The combat suit felt cool against his skin and fit him perfectly.
Li Ziyu looked at himself in the mirror.
He stood 1.9 meters tall, well-proportioned and brimming with explosive power.
His face was lean, and his features were sharply defined, as if carved by a blade.
After he put on the equipment, even the Beautiful Clerk standing nearby could not help but brighten at the sight of him.
Li Ziyu had already been very handsome, but after putting on this combat suit, he looked as though he had walked straight out of an ancient Greek statue.
The Beautiful Clerk's eyes immediately began sparkling with stars.
"Tsk, tsk, Brother Li, with that look, you'll absolutely charm everyone wherever you go!"
"If my daughter weren't only fourteen this year, I'd want to introduce her to you! Hahaha!"
Li Ziyu merely smiled, and Tang Xuan continued:
"This combat suit was made by Tianheng Company and uses Great Xia's latest nanotechnology."
"Not only is it abrasion-resistant, scratch-resistant, dustproof, and waterproof, it also has an automatic temperature-control function. Besides, it has a built-in cushioning layer that can reduce damage when fighting enemies."
"And then there's this Vajra Body defensive combat skill. Even at the beginner level, it can greatly increase the user's defense. Once you reach the intermediate and advanced levels, it can raise a cultivator's defensive power several times over!"
"However, this combat skill is rather difficult to train. I've hardly ever seen anyone train it to the advanced level."
Tang Xuan introduced the two things he had just bought to Li Ziyu, who nodded secretly.
There was no need to say much about the protective suit. It was essential equipment for fighting in the wilderness, and could greatly improve one's comfort in the Wilderness Area.
As for the other book, the Vajra Body combat skill, it was extremely difficult to train and progressed slowly, but its effects were exceptionally powerful.
That was precisely what Li Ziyu valued.
With the system, a high training difficulty simply did not exist for him.
Hongsu Martial Arts Hall.
The lounge of Hongsu Martial Arts Hall.
Han Wu and a middle-aged man drank tea while discussing the latest information from the Wilderness Area.
"Old Han, haven't you been going to the Wilderness Area too often lately? Has a ferocious beast already gotten into your head?"
"A youth not even seventeen years old killed a Peak Level 1 Martial Artist with a single slash? That joke's a bit too much. It isn't funny at all."
The middle-aged man sipped his tea, looking at Han Wu beside him with an utterly speechless expression. His eyes roamed over Han Wu's face.
"Stop looking, Old Wang. I haven't been attacked by a ferocious beast. Everything I said is true!"
Han Wu waved his hand, indicating that he was perfectly normal. Then a look of remembrance appeared on his face, and he said solemnly:
"If someone else had told me, I wouldn't have believed it either. But what I just said is absolutely true! I saw it with my own eyes!"
"He used only one slash—one slash! Before I could even see clearly, the head of the Peak Level 1 Martial Artist standing before that youth was already flying!"
"I'm telling you, I estimate that youth's strength is at least at the Level 2 Intermediate realm! His Combat Power is above 2,000!"
"Pfft, you're getting more and more outrageous. Level 2 Intermediate, with Combat Power above 2,000? Do you even know what those two things mean?"
"Let me put it this way: in the past twenty years of Xujiang City, we've never seen someone like that, all right?"
The middle-aged man was utterly unconvinced, spraying spittle as he spoke.
"Seventeen? Isn't that the same age as my boy?"
"My boy is in his third year of high school and is about to take the Martial Arts Exam the day after tomorrow."
"If what you just said is true, and there really is such a monstrous student, my boy couldn't possibly know nothing about him."
"Tell me what that monster looks like. I'll ask my boy about him."
As the middle-aged man spoke, he saw Han Wu sitting there in a daze, completely ignoring him. Instead, Han Wu stared fixedly at a certain spot.
The middle-aged man had just been about to rouse Han Wu
when Han Wu suddenly rose from his chair and walked toward a youth standing by the entrance, dressed in a black combat suit with a somewhat immature expression.
