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Jiang Wu raised his fists in encouragement for Jiang Zhe.

"Little Zhe, don't listen to his nonsense. Don't put pressure on yourself."

Jiang Sisi rolled her eyes at her own brother, blaming him for always bringing up outsiders.

"Little Zhe, with your current strength, dealing with these trash Beast Soldiers should be effortless."

"But don't get careless. Good Physical Quality and strong force don't mean you can kill monsters! For newly advanced warriors, 'seeing blood' is like sharpening a treasured sword—it's an entirely different kind of Tempering. You need to adapt, temper your mind, and remember not to be softhearted!"

Jiang Wu chuckled foolishly in agreement. "Haha, my fault, my fault. Why should members of the Jiang Family care about outsiders' opinions?"

Still, he did not forget to emphasize, "But remember to kill more monsters. Once you've adapted to killing this time, when Grandpa and Uncle return and take you to the Wilderness Zone for training, you'll transform faster and become a qualified warrior sooner."

The roars of monsters from within the iron cages, his cousin brother and sister's advice, the lively conversations of the surrounding warriors... all entered Jiang Zhe's ears, filling his heart with heroic spirit.

In both his Past Life and this one, it was his first time taking part in such a grand occasion.

His two lives combined amounted to only a little over forty years, and more than half of that had been useless experience. His heart was still young, at the age of youthful idealism.

"A young man's chivalrous spirit befriends heroes of the five cities. Hearts laid bare, hairs stand on end. In a few words, life and death are shared."

Sixteen years of cultivating his character and reading extensively allowed Jiang Zhe to easily express the heroic spirit in his chest.

Beside him, Jiang Wu froze for a moment.

After savoring the meaning of the verse, he clapped and praised, "Good! Truly good! Isn't this exactly what warriors are?"

"Tsk, tsk. Looks like reading those lousy books is useful after all. Unlike me—when I stood here back then, after holding it in for ages, all I could say was 'damn'!"

Jiang Sisi rolled her eyes and silently moved several steps away, drawing a clear line between herself and her foolish older brother.

...She really was not familiar with this fish that had slipped through compulsory education.

Jiang Zhe's mouth twitched as well. His second brother really did not treat them like outsiders.

Monster Town had already been arranged, and the military began calling out instructions. More than a thousand people crowded outside the entrance to the "examination site."

"Second Brother, Sis Si, I'm going in. Wait for my good news."

"Good luck!"

"Little Zhe, good luck!"

With a round shield on his back and an Iron Whip in hand, Jiang Zhe stepped into the vast crowd.

As the rescuers took their positions in advance, the military host gave the order. More than a thousand Pre-Martial Warriors surged into Monster Town like a raging tide.

Night had already fallen. The large searchlights arranged around the town illuminated parts of it, while even more areas remained shrouded in darkness.

Jiang Zhe moved through the shadows like a tiger lying in wait, searching for prey.

On the street at the exit of a narrow alley, a yellow Tiger Mastiff with black stripes happened to pass by. Its nose twitched twice, then it abruptly turned toward the scent and met Jiang Zhe's gaze within the alley.

"Roar!"

It charged into the narrow alley with a roar, ready to feast.

What it did not know was that Jiang Zhe had also set his sights on it, intending to use it as a test subject and open with a kill.

On a narrow road, man and monster clashed at close quarters. Jiang Zhe shifted slightly aside to evade its charge. The Tiger Mastiff turned and bit after him, its gaping bloody maw opening wide as a foul stench hit his face.

"Disgusting. Good thing I didn't eat dinner. You really deserve to die!"

Cursing, Jiang Zhe swung the shield on his left arm into the Tiger Mastiff's face. Terrifying force drove its head into the wall.

Is this human a monster?

Stars swam before the Tiger Mastiff's eyes, and its head buzzed. It had nearly been knocked unconscious.

Jiang Zhe gave it no chance to catch its breath. His right hand brought down the Iron Whip, smashing cleanly into the Tiger Mastiff's waist and hips.

Crack!

With a sweep of the Iron Whip, the Tiger Mastiff's rear half became a puddle of mangled flesh.

"Roar!"

Wracked with pain, the Tiger Mastiff howled and struggled desperately.

The round shield moved back slightly, then rammed forward in the posture of Lazy Bear Hits Tree, crushing the Tiger Mastiff's head as well. Red and white splattered across the wall like a blooming flower.

The splattered filth and pungent stench made Jiang Zhe's delicate brows knit slightly.

Jiang Zhe was not that fragile. He was nowhere near vomiting; he only felt faintly uncomfortable inside, but his attention was soon drawn elsewhere.

Faint points of light drifted from the Tiger Mastiff's corpse. Like moths rushing to a flame, they poured toward his chest.

Jiang Zhe remained unmoved.

This was a normal phenomenon, and no one else could see the process. It was caused by his cultivation of the Golden Human Life Blueprint.

This secret art for Enhancing Life Gene Level was divided into two parts: "External Training" and "Internal Training."

External Training was conquest.

Defeat or kill an opponent, seize their spirituality, and nourish oneself with it.

If someone opened his Combat Suit now, they would find unknown runes painted across his chest and both shoulders.

