Arc 4The Elite Camp Challenge

Zhang Junbao won a wager against William, then challenged the Elite Training Camp’s top students for their training resources and became its top-ranked trainee. After clearing all seven floors of the Trial Tower, he was summoned to meet Hong, who questioned whether he had received an ancient civilization’s inheritance.

  • Zhang Junbao rejected recruitment offers, wagered against William, and defeated him to win 50 billion Huaxia Currency and Candace’s Dragon Roar Sword.
  • Zhang Junbao agreed to fight Candace a month later for 50 billion, then trained with Jiang Fang and began challenging the camp’s top hundred students for their Gravity Chamber time.
  • Zhang Junbao defeated the students ranked from one hundred through the top five, while Shi Jiang and then Chu Qiang, Renatus Bridge, and other trainees chose to graduate and head to the Wilderness Zone.
  • Candace used the Polenas Family’s drug before challenging Zhang Junbao, who defeated him and reported the drug use and Candace’s sneak attack to the camp.
  • Zhang Junbao cleared the Trial Tower’s stage C assessment and all seven floors, reaching the camp’s top rank and revealing a Combat Power Amplitude of 36.
  • Inspector Wang escorted Zhang Junbao to the Limits Dojo headquarters, where Hong confronted him with darkness for five minutes and asked if he had received an ancient civilization’s inheritance.
Chapters 78–102 Vol. 1 Read

Ch. 78A Fat Sheep? (Last Day of 2020, Charge!)

Zhang Junbao turned down offers from major powers to join their organizations, then prepared to earn money from the wealthy Elite Training Camp students instead. William Edison challenged him to a wagered fight in the Challenge Room, unaware that Zhang Junbao was eager to take advantage of him.

  • Chu Qiang offered Zhang Junbao ten billion a year in funding to join Huaxia's Military, but Zhang Junbao declined while promising to consider the Military first if he joined an organization.
  • Zhang Junbao received more than a dozen recruitment offers, rejected them all in a public announcement, and decided to target the Training Camp's wealthy students for money.
  • William Edison approached Zhang Junbao, initially mispronounced his name, and asked him to spar in the Challenge Room.
  • William proposed a wager of one billion Huaxia Currency, expecting Zhang Junbao to be helpless without his Spiritual Force.
  • Zhang Junbao recognized William's confidence and saw him as a rich target worth exploiting.

Ch. 79The wager! (Here we come, 2021!)

Zhang Junbao let William and Candace believe he was a poor newcomer who could be lured into a losing wager, then proposed staking Candace’s treasured SS-grade sword on a fight with William. The chapter left him asking the Huaxia trainees to lend him money as he waited to see whether Candace would accept.

  • Zhao Ruo warned Zhang Junbao that William preyed on newcomers through wagered fights, but William tried to goad Zhang Junbao into accepting.
  • Zhang Junbao held Zhao Ruo back and pretended he was too poor to afford a combat suit or weapon, then suggested Candace’s sword as the wager.
  • Candace boasted that his family’s treasured SS-grade sword was worth more than thirty billion Huaxia Currency and challenged Zhang Junbao to produce that amount.
  • Zhang Junbao acted shocked by the sword’s price and asked Candace whether he would stake it if Zhang Junbao could gather thirty billion.
  • Zhang Junbao asked Zhao Ruo and the other Huaxia trainees to lend him a billion each, promising to repay them with interest, while secretly hoping Candace would take the bait.

Ch. 80Sharing the Risk

Zhang Junbao borrowed money from fellow Huaxia trainees to back his thirty-billion wager against William, whom he would fight without Spiritual Force in the Challenge Room. Shi Jiang and Zhao Ruo helped him raise the funds, and Zhang Junbao remained confident because his Combat Power Amplitude exceeded William's.

  • Zhang Junbao ignored Zhao Ruo's calls and sought loans so he could share the risk of wagering thirty billion against Candace's treasured sword.
  • William accepted Zhang Junbao's challenge for the next morning in the Challenge Room, while Candace and the European trainees expected William to win.
  • Zhao Ruo warned Zhang Junbao that new trainees often lost betting matches, but Shi Jiang recognized that Zhang Junbao seemed confident and asked about William's Combat Power Amplitude.
  • Zhang Junbao explained that William's intermediate amplitude was no match for his own advanced-level strength, which he had kept secret.
  • Shi Jiang offered three billion and Zhao Ruo offered one billion, while other Huaxia trainees lent Zhang Junbao enough to reach his target; he ended up twelve billion in debt.

