Dogs that bite

After leaving the exam room, Xu Yuan told Little Blackie to go home on his own, while he waited downstairs for Fatty so they could head to the base together.

He waited a while, but instead of Fatty, Huang Yun came down first.

Xu Yuan's gaze shifted slightly, and he gave Huang Yun a friendly smile.

After all, he had copied her entire exam paper, and with two more subjects to go, he might need to keep copying. A smile was only right.

Huang Yun was rather puzzled, but the eyes of the two girls beside her lit up, their gossiping souls instantly bursting into flame!

"Why is Xu Yuan smiling so brightly at you, Yunyun? Could he have a crush on you?"

The girl named Lin Qingqing poked Huang Yun with a finger, waggling her eyebrows.

The other girl, Chen Jiayu, chimed in, "He definitely does! He's really got some nerve, though. How could he possibly be worthy of our Yunyun? Right, Yunyun?"

Huang Yun shook her head. "I'm not interested in him, but don't talk about whether he's worthy or not. He's pretty impressive now."

"Do you mean his martial arts talent or his money-making? I don't think either is anything special."

Chen Jiayu was rather disdainful. "No matter how talented he is at martial arts, there's a limit to what he can achieve with a first-tier divine talent. As for making money, that's just petty cleverness."

Huang Yun glanced at her and said no more.

This girl was a notorious blabbermouth in their class, and she loved spreading rumors. Huang Yun was afraid that if she said another couple of good words about Xu Yuan, by evening the story would become that she liked him.

Xu Yuan vaguely overheard their conversation and couldn't help giving Chen Jiayu a couple of extra looks.

This girl seemed to be the one who had said in the group chat that Luo Yaoxi might be Niu Gang's kept woman.

Come to think of it, people in the group had initially speculated that Luo Yaoxi had awakened, but later, nobody discussed it anymore.

Thinking of Luo Yaoxi's ability to make people overlook her, Xu Yuan wondered whether her ability was also why nobody discussed her.

If that really was the case, Luo Yaoxi's ability was a little frightening. It could actually influence so many people without a trace.

As his thoughts wandered, Xu Yuan suddenly sensed intense malice.

He frowned and looked over, only to see Zhou Ling staring at him coldly.

A chill ran through Xu Yuan's heart. Before, being stared at by this guy had merely annoyed him, but after seeing his name and crimes on the Beast Ranking, it was no longer that simple.

It didn't matter, though. Zhou Ling was already his next target to deal with.

And he didn't intend to give Zhou Ling a chance to lower his sin points. He would simply finish him off.

He hadn't killed Sun Hao because he felt Sun Hao's crimes didn't warrant death.

But Zhou Ling-unlawful imprisonment, torture, intentional homicide... he absolutely deserved to die ten thousand deaths!

Not to mention that this beast bore him so much inexplicable malice. If he didn't kill someone like that, was he supposed to keep him around for New Year?

However, he wasn't yet confident he could kill Zhou Ling.

Although he had reached skin grinding third stage the day before yesterday, with a standard punching force of fifteen hundred jin, comparable to an ordinary skin grinding seventh stage martial artist, Zhou Ling's punching force had already approached two thousand jin during the assessment.

With two Transformation Realm martial techniques, he could fight Zhou Ling, but he wasn't particularly confident of killing him yet.

Besides, he still needed to wait for his first demon descent mark to condense. That way, after killing him, he could immediately use Demon Descent to get away from the scene.

After all, this wasn't a completely lawless world. If he couldn't get away promptly after killing Zhou Ling, he could very well be caught by the Martial Suppression Department.

As for his original plan of assuming Master Bao's identity and seeking out Lin Xiao once the mark condensed, Xu Yuan decided to put that on hold.

Some things were more urgent than others. Dealing with Zhou Ling first was more important.

"You don't seem afraid of me?"

Just then, Zhou Ling suddenly spoke.

You're just a reward waiting to be claimed. What's there to fear?

Xu Yuan sneered inwardly, but nothing unusual showed on his face. "We have no quarrel or grudge. Why should I be afraid of you?"

He wanted to see whether saying this could draw out why Zhou Ling bore him malice, but Zhou Ling said nothing and walked straight toward the school gate.

Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly. Dogs that bite don't bark. The sooner I deal with him, the better!

He sensed the demon descent mark inside his body. It would probably take another ten-odd days to condense.

And ten-odd days would be enough for him to reach skin-polishing fifth stage!

By then, with a standard punching force of twenty-five hundred jin, he would be confident of killing Zhou Ling even without using his Transformation Realm martial techniques!

As he thought, Xu Yuan suddenly stirred his mind. "Little Black, you haven't left school yet, have you?"

"Not yet, Master. I found a calico at school that I've never seen before. I'm going to add her to my harem!"

Xu Yuan: "???"

You've even got a fucking harem?

"Leave that for now. Wait at the school gate and help me tail someone!"

"Aw, all right..."

Little Blackie was a little reluctant, but he still darted out of the flower bed and raced toward the school gate.

He had already left his scent on that calico anyway. No cat around here would dare compete with him!

Xu Yuan activated his shared five senses with Little Blackie and soon spotted Zhou Ling walking toward the school gate.

"That's him. Follow him. I need to know his address and his usual movements. Also, don't get too close. It's fine if you lose him. Don't let him notice you!" Xu Yuan cautioned.

An ordinary person being followed by a cat would probably think, Does this cat like me? Since we've hit it off so well, maybe I should adopt it?

But Zhou Ling, that beast, clearly wasn't an ordinary person. If he noticed a cat following him, he might well turn around, grab it, and kill it.

"Understood, Master. I guarantee I'll complete the mission!"

Little Blackie cupped his paws in salute from afar, then silently followed behind Zhou Ling.

Xu Yuan disconnected their shared five senses. By then, Fatty had also emerged from the laboratory building.

Jiang Yong came out at the same time.

"Tomorrow's Saturday. Have you prepared your divine medicinal liquid?"

As soon as he saw Xu Yuan, Jiang Yong asked coldly.

He had broken through to skin tempering sixth stage on Tuesday. For the past two days, instead of cultivating at the base, he had paid for practical combat training at a martial arts school.

Although he hadn't trained for long, he was now supremely confident that he could thrash Xu Yuan like a dog in the ring!

"Young people really are hotheaded. How about this? Give me another fifty thousand, and I'll go easy on you tomorrow, so you don't get so angry after losing that something goes wrong with you."

Xu Yuan made the suggestion with a perfectly serious face.

Some people might attach great importance to winning and losing, but Xu Yuan felt that compared to an inconsequential victory or defeat like this, the benefits were clearly more important.

As for the grade B cultivation room, it really wasn't much use to him.

"What shameless boasting. You only beat me once by luck. Do you really think you're something special?"

Jiang Yong felt insulted, and his expression turned extremely ugly. "Don't bother preparing second-tier medicinal liquid. Second-tier medicinal liquid won't save you. Prepare third-tier instead!"

With that, he strode away.

Xu Yuan raised an eyebrow. The main effect of third-tier divine medicinal liquid was to reconnect broken bones. In other words, Jiang Yong wanted to break his arms and legs?

In that case, he couldn't blame Xu Yuan for farming points off him.

How would he farm them?

Intentional injury could increase sin points...