Xu Mengyao's Contempt, Blood Qi Boost

The young girl noticed Li Ziyu waiting by the front desk the moment she entered.

The instant she saw Li Ziyu, her pretty brows furrowed slightly, undisguised disgust flashing in her eyes.

Li Ziyu noticed them too.

The young girl was none other than Xu Mengyao, who had just broken up with him in the classroom.

And the crew-cut young man she was holding onto, Li Ziyu vaguely recognized him too.

He was Bai Haoran, the class monitor of Third High Rocket Class, the school's top martial arts talent, and reportedly from a well-off family.

No wonder Xu Mengyao couldn't wait to cut ties with him—she'd seamlessly latched onto a genius instead.

But these were all matters of his predecessor, nothing to do with him. Li Ziyu glanced at the pair, then looked away.

"How did you know I'd come here?"

"Didn't I already tell you we're through!?"

"Can you stop pestering me? We were never meant to be in the same world!"

Xu Mengyao walked straight up to Li Ziyu, stopping in front of him, undisguised disgust in her eyes as she looked down at him with contempt.

"Or are you here to apply for a job at Hongsu Martial Arts Hall?"

"Save yourself the trouble. With your 0.8 blood energy, there's no way Hongsu Martial Arts Hall would take you. You wouldn't even qualify as a janitor."

Xu Mengyao didn't hide her scorn, waiting for Li Ziyu to turn red-faced and slink away like a beaten dog.

After all, in the past, whenever she got angry, Li Ziyu would panic and grovel.

But the scene she expected never came.

Li Ziyu didn't stand up, didn't even respond to her. He just gave her a faint glance, then looked away.

Xu Mengyao was stunned by his indifferent expression.

Then, as if provoked, she flushed with instant rage.

In her eyes, this loser who groveled like a lapdog actually dared to look at her like that?

How outrageous!!

Though she felt Li Ziyu seemed different now, his cold gaze sending a faint chill through her.

But remembering his blood energy test results, she reached out to grab him.

The beautiful clerk's gaze flickered between Xu Mengyao, Li Ziyu, and Bai Haoran.

As if catching on, her look toward Li Ziyu grew pitying.

She was about to speak up.

From behind Xu Mengyao, Bai Haoran stepped forward, patted her shoulder, and said coolly:

"Mengyao, you're not in the same class anymore. Why waste your emotions on a nobody like him?"

"Better use that time to think about how to boost your own blood energy this week."

As he spoke, he gave Li Ziyu a cold glance, then dismissed him.

That look was like glancing at an insignificant weed by the roadside.

"Mm~ Master Bai is right. I was being too emotional."

"But Master Bai, you're Third High's genius. At the martial arts exam, you'll have to look out for me, okay?"

Xu Mengyao's face flipped like a switch, her contemptuous sneer at Li Ziyu replaced by a sweet smile, playing the demure girl.

With that, she ignored Li Ziyu entirely, linked arms with Bai Haoran, and walked off cozily.

Watching this, Li Ziyu felt no stir in his heart.

He only felt it was a pity for his predecessor.

But that had nothing to do with him either.

Just then.

From inside the hall, another youth in a school uniform walked out.

He hung his head dejectedly, went to the front desk, returned his room card to the beautiful clerk, and left Hongsu Martial Arts Hall.

As he walked, he kept sighing:

"How is this possible? How? I train hard every day, so why won't my blood energy go up?"

"Classmate, the testing room is free now. Do you want to test?"

The beautiful clerk added, turning to Li Ziyu.

"Testing fee is five hundred per hour."

"Test."

Li Ziyu pulled a handful of loose change from his pocket—fives and tens—and clattered it onto the front counter.

The beautiful clerk counted it, then handed him the room card the boy had just returned.

He then pointed deeper into the martial arts hall.

"Go all the way to the back, third room on the left. Swipe your card to get in."

Li Ziyu nodded, picked up the room card, and turned to head inside.

As he walked away, he faintly heard Xu Mengyao's disdainful voice from behind.

"School testing equipment is very accurate. Don't cling to the hope that retesting your qi and blood will somehow raise it."

"Rather than wasting five hundred bucks on a test fee, you'd be better off buying yourself two new outfits."

Li Ziyu ignored her, though a memory fragment from the original body flickered through his mind.

In that scene of heavy snowfall, the original body shivered from the cold, gazing longingly at a certain men's down jacket in a shop window—but in the end, he chose the women's version instead.

As a birthday gift for Xu Mengyao.

Li Ziyu reached the testing room the Beautiful Clerk had pointed to, pulled out his card, and swiped it on the door.

With a beep, the door slid open automatically, revealing the layout inside.

It was a room about a hundred square meters, resembling a gym, with all kinds of weapons arranged inside.

A thick layer of gray isolation matting covered the floor.

And at the most prominent spot in the center of the room sat a three-meter-tall, eggshell-shaped device, entirely silver-white in color.

This was a standard Qi-Blood Tester.

Rumor had it there were smaller testers too, which well-off families usually kept at home, but Li Ziyu had never seen one.

They were too expensive—costing several hundred thousand.

Given his current penniless status, scraping together five hundred bucks for a test at the martial arts hall was already his limit.

He walked up to the tester, where a raised button sat on the outside.

Li Ziyu reached out and pressed the button.

A series of beeps and green lights flashed.

The silver-white tester, which seemed seamlessly fused, split open with a crack down the middle.

Then, slowly, like a clam opening its shell, it parted to both sides.

Revealing the human-shaped seat inside.

Around the seat, dense clusters of various soft tubes and cables were arranged.

Li Ziyu had used a Qi-Blood Tester once at school, so he was familiar with the process.

He stepped inside; the space wasn't cramped.

As Li Ziyu pressed the test button, various devices on the Qi-Blood Tester connected to his head, chest, and limbs in succession.

At the same time, a fine needle pierced the tip of his index finger, drawing a few drops of blood.

Although Thermal Weapons had greatly diminished effectiveness against mutated beasts, Daxia hadn't abandoned technological research.

In daily life and other fields, Blue Star's technology had actually surpassed his previous life's by a wide margin.

This tester was the best proof.

He didn't know the principle behind it, but the measured qi and blood fluctuation never deviated by more than 0.02.

After a moment, the test ended, and a pale blue number appeared on the screen in front of Li Ziyu.

0.93!

"If I remember correctly, during yesterday's qi and blood test at school, my qi and blood was 0.8!

And now, it's gone up by a full 0.13!?"

Li Ziyu's eyes widened slightly, and his head instinctively leaned closer to the screen to confirm again.

No mistake—it was 0.93!

The fluctuation range of this Qi-Blood Tester was very small, meaning that in just three hours, his qi and blood had increased by at least 0.13?

Don't underestimate 0.13—Li Ziyu knew exactly how difficult it was to raise qi and blood.

To boost qi and blood by 0.13 through training alone would take at least a month!

In other words, his three hours equaled someone else's hard month of cultivation!

"The system doesn't just raise qi and blood by killing mosquitoes—the amount of increase must depend on the strength of the creature killed."

"If I switched to killing mutated beasts, the qi and blood gain would definitely be bigger!"

"Maybe I should go hunt some mutated beasts?"