36: Let's make a date.

A meteor streaked across the sky.

In the No Mans Land, a battle was underway!

Lightning flashed as two hundred heavenly punishment soldiers condensed a Lightning Cut and blasted it towards Feng Jinsong, a Xuan Gang Realm Six-Star Wind Attribute Practitioner!

Dozens of seconds ago, Feng Jinsong was a Xuan Gang Realm Peak Practitioner.

Bang—

A huge explosion sounded. Feng Jinsong dodged, covered in dirt, no longer as leisurely as before, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.

He was injured!

Injured by a Qi Refining Realm Practitioner!

"What the hell, the monsters Lu Yuan controls are that strong?"

Lying on the ground, the incapacitated Xu Ruicheng was stunned.

A Qi Refining Realm Peak fighting a Xuan Gang Realm Peak, a whole major realm difference!

Students who could get into the Five Great Top Academies were, without exception, renowned geniuses in their respective cities.

For example, Xu Ruicheng, who awakened the Earth Attribute and was a Qi Refining Fourth Star, could defeat a Qi Refining Realm Six-Star Practitioner with his strength.

Any stronger and he couldn't... On the other hand, Lu Yuan alone was fighting five Xuan Gang Realm Practitioners back and forth, including three Xuan Gang Realm Peak ones!

"What are you all standing around for, come help!" Feng Jinsong angrily shouted at his companions.

He was being battered by the heavenly punishment soldiers' Lightning Cut, fleeing in disarray, unable to get close to Lu Yuan. Were his companions just going to watch?

"Brother Feng, we... we can barely protect ourselves!"

Chang Junxian, a Fire Attribute Practitioner whose realm was suppressed to Xuan Gang Realm Six-Star, had a hard time explaining.

He was facing an encirclement of a thousand Ten Thousand Bone Legion soldiers.

What made Chang Junxian despair was that when he cast a Fire Attribute Profound-tier Spirit Skill, trying to burn the Ten Thousand Bone Legion to death...

The Ten Thousand Bone Legion ignored his Fire Attribute Spirit Skill; even if they were shattered into bones, they would shakily stand up the next second.

These weren't Skeleton Warriors; they were an Undying Legion!

"Brother Feng, save me!" Chang Junxian cried out loudly.

Feng Jinsong: "..."

On the other side, the Wind Splitting Legion flying in the air unleashed wind blades, cooperating with the seventy-meter-tall star-swallowing soldiers, the Golden Spear Legion, and other five legions, suppressing the three Xuan Gang Realm Practitioners!

"Could it be..." Xu Ruicheng struggled to stand up from the ground.

Lu Yuan couldn't really kill these five bandits, could he?!

The other five Pengcheng University students felt a glimmer of hope for survival.

Seeing Feng Jinsong endure a Lightning Cut, appearing behind Lu Yuan in a blink of an eye, raising his dagger high, Li Jinxue panicked.

"Look out!"

"Die!"

With his chest pierced and severely wounded, Feng Jinsong's expression was distorted as he stabbed Lu Yuan in the heart from behind!

Wind Attribute Combat Class Practitioners were known for their speed, but even so, Feng Jinsong paid a heavy price.

But it was all worth it!

If Lu Yuan died, he would get a catty of top-grade forging material, undying stone!

Li Jinxue frantically wanted to help, but it was too late. The five Pengcheng University freshmen beside her closed their eyes, unable to bear witnessing this bloody scene!

Ding—

A crisp clang of metal rang out. Lu Yuan's top-grade spirit artifact, Annihilation, automatically triggered its protective effect.

Feng Jinsong, who had ambushed him from behind, was flung several meters away, heavily crashing into a tree!

"He's fine?" Li Jinxue breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Yuan looked at Feng Jinsong, who had tried to steal a chicken only to lose the rice.

As a Qi Refining Realm Practitioner, the reason he dared to intervene in this matter and face five Xuan Gang Realm Practitioners was naturally because he had confidence!

Not to mention the top-grade spirit artifact Annihilation triggering its protective effect, even if he had used the Earth-tier mid-grade Spirit Skill, Substitute Guie, Feng Jinsong wouldn't have succeeded in his sneak attack!

"Don't... don't kill me!"

