Wang Haixuan Appears

Compared to Liu Tianyu, Mu Qing's current points were nothing.

He guessed that Liu Tianyu had probably done more than target students from the three campuses. He had also started hunting some packs of beasts; otherwise, he wouldn't have so many points.

The Ape Nest was likely his next target.

Mu Qing's gaze moved down the list. To his surprise, Wang Haixuan was in tenth place, with over 1,100 points, while Song Yalan ranked sixteenth, with more than 800.

His expression immediately turned grave.

"Why are Wang Haixuan and Song Yalan ranked so high?" Ling Fei and Jiang Yuanjie cried out. They had both accumulated three hundred points, activating the rankings on their Recorders.

Ji Jia and Yang Shanshan came over to look at the rankings.

They were still a little short on points.

"From the way Liu Tianyu gathered the North Campus students to raid the other three campuses, he must be an extremely domineering person. Right now, he has the top ten spots under his control!" Mu Qing nodded and spoke quietly.

"But now Wang Haixuan has made the top ten, and even Song Yalan, whose strength is relatively weak, has reached sixteenth place. It's clear Wang Haixuan has reached an agreement with Liu Tianyu and is cooperating with him somehow!"

Electric arcs flickered in Mu Qing's eyes. After sorting through the clues, he concluded that there was some connection between Wang Haixuan and Liu Tianyu.

"We're all still around ninetieth place. Our rankings are too low, but raiding North Campus teams could raise them quickly!" Ling Fei said.

A series of raids had pushed his points past three hundred in a short time. He had clearly gotten a taste for it.

Everyone nodded, realizing that the only way to break into the top ten was to raid the North Campus students for points.

To enter the top ten, Mu Qing needed more than nine hundred points. It would be difficult to get that many by hunting beasts!

Unless Mu Qing and the others had the entire North Campus behind them, like Liu Tianyu did, they couldn't easily take down packs of beasts and earn a large number of points.

"Besides that team of ten nearby, there are two other teams: one of six people and one of four," Jiang Yuanjie said quietly.

He had spent a long time sensing their surroundings, and sweat had begun to bead on his forehead. Staying so intensely focused for so long had left him feeling tired.

"Let's deal with those two nearby teams first, then go find the team of ten!" Mu Qing said after thinking it over.

According to Jiang Yuanjie's perception, the team of ten didn't have any especially powerful auras, which meant there were no Sixth Rank experts. But they still had a lot of people, and a fight would inevitably cause a commotion. So they had to make sure there weren't any other teams nearby before they acted!

Everyone nodded in agreement with Mu Qing's plan.

The next moment, Mu Qing and the others followed Jiang Yuanjie toward the team of six.

Before long, they had set an ambush and attacked the team.

Although the other side had six people, their overall strength was even weaker than the team they'd encountered earlier. Mu Qing and the others caught them by surprise and dealt with them in an instant. They only seized a little over ten points.

North Campus students lay scattered beneath their feet. Some were blackened all over, while others were covered in wounds and bleeding profusely.

To get it over with quickly, everyone had used their best martial skills. Jiang Yuanjie's Mount Tai Press had even crushed his opponent's bones.

As Mu Qing took down his opponents, he noticed that Ji Jia's Blood Spirit was an ancient bronze-colored sword. It was mottled with rust, yet divine light swirled around it, making it quite bizarre.

She used a finger technique, seemingly wielding her fingers like a sword. When she performed it, she could even pierce through trees. It was a fearsome Advanced Martial Skill.

Yang Shanshan's Blood Spirit, on the other hand, was rather strange: a translucent portal that flickered in and out of sight. Beyond it lay utter darkness, and staring into it for too long sent a chill down one's spine.

The martial skill Yang Shanshan used was also a fist technique, just like Mu Qing's. Strange fluctuations emanated from it, making its attribute impossible to discern, but its power was undeniably formidable. It was clearly another Advanced Martial Skill.

Ji Jia and Yang Shanshan both came from influential families. They could get their hands on martial skills far more precious than Advanced Martial Skills, but before becoming Martial Practitioners, they could only cultivate Advanced Martial Skills at most.

Thanks to some money his father had left him, Mu Qing had also bought an Advanced Martial Skill. It was near the bottom of its class, but its power was still impressive.

Jiang Yuanjie and Ling Fei, meanwhile, still used Intermediate Martial Skills.

The North Campus students lying on the ground were all seriously injured, but none of them had died.

After all, this was only a mock exam. Everything they did was being recorded, and all their actions took place under the teachers' watchful eyes.

They could only knock their opponents unconscious. If anyone's life was truly in danger, the teachers would step in to stop it.

The teachers would take care of anyone Mu Qing and the others knocked out. They didn't need to do anything except crush their Recorders to eliminate them.

"There was some commotion over there just now!"

A voice came from nearby. Then a series of footsteps sounded.

