Under the gaze of the crowd, Chen Yu poured the demon beast right ears from the cloth sack at his waist into the metal container at the registration desk. After verifying the count, the silver-armored general announced loudly, "Chen Yu: 16 Iron-Haired Dog right ears, 10 Fox-Faced Dog right ears, 4 Two-Tailed Cats. Chest injury. Next."
Although Chen Yu had hunted fewer demon beasts than Chen Fan, who had just submitted his tally, his numbers still ranked fairly high among the martial artists who had already registered.
This drew quite a few admiring remarks.
After returning to Chen Lin's side, Chen Yu asked curiously, "A Lin, when are you planning to register?"
In response, Chen Lin glanced at Xu Tao, who had just appeared in the distance. A faint smile curled across his lips. "Right now."
With that, he squeezed out of the crowd and headed for the registration desk.
The moment Chen Lin appeared, he drew plenty of attention.
"Chen Lin is here. I wonder what demon beasts he hunted, and how many."
"Just what kind of result will Chen Lin get?"
"I wonder how many demon beasts you hunted. I'm really looking forward to it!"
Chen Lin attracted so much attention because the conversation between Huo Lixuan and He Yanjun had spread from one person to ten, then ten to a hundred, until everyone knew of it.
As a result, even many martial artists who did not know Chen Lin had heard some gossip about him.
That made many martial artists extremely curious about just how many demon beasts Chen Lin could hunt.
"Hmm?"
As Chen Lin's spiritual soul continuously improved, his senses had become exceptionally sharp.
When a large number of martial artists all stared at him, he instantly felt his skin crawl.
"Chen Lin, right? Hand over the demon beast right ears you hunted." The silver-armored general responsible for supervision and recordkeeping spoke to Chen Lin expressionlessly.
"Mm."
Chen Lin nodded and removed the bulging cloth sack from behind his waist.
For a moment, the surrounding martial artists all fixed their gazes on the sack in Chen Lin's hand.
They were all curious about how many demon beasts Chen Lin, who had been favored by Martial Grandmasters from two major forces, had actually killed—and what their quality was like.
Chen Lin untied the mouth of the sack, grabbed its bottom, and dumped all the demon beast right ears from the sack into the metal container before him in one go.
"Clatter, clatter!"
Demon beast right ears kept tumbling from Chen Lin's sack into the metal container, gradually piling into a heap that nearly filled it.
"How is that possible?"
"So many?"
"How could this guy have killed so many demon beasts?"
"Am I hallucinating?"
The martial artists in the distance who had been watching Chen Lin's every move were aghast, each of them unable to believe their own eyes.
Meanwhile, the silver-armored general responsible for supervision and recordkeeping was first startled, then personally began counting the demon beast right ears one by one.
A moment later, the silver-armored general revealed a friendly smile for the first time. He said to Chen Lin, "Chen Lin, you're very impressive. There are 82 demon beast right ears in total: 37 Fox-Faced Dogs, 13 Iron-Haired Dogs, and 32 Two-Tailed Cats."
"Up to now, including all previous Demon Slayer Envoy assessments, the quantity and quality of the demon beasts you have hunted are the highest of any martial artist. Hmm, other than your clothes being slightly damaged, I see no signs of injury. Not bad. You're a talent."
"Thank you for the praise, General." Chen Lin smiled, nodded, turned, and walked toward the crowd watching from the side. At the same time, he thought, With these results, passing the Demon Slayer Envoy assessment is already as certain as a nail driven into a board. Next, it is time to settle the grudges left behind by the previous owner of this body.
Chen Fan and Xu Tao watched Chen Lin return to the crowd. The two looked at each other, their thoughts complicated. For a time, neither knew what to say.
The onlookers were still immersed in Chen Lin's outrageous hunting numbers. They stood there dumbfounded, and for a while, no one stepped forward to submit demon beast right ears.
Seeing this, the silver-armored general had no choice but to call out loudly again, "Next!"
"A Lin, you're something else!" Chen Yu looked at Chen Lin, who had returned to his side, with a face full of admiration and a broad smile. "Your haul scared me just now. How are you such a monster? Those demon beasts aren't pigs and sheep without the power to fight back."
