Opening: Dumped at the Start?

"Li Ziyu, let's break up."

Great Xia Nation, Xujiang City.

Class Six, Third High School of Martial Arts.

In a spacious, brightly lit classroom, Li Ziyu slowly lifted his head from the desk and stared blankly at the girl in front of him.

Xu Mengyao.

The girl had fair skin and beautiful features.

Her long, straight black hair spilled over her shoulders, while her proud breasts pushed the simple white short-sleeved shirt high.

At that moment, she was looking down at him indifferently, her tone cold.

"Your blood-qi test was only 0.8. Even the worst martial arts university requires 1.2."

"The Martial Arts Exam is in one week. Even if you make a final push, there's no way you can raise your blood qi to 1.2 in a week."

"If your blood-qi value doesn't reach 1.2, you won't be able to enter a martial arts university. I won't date someone who can't even get into one."

"We're people from different worlds now. I hope you'll recognize your place and stop pestering me!"

After saying that, the girl turned around and walked out of the classroom without even waiting for Li Ziyu's reply.

She did not spare him another glance.

Break up?

Blood-qi test?

Martial arts university?

What did all of this even mean?

Wasn't he single? Where had this girlfriend come from?

And wasn't he at his boss's wife's house, helping her repair a computer?

Li Ziyu reluctantly tore his gaze from the girl's departing back and swept his eyes around the classroom.

It was a bright classroom of forty or fifty square meters, with dozens of desks scattered about.

More than a dozen boys and girls dressed like students were looking at him with pity.

At the blackboard behind the podium at the very front, someone had written a conspicuous line in chalk.

Only seven days remained until the Martial Arts Exam!

This scene was far too realistic.

Could it be that his boss's wife wanted some excitement and was playing out a role-playing scenario with him?

Li Ziyu had just started to get up and find someone to ask what was going on.

Then he suddenly felt dizzy.

His body, which had just risen, dropped back into his seat, and a surging tide of memories flooded into his mind.

A moment later.

Li Ziyu came back to himself. Through the memories in his mind, he clearly understood his current situation.

"I actually transmigrated?"

According to the memories in his mind—

This was a planet called Blue Star, and he was in a nation called Great Xia.

Unlike the Earth Li Ziyu came from, Blue Star was countless times larger than Earth.

Blue Star also had many things Earth did not: ferocious beasts, martial arts, and the power of blood qi.

What students here struggled with at school was not physics and chemistry like he had on Earth.

Instead, it was the power of blood qi, Combat Power ratings, practical combat results, and so on.

The college entrance examination had also been replaced by the Martial Arts Exam.

Before the exam, all senior high school students would be gathered together to test their blood qi.

Those with high blood-qi values could apply for the Martial Arts Exam, enter a martial arts university, and become martial artists.

Those with low blood-qi values had to learn a trade as soon as possible and make other plans.

The original Li Ziyu was one of those whose blood qi had failed to meet the standard and could only become an ordinary person.

"Working three jobs through the night and overdrawing his body year after year—of course his blood qi wouldn't meet the standard. It's already good that he didn't drop dead."

"Oh, no. The original Li Ziyu already did drop dead, working himself to death through the night just to buy his girlfriend a bag..."

"And now he's even been dumped by a Green Tea?"

Li Ziyu recalled the memories.

He had worked through the night, scrimped on food and clothing, and bought bags for his Green Tea girlfriend.

He had even given the Green Tea girlfriend the blood-qi supplements he could not bear to eat himself.

The key point was, they had never even held hands?

Looking at Chen Mengyao's back as she left without hesitation or turning around, Li Ziyu could not help mourning the original owner.

A simp really did never have a happy ending.

"But that has nothing to do with me anymore. The urgent matter is to make plans for the future."

Because this world had ferocious beasts, and because of the influence of some mysterious law, thermal weapons had become practically useless.

Martial artists had become the main force resisting the ferocious beasts.

As a result, martial artists' status had risen with the tide, and they possessed all kinds of privileges.

The most obvious example was that the original owner had worked himself to the bone at three jobs, yet earned less than five thousand yuan a month in total.

A Level 1 Martial Artist, on the other hand, could receive a five-thousand-yuan monthly subsidy from the local Martial Arts Association even without doing anything.

Not to mention that holding any important position on Blue Star required one to be a martial artist.