Ch. 81Riding a Tiger, Unable to Get Off (Happy New Year's Day)

Zhang Junbao turned William and Candace’s 30-billion challenge into a 40-billion wager, then forced them to decide whether to accept it in front of the Training Camp. Candace agreed to raise the stakes and take the bet, leaving the rivals preparing for the fight.

  • Zhang Junbao accepted William’s challenge but ignored the wager transfer deadline and went to rest.
  • William, Candace, and their companions assumed Zhang Junbao could not raise the money and planned to mock him.
  • Zhang Junbao arrived at the Challenge Room with Shi Jiang and Zhao Ruo, claimed Huaxia trainees had lent him more than enough, and transferred 40 billion Huaxia Currency into the wager account.
  • Candace proposed fighting Zhang Junbao himself, but Shi Jiang challenged Candace and denounced the group for bullying newcomers.
  • After a Wargod instructor urged them to stop wasting the reserved Challenge Room time, Candace agreed to add another ten billion and take the bet.
  • William returned from speaking privately with Candace, furious and glaring at Zhang Junbao.

Ch. 82Thanks for Letting Me Win

Zhang Junbao fought William Edison in the Challenge Room after William bet against him, and defeated him despite William’s sudden surge in strength. Zhang Junbao left the battle having used William’s attacks to hone his movement technique and claimed victory with a single sword strike.

  • Zhang Junbao accepted William Edison’s challenge, while Zhao Ruo offered him a condition if he won.
  • In the virtual arena, Zhang Junbao chose an open Wilderness Zone scenario and faced William with a sword and combat uniform.
  • William attacked Zhang Junbao, who parried and dodged with his eyes closed, relying on his perception of William’s movements.
  • William forcibly increased his strength and speed, driving Zhang Junbao toward the arena barrier with powerful attacks.
  • Zhang Junbao opened his eyes and beheaded William with a sword strike, then criticized William for relying on power he could not control.

Ch. 83Candace Goes Mad

Zhang Junbao defeated William in the challenge and won Candace’s treasured sword, while William suffered severe consequences from the secret drug Candace had given him. Candace refused to accept the loss, and Zhang Junbao invoked the Training Camp’s rules to pressure him to honor the bet.

  • Students from around the world expected William to defeat newcomer Zhang Junbao, while Candace watched the challenge results.
  • The system announced twice that Zhang Junbao had won, shocking the other students and prompting the Huaxia students to celebrate his forty-billion-Currency victory.
  • Candace realized that Zhang Junbao had used William as a whetstone to improve his movement technique, despite William taking a secret drug that could ruin his health and career.
  • Zhang Junbao left the Challenge Room while William lay injured and despairing, and Yang Hui congratulated Zhang Junbao on his victory.
  • Candace shouted that Zhang Junbao could not take the Polenas Family heirloom sword, but Zhang Junbao challenged him to follow the bet and the Training Camp’s rules.

Ch. 84Going Back on His Word?

Zhang Junbao won his challenge against William, collected the winnings and the Dragon Roar Sword, and rejected Candace’s claim to the sword. Candace admitted defeat in the first challenge but challenged Zhang Junbao again, convinced he could win.

  • Shi Jiang and the Huaxia trainees backed Zhang Junbao as Candace balked at accepting the challenge’s result.
  • Zhang Junbao received 50 billion Huaxia Currency, and the Training Camp system confirmed that he had won the Dragon Roar Sword.
  • Zhang Junbao asked Yang Hui whether trainees could refuse challenge results, and Yang Hui said the camp would enforce the rules and investigate William’s condition.
  • Candace admitted defeat but challenged Zhang Junbao again, while Zhao Ruo warned Zhang Junbao that Candace ranked far above William.
  • Candace tried to provoke Zhang Junbao into accepting and decided he could defeat him.

Ch. 85The True Bodhisattva Candace

Zhang Junbao forced Candace to negotiate over the heir’s sword and set an enormous wager for a duel. Candace accepted the 50 billion Huaxia Currency wager for one month later and left to raise the money.

