Blood Rage

"Is that the kid?"

Several hundred meters from the entrance of Xingcheng Secondary Vocational School, two men with elaborate tattoos covering their arms drank tea at a teahouse while sizing up Li Fei, who was resting at the teahouse across from them.

"Yeah, that's him."

"He's a relative of someone from the Overseeing Bureau. This could be tricky."

"Once it's done, we'll arrange for all the brothers involved to flee. There'll be travel money."

"Whoa, you're being pretty generous this time."

"The employer is generous."

"Fine, then. The request is to break one of his legs?"

"Right. It has to be done within the next few days."

"Sure."

"He's a student of the Conflict Mitigation Department and just won the Graduation Grand Exam championship. He's got some skill, so be careful. Don't let a gutter rat capsize your boat."

"Relax. He's not a martial artist. We'll get it done for you!"

After finishing their conversation, the two men put down their teacups, settled the bill, and left.

Across the street, Li Fei continued drinking his tea with a calm expression as he waited for his two friends to finish their exams.

At eleven in the morning, people began filing out of the vocational school gate. The entrance exams were over.

The results of the written exam would not be released for several days, but the results of the martial exam were given out on the spot.

Li Fei stood up, took out a coin worth five fen, and left it on the table before walking toward the gate.

A few minutes later, he saw Chen Lixin and Li Tianyu emerge together. Li Tianyu was the sort who could not hide anything; everything was written on her face. So the moment Li Fei saw her eyes dancing and her steps full of wind, he knew she had definitely passed.

Li Fei smiled and went to meet them.

"Looks like you passed."

"Of course!"

Li Tianyu laughed loudly, brimming with excitement.

Her dream was to become a female general of the Great Blue Dynasty. Now that she had successfully been admitted to the Conflict Mitigation Department at university, she was one step closer to that dream.

"Congratulations."

Li Fei was sincerely happy for her.

Then he looked at Chen Lixin. "You must have had no problem either, right?"

Chen Lixin said calmly, "The questions were rather difficult this year. I did all right, I suppose."

"You say you did all right every time, but whenever the results come out, you're always close to a perfect score."

Li Tianyu teased him with a laugh.

Chen Lixin shrugged, neither confirming nor denying it.

"Come on, let's have a drink and celebrate!"

Li Tianyu waved her arm and said with a smile.

"Let's go."

"Let's go!"

The three friends chatted and laughed as they went off to celebrate together.

On July 23, Li Fei trained as usual.

After finishing his afternoon qi circulation and resistance training, the Myriad Blood Bead finally leveled up:

Level: 4 2%
Blood Souls: 22

Blood Soul Skill: Blood Rage

This upgrade increased the number of Blood Souls by six.

With that, Li Fei could recover 2.2 Blood Souls each day. His recovery speed had finally surpassed his consumption rate, so he no longer had to worry about being unable to withstand the strain on his body.

What delighted Li Fei even more was that once his number of Blood Souls exceeded twenty, the Myriad Blood Bead underwent a new change and unlocked a Blood Soul Skill!

He immersed his consciousness in the Myriad Blood Bead and quickly understood how to use the newly unlocked Blood Soul Skill, Blood Rage:

Consume at least one Blood Soul to greatly increase the body's strength for one minute. The more Blood Souls consumed at once, the greater the increase in strength!

The growing number of Blood Souls made Li Fei increasingly capable of taking hits. Coupled with the fact that the martial technique he primarily cultivated was the Primal Chaos Overlord Body, his defense could practically be said to be maxed out. However, he was comparatively lacking on the offensive end.

Now that he had Blood Rage, he finally had a decent means of attacking.

Moreover, Blood Rage exchanged a greater increase in strength for a greater number of Blood Souls consumed. As his number of Blood Souls continued to grow, the skill's upper limit would keep increasing as well. It was a skill that could grow alongside Li Fei.

"Goodbye, teacher."

In a good mood, Li Fei left the Military Academy and ran home.

The route from the Military Academy to the Overseeing Bureau residential compound passed through a patch of woods. It was very secluded, with hardly anyone around.

As Li Fei ran through the small woods, five or six people suddenly stepped out from the forest ahead. Every one of them held an iron rod, and they watched him with mocking expressions.

Li Fei immediately stopped and glanced behind him. Sure enough, another five or six people had blocked his retreat, and they were likewise holding iron rods.

The man at the head was burly and had lost his left eye.

His name was Liu Wen, and his nickname was Blind Bear. He was the leader of the Bear Strength Gang in the east of the city.

The Bear Strength Gang was a gang that had risen recently over the past six months. On the surface, it seemed to have nothing to do with the Tiger Sabre Gang, but in reality, it was an affiliated gang cultivated by the Tiger Sabre Gang to handle dirty work that the latter found inconvenient to do.

Gangs like this would be wiped out by the Overseeing Bureau before long, only for new gangs to appear soon afterward.

The moment Liu Wen accepted this mission, he knew the Bear Strength Gang was going to be abandoned.

No matter what, after crippling the son of an Overseeing Bureau squad leader, the Bear Strength Gang would have no chance of continuing to exist in Xingcheng.

"I haven't even been gang leader for a full year, and now I have to get the hell out."

Liu Wen glared viciously at Li Fei ahead of him, a sinister flame rising in his heart. "Beat the hell out of him!"

At once, his underlings blocking Li Fei from both sides charged forward with their iron rods.

When Li Fei heard Liu Wen give the order, he decisively threw off the canvas shoulder bag he was carrying and turned to charge toward Liu Wen.

"He even knows to capture the ringleader first."

Liu Wen chuckled.

He was not worried about his own safety.

If it were one-on-one, bare-handed, he might truly be no match for this person who had won the Conflict Mitigation Department's Graduation Grand Exam championship at the vocational school.

But with more than a dozen underlings experienced in street fights wielding iron rods against an unarmed man, so long as the other side was not a martial artist, Liu Wen simply could not imagine him turning the tables!

"You look pretty upright and righteous. Today, I'll let you experience society's harsh schooling."

Liu Wen said this with a grin.

As his voice fell, five underlings carrying iron rods were already almost upon Li Fei. They raised their rods, ready to swing them down at any moment.

Yet Li Fei showed no sign of slowing down at all. It seemed he intended to keep charging straight into the attacks of these men!

"Just a reckless fool after all. So much for a champion."

The smile on Liu Wen's face grew broader, and he finally put his mind at ease.

Just as the two sides were about to collide, Li Fei suddenly pulled a packet from his trouser pocket and flung it hard in front of him.

He crushed open a paper packet filled with lime powder, sending white dust scattering toward the five men before him!

As he watched the lime burst through the air, the smile on Liu Wen's face froze. For a moment, he could not react.

What decent person carried a packet of lime powder around with him? Was this really the son of an Overseeing Bureau squad leader? Could he be the ace enforcer of some gang instead? Liu Wen's underlings had extensive street-fighting experience and were very familiar with tricks like throwing lime, so they reacted immediately, raising their hands in front of themselves and lowering their heads as they shut their eyes.

Taking advantage of this opening, Li Fei turned sideways and used the Mountain Shattering Stance with a step to forcibly crash through the men.

Liu Wen stared blankly as Li Fei, wearing an expression of righteousness, used lime to clear a path, smashed through several underlings, and charged toward him with the force of a fierce tiger!