Rapidly Soaring Punch Power!

The Cultivation Room was on the third floor.

Ye Li's exclusive Cultivation Room was located near the edge.

After he swiped his waist badge, the door opened automatically.

Ye Li stepped inside and looked around.

The Cultivation Room covered roughly two hundred square meters. Its facilities were refined and spotless, and the surrounding walls were inscribed with arrays that gathered spiritual energy. Once activated with the waist badge, they could significantly speed up cultivation within the room.

Besides that, it had a Punch Power Tester, Blood Qi Intensity Detector, recorder, Mental Detector... everything was there.

No wonder Teacher Yang had watched for my reaction with such anticipation. This Cultivation Room really was incredible.

As Ye Li looked around, he nodded slightly, in an excellent mood.

Not only had three thousand Malice Points fallen from the sky, but he had also gained a Cultivation Room for free.

A Cultivation Room like this would cost at least several thousand Hanxia Coins a day outside.

It had saved him quite a bit of money.

Fang Ming followed behind him. Looking at the pleased profile of the young man's face, he could not shake the feeling that this was unreal.

Based on the past, his friend should have been utterly obedient to Shen Lian.

Let alone acting as a punching bag—if Shen Lian merely crooked a finger, even if she told Ye Li to give up something important, he would have done it.

It was not just Shen Lian who thought so. Even Fang Ming had believed it.

But what Fang Ming never could have imagined, even if beaten to death, was that Ye Li had actually gone on a killing spree just now, punching Shen Lian so hard she could not even stand...

That was fucking awesome!

That was so cool!!

The earlier scene flashed through his mind. Fang Ming took a deep breath and pinched his thigh hard, confirming that he was not dreaming.

Pain shot up from his thigh. Everything before him was indeed real.

He swallowed, carefully choosing his words before asking:

"Brother Ye, what... happened to you today?"

"What do you mean, what happened?" Ye Li turned to look at him, asking in confusion.

"I mean..." Fang Ming gestured wildly with both hands, only managing to squeeze out a sentence after a long while:

"Why did you suddenly stop indulging that Shen Lian?"

"Why should I indulge her?" Ye Li frowned and said matter-of-factly:

"She pointed at my nose and cursed me. It was like she had 'Hurry up and hit me' written all over her face. Of course I had to satisfy her."

"...That's true."

Hearing that, Fang Ming nodded heavily. Driven by his curiosity, he asked another question:

"Brother Ye, what is your cultivation level now?"

Yesterday, he had still been First-Tier Level Three. Today, he could one-punch a formal member of the School Team into defeat...

If he had not witnessed it himself, Fang Ming would never have believed it.

Ye Li's gaze swept over the array patterns on the wall.

After hearing him, he answered casually, "I just entered First-Tier Level Eight."

The accurate answer was actually First-Tier Level Eight Peak.

But Ye Li had only advanced that afternoon, so saying he had just entered First-Tier Level Eight was not wrong.

Ye Li had no intention of concealing his strength.

For one, he had a good relationship with Fang Ming. That much trust was warranted.

For another, he might not even be at this level tomorrow.

Yet even so, Fang Ming's expression still revealed obvious shock.

Fang Ming said, "No, bro?"

"So you've been hiding your strength all this time?"

"Why put yourself through that! If you'd shown your strength earlier, our school would have worshipped you like an ancestor... Well, maybe that's a bit exaggerated, since there's still a monster like Senior Jiang above you."

Fang Ming said excitedly:

"But even if we don't compare you to Senior Jiang, Brother Ye, you're already one of the best in our school! There probably aren't many people in the entire School Team stronger than you!

"Senior Jiang counts as one, Vice Captain Liu Yangde counts as one, and is there anyone else besides them? No!

"Why are we still being substitutes? Brother Ye, just wait. I'll go talk to Teacher Yang later and make sure she gives you the status of a formal team member!"

Fang Ming counted on his fingers as he grew more and more excited. Finally, he shot to his feet and headed for the door.

"Close the door behind you," Ye Li waved.

"Got it, Brother!"

After Fang Ming left, Ye Li slowly walked over to the Punch Power Tester.

The last time he had tested his punch power had been last time.

Now that he had the chance, it would be good to test his current punch power.

Ye Li lowered his waist into a horse stance. True qi circulated through his body as his right fist began gathering power, then he suddenly threw it out!

His fist was like a cannonball leaving the barrel, smashing heavily into the testing sandbag before him.

Bang!

With a dull boom, the numbers on the machine jumped rapidly: "645 kilograms!"

"So high?"

Ye Li was somewhat surprised. That number had already surpassed the limits of humanity in his memories of his previous life.

Had he finally stopped being human?

Ye Li chuckled, then turned and walked to the array's control hub, placing his silver waist badge inside.

Buzz—

The array patterns on the walls lit up one after another. Amid a faint hum, Ye Li could feel the concentration of spiritual energy around him steadily rising.

"No time to lose. Let's begin another round of adding points!"

Ye Li found a suitable place to sit. With the proper cultivation boost available, adding points to his cultivation level was the most suitable choice.

[Current Malice Points: 3700]

[Ding! 1000 Malice Points consumed!]

[Beginning cultivation level enhancement!]

[C-Grade Spirit Gathering Array detected. Your cultivation speed has increased by 10%!]

[Accelerating cultivation...!]

[Cultivation complete. Blood qi has greatly increased!]

[Current Level: First-Tier Peak (Complete)!]

[Evaluation: The array's enhancement effect is remarkably effective. This gain is equivalent to seven years of bitter cultivation!]

Ye Li's blood qi surged stronger once more, while the cluster of true qi within his body rapidly expanded.

In an instant, surging true qi filled every part of his body. This was precisely the sign of stepping into First-Tier Peak!

"This array's effect is only slightly worse than spiritual medicine, but spiritual medicine is hard to obtain, while this array is permanent..." Feeling his growing strength, Ye Li murmured with some emotion:

"No wonder the School Team is far stronger than ordinary Martial Science Students. This is the double crushing force of resources and talent."

After pondering for two seconds, he walked straight over to the Punch Power Tester and raised his dark eyes.

After simply adjusting his breathing, Ye Li lightly pressed his palm against the testing sandbag and exhaled deeply.

Then, at the very instant he exhaled, his waist and abdomen twisted, his right foot drove into the ground, and his palm clenched into a fist.

He unleashed it explosively within an inch!

Bang!

A dull explosion even louder than before rang out, and a number appeared clearly on the tester's screen:

"885 kilograms!"

The punch power standard for First-Tier Peak should have been eight hundred kilograms, yet Ye Li's punch power surpassed that number by no small margin.

Ye Li looked at the number, his expression calm as he chuckled inwardly.

"Reasonable. After all, other people raise their cultivation through training, leaving it flimsy and unstable." The corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

"While I have raised mine step by step by adding system points!"

"The difference between us is clear at a glance!"

What Ye Li did not know was that this Punch Power Tester was connected to the school database in real time.

At that moment, his punch power ranking had surged directly into second place in the entire school.

He was second only to Jiang Qingzhu, Linhai First High School's publicly acknowledged genius.

And the Guidance Teacher responsible for the relevant data had not yet noticed this phenomenon.