Luo Feng

It took more than an hour to ride the subway from Yangzhou City's center to Yian District.

By the time Wang Yi walked out of the subway station, it was nearly two thirty in the afternoon.

This was not Wang Yi's first time in Yian District. After turning sixteen, he had specifically come to Yian District No.3 High School to find Luo Feng.

Otherwise, in the vast sea of people, finding an obscure nobody like Luo Feng would have been quite difficult.

In the original story, Luo Feng's home was on the thirty-second floor of a thirty-six-story apartment building in Nan'an Residential Area.

With so many apartment buildings around, who knew which one Luo Feng lived in? It was better to go straight to the school. At least he knew Luo Feng was in his first year of high school and had a name.

In any case, Wang Yi had gone to great lengths back then. It could be said that he had racked his brains.

Only after putting in so much effort had he gradually become familiar with Luo Feng.

Wang Yi did not know what others thought, but he felt no psychological burden. First, he would not deliberately do anything that harmed Luo Feng's interests. Second, he genuinely liked Luo Feng as a person and sincerely wanted to be friends with him.

Ahem. Of course, being able to ride Luo Feng's coattails was important too.

Wang Yi did not go to Luo Feng's home first. Instead, he checked the time and went straight to the area near the main entrance of Yian District No.3 High School. He sat in a Cold Drink Shop, drinking tea as he waited for Luo Feng to come out.

Wang Yi was not the only customer in the Cold Drink Shop. Several girls sat at another table, huddling together and whispering while secretly looking at him.

They did not know that no matter how quietly they spoke, Wang Yi could clearly hear their conversation.

Wang Yi pretended not to know what they were saying.

Time soon passed. The school bell rang from the high school, and the entire campus gradually became lively. Young students brimming with youthful energy emerged from the main gate in twos and threes.

When Wang Yi saw two boys walking out with the crowd, he abruptly stood up.

He quickly walked outside.

"Luo Feng!"

"Wei Wen!"

The lean youth walking amid the students with Wei Wen heard someone call his name and turned around in confusion. He saw a familiar figure in gray sportswear rapidly approaching.

"Wang Yi?" Surprise filled Luo Feng's eyes.

"Wang Yi?" Wei Wen, the boy beside Luo Feng, said in surprise as well.

Luo Feng and Wei Wen were no strangers to Wang Yi. After all, Wang Yi often came over from Jiujiang City to hang out with them.

Especially Luo Feng. Since Wang Yi was also an Advanced Martial Arts Student like him, and Wang Yi knew that he secretly had a crush on Xu Xin and often gave him advice, the two had quite a good relationship—though Luo Feng had not used a single one of those unreliable-sounding suggestions.

"Luo Feng! Wei Wen!" Wang Yi reached them in a few quick strides, smiling as he patted their shoulders.

"Why are you here?" Luo Feng was happy to see his old friend, but he also found it a little strange. He knew Wang Yi was a senior high school student too, and with only a few days left until the College Entrance Exam, Wang Yi actually had time to come all the way here.

"I have something to tell you." Wang Yi smiled mysteriously. "Luo Feng, Wei Wen, you should be free now, right? Let's find somewhere and have a proper talk."

Luo Feng and Wei Wen exchanged glances. "All right."

A moment later, in the same Cold Drink Shop, Wang Yi, Luo Feng, and Wei Wen sat together, drinking beverages and chatting.

"You joined the Limit Martial Arts School?" Luo Feng and Wei Wen were both somewhat shocked upon hearing this explosive news.

"That's right. Today, I went to the Limit Hall in your Yangzhou City and passed the Quasi-Warrior Assessment. Because my performance was fairly outstanding, the Limit Martial Arts School specially recruited me. My Martial Artist certificate should arrive in a couple of days." Wang Yi did not hide anything.

Wei Wen could not help asking, "But I heard the Quasi-Warrior Assessment is extremely difficult. How did you pass it? And don't you still have to undergo the Warrior Combat Assessment to become a Martial Artist?"

Luo Feng's heart was also full of doubts. He knew Wang Yi's strength well; Wang Yi had been about the same as him. Luo Feng was still some distance from meeting the standard to pass the Quasi-Warrior Assessment, and in his view, Wang Yi should have been about the same. Yet Wang Yi had suddenly come over today and told him that he had already passed the Quasi-Warrior Assessment, had caught the Limit Martial Arts School's attention, and had become a Martial Artist.

It was simply too hard to believe.

Luo Feng was also an Advanced Martial Arts Student. He had always worked toward the goal of becoming a true Martial Artist, and he knew deeply how difficult it was to become one before graduating high school.

Yet Wang Yi had actually done it?

"For certain reasons, my strength is much greater than before, but I can't tell you what those reasons are yet." Wang Yi said. "But I really have become a Martial Artist. Since I was specially recruited by the Limit Martial Arts School, I don't need to undergo the Warrior Combat Assessment."

Luo Feng and Wei Wen looked at each other. They still found it hard to imagine what level Wang Yi had reached for the Limit Martial Arts School in Yangzhou City to make an exception for him, allowing him to obtain Martial Artist qualifications ahead of time without undergoing the Warrior Combat Assessment.

Of course, Luo Feng and Wei Wen did not know that it was not the Yangzhou City Limit Hall handling Wang Yi's certificate, but the Limit Main Hall in Jiangnan Base City. For a Base City's main hall, granting a Quasi-Warrior Martial Artist qualifications was still very easy.

"Come on, let's find a place to spar. I want to see how much you've improved after not seeing you for so long." Luo Feng stood up and looked at Wang Yi with bright eyes.

At heart, he was a competitive person full of fighting spirit.

"Sure." A faint smile appeared on Wang Yi's face.

Before long, the three arrived at a patch of weed-covered open ground behind the school field of Yian District No.3 High School.

The two stood facing each other ten meters apart, while Wei Wen stood some distance away holding their things.

"Ha!"

Seeing that Wang Yi had no intention of attacking first, Luo Feng's gaze sharpened. With a low shout, he stomped the ground and lunged at Wang Yi.

In the blink of an eye, he had arrived before Wang Yi. His right fist whistled through the air as it viciously smashed toward Wang Yi's shoulder.

Wang Yi blinked. With a slight turn of his body, he avoided Luo Feng's attack.

Luo Feng's fists and kicks flew like the wind, continuously attacking Wang Yi. Yet every time, Wang Yi only needed to casually shift his body to evade. No matter how hard Luo Feng tried, he could not even touch the corner of Wang Yi's clothes.

Wei Wen, standing nearby, had long since opened his mouth in shock.

Wang Yi's movements as he dodged Luo Feng were so casual and effortless that Wei Wen could sense the ease and leisure in his bones.

If he had not known Luo Feng's character, he would have thought Luo Feng was deliberately holding back.

"Whew!" Luo Feng suddenly stopped, taking two steps back as he stared at Wang Yi with eyes full of shock. "Wang Yi, how did you become so powerful?" Only by fighting Wang Yi himself did he understand how terrifying Wang Yi's strength was. Wang Yi felt like an ancient well—profound and bottomless.

Luo Feng had even been instructed several times by Jiang Nian, the instructor of the Yian District Limit Martial Arts School, but Jiang Nian had faintly seemed inferior to the Wang Yi before him.

Yet he could not understand what had made Wang Yi's strength advance by leaps and bounds in such a short time, reaching a level where he could not even touch the corner of Wang Yi's clothing.

For a moment, the familiar Little Partner of the past seemed to have unknowingly been veiled in mystery in his eyes.