Frenzied Slaughter, Harvesting Ability Points!

The urban area had the largest concentration of people, and it had also been hit the hardest by ferocious beasts back then.

Naturally, because of that, the buildings in the city were even more dilapidated than those in the suburbs.

As far as Xu Jingming could see, there was barely a single intact building.

"Great Xia Country used actual combat as the assessment method for the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination. Aside from testing their strength, they probably also wanted Awakened ones to witness firsthand the devastating power of ferocious beasts."

Great Xia Country's protection of its citizens could be said to have reached the utmost extreme.

Aside from the unlucky citizens whose cities had once been breached by ferocious beasts,

other citizens might never see a ferocious beast in real life for their entire lives.

For ordinary people, there was nothing wrong with that.

But to cultivate ability users, it was naturally better for them to recognize the brutality of ferocious beasts as early as possible.

"Roar—"

As Xu Jingming pondered this, a low growl rang out, and a ferocious beast sprang from the ruins.

It looked somewhat like a tiger, but it was far larger, with yellow and green fur intermingled across its body.

The most eye-catching feature was the blade-like bone knives growing from its forearms.

Though they were bones, they gleamed with a metallic luster.

Behind it trailed a whip-like tail that hung to the ground.

"A First-order ferocious beast, an Arm Blade Tiger."

Xu Jingming narrowed his eyes slightly.

Like the Shadow Cat, the Arm Blade Tiger was also a relatively common ferocious beast.

The method for determining an Arm Blade Tiger's rank and strength was simple: one only needed to observe the length of the bone blades on its forearms.

Those shorter than twenty centimeters were Unranked, while those longer than twenty centimeters were ranked ferocious beasts.

The bone blades on this Arm Blade Tiger's forearms were a full twenty-two or twenty-three centimeters long. It was a First-Order Low-Rank Ferocious Beast.

Compared with the Unranked Arm Blade Tiger Xu Jingming had encountered before, this beast's aura was clearly much more formidable.

Its amber eyes were filled with surging bloodlust.

"Looks like I'm pretty lucky. I ran into a First-order ferocious beast as soon as I entered the Central Area."

Xu Jingming drained the remaining liquid from the Energy Bar in one gulp. Feeling fullness return to his stomach, the corners of his lips lifted slightly.

"Perfect. I'll use you to test my spear technique!"

He casually tossed away the Energy Bar in his hand. Instead of retreating, Xu Jingming advanced, dragging the Black Obsidian Spear as he charged toward the Arm Blade Tiger.

Clang, clang, clang—

The Black Obsidian Spear scraped along the ruined concrete road, sending sparks flying amid a piercing screech of friction.

As a First-order ferocious beast, this Arm Blade Tiger had already developed a measure of intelligence.

Seeing a human with such a weak aura dare to launch an attack first,

the naturally savage Arm Blade Tiger let out an angry roar.

"Roar—"

Then, its massive body charged toward Xu Jingming like a Tank. Even disregarding its gaping maw and razor-sharp bone blades,

its enormous body alone was enough to leave most examinees helpless.

Yet Xu Jingming showed no fear at all. There was not the slightest trace of panic in his eyes.

With a forceful pull of his right hand, the Black Obsidian Spear dragging along the ground spun up like a Windmill.

Then, he thrust it fiercely at the Arm Blade Tiger!!

Xu Jingming's Qi-Blood value had originally been as high as 140 points, making his physique stronger than that of most examinees.

Now that his spear technique had reached the Advanced Spear Technique level, his attack speed was several times faster than before.

Thus, faced with this lightning-fast thrust,

there was only a wet pfft. The First-Order Low-Rank Arm Blade Tiger had no time to react before a bowl-sized hole appeared in its abdomen.

The hole was extremely deep, piercing through its thick fur and skin. Through the spilling blood, its writhing internal organs could even be seen!

"Awoo—"

An ordinary creature would have lost all ability to move after suffering such a heavy blow.

