The elite students watched from the sidelines, grinning as they waited for a show.
In truth, they didn't really believe the rumors. The claims that Xia Ping had killed Scorpion Thirteen and his bodyguards, and was an extraordinary fighter, were probably mostly hot air.
After all, there were countless ways to kill someone, such as nuclear bombs and firearms. With weapons like those and a few traps, you could easily slaughter some monsters.
But that didn't mean his martial arts skills were truly impressive. Maybe he'd grow into a powerful fighter someday, but he wasn't there yet.
"Oh, you want to challenge me?"
Xia Ping raised an eyebrow as he looked at the elite student, Xie Hao.
"No, this isn't a challenge. It's a duel—a fair duel."
Xie Hao's mouth twitched. He wanted to correct him. Now he understood why the rumors said this kid had a sharp tongue and made countless people want to beat him up.
Just that one remark had already made anger flare inside him.
What did he mean by "challenge"? A challenge was when the weak challenged the strong, or the young challenged their elders. The strong never challenged the weak.
By putting it that way, the kid was clearly saying that Xie Hao was beneath him, a whole rank lower.
Xie Hao was a senior student who had been at Yanhuang University for years. In terms of both age and martial arts cultivation, he was Xia Ping's senior. How could he be happy about being treated like he was beneath this punk for no reason?
"Of course, I won't bully someone younger than me. We can have the Combat Room suppress our cultivation to the Martial Master First Heaven Realm. Then we'll be at the same level, and it'll come down purely to our