[You Call This an Instructor?]

He Zhao had once been invited to dine at the Pufferfish Restaurant, and had specifically looked up all kinds of information about pufferfish on Baidu Encyclopedia. Among it all, Pufferfish Toxin had left an especially deep impression on him.

The various symptoms displayed by the Black Armored Elite all matched the signs of poisoning.

"Oh my, someone actually saw through me."

Gan Ping, that burly man, suddenly became coy and affected the mannerisms of a young maiden. It nearly made Ruthless He Zhao retch alongside the comrades who had yet to lose consciousness.

"You damned brutes slaughtered more than a hundred of this little lady's food supplies. How am I supposed to get through the days ahead? Still, the flesh of soldiers has a chewier texture.

It is just troublesome to eat. You need to steam, boil, and scrub yourselves again and again. Otherwise, if eaten raw, there is always that stench of sweat.

Sigh, what a pity. I had only just set my sights on this town and had not eaten many people before needing to move somewhere else."

Gan Ping spoke those hair-raising words without expression: food supplies, eating, chewy texture, steaming, boiling, scrubbing. Even more terrifying was that he had set his sights on Qinghe Town.

If the Gao Family had not plotted rebellion, if the Profound Armor Elite had not come to wipe out the traitors, then of the more than ten thousand people in the entire town, how many would he have eaten?

"Who exactly are you?"

"Me? I do not know who I am either. I only know that tonight, you will become this little lady's food supplies."

Gan Ping's answer gave He Zhao a sudden flash of inspiration.

"Gao Dapeng's Eighteenth Concubine?"

"Oh! Young Master truly is clever. This little lady is even a little reluctant to eat you now." Gan Ping covered her mouth and laughed softly, her brows and eyes overflowing with seduction.

"Bleurgh."

He Zhao truly could not take it anymore. A huge, brawny man was throwing coquettish glances at him. No one could endure that.

His reaction made Gan Ping frown, a vicious gleam flickering in her eyes as her right hand reached for his throat.

Smack!

Ruthless He Zhao raised his left arm and struck aside the incoming hand. At the same time, he clenched his right fist and punched swiftly.

Bang!

His right fist slammed viciously into Gan Ping's throat, or rather, the throat of Gao Dapeng's Eighteenth Concubine.

Throat Shattering Strike!

At the Elite Camp, he had learned quite a few Fatal Scattered Hand techniques from Instructor Wu.

Gan Ping was blasted by the enormous force and, completely unprepared, staggered five or six steps backward.

"Young Master, how very rough."

"???"

He Zhao's heart skipped a beat. What the hell kind of joke was this?

With the Child of the Night talent giving him +3 across the board, and Hand-to-Hand Combat granting +1 to strength, Agility, reaction, blocking, and striking speed across the board.

Not only had he failed to shatter her throat, he had merely forced her back a few steps. It was simply the greatest joke under heaven.

"I am even more interested in your flesh now!"

Gan Ping's eyes glowed red, making her look incomparably eerie against the night.

Whoosh—

He Zhao's pupils contracted. Gan Ping had vanished from his sight.

At the same time, the omen of death descended over his head.

Pfft!!

He lowered his head and looked at the arm that had pierced through his back, then fell to the ground with a thud.

"Such intoxicating blood."

Gan Ping licked the blood from her hand, her eyes dazed as she spoke.

Whoosh!

A Curved Saber shot through the air. Gan Ping swept out a hand and instantly shattered the gleaming blade into four pieces.

Amid the flying fragments, Instructor Wu appeared.

"Gan Ping, what are you doing?"

"Hehe, I am not him. The Count's Second Son has already been eaten by me." The Gao Family's Concubine smiled broadly as she revealed a fact that sent chills down one's back.

Instructor Wu knitted his brows tightly. Eaten?

What kind of monster was this?!

Her appearance, height, habits, and tone of voice could be said to be exactly identical to the original. He had even encountered her several times while drafting official documents, yet he had failed to spot a single flaw.

Never mind that. Kill her first and talk about the rest later.

"Die!"

Instructor Wu charged forward with a whoosh, leaving shattered Bluestone beneath his feet.

He Zhao, who was secretly peeping from the shadows, nearly cried out.

You call this an instructor?

You are the hidden monster among us!

He could crush hard stone slabs with a single step through explosive force. Just how great was his actual strength to accomplish such a feat?

Boom—

Instructor Wu launched a punch at the Gao Family's Concubine while still in midair.

A tremendous roar exploded, nearly rupturing He Zhao's eardrums.

Bang!!

The two exchanged blows, fists and legs colliding as both of them were forced violently backward.

"There is something wrong with you." The Gao Family's Concubine frowned.

Instructor Wu: "."

Which one of us is actually the one with something wrong?

"The blood in your body is not human blood. Its scent is highly similar to an Aberration I once ate." The Gao Family's Concubine sniffed again, then continued. "You must have absorbed or tempered Aberration blood, transforming yourself toward their kind."

"!!"

Seeing her expose the secret of his body in just a few words, every hair on Instructor Wu's body stood on end.

He Zhao: "?!"

Absorbing, tempering.

This Simulation Scenario had finally lifted a tiny corner of its mysterious veil for him.

After obtaining such a method, could he cultivate it in the real world?

Hold it in. Do not get too excited. Otherwise, if they discovered he was not fully dead, would that not mean all previous efforts had gone to waste?

"Enough nonsense, die!!"

Instructor Wu took seven consecutive steps, reaching the Gao Family's Concubine in the blink of an eye. His fists left streak after streak of afterimages in the air.

Military Fist Technique: First Form - Crossbow Formation!

His entire offensive was like a raging storm, giving her no chance to react. She could only defend passively, then helplessly drown beneath the increasingly violent barrage of fists.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Dense impacts rang out one after another.

Instructor Wu was like a road roller, bulldozing the Gao Family's Concubine all the way toward the courtyard entrance.

He Zhao was greatly shocked. If those fists had landed on him, he would likely have long since become a puddle of minced flesh.

Yet "Gan Ping" had stubbornly blocked them all, merely retreating without pause.

Boom—

After dozens of consecutive punches, Instructor Wu threw his final blow.

The Gao Family's Concubine finally could not withstand it any longer. Her entire body smashed straight through the courtyard wall and disappeared into the rubble.

Huff, huff, huff.

Instructor Wu stood where he was, gasping heavily. Clearly, this frenzied fist technique had drained him greatly as well.

"Humans truly are impressive. You clearly possess physical flaws, yet you always manage to find another path. Again and again, you break through your limits, cast off your flaws, and reach heights equal to Aberrations, or even greater."

The Gao Family's Concubine rose from the rubble and applauded in praise.

A hollow hole had appeared in her chest.

"Unfortunately, I do not possess the fatal points that humans have."

That was pure bullshit. He Zhao did not believe it in the slightest.

Back in Xiahe Village, where he had started with the identity of a vagrant, had not the Corpse Demon Aberration that ran everywhere carrying a javelin been restrained by the Spider Silk Net all the same?

"Then I will just—"

Halfway through his sentence, Instructor Wu suddenly froze.

Sensing that something was wrong, he abruptly raised both hands. The flesh on them appeared to have suffered intense corrosion from some toxin, exposing stark white bone.

"This?"

The highly corrosive substance began spreading from his arms to other parts of his body, and Instructor Wu had no time at all to stop it.