Xu Mengyao's Bewilderment, Hunting Outside the City!

Xu Mengyao had already made up her mind to send Li Ziyu's test results to the class group chat and spread them far and wide.

She wanted to make Li Ziyu lose face.

"Let's go. An ordinary person isn't worth getting angry over. Let's go take our test."

Bai Haoran said calmly from beside her.

Xu Mengyao nodded, and the two of them walked into the room where Li Ziyu had just tested.

The testing machines all had records that could be queried. Anything below Level 1 Martial Artist wasn't confidential, so everything could be looked up.

Xu Mengyao watched as Bai Haoran sat down in the testing machine.

She had originally put Li Ziyu's matter out of her mind.

But for some inexplicable reason, she spoke to Bai Haoran in a soft, coaxing tone.

"Bai, since we're already here, why not pull up Li Ziyu's qi and blood test record and take a look? It'll boost our confidence."

"Is that really necessary?"

Bai Haoran frowned.

But seeing Xu Mengyao's pitiful expression, he ultimately couldn't refuse a beauty's request.

He could only helplessly reach out and swipe on the screen in front of him, pulling up the test record.

As he did, he muttered helplessly.

"Didn't you say his qi and blood was only 0.8 when he tested yesterday?"

"It's barely been a day. There's no way his qi and blood could have changed."

"With 0.8 qi and blood, no matter how much he trains, it's too late. He's not even in the same class as us anymore. I really don't know why you still bother with him... Huh?"

But before he could finish, Bai Haoran's voice stopped, and he let out a surprised grunt.

Bai Haoran's brows furrowed, and he looked up at Xu Mengyao with a puzzled expression, asking curiously:

"Are you sure Li Ziyu's qi and blood test result yesterday was 0.8?"

"I'm sure. We're in the same class. He tested right after me. I saw it clearly. What's wrong, Bai Haoran?"

"See for yourself."

Bai Haoran said, moving aside. Xu Mengyao stood up and leaned in to look, then her expression froze.

"0.92 qi and blood? How is that possible?"

"Could this be someone else's??"

"Li Ziyu just came out, and we walked right in. There's no one else."

Xu Mengyao was stunned, her mind struggling to process it.

She even started to wonder if she had misread the result yesterday.

After all, increasing qi and blood by 0.1 in a single day was practically impossible.

If he could increase that much, Li Ziyu might very well reach the qi and blood threshold for a martial arts university within a week.

"Could the machine be broken? I'll go find someone to check."

Thinking back to how Li Ziyu had acted toward her today, combined with the change in his qi and blood, Xu Mengyao felt a strange sensation rising in her heart.

According to what she'd read online, there was a type of genius whose qi and blood might be very low normally, but they just awakened late. Once they did, their strength would skyrocket.

Li Ziyu... couldn't he be that kind of genius the internet talked about?

Without waiting for Bai Haoran's response, Xu Mengyao, as if to verify something, quickly turned and walked out the door.

Outside the door, at the front desk, a bald, burly man was spitting as he bragged to the pretty receptionist.

He had a massive build, broad-shouldered and thick-waisted.

As he flattered the receptionist, he leered at her with a sleazy look.

If there weren't security cameras in the store, he probably would have already made a move.

The receptionist barely suppressed her irritation, responding to the bald man in a half-hearted manner.

His name was Niu Dali.

He was a coach at Hongsu Martial Arts Hall.

He was notoriously lecherous and had privately messaged her several times asking her out, but she had always refused.

If it weren't for the fact that he was a Peak Level 1 Martial Artist, and she was just an ordinary person who couldn't afford to offend him...

The pretty shop assistant had probably been angry for a while.

"Front desk, it looks like one of the testing machines here is broken. Could someone come take a look?"

Just then, Xu Mengyao walked out of the testing room and called out to the front desk.

The pretty shop assistant was about to respond.

But before she could, Niu Dali spoke up first, putting on a serious and upright expression, looking like an expert as he walked toward Xu Mengyao.

"Let me take a look."

A moment later.

"This testing machine isn't broken. That situation you mentioned—your classmate probably ran into some kind of lucky encounter."

"Classmates, you're students from nearby, right?"

"You're about to take the Martial Arts Exam. Why not sign up for a crash course here?"

"Only a hundred thousand, and I guarantee you'll reach a higher level before the exam and get into a good martial arts university!"

As Niu Dali checked the equipment, he flexed his strong muscles.

And showed them his Peak Level 1 Martial Artist badge.

"We'll think about it."

Bai Haoran was a bit tempted.

But he didn't agree right away.

A hundred thousand wasn't cheap—even with his family background, he had to consider it.

"Alright, add me on Feixin. If you need anything, come find me anytime. I'm a Peak Level 1 Martial Artist—I won't screw you over."

Niu Dali didn't push.

He took out his phone, added them on Feixin, then turned and left the testing room.

Before leaving, he deliberately closed the door behind him and gave Bai Haoran a meaningful look that any man would understand.

After Niu Dali left, Xu Mengyao also tested her own blood vitality on the machine.

It had increased by 0.02—the result of Bai Haoran giving her some blood-replenishing medicine after she latched onto him.

Otherwise, with her ordinary family background, she couldn't afford those blood-replenishing herbs.

Though her blood vitality had risen, Xu Mengyao couldn't bring herself to be happy.

Now Li Ziyu's blood vitality had increased, and he might even get into a martial arts university.

And the way Li Ziyu had looked at her just now made her feel a sense of loss.

"Forget it, I won't think about it."

"Even if Li Ziyu gets into a martial arts university, it'll be the worst one. He definitely can't compare to Bai Haoran."

"After all, Bai Haoran is about to take the Level 1 Martial Artist exam. As long as I hold onto him tightly, my future development will definitely be better than following Li Ziyu."

Leaving Bai Haoran's Martial Arts Hall, Li Ziyu didn't go home.

He was an orphan—as far back as he could remember, he had never seen his parents.

His only family was his aunt's household.

Now that he had the system, the top priority was to quickly raise his blood vitality.

After all, having blood vitality on your side made you feel like you could run like the wind, with endless strength in your body—it was way too satisfying.

"Killing mosquitoes, cockroaches, rats, and the like—it's too slow for raising blood vitality."

"And those things only show up in the sewers. Disgusting."

"I remember there are plenty of unranked ferocious beasts, red-eyed rabbits, by the city wall. I'll go hunt those!"

On the way out just now, he had tested over a dozen species.

From small ones like ants and cockroaches to bigger ones like spiders and rats, he tried them all.

The increase in blood vitality was negligible.

He didn't know if it was because his blood vitality had gone up and these creatures weren't qualified anymore, or what.

Either way, the gains weren't as much as at the start.

The key issue was that with modern technology and good urban sanitation, these things weren't easy to find either.

"Too bad Xujiang City's slaughterhouse uses mechanized slaughter. Otherwise, that place would be paradise for my improvement!"

Li Ziyu sighed and quickened his pace toward the city wall.

He had seen red-eyed rabbits before.

They were called ferocious beasts, but they were more like mutated rabbits.

Aside from having slightly redder eyes than normal rabbits, being more irritable, and having stronger reproductive abilities, they were basically no different from ordinary rabbits.

An ordinary person could kill one with just a stick.

Let alone him, a martial arts student.

When he was almost at the city wall, Li Ziyu ducked into a sporting goods store.

With the last of his money, he bought a steel blade and a sack, then headed to the wall.