After a crisp crack, Sun Yuan's eyes bulged wide as he felt an unimaginable, surging force.
With a single blade strike, Xu Jie instantly shattered the power of his blood and qi, the force spreading throughout his entire body.
The next second, blood shot from every pore on Sun Yuan's body.
He became a man of blood, flying backward sideways. Before he even hit the ground, he had already passed out, losing both consciousness and the ability to resist.
Xu Jie, who had swung that blade, vanished as well.
When he reappeared, he had somehow moved behind the airborne Sun Yuan despite striking later. Without even turning his head, he slashed backward with one hand, then sheathed his blade with a swish.
Without sparing the result a glance, Xu Jie silently walked back to the center of the arena.
Halfway there, Sun Yuan's body, which had flown out of the arena, slammed into the ground with a bang and exploded into a spray of blood.
Successfully killed Sun Yuan (Aptitude Multiplier: 2), plundered 164 years of usable Lifespan!
An instant kill—still an instant kill!
A genius who had undergone Blood Moving Five Times and possessed combat power ranked in the top ten had died at Xu Jie's hands.
Yet Xu Jie had merely swung his blade twice, using only one more strike than he had against the others. That was all.
The watching students in the stands still had not reacted. Every one of them stood frozen in place, their faces full of disbelief.
Sun Yuan was dead... dead?
That was a Blood Moving Five Times powerhouse ranked among the top ten!
And Xu Jie had killed him with just two slashes?
Whether it was the Xu siblings, Chu Mingyue, or the school leaders, all of them rose to their feet involuntarily.
They were even more shocked than the students!
Because even now, with Sun Yuan's death as the price, no one could tell just how deep Xu Jie's strength ran!
The Xu siblings' expressions changed drastically, especially Xu Shishi's, whose face was filled with panic.
After all, Sun Yuan had been far stronger than she was!
Xu Shishi had not even completed her fourth Blood Moving, while Sun Yuan was a genius who had completed Blood Moving Five Times!
Yet Xu Jie had killed Sun Yuan with two slashes, as easily as killing a chicken!
Xu Shishi could imagine what the outcome would be if she encountered Xu Jie...
She would undoubtedly die!
Thus, never before had Xu Shishi been as panicked and terrified as she was now.
Compared to when she had mocked Xu Jie outside the lounge earlier, Xu Shishi now felt nothing but fear toward him!
Unlike the Xu siblings, the school leaders saw far more through this battle!
Could Xu Jie have undergone Blood Moving more than six times?
How was that possible!
How many years had it been since the borderlands of Xia Country had produced a student who had undergone Blood Moving more than six times?
And he was only a second-year student!
Such talent, such methods, such temperament—how could they have come from a tiny place like Jincheng City?
Thinking of this, several school leaders immediately glared with extreme fury at the Xu siblings opposite them, whose brows were tightly furrowed.
If they had known earlier that Xu Jie possessed such heaven-defying talent, how could they possibly have compromised with the Xu family?
If they reported Xu Jie to Central Prefecture, Jinwu University would receive an unimaginable allocation of resources.
It could even be more than all the resources they had received over the previous fifty years combined!
Because martial artists who had undergone Blood Moving more than six times were simply too rare!
Every one of them would become an overlord of a region in the future!
Why did Xia Country spare no expense in using cruel methods to raise venomous insects against one another?
Was it not to swiftly select supreme monsters to fight for this world and resist invasions from the Outer Regions?
And now that one such supreme monster had come from their school, they had actually been preparing to kill Xu Jie?
Especially...
When they considered that Xu Jie had completed more than six Blood Movings on his own, without relying on an earth-grade martial art or a mountain of resources, that was even more terrifying!
Thus, the principal immediately picked up his walkie-talkie and spoke a few quiet words into it.
Below the arena, the male referee who had received clear instructions hurriedly said to Xu Jie in a deep voice.
"Xu Jie, that's enough! The school's punishment for you is over!"
"I want to continue challenging, starting with the sixty-seventh-ranked person!"
The moment Xu Jie said this, the entire venue erupted!
If Xu Jie had previously used the rules of the ranking battles to kill people without restraint, it could still be said that this was the school's punishment for him.
But if Xu Jie continued challenging now, he would truly be killing people openly!
The school leaders on the platform flew into a rage when they heard this.
The vice principal could not help snatching the microphone and rebuking him coldly.
"Xu Jie, know when to stop!"
"Heh heh."
Xu Jie chuckled softly. A cruel curve rose at the corner of his lips as he calmly retorted.
"What is wrong with what I'm doing? I'm currently ranked seventieth. Can't I keep challenging upward? Or has the ranking board become an empty shell, or are you planning to change the ranking battle rules on the spot?"
"Xu Jie!"
Xu Jie's string of questions was sharp as pearls, leaving the school leaders speechless and unable to answer.
The principal looked at Xu Jie on the arena, whose expression was icy to the extreme, and came to a decision.
He took the microphone and spoke in an even tone.
"Xu Jie, you cannot continue challenging like this. I believe you understand the reason in your heart! But..."
The principal shifted his tone, glancing from the corner of his eye at the Xu siblings, whose expressions had slightly changed, before continuing.
"But you may make one request. Do you understand?"
This was an extremely blatant hint to Xu Jie!
The principal knew that, behind the scenes, the Xu siblings had wanted Xu Jie dead. And judging by Xu Jie's manner, he himself should have known that as well.
Therefore, to quell Xu Jie's anger, the principal gave him an opportunity for revenge.
If he wanted revenge, he could seek it from his enemies. He should stop killing innocent students!
Xu Jie instantly understood the hidden meaning in the principal's words.
After pondering for a moment, he raised his eyes toward Chu Mingyue, whose expression was complicated as she sat among the instructors, then nodded lightly at the principal.
"Fine! I want to challenge Xu Shishi and Xu Ming! Right now!"
The principal looked deeply at Xu Jie. In Xu Jie's gaze, he saw ruthless cruelty.
He knew that if he did not agree to Xu Jie's proposal, Xu Jie would completely lose control and slaughter his way upward from seventieth place, ultimately leaving countless students on the ranking board dead or wounded.
"Granted!"
The instant the principal's words fell, Xu Shishi beside Xu Ming turned pale with fright. She sprang to her feet and screamed.
"I refuse! This breaks the rules!"
Xu Jie was currently only ranked seventieth, while she was ranked twenty-seventh, nearly fifty places apart.
Under normal circumstances, Xu Jie could not leap across such a massive ranking gap to challenge her.
Unfortunately, at this moment, what counted as normal lay in Xu Jie's hands.
The principal paid no attention to the panicked Xu Shishi or Xu Ming, whose expression had become incomparably ugly.
He coldly returned to his seat and signaled for the school's chief instructor beside him to oversee the swift start of this ranking battle with its special significance.
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