The martial competition begins

Chen Lie replied, "I understand."

Then I exited the chat page.

I opened the next friend's message.

Qingchan: May I ask which part of East River Province you are from? Are you here at the Provincial Key High School temporarily as a temporary measure?

Chen Lie replied, "I'm from Changdong City, and I've always attended the Provincial Key High School high school."

Just as Chen Lie exited the page, Green Bubble gave him a "ding-dong" notification.

The official WeChat account of East River Province No. 1 Key Martial Arts High School sent a notification.

"A martial arts competition will be held within each class tomorrow. Students from all Elite Class who have registered for the competition must arrive at the station before 10:00 AM tomorrow, otherwise they will be considered to have forfeited."

After reading the message, Chen Lie put away his Communicator.

Soon, the Flying Bus arrived at the station, and Chen Lie got off and went home.

The next day, Chen Lie went to school early in the morning.

Upon entering the Elite Campus, he noticed that there were significantly more students than usual.

It's likely because the School Martial Competition competition has attracted all its Elite Student to the school.

Arriving at Elite Class 5, Chen Lie entered the classroom and found it completely empty.

So Chen Lie went outside and looked around, only to find that the Duel Platform next to the classroom was surrounded by a crowd of people:

Looking around, Chen Lie recognized the people gathered around the Duel Platform; many of them were students from Elite Class 5. So he walked towards the Duel Platform.

A row of seats was set up in Duel Platform. Hong Chengshuo from Elite Class 5 and the students from the two schools would sit in the seats in front of the Duel Platform.

Upon seeing Chen Lie, a student immediately exclaimed, "Professor, Chen Lie has arrived!"

Hong Chengshuo nodded, looked up and saw Chen Lie, and waved to Chen Lie Chen Lie to come over.

Chen Lie walked over and called out, "Mentor."

"Hmm." Hong Chengshuo Chen Liedao, "Chen Lie, let me introduce you. These two are the deans of students in the Ordinary Class, Director Gao and Director Zheng. They came here specifically to observe and supervise the class competition."

Why don't you come over and say hello to them?

Chen Lie nodded and greeted the two deans of students from the Ordinary Class next to Hong Chengshuo: "Director Gao, Director Zheng, hello."

The deans of the two Ordinary Class also nodded.

Hong Chengshuo explained, "Director Gao, Director Zheng, this student Chen Lie is among the Elite Student Top 100 Ranking, with Blood Qi Value approaching three digits."

More than a dozen students in our class with Blood Qi Value exceeding 30 all requested that Chen Lie be directly promoted to the school-wide martial arts competition.

That makes sense to me. After all, the student with the highest Blood Qi Value in our Elite Class 5 only has a little over 60 Blood Qi Value. There's really no need for a student who made it into the Elite Student Top 100 Ranking to bully the weak here.

Didn't all the Elite Student in Elite Class 1, whose abilities were inferior to Chen Lie's, advance directly?

So how about we just let Chen Lie advance directly?

The Ordinary Class, surnamed Zheng, asked, "Your Blood Qi Value have exceeded 100, why weren't you transferred to the Elite Class 1?"

Chen Lie said, "I think being in Elite Class 5 is pretty good."

"Show me your Elite Student ID," Director Zheng said.

Chen Lie immediately took out his Elite Student ID from his pocket and handed it to Director Zheng.

Director Zheng took a look and nodded leisurely, saying, "Not bad, they are students on the Elite Student Top 100 Ranking."

Then let's take one spot and go straight to the general level.

As he spoke, Director Zheng showed Chen Lie's Elite Student ID to Director Gao next to him, and then returned the Elite Student ID to Chen Lie.

Hong Chengshuo led Chen Lie to the prize collection area for the martial arts competition and directly gave Chen Lie the prize for being among the top ten in the class.

He then instructed, "Chen Lie, your strength is formidable. Take these resources and use the time to further increase your Blood Qi Value."

"We aim to finish in the top 50 in tomorrow's martial arts competition."

"Good!"

Chen Lie nodded, accepted the reward for being among the top ten in the class martial arts competition—ten kilograms of Exotic Beast Meat and two Energy Potion —and then left the school directly.

Back home, Chen Lie went to the living room, sat on the sofa, and consumed all ten pounds of Exotic Beast Meat and two Energy Potion.

This ten catties of Exotic Beast Meat is the most ordinary First-Order Exotic Beast Meat, with very little nutritional value.

After consuming two Energy Potion and ten pounds of Exotic Beast Meat, Chen Lie didn't even need to circulate the <Flood Dragon Rebirth Technique>; his body automatically absorbed the energy.

"I wonder if all of these things combined will be enough to boost my health by two cards."

Chen Lie shook his head, threw the Energy Potion bottle and the packaging of the Exotic Beast Meat into the trash can, and then turned on the TV to watch.

