Chapter 707: Confirming Strength! Rhine Commercial Street!

Boom boom boom!!

Rain poured down in torrents, lightning roared, and amid the neon city, two humans—monsters in human form—were locked in close-quarters combat.

One side was like a humanoid raging dragon—tall, with lightning crackling all over his body.

The bald man on the other side had his entire body wrapped in surging blood energy, radiating a terrifying pressure.

Wherever the two passed, it was like a tornado had swept through—buildings collapsed, the ground cracked, as if doomsday had arrived.

"Hm? Sister Shuang sent a message?"

Xu Jingming's steps faltered, and the Lei Shen phantom above his head suddenly erupted: "No time to keep fighting you."

Shwa shwa shwa—

In an instant, nearly thirty Lei Mao radiating terrifying auras condensed out of nowhere and shot toward the bald man to blast him apart!

Right after, a resplendent thunder dragon materialized from thin air and struck at him as well.

Boom boom boom!!

Thunder deafened the ears, dazzling golden Lei Guang flashed, and when the lightning dispersed, the bald man had already been reduced to a charred corpse.

"S-rank—you can now easily kill an A-rank, eighth-tier Zhongweida Grandmaster."

The little loli Eva appeared out of thin air above the city, swinging her short little legs and giggling.

"That much isn't really a problem, but I still can't kill an S-rank, eighth-tier Weida Sect Grandmaster for the time being."

Xu Jingming shook his head.

After that real fight just now, he had roughly pinned down his own combat power.

As long as the ability user was below S-rank, he could cut down an eighth-tier Zhongweida with ease.

But he still hadn't reached the level of an eighth-tier Shangwei.

As for higher S-rank Awakened ability users, he could probably only handle an eighth-tier Weida Sect Grandmaster.

He could dominate the fight, but he couldn't kill them.

"You've only just entered seventh tier at S-rank, and you can already dominate them—killing them is only a matter of time."

Eva, however, wasn't worried about that at all.

After all, she had watched Xu Jingming's monstrous talent all along.

"True." Xu Jingming smiled, and also saw the message Hearing Ling Shuang had left him.

"Sister Shuang really is thoughtful—going out of her way to prepare a gift for me. Wonder what she prepared."

Xu Jingming thought to himself, then quickly took off his neural helmet and returned to the real world.

Shwa—

Lei Dragon wings spread behind him, and he flew straight out through the window.

The central city district was about a hundred-plus kilometers from where he was. Taking a car would be too slow—he still preferred flying.

The central city district—among the five districts of the super-city Moben, the most prosperous one.

And Rhine Commercial Street was the most prosperous street within the central city district.

The entire street stretched four or five kilometers, with buildings on both sides.

Not only were there all kinds of shops selling ability-user-related battle suits, weapons, and exotic flowers and herbs,

there were also various luxury shops—many internationally famous brands could be found with chain stores here.

Flying was forbidden in the central city district, so when Xu Jingming landed at the edge of the district,

he arrived at the entrance of Rhine Commercial Street at exactly six in the afternoon.

The sky hadn't darkened yet, but the entire Rhine Commercial Street was already bathed in neon light.

The street was bustling with people, and fashionably dressed crowds could be seen everywhere.

These people had different skin colors, and their features showed obvious national differences.

On the walls of the buildings on both sides of the street, giant holographic projections played all kinds of gorgeous advertisements.

The whole street looked extremely prosperous, every inch the air of an international metropolis.

"So this is Rhine Commercial Street—truly prosperous..." Xu Jingming sighed to himself.

On one hand, Rhine Commercial Street was indeed the most prosperous street he had ever seen.

Even the commercial streets over in Magic City couldn't compare.

On the other hand, it had been a long time since he'd gone shopping on a commercial street.

In recent months, he had either been on the front-line battlefield or in the wilderness zones.

"A rare chance to relax—I'll just stroll around properly with Teacher Ling this time."

