July

On July 1st, Wang Yi signed the contract, and the news was immediately spread by the Limit Martial Arts School.

Every faction learned that the rookie genius Wang Yi had been recruited by the Limit Martial Arts School and was destined to become part of its core leadership in the future.

Yet back in April, Wang Yi had merely been an ordinary student who had not even taken the College Entrance Exam. His terrifying rate of rise left people utterly stunned.

All sides raised their estimation of Wang Yi once again.

July 2nd was an even-numbered day, the day Wang Yi went out from the Training Camp to hunt monsters.

Several hundred kilometers from the Training Camp stood an abandoned city codenamed "1001."

A streak of light flashed past the head of a High-level Beast General level monster, "Augmas," like lightning. With a splurt, it pierced out through the back of its head, spraying red-and-white blood.

The monster, which resembled an upright rat but stood two stories tall, swayed once before crashing to the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust.

From a dilapidated commercial building nearby, Wang Yi slowly emerged.

Whoosh~~

A Throwing Knife spun through the air and deftly returned on its own to the hidden weapon pouch on Wang Yi's thigh. Wang Yi, with two battle blades strapped to his back, walked over to the monster's corpse, set down his bulging combat backpack, and began collecting materials.

The rankings on the Elite Training Camp's Black Dragon Ranking were determined by points.

Points equaled Combat Record Points multiplied by Combat Power Amplitude.

Combat Record Points were determined by the level of monsters hunted.

The higher the monster's level, the more points one earned.

However, trainees could only hunt monsters in locations designated by the Training Camp.

Moreover, no trainee would hunt Lord level monsters. Once someone killed more than two Lord level monsters, they would be considered to have become a War God and could only graduate from the Training Camp early. Therefore, trainees generally chose to hunt Beast General level monsters to avoid that situation.

With Wang Yi's current strength, hunting these monsters naturally took no effort at all.

A Mental Master's hunting efficiency was more than ten times that of a Martial Artist at the same level.

Any monster that encountered Wang Yi could not escape even if it wanted to.

Wang Yi's current strength could be considered the greatest in the entire Training Camp. Coupled with his identity as a Mental Master, he naturally earned Combat Record Points at an extremely fast pace.

On odd-numbered days, he studied and trained at the Training Camp; on even-numbered days, he hunted monsters in the Wilderness Area to hone his skills.

At night, he chatted with family and friends.

The days passed by quietly, one after another.

Wang Yi had also visited the Training Camp's sole Ancient Civilization Gravity Chamber once, but in his first month, he had only one hour of gravity chamber training time.

He visited the far more numerous Earth-made imitation gravity chambers more often.

Wang Yi's physical fitness was also steadily improving.

Studying, training, hunting monsters, resting—this was Wang Yi's life at the Training Camp. Though dull and monotonous, it made him feel very fulfilled.

Even at the Training Camp, he could still meet with his family and friends online every day, so he did not feel lonely.

Wang Yi was still waiting for the right moment to arrive.

His rank on the Black Dragon Ranking was also rising rapidly.

By the middle of his first month, with his highly efficient accumulation of Combat Record Points and his already high Combat Power Amplitude, his ranking surged into the top twenty in one leap!

And his momentum showed no signs of slowing.

The entire Training Camp was shaken.

Although everyone else was hunting monsters with all their might, anyone with eyes could see that their rate of earning Combat Record Points was nowhere near Wang Yi's.

Wang Yi, already a celebrity in the Elite Training Camp, was in the limelight for a time.

But to Wang Yi, this was nothing worth making a fuss over.

Although his Combat Power Amplitude still lagged somewhat behind the Elite Training Camp's very best trainees due to his relatively low force-exertion level, he could still earn Combat Record Points wildly through the monster-hunting speed of a peak High-level War God Mental Master, making up for that gap.

The Black Dragon Ranking was nothing. What Wang Yi cared more about was the upcoming "Life and Death Adventure" on the Australian Continent on August 1st!

On the Australian Continent lay the Mysterious Fog Island, which Wang Yi cared deeply about.

A shocking day arrived.

On the last day of July, Wang Yi's rank on the Black Dragon Ranking settled at fifth!

Although the trend had been apparent for some time, when Wang Yi truly charged to fifth place on the Black Dragon Ranking in his first month, countless people were still stunned.

The entire world was once again stirred into a stormy uproar by the name Wang Yi.

Who knew how many organizations were racking their brains to study Wang Yi's information and uncover his secrets.

Someone had already guessed that Wang Yi's monster-hunting speed was so fast because he might be a Mental Master!

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to surpass those veteran top geniuses of the Training Camp in such a short time and achieve the unprecedented feat of reaching fifth place on the Black Dragon Ranking in his first month!

As the world's number one training camp, the Elite Training Camp did have Mental Masters. Yet none of them had hunting records as terrifying as Wang Yi's. Following that line of reasoning, many people easily reached a conclusion—Wang Yi's current physical fitness and Mental Power were probably both extremely high!

He had definitely reached the War God level, perhaps even the High-level War God level!

Wang Yi did not care about the outside world's speculation and rumors, because he now possessed enough strength to protect himself!

With the Limit Martial Arts School as his towering backing, he had no fear that other factions would dare act recklessly!

The only irritating thing was that he had applied more than once in July to seek guidance from the headmaster, Hong, but every application had been rejected and shelved on the grounds that the headmaster was in seclusion.

He was told to continue waiting; once the headmaster emerged, he would naturally receive a reply.

Hong was one thing, but even Thunder God was the same.

Wang Yi could not help sighing. They truly deserved to be the two greatest martial arts fanatics on Earth.

Given how desperately they trained, there was a reason they had become so powerful.

Wang Yi felt that he needed to work even harder as well.

For example, Hmm... perhaps he should keep looking for places to check in?

On August 1st, early in the morning, 193 trainees gathered on the lawn before the Nine Heavens Tower. Since casualties and graduations occurred during the Training Camp's monster hunts, the number of trainees often changed. Everyone chatted in groups of two or three, fully armed with backpacks, weapons, and other equipment, because... today was the departure day for the "Life and Death Adventure"!

Wang Yi was among them. He wore an SS-class combat uniform provided by the Limit Martial Arts School, gray-black with a reddish tint. On the ground beside him lay two SS-class Flowing Fire Battle Blades, along with his combat backpack and sixteen specially prepared SS-class Throwing Knives stored in his hidden weapon pouch. Sitting on the grass, he chatted with trainees from the Training Camp whom he had become familiar with over the past month.

"Wang Yi, do you want to travel together once we reach the Australian Continent?" Shi Jiang asked. Rumors that Wang Yi was a Mental Master had spread wildly through the Training Camp, and everyone knew of it. Since Wang Yi had no intention of explaining himself, everyone now knew that he was a Mental Master.

The training on the Australian Continent would last a month and was extremely dangerous. Naturally, the trainees were willing to form teams with powerful companions, as that would make things safer.

This was also the most common way most trainees operated on the Australian Continent. After all, only a small number of powerful trainees in the Training Camp could act alone.

"Sorry, Senior Brother Shi Jiang, but I want to act alone." Shi Jiang was not the first person to ask Wang Yi to team up, but Wang Yi still refused decisively this time.

He was going to the Australian Continent to find Fog Island. How could he possibly stay with these Training Camp trainees?

For something like quietly making a fortune, going alone was naturally enough.