City of Light Chasing, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
The blazing sun hung overhead. It was noon, a time when undocumented drifters should have been resting, yet the newly built martial arts hall courtyard was packed with over a thousand people at apprentice level or above, lined up in a long queue. Every one of them stared fervently at the grand and imposing Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, their eyes brimming with longing.
Before the martial arts hall's newly constructed courtyard, a luxury sedan slowly stopped at the entrance. Two beautiful Half-Scale Race women stepped out, drawing countless brightened eyes from the drifters in line. But upon seeing the Phosphor Fire Gang emblem on the luxury car, they all hurriedly lowered their heads, not daring to glance again.
"Xia Ling, is this the great place for training you told me about?"
The fiery Half-Scale Race woman, with an oval face, a pert chin, and dark-blue training shorts and a short-sleeved shirt, looked at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall rising from the ruined street before her. Her brows had nearly twisted into a knot.
She and Xia Ling were classmates at City of Light Chasing University, and they had entered the Five Cities Grand Competition together this time. As rivals of roughly equal strength, she had thought the place Xia Ling had specifically invited her to for special training would be somewhere extraordinary. Never had she expected it to be a martial arts hall opened in the abandoned district.
"Zoe, I wasn't lying to you. This really is a great place to train." Xia Ling could not help laughing at Zoe's deeply furrowed brow. "You've heard of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall recently, right? Especially last night, when they sent out six Martial Artists and wiped out the Two-Headed Gang."
"Of course I know