"No other reason—my hands are simply well-practiced," Chen Lin replied with a smile, jokingly.
"You're already this strong, yet you still can't be serious. But honestly, give me the truth—what realm are you at now? Those Two-Tailed Cats aren't easy to deal with. Not only are they faster than me, they're also incredibly cunning. I nearly risked my life just to kill a few of them. How did you manage to kill so many?" Chen Yu widened his eyes and asked earnestly.
Seeing the people around them secretly prick up their ears, Chen Lin curled his lips, ignored their resentful looks, and pulled Chen Yu into a corner.
"Brother Yu, to be honest, my movement technique has now reached Entering the Hall and Reaching the Inner Chamber. I only need one opportunity to enter the ranks of transcendent mastery. So to me, Two-Tailed Cats are not worth mentioning," Chen Lin explained quietly.
Two-Tailed Cats were indeed formidable. The strongest among them were nearly equal to martial artists in the middle stage of the Martial Master realm, while even the weakest possessed the strength of martial artists at the initial stage of the Martial Apprentice realm.
If he had not raised the level of his Basic Movement Technique and awakened the power of spiritual sense, hunting Two-Tailed Cats would not have been so easy for him.
To be honest, Chen Lin truly admired Chen Yu for hunting Two-Tailed Cats entirely through his own hard strength.
After hearing Chen Lin's explanation, Chen Yu's eyes went round as he could not help blurting out, "What? Your movement technique has reached Entering the Hall and Reaching the Inner Chamber?"
"Shh! Brother Yu, keep your voice down!" Chen Lin covered Chen Yu's mouth and spoke quietly.
"Mmph!" Chen Yu, forcibly silenced, hurriedly nodded.
After Chen Lin let go, Chen Yu was still somewhat unable to believe it. "How did you train your movement technique? How did it improve so quickly?"
"Perhaps it's because of my talent." Chen Lin gave the explanation as calmly as drifting clouds and a gentle breeze.
If he had spent his slaughter points on his movement technique earlier, his movement technique would have broken through even faster.
Even so, the speed of Chen Lin's breakthrough in movement technique still left Chen Yu utterly shocked.
When they took the War God Temple entrance test, Chen Lin's movement technique had, at most, only reached the middle stage of getting a first glimpse through the doorway, nearing the late stage.
Yet in less than a few days, Chen Lin's movement technique had undergone earth-shaking changes. It truly left Chen Yu both shocked and envious.
With such an exaggerated cultivation speed and such high comprehension, if Chen Yu had not known that martial artists always cultivated one step at a time, with very few shortcuts to take, he would have suspected that Chen Lin had received some tremendous benefit and found some shortcut.
"Why don't I have such good talent?"
Chen Yu had wanted to mock Chen Lin's narcissism, but faced with facts as solid as iron, he could only complain dryly and do nothing else.
"Chen Lin, do you have time to talk alone?"
Just as the two were about to continue talking, a voice suddenly came from behind them, startling Chen Lin.
Ever since awakening the power of spiritual sense, his five senses had become extremely sharp. Under normal circumstances, in places with few people, almost no one could approach within ten meters of him without being noticed.
What startled him was that someone had already come up behind him, yet he had not noticed at all.
This immediately alarmed Chen Lin, and he secretly reminded himself not to grow lax and lose his vigilance just because his five senses had improved. Otherwise, if an enemy crept up behind him one day, they would not speak up to warn him.
Following the voice, Chen Lin looked over. The moment he saw the newcomer's face, he immediately relaxed.
The newcomer was Huo Lixuan. He was who knew how many realms above Chen Lin's current level, so Chen Lin could more or less accept that Huo Lixuan had approached from behind without being noticed.
"Senior Huo, what do you need from me?" Chen Lin asked doubtfully.
"It's too chaotic here. This isn't a place to talk. Come with me," Huo Lixuan said with a smile.
"Alright."
Faced with Huo Lixuan's invitation, Chen Lin gave Chen Yu a look, then immediately followed Huo Lixuan toward the main tent at the center of the temporary camp.
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