  • Zhang Junbao challenged Candace’s Training Camp strength after criticizing William’s reliance on external aids.
  • Candace proposed wagering 30 billion Huaxia Currency against Zhang Junbao’s sword, but Zhang Junbao refused and drove up the price.
  • Candace struggled to reclaim the sword without provoking the Training Camp or risking his family’s standing.
  • Zhang Junbao offered to wager the sword for 50 billion Huaxia Currency in a duel one month later, after the American Wargod instructor expressed interest in buying it.
  • Candace accepted the terms and left to raise the money.

Ch. 86The Ashamed Jiang Fang

Zhang Junbao explained why he had bet against Candace and treated his companions to a feast before meeting his new instructor, Jiang Fang. During their first spar, he disarmed and pinned her, leaving Jiang Fang deeply ashamed.

  • Zhang Junbao reassured Zhao Ruo that he saw Candace as a challenge and could grow stronger before their match, then promised to treat his companions to a feast.
  • Shi Jiang revealed that Jiang Fang would be Zhang Junbao’s instructor for the next five years, and Jiang Fang introduced herself as his direct teacher.
  • Jiang Fang praised Zhang Junbao for defeating William and challenged him to spar without Spiritual Force, initially matching his physical abilities.
  • Zhang Junbao blocked Jiang Fang’s attacks with his sheathed Dragon Roar Sword, while her increasingly forceful saber techniques failed to disrupt him.
  • Zhang Junbao disarmed and pinned Jiang Fang, then thanked her for going easy on him, making her feel ashamed.

Ch. 87Scientific Cultivation

Zhang Junbao explained how Jiang Fang’s recognizable fighting forms had let him defeat her, then toured the Nine-Story Tower and tested its Ancient Civilization Gravity Chamber. As he trained under increasing gravity, he realized that exercising every cell could help the body absorb more Genetic Origin Energy.

  • Jiang Fang asked Zhang Junbao how he had defeated her, and he pointed out predictable openings in her attacks and forms.
  • Jiang Fang took Zhang Junbao to the Nine-Story Tower and showed him its Ancient Civilization training rooms.
  • Zhang Junbao examined the fist mark Hong had left in the Gravity Chamber wall, then struck the wall himself without making a mark.
  • Jiang Fang set the Gravity Chamber to nine times gravity, but Zhang Junbao adapted and performed Tai Chi Chuan with little strain.
  • Zhang Junbao asked Jiang Fang to raise the gravity to twenty times and reasoned that engaging every cell in exercise could help it absorb more Genetic Origin Energy.

Ch. 88Zhang Junbao's Madness

Zhang Junbao learned that Elite Training Camp students received limited Ancient Civilization Gravity Chamber and Trial Room time according to their rankings, so he planned to win more by wagering against other students. He announced that he would challenge everyone in the top hundred, leaving Shi Jiang stunned when he learned he was included.

  • Jiang Fang explained that students’ monthly Gravity Chamber and Trial Room hours depended on their rankings, and Zhang Junbao asked whether students could wager that time in challenge matches.
  • Zhang Junbao decided to challenge other students for their training time, while Jiang Fang doubted his plan and recognized that his combat skills were difficult to judge.
  • After Jiang Fang showed him the Nine-Story Tower, Zhang Junbao calculated how to gain more training time and resolved to challenge students ranked in the top hundred.
  • A rumor spread that Zhang Junbao was challenging students throughout the Elite Training Camp for Gravity Chamber time.
  • Zhang Junbao told Shi Jiang he would start at rank one hundred and challenge his way to first place, including Shi Jiang, who was stunned by the newcomer’s ambition.

Ch. 89The Winds and Clouds Stir

Zhang Junbao challenged every trainee in the Elite Training Camp’s top hundred to betting matches, wagering gravity room training time and refusing to heed Shi Jiang’s warnings. The Wargod instructors backed Jiang Fang’s proposal to make the trainees accept the challenges, and they submitted it to the higher-ups for a decision.