Jiang Yuanjie closed his eyes and sensed the area. "It's the team of four! Wait, one of them has an especially powerful aura. He's at the Blood Qi Sixth Rank!"

His expression shifted.

Earlier, because the team had been so far away, he could barely sense the number of auras.

As the other team drew closer, Jiang Yuanjie could now roughly gauge how strong each aura was.

"Blood Qi Sixth Rank?"

Everyone's expressions tightened slightly. Anyone at the Blood Qi Sixth Rank was an expert.

But when they heard from Jiang Yuanjie that only one person in the team seemed especially powerful, possibly at the Blood Qi Sixth Rank, they relaxed and didn't think much of it.

After all, their side had four experts at the Blood Qi Sixth Rank. Although Mu Qing was still at the Blood Qi Fifth Rank, his performance was already on par with Sixth Rank experts.

"Good. A student at the Blood Qi Sixth Rank must be carrying a lot of points!" Excitement flickered in Mu Qing's eyes.

Their rankings were still far too low, and the top ten seemed a long way off. Now, a fat sheep had come right to them. Maybe it could send one of them soaring more than ten places up the rankings!

"Hide!" Mu Qing said, lowering himself and slipping into the woods.

The others hid themselves as well.

Taking advantage of the moment, Ling Fei dragged the six unconscious students aside and covered them with weeds.

Their auras gradually faded, like venomous snakes lying in wait in the darkness, ready to launch a devastating attack on whoever came.

"Strange. I clearly saw something happen in this direction just now."

One of the four approaching students spoke.

"Something's not right. I can smell something burnt and the stench of blood!" said their leader, a student at the Blood Qi Sixth Rank. His voice made Mu Qing and the others freeze for a moment, struck by a sense of familiarity.

"Wang, why don't we meet up with Song Yalan and the others? They're nearby, and there are ten of them!"

"Yeah. A lot of our brothers have been eliminated, so we can only rely on Liu Tianyu. But I don't think Liu Tianyu has good intentions. It's better if we stay together!"

Those words reached Mu Qing and the others, making their hearts jump.

The team that had arrived was Wang Haixuan's!

For some reason, some of their people had been eliminated, leaving only a dozen or so. Four were here with Wang Haixuan in the lead, while the team of ten Jiang Yuanjie had sensed earlier must have been Song Yalan and the others.

"Don't worry. I've reached an agreement with Liu Tianyu. He won't do anything to us, and he'll even give us three spots in the top ten." Wang Haixuan waved a hand, though a trace of hatred showed on his face.

It was hatred for Mu Qing.

Earlier, Mu Qing and Ling Fei had lured the Gray Wolf Pack toward them. Wang Haixuan had been furious, but he had thought his group could handle the wolves on their own and earn a large number of points by killing them.

However, after Wang Haixuan killed three Fifth Rank gray wolves, a pack of Sixth Rank wolves attacked. There were more than ten of them. And once those dozen Sixth Rank gray wolves had appeared, a terrifying giant wolf at the Blood Qi Seventh Rank had emerged as well.

That force was almost as powerful as the Ape Nest Liu Tianyu had set his sights on. How could they possibly stand against it? In the blink of an eye, many of them were seriously injured.

If someone hadn't nearly been killed, the teacher stationed at the edge of Lake Heart Island might not have come in person. Wang Haixuan and the others would probably have been eliminated.

The giant wolf at the Seventh Rank was certainly terrifying, but anyone qualified to be a high school senior teacher was at least a Top-tier Martial Master with a Bloodline Sixth Rank. The moment the teacher appeared, the pack sensed the threat and retreated.

Wang Haixuan and the others had lost many people and suffered serious injuries themselves. It had taken them a long time to recover, and their hatred for Mu Qing ran deep.

He had no idea that the Mu Qing he hated was lying in wait nearby.

Although they were all students from East Campus, Ji Jia and Yang Shanshan had no fondness for Wang Haixuan and had no intention of going easy on him.

Wang Haixuan slowly approached. He caught the scent of blood and followed it.

Suddenly, an inexplicable sense of dread gripped him, as if something terrifying were lurking in the darkness.

Everything around him was pitch-black. Although the communication device in his hand shone brightly, he could still barely make out what was around him.

He stayed on guard.

At that moment, Mu Qing, who was closest to Wang Haixuan, unleashed all the power in his body.

Mu Qing had been lying prone on the ground, but in an instant, he sprang to his feet. His slightly hunched back tightened like a drawn bow, and he shot forward.

Crackling sparks flashed.

White-hot arcs of electricity wrapped around Mu Qing's arm, and four streaks of blazing white lightning condensed in an instant.

"Die!"

Afraid Mu Qing wouldn't be able to handle Wang Haixuan alone, Ling Fei attacked at the same time. Sharp golden light blazed across his broad palm as he swung it at Wang Haixuan.

The two fierce killing moves were upon him in the blink of an eye. Wang Haixuan's expression changed abruptly as he felt the immense threat radiating from Mu Qing and Ling Fei.