Xu Ruicheng, surrounded by the Ten Thousand Bone Legion, begged for mercy.

No one answered him. A Ten Thousand Bones Soldier dismounted from a Skeleton Warhorse and directly tore him in half with brute force!

Blood rained down, and screams followed one after another. Of the five bandits, only Feng Jinsong remained!

Watching his companions die one by one, the severely wounded Feng Jinsong retreated repeatedly.

"I don't want the undying stone anymore, spare my life."

Feng Jinsong said.

He never dreamed that five Xuan Gang Realm Practitioners couldn't defeat one Qi Refining Realm Practitioner.

Who exactly was this young man in front of him, how could he be so strong!

"I hate it when others steal my things, and of course, I love stealing others' things the most," Lu Yuan said.

As soon as his voice fell, two hundred heavenly punishment soldiers collectively threw the long spears in their hands!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—

In a flash, Feng Jinsong was pierced like a porcupine and died on the spot!

Controlling Blood Butcher to retrieve the five storage rings, Lu Yuan put them into his pocket.

Six Pengcheng University freshmen: "..."

"He's so skilled, Lu Yuan must have done this often, right?" Xu Ruicheng whispered.

They had killed fierce beasts, but they had never killed a human in their lives.

After Lu Yuan killed someone, he took out the storage rings and put them into his pocket. The operation was smooth and seamless, as if he frequently engaged in killing and plundering.

"These people deserved to die!" a girl with twin ponytails said.

After clearing the battlefield, Lu Yuan looked at the other freshmen from Pengcheng University.

"How did you provoke them?"

A bonfire was lit. Li Jinxue directed her teammates to rest in place, taking out water and compressed dry rations to replenish their energy.

The two most severely injured teammates were carried on stretchers; their injuries had been alleviated, and they were temporarily out of mortal danger.

After all this, Li Jinxue sat by the bonfire and meticulously recounted the whole story to Lu Yuan.

"The six of us teamed up to hunt fierce beasts in the No Mans Land to earn academic credits, and we encountered several Divine Power Realm fierce beasts fighting over a top-grade forging material, the undying stone." Li Jinxue's beautiful eyes sparkled as she stared intently at Lu Yuan.

"Quite daring."

Lu Yuan said.

Divine Power Realm fierce beasts had fully developed intelligence; their thinking was no different from humans, and some even had much higher intelligence.

Fierce beasts also yearned for cultivation resources, so Lu Yuan was not surprised by their fight over the top-grade forging material, undying stone.

"While they were fighting, I quietly took the undying stone. But as the saying goes, 'the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind,' those Practitioners you just killed were also eyeing the undying stone." Li Jinxue said with lingering fear.

Without Lu Yuan, the six of them would have died at Feng Jinsong's hands.

As for that catty of undying stone, Li Jinxue and her teammates never thought of asking Lu Yuan for it.

Being alive was already a great fortune; the undying stone could be considered Lu Yuan's reward for saving them.

"Lu Yuan, you're really fierce, I was dumbfounded just now, brother." Lying on the stretcher, wrapped in bandages, Xu Ruicheng spoke incoherently.

"Wait, you... you broke through to the Xuan Gang Realm?"

Xu Ruicheng found that he couldn't discern Lu Yuan's strength.

"Yes, just broke through." Lu Yuan nodded.

Xu Ruicheng: "..."

He hadn't seen Lu Yuan cultivate, so how did he break through?

A Xuan Gang Realm Combat Class Practitioner!

Xu Ruicheng and his teammates felt envious. Lu Yuan was probably the first Combat Class Practitioner among the Five Great Top Academies to break through to the Xuan Gang Realm!

Before they went to the No Mans Land, they saw news that Chu Wushe had just broken through to Qi Refining Eighth Star.

After a brief rest, Lu Yuan controlled the Wind Splitting Legion to patrol in the air, preventing fierce beasts from approaching.

Initially, the six of Li Jinxue were somewhat reserved around Lu Yuan, speaking politely, but as time passed, they gradually became more familiar.

After all, they were all peers with similar topics.

"Lu Yuan, wanna go?"

As they chatted, Du Lingxuan, slender and charming, winked at Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan: "???"

So direct, it caught me completely off guard!