Liu Yu? Crushed with One Hand!

Feeling the immense power of the Heaven-Splitting Body within him, as if it could tear apart the heavens and shatter the earth underfoot, Dongfang Yueming felt his heart swell with heroic ambition. A thought also became incomparably clear!

I've reached the absolute perfection of the Flesh Refining Realm! There's nothing left for me to linger here for!

If I want to obtain Bone Forging Realm techniques or even more profound ones, and truly set foot on the pinnacle of the martial path...

It's time to head to that place-the Beast Defense Frontier!

Early the next morning, dawn broke.

Dongfang Yueming woke on time and checked his panel immediately.

[Points: 568]

"Another six points." Looking at the steadily growing number, he smiled with satisfaction. Gaining six points every day felt wonderful!

He stretched and sat up in bed. His gaze swept over the shabby yet familiar dorm room, and a rare, extremely faint trace of reluctance welled up in his heart.

After all, this was his first real "home" since coming to this world, and the starting point of his earth-shaking transformation in strength.

But that trace of emotion was soon replaced by an even stronger longing and anticipation for the future!

"Time to go." His gaze grew resolute.

He quickly changed into a set of durable training clothes and solemnly fastened the quasi-A-grade Light Snow saber to his waist. After a moment's thought, he also strapped the E-grade saber that had accompanied him through several battles to his back.

Two sabers: one for fighting and one in reserve. It never hurt to be prepared.

After getting ready, he took one last look at the dorm room, then turned and pushed open the door without a trace of reluctance. He headed to the cafeteria for his last "campus breakfast."

The cafeteria was as lively as ever.

Not far away, Liu Yu was once again surrounded by a group of freshmen, spittle flying as he boasted about the "tremendous" progress he had made in Skin Tempering over the past two days, drawing gasps of amazement and envy.

Liu Yu's gaze happened to fall on Dongfang Yueming, who was eating silently by himself. His lips curled in their habitual sneer, and his disdain deepened.

Hmph, still eating, eating, eating. What a piece of trash! I'm almost at Skin Tempering Entry, and he's still wasting time here!

Then he remembered Dongfang Yueming's message in the freshmen group chat last night, where he had talked back to Gao Hu.

I really don't understand... Liu Yu was full of doubt and contempt. Where did a piece of trash who might not even have touched the threshold of Skin Tempering get the nerve to challenge Senior Gao Hu, who's at Lesser Flesh Refining? Has his brain really broken? Or... does he simply not know how strong the Flesh Refining Realm is?

He could not understand the logic behind Dongfang Yueming's behavior at all and could only attribute it to stupidity and ignorance.

Dongfang Yueming finished his meal, turning a deaf ear to everything around him.

However, just as Dongfang Yueming was about to get up and leave, an unwelcome figure blocked his path.

It was Liu Yu, who had just been basking in everyone's praise!

Liu Yu folded his arms across his chest and raised his chin slightly. His face wore unconcealed mockery and superiority as he looked down at Dongfang Yueming. "Oh, isn't this 'Hero' Dongfang? Still eating? Well, have you found your qi sense yet? Don't tell me you won't even reach the threshold of Skin Tempering, only for Senior Gao Hu to crush you to death with one finger in the arena a month from now. You'd be a laughingstock!"

He deliberately raised his voice, drawing over quite a few freshmen eager to watch the show.

Dongfang Yueming did not even lift an eyelid. As if he had not heard the provocation at all, he unhurriedly put the last bite of beast meat into his mouth and chewed it carefully.

This blatant disregard instantly ignited Liu Yu's anger!

He felt utterly looked down on! Dismissed by someone he considered trash!

"You...!" Liu Yu's face flushed crimson, and he felt profoundly insulted. "How dare you ignore me?!"

He was just about to lash out, perhaps by grabbing Dongfang Yueming's collar, or perhaps by shouting at him to teach him a "lesson"!

However!

Just as his anger erupted and he was about to make a move!

Dongfang Yueming, who had kept his head down while eating, suddenly moved!

Fast!

Unbelievably fast!

An afterimage flashed past!

Smack!

A muffled thud rang out!

Liu Yu felt a tremendous force, heavy as a mountain and utterly irresistible, slam down on his shoulder!

The next moment, he was forcibly slammed against the hard dining table! His cheek made intimate contact with the cold tabletop!

"Ugh!" Liu Yu cried out in pain, feeling as though his shoulder was about to be crushed!

Shocked and furious, he struggled madly, trying to break free of the hand that gripped him like an iron clamp!

But!

It was no use!

No matter how he mobilized the faint qi and blood within him, no matter how he strained with all the strength he could muster, the hand on his shoulder did not budge! It was like an unshakable divine mountain!

The gap! A gap as vast as a heavenly chasm!

The surroundings fell deathly silent in an instant!

All the freshmen watching stood dumbstruck, disbelief written across their faces!

What had just happened?!

Liu Yu... the same Liu Yu who had just been boasting about nearly reaching Skin Tempering Entry, had actually... actually been pinned down by Dongfang Yueming with one hand?! And it looked like he couldn't resist at all?!

Th-this was impossible!

Dongfang Yueming kept his left hand on Liu Yu, who was struggling desperately with his face flushed crimson, while his right hand unhurriedly picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth.

Only then did he release his hand, as though he had just noticed there was someone beneath it.

After doing all that, he did not spare Liu Yu, who lay trembling with humiliation and anger on the table, so much as a glance. He simply got up and strode away.

Throughout the entire process, he was utterly composed, as though he had merely swatted a buzzing fly to death.

Only when Dongfang Yueming's figure had completely disappeared through the cafeteria entrance did Liu Yu abruptly raise his head, his face twisted out of shape by extreme humiliation and anger!

He stared fixedly in the direction Dongfang Yueming had gone, his eyes filled with towering hatred and venomous resentment!

An extraordinary disgrace! This was absolutely an extraordinary disgrace!!

Liu Yu clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging deep into his palms and leaving several bloody marks. He did not even feel the pain; all that remained in his heart was towering rage erupting like a volcano and utter humiliation!

Dongfang Yueming!! he roared madly in his heart. I, Liu Yu, swear it! I'll repay today's humiliation a hundredfold someday! I'll make sure you learn what it means to wish you were dead!