Visitors from Headquarters

In City No. 012, on the sixth floor of an abandoned residential building.

Xia Zhi had cleaned out one of the apartments and made it his foothold in the city.

After returning, Xia Zhi first went to the kitchen, took all the Beast General-level monster materials from his backpack, and placed them on the floor.

By now, the monster materials on the floor had nearly piled up into a heap.

He had been out in the Wilderness Zone for nearly a month. Xia Zhi basically returned to the Base city once every seven days, dealt with the monster materials, then went home to spend time with his grandfather so the old man would not worry.

And so, Xia Zhi immersed himself in slaughtering monsters in the Wilderness Zone.

Every day, he was covered head to toe in blood, as though he had fought his way out of a sea of blood.

His movement technique, saber technique, and physical fitness also steadily improved at a certain pace through this frenzied training.

However, the relentless slaughter had also made Xia Zhi's killing intent much heavier.

Still, what true expert had not come up through overwhelming slaughter and constant struggle?

Only his visits home every seven days to see his grandfather, the tranquil and peaceful atmosphere at home, and his occasional calls and chats with Qin Yiyi could ease the increasingly intense killing intent in Xia Zhi's heart.

Looking at his Combat watch, he saw only one unread message from Yiyi.

"A new song is about to be recorded, and I have rehearsals again today. So annoying! Xia Zhi, you keep it up too!"

Xia Zhi smiled and replied to Yiyi's message. After waiting a while and seeing no response, he stopped paying attention to it.

During this time, whenever they had time, Xia Zhi and Qin Yiyi would chat. Xia Zhi perfectly fulfilled his old promise, picking out the most exciting parts of his daily battles to tell Qin Yiyi about. Sometimes, he also shared his gains and progress with her.

Qin Yiyi would also tell Xia Zhi about happy and unhappy things happening around her.

The two of them seemed to live in entirely different worlds.

One was filled with monsters and slaughter, while the other was a safe and stable school life.

This wonderful feeling made them both eagerly anticipate their daily chats.

During his last trip back to the Base city, Xia Zhi had even made a special trip to see Qin Yiyi. The two had lunch together and talked for a long time.

Xia Zhi liked Qin Yiyi more and more, and Qin Yiyi seemed to have a favorable impression of Xia Zhi as well.

However, neither of them had any intention of laying their feelings bare.

Maybe this is first love, Xia Zhi thought to himself.

After all, he had never dated in either of his two lives!

After putting away the monster materials and cleaning the blood off his body, Xia Zhi entered the bedroom next door.

He had already remodeled the surrounding walls with Level 3 Kuro Alloy, turning it into a sealed room. This way, he would not have to worry about monsters suddenly breaking in while he trained. At the very least, it would give him time to react.

The empty room had long been cleared of all clutter. There was only a mat spread across the floor.

After setting down his shield, backpack, battle saber, and throwing knives, Xia Zhi began practicing his Guidance arts.

"This feels great."

"Whenever my body is exhausted to its limit and I practice the Guidance arts afterward, it feels like every cell in my body is trembling." Xia Zhi was in an exceptionally good mood.

The greater the depletion of his body cells, the hungrier he became. Likewise, his absorption ability became stronger, allowing him to absorb even more Gene Energy!

Why did strength improve faster through fighting on the brink of life and death?

It was because when one wandered along the edge of death, the subconscious would desperately dig out every last drop of the body's potential.

"I've been fighting and tempering myself in the Wilderness Zone every day during this time. My physical fitness should have improved again."

When Xia Zhi had previously tested himself, without using the Hidden Strength force of the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade and relying purely on his own strength, he had only possessed the power of an ordinary martial artist who had just broken through to High-level General. But after nearly a month of training, he could feel himself improving every day.

While Xia Zhi was frantically tempering himself and improving his strength in City No. 012, there were also people elsewhere discussing him.

Jiangnan Base City, the small helipad atop the headquarters building of the Limitless Martial Arts School.

The president of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall Headquarters and the two Supervisors under him—the three giants of the Limitless Martial Arts School in Jiangnan Base City—were all waiting in the reception area.

Ever since the Great Nirvana era, there had been countless aerial bird monsters. Only Transcendent War God-level beings among humans could fly, yet compared to aerial bird monsters in the sky, the difference in speed between the two was like heaven and earth.

