Before Leaving

After entering November, because Su You had ranked 42nd the previous month, his time in the Sword Technique Training Room was increased directly to 75 hours this month. As long as it wasn't a day for hunting monsters, he could basically practice in the Sword Technique Training Room for four or five hours every day.

By the middle of November, although his sword technique realm had not yet reached the Mastery level, he had successfully cultivated the second level of the Dripping Water Sword, and his physical force output had reached 1.8 times.

On the other hand, Su You's time in the Imitation Gravity Room was also increased to 30 hours in November.

Although the improvement effect of the Imitation Gravity Room had diminished significantly as his physical fitness increased, his physical fitness still reached the Warlord level by the end of November.

The improvement in physical force output and physical fitness allowed Su You's strength to increase significantly. By the time November ended, his ranking in the training camp had already reached 26th place, and this was only because he had achieved his breakthrough in the middle to latter part of the month.

However, he was still only second in the Kyoto Courtyard. Zhang Yue, the top student of the Kyoto Courtyard, had ranked 14th last month, and this month she had climbed directly to the 6th position, while Shi Jiang, who had left some impression on Su You, was ranked 3rd.

At 8:00 PM on December 2nd, Su You stepped off the training camp's dedicated vehicle and walked into the main gate of the training camp. As soon as he entered, he looked directly at the ranking list on the Black Dragon sculpture.

"NO.1 Shi Jiang"

"NO.2 Zhang Yue"

"NO.8 Su You"

"What a fierce battle!" Su You sighed.

According to the information Su You knew, every December, the competition among students in the training camp would become much more intense because the ranking this month would determine the cultivation resources for the next three months.

The Basic Training Camp would go on break in January and February of each year, but this did not mean that all students had to leave the training camp during these two months; after all, it would be too wasteful to leave those facilities idle.

In fact, most students would only go home for a day or two. Students from Huaxia Country generally only went back during the few days of the Lunar New Year, staying at home for at most one or two weeks before returning to the training camp.

Moreover, it would not delay the usage time of various cultivation rooms, as there were no rankings during these two months, so there was no need to go out and hunt monsters every other day.

Precisely because of this, the competition among students would be exceptionally intense every December.

After returning to his loft, Su You opened his laptop and first video chatted with He Yourong for nearly an hour, then proceeded to video chat with Tang Yongqing.

These two tasks were the daily must-do chores for the owner of this fish pond, and they were also the moments when he felt most relaxed.

On the morning of the 28th, in the urban area of City 1002.

Su You wandered among a herd of monsters, his body completely integrated with the environment. Although there was one intermediate Warlord-level monster and five junior Warlord-level monsters in this herd, the situation of the entire battlefield was completely dominated by him.

This was the Perfect level of movement technique, controlling the environment. Su You had only reached this realm while sparring with the robot yesterday. Influenced by the breakthrough in his movement technique, his sword technique had also broken through again, reaching the Mastery level.

"Roar--" The intermediate Warlord-level Tiger Cat let out an angry roar. Suddenly, hundreds of surrounding soldier-level Tiger Cats scattered, leaving only five junior Warlord-level Tiger Cats to surround Su You with it.

As a Warlord-level monster, it possessed intelligence. Just now, when fighting that human, those soldier-level monsters not only failed to cause any damage to the human but instead blocked its own attacks time and again.

Seeing this scene, Su You smiled. He had just been testing his movement technique earlier; otherwise, these few Warlord-level monsters would have long since died under his sword.

Since his movement and sword techniques had broken through, his strength was no longer inferior to an average high-level Warlord, and he didn't take these few monsters seriously at all.

The six Warlord-level Tiger Cats bristled their fur, their roars shaking the sky as they charged toward Su You together.

Su You was completely fearless. He held a Baihong Sword in each hand, his entire body like a phantom or shadow, his sword momentum natural and seamless.

After a side-dodge to evade the attack of the intermediate Warlord-level Tiger Cat, Su You kicked out to the side, using the rebound force to leap high into the air, dodging the pounces of the other five monsters. Then, both long swords struck out simultaneously, slashing to the left and right respectively.

Two junior Warlord-level Tiger Cats were hit in the neck almost at the same time, and blood sprayed wildly.

Su You landed steadily using the force of his slashes, and without stopping, he flashed forward, one sword slashing and one sword thrusting. In an instant, two more junior Warlord-level Tiger Cats were killed.

The intermediate Warlord-level Tiger Cat took advantage of this opportunity to pounce from behind Su You, but Su You had anticipated this. He performed a sliding tackle, passing under the last junior Warlord-level Tiger Cat while simultaneously pulling his long sword to disembowel it.

"Woo--" Seeing that the situation was bad, the intermediate Warlord-level Tiger Cat roared frantically, and the surrounding soldier-level Tiger Cats swarmed up to launch an attack on Su You.

"Want to run?" Su You instantly understood the intention of this Tiger Cat and did not get entangled with these soldier-level monsters at all.

He stepped on the head of a Tiger Cat that was charging at him, and with the two forces combined, he vaulted directly above the intermediate Warlord-level Tiger Cat. Then, Su You thrust his sword out, piercing directly through the Tiger Cat's neck.

The surrounding soldier-level Tiger Cats fled in all directions, leaving only the corpses of six Warlord-level Tiger Cats and a dozen soldier-level Tiger Cats on the ground.

"Sigh, it's time for the tedious dissection again." Su You pulled out his Baihong Swords and then squatted down to slowly collect the materials.

Over the past month or so, his physical fitness had been slowly improving. Currently, his punching power had exceeded 10,000 kilograms, and his speed had exceeded 120 m/s. His efficiency in hunting monsters was getting higher and higher, and his December ranking had stabilized at 6th in the training camp.

During his time in the training camp, the improvement in his strength was astonishing: 1.8 times physical force output, Mastery level sword technique, and Perfect level movement technique.

The only slightly weaker aspect, his physical fitness, was actually progressing rapidly; it only seemed weaker because his cultivation time had been too short.

However, in the training camp, the improvement in strength was only one aspect that made him happy; the other was his progress with Zhang Yue.

He naturally wouldn't do something as foolish as depositing meal money into her card; this was a "life-saving grace," so how could he justify it without offering himself in return?

Of course, things couldn't be rushed; they had to be taken one step at a time. After more than a month of effort, Su You had already achieved the initial milestones of having meals and watching movies together.

With Zhang Yue's personality, being able to reach this point could already be considered a small victory.

At midnight that day, the Black Dragon Ranking was finalized. Shi Jiang was first, earning an opportunity for an assessment to enter the Elite Training Camp; as long as he passed the A-level test, he could officially join the Elite Training Camp.

Zhang Yue ranked second and could only wait for the opportunity next March.