The incoming points of light were temporarily stored within those runes.

In the early stages, the best ink was the blood of those he had conquered, followed by substances containing energy.

The former could not be acquired within the city. As for the latter... Jiang Zhe had used half a box of Slag just to mix suitable ink.

Once he reached Planetary Level, there would be no need for such trouble. Primordial energy could be released over the body's surface to form secret patterns and absorb the drifting points of light.

Internal Training was visualization.

It could only be carried out after External Training had accumulated points of light.

Visualizing the five sketches of the human body on the Golden Leaf Pages was actually visualizing the star map of the Wuxian Constellation. It refined the nourishment carried by the points of light, then combined it with the nutrients fed back by the star map. Through this two-pronged approach, stars would solidify within the body. Each one represented a single increase in Genetic Level.

There were 181 stars in total, but they would ultimately undergo sublimation, allowing him to advance into one of the Golden Humans and transform to 1,810 times the Life Level.

It was precisely because of this bizarre cultivation method that Jiang Zhe had said those words with a mad edge to them—what could not kill him would make him stronger.

His distraction lasted only an instant.

Jiang Zhe bent down, cut off the Tiger Mastiff's left ear, placed it in his backpack, and left the alley.

The moment he emerged from the alley mouth, a foul gust of wind attacked from his left.

Jiang Zhe did not even glance at it. He raised his left arm and snapped his shield outward.

"Meow—"

Amid a muffled impact and a miserable cry, a thin, half-meter-long figure was sent flying.

"Little Shadow Cat~"

Jiang Zhe sneered.

There was no need to go over and finish it off. Seeing a small amount of light gather toward him, he knew the Shadow Cat had already been conquered.

—Either shaken to death by brute force, or rendered unable to move.

Tap!

Tap!

Tap!

Nearly imperceptible footsteps were caught by Jiang Zhe's abnormal hearing.

Sweeping his gaze around, Jiang Zhe discovered that he was already surrounded by a ring of eyes glinting with eerie light.

On the streets to his left and right, in the alley behind him, on the rooftop of the second floor across from him... with one sweep of his eyes, he counted sixteen Shadow Cats in total.

"H-Rank monsters without intelligence, possessing only animal instinct, actually know how to unite?"

"By the way, this small group is already a huge threat to newly advanced Pre-Martial Warriors. Are you just going to let them exist?"

"That's why I'm here to deal with them. Do you need rescue?" A reply came from the darkness, and a figure suddenly leaped onto a rooftop three meters to Jiang Zhe's left.

Clearly, this was the military officer responsible for rescue operations.

His appearance startled the group of Shadow Cats, and they immediately launched an attack on the two of them.

The six on the rooftop attacked the officer standing on high ground as well, while the nine on the ground all pounced toward Jiang Zhe.

The H-Rank Shadow Cats moved at around 40 m/s, far slower than Jiang Zhe.

With merely a light push from his toes, he leaped out of their encirclement.

He even brushed past two Shadow Cats, extending the round shield and Iron Whip at the same time. Using the Sinking Force of Eagle Form, he struck the vulnerable waists and hips of the two unlucky creatures.

"Two!"

Jiang Zhe still had the leisure to count. Having just broken through their attempted kill, the Shadow Cats clustered at the alley entrance where he had been standing, and he charged straight back in.

He was not courting death. He was a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

With speed far surpassing the Shadow Cats, he toyed with them.

His Subtle Realm footwork allowed him to make the most precise evasions with the smallest movements, making him seem as though he were strolling leisurely through the Shadow Cat pack.

The Iron Whip in his hand revealed its savage side. Any struck by it were crippled.

"Four!"

"Seven!"

"Nine!"

"And then..."

Jiang Zhe grinned. The Iron Whip in his hand suddenly flew out, shooting toward the second-floor rooftop and blasting apart the head of a leaping Shadow Cat.

Trump Card!

One of the Jiang Family's collected Freehand Combat techniques, which Jiang Zhe had learned after seeing it once.

"Ten!"

Jiang Zhe asked with a smile, "Brother, do you still want the remaining stray cats?"

The officer had not dealt with the Shadow Cats attacking him the entire time.

He had merely circled around them, his attention fully on Jiang Zhe's side. The instant he heard a call for help, he would immediately act to save Jiang Zhe.

"The assessment continues!"

The officer only coldly dropped those words before leaping more than ten meters away. After several jumps, he vanished into the night.

The remaining five Shadow Cats scattered in flight, but Jiang Zhe caught up to them at twice their speed.

He killed them one by one and cut off their left ears.

Sparse, dim points of light gathered toward Jiang Zhe. Beneath the night sky, they possessed the dreamlike beauty of a flowing galaxy, brilliant and gorgeous.

"The amount is way too little. It's like scraps of meat no bigger than mosquito legs..." Jiang Zhe complained in dissatisfaction.

He understood what was happening.

The gap in strength between the Apprentice First-Rank monsters and himself was too great, resulting in an insufficient sense of "conquest."

To rapidly Enhance Life Gene Level, he still needed to "conquer" opponents of the same level, or even fight across ranks.

