Martial Arts Mastery, Savage Beast Slaughter

The ten Ninth-grade Fighting Beasts surged out of the gates, some slowly, others unable to wait another second.

Jiang Li swept his gaze over them. Before his eyes stood five different kinds of enormous creatures, each one a hulking behemoth no smaller than the Giant Lynx.

Jackals, oxen, wolves, pythons, and mastiffs.

From the original owner's memories, Jiang Li was able to match each of the ten strange beasts to their descriptions in the textbooks.

Three Ninth-grade Black-Haired Wolves with fur like needles, two Green-Scaled Pythons, two Ninth-grade Mastiff Beasts, two Cunning Jackals, and one Blood-Red Ox.

After leaving the gates, the ten beasts all let out low growls at one another in warning. But soon, they caught the scent of the Beast Luring Orchid, and their gazes gradually fixed upon Jiang Li.

They had already killed, trampled, and devoured plenty of humans within this Beast Fighting Arena.

So in their eyes, Jiang Li had become an incomparably tempting prey.

The three Black-Haired Wolves in particular were already raring to go, their ghostly green eyes brimming with greed and hunger for prey.

Jiang Li remained calm. Having experienced his previous battle with the Giant Lynx, he was even more steady now.

He gripped the saber hilt in one hand, making no move to attack.

BANG!

With a thunderous crash, the three Black-Haired Wolves lunged at him almost in unison. The explosive power of Ninth-grade beasts was like that of speeding cars as they charged toward Jiang Li.

Cries of alarm immediately rose from the audience, while others held their breath and stared without blinking at the scene.

"Could this participant have been scared stupid?"

Seeing Jiang Li standing motionless where he was, someone could not help but laugh.

The Black-Haired Wolves were already right before him. Those hair-raising claws and fangs would surely tear a body of flesh and blood to pieces in an instant.

At the critical moment, Jiang Li moved.

It was not that he was being overconfident. Rather, according to the Wind Severing Saber Technique, the three Black-Haired Wolves had entered the perfect attack range.

Thirty-five years of bitter cultivation reached its pinnacle at this moment.

Without a sound, the sharp blade in Jiang Li's hand left its sheath. All anyone saw was a flash of cold light, like a thin white line sweeping past the three Black-Haired Wolves. Then Jiang Li was already standing behind them.

SPLURT! SPLURT! SPLURT!

Behind him, blood erupted from the three Black-Haired Wolves as they crashed to the ground like three massive stones, kicking up dust amid dull booms.

Jiang Li slowly exhaled, but this was only the beginning.

Behind the three Black-Haired Wolves, a gigantic ox with blood-red fur and a mountain-like body came charging into Jiang Li's sight.

Within its scarlet eyes, Jiang Li saw his own reflection.

Jiang Li stepped forward again. With that step, he leaped high into the air and actually appeared above the Blood-Red Ox. At the same time, he gripped the saber with both hands and brought it down in a fierce slash.

With one slash, he split sinew and bone, carved through flesh and blood, like a master butcher disassembling an ox.

The Blood-Red Ox possessed a colossal body and astonishing strength, but the saber in Jiang Li's hand was equally sharp beyond compare.

With the Wind Severing Saber Technique perfected, both his speed and strength had reached the pinnacle of the ninth grade.

BOOM! The Blood-Red Ox fell at once. Jiang Li sprang from its corpse, turning into a dark shadow as he shot toward the two Mastiff Beasts.

SPLURT! SPLURT!

Likewise, wherever his figure passed, saber light descended, and the two Mastiff Beasts dropped to the ground.

Everything had flowed as smoothly as drifting clouds and running water. By the time Jiang Li stood in the Beast Fighting Arena, only four of the ten powerful fighting beasts remained.

Every spectator stared at Jiang Li as if they were looking at a monster.

For a moment, they could not even tell who the real strange beast was.

Since this underground Beast Fighting Arena had opened, it had never encountered anyone like Jiang Li.

In the back area, a cold-faced man watched the scene with a slight frown.

"What a Wind Severing Saber Technique. He has actually cultivated it to such a level."

"Looks like this kid intends to make a name for himself in my, Lin Yuanliang's, arena."

These strange beasts had all been captured by men he sent out. Including the cost of raising them, every single one had cost at least three hundred thousand.