The Blue Star Satellite TV on television is broadcasting reports on the situation of the Exotic Beast on the Northwest Border Defense.

"The situation of Exotic Beast emerging from the depths of Kunlun Ruins is becoming increasingly serious."

At this time, over a dozen Grandmaster-level Exotic Beast could emerge from the Beast Den every year. No wonder Blue Star perished in the Exotic Beast tide twenty years later.

Chen Lie knew very well that the current Grandmaster-level Exotic Beast were just appetizers.

When the entrance to the underground Beast Den in Kunlun Ruins expands again, and several Grandmaster- level Exotic Beast emerge within a single day, that will truly be the beginning of a nightmare.

Chen Lie didn't know how many Grandmaster- level Martial Artist there were on Blue Star, but he was certain there wouldn't be many.

As for whether Blue Star has Martial Artist above the Grandmaster level, Chen Lie believes it is highly unlikely.

Even if Blue Star had Martial Artist above the Grandmaster level, it couldn't withstand the endless stream of Exotic Beast emerging from the Beast Den every day.

Given the martial arts level on Blue Star, it would take two or more Grandmaster -level Martial Artist of the same rank to deal with a single Grandmaster- level Exotic Beast.

Just then, Chen Xingyao pushed open the door and returned home.

Upon seeing Chen Lie, Chen Xingyao asked, "Brother, what are you doing at home?"

My tutor in the Key Class told me that today we're having Martial Arts Grand Competition competition among the elite students.

Your Blood Qi Value have already exceeded 40, right? You should have no problem getting into the top ten of your class, right?

Why didn't you participate in the martial arts competition?

I went straight to the general level.

"Direct advancement?"

Chen Xingyao couldn't help but wonder, "Can we directly advance to the basic level?"

Chen Lie said, "Sure, as long as your strength far surpasses that of others."

"Your strength far surpasses others? How big of a gap would that be?"

"How come the Elite Class are so weak now? 40 calories of Blood Qi Value are enough to give them a huge advantage over everyone else in the Elite Class?"

Who said my Blood Qi Value is only 40 calories?

Chen Xingyao asked in confusion, "Not 40 calories? Then how many is it?"

"Three digits," Chen Liedao.

"How could it be three digits? Three months ago, when we tested your Blood Qi Value together at the Martial Arts Hall, you only had 0.8-something calories."

Even if your Blood Qi Value increase very quickly, there's a limit.

Chen Lie said, "You can check the Top 100 Ranking 100 elite students in the school."

After saying that, Chen Lie got up and went back to his room.

With a skeptical attitude, Chen Xingyao picked up the Communicator and entered the information on the school's official website to search for the students on the Elite Student Top 100 Ranking.

She started by checking the first place, looking at each one one by one.

When she saw "Chen Lie" ranked 98th on the Elite Student Top 100 Ranking, she couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"How is that possible? My brother made it into the Elite Student Top 100 Ranking?"

She knew that the Elite Student Top 100 Ranking Elite Student on the list were the school's most Elite Student.

Even if the elite students who made the list don't have Blood Qi Value that's not in the triple digits, it's certainly close to it.

"Has my brother really undergone a complete transformation?"

Staring at the names on the Elite Student Top 100 Ranking on the Communicator screen, Chen Xingyao remained lost in thought for a long time.

On December 22, the Martial Arts Grand Competition of Dongchuan No. 1 Key Martial Arts High School in East River Province was held as scheduled.

On that day, the school leaders invited a reporter from East River Province TV Station to record the entire event, and the recording was broadcast on East River Satellite TV a week later.

On this day, Chen Lie arrived at school early and, led by his mentor Hong Chengshuo, went to the venue where the martial arts competition was being held.

There were hundreds of Elite Student in the Martial Competition Arena.

At this moment, the school's loudspeaker began to broadcast. "Hello everyone."

Today is the day of the school's annual year-end skills competition.

The students present are all top performers in the school; I hope they will achieve good results in the upcoming martial arts competition.

"As you all saw, the school invited the Provincial TV Station to film the entire event today. Students who achieve a ranking in this competition will not only receive generous rewards from the school, but will also enjoy the highest honor."

"To facilitate filming by the television station, we will be holding the martial arts competition in two separate venues."

"Please proceed in an orderly manner, led by your respective instructors, to the Blood Essence Detector on the north side of the square to have your blood and qi tested."

After the broadcast started, the Elite Student from the fifteen classes, led by their respective instructors, headed to the Qi and Blood testing point in the north of the square to have their Qi and Blood tested.

"Class, follow me, and pay attention to the sequence."

Hong Chengshuo led the group of ten students from Elite Class 5 to the blood and qi testing station to queue up.

Five Blood Essence Detector were set up in the school square.

