19: Battlefield Observations

Jiang Hao followed his four teammates toward the entrance of Battlefield No. 1.

"Young Master Jiang, look, that's the Hunter Exchange, the largest trading venue for Martial Artists in our Yunxiao Prefecture." Liu Da's tone was full of pride.

Jiang Hao looked at the grand, exquisite building near the entrance.

It didn't look like an Exchange; instead, it looked like a grand theater or a large convention hall.

"Can you post commissions and things like that in the Exchange?" Jiang Hao asked curiously.

Liu Da said with certainty:

"In the Exchange, you can do everything from recycling exotic beasts, posting and accepting commissions, to buying supplies, registering information, and forming teams."

"If Young Master Jiang wants to buy some interesting gadgets, you can go to the trading market spontaneously established by Martial Artists at the battlefield entrance."

"Occasionally, someone digs up good things in the battlefield, such as main Materials for forging spirit weapons, or even some Heaven And Earth Treasures and the like."

Just as Jiang Hao was thinking of experiencing the market to find some hidden gems, he heard:

"Who do you think you are, cutting in line! We were here first!"

Jiang Hao looked up and saw two groups of people confronting each other at the entrance.

One group looked quite young and should be students from a Martial School, while the other group, judging by their equipment and weather-beaten Faces, appeared to be a group of veteran hunters.

However, the situation was very unfavorable for the Martial School students, as the veteran hunter team had ten people.

From the positioning of the five Martial School students, it was clear they weren't very familiar with each other; they were likely a temporary group.

Adopting the spirit of "not missing out on any drama," Jiang Hao walked over and tapped an onlooker.

Handing over a First-Order yuan crystal, the bystander, who was originally looking impatient, immediately broke into a smile:

"Oh, you mean those students? Those four students were waiting for someone at first. They hadn't even bought tickets and were just blocking the people behind them."

"A veteran hunter couldn't stand this behavior of waiting for someone without letting others buy tickets first, so he went up and said a few words."

"As a result, those Geniuses from the Martial School looked down on the veteran hunter, who was only at the Second-Order."

"The best part is coming. The final member of that Martial School student team finally arrived after dawdling for ages."

"They stepped up and bypassed everyone to buy tickets, completely ignoring the crowd waiting in line behind them."

"The people behind them wouldn't have it. After all, who comes here to make money without having a short fuse?"

"Those ten veteran hunters went straight up, pushed those students aside, and stood in front to buy tickets. Then, the two sides started arguing."

Jiang Hao asked Liu Da curiously:

"It seems the relationship between Martial School students and these ordinary Martial Artists is quite poor. Is this common? Doesn't the Martial Unification Bureau do anything?"

The members of Liu Da's team also watched the two groups, who were arguing more and more fiercely, in silence and said:

"Ordinary Martial Schools aren't usually like this. Only students from the Ten Great Martial Arts Schools, like Yunxiao Martial Arts School, look down on low-rank ordinary Martial Artists."

"After all, students from the Ten Great Martial Arts Schools can basically reach the Fourth-Order upon graduation."

"People like us with poor talent and no Opportunity are basically stuck at the Third-Order. So, there's also the reason that ordinary Martial Artists are jealous of the Ten Great Martial Arts Schools' Prodigies, and conflicts often break out between them."

"As for the Martial Unification Bureau, as long as they don't use lethal force, they basically won't interfere. And most of the time, they side with the Martial School students."

Seeing the two teams each drop harsh words and agree to settle it in the battlefield, Liu Da said:

"There's nothing more to see. Young Master Jiang, let's go in."

The four members of Liu Da's team stood around Jiang Hao, leading him through the dedicated passage like bodyguards.

Some Martial Artists looked at Jiang Hao, who was surrounded in the middle, and said enviously, "Which family's Young Master is this, coming here to experience life?"

The Martial Artist's teammate followed up:

"He has people helping him carry bags when entering and leaving, and there might even be a Middle-Rank Martial Artist protecting him in the shadows. If I could have this treatment, I'd wake up laughing from my dreams."

A young man with a large bag nearby looked at Jiang Hao's treatment and felt unhappy. He said sourly:

"Someone like this will definitely know nothing when they come to the battlefield. In a fight later, they'll surely let the bodyguards take action."

"It doesn't serve as training at all. If I had this family background and worked hard to Cultivate every day, I would have been a Middle-Rank Martial Artist long ago."

...Xu Muwan's mood was very bad right now.

She had specifically come to the No. 1 Exotic Beast Battlefield for the sake of show effects and to attract fans.

