Dominating the Martial Arts Team

"Junior Zichen, give him a lesson! Senior hates guys like this who love to use moral kidnapping to pressure others!"

"Junior Zichen, I'll be cheering for you loudly later!"

"Junior Zichen, go for it! I'll snap some great photos of you!"

"..."

Seeing Lin Zichen accept the challenge, a wave of commotion erupted at the scene.

Most of it came from Lin Zichen's little fan club.

Listening to the one-sided support, Zhang Kai felt nothing inside; in fact, he almost wanted to laugh.

Do you all think I'm some brainless hothead?

Wrong! Dead wrong!

I am playing the fool to hide my brilliance!

You are all on the third floor, thinking I'm on the first, but in reality, I'm on the fifth!

I am taking advantage of this genius junior before he fully develops, crushing him to bully the weak and leave a glorious record for my own martial arts career!

Over the past month or so, Zhang Kai had witnessed Lin Zichen's peerless martial arts talent with his own eyes.

He knew very well that if Lin Zichen were given another half a year of training, no one on the team would be his match.

Therefore, he had to take advantage of the fact that Lin Zichen had only been training for a short time and hadn't grown into his strength yet, publicly sparring with him to crush him to his heart's content.

That way, the higher Lin Zichen's future martial arts achievements, the more he could brag about this.

He would brag to everyone he met, saying, "Back in the day, I was the man who beat the genius Lin on the martial arts stage!"

Lin Zichen had no idea that Zhang Kai had so much drama going on in his head.

With a thought, he dismissed the text information in the void, handed his clothes back to Shen Qinghan, and walked toward the martial arts stage, saying as he went:

"It's getting late, and I still have to go home for dinner. Let's make this quick."

"Bring it on!"

Zhang Kai responded and also lifted his legs to walk toward the stage.

Seeing this, their coach, Guo Xiangyuan, quickly followed the two toward the stage.

On the martial arts stage.

After seeing both of them take their positions, Guo Xiangyuan said to them: "I will act as the referee for this sparring match. Remember, friendship first, competition second. Don't damage the harmony."

Lin Zichen: "Understood, Coach."

Zhang Kai didn't respond, instead looking toward Xiao Li off-stage and shouting: "Xiao Li, help us record the sparring process!"

He wanted to preserve today's record in video form so that when Lin Zichen truly achieved something in the future, he could take it out and brag endlessly.

"Got it." As a member of the Martial Arts Team, Li Shutong gave him an "OK" gesture, then took out his phone and started recording the stage.

Seeing this, Shen Qinghan, who was also off-stage, took out her phone to record as well, wanting to capture Lin Zichen's match.

However, unlike Zhang Kai, she knew exactly how strong Lin Zichen was; she was recording to document his victory.

"Are you both ready?"

On the stage, Guo Xiangyuan looked at the two members and asked.

Lin Zichen: "Ready."

Zhang Kai: "You can start, Coach."

Seeing that both were ready, Guo Xiangyuan retreated to the edge of the stage, raised his right hand high, and then swung it down forcefully:

"Sparring, officially begins!"

As his voice fell, neither of the two on stage moved immediately.

Zhang Kai looked at Lin Zichen, wearing a look of absolute certainty as he postured:

"Junior, you've only been on the team for a month, while I've been here for nearly two years. How about this: I'll let you have the first three moves, so you can't say I bullied you later."

"Fine."

Lin Zichen responded with minimal words, then immediately lunged forward with a Flash Step, closing the distance to Zhang Kai in an instant and kicking him straight off the stage.

Zhang Kai: "???"

The six team members off-stage: "Holy sh*t!"

Guo Xiangyuan was dumbfounded.

That Fresh Milk Senior screamed outright: "Ahhhhh! Junior Zichen, you're too amazing! You've completely stolen my soul!"

The other little fan girls joined in with infatuated shrieks.

On the martial arts stage.

Lin Zichen ignored the clamor below the stage, his attention entirely fixed on the text floating in the void.