  • Zhang Junbao ignored Shi Jiang’s attempts to dissuade him and sent betting match challenges to every trainee in the top hundred, scheduling Candace’s match for the end of the month.
  • Candace learned about Zhang Junbao’s challenges and urged the European Union trainees to defeat him and make him lose his gravity room training time.
  • Jiang Fang confirmed that Zhang Junbao had challenged the entire top hundred, including Renatus Bridge and Chu Qiang, and defended giving the trainees a chance to learn from the matches.
  • Chris joked that Zhang Junbao would suit America, while Jiang Fang and Yang Hui argued over his allegiance and criticized the trainees for relying too heavily on the camp’s resources.
  • The Wargod instructors supported Jiang Fang’s proposal to use their authority to stop trainees from refusing Zhang Junbao’s challenges and submitted it to the higher-ups.

Ch. 90Transformation

The Limits Dojo’s five Inspectors approved the Elite Training Camp teachers’ proposal to make students compete for resources through wagered battles. Zhang Junbao became the camp’s target, as students prepared to challenge him for the chance to win more training time and resources.

  • The five Inspectors debated a proposal to let Elite Training Camp students fight over resources, then accepted the dojo master’s decision to implement it.
  • The camp made Zhang Junbao’s wagered battles mandatory unless students forfeited, in which case they would lose at least an hour of Ancient Civilization Gravity Chamber time to him.
  • Students across the camp resented Zhang Junbao, a newcomer from Huaxia, for receiving the privilege of challenging the top geniuses.
  • The students saw defeating Zhang Junbao as an easier route to resources than climbing the rankings and eagerly prepared to fight him.

Ch. 91The Training Camp's Public Enemy

Zhang Junbao faced the Elite Training Camp’s 100th-ranked student, Raditz Bette, and defeated him with a single sword strike. His overwhelming victory frightened the other students, who began to see him as the Training Camp’s public enemy.

  • Raditz Bette mocked Zhang Junbao before their challenge, while students on both sides resented Zhang Junbao for choosing or overlooking them.
  • Zhao Ruo and Shi Jiang accompanied Zhang Junbao to the Challenge Room, and Zhao Ruo wondered why Jiang Fang had not assigned him training tasks.
  • Raditz chose a wilderness arena and attacked Zhang Junbao with a long staff, but Zhang Junbao cut off his head in one strike.
  • The Virtual Challenge Room announced Zhang Junbao’s victory, leaving the spectators stunned by how quickly he had defeated the 100th-ranked student.
  • Zhang Junbao called for the 99th-ranked student to enter the Challenge Room, while the other students grew fearful of him.

Ch. 92Pressure

Yang Hui and the Wargod instructors defended using Zhang Junbao to pressure the Elite Training Camp’s students and expose those unfit to lead humanity. As Zhang Junbao’s training and challenge record pushed the camp into fierce competition, Shi Jiang resolved to improve his spear technique so he could face him.

  • Yang Hui argued that Zhang Junbao’s challenges were revealing students who lacked the fighting spirit and responsibility expected of future human leaders.
  • On his twenty-eighth day at the camp, Zhang Junbao trained for nearly three hours under twenty times gravity, bringing his punching force to about 26,000 kilograms.
  • Zhang Junbao reflected that his physical fitness had reached Intermediate Warlord level and his force exertion had reached 45, while he still hoped to challenge the camp’s top five for resources.
  • Students began following Zhang Junbao’s example and wagering training resources in challenges, creating an increasingly competitive atmosphere across the camp.
  • Shi Jiang practiced his spear technique and decided he needed to become stronger because he had no confidence in beating Zhang Junbao in the Challenge Room.

Ch. 93Unstoppable

Zhang Junbao defeated Shi Jiang in their wager match, exposing the limits of Shi Jiang’s spear technique and prompting him to fight on after losing his weapon. Shi Jiang accepted the loss and decided to graduate from the Elite Training Camp and train in the Wilderness Zone.

  • Before their match, Shi Jiang used the pressure from Zhang Junbao’s victories to push his training and sharpen his fighting spirit.
  • Shi Jiang opened the match with a powerful spear thrust, but Zhang Junbao’s sword technique trapped the dragon spear and disarmed him.
  • After realizing he could fight on without his weapon, Shi Jiang attacked with his hands as spears, and Zhang Junbao met him with Tai Chi Chuan.
  • Zhang Junbao carried Shi Jiang into the air with Xuantian Ascending Dragon Steps, then dislocated his arm and dropped him to the ground.
  • Shi Jiang admitted defeat, resolved to graduate from the Elite Training Camp and train in the Wilderness Zone, and the Nine-Story Tower declared Zhang Junbao the winner.

