Surprised, did you kill all of these, younger brother?

"I didn't expect Intermediate Blade Technique could be upgraded to Advanced!"

"Advanced Blade Technique… they say it takes ordinary martial artists at least ten years to upgrade a basic martial skill to Advanced. Even geniuses with great talent need four to five years of refinement! But I've only been here for less than two days? And I've already gone from basic to Advanced!"

"This feeling of cheating, it's f**king awesome!"

Li Ziyu once again marveled at the system's power.

However, he didn't use his Qi and Blood to upgrade his Blade Technique. After all, Blade Technique is like an external attack. No matter how awesome it is, it still requires the support of Qi and Blood. It's like boxing. Even if your technique is superb, without the support of physique and strength, facing an opponent several times stronger than you will still be futile. You could hit them a dozen times, and the damage wouldn't be as high as one punch from them.

"Upgrade realm!"

Name: Li Ziyu. Realm: Level One Intermediate Martial Artist. Combat Skills: Intermediate Blade Technique, basic movement technique. System: Martial God System. Function: Can absorb all things, increase Qi and Blood. Other functions are for the host to discover.

Ding, as Li Ziyu's thought landed.

The virtual panel in his mind, the column representing his realm, changed to Level One Intermediate.

Instantly.

A warm current surged into his limbs and bones, nourishing his muscles and skeleton. Li Ziyu's body surface also began to slowly exude black impurities. This time, the impurities permeated for a longer duration and were even blacker. At this moment, Li Ziyu's body surface looked as if it had been smeared with a layer of mud.

After a moment, the mud peeled off, revealing the skin underneath.

"It's smoother than before, and more elastic too."

"And my strength and speed have also increased by at least double!"

Li Ziyu quickly swung his fists through the air in front of him, creating gusts of wind-breaking sounds. Then, he drew the long saber at his waist and swung it fiercely at the wall in front of him. The wall, several meters high, collapsed instantly as if struck by a sledgehammer, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Retracting my earlier statement, my strength is definitely more than double what it was before."

"My Qi and Blood have also improved significantly. As for the exact amount, I'll need to test it."

"It's about time anyway. Let's take these Shadow Cat corpses back and head to the Martial Arts Association for the Level One Martial Artist test!"

Thinking this, Li Ziyu shouldered the still-warm Shadow Cat corpses and placed them on the wooden sled behind him. There were already nine on the sled, making it ten with this one. He hadn't brought any sacks this time. He also didn't intend to carry these Shadow Cat corpses back. The combined weight of ten Shadow Cat corpses was nearly ten tons. With his current strength, he couldn't carry them at all. Even dragging them with the wooden sled was a bit strenuous.

"If only I had a storage ring like in the novels..."

"But even if I did, it's probably not something I could afford right now."

The sky was dim, the moon setting as the sun rose. With the first ray of sunlight appearing.

The outline of the city walls appeared within Li Ziyu's sight.

He had run a bit too far this time.

Several kilometers away from the city walls.

It took considerable effort to drag back the Shadow Cat's corpse.

On the city walls.

A guarding soldier yawned, then patted his own face.

He forced himself to stay alert, scanning his gaze around the surroundings of the city walls.

Suddenly.

He seemed to see something incredible.

His originally slightly sleepy eyes widened instantly!

He rubbed his eyes and stared fixedly in a direction in the distance.

In that direction, he saw.

A young man, dressed plainly with a youthful face, was slowly walking towards the city walls.

On the young man's back, he carried a long, dark red sword.

But these were not what surprised the soldier.

What shocked the soldier was the wooden sled the young man was dragging behind him!

That wooden sled was actually completely filled with the corpses of Shadow Cats!

A rough estimate, at least ten!

"Hiss! Holy crap! I'm not seeing things, am I? Ten Shadow Cats!?"

"Did this young man hunt all of them?"

"What's this young man's strength level?? Are young people this strong now??"

The squad leader saw it too.

He stared blankly at Li Ziyu's approaching figure, speechless for a long time.

Finally, he squeezed out two words from between his teeth:

"Impressive!"

As Li Ziyu walked closer.