[You have defeated a rival and successfully captured the heart of a member of the opposite sex, gaining priority in mate selection.]

[Cumulative opponents eliminated: 1/1000]

Still 999 rivals left to eliminate...

With this thought, Lin Zichen dismissed the text and looked at the other six teammates below the stage, asking, "You six, do you want to spar with me as well?"

"..."

However, no one responded to him at all.

Everyone was stunned, still unable to recover from the scene that had just unfolded.

The first person to snap out of it was Zhang Kai, who had just been kicked off the stage by him.

At this moment, Zhang Kai was enduring the pain in his lower abdomen, struggling to climb up from the ground. He returned to the stage, protesting, "That didn't count! I wasn't even ready yet. Let's go again!"

Hearing this, Guo Xiangyuan regained his composure. He frowned at Zhang Kai and said with a hint of displeasure, "Zhang Kai, a bet is a bet. Don't lose your sportsmanship along with the match."

Zhang Kai opened his mouth to argue, but Guo Xiangyuan didn't give him the chance. The next second, he looked toward Xiao Li below the stage and shouted, "Xiao Li, you go up and spar with Zichen."

"Oh, oh, okay!" Xiao Li put down his phone upon hearing this and climbed onto the stage while responding.

In the time that followed.

Lin Zichen sparred with every teammate on the squad, achieving a clean sweep as expected.

However, to keep his strength within a seemingly normal range, he didn't go for an instant kill as he had with Zhang Kai.

Instead, he would exchange a few blows before defeating them.

This way, the exaggerated combat power he had displayed by instantly kicking Zhang Kai off the stage could be easily explained away, saving him from a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Everyone would simply assume that Zhang Kai was only defeated instantly because he was being arrogant and careless, rather than Lin Zichen actually possessing the strength to one-shot him.

"A genius, Zichen, you really are a genius!"

"You've only been on the Martial Arts Team for a little over a month, and you've already become the ace of the squad!"

"In this year's district Martial Arts Tournament, our Shanhai High School will definitely defeat the other nine schools and take first place in the district!"

Guo Xiangyuan patted Lin Zichen on the shoulder, his face beaming with an uncontrollable smile.

Meanwhile, Zhang Kai, who had previously been unconvinced and felt he had only lost because of his own carelessness, was now thoroughly impressed.

He had watched Lin Zichen's spars with the other teammates carefully and realized there was indeed a gap between them; there was nothing left to say.

"Zichen, I, Zhang Kai, am a man of my word. From now on, even if you want to crap on my head, I won't say a single word of complaint!"

Zhang Kai looked at Lin Zichen and shouted loudly, his voice booming as if he were taking an oath.

He felt that he looked quite cool—a man who honors his bets and keeps his word—and surely this would win him the favor of the girls.

However, when the surrounding girls heard him open his mouth with the pungent word "crap," they instantly found him incredibly vulgar and didn't even want to look at him again.

Lin Zichen had no time to deal with Zhang Kai; he was frowning as he looked at the text in the void.

[Achievement: In a formal competitive setting, eliminate 1,000 different rivals using the most primal biological method.]

[reward: Obtain Biological Attribute -- Natural Selection.]

[Cumulative opponents eliminated: 1/1000]

The progress had only increased when he defeated Zhang Kai; defeating the other six teammates had yielded no progress at all.

Lin Zichen combined this with the text that had appeared when he first defeated Zhang Kai and, after some serious thought, quickly reached a conclusion.

Not just any duel could increase the progress of the achievement task; it had to be a conflict of interest—a duel with a competitive nature.

And the initial spar with Zhang Kai had been judged as a primal biological battle for mating rights.

"It seems that if I want to complete this achievement in the future, I'll have to participate in more tournaments."

Lin Zichen muttered to himself.

Every duel in a tournament was filled with competitiveness.

There was the competition for rankings.

There was the competition for prize money.

Therefore, as long as he successfully defeated his opponents in a tournament, he would certainly be able to increase the progress of the achievement task.

PS: Setting out my bowl, asking for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets!