Tang Xuan spoke excitedly to Li Ziyu.
At the same time, he could not help rubbing his hands excitedly. He walked over to the Shadow Cat corpses and examined them carefully, growing more astonished the longer he looked.
The first few Shadow Cat corpses had each taken two or three strikes to kill.
But toward the end, every single one had been killed with one strike!
This Li Ziyu was definitely a master with the blade!
After a moment.
There was no excessive haggling.
Li Ziyu took the secret manual recording the Gale Blade Technique from Tang Xuan.
At the same time, a notification appeared on his phone informing him that two hundred thousand Great Xia Coins had been deposited.
"Little brother, if you have any ferocious beast corpses to sell in the future, make sure to think of your big brother first. I'll definitely give you a price higher than what's offered elsewhere!"
Tang Xuan spoke with a passionate expression and an audacious tone.
Li Ziyu smiled in response as well.
"Sure!"
After these two encounters, Li Ziyu felt that Tang Xuan was a decent person. He was not the kind of merchant who cared only about profit. Rather, he seemed like a righteous Martial Artist who had changed careers.
In any case, Li Ziyu would often be selling ferocious beast corpses in the future. Finding a long-term partner would only benefit him and would do him no harm.
After talking with Tang Xuan for a while longer, Li Ziyu glanced at the sun hanging high outside, then looked at the clock on the wall.
"It's eight o'clock. The Martial Arts Association has probably opened by now. I'll go get my Level 1 Martial Artist Certification!"
"Although the five-thousand-per-month Martial Artist Allowance is no longer much to me, the Body Tempering Cultivation Method given with the Level 1 Martial Artist Certification is still extremely valuable!"
"My current qi-blood value is high, but that's only quantity. It doesn't have quality."
"Developing on two fronts and making balanced progress—that's the true path!"
Li Ziyu said goodbye to Tang Xuan, then pushed open the door and left the Precious Martial Pavilion.
He did not know how high his qi-blood value had reached now.
This trip to the Martial Arts Association would be a good chance to measure it and get a clear idea.
As Li Ziyu walked, he flipped through the Gale Blade Technique.
But just then, his phone began ringing incessantly.
Li Ziyu frowned, took his phone from his pocket, and saw that the messages were from Feixin.
It was a chatting app developed by a Great Xia technology company, similar to WeChat in his previous life.
At that moment, the Feixin icon already displayed 99+ messages.
The top message came from an account whose profile picture showed a charming mature woman wearing sunglasses.
It was from Li Ziyu's aunt.
"Xiaoyu, come to your aunt's house for dinner tonight! Your uncle bought some seafood and even specially bought several kilograms of Shadow Cat meat."
"Don't you have only a few days left before the Martial Arts Exam? Eat some ferocious beast meat to replenish your qi and blood, and try to get a good result in the Martial Arts Exam!"
The message ended with a smiling emoji.
However, the message had been sent yesterday morning.
At that time, Li Ziyu had just been dumped by Xu Mengyao—or rather, he had just transmigrated—and had not yet had time to check Feixin.
There was another message below, sent by his aunt today.
"Xiaoyu, your cousin told me about your qi-blood test. Don't lose heart. There's nothing great about becoming a Martial Artist anyway. Fighting and killing is so dangerous."
"I've already told your uncle that once you graduate from high school, he'll arrange a job for you at his company. He'll directly give you a supervisor's position!"
There were also several voice calls below, with more than a dozen missed calls in the call history.
When Li Ziyu saw this, a warm current flowed through his heart.
It was clear that his aunt genuinely cared about him, unlike certain fake relatives on the internet.
However, when she had sent these messages, he had been in the Wilderness Area, so he had not received them.
After thinking it over, Li Ziyu still sent his aunt a reply.
She had not replied yet. She was probably busy.
Further down were messages from the class group.
"Brothers, the Martial Arts Exam is in four days. How's everyone preparing? What are your qi-blood values?"
"Ugh, just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes. Raising qi and blood is so difficult. I'm only at 1.1 qi and blood right now!"
"I'm still quite a ways from the 1.2 qi-blood requirement for an undergraduate Martial Arts University. Looks like I have no hope of getting into one."
"We're all about the same. My parents are currently considering whether to take out a loan to buy me pills that increase qi and blood."
"But I didn't agree. Even if my qi and blood increase, it'll all be for nothing in the Martial Arts Exam if my Combat Power can't keep up!"
"We'll have to fight ferocious beasts for real during the Martial Arts Exam."
Below that came row after row of lamenting emojis, followed by a message from their class's study committee member.
"By the way, have you seen the School Forum?"
