The moment the girl entered, she noticed Li Ziyu waiting beside the front desk.
The instant she saw Li Ziyu, her pretty brows creased slightly, and undisguised disgust flashed through her eyes.
Li Ziyu noticed the two of them as well.
The girl was Xu Mengyao, who had just broken up with him in the classroom.
As for the crew-cut young man Xu Mengyao had her arm linked with, Li Ziyu had some impression of him too.
He was Bai Haoran, the class monitor of Third High Rocket Class. His martial talent was also the best in the entire school, and it was said that his family was quite well-off too.
No wonder Xu Mengyao had been so eager to cut ties with him. As it turned out, she had seamlessly moved on and latched onto a genius.
But those were matters concerning his predecessor, and had nothing to do with him. Li Ziyu glanced at the two of them, then looked away.
"How did you know I'd come here?"
"Didn't I already tell you that we've broken up?!"
"Can you stop pestering me? We're destined to be people from two different worlds!"
Xu Mengyao walked straight toward Li Ziyu. When she reached him, she looked down at him with undisguised disgust and a face full of disdain.
"Or did you come to apply for a job at Hongsu Martial Arts Hall?"
"But you can give up now. With your 0.8 Qi-Blood, there's no way Hongsu Martial Arts Hall would want you. You're not even qualified to be a cleaner."
Xu Mengyao made no effort to conceal her contempt, waiting for Li Ziyu to flush with embarrassment and scurry away like a stray dog the next second.
After all, in the past, whenever she got angry, Li Ziyu would become terrified and apprehensive.
But the scene she had expected did not appear.
Li Ziyu did not get up. He did not even answer her. He merely gave her an indifferent glance, then stopped looking at her.
Xu Mengyao was stunned by Li Ziyu's indifferent expression.
Then, as if she had been provoked, she instantly flew into a rage from shame.
That good-for-nothing who was like a pug in her eyes actually dared to look at her with such a gaze?
This was outrageous!!
Although Xu Mengyao felt that Li Ziyu seemed different from before, and his cold gaze made her feel faintly chilled, the thought of Li Ziyu's Qi-Blood value during the test made her reach out to pull him up.
The Beautiful Clerk's gaze shifted back and forth among Xu Mengyao, Li Ziyu, and Bai Haoran.
As if she had understood what was happening, a trace of sympathy appeared in her eyes when she looked at Li Ziyu.
The Beautiful Clerk had just been about to speak up and advise them.
Behind Xu Mengyao, Bai Haoran walked over, patted her shoulder, and said indifferently, "Mengyao, we're not even in the same class anymore. Why waste your emotions on a nobody like him?"
"With this time, you might as well think about how to make use of this week to properly increase your Qi-Blood."
As he spoke, he gave Li Ziyu a cold glance, then paid him no further attention.
That look was like the way one regarded an insignificant weed by the roadside.
"Mm~ Young Master Bai is right. I was being too emotional."
"But Young Master Bai, you're the genius of Third High School. You'll have to look after me during the Martial Arts Exam."
Xu Mengyao changed faces as quickly as turning a page. She immediately replaced her disdainful look when gazing at Li Ziyu with a gentle smile, appearing like a demure young lady.
After speaking, she ignored Li Ziyu and linked arms with Bai Haoran, becoming all lovey-dovey with him.
Li Ziyu felt no ripple in his heart at the sight.
He only felt that his predecessor had been treated unfairly.
But that had nothing to do with him either.
Just then.
A young man wearing a school uniform as well walked out from inside the martial arts hall.
The young man hung his head dejectedly. He walked to the front desk, returned the room card to the Beautiful Clerk, then left Hongsu Martial Arts Hall.
As he walked, he sighed repeatedly.
"How could this be? How could this be? I clearly train hard every day. Why won't my Qi-Blood value increase?"
"Student, the testing room is available now. Would you like to take the test?"
At the end, the Beautiful Clerk added a sentence for Li Ziyu.
