Zhou Zhe and Wenren Yi's interaction sent question marks flying across the livestream.
"???"
"Bro? That was awesome!"
"As expected of you. I'm impressed."
"Holy crap! Such a pretty girl, and you call her bro?"
"Blind in both eyes, yet it doesn't affect Zhou Zhe's showing off in the slightest..."
"If you don't need your eyes, please donate them to someone who does. Thank you!"
"Crushing a flower with ruthless hands, cold-blooded and heartless—Boss Zhou is simply inhuman! (This Bullet Comment costs ten cents; delete the text in brackets.)"
Zhou Zhe merely glanced at the amusing Bullet Comments in the livestream and ignored them.
Not far away, Wenren Yi's heart had been shredded, and the breath of life was rapidly draining from her. At any moment, she could fade away like a flower.
Even so, she relied on the faint spiritual power emanating from the pale-purple flying sword to forcibly keep herself alive.
Wenren Yi looked deeply at Zhou Zhe, her expression slightly complicated. "You were locked onto by the aura of my secret sword. You should have been dead without a doubt."
"But at the final moment, you successfully dodged it."
"So..."
"Did you exchange for a temporary ability?"
Zhou Zhe nodded. Though her conclusion was correct, there was a huge problem with the entire chain of reasoning.
He had no intention of clearing up her confusion.
"Doing this is what you people on Earth call drinking poison to quench thirst."
Wenren Yi's face was cold, her gaze dim, and the light in her eyes fading by the second. "You are seeking your own death. Even if you defeat me and kill me, so what?"
"Exchanging for temporary abilities just to drag out a miserable existence, without truly improving your hard power—you're only delaying the day of your death!"
"Let me remind you..."
"If you keep doing this, sooner or later, you'll die in the arena!"
Seeing that she was about to die, Zhou Zhe could not be bothered to argue. He merely replied leisurely, "No need for your concern. I know what I'm doing."
As for his Absolute Comprehension talent...
Would he tell anyone?
The joy of a cheater was plain, unadorned, and dull.
Zhou Zhe decided to bear that dullness alone in silence.
Wenren Yi's rosy lips parted, as though she wanted to say something, but she spat out a mouthful of blood.
"...I, too, learned many things from you."
She stared fixedly at Zhou Zhe, speaking in fits and starts. A smile suddenly bloomed on her face. "The next time we meet, I'll become stronger."
When she finished speaking, that final smile froze completely on Wenren Yi's face, never changing again.
That smile made one's scalp tingle and sent chills into one's heart.
The next instant!
A bronze sheen flowed across the back of Zhou Zhe's hand!
The original five Black Iron Stars all compressed and merged together, forming a single Bronze Star.
With that, Zhou Zhe officially became a Bronze One Star Cosmic Gladiator!
Below the cyan sword-and-shield mark, the number "55" was engraved.
In other words, Zhou Zhe now possessed fifty-five Gladiator Points.
In this promotion match, Zhou Zhe felt that his performance had been fairly ordinary.
The final gains exceeding the average were probably because, when he killed a chicken to scare the monkeys, he had casually killed Jack Clark, that youth suspected to be the protagonist of the Kindling World.
Clearly, Jack Clark's value was far inferior to Roxstar, the "legendary one-in-a-hundred-million Super Horned Demon."
With the rewards credited, Zhou Zhe glanced at Wenren Yi's utterly lifeless corpse.
"Looks like she's really dead."
"They didn't even give her any sound-and-light special effects."
"For example, 'A streak of purple light tore through the sky and crossed realms, fleeing into a rift in time and space before vanishing without a trace'..."
"Can this girl really revive?"
Thoughts spun through Zhou Zhe's mind, but his gaze fell upon the Bronze Colossus, whose movements had become far slower than before. "Why aren't you continuing to attack?"
"For high-ranking Cosmic Gladiators to meddle in low-tier matches and go fishing for minnows in a pond, they really do have to follow the basic rules..."
"The Wenren Yi you assisted has been defeated, so you can't keep attacking either."