How much did this Jiang Li even owe? Yet he had already caused Lin Yuanliang such enormous losses.

"Go make preparations. Put that freak we captured last month into the gate."

"Since he wants to become famous in my arena, then I'll add some fuel to the fire for him."

Lin Yuanliang sneered, narrowing his eyes slightly.

Suddenly, a cool voice sounded from behind him. "That thing from last month—you mean that Ghost-Faced Giant Spider?"

"Even Eighth-grade Martial Artists find that thing troublesome. Are you trying to get him killed?"

Hearing the cold yet pleasant voice behind him, Lin Yuanliang shot to his feet.

"Lingfei, why are you here?" His attitude made a complete one-eighty as he turned to the graceful young woman behind him with an indulgent smile.

Lin Lingfei ignored her brother. She set the mask in her hand aside and stared intently at the screen.

If Jiang Li were here, he would surely recognize that the blade in her hand belonged to Lin Lingfei.

Inside the Beast Fighting Arena, Jiang Li had slain six exotic beasts in succession.

But his stamina was also draining rapidly. Although he had cultivated the Hundred Battles Art to mastery, it was ultimately only an ordinary public cultivation technique, offering limited improvement to his qi and blood.

"The cultivation technique's grade is too low. If the original owner had spent all his money on himself these past years, his technique would have risen several tiers by now."

Jiang Li thought this, but the scent of the Beast Luring Orchid and the stench of blood had long since made the two Green-Scaled Pythons and Cunning Jackals before him unable to hold back.

A massive black shadow had already appeared before Jiang Li.

The Green-Scaled Python was even faster than the previous six exotic beasts.

Jiang Li suddenly stepped forward, evading the Green-Scaled Python's fangs. Where he had just stood was immediately smashed into a deep pit by the python's head.

Close behind it, the second Green-Scaled Python had also lunged in to kill.

He slashed it back with one stroke, blocking the attack. At that moment, he was suspended in midair with nowhere to brace himself, while the two Cunning Jackals that had endured in wait for so long closed in from both sides.

Jiang Li fell freely through the air and slowly exhaled.

He gripped his treasured blade, and an indescribable aura suddenly emerged around him.

At that moment, he seemed to stand amid endless raging winds, alone with a single blade as he descended from the sky.

The next instant, Jiang Li opened his eyes. Divine light spilled from them as the blade in his hand surged forth. With a single slash, he severed the head of one Cunning Jackal.

Then, borrowing that force, his body rose in midair, and he swung his blade again.

The second Cunning Jackal's head dropped with a swish beneath the snow-white blade light.

After landing, Jiang Li sprang up and slashed at the green scales. At first, sparks flickered faintly; moments later, the blade tip pierced through, cutting into the Green-Scaled Python's body.

Seeing the second Green-Scaled Python attack, Jiang Li suddenly exerted force, forcibly sweeping the blade in his hand sideways. It carved out a great spray of blood as he met the second Green-Scaled Python's gaping maw head-on.

Man and python wrestled within the Beast Fighting Arena.

Unprecedented savagery and killing intent erupted from Jiang Li's eyes.

"Die!"

He gripped the blade with both hands, his feet driving into the ground. At that moment, all the strength in his body gathered in his arms.

Bang!

As he stepped forward and rose, the treasured blade in his hand forcibly shattered the Green-Scaled Python's fangs from within its mouth and cleaved into its jaws.

Then, the Green-Scaled Python's head was forcibly split into upper and lower halves.

Another dull thud rang out as the corpse of the final fighting beast, the Green-Scaled Python, collapsed. Jiang Li stood with his blade in hand, breathing heavily and rapidly.

Yet at that moment, within the deathly silent Beast Fighting Arena, everyone looked at Jiang Li as if they were witnessing a miracle.

This included the middle-aged man from Qingbei Martial School and Old Lin.

Jiang Li held his blade, specks of beast blood staining his body. He turned to glance at the ten exotic beast corpses, and a surge of exhilaration rose within him.

This battle had not merely slain ten exotic beasts—it had also cut away the uncertainty and fear in his heart since crossing over.

With bright eyes and white teeth, Jiang Li spoke each word like a nail, his voice resounding like thunder in everyone's ears.

"Ten exotic beasts. Nothing more than that."