Courted by all sides

"Meow!"

As one of the Shadow Cats let out an enraged cry, all the Shadow Cats lunged at Li Xin together.

Li Xin remained calm and composed. The Eternal Divine Brain worked furiously, calculating every movement of all eight Shadow Cats with perfect clarity.

Surrounded by eight Shadow Cats, Li Xin moved as leisurely as if he were strolling through a courtyard, dodging their claws with the smallest possible movements each time.

This made the Shadow Cats think they were only a hair away from killing the human before them. What they did not realize was that a miss was as good as a mile.

Li Xin held out against the eight Shadow Cats for ten minutes without ever letting them so much as touch his clothes.

"Now, let's try out my swordsmanship!"

Li Xin stopped merely dodging. He aimed the Blood Shadow Battle Sword in his hand at a Shadow Cat's throat and slashed horizontally. This time, he did not use his full strength. Instead, he controlled his force, merely slicing open its throat rather than severing its neck.

Splurt!!!

His sword strike was not particularly fast, yet the Shadow Cat, renowned for its speed, had no chance to dodge. It even looked as though it had run straight into Li Xin's sword.

In just five seconds, he delivered eight strikes, each one slicing open a Shadow Cat's throat with perfect precision.

In the end, all eight Shadow Cats lay on the ground, blood gushing from their throats as their monstrous eyes rolled back and they died.

"Even though I calculated everything beforehand, I still didn't control the force properly when I struck. I used too much strength!"

"Is my physical coordination unable to keep up with my thinking? I can only make up for that through constant practice."

Although he had killed eight Shadow Cats, he was not satisfied. After all, his predecessor's swordsmanship had been merely average, nothing exceptional.

"I've got time right now, so I might as well practice my swordsmanship through actual combat. My body's sword strikes always differ quite a bit from the calculations in my head!"

After cutting off the nine Shadow Cats' left ears and putting them into his backpack, he continued searching for monsters to practice against.

With the Eternal Divine Brain's powerful computational ability, grasping swordsmanship was not difficult for him. The hard part was controlling his body so that it could keep up with the speed of his thoughts. That would require the experience accumulated through prolonged, constant combat.

"Quick, lock onto the Quasi-Martial Artist on camera thirty-two!"

In the monitoring room, the supervising officer's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately shouted at the camera operator.

"Liu, did you find someone promising?"

Hearing this, the other examiners came over as well to see what was going on.

"Damn, I let my guard down!"

At the sight, Major General Liu's expression darkened. He felt he had gotten too excited just now and drawn all these people over.

"Whoa, this kid is impressive! He's strolling around under attack from eight Shadow Cats. That's Micro-Level movement!"

"Look, after killing the Shadow Cats, he's started practicing his swordsmanship against ten Tiger Mastiffs. His swordsmanship may be ordinary, but it's growing sharper bit by bit as he fights them. It's like he's improving every single moment."

"A genius. He's definitely a genius! Does anyone have his information?"

As the examiners in the monitoring room watched Li Xin on the screen, their eyes gleamed.

Without a doubt, Li Xin was now a dazzling genius in their eyes-the kind of gifted martial artist their various factions most wanted to recruit!

"I found his information. His name is Li Xin, and he comes from a small family with a War General Level martial artist. He's a student of the Extreme Martial Hall, currently nineteen years old. He became a Quasi-Martial Artist a month ago and hasn't joined any faction."

Before long, someone had dug up Li Xin's information.

"Nineteen, and he hasn't joined any faction?"

At these words, the examiners' eyes shone even brighter. One after another, they found excuses to leave, then took out their phones to report Li Xin's situation to their superiors.

"The assessment is over. All Quasi-Martial Artists, come out!"

Once the allotted time was up, the announcement sounded from every Quasi-Martial Artist's communication device. They left Monster Town and returned to the square where they had gathered earlier.

"Take out the left ears of the monsters you killed!"

Officers were already waiting in the square, ready for the Quasi-Martial Artists to come out.

"Lin Yifeng, eight monster left ears, injured left leg."

"Fu Lingchuan, three monster left ears, injured left arm."

"Chu Jingyi, two monster left ears, no injuries."

"Li Xin, three hundred and eight monster left ears, no injuries."

When the officer called Li Xin's name, his voice was noticeably louder than before.

"What? Three hundred and eight? Who is he? How can he be so strong?"

"I saw him. Even after more than a dozen monsters surrounded him, he killed them all without a scratch. He's more of a monster than the monsters!"

"Li Xin? I've never heard that name. Is he another genius from some family?"

Hearing the officer's words, everyone present stared in shock at Li Xin, who stood at the front.

"How is that possible? How could his strength have improved so quickly?"

Liu Yifan knew Li Xin's strength very well. They had fought before, and the match had ended in a draw. He himself had only managed to collect eight monster left ears, so how had Li Xin gotten three hundred and eight?

"So you're this strong. No wonder you didn't want to team up with me!"

Chu Hanling looked at Li Xin up ahead, a hint of mixed emotion in her eyes.

"The director of the Extreme Martial Hall, the director of the Thunder Dojo, and a major general from the Military! My God, so many important people are here!"

Just then, a group of important figures approached from outside Monster Town. Every one of them held a position far beyond the reach of these Quasi-Martial Artists.

"Li Xin, I'm Mu Jiaxiang, a director at the Thunder Dojo's central association. First, let me congratulate you on passing the martial artist assessment and becoming a true martial artist."

"On behalf of the Thunder Dojo, I invite you to join us."

"If you join the Thunder Dojo, we can provide you with fifty million in starting funds, along with three manuals on movement, the Guidance Technique, and attack techniques, worth no more than two hundred million in total."

"We can also sign a Special Training Contract with you through the Thunder Dojo's Global Headquarters. You should know that our Thunder Dojo has issued only three such training contracts worldwide this year. Yours would be the fourth."

As the important figures approached together, Mu Jiaxiang suddenly picked up speed and reached Li Xin first.

"Damn that Mu Jiaxiang! He went back on his word!"

Seeing Mu Jiaxiang's shameless behavior, the others began cursing inwardly. But they were no slower to act, afraid Li Xin might accept his offer on the spot.