Ch. 94Faith

After losing to Zhang Junbao, Shi Jiang announced that he would graduate early and train in the Wilderness Zone, prompting Chu Qiang to question his own ambitions. Zhang Junbao continued defeating the camp’s top trainees, drawing intense interest from outside powers, and entered the Challenge Room to face Chu Qiang.

  • Shi Jiang rejected Candace’s accusation that he had gone easy on Zhang Junbao, praised Zhang Junbao as a worthy opponent, and announced he would graduate early to train in the Wilderness Zone.
  • Shi Jiang explained that he wanted to pursue martial arts without being held back by status or career prospects, leaving Chu Qiang reflecting on what he truly wanted.
  • Outside powers reacted to Shi Jiang’s graduation announcement and Zhang Junbao’s victory, urgently discussing how to recruit both talented fighters.
  • Zhang Junbao defeated the fourth- and third-ranked trainees and then faced second-ranked Chu Qiang in the virtual challenge space.

Ch. 95Candace's Madness

Zhang Junbao defeated Chu Qiang, leaving Renatus Bridge as the Elite Training Camp's last possible challenger. Candace, desperate to keep his position as the Polenas Family's first heir and reclaim his sword, asked Venina Polenas for help and chose to pursue a dangerous way to defeat Zhang Junbao.

  • Chu Qiang questioned why Shi Jiang had left the Elite Training Camp, and Zhang Junbao challenged him to consider his dream before they fought.
  • Zhang Junbao defeated Chu Qiang, and the trainees placed their hopes on Renatus Bridge as the only remaining contender who might stop him.
  • Candace feared that losing his heir's sword would cost him his position, especially as his siblings sought to replace him and the family considered currying favor with Zhang Junbao.
  • Candace called Venina Polenas and told her he doubted he could beat Zhang Junbao; Venina warned that the family would not support him and that his previous use of a drug on William had endangered his future.
  • Candace begged Venina to help him defeat Zhang Junbao, and Venina reluctantly agreed despite the possible aftereffects.

Ch. 96Upheaval at the Elite Training Camp

Candace took a dangerous Polenas Family drug to prepare for a rematch with Zhang Junbao, while Zhang Junbao’s victories prompted Renatus Bridge and thirty War God-level students to graduate and head for the Wilderness Zone.

  • Candace took the Polenas Family’s drug, which briefly let him wield High-level War God strength at the cost of severe physical and mental damage.
  • Zhang Junbao defeated Renatus Bridge in the Virtual Challenge Room, shocking the Elite Training Camp’s students.
  • Renatus Bridge urged the students to learn from failure, revealed that he had reached High-level War God strength, and announced his graduation to fight in the Wilderness Zone.
  • Chu Qiang and the students ranked in the top thirty saluted Zhang Junbao and announced they would graduate and join humanity’s battle against monsters.
  • Renatus Bridge joined Chu Qiang and the others as all thirty released their Wargod auras and set out for the Wilderness Zone.

Ch. 97"The Strongest"?

Thirty elite trainees headed to the front lines to fight Lord-level monsters, leaving Candace to challenge Zhang Junbao for their wager match. Candace attacked with enhanced strength in the virtual challenge room, but Zhang Junbao stopped him effortlessly and killed him.

  • Chu Qiang led thirty trainees toward the Wilderness Zone to prove themselves against Lord-level monsters and become Wargods.
  • Candace challenged Zhang Junbao to their wager match, believing his status as the camp’s number one gave him a chance.
  • Zhang Junbao accepted Candace’s challenge and entered the virtual challenge room with him.
  • Candace attacked Zhang Junbao from two directions using his enhanced speed and strength, but Zhang Junbao redirected his sword and seized him by the neck.
  • Zhang Junbao declared Candace beyond saving and snapped his neck, killing him.

