[ Ding, you have entered a Tier-One Abyss ] [ Difficulty: Level 1 ]
"Is this the Abyss?"
Jiang Yuan looked up at the sky. It was dim and lightless. Then he lowered his gaze to the dark ground beneath his feet and stamped on it. It was hard as iron.
With both hands in her jacket pockets, Lin Qingyan lifted her delicate face and said with a hint of disdain, "Same as always. The air is foul and gloomy."
She turned her head and found Jiang Yuan staring at her.
Lin Qingyan asked, "What are you looking at me for?"
"We're both Tier-One Martial Artists, and this is our first time entering the Abyss. Yet you seem so familiar with it, School Belle Lin. You wouldn't happen to..." Jiang Yuan stared intently at her.
Lin Qingyan's heart skipped a beat under his gaze.
Damn it. Could he have realized I'm a reincarnator?
"Roar!"
A ferocious beast howled in the distance, cutting off their conversation. They both turned to look.
"Watch yourself."
Lin Qingyan tossed out the warning and started toward the sound.
But Jiang Yuan, standing beside her, moved faster. He pushed off the ground and shot toward the noise like an arrow.
After learning that a Level 1 beast was worth one merit point—equivalent to ten thousand yuan—he had only one thought left.
Kill!
Killing monsters made him stronger and earned him money. Only an idiot would pass that up!
Lin Qingyan was both startled and furious. "That's my prey!"
She immediately chased after him.
But Jiang Yuan's speed now exceeded a thousand, reaching 300 meters per second—close to the speed of sound. There was no way she could catch up.
"Damn it! How is this guy so fast?!"
"Right, he's an Assassin." Lin Qingyan gritted her teeth.
A fierce wind swept through the places Jiang Yuan passed. To the naked eye, he was just a shadow racing across the land.
"Found it."
A faint golden gleam flashed in Jiang Yuan's eyes. In the distance, he spotted a two-meter-tall wolf-shaped beast standing on a rock, howling up at the sky.
"Appraisal."
[Monster]: Iron-Headed Wolf [Rank]: Common. [Level]: LV4. [Skills]: Bite, Charge. [Note]: A pack-dwelling creature of the Abyss. Its head is hard as iron, it holds a grudge, and it excels at attacking in groups.
"Whoosh!"
Jiang Yuan sprinted across the rugged, rock-strewn terrain, covering a hundred meters in an instant.
The wolf-shaped beast sensed danger and turned its head. By then, Jiang Yuan had already dropped from above and landed right in front of it, his golden eyes cold as death itself.
"!"
Before the Iron-Headed Wolf could react, one punch smashed its hardest part—its head!
"Bang!"
Blood burst out!
The health bar above its head emptied in an instant!
An instant kill!
[ Ding, you killed an Iron-Headed Wolf and gained 40 experience ]
The LV4 Iron-Headed Wolf never even saw its killer.
By the time Lin Qingyan arrived,
the headless wolf-shaped beast had swayed twice before crashing to the ground beside Jiang Yuan.
Even she couldn't help but feel shaken by the sight.
That was way too fast!!
"The experience was a little low, and it didn't drop anything."
Jiang Yuan sounded a little disappointed as he took out his record card. He watched the 0 on it turn into a 1, then couldn't help smiling.
"Ten thousand yuan in the bag."
"Killing beasts is pretty easy."
If any other Tier-One Martial Artist had heard Jiang Yuan say that, they would have been miserable.
Iron-Headed Wolves weren't easy to deal with. They had strong attacks and tough defenses, and they could summon companions. Ordinary Tier-One Martial Artists entering the Abyss for the first time usually worked in teams. They had to go to great lengths, sometimes even risking their lives, just to break through one's defenses and kill it.
Plenty of newcomers had died trying!
Who could just walk in and smash its toughest part with one punch, killing it instantly?
"Awooo!"
"Awooooo!"
Howls rang out from every direction.
Jiang Yuan looked around. "What's going on?"
