[Store Your Brain—Minimum Storage: Two and a Half Years!]
In this high-martial parallel world, Blue Star.
Dragon Country, Third Middle School in Magic City.
"You want to go to the front lines?!"
"Bro, are you kidding me? The National Exam is only two and a half years away, and you insist on throwing your life away?"
"With your grades, getting into Tsinghua and Peking Universities would be a piece of cake! My living ancestor! My forefather! Think this through!"
Inside the office, a bespectacled middle-aged man glared at a young man, looking as though he hated iron for not becoming steel.
The young man stood there quietly with his hands in his pockets, as handsome as Yan Zu, wearing a carefree, unruly expression.
After the middle-aged man had finished venting, he finally said unhurriedly, "Old Qin, everyone has a dream of slaying demons in their heart. Blue Star is about to fall, so what's the point of studying? Better to go one-on-one with demon beasts. If I win, I'll bring glory to my ancestors; if I lose, I'll die with my balls pointing at the sky."
"Bullshit!"
Old Qin slammed his hand on the desk. "Slaying demons is a martial artist's job! It isn't the turn of us ordinary people! Your task is to study hard and pass on the flame of human civilization! Only then will you not betray the sacrifices of those seniors on the front lines!"
"Fang Bai! Your parents went to the front lines to kill enemies and fought for your chance to study so you could remain in this peaceful Magic City. Don't let them down!"
Old Qin had a terrible headache. This brat was a thorn in his side. He was clearly the top student in all of Third Middle School, yet his heart was set on the front lines. He had come to make trouble here seven or eight times already.
He could be a perfectly good civil official, yet he insisted on becoming a brute?
Fang Bai shrugged. "I don't care. If you won't let me go, Old Qin, I'll get a zero on my next exam. You don't want the Principal to demote you, do you?"
Old Qin narrowed his eyes. "Are you threatening me?"
Fang Bai raised an eyebrow and grinned. "How would I dare? Everyone knows you're not only a teacher at Third Middle School, but also a veteran who retired from the front lines!"
After pondering for a moment, Old Qin suddenly said gravely, "Kid, I know you're acting on impulse, but you have no idea how brutal the front lines are! People die almost every day! You understand even less about the current state of this world!"
Fang Bai drawled, "Who says I don't understand?"
"Two hundred years ago, an otherworldly space appeared on Blue Star. Endless monsters poured out of it, sweeping across the entire world in just half a year and cutting humanity's population in half!"
"Those monsters were incredibly ferocious. Conventional weapons had little effect on them unless nuclear missiles were used. Later, scientists researched the monsters' corpses and discovered all kinds of elemental energies. By injecting them into their bodies, humans could gain the power to contend with demon beasts! They became known as martial artists."
"After the second generation, humanity no longer needed elemental injections. They inherited the bloodlines of the previous generation's martial artists and could awaken when the time came!"
Old Qin looked at him in astonishment. "Where did you learn all that?"
Fang Bai waved the phone in his hand. "Old Qin, don't you know there's AI now?"
Old Qin: "..."
After a moment of silence, Old Qin said flatly, "Since you know all this, then you should understand that ordinary people can't fight demon beasts. Only martial artists can contend against them. You're just an ordinary person... Huh?!"
Before he could finish, Old Qin's eyes abruptly widened as he stared fixedly at Fang Bai's hand.
Like a magic trick, a ball of lightning suddenly appeared in Fang Bai's palm, crackling and exploding!
Fang Bai flashed a mouthful of white teeth and smiled. "Old Qin, I'm a martial artist too!"
Old Qin: "..."
After leaving Old Qin's office, Fang Bai stretched lazily.
"Peaceful life is way too boring!"
His name was Fang Bai—Fang Bai from Earth!
For some reason, he had gone to sleep and woken up transported into this high-martial world.
This world was even more absurd than he had imagined.
A single wall divided Dragon Country into two worlds!
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Beyond the wall, demon beasts ran rampant. Humans possessed powers beyond civilization's understanding and used them to keep the hordes of demon beasts outside the wall!
Within the wall, countless homes glowed with lights. Ordinary people lived and worked in peace, protected like flowers in a greenhouse.
Fang Bai had landed the ultimate opening hand the moment he arrived here. Both of his parents were kings. His father, Fang Tiandao, was a Sixth Order Fire Element martial artist, while his mother, Bai Ying, was a Sixth Order Wind Element martial artist. Even now, they were outside the wall, slaughtering demon beasts!
As for Fang Bai, he had finally awakened his Golden Finger a week ago—the Demon-Slaying Rebate System (Speedrun Edition).
Slaying demon beasts could make him stronger!
With a cheat like this, why study?
With a thought, a virtual interface that only he could see appeared before his eyes.
[Demon-Slaying Rebate System (Speedrun Edition)] [Slaughter demon beasts to obtain rebates!] [Character: Fang Bai] [Age: 18] [Talent: ???] [Attribute: Lightning Element (Current)] [Level: First Order Beginner] [Skill: Ten Times Crit Rate! (Permanent), First Order Innate Attribute Skill—Lightning Bullet...] [Main Quest: Slay ten First Order demon beasts within one month! (0/10)] [Penalty for Quest Failure: System self-destructs!] [Evaluation: Studying isn't the only way out. How could slaying demons to save the world be a mistake?]
Fang Bai looked at the quest failure penalty with a trace of melancholy on his face.
There were only three weeks left until the month was up. Where was he supposed to find ten demon beasts?
"But Old Qin has already gone to ask around for me. Hopefully, it works out."
Fang Bai stopped dwelling on it and hummed a tune all the way back to the classroom.
The moment he stepped inside, a fragrant breeze rushed toward him.
A girl was already standing before him. Her almond-shaped eyes were framed by lashes as long as butterfly wings, her nose delicate and elegant, her rosy lips red without any makeup. Her silky black hair was loosely tied in a low bun, with a few stray strands falling beside her fair neck, making her skin look as smooth as congealed cream and gleam like pearls beneath the sunlight.
She seemed to be the center of the crowd, and everyone's gaze followed her.
Fang Bai glanced at the girl before he could speak, but she cut him off. "Fang Bai, this is where we end!"
Fang Bai: "???"
What was going on? Where the hell had this dropped him?
He knew the girl before him, and knew her well. Shen Lin, the school beauty of Third Middle School in Magic City, was also Fang Bai's neighbor. They were practically childhood sweethearts.
Their families were close as well, so Fang Bai had always taken good care of Shen Lin at school. In outsiders' eyes, they looked like a couple.
But honestly, Fang Bai had never dated Shen Lin. He had not even kissed her. So why had she suddenly come out saying it was over?
Making something out of nothing?
Shen Lin looked at the young man before her and said indifferently, "Fang Bai, although my parents and your parents are close friends, I don't have those kinds of feelings for you. You may be outstanding, but I've already found a boyfriend. So I'm grateful for all the care you've given me, but you don't need to be nice to me anymore! Because someone treats me better than you do! And he's more outstanding than you too!"
"Stay away from me from now on. Otherwise, I'm afraid my boyfriend will get angry if he sees us."
"So you'd better take care of yourself!"
After saying that, Shen Lin proudly lifted her chin like a noble white swan.
Fang Bai's shock turned into pity as he slowly spat out, "Idiot~!"
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