down:

“It’s all thanks to the school’s cultivation!”

…

On the highway back to Xu Jiang City’s urban area, three extended blue flag sedans drove steadily.

In the central bulletproof blue flag car.

Li Ziyu sat in the back, rolling down the window.

He enjoyed the breeze while gazing at the distant sunset and evening glow.

In the front, Liu Youde, who was personally driving Li Ziyu, cautiously glanced at the rearview mirror and spoke with a smile:

“Student Li Ziyu, the Martial Exam has just concluded, and the national score rankings will take another day to compile.”

“However, with your points, you’re guaranteed to get into any school you wish.”

“And I estimate that your point ranking will be at least within the top ten nationally!”

One could tell Liu Youde was very excited as he spoke, his hands gripping the steering wheel so tightly that his knuckles were white.

“Mm.”

Li Ziyu nodded with an “Mm,” responding calmly.

His attitude was quite indifferent, yet Liu Youde felt no disrespect whatsoever.

Instead, he found it normal.

Given the potential Li Ziyu had now displayed, in the future, at worst, he would be a Grade 4 Martial Artist.

If he chose to take up a position, he would at least be at the level of a City Martial Arts Association President.

That was even higher than Wang Jiannan, his superior’s superior.

Wasn’t it normal for him to be indifferent to a mere principal like himself?

“Student Li Ziyu, the personal reward I promised you has already been transferred to your card. Since you’ve achieved such excellent results for our Xu Jiang City in the Martial Exam, the city will also provide a sponsorship. Once the national rankings are out, the city will deliver the reward to you based on your ranking.”

“I estimate it will be tomorrow. At that time, the Mayor and our city’s Martial Arts Association President might both visit your home.”

“Oh, and also, I estimate that by tomorrow at the latest, teachers from martial arts schools will come to recruit students. Have you decided which school you want to apply for?”

Liu Youde asked cautiously while driving.

“I’ll see the conditions then.”

Li Ziyu hadn’t forgotten his initial purpose for participating in the Martial Exam.

His goal had always been clear: to obtain a more advanced Visualization Method to avoid the negative effects of killing fierce beasts.

In the Martial Exam arena, that sensation of killing fierce beasts without negative effects, and the speed of his strength improvement, he truly loved it.

Name: Li Ziyu.

Realm: First-Level Advanced Martial Artist (+).

Combat 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, enhance Qi and blood, other functions await host’s self-discovery.

After killing that Second-Level fierce beast, the Bloody Violent Bear, he could already upgrade!

During their casual conversation, the car drove into the old district, to the garden community where Li Ziyu lived.

Liu Youde looked at the narrow, dilapidated, crowded, and potholed alley illuminated by the car’s headlights, his brows furrowed tightly.

The esteemed Martial Exam top scorer of Xu Jiang City.

And quite possibly also the Martial Exam top scorer of Su Province, a super genius ranked in the top ten nationally in the Martial Exam.

He actually lived in such a remote, out-of-the-way place!?

If this were known to the outside world, wouldn’t it make others look down on their Xu Jiang City?

They would think that Xu Jiang City mistreated its talents!

A glint flashed in Liu Youde’s eyes; it seemed he needed to bring this up to the city.

When awarding Li Ziyu, they had to add a villa!

“Alright, Principal Liu, you can drop me off here.”

“The road ahead is narrow, the car can’t go in, I’ll walk the rest of the way.”

Li Ziyu said to Liu Youde, declining Liu Youde’s offer of a ride to the door.

He pushed open the door and got out of the car, then went to the building entrance and walked up the stairs.

From the window next to Li Ziyu’s.

The neighbor, the Fat Woman, pulled the curtains shut, peering through the gap at the receding taillights:

“What in the world, is that unparented brat next door working as a driver now? Disturbing the peace in the middle of the night.”

“Tsk, this is what happens when you don’t study hard. But thankfully, my son got into a martial arts university, and his future is limitless!”

The Fat Woman said, pulled the curtains, and returned to her living room.

On the living room sofa sat a thin, dark-skinned, shifty-eyed middle-aged man.

He was holding his phone, talking on it.

After the man hung up the phone, the Fat Woman quickly asked:

“Have all the relatives been notified? Our son getting into a martial arts university is a huge stroke of luck, we must have all the relatives come and show off properly.”

“Let them, who used to look down on us, hmph, now we can hold our heads high! I can’t wait to see their envious expressions! Haha!”

“Mm, everyone’s been notified. Now we just need to book a hotel, but hotels are tight during the summer vacation, I need to book one immediately.”

Saying this, the man took out his phone, intending to book a hotel.

However, before he could start, the Fat Woman snatched his phone away and scolded him furiously:

“Book a hotel my ass! Is money not money?! Huh?! Can you just waste it like that?”

“That brat next door lives alone, doesn’t he? Just make him go out and stay somewhere for a night, and let the relatives stay in his room, wouldn’t that work?”

“Uh… where would he stay then?”

The man hesitated.

“I just saw a car come by, he’s probably working as a driver right now, so just let him make do in the car for a night!”

“Our son got into a martial arts university, you know. It’s his honor to make room for the relatives of a martial arts university student.”

“Anyway, don’t you worry about it, I’ll go tell him tomorrow!”