"Chu Han is withdrawing from Third High School? Is that for real?"
"Has he gone mad? Even if he was treated unfairly, he shouldn't withdraw from school. Since he's innocent, why not wait for the investigation results?"
"The Martial Arts Grand Examination is just around the corner. If he withdraws now, how will he register for it?"
The entire venue erupted into an uproar. No one could understand Chu Han's decision.
Everyone knew that leaving the school meant losing the simplest opportunity to register for the Martial Arts Grand Examination.
If he wasn't a student, then unless he was recommended by some major figure in the martial arts world, he would have to register as a martial artist from society.
But registering as a martial artist from society was extremely difficult. He would have to compete with many genuine martial artists, and the quotas were limited, with nearly all of them already reserved in advance.
After leaving the school, Chu Han's chances of taking the examination were incredibly slim!
If he couldn't enter Martial Arts University, it would be fatal to a martial artist's development.
No matter how unfair and humiliating it felt, he shouldn't have made such a choice. It was simply far too unwise.
When the principal heard Chu Han's words, he was slightly stunned before sneering. "Chu Han, I advise you to think this through carefully. Once you leave Third High School, it won't be so easy to come back."
Chu Han let out a cold laugh. "I've already thought it through. From this moment onward, I am no longer a student of Third High School."
With that, he turned and walked off the arena.
"Hmph. I hope you won't regret this."
The principal had no intention of trying to stop him.
As the principal, he could not allow himself to be threatened by a student.
Besides, no matter how powerful Chu Han was, he still lacked talent. Third High School had no reason to keep him.
"Childish!"
Li Mengran's face was filled with cold contempt and relief. With Chu Han leaving the school, her first-place position was as secure as Mount Tai.
And with Chu Han losing his eligibility to apply for the Martial Arts Grand Examination, he was destined to become mediocre in the future. The two of them would never cross paths again.
Even if Chu Han managed to take the examination through other means, the universities would shut their doors on him during admissions because of his lack of talent!
Chu Han paid no attention to the surrounding discussions and confusion.
He first returned to the statistics desk and collected the materials he had obtained. There was no way he would leave them for the school.
Then, carrying those materials, he went to the trading center in the base city.
There, he encountered several soldiers he had rescued in the wilderness.
As it happened, those men had been looking for him too.
"Brother Chu, you came at just the right time. All the materials of yours have already been transported here. You can check them," Captain Wang said warmly, handing him an electronic wristband.
The electronic wristband was specially designed for martial artists. Besides proving a person's identity, it could also record materials transported to the trading center.
That way, there was no need to go through the trouble of carrying large and small packages to the trading counter.
As long as one brought the wristband, one could conduct a transaction. Once the transaction succeeded, the materials would automatically be placed into storage.
Chu Han took the wristband and first completed his real-name authentication on it.
His information was thereby entered into the nationwide martial artist trading platform through the wristband. In the future, he would not need to verify his identity again at other trading centers.
He glanced over the materials and smiled. "Thank you, everyone."
"Alright, then. Manager Du will handle the transaction with you."
Captain Wang pointed to a middle-aged man beside him who wore gold-rimmed glasses, then led the others out of the trading center.
The middle-aged man greeted him first and extended his hand to Chu Han. "Hello, Mr. Chu. My name is Du Kun, and I'll be handling your transaction."
Chu Han shook his hand as well. "Then I'll trouble you, Manager Du."
Du Kun waved his hand. "What trouble? Mr. Chu, you're a young genius. You've truly astonished me. It's my honor to serve you."
Du Kun had dealt with martial artists for more than twenty years, and his greatest talent was judging people.
When he learned that a student had killed over a hundred Black Stone Scorpions and a Tier 1 Mutated Black Stone Scorpion alone, he had taken the initiative to request this transaction with Chu Han.
Now that he had seen Chu Han in person—and had just learned that Chu Han had defeated a Tier 2 martial artist in public—he was even more certain that Chu Han was no ordinary man.
For someone like this, if one wanted to build a relationship with him, one had to do so before he gained momentum!
Du Kun understood this better than anyone.
"Manager Du, you're too kind. I still have quite a few other materials here that need to be traded as well. I'm afraid there isn't enough room here."
Chu Han got straight to the point.
