"Li Ziyu is awesome!! My idol!"
"Strong, strong, strong! Big Brother Li Ziyu, can you reveal what level you're actually at?"
"Classmate Li Ziyu! I want to have your babies!"
"Ah! Classmate Li Ziyu is looking at me!"
"What do you mean, looking at you? He's clearly looking at me!"
Several junior schoolgirls with beauty queen looks saw Li Ziyu's gaze turn in their direction. They hurriedly thrust out their peaks, smiled until dimples appeared, and revealed the brightest smiles they had worn in seventeen years.
Several of them even opened their phones right away and held them up to display their Feixin friend codes.
Just after Li Ziyu emerged from the Wilderness Area, Mayor Wang Jiannan walked toward him amid a crowd of principals.
A group of people who looked like teachers followed behind Wang Jiannan. Among them, Li Ziyu spotted his own teacher, Liu Yanfang.
From far away, Wang Jiannan extended both hands toward Li Ziyu with a smile. His expression was so amiable that it seemed Li Ziyu was his long-lost nephew:
"As expected of the Martial Arts Exam champion of our Xujiang City! Not only are you powerful, but you're also such a fine-looking young man!"
"Good!"
"Good!"
"Good!"
Wang Jiannan said the word "good" three times in a row.
As he spoke, he secretly sized Li Ziyu up from head to toe.
The more he looked, the more alarmed he became.
Standing before him, Li Ziyu felt like a sharp blade fresh from its sheath, its peerless edge stabbing into the heavens.
But when Wang Jiannan looked from another angle, that peerless sharpness vanished.
The aura around Li Ziyu instead became like a towering mountain, giving off a weighty, unshakable feeling.
Wang Jiannan was secretly shocked. Li Ziyu was even stronger than he had imagined.
He could actually make Wang Jiannan feel threatened.
That was far too exaggerated.
One had to know that he was a Level 3 Martial Artist.
Although he was only at the beginner level, apart from the Martial Arts Association president, who could suppress him in Xujiang City, it had been a long time since he had felt this way from anyone else.
Yet today, he had felt it from a boy not even seventeen years old.
Wang Jiannan's smile grew even brighter.
Li Ziyu had seen Wang Jiannan speak on television and knew his identity, so he smiled and responded as well.
"Hello, Mayor."
"Hahaha, Classmate Li Ziyu, you truly are the pride of our Third High School. I've been keeping an eye on you since you enrolled. I saw right away that you weren't an ordinary person!"
"Sure enough, just as I expected, you went straight ahead and became the Martial Arts Exam champion of our Xujiang City!"
"You're truly a roc spreading its wings for ninety thousand miles! One astonishing feat after another! Truly astonishing!"
At that moment, another excited and amiable voice rang out before Li Ziyu. At the same time, Li Ziyu felt both his hands being gripped tightly and shaken up and down.
Li Ziyu recognized him as the principal of his school, Liu Youde.
But to claim he had been watching Li Ziyu since enrollment was far too ridiculous.
Aside from seeing Liu Youde give a speech when he enrolled, Li Ziyu had never seen him at school at any other time.
Li Ziyu was speechless.
Before he could speak or pull his hands back, he felt Liu Youde's grip tighten.
Liu Youde firmly held both his hands, quietly moved closer, and lowered his voice so only the two of them could hear:
"Classmate Li Ziyu, you've brought glory to our Third High School. In my capacity as principal, I'll personally sponsor you one million Great Xia Coins!"
Seeing that Li Ziyu remained expressionless, Liu Youde gritted his teeth and continued:
"Plus twenty Qi and Blood Pills!"
A smile immediately spread across Li Ziyu's face. One Qi Refining Pill was worth fifty thousand Great Xia Coins.
Twenty pills were just right. He had been planning to use Qi and Blood Pills to test his latest idea about the system.
With that thought, Li Ziyu smiled brightly as he took the Third High School principal's hand and shook it up and down:
"It's all thanks to the school's cultivation!"
On the highway back to Xujiang City, three elongated Blue Flag sedans drove steadily along.
Inside the bulletproof Blue Flag in the very center, Li Ziyu sat in the back seat with the window rolled down.
He let the wind blow against him as he watched the sunset and evening clouds in the distance.
Liu Youde was personally driving for Li Ziyu in the front. He cautiously glanced at the rearview mirror and smiled as he spoke:
"Classmate Li Ziyu, the Martial Arts Exam has just ended. It'll take another day to calculate the national rankings."
"But with your Points, no matter which school you want to attend, you're guaranteed to get in."
"Moreover, I estimate that your Points ranking will be at least within the national top ten!"
Li Ziyu's eyes moved slightly when he heard that.
He could tell that Liu Youde was extremely excited as he said this. His hands gripping the steering wheel had turned slightly white.