The Bronze Colossus showed no outward change, but Zhou Zhe could sense Hansenelton's unwillingness, fury, and other emotions within it.
A voice like a great bell and a mighty chime rang out from the Bronze Colossus, almost rupturing people's eardrums. "I will kill you! No matter how many worlds I must cross, no matter how many planar barriers I must break through, I will kill you!"
"In one month, I will exchange for a War Letter!"
"Enjoy your final month!"
"Wait for death!"
Hearing this, Zhou Zhe's expression remained calm, his tone contemptuous. "There are seas of people who want to kill me for revenge."
"Have you heard of Absolute Ruler Bashar, the Golden Gladiator of Sigma Star?"
"You want to kill me? As a Silver Medalist who bows beneath another, are you worthy?"
Originally, as an ordinary human living on twenty-first-century Earth, Zhou Zhe rarely encountered someone who could be called a sworn enemy, so he found it rather novel.
Combined with this alien old father Hansenelton's persistence and his deep fatherly love for the Super Horned Demon Roxstar, Zhou Zhe never said it aloud, but he had actually held a faint degree of respect for him.
But now...
After experiencing the other party's series of moves, Zhou Zhe completely corrected his mindset—
Hansenelton was an enemy!
Only a dead enemy was the best enemy!
Although his hard power was still slightly lacking for now, that did not stop Zhou Zhe from shattering the other party's mentality.
"Golden Gladiator Bashar is Sigma's Absolute Ruler. I thought it over, and since you also live in the Sigma Civilization, calling you one of the 'ruled' isn't wrong, right?"
"On Earth, a sage once said—being a slave is unfortunate, but not terrifying, because those who know to struggle still have hope of breaking free. But if one finds beauty in the life of a slave, praises it, and becomes intoxicated by it, then one is a servant beyond salvation."
"An old slave beneath Absolute Ruler Bashar's command..."
"I hope you can be a good slave, work hard, and make your master toss you a fragrant bone to gnaw on, such as... Roxstar's soul crystal?"
Not bad. In fewer than five sentences, he had not disgraced the ancestral flame of trash talk.
Hansenelton knew he could not gain an advantage with words, so he said no more and merely sneered three words.
"Zhou Yulin."
With that, the entire Bronze Colossus split apart into fragments of bronze, scattering across the ground.
In the cosmic livestream, the Bullet Comments locked onto Earth's region.
"Has Zhou Zhe always been like this?"
"Mm... Master Zhou has always been an old king of torment. He's always been good at disgusting people."
"Damn, this style! This mastery of flirty trash talk! If Zhou Zhe isn't the final Boss of the Earth instance, I'll livestream myself eating shit while standing on my head!"
"As expected of Your Highness Zhe!"
"Oppa is amazing!"
"Zhou Zhe-sama is the best!"
"Friends, if you like Master Zhou, type 1. If you don't, type your eyeballs."
"That line... it really has that flavor! Brother, did you come from an anti-fan group? The moment you opened your mouth, I knew you were a veteran anti-fan."
"I feel like 'Dao' seems to be a professional naming-difficulty case... This month alone, I've seen more than ten Hearts of Elements, Hearts of Swordmasters, Hearts of Evil ghosts, Hearts of Barbarian Kings, Hearts of Wizards... This time, finally... Eh? Why not just skip the special reward altogether?"
"I'm shocked! There is actually someone in this world who fears neither life nor death? He actually dared to mock 'Dao'! Warrior, I salute you as a true man!"
"Holy crap! His profile picture is still lit up—he hasn't been erased yet!"
"Maybe 'Dao' also knows its creativity is lacking? People who speak the truth shouldn't be punished."
"Brother upstairs, isn't living good?"
"Only today did I learn there are so many people on Earth with self-destructive tendencies!"
At this point, exactly three days had passed.
The Plane Traveler ability temporarily bestowed through Gladiator Points slowly faded away.
The next moment.
The mysterious notebook turned into a stream of light and appeared before Zhou Zhe.
You have obtained your first Professional Certification...
See you tomorrow at 12:20 p.m.~
Waving goodbye~!
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