"Whether it's to improve my life or gain the strength to protect myself, becoming a martial artist is the best choice!"

"Besides, having been given a second life, how could I still muddle along as an ordinary person?"

"I want to experience the feeling of shattering mountains and rivers with my fists, too!"

Li Ziyu clenched his fist in secret, his gaze resolute.

Ignoring the pitying and murmuring looks around him, Li Ziyu began considering what to do next.

There were two paths to becoming a martial artist.

The first was to join a martial arts academy and gain a master's guidance.

The second was to take the Martial Arts Exam and get into a martial arts university.

But both paths had one prerequisite: one's blood qi had to meet the standard.

Whether it was a martial arts academy or a martial arts university, neither would want an ordinary person whose blood qi failed to meet the requirements.

In other words—

Meeting the blood-qi requirement was the one.

Everything else was zero.

Without that one as a prerequisite, thinking about anything else was useless.

Just as Li Ziyu was thinking—

A pleasant mechanical voice suddenly rang beside his ear.

"Ding! Martial Dao consciousness detected in the host. The Martial God System is beginning its binding."

"Binding successful!"

Along with the mechanical voice appearing in Li Ziyu's mind, a pale-blue virtual panel also appeared.

Li Ziyu was stunned for a moment before recovering and looking toward the virtual panel.

Name: Li Ziyu.

Realm: Unranked.

Combat Skill: Beginner Blade Technique.

System: Martial God System.

Function: Absorb all things to increase blood qi. The remaining functions await the host's own exploration.

The introduction was simple and blunt, containing only a few words, yet it left Li Ziyu's heart surging.

In his previous life, he had read plenty of web novels. A system was an essential tool for the protagonist to reach the pinnacle of life.

Li Ziyu carefully read the system's description on the panel.

Absorb all things to increase blood qi. If it really worked as described, then this system would be incredibly useful to him.

One had to know that a martial artist's most fundamental strength was the power of blood qi.

Blood qi was the source of everything and the foundation of a martial artist's Combat Power.

At the same time, however, blood qi was also the most difficult thing to improve.

"I just don't know what 'devouring all things' actually means. This description is far too simple."

Li Ziyu frowned in thought.

At that moment—

A mosquito with mottled white wings wobbled down onto the desk in front of him.

After resting on the desktop for a moment, it crawled up along Li Ziyu's finger, found a spot, and rubbed its forelegs together in preparation for a feast.

Li Ziyu casually pressed down.

Smack.

"The Martial God System has activated. Absorbed the mosquito's life force. Blood-qi value +0.00001."

The instant the mosquito burst apart and died, the system's pleasant voice rang in his ear.

Li Ziyu felt an almost imperceptible warm current surge from deep within his body.

That was the sensation brought about by an increase in blood qi.

"Blood-qi value +0.00001?"

Li Ziyu's eyes lit up. Was this the correct way to use the system?

Killing living creatures could increase his blood qi?

Li Ziyu sensed the warm current inside his body. Although it was almost imperceptible, he could indeed feel the improvement.

If that was how it worked, then the system was simply amazing!

+0.00001 might look tiny, but he had to remember that he had just slapped a negligible mosquito to death. What if it were another creature?

A wild beast—or even a ferocious beast?

Li Ziyu understood better than anyone how difficult it was to increase blood qi.

For high school students their age, increasing blood qi required not only persistent high-intensity training every day, but also strict control over their diet.

Those from well-off families could supplement that with medicines that replenished blood qi.

After several months of this, they might be able to raise their blood qi by 0.1 or so.

And that was assuming their families were well-off enough to afford the supplements.

For those from poor families, they might train hard for several months without their blood qi increasing in the slightest.

The saying "poor in literature, rich in martial arts" was vividly embodied in martial artists.

That was also why Chen Mengyao had been so certain that he could not become a martial artist and had broken up with him.

After all, trying to increase one's blood qi by 0.5 in just one week before the Martial Arts Exam was practically a fairy tale.

"Even the smallest mosquito is still meat. Although one mosquito only adds 0.00001 blood qi, there are plenty of mosquitoes in the small woods behind the school field!"

"I'll get all that blood qi first!"

At that thought, Li Ziyu suddenly felt that his future was bright.

With his mood improving, even the sweet scent of the osmanthus trees outside the window seemed more fragrant.

Without wasting any time, he pushed his chair aside, stood up, and headed toward the small woods behind the school field.