"Mm."
Li Ziyu nodded and responded indifferently.
His attitude was rather calm, but Liu Youde didn't feel disrespected in the slightest.
Instead, he thought it was only natural.
With the potential Li Ziyu had displayed, even his worst future would have him becoming a Level 4 Martial Artist.
If he wanted to take an official position, he would at least become the president of a city's Martial Arts Association.
That would even be a level above his superior's superior, Wang Jiannan.
Wasn't it perfectly normal for him to treat a small-time principal like Liu Youde indifferently?
"Classmate Li Ziyu, the private reward I promised you has already been transferred to your account. You achieved such a good result in the Martial Arts Exam representing Xujiang City, so the city will also provide you with a sponsorship. Once the national rankings are released, the city will send the reward to you based on your ranking."
"I estimate it'll happen tomorrow at the latest. At that time, the mayor and our city's Martial Arts Association president may both visit your home."
"Oh, and there's one more thing. I estimate that by tomorrow at the latest, teachers from martial arts schools will come to recruit you. Have you decided which school you want to apply to?"
Liu Youde carefully asked the question while driving.
"I'll see what conditions they offer then."
Li Ziyu had not forgotten his original purpose in taking the Martial Arts Exam.
His goal had always been very clear: to obtain a higher-level Meditation Method and eliminate the negative effects caused by killing Fierce Beasts.
In the Martial Arts Exam arena, he had loved the pleasure of killing Fierce Beasts without any negative effects, as well as the speed at which his strength increased.
Name: Li Ziyu. Realm: Level 1 Advanced Martial Artist (+). Combat Skills: Peak Raging Bull Body Tempering Method, Peak Movement Technique, Peak Blade Technique, Advanced Vajra Body (+), Gale Blade Technique (+). System: Martial God System. Function: It can absorb all things and increase Qi and blood. The remaining functions await the host's own exploration.
After killing that Level 2 Fierce Beast Bloody Rampage Bear, he could finally level up!
During their idle conversation, the car arrived at the flower-garden residential complex in the old city district where Li Ziyu lived.
Looking at the narrow, dilapidated, crowded, and pothole-riddled road illuminated by the headlights, Liu Youde's brows drew tightly together.
The champion of Xujiang City's Martial Arts Exam.
And quite possibly the champion of Su Province's Martial Arts Exam as well—a super-genius ranked within the national top ten.
He actually lived in such a remote, out-of-the-way place!?
If outsiders found out, wouldn't it make people look down on Xujiang City?
They would think Xujiang City had mistreated its talent!
A glint flashed through Liu Youde's eyes. It seemed he needed to make a suggestion to the city.
When they rewarded Li Ziyu, they had to include a villa!
"All right, Principal Liu, just drop me off here."
"The road ahead is too narrow for the car to enter. I can walk the rest of the way myself."
Li Ziyu said this to Liu Youde, refusing his kind offer to drive him all the way home.
He pushed open the door and got out. After reaching the entrance to the building, he followed the stairs upstairs.
At the window beside Li Ziyu's home, the neighbor, Fat Woman, yanked the curtains shut. Through the gap in the curtains, she watched the departing taillights:
"What a piece of trash. Is that brat next door, who nobody looks after, working as someone's driver now? He's disturbing people in the middle of the night."
"Tsk, this is what happens when you don't study properly. Fortunately, my son got into a martial arts university. His future is boundless!"
As Fat Woman spoke, she closed the curtains and returned to her living room.
A middle-aged man with dark, gaunt skin and a shifty, rat-like face sat on the living-room sofa.
He was holding a phone and making a call.
After the man hung up, Fat Woman quickly asked:
"You've informed all the relatives, right? Our son getting into a martial arts university is a heaven-sent fortune. We have to get all the relatives here and show off properly."
"They used to look down on us all the time. Hmph, now we can finally hold our heads high! I can't wait to see their envious faces! Hahaha!"
"Mm, everyone's been notified. Now all that's left is to book a hotel. But hotels are in high demand during the summer vacation, so I have to reserve one right away."
As he spoke, the man picked up his phone and was about to book a hotel.
Before he could begin, Fat Woman snatched the phone from him and launched into a furious tirade:
"Book a hotel, my foot! Do you think money grows on trees? Huh!? How can you waste it like that?"
"Doesn't that brat next door live alone? Just make him go out for one night when the time comes, and let our relatives stay in his place."
"Uh... Where will he stay?"
The man hesitated.
"I just saw a car come over. He's probably working as someone's driver right now. Just have him make do in the car for one night!"
"Our son got into a martial arts university. Being able to clear out a room for relatives of a martial arts university student is his honor."
"Don't worry about it. I'll tell him tomorrow!"
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