Full Marks, A Beauty's Request

"A thousand points."

Qi Ziyue closed the leaderboard, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.

Shi Yan's strength was completely beyond her expectations.

He hadn't reached a thousand points gradually, but had jumped directly from 850 to 1000.

This meant Shi Yan had killed the last three Second-Order Demonic Beasts in a short period of time.

This defied common sense!

How could a First-Order Warrior kill three Second-Order Demonic Beasts at once?

"What a strange person."

Qi Ziyue felt she didn't understand Shi Yan well enough.

At the same time, Shi Yan's stunning performance ignited her competitive spirit.

She looked up at the sky and whispered softly in her heart.

The next moment, a moon blade emitting a faint purple glow appeared behind her.

The purple moon echoed the moon in the sky, and specks of moonlight appeared, drifting into the moon blade.

Nights with a moon were when her combat power was at its strongest!

With the moon blade behind her and a curved saber in her hand, she stepped into the dense thicket ahead.

When she emerged again, her curved saber was stained with blood, and her score had risen from 750 to 800.

"Wu Qiang, I think we were wrong before. Fighting alone seems to inspire more fighting spirit."

Qi Ziyue's beautiful face, slightly stained with blood, turned sideways towards the grass not far away.

She knew Wu Qiang and Lu Jiaojiao were hiding there and could roughly guess their purpose for coming.

However, she no longer wanted to team up, so she voiced her thoughts first.

After speaking, she moved deeper into the forest.

Rustle, rustle.

The tall grass moved, revealing Wu Qiang and Lu Jiaojiao.

Wu Qiang didn't speak, only watching in the direction Qi Ziyue had gone.

After a moment, he turned to look at Lu Jiaojiao, whose face was a little pale.

"You can go. Our cooperation ends here. As a final piece of advice, you must rely on yourself."

With that, he turned and headed into the core area from another direction without looking back.

That's right, although Second-Order Demonic Beasts were powerful, his arrows were never slow.

Moreover, Shi Yan had already obtained all the points, both regular and bonus, and must have left the examination area. Now was his time to shine.

"No."

Lu Jiaojiao's face was pale, and she stumbled backward.

Unfortunately, Wu Qiang ignored her and quickly disappeared.

Lu Jiaojiao felt like the sky was about to collapse.

This was the most talented person she could latch onto, but now, it had all turned into a pipe dream.

"Fine, fine, fine! You just wait for me!"

Finally, she cast a resentful glance at the dark core area ahead before turning and walking towards the outer perimeter.

"Strange, why hasn't he come out yet?"

Outside the examination area, Shi Yan's "abnormal" behavior sparked heated discussion again.

A thousand points was already the maximum score; killing more demonic beasts wouldn't earn any more points.

But Shi Yan still showed no intention of leaving the arena, instead drawing his saber and continuing deeper.

Then, everyone gradually became numb.

The Second-Order Shadow Cat was killed by Shi Yan;

The Second-Order Blood Python Bull was slain by Shi Yan;

The Second-Order Startled Wind Sparrow was burned by Shi Yan;

As dawn broke, the morning sun shone into the examination area.

Wu Qiang, with disheveled hair and bloodshot eyes, emerged from the dense forest of the core area.

"Ah! Where are the Second-Order Demonic Beasts!!"

He roared at the sky, filled with unwillingness and madness.

He had already circled the entire core area eight times.

Not a single Second-Order Demonic Beast, which made the examinees tremble, had he seen!

He opened the leaderboard.

First place, Shi Yan (Baiyun No. 1 High School), 1000 points.

Second place, Gu Hao (Jiangnan High School No. 1), 800 points.

Fifth place, Qi Ziyue (Jiangnan No. 3 High School), 800 points.

Sixth place, Wu Qiang (Shennan No. 1 High School), 750 points.

This meant that besides the top five, no one else had killed a Second-Order Demonic Beast.

But if they hadn't killed any, where had the Second-Order Demonic Beasts gone?

Could it be that there were only nine Second-Order Demonic Beasts in the entire exam area?

Impossible. Even if there weren't enough Second-Order Demonic Beasts born due to the recent surge in spiritual energy, the Monster Suppression Bureau would have brought enough.

Otherwise, why would they have set up bonus points?

Just as he was wondering, there was movement in the distant grass.

Three figures emerged, their eyes bloodshot.

Then they came face to face with Wu Qiang.

These three also couldn't find any other Second-Order Demonic Beasts.

The scene they had imagined, of demonic beasts rampaging at night, simply hadn't happened.

A moment later, Qi Ziyue also emerged.

Her long dress was somewhat torn, and her beautiful face had two dark circles under her eyes.

The people who had once viewed each other as rivals now looked at each other, round after round, and a terrible thought began to form in their minds.

Their expressions grew increasingly grim, finally turning into immense shock:

The Second-Order Demonic Beasts had all been killed!

And the only ones capable of killing Second-Order Demonic Beasts, besides themselves, was that one person.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Wu Qiang suddenly shouted, looking frenzied, and then shot his arrows wildly.

Seeing this, Qi Ziyue and the others could only dodge far away.

Indeed, they were all roughly equal in strength, and to end up with fifty points less than the others would make anyone feel bad.

She glanced back at the dark, dense forest behind her, pouted slightly, and then walked towards the outer perimeter.

Day had broken, and it was time to wait in the outer area for the College Entrance Examination to end.

After walking for several hundred meters, her steps suddenly slowed.

Perhaps it was fate, but she had arrived at the place where she first met Shi Yan.

The corpses of those demonic beasts were still there, though they had been mostly gnawed away by now.

She even saw several large cat demons frantically tearing at the demonic beast carcasses on the ground.

"No, I still have a chance!"

As if struck by an idea, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she turned, running back towards the core area.

Last night, she had overlooked something very important!

When searching for Second-Order Demonic Beasts, she had relied on her spiritual power to sense them. If there were only Level 1 Demonic Beasts, she would actively avoid them.

After all, killing Level 1 beasts yielded no points and wasted energy.

But now, if she wanted to "resurrect her chances," she had to find the Level 1 Demonic Beasts in the core area, and specifically a place where Level 1 Demonic Beasts were gathered.

Why? Because Shi Yan liked to kill Second-Order Demonic Beasts!

He hadn't left after reaching a thousand points and continued to kill all the other Second-Order Demonic Beasts, which indicated that Shi Yan enjoyed killing.

She didn't care why Shi Yan liked to kill Second-Order Demonic Beasts; she only knew that to find Second-Order Demonic Beasts, she had to go back.

Because if the Second-Order Demonic Beasts were gone, Shi Yan would turn Level 1 Demonic Beasts into Level 2 ones!

Half an hour later.

Qi Ziyue finally stopped, a smile appearing on her face as she looked at the scene before her.

It was a small hillside, and outside the hillside were countless demonic beast corpses of various sizes and types.

There were Level 1 and Level 2 beasts.

And these corpses were being stuffed into a stone cave in the middle of the hillside by Shi Yan.

He was indeed feeding demonic beasts!

She saw Shi Yan, and Shi Yan saw her as well.

"Tsk, Qi Ziyue, why do you have panda eyes? Did someone beat you up?"

"You..."

Qi Ziyue's face turned red to her ears, but thinking of her score, she still mustered the courage to say:

"Shi Yan, can you give me some Second-Order Demonic Beasts? I, I can agree to some of your requests."