Therefore, if humans wanted to travel extremely long distances, even crossing continents, they needed to take "passenger aircraft" capable of withstanding aerial bird monsters. The cost of building each such aircraft was even more outrageous than the cost of an aircraft carrier before the Great Nirvana.

Even a single flight incurred astronomical maintenance and upkeep costs afterward.

Thus, these "passenger aircraft" had long ceased to have anything to do with ordinary people.

To ordinary people, a ticket for one of these aircraft was an astronomical expense!

Even billionaires worth several hundred million would be reluctant to buy a plane ticket.

Therefore, no one who could fly was ordinary! Only the elite among humanity could afford it.

"President, do you know which Special Envoy Headquarters is sending this time?"

Zhuge Tao was asking the burly man in front of him.

This man was Zhou Zhengyong, known as Iron Hand, the chief president of the Limitless Martial Arts School throughout Jiangnan Base City and a Mid-level War God expert.

Hearing the question from his capable subordinate, Zhou Zhengyong smiled. "After you reported that young Xia Zhi's situation, Headquarters attached great importance to it."

"This time, it should be a Transcendent War God-level Special Envoy. We'll know once they arrive."

After Xiang Zhonghua discovered Xia Zhi during his physical fitness test at the hall, he immediately reported it to Zhuge Tao.

Greatly shocked, Zhuge Tao did not dare delay and immediately reported it to the Global Headquarters. Headquarters had also responded with unusual speed, saying they would send a Special Envoy soon to conduct an assessment.

Just then—

Boom! The air suddenly shook.

A purple-red Flowing Light appeared above them in almost the blink of an eye. It then rapidly slowed down, passed through the city's defense system, and slowly descended.

It was a purple-red Triangular fighter jet. The purple-red gleam reflected from its surface made one's heart tremble.

"Is that the Blood-red Fighter used by the Hall Master's personal guards?" Zhou Zhengyong cried out in a low voice upon seeing the purple-red Triangular fighter jet.

"Hall Master!"

The moment that title was spoken, the expressions of the two Supervisors beside him, as well as Zhou Zhengyong himself, immediately turned solemn.

There was only one person whom the chief president of the Limitless Martial Arts School in Jiangnan Base City could call the Hall Master.

The undisputed strongest person on Earth, the founder of the Limitless Martial Arts School—Hong!

An expert with boundless charisma!

The undisputed strongest of all Earth humans today!

As the personal guards of this strongest expert, every one of them possessed Transcendent War God-level strength.

Moreover, at certain times, their actions represented Hong's will.

Beep!

The fighter jet's hatch opened, extending a stairway.

The three giants of the Limitless Martial Arts School immediately walked to the side of the stairway.

"Welcome, Lord Special Envoy!"

Led by Zhou Zhengyong, the three giants of Jiangnan Base City bowed together in greeting.

A man in a gray robe emerged. His bearing was as cold as a mountain, and he wore a Golden Mask over his face.

Seeing the three below, he nodded and said to Zhou Zhengyong, "I will be responsible for reviewing the Elite Training Camp application quota submitted by your Jiangnan Base City martial arts school this time."

Perhaps because he felt an instinctive closeness toward members of his own martial arts school, the incomparably cold Golden Mask man added, "You may call me Ice Mountain."

"Greetings, Special Envoy Ice Mountain."

Zhou Zhengyong and the other two bowed again and addressed him accordingly.

Logically speaking, although the Elite Training Camp quotas at the Global Headquarters were extremely precious and even required a Transcendent War God-level Patrol Envoy from Headquarters to make the final decision, a High-level War God Special Envoy would have been more than sufficient for the review.

But Xia Zhi's reported circumstances this time were simply too extraordinary.

He was only eighteen, yet his physical fitness had already reached the High-level General level. That alone was remarkable, but he had somehow cultivated the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade to a level comparable to the fifth stage.

One had to understand that many War Gods and even Transcendent War God-level experts who cultivated the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade had failed to master the fifth stage.

If all of this was true, then this young man named Xia Zhi possessed comprehension at the level of a peerless genius.

It was said that even the Chief Hall Master, Hong, had been alerted.

He was curious about what kind of genius this young man was—someone who, with only the first three stages of the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade manual, had managed to figure out the subsequent Hidden Strength cultivation method and achieve an effect comparable to the fifth stage.

Now that Ice Mountain, one of the Hall Master's three personal guards, had appeared here,

it seemed that

the rumor that Hong had been alerted was not groundless after all.

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