43: One man and one sword, and he's worth an entire adventure team!

"Faster! The leader is leading that bear by less than three hundred points. Hurry!"

The heavily armored old man commanded the members,

"You, you, you—the three of you are suited for battle formations. Surround and kill the Blood Demon together."

The heavily armored old man then pointed at two other members,

"The two of you have the lowest strength. It's difficult to hunt a Blood Demon alone, so you can also cooperate. Do you understand?"

"Yes!" "Yes!"

The members of the Black Wind Adventurer Group moved out in groups.

"Little brats, move faster!"

"When this trip to the hidden treasury is over, I've decided to take a tenth of the adventurer group's warehouse to reward everyone!"

"Hurray!"

"Long live the leader!"

"The Black Wind Adventurer Group is invincible!"

"Stomp that big bear to death! Black Wind is number one!"

The members of the Black Wind Adventurer Group cheered on the spot.

Suddenly.

"Ah!"

"Impossible!"

"How could this happen! Our entire group is working hard, how could she...!"

The members of the adventurer group, who had just returned to the Blood Demon slaughtering base and were still immersed in joy, turned pale instantly.

They pointed at the sky, their fingers trembling.

The heavily armored old man quickly looked up. His calm, experienced eyes nearly bulged out of his sockets as he lost his voice,

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Cang Qiu, who had just finished off two Blood Demons and gained another 2 points, was beaming with joy.

His sharp eyes were filled with pride.

The pride of being the leader of the number one adventurer group in the Empire's southern province.

Even Jiang Xiong, whose strength was nearly equal to his, could only rank below him because of the overall strength of their adventurer groups.

But as soon as he looked up...

Why did his enthusiastic little brats look like they had seen a ghost?

Even the group's strategist, the most calm and composed Uncle Yang, had a look of utter horror on his face.

Could it be that my points are double that bear's?

Cang Qiu looked up in confusion.

What he saw was:

First: Ning Xiwei, 1024 points.

Second: Cang Qiu, 828 points.

Third: Jiang Xiong, 535 points... 100th: Zhang Lang, 1 point.

"What!"

Cang Qiu was shocked.

The precious saber in his hand fell into the hundred-meter stone pit in fright.

Clang, crash~

The precious saber tumbled down the uneven stone wall and crashed onto the corpse of a Blood Demon.

"I'm second!"

Second place!

Just a second ago, he had checked the leaderboard, and he was clearly first!

On the entire leaderboard, besides him and that bear, no one else had more than a hundred points!

In just the blink of an eye!

That local native, Ning Xiwei, actually had her points jump by a thousand instantly!

Slaughtering a thousand Blood Demons in a single second!

Is this something a human can do!

Did she cheat?

"She definitely cheated!"

Cang Qiu said in a low voice.

"Leader, I think so too. After all, the Blood Demons are at least in the third Realm, and they aren't positioned densely."

"Even you couldn't instantly kill a thousand Blood Demons of at least the third Realm."

"Let alone a mere local native!"

The heavily armored old man analyzed,

"It must be that a thousand third-Realm Blood Demons happened to be gathered in a pit. Since Ning Xiwei's Skeleton Soldier could insta-kill Lei Pengcheng, it naturally has the ability to insta-kill third-Realm Blood Demons."

"That must be it. They just got lucky."

"Luck won't always be on their side."

Cang Qiu nodded in agreement and sighed softly,

"Truly a lucky person."

"Move out!"

"Everyone, move out immediately."

"Show them all that the top spot on the leaderboard isn't something you can keep just by being lucky; it takes strength!"

On the other side.

Jiang Xiong, the leader of the Savage Bear Adventurer Group, snapped out of his daze while looking at the leaderboard above and murmured,

"Who on earth is this Ning Xiwei?"

"I was already being suppressed by that kid Cang Qiu, and now even a local native is riding over my head?"

"Leader, this person must have just gotten lucky."

"Luck?"

Jiang Xiong rubbed his shiny bald head.

"Leader, Black Wind has more people than us, so we can't compete in points. How about I go find some City Lords to cooperate with?"

"Go quietly and keep it a secret. Don't let that old fox find out."

"Yes."

Ning Xiwei and Sun Feifei looked away from the giant leaderboard.