Yet the Arm Blade Tiger merely howled in pain before its ferocity was stirred up. It pounced forward madly.

"As expected of a First-order ferocious beast. Its vitality is tenacious."

Without using his ability, Xu Jingming had not expected that strike to kill it instantly.

So he gripped the Black Obsidian Spear and engaged the Arm Blade Tiger in battle.

With the aid of his Advanced Spear Technique, Xu Jingming wielded the Black Obsidian Spear like a swimming dragon.

Every thrust left another hole in the Arm Blade Tiger's body.

And because of the spear's reach, the Arm Blade Tiger had no way to inflict any effective damage on Xu Jingming...

Just like that, in less than a minute,

the First-order Arm Blade Tiger that could have killed 99% of the examinees in the testing ground was slain by Xu Jingming.

Its enormous, hole-riddled body crashed to the ground, kicking up a layer of dust.

Xu Jingming himself was completely unharmed. Not even a drop of blood had stained his combat suit.

That was the shameless advantage of a spear.

If your strength was insufficient, you could only be stabbed to death alive without even touching the edge of your opponent's clothes.

Killed one First-order Arm Blade Tiger. Ability Points +10.

As the Arm Blade Tiger died, the system prompt sounded as well.

"The Ability Points gained from killing a First-order ferocious beast are almost twice as much as those from killing an Unranked one!"

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up. "In that case, I need to hurry up and kill more ferocious beasts to harvest Ability Points."

He slung the Black Obsidian Spear behind his back and, without pausing for even a moment, dashed toward the direction where the roars of ferocious beasts were most concentrated.

Based on the strength of the ferocious beasts, the Ruined Town was divided into four areas: the Outer Area, Central Area, Core Area, and Innermost Core Area.

Most examinees were only strong enough to operate in the Outer Area.

Only a small number of examinees dared to enter the Central Area.

Even the examinees from the Rocket Classes of Jiangcheng's First High School had to hesitate before entering the Core Area.

As for the Innermost Core Area, where Second-Order Ferocious Beasts existed, almost no one in all of Jiangcheng could enter it.

That was a place only geniuses from provincial capital cities dared to set foot in!

Xu Jingming, who possessed the S-Rank Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, naturally had the qualifications as well.

However, due to his limited ability duration, Xu Jingming planned to remain in the Central Area for now.

He would enter the Core Area during the final two hours.

Of course, the real Wilderness Area had no divisions of strength such as Outer Area or Central Area.

You might be walking through the Wilderness Area when a High-Rank Ferocious Beast suddenly appeared and devoured you.

Xu Jingming also knew well that this was the only opportunity currently available to him to obtain a large number of Ability Points.

So after killing the Arm Blade Tiger, he began searching for ferocious beasts.

Once he found one, Xu Jingming did not even need to use his ability. With his powerful physique and Advanced Spear Technique alone, he could kill it!

Find ferocious beasts! Kill them! Gain Ability Points!

Find ferocious beasts! Kill them! Gain Ability Points...

Throughout the process of killing ferocious beasts and gaining Ability Points,

he discovered a pattern: the acquisition of Ability Points was more closely related to the strength of the ferocious beast.

For example, the Shadow Cat and Unicorn Rhino,

at the same rank, one Unicorn Rhino could fight three or four Shadow Cats at once!

And precisely because of that,

the Ability Points gained from killing a peak Unranked Unicorn Rhino were even the same as those gained from killing a First-Order Low-Rank Shadow Cat!

However, this pattern did not have much impact on the current Xu Jingming. He just had to keep killing!

Just like that, Xu Jingming did not rest for even a moment. He was either fighting ferocious beasts or on the way to find them.

As the number of ferocious beasts he killed continued to rise, the Ability Points on the system panel surged, and his Martial Arts College Entrance Examination score skyrocketed along with them!

What Xu Jingming did not know was just how great a commotion this scene had caused in the outside world.