Xu Jie arrived at the school cafeteria as if nothing had happened and ordered four dishes and a soup.
Two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes!
There were not many people in the cafeteria at the moment. The students were probably still on the field watching the practical combat test.
Xu Jie was happy to have some peace and quiet. As he ate, he sorted through the fragments of memories left behind by the previous owner of this body.
Before, he had not had time for this sort of thing.
Now that he did, the first thing he needed was to understand the rules by which this world operated, as well as the exact state of his surroundings.
Or rather, Xu Jie wanted to know what means he could use to take revenge on the Xu siblings!
They had dared to openly plot against his life. If he did not butcher people like that, was he supposed to keep them around for the New Year?
As time passed, Xu Jie mechanically ate his meal while gradually coming to understand the situation in this High Martial World.
All in all, it was cruel!
Unlike the usual High Martial Worlds, the one Xu Jie inhabited was a true jungle where the strong devoured the weak!
The strong devoured everything, while the weak had only one road: death!
According to Xia Country's laws, martial artists faced almost no restrictions apart from being forbidden from murdering people in the streets within city limits.
The various things that happened in Martial Arts Universities already revealed a thing or two about it.
At school, it was exceedingly common for upperclassmen to bully lower-year students.
Even if the school authorities knew, they would not interfere, because there were far more brutal things happening within the school.
For example, during the monthly practical combat test, opponents were determined by drawing lots. They could be demons and monsters from the wilderness, or students from the same year.
In practical combat tests, countless students died at the hands of demons and monsters or were accidentally killed by others.
Out of every thousand students, fewer than five hundred, on average, survived all four years of university.
Of them, as many as thirty to forty percent died outright, while around ten percent became disabled.
Just like how Xu Jie had crippled those three upper-year students earlier, the school would not say anything even if it found out.
The strong were kings, the weak perished. It was that simple and brutal!
Besides the monthly practical combat tests, the school would also organize upper-year students to hunt demons and monsters in the wilderness, or take on mercenary work and accept a few commissions. The casualty rate was extremely high.
There was also a ranking board within the school, listing the top hundred students according to strength, with each receiving a large monthly resource subsidy.
Students of any year could challenge the ranking board.
The victor displaced the loser and could even kill the loser during the challenge, taking everything for themselves!
For Martial Arts University students to graduate, they had to undergo an assessment arranged by the school in their fourth year, essentially an internship in the wilderness.
Then, they had to secure a rank on the ranking board before they could graduate successfully.
The difficulty of that could well be imagined!
Therefore, every year, only a pitifully small number of students from a Martial Arts University could truly graduate.
Graduates could enter higher institutions for further study, then be directly assigned high-ranking positions afterward and become people above others.
They might hold great power and guard a region, or wage war in the Outer Regions and make their names known across the world!
Those unable to graduate would become mercenaries like Xu Jie's late father, or work as bodyguards for wealthy people and the like.
The reason this High Martial World was so cruel was mainly because other realms were invading and constantly encroaching upon this world.
The gods of the outer realms watched like tigers eyeing their prey. If they wanted to protect themselves from being overrun by foreign races, their only option was to turn the entire world into a breeding ground for venomous insects and use an incomparably brutal method to swiftly and efficiently select martial artists.
To put it bluntly, compared with the crises lurking in the Outer Regions, everything at the university was mere child's play!
By the time he reached this point in the memory fragments, Xu Jie understood why this world was so different from others.
Of course, he felt that he had come to the right place!
Martial artists, huh!
I already possess extraordinary martial strength, yet I still have to be bound by this rule and that restriction.
Then why the hell would I risk my life and train so hard?
Wouldn't it be more comfortable to hide in the rear like the common masses and muddle through one day at a time?
Xu Jie even felt that this world's rules were not cruel enough!
At the very least, a certain order still existed, such as martial artists being forbidden from killing people in the streets.
Compared to the environment Xu Jie had lived in during his previous life in Southeast Asia, this High Martial World was truly nothing much.
Southeast Asia was the place where there was truly no order to speak of!
Maybe you would be dead the next second. Other than yourself, no one could be trusted!
Looks like it was time to turn up the heat for the students at this school!
What pressure could there possibly be in cultivation when they were so wishy-washy and dragged their feet?
I already have a cheat, and I'm still supposed to talk rules with you useless trash?
Then what the hell do I have this system for?
Having transmigrated into a High Martial World and obtained the Slaughter System, Xu Jie's first thought was to conquer everything he could see before him!
Wealth, power, women, strength—he wanted it all!
Yes, it was that vulgar. Xu Jie was just that kind of person, drinking today's wine today.
As a desperado, he treated every day as the last day of his life!
As for the Xu siblings...
To be honest, Xu Jie had not figured out what exactly the inheritance that pair of mutts had mentioned was.
More precisely, the previous owner of this body had not figured it out!
After his cheap old man died, he had only left Xu Jie a few sets of clothes, a registered credit-point card, and an ordinary combat saber.
That was it!
The Xu siblings wanted his inheritance, but Xu Jie wanted to pry open those two bastards' mouths and find out exactly what good things his old man had left for him!
One had to know that Jincheng City, where Xu Jie lived, was located in Yue Prefecture on the southeastern edge of Xia Country.
Yet the Xu siblings had traveled all the way from Central Prefecture in Xia Country.
Such a great distance, and not only had the entire Xu family come, the two siblings had even transferred to Jinwu University.
From this, it was clear that Xu Jie's old man must have left behind some exceptionally precious treasure.
Xu Jie had also figured out how to take revenge on the Xu siblings.
Didn't the school have a ranking board?
Then the Xu siblings were on it!
People could be killed in ranking matches, and the death and injury rate was not low.
Xu Jie intended to use the rules of ranking matches to personally cut down the Xu siblings!
He had always been the type to repay every grievance with an eye for an eye. The Xu siblings wanted him dead; letting those two live for even one more second made his entire body feel uncomfortable!
Of course, rice had to be eaten one bite at a time, and roads had to be walked one step at a time. What mattered most to Xu Jie now was using the system to rapidly increase his strength.
After finishing his meal, Xu Jie subconsciously reached into his pocket and carefully felt around.
Which grandson of a bitch stole my cigarettes again?
Uh...
Xu Jie quickly realized that this world had no tobacco. There was no way for him to have a cigarette after a meal.
What a fucking pain in the balls!
Would he not even be able to take a puff after fucking in the future?
This life...
With no other choice, Xu Jie could only call up the system and inspect his attribute panel.
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