"Many drops make a river, many grains make a tower; advance one pawn each day without end, and no effort is wasted before it reaches the sea." Jiang Zhe consoled himself.

He retrieved the Iron Whip.

The more dashing that Trump Card had looked just now, the more miserable he was now.

Then he continued searching for prey.

Of the three monster types in town, Jiang Zhe liked Tiger Mastiffs and Shadow Cats best.

These two glass cannons were truly easy to kill.

Although the tank-like Ironhide Boars could not withstand a single strike from his Iron Whip either, he had to put in twenty percent more force when smashing them.

Inside a large building beside the sealed-off town, numerous surveillance screens displayed battles occurring throughout Monster Town.

One screen was specifically locked onto Jiang Zhe's movements.

Representatives from various factions had gathered before the screen. All had come with assignments, wanting to see whether this unprecedented genius youth was truly the real deal.

Very quickly, during his first kill, Jiang Zhe's formidable brute strength left a deep impression on them.

Someone asked doubtfully, "Was it Physical Quality? Or Force Amplification Technique?"

"Does it matter?" the scar-faced burly man countered. "Wouldn't either answer be astonishing?"

"Look, more than ten Shadow Cats! He's about to be surrounded and killed!" someone cried out, drawing everyone's attention back to the screen.

Then... sharp gasps rose one after another in the surveillance room.

"Isn't his Instantaneous Burst Speed wrong?"

Someone answered quietly, "According to computer calculations, his instantaneous speed is definitely 80 m/s!"

"Gasp—A High-Tier Warrior?"

"Subtle Realm footwork?!"

"Him? Sixteen years old? The intelligence also marks him as a suspected Psychic Master?"

"My god! Is he a monster?"

At that moment, the representatives of the major factions were like children who had never seen the world, exclaiming in astonishment again and again.

"Major Huo, let's discuss this. The Limit Martial Hall would like a copy of that recording."

"The Thunderbolt Martial Hall wants one too."

"The HR Alliance—"

"Hm?" The wolfish gazes of everyone present turned toward the young man in gold-rimmed glasses, forcing him to swallow the rest of his words.

The assistant beside him asked softly, "Manager, what use do we have for this recording?"

The bespectacled young man suddenly realized, "Right! Jiang Zhe is already part of our HR Alliance. We just need to report it on paper."

The air in the surveillance room suddenly turned much colder, and unfriendly gazes sharp as knives turned toward him once more.

Assistant: "..."

Manager: "..."

Dawn was beginning to break.

"Woo—woo—woo—woo—"

Piercing sirens rang throughout Monster Town, followed by the booming voice of the assessment host from the loudspeakers.

"Time is up! All Pre-Martial Warriors, assemble at the exit immediately!"

After assembling came the time to tally monster ears and calculate the results.

With 134 monster ears—some had not been collected at all—Jiang Zhe took first place by an overwhelming margin.

He received his Martial Warrior number—426073204608010001!

The Martial Warrior Certificate had to be printed by the relevant department back in the city.

The Southern Military Region was not where certificates were issued.

But there was no need for this young master to worry about such a trivial matter. Once he got home, the butler would naturally arrange everything for him.

His second brother asked whether he wanted to meet the heads of the Two Great Martial Arts Academies and the military region. Jiang Zhe had no interest in such social engagements and waved it off.

He was not Luo Feng, with no background whatsoever. With the Jiang Family backing him, he had the confidence to disregard the presidents and directors of the Two Great Martial Arts Academies.

He had more important things to do when he got back.

Lanling Base City, Jiang Family.

After arriving home, Jiang Zhe headed straight for the study in the side room. After locking the door tight, he entered the Original Core.

He sat cross-legged beneath an unknown ancient tree, Divine Crystal in one hand and Golden Leaf Pages in the other, preparing to meditate and cultivate the contents of the first diagram.

"Three stars, three times the Genetic Level!"

"Condensing one star represents one times the Genetic Level? But I don't have even one star right now. Does that mean zero times the Genetic Level? Don't joke around!"

"Forget it. I'll know what's going on once I try it."

Jiang Zhe began meditating on the Incomplete Star Map within the outline of the human body in the first diagram.

The three stars formed a triangle. He matched them to the center of his brow and his two shoulders; the one at his brow would be the first to condense.

With the Divine Crystal enhancing his comprehension, Jiang Zhe quickly entered the proper state, and the Three-Point Star Map grew increasingly distinct in his Sea of Consciousness.

The patterns on his chest and shoulders began to heat up, and the skin beneath them turned bright red, making him look like a cooked shrimp.

He could clearly sense countless specks of light moving through the runes.

After several cycles, they began to merge into his body.

Some function within his body was awakened and set in motion, transforming from the very foundation of his genes.

This is actually modifying the onefold Life Gene Level I already possess!

Jiang Zhe was astonished.

At the same time, the Three-Point Star Map he had visualized in his Sea of Consciousness also began to exert its power.

From somewhere unknown, it fed back threads of pure energy. Taking the Sea of Consciousness as its source, the energy flowed throughout his body, intertwining and merging with the energy formed by the specks of light, jointly driving changes in his Gene Encoding.