Ch. 98The Bet Concluded (2-in-1)

After Zhang Junbao won the wager, Candace attacked him in a drug-fueled rage, but Zhang Junbao defeated him and the Training Camp moved to punish the Polenas Family. The Inspectors approved Zhang Junbao’s rewards, and he began a new Trial Tower challenge to test his strength.

  • Candace charged at Zhang Junbao with a sword after losing the wager, but Zhang Junbao deflected the strike and knocked him unconscious with a Tai Chi Cotton Palm.
  • Zhang Junbao told Yang Hui to report the Polenas Family’s drug use and Candace’s sneak attack to the Training Camp’s upper management.
  • The Inspectors agreed that Zhang Junbao deserved the offered rewards and treatment, then signed the document making them official.
  • Zhang Junbao left the Ancient Civilization Gravity Chamber and entered the Trial Tower to challenge its stage C trial.
  • Zhang Junbao charged into the 200 Mangniu and quickly killed many of them.

Ch. 99Fighting Through the Trial Tower

Zhang Junbao cleared the first floor of the Trial Tower and continued climbing until his ranking rose to first place. As Jiang Fang arrived to bring him to Inspector Wang, the tower announced that Zhang Junbao had cleared it.

  • Zhang Junbao cleared the first floor of the Trial Tower and proceeded to the next floor.
  • Students outside the Trial Room noticed Zhang Junbao’s ranking climbing as he took the assessment.
  • Inspector Wang called Jiang Fang and told her to bring Zhang Junbao to him.
  • Jiang Fang arrived at the Trial Room and learned that Zhang Junbao had become the Training Camp’s top-ranked student but had not yet emerged.
  • The Trial Tower rumbled and announced that Zhang Junbao had cleared it.

Ch. 100The Inspector Arrives

After Zhang Junbao triggered an unusual Trial Tower prompt, Jiang Fang brought him to meet Inspector Wang, one of the Limits Dojo’s top leaders. Zhang Junbao reviewed the Dojo’s recruitment contract and found its terms behind his current achievements.

  • The trainees wondered how many floors Zhang Junbao had cleared after the Trial Tower announced that he had passed.
  • Jiang Fang took Zhang Junbao to Inspector Wang and warned him to show respect to the powerful Beyond War God.
  • Zhang Junbao met Inspector Wang in his villa and was asked to review and sign a recruitment contract.
  • Zhang Junbao read the contract’s funding and reward conditions, then realized they had been drawn up before his latest Trial Tower result.

Ch. 101The Inspector's Shock

Zhang Junbao signed Hong’s reward contract, then revealed that he had cleared all seven floors of the Trial Tower and claimed his Combat Power Amplitude was 36. After the Trial Tower staff confirmed his feat, Hong ordered Inspector Wang to bring Zhang Junbao to him immediately.

  • Zhang Junbao signed the contract without asking questions, then asked whether he could collect the rewards immediately and refuse to become Hong’s disciple.
  • Zhang Junbao told Inspector Wang that he had cleared all seven floors of the Trial Tower and calculated his Combat Power Amplitude at 36.
  • Inspector Wang tried to pressure Zhang Junbao with his aura, but Zhang Junbao’s cosmic-energy membrane absorbed it.
  • Trial Tower staff called Inspector Wang and confirmed that Zhang Junbao had passed all seven floors.
  • Inspector Wang reported Zhang Junbao’s achievement to Hong, who ordered him to bring Zhang Junbao in at once.

Ch. 102Hong's Summons

After Zhang Junbao cleared the Trial Tower, Inspector Wang escorted him to the Limits Dojo headquarters to meet Hong. Hong tested Zhang Junbao with his overwhelming presence, then asked whether Zhang Junbao had received an ancient civilization’s inheritance.

  • Inspector Wang realized Zhang Junbao’s Trial Tower achievement meant Zhang Junbao could defeat him at the same level and escorted him through the air.
  • Zhang Junbao rode the Dragon Roar Sword to the Limits Dojo headquarters and admired its spaceship-like structure.
  • Inspector Wang warned Zhang Junbao about the headquarters’ deadly defenses and brought him to meet Hong.
  • Iceberg told Zhang Junbao that Hong had already ordered him to enter alone.
  • Hong confronted Zhang Junbao with a darkness that lasted five minutes, then asked whether he had received an ancient civilization’s inheritance.
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