Xu Jingming didn't follow Hearing Ling Shuang's request and wait for her at the entrance of the commercial street.

Instead, he blended into the crowd and walked into the commercial street along with them.

After all, Hearing Ling Shuang had already prepared a gift for him—shouldn't he show some appreciation too?

It's just that he really didn't have anything girls liked on him, so he could take the chance to look around the commercial street.

Hearing Ling Shuang was an eighth-tier Zhongweida Grandmaster—ordinary gifts were basically useless to her.

Whatever gift he gave had to have a certain practicality to it.

Xu Jingming's goal was also very simple: an eighth-grade peak protective talisman.

Even though Hearing Ling Shuang possessed space-type abilities, there was no guarantee she wouldn't run into danger sometimes.

An eighth-grade peak protective talisman could at least buy her some extra breathing room.

But after Xu Jingming had wandered the commercial street for over half an hour, he couldn't find a single eighth-grade protective talisman!

The highest-grade protective talismans were only seventh-grade, and they were shockingly expensive—priced as high as 10 billion Blue Star coins!

"I got careless—throughout my journey, I've never actually been short on protective talismans.

He had mistakenly assumed that he could buy guardian talismans outside as well.

"But he forgot that items that could save one's life—nobody would be willing to put them up for sale."

Xu Jingming shook his head and stepped into a shop called 'Treasure Pavilion.'

This Treasure Pavilion was a multinational chain store; its wares were very miscellaneous, ranging from exotic flowers and rare herbs to all kinds of rare pills.

It even had SSS-grade battle suits and weapons, making it a comprehensive-type shop.

"If Treasure Pavilion doesn't have the eighth-grade peak guardian talisman I want, then I can only buy Hearing Ling Shuang a gift next time."

Xu Jingming currently had three guardian talismans on him, one eighth-grade lower-tier given by Hearing Ling Shuang.

One eighth-grade peak given by Mr. Su, and one ninth-grade guardian talisman won at the Genius Tournament.

The first one was useless to both him and Hearing Ling Shuang, and the second was given by Mr. Su, so it wouldn't be appropriate to give it away.

As for the last ninth-grade guardian talisman, even if he had the intention to give it to Hearing Ling Shuang, she most likely wouldn't accept it.

"Hello Mr., may I ask what I can help you with?"

The moment he stepped into the hall, a pretty saleswoman immediately came up to greet him.

"I'd like an eighth-grade peak guardian talisman—do you have one here?" Xu Jingming asked.

"E-eighth-grade peak guardian talisman?" The female saleswoman was stunned.

Normally, most of the customers she received were only second-tier or third-tier, capping out at sixth-tier.

But she hadn't expected that today, this person would walk in and immediately ask for an eighth-grade peak guardian talisman!

Could this be an eighth-tier Grandmaster?

Looking at Xu Jingming's unreasonably young face, she subconsciously shook her head again.

Just as she was about to speak, a middle-aged Caucasian in a sharp suit quickly stepped up from the side and said with a smile:

"Esteemed customer, I'm very sorry, but our Treasure Pavilion doesn't have eighth-tier peak guardian talismans.

Not just our Treasure Pavilion—none of the shops on the entire Rhine Commercial Street have them.

You know as well that treasures of this level are almost never sold to the public, please understand.

However, we do have seventh-grade peak guardian talismans—would you like to take a look?"

Although he was Caucasian, he spoke fluent Great Xia.

This was also a skill that supervisors like them had to master—matching the language to whichever customer they encountered.

Even if they guessed the nationality wrong, it didn't matter; Great Xia was one of the six major powers on Blue Star.

The person mistakenly identified wouldn't get angry, but would instead feel pleased.

"Forget it." Hearing this, Xu Jingming immediately felt a bit disappointed.

It was getting late, and just as he was about to turn around and head back to the Rhine Street entrance to wait for Hearing Ling Shuang, Eva's voice suddenly rang out in his heart:

"S-rank, wait—I think I spotted something familiar."