In front of the iron cage, Nangong Ao stood there with an uncertain expression, his face shifting from green to white.
The closer he got, the more he could feel the strength of this Bloody Violent Bear.
He somewhat regretted showing off. The Bloody Violent Bear was far stronger than he had imagined!
But now he was in too deep to back down. He glanced up at the drone filming him from above, then cast a sidelong look at Li Ziyu and Xia Lin, who were quietly watching him in the distance.
When he saw Xia Lin standing so close to Li Ziyu, Nangong Ao hardened his heart.
"TMD! She treats my advances with utter indifference, yet welcomes Li Ziyu with a smile. Damn it! I, Nangong Ao, am no worse than Li Ziyu!"
"I'll prove it!"
With that thought, Nangong Ao steeled himself and fiercely pressed the button that released the iron cage.
"Foolish!! What an idiot! Nangong Ao, that idiot! How dare he?! This is unbelievably foolish!"
In the command room, Mayor Wang Jiannan watched Nangong Ao release the Bloody Violent Bear and slammed the table so hard that it trembled.
He had initially held a favorable impression of Nangong Ao, the genius from No. 1 High School, and had even placed great hopes in him.
But he never expected Nangong Ao to be such an idiot who couldn't see the limits of his own strength!
He was only a Level 1 Intermediate, yet he dared challenge a Level 2 Fierce Beast—and not just any Level 2 Fierce Beast, but the notoriously dangerous Bloody Violent Bear.
He had once thought Nangong Ao's arrogance was the sharp spirit of youth, but now it seemed he was simply an idiot.
He didn't even know what to say about such an idiot.
"How long until the rescue team reaches the scene?"
"We just received word. Two minutes!"
"Two minutes... That should be enough for Nangong Ao to escape. Now I only hope Li Ziyu doesn't get the same foolish idea as Nangong Ao and challenge the Bloody Violent Bear too."
"It's coming out."
Li Ziyu watched the scene and muttered inwardly.
As Nangong Ao pressed the button, steel bars as thick as an adult's arm slowly rose, and the cage restraining the Bloody Violent Bear gradually lifted.
The Bloody Violent Bear's snoring breath suddenly stopped. It abruptly opened its eyes, its pair of scarlet pupils fixed intently on Nangong Ao.
"Holy crap!"
Nangong Ao had originally intended to attack first.
But when the Bloody Violent Bear rose from the cage and its lantern-sized scarlet eyes gazed indifferently at him, he was so frightened that he collapsed onto the ground.
When it had been separated from him by the cage, the pressure hadn't been this intense.
But now that the Bloody Violent Bear stood before him without a single restraint, Nangong Ao felt he no longer even had the strength to run. His mind went completely blank.
The Bloody Violent Bear let out a roar, planted both feet on the ground, and reared up like a man. With a howl like a collapsing mountain, it swung a paw at Nangong Ao.
Stimulated by the aura of death, Nangong Ao finally reacted and instinctively raised his sword to block.
However, the long sword forged from Asma Alloy couldn't withstand even a second of the Bloody Violent Bear's attack before being slapped away.
The force traveled through the sword and into Nangong Ao. The unstoppable impact sent him tumbling through the air, flying several hundred meters away.
He crashed heavily into the ground, spat blood, and convulsed all over before passing out.
"..."
"Run! Student Li Ziyu, the Bloody Violent Bear is coming this way!"
Xia Lin cried out in alarm.
Li Ziyu glanced speechlessly at Nangong Ao lying at his feet, blood having seeped all the way to his toes, his body still convulsing.
He didn't know whether it was coincidence or something else, but Nangong Ao had been sent flying directly toward him.
Li Ziyu looked up at the billowing dust cloud rushing toward him in the distance.
Beneath the dust was the Bloody Violent Bear, running at full power with the momentum of a tsunami.
The Bloody Violent Bear covered the distance of several hundred meters in only a few seconds. Li Ziyu could even clearly see the drool dripping from its teeth.
"Go! Student Li Ziyu!! It'll be too late if you don't leave!"
Thinking Li Ziyu had been scared senseless, Xia Lin hurried forward and tugged at the corner of his clothes, trying to pull him away.
In the distance, Wang Long and Bai Haoran wore gleeful expressions, looking as if they were enjoying a show.
In the command room, Mayor Wang Jiannan's face was dark as water as he stared fixedly at the live broadcast screen.
Several principals didn't blink, their faces filled with worry.
"Didn't you just ask whether I intended to hunt a Level 2 Fierce Beast?"
"I'm answering you now. Yes."
Amid the sky filled with yellow sand, Li Ziyu turned toward Xia Lin and flashed a mouthful of bright white teeth.
Then he lightly stepped forward, facing the Bloody Violent Bear that had already charged right up to him.
The Bloody Violent Bear loomed like a small mountain, casting a shadow over Li Ziyu's head as it swung a paw down at him.
Li Ziyu didn't react. Just as Xia Lin thought he had been scared stiff and didn't dare move—
Li Ziyu moved.
He drew one leg back and made a snapping kick toward the Bloody Violent Bear that had charged before him.
Then he executed an upward kick, viciously striking the paw the Bloody Violent Bear had brought down.
This kick contained all his strength. The power of his vital energy surged through his body, and he pushed the Mighty Ox Body Tempering Method to its absolute limit!
Claw and leg collided.
The resulting boom was like thunder exploding.
The Bloody Violent Bear's paw, as large as a cushion, was sent flying back by Li Ziyu's kick at an even faster speed than it had come.
The Bloody Violent Bear's reared-up body was knocked backward by the rebounding force. It staggered back dozens of steps before finally dropping onto its rear.
"Student Li Ziyu, run... Huh..."
Xia Lin had already drawn her sword, but when she saw this scene, she froze in midair. Her small mouth hung wide open, and she made only a muffled, clucking sound, as if something had blocked her throat.
After completing the upward kick, Li Ziyu's figure vanished from where he stood and appeared before the Bloody Violent Bear. He sent another upward kick sweeping over.
Then came the second, third, and fourth kicks.
Before the Bloody Violent Bear's mountain-like body could even rise, Li Ziyu's flying kick sent it soaring into the air.
Finally, with a heavy thump, it crashed hard onto the ground and lost all signs of life.
"Student Li Ziyu, you..."
Xia Lin witnessed the entire scene, yet it felt as though she hadn't seen it at all.
Because she felt that everything that had just happened had to be an illusion.
The pressure exerted by the Bloody Violent Bear had been too overwhelming, causing her to hallucinate that it had been beaten to death.
"Yes! That must be it!"
"I heard that when people face something terrifying beyond measure, they'll imagine an even more powerful object crushing that terror."
"I must be in that state right now. No, I have to break free from this fantasy!"
Xia Lin viciously pinched her own cheek.
"Ow! That hurt!"
She then fixed her eyes on the Bloody Violent Bear again.
The Bloody Violent Bear was still lying there, completely motionless.
This sight left Xia Lin utterly stunned, her mind a blank.
"Everything that just happened was actually real!!!? Student Li Ziyu really kicked the Bloody Violent Bear to death with his bare hands?!"
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