"Little Skeleton, you're amazing!"

"With just one 'shoo' of your blade, our points surpassed the powerful Black Wind Adventurer Group. Truly a god!"

Ning Xiwei smiled gently.

Her heart was full of pride.

Lu Chen looked around.

It was quiet now.

The small flames in his eye sockets glanced toward the front left.

Swish~

With a flicker, Lu Chen appeared behind a rock.

There was a third-Realm Peak Blood Demon here that he had intentionally left behind.

The bone saber flashed.

All the sharp claws of this third-Realm Blood Demon were severed, including the serrated scythe at the end of its tail, which was also completely cut off.

In an instant, several strikes were delivered to its joints.

Completely weakening the strength of this third-Realm Blood Demon.

Lu Chen glanced at it.

The crippled third-Realm Blood Demon before him had its strength drop to around the second stage of the third Realm.

As for those claws that could cut through iron like butter, the moment they left its body, they instantly decayed like dead wood.

They shattered the moment they hit the rock.

Lu Chen picked up the crippled third-Realm Blood Demon.

Thud.

He tossed it in front of Ning Xiwei.

Little Girl, it's time for your performance.

Lu Chen had stored over twenty thousand vitality.

It was more than enough for Ning Xiwei to squander.

The schedule for training his little master had to begin.

Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing if the Little Girl fainted before the opponent even showed up.

Ning Xiwei nodded.

She fully understood Lu Chen's intention.

"Feifei, let's go together."

Ning Xiwei, at the ninth stage of the second Realm, called upon her Best Friend at the seventh stage of the second Realm to face the crippled third-Realm Peak Blood Demon.

"Okay."

Sun Feifei nodded.

Since she was a Summoner, she just needed her summons to do the work.

"Come out, Little Tiger."

The Variegated Fierce Tiger appeared.

It had just let out a roar when it noticed the predatory Blood Demon. Its four-meter-long body immediately shrank to two meters.

Blood Demons were bloodthirsty; even though it had been crippled by Lu Chen, its ferocity remained undiminished.

Seeing the Variegated Fierce Tiger actually roaring and provoking it...

The Blood Demon charged forward with a swish.

The two girls, Ning Xiwei and Sun Feifei, only felt a blur before their eyes.

Bang!

The Variegated Fierce Tiger was smashed to pieces and then dissipated.

Heh heh~

The Blood Demon shook its bat-like head, opened its bloody maw, and hissed at Sun Feifei.

"Xiwei, save me!"

The Blood Demon rushed over.

"Ah!"

"Little Skeleton, save me! I'm going to die!"

Bang!

Sun Feifei was struck in the chest and abdomen by the crippled Blood Demon.

Pfft!

Sun Feifei spat out half an organ, critically injured and on the verge of death.

"Feifei!"

Ning Xiwei cried out in alarm, her whole body tensing up.

The crippled Blood Demon aimed at Ning Xiwei and flickered.

Bang!

Ning Xiwei was heavily wounded, her ribs all broken.

Defeated in a single blow.

Lu Chen lightly tapped his own skull.

Swish!

The bone saber stabbed down through the Blood Demon's spine, pinning it to the spot.

His figure flickered.

Lu Chen arrived beside the two girls and tossed a bit of vitality to each of them.

In an instant.

Ning Xiwei and Sun Feifei were restored to their original state.

"I'm sorry."

Ning Xiwei's eyes lowered.

She couldn't even keep up with the speed of a Blood Demon that the Little Skeleton could kill at will, even after it had been crippled.

The Little Girl's attitude was quite good.

Her willpower was also decent.

Unlike Sun Feifei beside her, whose face was devoid of color and whose legs were trembling.

Her pale lips moved weakly, unable to utter a single word.

This made Lu Chen reflect.

Was this kind of training a bit too cruel for the Little Girl?

Lu Chen pointed at the pinned Blood Demon, then at Ning Xiwei.

The choice was in the Little Girl's hands.

It wouldn't matter if the Little Girl gave up.

He would just make the next training target a bit gentler.

While he was thinking...

Ning Xiwei walked toward the Blood Demon and pulled the bone saber out of its spine.

She handed it to Lu Chen.

Her voice was firm:

"I won't give up."