Chapter 140

"Impressive—is this all your strength, Jingming?"

In the spectator seats, Song Qiuyun, Qi Dongxia, and Liu Wentao all wore expressions of shock.

They knew Xu Jingming was strong, but never imagined he could be this powerful!

Especially Song Qiuyun, the prodigy girl from Sichuan Province, after Xu Jingming activated Lei Ting Mode.

She felt even a casual wisp of lightning could kill her without a doubt...

"Mingge is coming down!"

Liu Wentao's eyes lit up; the group quickly rose and left the spectator seats.

"Two S-class combat techniques, plus numerous A-class ones, and formidable battle awareness—Jilan lost fairly."

Watching Sharman rush onto the stage to check on Jilan, Vice Principal Xu Ping couldn't help shaking his head:

"Principal Ling, we accept our defeat wholeheartedly. The 20% resource share is yours."

"Also, the S-class resource promised to Xu Jingming will arrive by tomorrow afternoon."

They hadn't secured those 20 artifact access cards, yet lost 20% of their resource share.

Even as vice principal, Xu Ping couldn't hide his bitter expression as he sighed and stood to leave.

"Well done. Here's the access card for Artifact Site No. 9—I'll give it to you first."

Looking at Xu Jingming descending from the arena, Vice Principal Ling Shuang's delicate oval face, marked by a tear-shaped mole at the corner of her eye, showed a hint of satisfaction.

A newly promoted third-rank S-class defeating Jilan with near-total domination is indeed an extraordinary achievement.

Saying this, Ling Shuang handed him a card the size of an ID.

The card was entirely deep black, one side bearing a pattern of a high-tech building.

The other side seemed inscribed with some unknown script.

Xu Jingming glanced curiously but saw nothing unusual, then casually stowed it in his space ring.

"Additionally, for securing first place for our school, you receive 10,000 academic credits."

"That reward should already be credited—you can check it on the school's official website."

"As for the S-class resource promised by Jingda, and your eligibility to select combat techniques from the Three-School Combat Technique Library,"

"You may claim them all after collecting rare herbs and flowers inside the Demon Cavern tomorrow."

Ling Shuang said softly.

Although the outer perimeter of the Demon Cavern held a vast plantation of rare herbs and flowers, with nearly 3,000 new students from the three schools mobilized,

It would take less than half a day to harvest them all.

In fact,

There were dedicated harvesters at the plantation, but after a month of fighting,

The school wanted the new students to relax slightly in this environment and gain some novel experiences.

"Good." Xu Jingming's eyes glinted slightly.

This study trip had not only granted him an artifact access card,

But also an S-class cultivation resource and a massive reward of academic credits—his gains were undeniably abundant.

Moreover,

His space ring was already packed with a pile of ferocious beast materials and collected rare herbs.

The rare herbs must be kept for Jiang Chuxuan to refine into pills; the ferocious beast materials can all be sold.

That will bring in another large sum of money.

"Jingming, that was an incredible battle."

No sooner had Vice Principal Ling Shuang left than Song Qiuyun and the others approached with smiling faces.

"By the way, the corpse of the fourth-rank Source Water Giant Crocodile is still in my space ring—don't forget to take it," Song Qiuyun reminded.

"I was just about to mention that."

Xu Jingming nodded with a smile. "Let's head to the supply base's material acquisition center now and offload all these ferocious beast materials."

His 10-cubic-meter space ring was nearly full of all kinds of ferocious beast materials.

He urgently needed to free up some space, or he wouldn't be able to store anything else.

"You guys go ahead—we've already sold all our ferocious beast materials."

Liu Wentao and Qi Dongxia were still only first-rank upper-level psychics.

Even at the outer edges of the Demon Cavern, they hadn't ventured deep inside.

So they returned to the supply base yesterday afternoon and handled everything.

"Alright, then we'll go first."

Xu Jingming waved goodbye and walked with Song Qiuyun toward the arena exit.

"Mingge! Amazing!"

"Incredible! Total domination!"

"Mingge, come visit Jingda sometime!"

"Hmph, saying that—can't Mingge visit Jindai?"

"..."

Meanwhile, the new students were also leaving.

On the way to the arena exit, whether they knew him or not, everyone greeted Xu Jingming.

Even many Jingda students wore warm, enthusiastic smiles.

Some young girls, planning to approach after leaving, hoped to get his contact information.

Upon seeing the stunning, slender figure gracefully accompanying Xu Jingming,

Yet he silently sighed and dismissed the thought.

Facing the crowd's enthusiasm, Xu Jingming also smiled and nodded in greeting to show friendliness.

But when his gaze swept past a slender young man in the distance, he was somewhat surprised.

That person's aura had actually faintly reached Second Order mid-tier?

There was actually this kind of expert among the new students?

So he couldn't help but curiously ask Song Qiuyun:

"Qiuyun, do you know who that person is?"

Song Qiuyun's apricot eyes followed Xu Jingming's gaze, and she also saw that young man, and couldn't help but nod slightly:

"I know. He's Dong Sheng from Jin University. He's ranked third."

"So it's him. Second Order mid-tier level — no wonder his rank is one place higher than yours."

Xu Jingming instantly understood upon hearing this.

That morning, he had seen this name on the ranking board, but hadn't matched it with the real person.

"Still, for a new student to reach Second Order mid-tier is quite rare."

Song Qiuyun, this genius girl backed by a Grandmaster family, was only at Second Order lower-tier herself.

This Dong Sheng was actually stronger than her — who knew what his background was.

"What's so rare about it? You're also a new student, yet your level is higher than his — you're already at Third Order."

Song Qiuyun shrugged slightly.

The proud, full curves tightly wrapped by the silver battle suit on her chest swayed gently with the motion.

Since meeting Xu Jingming, no matter how monstrous her peer-genius counterparts were, she no longer found them strange.

After all, none of them were as monstrous as Xu Jingming......

"That's not the same."

"How is it not the same?"

"What if I told you I have a cheat that can boost my level with one click — would you believe it?"

"Oh really? Guess whether I believe it or not."

"......"

Xu Jingming chatted and laughed with Song Qiuyun as they took the elevator up to the eighth floor of the supply base, where fierce beast materials were purchased.

When Xu Jingming stated that he had a large quantity of Fourth Order and peak Third Order fierce beast materials on him, the two were immediately respectfully invited into the manager's office.

In the end, the fierce beast materials in Xu Jingming's hands sold for a high price of over 240 million.

As for Song Qiuyun's haul, it was much less — only around ten million.

Of course,

given her status, the money earned from killing fierce beasts wasn't much to speak of.

After selling the fierce beast materials, Xu Jingming, who had been fighting continuously for over a month, did not continue training.

He gave himself a break and prepared to head to the center of Shun'an City with Song Qiuyun......