Chapter 505: What level are you, daring to use the same move as me?

Repay kindness with kindness, repay enmity with enmity.

This has always been Xu Jingming's guiding principle.

Therefore, for teachers Yang Zhentian, Su Qingli, and Ling Shuang who had helped him, he would repay them all.

When dealing with enemies, kill them if you can; if you can't, beat them into fear!

Although Xu Jingming had punished Wang Mang for his behavior at the birthday banquet last time,

it was after all someone else's birthday banquet, so he couldn't bring himself to use heavy hands, and let him off the hook.

But he hadn't expected that, today of all days, they would run into each other at the Genius Tournament!

"The Genius Tournament forces 100% pain simulation. I can't kill you in reality.

Letting you experience the feeling of death in the virtual world isn't bad either..."

Whoosh—

Xu Jingming covered the two-kilometer distance in less than thirty seconds.

And that was with the city's complex terrain forcing detours.

At the end of the street several hundred meters away, Wang Mang—gripping a battle saber and clad in a blue combat suit—seemed not yet to have noticed Xu Jingming's arrival.

He was charging toward another direction.

"Wang Mang! Do you still remember me?!"

A sudden furious shout made Wang Mang ahead abruptly stop his steps and instinctively turn his head.

"Xu Jingming? It's you?!"

Upon realizing it was Xu Jingming, his previously calm face turned to astonishment.

Then, faintly, a surge of anger rose within him!

"Judging by your look, you seem to harbor quite a grudge against me?"

Xu Jingming narrowed his eyes, twirled his Flowing Cloud Golden Edge Spear into a beautiful spear flourish, and walked slowly toward Wang Mang.

He walked very slowly, but his spiritual power was firmly locked onto Wang Mang, preventing any sudden escape.

Across from him, Wang Mang stared at Xu Jingming with an iron-blue face.

How could he not harbor a grudge?

Many prominent figures had attended Song Daoyuan's 120th birthday banquet.

Yet he had been beaten black and blue by Xu Jingming without any power to resist, in such a setting!

He had even lost consciousness on the spot, and had to be carried off for treatment, only waking up over an hour later.

As a direct-line descendant of a ninth-tier ability-user family, this experience was undoubtedly the height of disgrace!

He had become the laughingstock of many factions.

More critically, his own ninth-tier father, upon learning of this, had not only shown no intention of avenging him,

but had confined him to quarters for over a full month before he regained the freedom to move about.

Had his mother not pleaded for him, the confinement might have been even longer.

And this was the harshest treatment he had ever received since birth!

All these incidents had piled up far too much resentment toward Xu Jingming in his heart.

Though resentful, Wang Mang also knew that Xu Jingming—recently revealed to possess seventh-tier combat power—was not someone he could afford to provoke.

So he merely snorted coldly:

"Xu Jingming, the matter of you ambushing me last time is far from over!

I won't fight you in the preliminaries. Once we're back in the real world, I'll settle the score with you!"

After throwing down this harsh line, Wang Mang activated his ability and immediately turned to flee!

"Do you think you can escape?"

Xu Jingming extended his left hand, made a grasping motion in empty air toward Wang Mang several hundred meters away, and spoke in a voice as majestic as a god's:

"Lei Ting!"

Crackle-crackle—

Accompanied by the dense roar of thunder, a golden thunder net materialized out of thin air, firmly pinning Wang Mang in place!

"After reaching upper fifth-tier, the spread range of my Doushen Shenlei has lengthened.

The release range of these combat skills has increased along with it.

This is the benefit of elemental abilities—within a thousand meters, at a single thought, no one can escape the palm of my hand..."

Sizzle!

Xu Jingming directly used Lei Shan, his figure flickering once, vanishing on the spot, and reappearing outside the Lei Ting.

"Wang Mang, you don't have to wait until we're back in the real world. You can settle the score with me right now."

Xu Jingming's cold, sharply contrasting black-and-white eyes looked down at Wang Mang inside the Lei Ting.

Gazing at the golden thunder prison radiating terrifying energy fluctuations all around him,

Wang Mang swallowed hard. He was certain.

If he dared to force his way through, he would absolutely be electrocuted into slag by the thunder net and eliminated!

'This Xu Jingming—his combat skill release range is actually this huge!

If I'd known, I never should have gone this direction. Otherwise I wouldn't have run into him head-on.'

Wang Mang felt regret in his heart, but by now regret was useless.

He could only take a deep breath and say in a low voice:

"Xu Jingming, let me go. Once we're back, I'll give you five billion as payment."

Five billion Great Xia dollars!

Even for a seventh-rank Grandmaster-level ability user, this would absolutely count as a decent reward.

But Xu Jingming didn't even think about it, grinning broadly as he said:

"Compared to these five billion, I still feel that killing you is what makes me most at ease.

So, give up struggling. You're destined to be eliminated by me."

"You!!"

Wang Mang's eyes bulged in fury, but before he could utter another word—

A skyful of golden Lei Ting swallowed him whole!

Unlike the previous slaughters, Xu Jingming hadn't used his full power.

Instead, he kept the might of the Doushen Shenlei within a range insufficient to instantly one-shot Wang Mang.

"Ahhh!!"

A heart-wrenching scream rang out as the Doushen Shenlei ravaged Wang Mang's body.

His flesh and blood were rapidly carbonized by the electric shock, his muscles destroyed.

Just like that, the entire process lasted a full three or four minutes.

Only then did Wang Mang's vitality slowly fade, and he was eliminated.

"Comfortable."

Watching Wang Mang's body vanish before his eyes, Xu Jingming also revealed a pleased smile.

He subconsciously glanced at the smart bracer on his left wrist.

But what surprised him was that after killing Wang Mang, he had only earned just over a thousand points.

His ranking still remained at eighth place.

"Although Wang Mang was a wastrel, he was still a sixth-rank ability user after all.

He's already survived to the seventh day, so how could he have only this many points? Not even as much as an ordinary fifth-rank ability user."

Xu Jingming found it a little strange.

But it didn't take him long to figure out the reason.

This Wang Mang should have been just like him, not making a move in the first few days.

Only starting today did he begin killing ability users and harvesting points.

Logically speaking, there was nothing wrong with such an approach.

After all, a sixth-rank ability user could basically walk sideways across the entire competition zone.

It was just a pity that this Wang Mang had only just begun his actions when he ran into him.

He hadn't even accumulated enough points to advance to the second stage of the competition before being eliminated.

"What level do you think you are, daring to play the same game as me?

Look how it turned out — sixth-rank strength, and he can't even get through the preliminaries.

If this gets out, people will probably laugh their heads off."

Shaking his head, Xu Jingming, wreathed in golden Lei Ting all over his body, swiftly left the area.