Before Li Ziyu could speak, the squad leader immediately ordered the soldiers to open the city gates and quickly went to meet Li Ziyu.

As he got closer, he asked tentatively, with a hint of reverence in his tone:

"Brother, did you kill all these?"

After speaking, he couldn't help but size up the pile of corpses on the wooden sled behind Li Ziyu.

"Yeah."

"Got lucky, ran into quite a few."

Li Ziyu smiled and nodded.

Upon receiving Li Ziyu's affirmative reply, the squad leader's gaze towards him completely changed.

A student who hadn't even graduated, single-handedly hunting ten Level One Intermediate beasts, Shadow Cats, in one night?

He wasn't a rookie who hadn't fought beasts before.

He knew how terrifying beasts were better than anyone else.

If an ordinary person went up against a Shadow Cat, even a fully armed special forces squad would be wiped out!

Yet, this young man, who hadn't even graduated, hunted them down alone!?

And ten of them at that?

The squad leader's gaze towards Li Ziyu was different now.

His eyes unconsciously filled with awe as he looked at Li Ziyu.

If yesterday, seeing Li Ziyu hunt a single Shadow Cat alone had only earned him some admiration from the squad leader, like a senior looking at a junior.

But now, he was already treating Li Ziyu as an equal!

After all, even he, at Li Ziyu's age, couldn't achieve such a record!

"Brother, have you considered developing in our Eastern War Zone after graduation?"

The squad leader's attitude was eager.

After Martial Artists complete their studies at the Martial Arts University, they can choose to join the military.

For a genius like Li Ziyu, securing him for the Eastern War Zone would be a definite achievement!

"Uh, let's talk about it later. I haven't taken the Martial Arts Examination yet."

Thinking about such distant matters was premature, as he hadn't even participated in the Martial Arts Examination yet.

After chatting with the squad leader for a while longer, Li Ziyu headed towards the Precious Martial Pavilion.

However, since he wasn't dragging a wooden sled, the squad leader had specially arranged a military truck for him, which Li Ziyu didn't refuse.

After all, dragging it to the Precious Martial Pavilion would be too conspicuous.

Precious Martial Pavilion.

Tang Xuan yawned.

He pushed open the doors of the Precious Martial Pavilion, his eyes still heavy with sleep.

He had been sleeping comfortably when a phone call from a clerk woke him up.

Even though he was a Level Two Martial Artist and full of energy, able to stay awake for days and nights without issue, being woken up so abruptly still displeased him.

However, upon hearing that Li Ziyu was coming to buy and sell demonic beast corpses again, Tang Xuan got dressed and rushed to the shop without a second thought.

The reason he took this so seriously was twofold. First, he felt that the young man had good potential and was worth investing in. Second, recently, Xujiang and the other shops had shown signs of uniting to target him.

In recent days, due to the suppression from his rivals, fewer Martial Artists had been coming to the Precious Martial Pavilion to sell demonic beast materials. This was also one of the reasons he took Li Ziyu so seriously.

He wanted to find a stable source of goods.

"This time it should still be red-eyed rabbits."

"If I'm lucky, there might be two Shadow Cats."

"But that's probably unlikely. Li Ziyu hunted one during the day; there's no way he could hunt a second one so quickly."

"After all, Martial Artists need to rest too."

Tang Xuan mused.

He pushed the door open and entered.

The moment he stepped inside, he froze in place.

His gaze was fixed on the rows of Shadow Cat corpses neatly displayed in the hall.

He was speechless for a long time.

"Boss Tang? Do you guys still buy Shadow Cat corpses?"

It wasn't until a hand waved in front of his eyes that Tang Xuan snapped back to reality.

He quickly withdrew his shocked gaze from the Shadow Cats and turned towards the young man in front of him.

The young man still had a hint of youthful immaturity on his face, looking at him excitedly.

However, Tang Xuan no longer dared to underestimate him because of his age. On the contrary, at this moment, the young man's physique appeared incredibly mysterious in his eyes.

To be able to hunt ten Shadow Cats at such a young age?

This young man's strength was terrifying!!

"Yes! Brother Li! I'll buy all the demonic beast corpses you have!"