Zhao Liang Appears

"Boss, how did I do?"

Zhou Lei dragged the Blood Wolf's corpse over to Qin Chen and asked.

Qin Chen nodded. "Not bad, but you were a little sneaky."

"Sneaky?" Zhou Lei was taken aback.

"Weren't you? You were ninety percent sure of winning, so why didn't you make a move?" Qin Chen asked.

"Uh... you mean that? I think being ninety percent sure is no different from throwing your life away," Zhou Lei said earnestly.

Qin Chen froze. He studied him carefully and saw how serious the young man looked. He really did think that way.

He patted Zhou Lei on the shoulder. "Not bad. Keep it up!"

A personality like that had its advantages. At the very least, his ability to stay alive was formidable.

"Too bad this Blood Wolf doesn't have a beast crystal!" Zhou Lei cut open the Blood Wolf's skull but found no beast crystal inside, leaving him somewhat disappointed.

After dealing with the Blood Wolf's corpse, the two continued through the forest.

Meanwhile.

Halfway up the mountain, in the direction Qin Chen was heading, stood a makeshift tent.

Zhao Liang was resting inside. He had already waited there for a full day and night.

More than twenty hours earlier, after learning how the training camp would conduct this assessment, he had come here ahead of time while no one was guarding the foot of the mountain.

Roar!

Suddenly, a mutated beast burst into the tent and lunged straight at him.

Zhao Liang's expression turned cold, and he unleashed a punch.

Bang!

The mutated beast's head exploded under the punch, and a mist of blood filled the tent.

"Looks like the assessment has begun!" Looking at the mutated beast's headless corpse, he took a computer out of his backpack.

He opened it, and countless small screens appeared on the display, showing scenes from many parts of Ming Mountain.

"I spent more than ten hours setting up those wireless cameras. I hope they're of some use." He studied every scene on the screen.

Although the image quality wasn't very high and each camera covered only a small area, he could still spot Qin Chen immediately if he passed through any of those places.

Before long, he saw trainees appear on some of the screens, but none of them were Qin Chen, so he paid them no attention.

Even when he spotted Yu Yang, he didn't move. His goal was to kill Qin Chen first, then kill Yu Yang if he had the chance.

Time passed bit by bit. Zhao Liang stared at the screens without moving, displaying great patience.

Finally, several hours later, two figures appeared together on one of the small screens.

He looked closely and saw that one of them was Qin Chen, the very person he was looking for. He completely ignored the other.

Qin Chen soon disappeared from the screen, but Zhao Liang didn't rush. Instead, he studied the scene and terrain carefully, then slowly searched his memory.

A moment later, he smiled in surprise. "So close!"

When he had placed the cameras, he had roughly memorized the distinctive features of each location. The place where Qin Chen had just appeared was less than a kilometer away, and Qin Chen was heading straight toward him.

"Am I lucky, or is it your time to die?"

He closed the computer, walked out of the tent, and headed straight for Qin Chen without the slightest hesitation.

Qin Chen and Zhou Lei had stopped. At their feet lay an Early Body Tempering mutated beast.

"There's a beast crystal!" Zhou Lei said in surprise as he cut open the mutated beast's skull.

"Boss, here!" Zhou Lei took out the beast crystal, wiped it clean, and handed it to Qin Chen.

"Keep it yourself!" Qin Chen waved him off. A beginner ferocious beast's crystal was of no use to him for the time being.

Zhou Lei chuckled and didn't refuse, putting it away at once.

Bang!

Suddenly, a large tree ahead shook violently, then crashed to the ground.

A mutated beast with long, fiery-red fur stared fixedly at Qin Chen and Zhou Lei, its eyes brimming with killing intent.

Beneath its feet were several dried leaves, which were slowly burning.

"A Fire Cloud Tiger!" Zhou Lei's expression changed when he saw the mutated beast.

It was a level-one fire-element demonic beast, one of the two level-one demonic beasts in this assessment.

"My luck is way too good!" Zhou Lei couldn't help saying.

If he had been alone, he probably would have had no choice but to flee for his life, and whether he could escape was another question.

"Boss, let me handle this one!"

"Do you want to die?" Qin Chen asked.

"Of course not. You're still here, aren't you? If I can't handle it, you can save me at any-"

Boom!

Before Zhou Lei could finish, the Fire Cloud Tiger suddenly pounced.

Zhou Lei's expression changed drastically, and he instantly sensed the threat of death.

"Save me!" Zhou Lei turned and ran behind Qin Chen.

Qin Chen watched the Fire Cloud Tiger's body and threw a punch the instant it lunged at him.

The Fire Cloud Tiger's enormous body was sent flying, snapping a large tree with a bang.

The Fire Cloud Tiger fell to the ground and lay motionless.

In the command room at the Mingshan Training Ground.

"A level-one demonic beast poses no threat to him at all!" Luo Bin shook his head when he saw the Fire Cloud Tiger killed with a single punch.

An assessment like this was child's play to Qin Chen.

"A punch from him now should be close to a thousand in combat power," Yang Xue said slowly, watching Qin Chen on the screen.

"A thousand? Dual-element, with one at Peak Body Tempering and the other having broken through to One Star-would his combat power really reach a thousand?" Luo Bin asked, puzzled.

The threshold for Two Star was 700. This was already well above it.

"I'm not dual-element, so I don't know!" Yang Xue shook her head.

Luo Bin fell silent. Indeed, neither of them was dual-element, nor did they know anyone like that, so they had no way of knowing.

But the fact remained that Qin Chen had reached this level.

"Who's that?"

Suddenly, Yang Xue asked the question as she watched the screen showing Qin Chen. Her expression changed slightly.

Seeing her expression, Luo Bin hurriedly looked over.

Through the camera on the Fire Cloud Tiger's corpse, he saw an unfamiliar face approaching Qin Chen.

"He's not a trainee, and he's not one of ours." Luo Bin frowned deeply as he watched the man.

"Enlarge the image and connect it to the computer!" Yang Xue's voice was icy.

Luo Bin hurried to operate the controls. The image was brought up and fed into the computer for comparison.

In less than two seconds, another picture popped up on the screen.

"Zhao Liang!" Luo Bin's expression changed. "Has the Zhao Family gone mad?"

They had previously investigated the grudge between the Zhao Family and Qin Chen, but they hadn't paid it much attention. After all, Qin Chen was now a martial artist, and his family was safe.

What was more, Qin Chen himself was in the training camp. They hadn't expected Zhao Liang to be crazy enough to come here to kill him.

Even if Zhao Liang could kill Qin Chen now, they had the video, and the Zhao Family would definitely be finished.

"Qin Chen can't die. Go and kill him!" Yang Xue's gaze was icy.

Without another word, Luo Bin turned and charged out. With a boom, he smashed the command room doors to pieces, and without pausing, he raced straight toward the edge of the mountaintop.