Xu Jingming Really Is Lightning Type!

"This is trouble."

Zhou Mingyang could not help but smile bitterly.

If it had been any other ordinary Second-Order Ferocious Beast,

the four of them working together might have been able to hold it off for a while.

But given the Bloodthirsty Tyrant Bear's strength, if that bear paw as large as an iron wok came slamming down, they would all die!

They would not be able to withstand it at all.

"There's another possibility: the moment we enter the residential area,

we won't even need the Bloodthirsty Tyrant Bear to make a move before these First-Order High-Level Ferocious Beasts swarm us and wipe us out."

The bald young man curled his lips.

The four of them together could deal with, at most, three or four First-Order High-Level Ferocious Beasts.

Yet there were over thirty First-Order High-Level Ferocious Beasts in the open space below!

In other words, whether it was that Second-Order Bloodthirsty Tyrant Bear

or these remaining First-Order High-Level Ferocious Beasts, they did not dare provoke either of them.

"The gap in ferocious beast deployment between the Innermost Core Area and the Core Area is just too huge.

The strongest beasts in the Core Area are only First-Order Mid-Rank, but in the Innermost Core Area, not only is the strongest beast Second-Order,

even these ordinary beasts are all First-Order High-Level. How are we supposed to do this?"

The petite girl, Meng Di, puffed out her lips unhappily.

"Before the exam, I heard that Old Liu was the one setting this year's Martial Arts College Entrance Examination. I didn't believe it.

But now it seems that this kind of insane beast lineup could only have been his doing!"

the long-haired young man said through gritted teeth.

The people who set Jiangnan Province's Martial Arts College Entrance Examination rotated every year.

And Old Liu was one of the ruthless ones among them.

The Martial Arts College Entrance Examinations he arranged had a death rate more than twice that of other years!

"First-Order High-Level Ferocious Beasts and Second-Order Ferocious Beasts in the Innermost Core Area are a standard nationwide Martial Arts College Entrance Examination setup.

Old Liu merely replaced them with the more troublesome Bloodthirsty Tyrant Bear.

We can't blame anyone else. We can only blame ourselves for not being strong enough."

Zhou Mingyang sighed.

The Martial Arts College Entrance Examination was meant to select the best of the best. The Innermost Core Area was like the final major problem on a math exam.

Only those who could solve it could truly be considered heaven-blessed geniuses.

He was a genius admired by countless people in Jiangcheng.

But in all of Jiangnan Province, he did not even qualify to attempt that final question...

"Speaking of which, Xu Jingming worked himself half to death for most of the day and painstakingly earned over three thousand points.

Yet that still isn't as fast as killing the Second-Order Ferocious Beast in front of us and those thirty-odd First-Order High-Level Ferocious Beasts."

The long-haired young man's lips curled upward slightly, his expression somewhat gloating.

The Innermost Core Area's beasts were worth far more points than those in the Core Area.

Killing one First-Order High-Level Ferocious Beast earned 100 points.

And killing the final Second-Order Ferocious Beast would earn a whopping 4,000 points in one go!

"Humanity needs powerful fighters, so what's the point of killing a bunch of trash?"

The long-haired young man clearly held quite a grudge against Xu Jingming.

Zhou Mingyang frowned at those words, but ultimately said nothing.

After all, it was true.

What the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination needed were formidable powerhouses!

Not killing machines who only knew how to slaughter low-order ferocious beasts.

Just as with Blue Star today, although ferocious beasts ran rampant,

as long as all the Ninth-Order Beast Emperors among their species were killed, the remaining ferocious beasts would collapse on their own.

But if the Beast Emperors were not all slain, killing however many ordinary ferocious beasts would be useless.

That was precisely why the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination assigned such high scores to beasts in the Innermost Core Area.

That way, killing a Second-Order Ferocious Beast would earn enough points to dominate the entire field.

And Second-Order Ferocious Beasts were also targets that examinees aiming for Provincial Top Scorer had to claim.

Though that was true, Zhou Mingyang silently added in his heart:

If Xu Jingming is useless, wouldn't those of us with fewer points than him be even more useless?

That was what he thought, but since they would still be fighting side by side later, he did not argue.

"All right, enough talk."

"Let's go down and try to lure out a few First-Order High-Level Ferocious Beasts."

They definitely could not enter the open space in the residential area directly while a Second-Order Bloodthirsty Tyrant Bear was stationed there.

So Zhou Mingyang's strategy was to lure them out one at a time and kill as many as they could.

Of course,

it was also possible that they would not lure out even one.

If that happened, their group would have no choice but to return to the Central Area.

"Time to get to work."

"Tsk, luring ferocious beasts out from a place guarded by a Second-Order Ferocious Beast... isn't that just courting death?"