"The testing fee is five hundred an hour."
"Test it."
Li Ziyu pulled a handful of loose change from his pocket. There were five-yuan and ten-yuan bills among it, and he clattered them onto the front desk counter.
The Beautiful Clerk counted it, then handed him the room card the young man had just put down.
She then pointed toward the inside of the martial arts hall.
"Go all the way to the back. The third room on the left. Swipe the card to enter."
Li Ziyu nodded, picked up the room card, turned around, and walked inside.
As he left, he faintly heard Xu Mengyao's disdainful voice behind him.
"The school's testing equipment is very accurate. Don't cling to wishful thinking and assume that retesting your Qi-Blood will make it increase."
"Instead of wasting five hundred yuan on the testing fee, you might as well buy yourself two new outfits."
Li Ziyu ignored her, but a fragment of his predecessor's memory faintly flashed through his mind.
In a scene of heavy snowfall, his predecessor had been shivering from the cold, gazing reluctantly at a men's down jacket in a shop window. In the end, however, he had chosen a women's style.
As Xu Mengyao's birthday present.
Li Ziyu reached the testing room indicated by the Beautiful Clerk and swiped the card across the door.
With a beep, the door opened automatically, revealing the layout inside.
It was a room of roughly a hundred square meters, similar to a gym. Various weapons were arranged throughout it.
A thick layer of gray isolation mats covered the floor.
In the most conspicuous spot at the very center of the room stood a three-meter-tall device shaped like an eggshell and entirely silver-white.
This was the standard Qi-Blood Tester.
It was said that miniature testers also existed. Wealthier families usually kept one at home, but Li Ziyu had never seen one.
They were too expensive, costing several hundred thousand.
With his current wealth, which was so poor that even the wind whistled through it, being able to produce five hundred yuan to test himself at the martial arts hall was already his limit.
Li Ziyu walked up to the tester. There was a raised button on the outside.
He reached out and pressed the button.
Beep beep—a series of green lights flashed.
The silver-white tester, which seemed to be one seamless whole, split open down the middle.
Then it slowly opened toward both sides, like a river mussel opening its shell.
An ergonomic seat was revealed inside.
All around the seat were densely packed objects resembling various soft tubes.
Li Ziyu had used a Qi-Blood Tester once at school, so he was familiar with the process.
He stepped inside. There was not even much room to spare.
After Li Ziyu pressed the testing button, various devices on the Qi-Blood Tester successively connected to his head, chest, and limbs.
At the same time, a fine needle pierced his index finger and drew several drops of blood.
Although Thermal Weapons had been greatly weakened in their lethality against ferocious beasts, Great Xia had not abandoned technological research.
In daily life and other fields, Blue Star's technology had instead surpassed that of his previous life by a considerable margin.
This tester was the best proof.
Although he did not know its principles, the Qi-Blood fluctuation it measured never exceeded 0.02 in either direction.
A moment later, the test ended, and a pale blue number appeared on the screen before Li Ziyu.
0.93!
"If I remember correctly, my Qi-Blood was 0.8 during yesterday's test at school!
"But now, it's increased by a full 0.13!?"
Li Ziyu's eyes widened slightly. He instinctively leaned closer to the screen and confirmed it again.
There was no mistake. It was indeed 0.93!
The Qi-Blood Tester's fluctuations were tiny. In other words, in the short span of three hours, his Qi-Blood had increased by at least 0.13?
0.13 might not look like much, but Li Ziyu knew exactly how difficult it was to increase one's Qi-Blood.
If he wanted to raise his Qi-Blood by 0.13 through exercise, it would take at least a month!
In other words, his three hours had equaled someone else's month of arduous cultivation!
"The system can't only increase Qi-Blood by killing mosquitoes. The amount it increases must depend on the strength of the creatures killed."
"If I switched to killing ferocious beasts, the increase in Qi-Blood would definitely be greater!"
"Should I go hunt ferocious beasts?"
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