"I heard there's supposedly a ruthless person from our school who went out of the city alone last night, hunted dozens of Red-Eyed Rabbits, and even hunted a Shadow Cat!"
"My friend secretly took this picture!"
A picture followed.
In the picture, a youth carried a sack several times larger than himself on his back.
From one corner of the sack protruded a black head hanging limply, its tongue lolling out.
The picture had just been posted, and below it was a flood of exclamations such as "awesome," "strong," and "holy crap."
Feixin was still chiming incessantly.
"Holy crap, the Shadow Cat is a Level 1 Mid-tier Beast. Its speed and attacks are both incredibly powerful!"
"To hunt a Shadow Cat alone, which ruthless person from our school is this?"
"Could it be that guy Bai Haoran!?"
"Probably not. Bai Haoran hasn't even become a Martial Artist yet. I heard he's only planning to undergo Martial Artist Certification today."
"Bai Haoran is going to undergo Martial Artist Certification? His qi-blood value is already 1.5!?"
However, no one responded to that message. Most of them were still guessing who the owner of the figure in the picture was.
"Huh? Looking at the back in this picture, why does he look so much like Li Ziyu? Look at the shoes he's wearing. I think I've seen them on Li Ziyu before."
"Brother, you must be mistaken. The school only tested us the day before yesterday. Li Ziyu's qi-blood value was only 0.8. He doesn't even qualify for a Martial Arts University, let alone hunting a Level 1 Mid-tier Beast like the Shadow Cat alone. How could it be him?"
"Uh... I must have been mistaken."
Li Ziyu looked at the stream of messages, his eyes shifting slightly.
He had not expected to be secretly photographed while selling Red-Eyed Rabbits yesterday.
Although it was only a picture of his back,
Li Ziyu was not worried that anyone would find his qi-blood increase too fast.
After all, geniuses appeared one after another in the Martial Artist world. Among Martial Artists, there was even such a thing as Talent Martial Artists.
There was no shortage of talented Martial Artists who awakened special talents and advanced by leaps and bounds.
If someone really came to ask, he could just use his awakened talent as an excuse.
After scrolling through the messages some more, he found that most of them were complaints about how difficult the Martial Arts Exam was and how hard it was to increase qi and blood.
Li Ziyu glanced through them, then closed Feixin and put his phone back into his pocket.
"The Martial Arts Exam and getting into a Martial Arts University aren't necessary options for me right now."
"I'd better go get my Level 1 Martial Artist Certification first."
After thinking for a moment, Li Ziyu withdrew his attention and focused once more on the Gale Blade Technique in his hand.
While comprehending the Gale Blade Technique, he walked toward the Xujiang City Martial Arts Association building.
The Martial Arts Association was also located in the city center. It was not far from here, only a little over ten minutes on foot. It was quite convenient.
"Disgusting, none of these poor losers in the whole class even have a qi-blood value of 1.4. They're all useless. I really don't know how I ended up in a class like this."
Inside a Blue Horse X5 driving toward the Martial Artist Association,
Xu Mengyao sat in the back seat, looking at the messages in the class group on Feixin with an expression of disdain.
Sitting beside her was Bai Haoran, dressed in casual clothes.
"Brother Bai Haoran is still the best. You can already take the Level 1 Martial Artist test!"
"Compared with those people in our class, Brother Bai Haoran, you're simply a genius among geniuses!"
"You'll definitely pass this Martial Artist Certification, Brother Bai Haoran!"
Xu Mengyao looked at Bai Haoran beside her with an admiring expression. Her face was innocent yet full of adoration, and her eyes seemed to glisten with tears.
Bai Haoran, sitting beside her, could barely suppress the smugness on his face, but he still pretended to be modest.
"Hehe, you can't put it that absolutely. After all, the Level 1 Martial Artist assessment looks not only at qi and blood but also at Combat Power. I'd say I have a little over an eighty percent chance."
"That's still far stronger than those useless people in our class. They probably won't even touch the threshold of becoming Martial Artists in their entire lives."
Xu Mengyao continued to wear an admiring expression. When she mentioned her classmates, disdain unconsciously seeped from her eyes.
"Not necessarily. Maybe there's a hidden expert in your class. For example, Li Ziyu. Haha, looking at the back in the picture, doesn't he look quite like him?"
Before he finished speaking, Bai Haoran himself laughed. Clearly, he did not believe what he had just said.
Xu Mengyao giggled along with him.
"Hehe, I didn't know Brother Bai Haoran had learned to joke around too. Li Ziyu is a useless person whose qi and blood haven't even reached 1. If that were him in the picture, it would be the joke of the century."
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