"Heh, even if we are courting death, don't we still have to give it a try?"

"..."

The group joked with one another as they prepared to head downstairs.

But just then, a black figure came rushing over from the distance.

The figure was incredibly fast, like a cheetah, reaching the entrance of Jinse Yuan Residential Area from afar in just a few seconds.

"Xu Jingming!"

Zhou Mingyang's eyes narrowed slightly.

Though he was on the rooftop of the eighth floor, his powerful Metahuman vision allowed him to immediately recognize the figure below as Xu Jingming, whom he had met once.

"Xu Jingming is here too? Where? Where?"

"Xu Jingming? Hmph, I'd like to see what kind of person he really is!"

Unlike Zhou Mingyang, Meng Di and the others had never encountered Xu Jingming.

So after hearing Zhou Mingyang, the group, who had already reached the stairwell, hurriedly turned around and looked down.

After Awakened ones transformed into Metahumans, not only were their abilities enhanced, but their physical attributes improved as well.

Thus, the height of eight floors was nothing to them. They could clearly see the person below.

At the front of the open space below stood a young man.

He was tall and broad-shouldered, with a resolute face and a pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle's.

After who knew how many battles, more than half of his black combat suit had been dyed a dark crimson!

The blade of the Black Spear strapped to his back, once sharp and gleaming, had become jagged and uneven like a kitchen knife that had chopped through too many bones.

It was precisely because of that spear that the young man's steady, powerful aura carried an extra hint of savagery!

"He's so handsome!"

No matter the time or place, women were always emotional creatures.

So the instant Meng Di saw Xu Jingming, her beautiful eyes lit up.

"For an F-Class Spear to be worn down into such a battered state by him... it's hard to imagine just how many ferocious beasts he has killed."

The bald young man was amazed by the state of Xu Jingming's weapon.

After all,

F-Class Alloy was incredibly hard. For it to have been used to this extent was enough to show how frequent and brutal the battles had been.

"Does he have a death wish, showing up like that in front of a beast horde?"

The long-haired young man, however, merely snorted coldly.

"Roar—"

"Howl—"

Sure enough, Xu Jingming's appearance swiftly stirred up the ferocious beasts below.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten First-Order High-Level Ferocious Beasts roared and charged toward him!

"He's done for! He alerted the beast horde!"

Meng Di cried out in alarm.

"Why is Xu Jingming being so reckless?"

Zhou Mingyang frowned.

At this distance, even if they wanted to help, it was already too late.

And by the time they rushed downstairs, Xu Jingming would likely be dead beyond saving.

"What else could it be? First place gave him too much confidence. He doesn't know his own limits."

The long-haired young man sneered, staring intently below. "He uses a spear, huh? But that spear of his probably won't save him."

Just as he said, Xu Jingming could initially handle the few ferocious beasts that charged at him.

But he could not fend off the beasts that followed close behind, and his figure was soon swallowed up by the dozen-odd ferocious beasts...

"Xu Jingming... isn't really going to die just like that, is he?"

Staring at the figure that had vanished within the beast horde, Zhou Mingyang found it hard to believe.

The other man had risen like a comet in just a few short hours.

And now, was he about to fall like a shooting star?

More importantly, what had Xu Jingming been thinking?

Knowing full well that the Innermost Core Area was filled with First-Order High-Level and Second-Order Ferocious Beasts, how had he dared to swagger right up in front of them?

"Then again, he really was lying to me. From beginning to end, he never used a Lightning Type ability.

Forget it. Once a person dies, everything is over. So what if he lied?"

Zhou Mingyang and Xu Jingming had only met once, so he did not feel much about the other's safety.

At most, he was simply puzzled by such a foolish act.

But at that moment, Zhou Mingyang and the others suddenly felt their hearts jolt.

A low, majestic voice rang out beside their ears:

"Divine Thunder!"

The next moment,

amid chaotic, piercing thunderclaps, a purple shockwave burst violently outward from the very center of the beast horde below, which was within their view!

Boom!!

Every ferocious beast touched by the shockwave turned charred black as if struck by a devastating blow, flying four or five meters away!

The densely packed beast horde was also instantly cleared away, like a doodle lightly erased by an eraser, leaving an empty patch of ground!

At the center of that clearing, Xu Jingming's tall, lean figure stood like a god of war.

Purple lightning coiled around his body, as if welcoming the arrival of its king, constantly cheering and leaping with joy.

Only then did Zhou Mingyang and the others realize

that what they had just seen was not some shockwave at all, but a High-Voltage Grid condensed from purple lightning!!

"This...?!"

Staring at the figure in the clearing, like the Thunder God himself, Zhou Mingyang was dumbfounded. Only after a long while did he come back to his senses and mutter:

"Xu Jingming... really is a Lightning Type Metahuman..."