Have All the Ferocious Beasts Been Killed by Xu Jingming?

After witnessing Xu Jingming's strength, Zhou Mingyang might have cursed under his breath,

but deep down, he knew perfectly well that Xu Jingming really was stronger than him!

Where did this monster even come from? He doesn't seem to be a Metahuman from his aura.

Yet he kills First-Order Ferocious Beasts as easily as chopping vegetables.

After silently grumbling a few times, Zhou Mingyang continued on his own path of hunting Ferocious Beasts.

He might not be able to beat Xu Jingming in strength, but he still had to hold onto second place.

So, he darted through the Core Area, searching for Ferocious Beasts he could handle.

The first two hours went fairly well. Every so often, he encountered a lone First-Order Mid-Rank Ferocious Beast or a small pack of only three or four beasts.

But by the third hour, Zhou Mingyang could clearly feel that there were far fewer Ferocious Beasts on the roads.

By the fourth hour, he wandered around the Core Area for ages without seeing a single Ferocious Beast!

"What's going on? Where did all the Ferocious Beasts go?"

Zhou Mingyang was completely dumbfounded. In frustration, he kicked away a fist-sized stone by the roadside.

As a Metahuman, his strength was anything but weak.

The kicked stone shot out like a bullet and slammed into a rusty sheet-metal sign, producing a thunderous boom.

Before, he would never have done something that might attract the attention of Ferocious Beasts.

But now, he actually hoped that some Ferocious Beasts would be drawn over.

However, no Ferocious Beasts came. Instead, he attracted several humans.

It was a group of three, two men and one woman, walking toward him. They waved from afar in greeting.

"Yo, Mingyang."

"Why are you all together?"

Zhou Mingyang looked doubtfully at the three people who had walked up to him.

Like him, they were all First-Order Low-Rank Metahumans from First High School's Rocket Class.

They all knew one another and were old acquaintances.

Besides him, these three held the other three spots in the top five of the Martial Arts rankings.

"You'll have to ask Xu Jingming about that."

The bald boy on the far right shrugged helplessly.

"Xu Jingming killed all the Ferocious Beasts in the Core Area. We couldn't find any beasts, so we had no choice but to group up."

The girl in the middle added in a sweet, soft voice.

She had a petite figure, yet she carried a massive saber with her, creating a striking contrast.

"We've been wandering around here for over half an hour. When we heard a sound from this direction, we thought it was a Ferocious Beast."

"We rushed over all excited, but who would've thought it'd be you?" The long-haired boy on the left shook his head with a sigh.

"Xu Jingming killed all the Ferocious Beasts? How is that possible?!"

Zhou Mingyang frowned and instinctively refused to believe it.

After all, in preparation for the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination, at least three to four hundred Ferocious Beasts had been released into the Core Area!

There was simply no way to kill that many Ferocious Beasts in just a few short hours!

"One look and I can tell you haven't checked the rankings in a while. Here, just look at Xu Jingming's score yourself."

The bald boy activated his Smart Watch. With a buzz, the ranking screen was projected into the air.

First Place, Xu Jingming, 3435 points (Jiang City Second High School)

Second Place, Zhou Mingyang, 1103 points (Jiang City First High School)

Third Place, Wu Hao, 945 points (Jiang City First High School)

...

"Th-three thousand four hundred points?!"

Seeing Xu Jingming's terrifying score at the top of the rankings, the normally composed Zhou Mingyang nearly had his eyes pop out of their sockets.

"Now do you understand why we said Xu Jingming killed all the Ferocious Beasts?"

The bald boy shut off the virtual projection with a bitter smile.

"Killing a First-Order Low-Rank Ferocious Beast gives around fourteen to sixteen points, while killing a First-Order Mid-Rank Ferocious Beast gives around twenty to twenty-two points."

"Even after subtracting the more than seven hundred points he earned in the Central Area, he still has over twenty-five hundred points from those 3435 points."

"In other words, Xu Jingming alone killed nearly two hundred Ferocious Beasts in the Core Area!"

"The rest of us killed quite a few as well. Add it all together, and didn't we basically wipe out all the Ferocious Beasts in the Core Area?"

Zhou Mingyang was left utterly stunned by those words.

After entering the examination grounds, all he had thought about was killing as many Ferocious Beasts as possible to earn a higher score.

But he had never considered that the Ferocious Beasts could actually be killed off entirely!

"Damn it! No wonder Xu Jingming was so afraid of having his kills stolen earlier. He'd already thought of this!"

Thinking back to his earlier conversation with Xu Jingming, Zhou Mingyang felt as if ten thousand alpacas were stampeding through his heart...

"3435 points! That score is absolutely insane! At worst, Xu Jingming will rank in the top ten of Jiangnan Province!"

"Top ten! Top ten! When has Jiangcheng ever produced results this good?!"

"He broke the record! Xu Jingming broke Jiangcheng's record!"

"..."

While Zhou Mingyang was shocked by Xu Jingming's score inside the examination grounds, the principals and teachers outside were already overjoyed beyond measure.

With 3435 points, Xu Jingming was certain to break into the top ten of Jiangnan Province.

And this result was also the best in Jiangcheng's history!

"I never imagined that Xu Jingming could reach such heights with nothing but that spear!"

Zhao Yao, the Principal of Second High School, felt his entire body burn with excitement. He could barely contain himself.

What did a top ten ranking in Jiangnan Province represent? They were gifted geniuses that even the nation's top ten Metahuman universities would fight to recruit!

"A qilin rises from the fields. Who would have thought Jiangcheng could produce a student like Xu Jingming?"

Education Bureau Director Zhang Wenshan was smiling so widely that he could not close his mouth.

At this point, he no longer cared that Xu Jingming only possessed an E-rank metahuman ability.

After all, with results like these, schools would compete for him even if he had an F-rank metahuman ability!

"Still, Xu Jingming is truly crazy. In just three or four hours, he nearly killed every Ferocious Beast in the Core Area."

"Looks like he might turn out to be a complete battle maniac!"

Zhou Mingyang and the others did not know how many Ferocious Beasts had been released into the Core Area, but how could Zhang Wenshan, the Education Bureau Director, not know?

A total of 450 First-Order Low-Rank Ferocious Beasts and 40 First-Order Mid-Rank Ferocious Beasts had been released into the Core Area!

After accounting for the beasts that had killed one another, as well as those slain by Zhou Mingyang's group of four,

Xu Jingming alone had killed nearly half the Ferocious Beasts in the entire Core Area!

And all of this had happened in merely three or four hours, which was enough to demonstrate just how terrifying Xu Jingming's strength was.

"Xu Jingming's parents both died in a Beast Tide when he was young. Perhaps that's why he hates Ferocious Beasts so much."

His homeroom teacher, Chen Fan, added.

"I see."

Zhang Wenshan nodded in realization, his expression turning cold. "Hmph! Sooner or later, we humans will wipe out every last Ferocious Beast!"

"Don't worry. That day will come."

Thinking of the Ferocious Beasts' brutality, Principal Zhao Yao could not help adding coldly.