Meanwhile!
Tens of thousands of light-years away from Dragon Star.
On a goblin planet the Alliance had designated as a "training zone"!
A young man of eighteen or nineteen stood silently on the ground, warily surveying his surroundings.
He was broad-shouldered and powerfully built, his muscles knotted like coiled ropes. He looked like an Iron Tower, and his rugged, chiseled face was remarkably clean-cut.
Roar!
Just then, dozens of hideous creatures charged toward him, roaring across the barren, dark-red earth!
"Goblins!"
Chen Xuan's dark eyes turned razor-sharp. He reached behind himself and drew a massive Alloy War Axe the size of a door!
"Get out of my way!"
Chen Xuan let out a thunderous shout, and his Blood Energy exploded!
Blood Energy Pressure of 14.8 swept across the battlefield!
Chen Xuan didn't dodge in the slightest. Like a runaway heavy truck, he barreled straight into the goblin horde!
Splurt!
His War Axe swept across, cutting three goblins with Blood Energy levels of 12 clean in half!
Green blood splattered across his chest.
Just then.
A particularly massive goblin with dark-brown skin and a Blood Energy level of 15.0 leaped high into the air, roaring!
The bone club in its hands crashed toward Chen Xuan's head with tremendous force!
Chen Xuan neither dodged nor retreated!
Mountain Collapse!
With even more ferocity, Chen Xuan gripped the axe in both hands and swung upward to meet the blow head-on!
Clang—!
A deafening crash erupted!
Shock waves churned through the air!
The goblin chieftain's bone club shattered on impact!
Chen Xuan's War Axe kept going, its momentum undiminished, and cleaved viciously into the goblin chieftain's chest!
Roar!
The goblin chieftain let out a dying howl.
Chen Xuan kicked its corpse hard, yanked out his War Axe, then flicked the blood from its blade.
"Just three more chieftains..."
"Bzzzz!"
Chen Xuan muttered to himself. Just then, the Combat Terminal on his wrist suddenly began vibrating.
It was a message from Rongguang City.
Chen Xuan frowned.
Hadn't he said not to disturb him during training?
He casually split a goblin that had tried to ambush him with a single axe swing.
Only then did Chen Xuan have a free hand to open the message.
It was a message from Eighth Martial High.
They'd specifically recruited him!
To keep him by Su Qingning's side and observe her!
"Brother Xuan, this is bad! Something huge has happened!"
"A new student named Jiang Hao just showed up at Eighth Martial High!"
"He got B-Class Treatment as soon as he was promoted!"
"Most importantly!"
"This afternoon, Sister-in-law went out of her way to talk to that Jiang Hao!"
"She even told him he could come to her anytime if he had questions about his training!"
"Brother Xuan! The whole school's buzzing about it now!"
"Everyone's saying Sister-in-law might have her eye on Jiang Hao!"
"If you don't come back soon..."
The message ended there.
Crack!
After reading it, Chen Xuan's clean-cut, rugged face instantly darkened.
"Jiang Hao?"
A bone-chilling coldness erupted from his towering frame!
The goblins around him seemed to sense his terrifying killing intent. They actually recoiled in unison!
A razor-sharp glint flashed in Chen Xuan's eyes!
Su Qingning!
She was the woman Chen Xuan had already claimed for himself!
In all of Rongguang City!
Only Chen Xuan, the Prodigy ranked second, was worthy of pursuing the number-one girl!
He had come to this high-risk star region to train like a madman and fight through bloodshed!
His goal was to break through the 15.0 Blood Energy threshold!
Once he returned, he would stand before Su Qingning openly, as the strongest!
But now!
He'd been gone for only seven or eight days!
And some nobody who'd crawled out of nowhere!
Dared to lay a hand on the woman he wanted?
"Looking to die!"
Chen Xuan's chest heaved violently!
"Looks like I'll have to end this combat exercise early!"
"I'm going back to see for myself!"
"This guy Qingning went out of her way to look after!"