He intended to sell all the materials on him, including those in his spatial ring.
Hearing this, Du Kun was first stunned, then wildly delighted. "This way. We have a dedicated trading room."
Chu Han followed Du Kun into a trading room.
The room was enormous, large enough to hold all kinds of massive prey.
"Mr. Chu, if I'm not mistaken, you have spatial equipment on you, don't you?" Du Kun asked tentatively.
Chu Han nodded without denying it.
As a professional trading manager, Du Kun kept his clients' information strictly confidential. He was not worried about revealing that he possessed spatial equipment.
"Excellent! Whatever other materials you want to sell, you can take them all out."
Du Kun was overjoyed, filled with anticipation for Chu Han's materials.
Mr. Chu Han took out the corpses of sixty-six Black Stone Scorpions.
Du Kun was somewhat astonished. Being able to fit so many Black Stone Scorpion corpses meant that Chu Han's spatial equipment had a very large capacity.
Next, Chu Han took out the corpses of the Corrupt Dog King and the Tusk Pig.
"I'll keep the thigh meat from this Tusk Pig. Sell the rest," Chu Han said.
"These are the corpses of two Tier 1 mutated beasts, and both are among the strongest species of Tier 1 mutated beasts!"
Du Kun immediately cried out in alarm.
"Mr. Chu, the surprises you've given me are simply too great. Your strength is even more shocking!"
Du Kun had never imagined that Chu Han's strength would be so terrifying.
Defeating a 2nd Rank Martial Artist had merely been a martial artist's spar, whereas killing mutated beasts was a life-and-death struggle. It proved Chu Han's strength even more conclusively.
Chu Han smiled faintly. "We're not done yet."
"Not done yet? Could it be that you have even higher-grade materials?!"
"Of course."
Du Kun felt his breathing grow somewhat rapid as he stared fixedly at the empty space in front of Chu Han.
The next moment, white light flashed.
A colossal creature over twenty meters long appeared in the empty space, instantly filling the trading room.
When Du Kun saw the true form of the enormous creature, his entire body shot up from his seat.
"This... This... This is the corpse of a Red Scale Python! An intact Red Scale Python!"
Du Kun's excited voice changed pitch, becoming almost hysterical.
"This is simply too shocking! I haven't seen an intact Red Scale Python corpse in over two years, let alone personally handled a transaction for one!"
An intact Red Scale Python corpse was valuable from head to toe. Every single scale was immensely precious, making it a rare treasure!
Although it was a Tier 2 mutated beast, its value even surpassed that of a Tier 3 mutated beast!
"Mr. Chu, how did you obtain this corpse?"
"I killed it."
Those five short words brimmed with confidence and unquestionable certainty.
"You killed it? This..."
Du Kun's mind crashed once again.
To kill a 2nd Rank Red Scale Python, one had to be at least Tier 3. Even if someone beat him to death, he would never believe that Chu Han could have done it.
But none of that mattered. What mattered was that Chu Han had obtained such an extraordinarily rare corpse!
He also possessed spatial equipment of such a level, along with strength far beyond that of his peers.
Du Kun began to suspect that Chu Han was the heir of some great lineage, and he resolved to build a good relationship with Chu Han.
"Forgive me for losing my composure. Since Mr. Chu has chosen to trust me, I'll calculate the value of all your materials."
Du Kun calmed himself and began tallying all of Chu Han's materials.
With the assistance of a smart optical computer, he quickly entered Chu Han's various materials into the transaction records.
Before long, an electronic display appeared on Chu Han's wristband.
It recorded the price and quantity of each type of material.
Black Stone Scorpion tail stingers, 1,000 Federal currency, quantity: 146 Corrupt Dog fangs, 500 Federal currency, quantity: 62 Black Stone Scorpion corpses, 3,000 Federal currency, quantity: 146 Mutated Black Stone Scorpion tail stinger, 20,000 Federal currency, quantity: 1 Mutated Black Stone Scorpion corpse, 50,000 Federal currency, quantity: 1 Corrupt Dog King corpse, 60,000 Federal currency, quantity: 1 Tusk Pig corpse, 50,000 Federal currency, quantity: 1 Red Scale Python corpse, 3,000,000 Federal currency, quantity: 1 Total: 3.795 million Federal currency!
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