She had originally agreed with her schoolmate to meet at the entrance of the Exchange at 10:30 on the 25th.

In the end, the other three students from the same school who were in the temporary team had arrived, but the schoolmate hadn't. He didn't answer calls or messages.

Those three classmates also insisted on standing at the front of the ticket line at the battlefield entrance, saying that once Senior Schoolmate Gao arrived, they wouldn't have to waste time queuing and could buy tickets and go in directly.

Xu Muwan tried to persuade them to no avail, so she could only message the schoolmate to tell him to hurry up.

The schoolmate's full name was Gao Longtao, one year younger than Xu Muwan. He was the youngest son of the head of the Gao Family in Yunxiao City.

The head of the Gao Family was an Eighth-Order Expert!

Xu Muwan looked irritably at her classmates who were having a dispute with those veteran hunters, secretly glad she wasn't livestreaming right now.

When Senior Schoolmate Gao arrived, the situation went completely out of control.

Coupled with Senior Schoolmate Gao's arrogant attitude, as well as showing off his Third-Order Sixth Heaven yuan power fluctuations and announcing his family name.

The surrounding Martial Artists were just about to take a step back and give the Gao Family some Face.

But the schoolmate loudly mocked those ordinary Martial Artists for still being at a low rank at their age, saying a bunch of trash wasn't worthy of queuing with him.

He maxed out the hatred.

Xu Muwan even wanted to go in by herself.

As a result, the ten short-tempered veteran hunters couldn't take it anymore and bypassed them to buy tickets.

Finally, there was the scene of shouting matches at the entrance and even a challenge to fight in the battlefield.

Xu Muwan looked at her classmates who had drawn so much hatred and felt that if she followed them, she wouldn't even dare to close her eyes when sleeping at night!

She was afraid of being ambushed by those Martial Artists.

Adjusting her mood, Xu Muwan turned on her Smart Wristband and clicked on the livestream... Jiang Hao, who had just walked through the market roughly, was a bit disappointed. There were no damaged saint weapons, nor any iron pieces recording powerful Martial Skills.

So, Jiang Hao followed Liu Da toward the depths of the battlefield to start grinding monsters.

On a small hill.

Over thirty Second-Order direwolves were resting under a tree with hundreds of First-Order pack members.

Suddenly, a huge light-blue Saber Qi sliced across. As the saber light flashed, all thirty-plus direwolves were split into hollow-hearted wolves by the Saber Qi!

The 1st-order direwolves were immediately startled and prepared to scatter and escape.

But how could Jiang Hao let the leeks run away? Over forty smaller Saber Qi slashes were unleashed, like the scythe of the Grim Reaper.

The ground was sliced open, revealing the soil, and the surrounding trees and rocks were cut in half. All several hundred First-Order direwolves were killed in a One-hit Kill!

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for a One-hit Kill on a Second-Order opponent, gaining 2 points!]

[Ding!] ... [points: 752]

In just this short time, Jiang Hao had obtained points that would have taken ten days of fighting in the virtual space.

Of course, the consumption of yuan power was also staggering, despite Jiang Hao's relaxed expression when unleashing the Saber Qi.

Although he had a spirit weapon.

But using a spirit weapon to release a Martial Skill and mobilize the surrounding yuan power consumes Mental Energy, and the Flying Firmament Void-Breaking Slash inherently consumes both yuan power and Mental Energy.

Those dozens of slashes just now had caused Jiang Hao to consume nearly half of his yuan power, and his Mental Energy was also significantly depleted; he didn't even dare to use the spirit weapon's amplification!

If he injected yuan power and Mental Energy into the spirit weapon to unleash a Seventh-Order attack, Jiang Hao estimated his yuan power would be drained dry, and his Mental Energy would be at most half-depleted.

Behind him, the four members of Liu Da's team were shocked into silence as they watched Jiang Hao deal with over a hundred exotic beasts in just ten seconds.

Hou Si reacted the fastest.

He dropped his shield and immediately went up to process the carcasses of the Second-Order direwolves. The other three also snapped out of their shock, put down their weapons, and followed suit.

At this time, Xu Muwan, who was livestreaming, was also walking with several classmates while discussing the plan for the next few days and the characteristics of various exotic beasts.

Then she saw a string of familiar light-blue saber lights flash by.

The entire livestream room, including Xu Muwan and the others, seemed to be under a freezing spell, staring blankly at the wolf pack not far away that had been killed in a One-hit Kill by a single person.