April Rankings

The moment the first floor was cleared, the vast grassland vanished instantly, and Su You appeared directly in an endless desert. This was the second floor of the Trial Tower, and the corresponding monsters were Iron-Armored Scorpions.

These were small, extremely fast monsters that could burrow into the desert and launch attacks from underground, making them much more difficult than the Mangniu on the first floor.

An emotionless electronic voice echoed throughout the desert: "Su You, congratulations on completing the first floor trial. Next is the stage A trial of the second floor of the Trial Tower. Your goal is to kill 50 low-level commander-level Iron-Armored Scorpions within 10 minutes. Good luck!"

As soon as the voice ended, Su You saw scorpions with dark red armor crawling out of the desert, swarming toward him in unison. The constantly churning yellow sand beneath the ground indicated that many more Iron-Armored Scorpions were about to launch attacks from below.

However, Su You's footwork had already reached the perfect level, allowing him to fully grasp the changes in his surroundings. He stepped into the Lingbo Microsteps and charged into the herd to begin the slaughter.

As time passed, the expressions on the faces of the teachers and students beneath the Black Dragon Sculpture became increasingly rich. At first, there was surprise, but soon they were all stunned. After more than half an hour, the expressions of the teachers and students present had become numb.

From the moment Su You entered the trial room until now, they had seen his ranking change seven times, from 55 to 39, then to 35, 31, 29, 27, 26, and finally to his current position of 25.

"It finally stopped!"

"No wonder the Extreme Martial Arts Hall recruited him in advance; this is too monstrous!"

"He should be able to enter the top fifty in his first month of overall ranking. This Su You has the potential to become someone beyond the God of War level!"

Beneath the Black Dragon Sculpture, teachers and students discussed the matter fervently. Everyone knew the gold content of this ranking; it was worth even more than the first place.

At this moment, intelligence personnel from various major forces in Hongning Base City reported the news of Su You's ranking to their respective headquarters.

On the other side, after Su You walked out of the Nine-Story Tower, he was surrounded by a large group of training camp members. However, because Su You had already been recruited in advance by the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, most of the students were just there to offer congratulations and get familiar with him.

After a while, when the students around him had mostly dispersed, Su You saw his teacher, Zhai Mo, walking over from a distance.

Su You quickly stepped forward and said respectfully, "Teacher."

"Not bad. Your ranking is 25 now; there shouldn't be any problem entering the top fifty this month," Zhai Mo said with a smile. "How is it? What is your Trial Tower level?"

"3.1. I was hung up in the sky by Golden Vultures on the third floor, stage A. I couldn't utilize my footwork."

Zhai Mo shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Avian monsters are indeed very difficult to deal with. Even I am only at the third floor, stage C. Keep working hard this month and try to stay within the top fifty. The further you can go, the better."

"Yes, Teacher."

Zhai Mo nodded slightly and then said solemnly, "Your strongest asset right now is your footwork, but it is only at the perfect level. There are several students in this training camp whose footwork has reached the artistic conception level, so never be arrogant, understand?"

"Teacher, I understand," Su You said with a serious tone.

With the memories of his past life, he remembered very clearly that the Elite Training Camp was not even a novice village in the context of the universe. Achieving some results here was nothing to be proud of.

That night, after all the students with even-numbered rankings from the previous month returned, Su You's ranking settled at 48th. However, this was only the initial ranking, and the month had just begun.

The resources of the Elite Training Camp were significantly richer than those of the Basic Training Camp, and the level of the God of War teachers was generally higher. There were even inspectors who came to give lectures every month.

In such an environment, Su You's physical fitness, sword techniques, and footwork improved rapidly.

On the evening of April 27th, after Su You returned from hunting monsters, he came to the trial room once again. He had ranked 181st in March, so he had 1 hour of trial room time and 1 hour of gravity room training time in April.

Su You had used the 1 hour in the gravity room at the beginning of the month, while he had saved this 1 hour in the trial room for the night of the 27th. Within this hour, he could fight to his heart's content, and even if he failed, he could try again.

In the wilderness of the third floor of the Trial Tower, the electronic voice sounded again: "Third floor, stage A trial. Student Su You, your goal is to kill 100 low-level commander-level Golden Vultures within twenty minutes. Good luck!"

A dark mass of Golden Vultures appeared in the sky, swooping down from high altitude like a cloud covering Su You. The slaughter officially began.

As birds of prey, the flight speed of the Golden Vultures far exceeded that of terrestrial monsters. Although Su You possessed perfect-level footwork, it was difficult to utilize it against their high-speed attacks.

Therefore, he could only try his best to dodge the pounces of the Golden Vultures while wielding his long swords in both hands, pursuing the highest killing efficiency.

However, it was clear that under the attack of so many Golden Vultures, Su You was struggling and could only do his utmost to push his strength to the limit.

Slowly, Su You closed his eyes and swung his sword entirely based on feeling. His sword technique suddenly underwent multiple changes—at times ethereal, at times heavy, unpredictable, and a perfect union of man and sword.

As the long swords danced, the Golden Vultures in the air fell one by one. A moment later, they were all slaughtered. The emotionless electronic voice sounded again, and 10 mid-level commander-level Golden Vultures and 190 low-level commander-level Golden Vultures flew in from the air.

Su You remained with his eyes closed, dodging and attacking amidst the flock of avian monsters. However, the flock, commanded by the mid-level commander-level Golden Vultures, was significantly more difficult to deal with. Even though Su You's sword technique had broken through to the consummate level, he still failed to pass this stage, and his final Trial Tower level was fixed at 3.4.

After leaving the Nine-Story Tower and returning to the Kyoto Pavilion, Su You learned that he had already reached 38th place on the Black Dragon Sculpture. Although there was still one day left until the final ranking of the month, Su You's position was unlikely to change much.

On the night of the 28th, Su You sat in front of his laptop chatting with He Yourong. On her end, a holographic projection was on, and Yuan Yuan, who had just received guidance from Su You, was practicing in a decent manner.

"Hmm?" Su You picked up his vibrating phone and took a look, discovering that many people in the Chinese student group were tagging him, so he clicked to open it.

"Zhang Yue reached 102nd place? What a pity, just a little bit off!" Su You sighed, not feeling surprised.

Although his and Zhang Yue's time in the training camp had been staggered this month, they often sparred and exchanged pointers after returning at night, so Su You was quite familiar with Zhang Yue's strength.

Su You shook his head, ignoring the fuss other students were making in the group, and leisurely continued to tease He Yourong.

Time reached exactly twelve o'clock at night, and Su You's final ranking for April was fixed at 42nd.