His attitude was respectful.
After the youth left, Han Wu turned back to him with a deeply emotional look and said cryptically:
"Weren't you asking what the youth I mentioned looked like? I'll tell you now. It was that youth just now."
"You don't believe me? I'll take you to see his blood-energy test."
Name: Li Ziyu. Realm: Level 1 Advanced Martial Artist. Combat Skills: Advanced Mighty Ox Body Tempering Method, Gale Blade Technique, Intermediate Blade Technique, Intermediate Movement Technique. System: Martial God System. Function: Can absorb all things and increase blood energy. Other functions await the Host's own discovery.
"I never thought my blood-energy value would have already reached 9.999, and my Combat Power would have reached an astonishing 3,000."
In an old district of Xujiang City, on a narrow lane.
As Li Ziyu walked, he recalled the results of his blood-energy test just now, and his expression was filled with emotion.
The blood-energy standard for a Peak Level 1 Martial Artist was breaking through 10.
In other words, his blood energy was already infinitely close to that of a Peak Level 1 Martial Artist.
But under normal calculations, the relationship between Combat Power and blood energy was blood energy multiplied by ten, then increased by various bonuses, equaling a person's Combat Power.
A Martial Artist with a blood-energy value of 9.9 would have, at most, around 1,500 Combat Power.
Yet just now, with a full-powered strike, he had actually unleashed 3,000 Combat Power!
A direct threefold increase in Combat Power?
Didn't that mean his current strength was already three times that of a normal Martial Artist?
Even a Level 2 Beginner Martial Artist had less than 2,500 Combat Power.
In less than four days,
he had already grown from an ordinary student with a blood-energy test result of only 0.8, with no hope of entering a martial arts university, into a Martial Artist capable of crushing most of Xujiang City's prodigies.
Even as he marveled, his feet never stopped moving.
Li Ziyu followed the lane and soon arrived in front of a tube-shaped apartment building.
The walls were mottled, the building dilapidated, and shoddy advertisements and utility poles were scattered everywhere.
"Oh, Little Li, you're back. Why haven't I seen you around the complex these past two days? Did you go work another part-time job?"
"Why are you young people working yourselves so hard? Your health is more important. You'll never become a Martial Artist anyway, so what's the use of working so hard? You might as well lie flat."
"Little Li, come over to my place for dinner tonight."
Li Ziyu arrived at an apartment entrance. Several elderly men and women were sitting beneath it, basking in the sun. The moment they saw Li Ziyu, they greeted him with a chorus of chatter.
Li Ziyu smiled and responded to each of them.
This tube-shaped apartment building was his home in Xujiang City.
The elderly men and women were all his neighbors. Though they spoke bluntly, they were kindhearted.
In Li Ziyu's memories, these old neighbors often found various excuses to invite him to their homes for meals, which was also a way of helping him.
After exchanging a few words with them, Li Ziyu went upstairs.
"Huh? Why do I feel like Little Li has changed from the last time I saw him?"
"I feel the same way. Little Li seems more spirited than before. And if I remember correctly, he never used to take the initiative to respond to our greetings so enthusiastically, did he?"
"How strange."
The old men and women watched Li Ziyu's back as he went upstairs, their faces filled with surprise as they discussed it animatedly.
Li Ziyu heard all of this clearly.
After becoming a Martial Artist, his five senses were far sharper than before. Within a dozen meters, he could hear even the sound of a mosquito flapping its wings with perfect clarity.
After climbing the stairs, Li Ziyu had just prepared to open the door and go inside
when he saw several messy garbage bags, stinking horribly and stuffed full of trash, strewn crookedly outside his door.
Several flies were buzzing and darting around above them.
Clearly, they had been left there for several days.
Li Ziyu glanced at the garbage, then raised his head and looked at the tightly closed security door opposite him. His gaze gradually turned cold.
There was no need to think about it. His opposite-door neighbor had definitely dumped them in front of his home.
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