Not far away, Lin Qingyan stood atop a towering, spike-shaped boulder. "You think it's easy, huh? Let me tell you: these beasts are called Iron-Headed Wolves. They live in packs. Killing one will only bring more."
Jiang Yuan's eyes lit up. "Isn't that even better?"
Lin Qingyan fell silent.
She had never met anyone this hardheaded.
She simply sat down on the boulder, resting her chin in one hand. "Then I'll just see how many you can kill."
As she finished speaking, pairs of green, savage eyes appeared all around Jiang Yuan. A dozen or more health bars emerged above them.
"Clatter."
With the sound of rocks breaking apart and tumbling down,
massive, iron-black bodies hurtled toward Jiang Yuan.
"Roar!"
More than a dozen giant wolves opened their bloody jaws in midair, their teeth gleaming like alloy blades as they aimed to tear the tiny human below to pieces!
But to Jiang Yuan, they were all experience and money!
"So much money!"
His eyes shone with excitement.
He casually tilted his head to dodge one giant wolf's bite.
Then he swung a punch behind him. Terrifying force surged into the wolf's body like a flood. Its body bulged, then burst with a bang, scattering a rain of blood!
[ Ding, you killed an Iron-Headed Wolf. Experience +30 ]
Another instant kill!
A second giant wolf swung its claws down, leaving three cold flashes in the air.
Jiang Yuan raised his arm to block. The claws that could tear through steel left only three white marks on his arm.
He lifted his leg and drove his knee forward.
"Bang!"
The giant wolf's chest caved in completely. Blood sprayed from its gaping mouth, and it crumpled to the ground.
[ Ding, you killed an Iron-Headed Wolf. Experience +40 ] [ Ding, your level has increased. Current level: LV3 ]
He had dealt with two in an instant.
Merit points +2. Level +1.
Before Jiang Yuan could even celebrate,
a giant wolf gathered itself and charged with a roar, hurtling toward him at tremendous speed.
Two meters tall, five meters long, and weighing over three tons, the giant wolf barreled forward at a hundred kilometers per hour like a small truck. The force of its charge was enough to smash through a house.
An ordinary Tier-One Martial Artist caught in its path would be badly injured if they failed to dodge in time.
Jiang Yuan didn't dodge. He reached out with his left hand and stopped the charging wolf by its iron-hard head.
"Bang!"
The enormous impact exploded behind Jiang Yuan, kicking up a gale as dust billowed everywhere.
"Whimper..."
The giant wolf dug its claws into the ground and howled with all its strength, but it couldn't move forward even an inch.
Compared with Jiang Yuan's terrifying stats, these Iron-Headed Wolves below LV10 were nothing!
Jiang Yuan stood perfectly still. With a little effort from his left hand, he lifted the entire giant wolf, then hurled it away.
"Whimper!"
Another giant wolf bit down on Jiang Yuan's arm from the side. He struck back, smashing its steel-like teeth, then punched its head apart, spraying its brains everywhere.
[ Ding, you killed an Iron-Headed Wolf and gained 50 experience ]
More than a dozen giant wolves attacked Jiang Yuan from all sides. He dodged their attacks with ease and countered with punches and kicks. Every strike carried terrifying explosive force, either smashing a wolf's body apart or tearing it in two.
The brutal scenes left Lin Qingyan momentarily stunned.
For a moment, she couldn't tell which side was supposed to be the beasts.
"Is his physique a little too ridiculously strong?" Lin Qingyan murmured to herself. "Even those legendary-class professions with S-rank physical talents didn't seem this monstrous when they first became Tier-One Martial Artists..."
A thought occurred to Lin Qingyan, and her eyes flickered.
"Could it be... that he's hiding his talent and profession, just like me?"
The more she thought about it, the more interested she became in the young man she had met for the first time today.
Less than five minutes later,
giant wolf corpses littered the area around Jiang Yuan, and blood stained the ground red.
Only the young man remained calm.
Lin Qingyan could hardly believe what she was seeing.
She had planned to wait until he ran out of strength and begged for help before stepping in. She hadn't expected him to actually kill all these beasts.
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