Each Blood Essence Detector can measure a person's blood and qi in almost one minute.

Soon, it was the turn of Elite Class 5 to be tested.

"Elite Student ID cards. Those whose names I call, please come up here for a blood and qi test."

School staff began collecting Elite Student ID from the ten students in Elite Class 5. Chen Lie, along with the other students, handed in his Elite Student ID.

A short while later, the staff began taking attendance.

"Xie Bingyang, come up here to have your Qi and blood checked."

A student named Xie Bingyang immediately went up and stood in the scanning area of Blood Essence Detector.

The blue light scanned the area, Blood Qi Value were measured.

"Beep, test complete. Blood Qi Value: 43.13 calories."

After Xie Bingyang finished the test, he immediately went downstairs.

"Next, Qiu Yongfei, come up for a blood and qi test."

The staff kept calling out names, and after several people had passed by, they finally called on Chen Lie.

"Next, Chen Lie, come up for a blood and qi test."

Chen Lie moved to the side, out of the crowd, and into the scanning area of Blood Essence Detector, ready to have his blood and qi tested.

A beam of blue light swept across, Blood Essence Detector began to announce the test results.

"Beep, test complete. Blood Qi Value: 142.31 calories."

"How many?"

The staff responsible for testing the blood and qi were also taken aback by the test results.

"Holy crap! This is the strength of someone in the top 20 of the Elite Student Top 100 Ranking. How could they have been lurking in our Elite Class 5 all this time?"

"Luckily, yesterday's class martial arts competition allowed him to advance directly; my Blood Qi Value aren't even a fraction of his."

"Zhang Hun and Zhang Xun, those two brothers, are really asking for trouble with such beings. They must have a death wish! Crippled their arms; that's too good for them."

The students in Elite Class 5 were all discussing it.

At this moment, even Hong Chengshuo, the tutor of Elite Class 5, was speechless.

Chen Lie's blood energy test result was only in the ninety-something kcal range last time, how come it's suddenly so high?

In less than an hour, the Blood Qi Value tests for all 150 Elite Student in the fifteen Elite Class were completed.

At that moment, the school's loudspeaker started playing again.

"Dear students, in order to save time during the competition, the school will divide the competition areas."

The dividing line is 80 calories of Blood Qi Value.

Students with 80 or more Blood Qi Value will compete in the First Competition Zone, while students with less than 80 Blood Qi Value will compete in the Second Competition Zone.

The martial arts competitions on both sides will proceed simultaneously until both sides have finished.

The top twenty students in the Second Competition Zone can challenge students from the First Competition Zone. If they win, the student from the Second Competition Zone will take their place in the First Competition Zone.

"Students can take out their Communicator and check which competition region they have been assigned to on the school's Green Bubble WeChat official account."

"Alright, without further ado, students, please proceed to your respective competition areas immediately. The year-end Campus Martial Arts Competition is about to begin!"

Within the plaza of the school's Elite Campus, there are two large Martial Arts Arena. The Martial Arts Arena on the east side of the plaza is the First Competition Zone, and the Martial Arts Arena on the west side is the second competition area.

Chen Lie picked up his Communicator and checked it. He had been assigned to the First Competition Zone, so he went to the Martial Arts Arena on the east side.

At this moment, the Martial Arts Arena in the First Competition Zone was already filled with students watching.

Today is the day of a big event, with the Elite Campus open to the public, which has attracted many students from Ordinary Class, as well as parents of students who are participating in the competition, to come and watch.

In contrast, there were far fewer people in the Second Competition Zone.

Because everyone knows perfectly well that the students from the First Campus are the true elites of the school, and the top ten in the whole school can only come from the First Campus.

Upon arriving at the First Competition Zone, Chen Lie waited beside the Martial Arts Arena.

About ten minutes later, the school's loudspeaker blared again.

"Please be quiet, students. The school hereby officially announces that the annual Martial Arts Grand Competition of East River Province's No. 1 Key Martial Arts High School is now beginning." Next, when your name is called, please come up on stage immediately to compete. If you do not come up on stage within three minutes, you will be considered to have forfeited, and your opponent will advance directly.

After going on stage, first state your name and Blood Qi Value. You may only begin fighting after hearing the start of the martial arts competition.

"In the first round of the martial arts competition, Meng Xiangyang from Elite Class 1 will face Ning Shanshan from Elite Class 2."

After the school broadcast ended, a male and a female student went up onto the stage at the same time from opposite sides of the Martial Arts Arena.

"Elite Class 1, Meng Xiangyang, Blood Qi Value: 91.63 kcal."

"Elite Class 2, Ning Shanshan, Blood Qi Value: 87.96 kcal."

The two students went onto the Martial Arts Arena and, according to the rules, reported their Blood Qi Value to each other.

Just then, the loudspeaker announced, "The martial arts competition begins!"