"What kind of person is he, anyway?"
Chen Xuan spun around, his sharp eyes locking onto the three goblin chieftains gathering in the distance!
"Kill!"
Chen Xuan let out a roar even more ferocious than the goblins'!
He had to clear the area immediately!
Then head back!
Over on Jiang Hao's side.
He naturally had no idea he'd already caught the attention of Rongguang City's second-ranked Prodigy.
At that moment, the Jiang Family was basking in overwhelming joy.
"B-Class Treatment?"
When Jiang Keke told Jiang Chuanning and Shen Man the news in a dazed, dreamlike voice,
"Clatter."
The chopsticks Shen Man had been about to use to pick up food slipped from her hand and hit the table.
Jiang Chuanning's hand, which had just lifted his wineglass, jolted too, spilling wine everywhere!
"B-Class?"
"Five bottles of Medium-grade Nutrient Solution a month!"
Jiang Chuanning's voice went up several pitches!
As a Martial Artist, he knew exactly what that meant!
That was worth fifty thousand Alliance Coins!
"Xiao Hao..."
After her initial shock, Shen Man's eyes immediately reddened. Excited, she grabbed Jiang Hao's hand.
"My son has made something of himself!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Jiang Chuanning slapped his thigh and burst into laughter!
"Good, good, good!"
"Just what I'd expect from my son!"
"B-Class! He's just entered the Key Class, and he's already B-Class!"
The couple were completely bowled over by this enormous surprise!
They'd thought even D-Class would be a blessing.
No, just passing would have been great!
B-Class was beyond anything they'd ever dared to imagine!
Jiang Keke stood to the side, pouting as she stared at her brother like he was some kind of monster.
"Mom, Dad, you have no idea."
"My brother's really something now."
"Su Qingning... Our Eighth Martial High's Campus Belle, Su, even went out of her way to strike up a conversation with him!"
"Oh?"
Shen Man and Jiang Chuanning were stunned all over again.
Then they began asking questions!
The family was laughing and chatting happily, filling the whole house with joy.
Meanwhile.
At a private martial arts gym in Rongguang City, decorated in an extremely rugged style.
The "Azure Dragon Martial Arts Hall."
Inside a Gravity Chamber.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The muffled impacts rang out without end.
A young man nearly two meters tall, with muscles like cast iron, was furiously pounding a specially made punching bag.
He was Zhao Wuji, ranked third in the Key Class at Eighth Martial High.
His Blood Energy was 12.0!
"Bzz."
The terminal hanging on the wall vibrated.
Zhao Wuji slowly lowered his fists and exhaled a mouthful of Turbid Qi.
He picked up a towel, wiped away his sweat, and opened the message.
The moment he saw the rumor about "Su Qingning striking up a conversation with B-Class freshman Jiang Hao," his brows drew together!
"Hmph!"
Zhao Wuji let out a cold snort!
"Jiang Hao?"
"B-Class Treatment?"
He'd had important business to handle at the gym today, so he'd missed school!
He hadn't expected this!
In just one day!
Something like this had happened at school!
A flicker of displeasure crossed Zhao Wuji's eyes.
His admiration for Su Qingning was pure—the admiration of one strong person for another!
She was the goal he strove toward!
He couldn't stand this sort of gossip, sullying the place Su Qingning held in his heart!
"That Lin Fan!"
"Is he completely useless?!"
Zhao Wuji was furious.
"As the Key Class's second-ranked student, he just let a B-Class freshman stir up all this trouble on assessment day?"
"He even let him get close to Su Qingning?"
Zhao Wuji felt Lin Fan had seriously neglected his duties. He flung the towel viciously to the floor!
"Looks like..."
"I can't count on Lin Fan."
"Tomorrow, I'll go meet this B-Class genius named Jiang Hao myself!"
"Let's see what he's really made of!"
With that, Zhao Wuji turned around and plunged back into his furious training in the Gravity Chamber!
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