Chapter 99: Advanced Demon Beast First Kill! (April 1100 Monthly Ticket Bonus Chapter)

As Qin Chuan killed the demon bear, the screen quickly switched to the other examinees.

But the next examinee had not yet finished the slaying, and the screen switched back again, returning to Qin Chuan.

Seeing the situation on the screen, the conference room suddenly burst into exclamations.

「That fast?! 」

「I never expected to encounter an Advanced Demon Beast… really…」

Looking at the Advanced Demon Beast on the screen, Zhou Zixiu's expression turned a little strange, and he couldn't help glancing at the back of Lan Cheng sitting in front of him.

Azure Illusory Mountain had already been swept clean by the Special Affairs Group; the demon beasts left now were specially prepared for the practical exam, and only Lan Cheng knew the details of the ten Advanced Demon Beasts.

This Advanced Demon Beast was also a demon bear.

So…

When Qin Chuan encountered that demon bear just now, Lan Cheng must have already foreseen this scene and secretly gloated over it, right?

No wonder he didn't say a word.

——

「Not bad luck. 」

Looking at the ferocious roar of the Advanced Demon Bear charging at him, Qin Chuan's face showed a hint of surprise.

Although demon beasts' temperaments become ferocious under mutation, the Advanced Demon Beast before him displayed its ferocity especially clearly.

This ferocity mixed with a hint of anger, coupled with his recollection of the other demon bear he had just slain, obviously indicated a significant connection between the two.

He pinched a bit of diamond powder from the case he carried, flicked it with a finger, and a stream of water wrapped the diamond powder and flew toward the Ice Blade in his hand, rapidly freezing an extremely thin layer of diamond powder onto the blade.

The hard, fine diamond powder formed countless serrations on the blade, greatly enhancing the Ice Blade's cutting ability.

With a thought, Frost Cold activated.

The surrounding space instantly filled with layers of frost mist, the ground beneath his feet covered in ice, and with the amplification of Resonance 2, the frost's temperature-lowering effect increased, instantly dropping the temperature of Qin Chuan's long blade to minus fifty degrees.

At this temperature, the ice's strength would greatly increase, its density would also increase to some extent, and further lowering the temperature would have only a limited effect.

Hefting the now somewhat heavier long blade in his hand, Qin Chuan's face showed a hint of eagerness to try it out.

After testing the blade, it was time to cut the enemy.

He did not know that, because of his performance just then, Hua Qing's observers suspected him of showing off, and if he knew he would surely protest loudly.

Today, his sole opponent for blade practice was Ji Huai; he needed a reference to roughly gauge his own swordsmanship level.

Fighting that demon bear in close quarters earlier was merely for that purpose.

After a bout of combat, neither he nor the demon bear could do anything to the other, but the effect had already been achieved.

After knowing his own swordsmanship level, Qin Chuan gave the opponent a swift finish.

「Roar!!! 」

The roar of the Advanced Demon Bear made the surrounding trees tremble; facing its height of over ten meters, Qin Chuan looked like a small child as it swung a pair of millstone-sized bear paws, and in the moment it lunged forward it slammed them down hard on Qin Chuan.

Not to mention that its claws were sharp enough to easily tear rock, just being struck by the bear's paw would leave Qin Chuan with torn tendons and broken bones.

The bear's claws rapidly enlarged in Qin Chuan's view, but his expression remained calm; he gripped the long blade with one hand and did not move.

「Boom!!! 」

Accompanied by a tremendous earth-shaking roar, the Advanced Demon Bear's lunge missed, its pair of bear paws slamming heavily into the ground, instantly blasting a crater; amidst the rising dust and gale, countless snowflakes were swept up.

Even with the Advanced Demon Bear's madness, it couldn't help but stagger for a moment.

Immediately afterward, it felt a bone-chilling cold erupt from the ground where its paws touched, instantly freezing its paws fast to the ground.

Qin Chuan's figure silently appeared high behind the Advanced Demon Bear, his Ice Blade slicing down at its back; the blade's light burst forth, sharp and icy cold.

Breaking Frost Slash!

Accompanied by a pained roar from the Advanced Demon Bear, its thick fur was slit open, and the blood that had not yet flowed was instantly frozen by the extreme cold.

Unfortunately, the Advanced Demon Bear's defense was too high; although its overall strength matched that of a Growth Tier Spirit Beast, its thick hide and flesh were no less formidable than those of the Elite Tier blue-scaled flood dragon.

「Roar!!! 」

In that moment, the increasingly frenzied Advanced Demon Bear had already freed its frozen paws from the ground, and, retaining some stiffness and numbness, it lunged at Qin Chuan without hesitation, intent on tearing the human who had wounded it to shreds.

「Having only strength, lacking extraordinary ability, it still falls short of a Spirit Beast. 」

Qin Chuan shook his head slightly; before the demon bear's claws could strike, he shattered into snowflakes that scattered, then circled behind the beast and struck again.

The same spot, a deeper wound.

Having breached the surface defense, the Ice Blade struck true; Qin Chuan followed up with a thrust from the opened wound into the demon bear's hind heart.

Each beat of the Advanced Demon Bear's heart powerfully pumped blood throughout its body, and this was clear to his perception.

This thrust precisely pierced the Advanced Demon Bear's heart.

As the Ice Blade was withdrawn, a gush of blood sprayed out; before it could stain Qin Chuan's clothes, it condensed under the extreme chill of Frost Cold, blooming behind the demon bear as a vivid flower of blood.

With a final howl, the Advanced Demon Bear crashed to the ground, twitched a few times, and then lost all signs of life completely.

「Done. 」

Without even glancing at the fallen Advanced Demon Bear, Qin Chuan hurried deeper into Azure Illusory Mountain.

There's still plenty of time; if he wants to take first place, he probably needs to kill at least two Advanced Demon Beasts—

「Hiss…」

In the conference room, someone first sucked in a breath of cold air, and the dazed crowd gradually came to their senses.

「The whole killing process took less than ten seconds. 」 Fan Gang spoke slowly, his eyes somewhat unfocused, 「Swift and clean, every strike precise. 」

He glanced at the rating he had just written, tore that page off and crumpled it into a ball, then quickly wrote new content.

「Monitor D217 footage: the examinee is bold, his swordsmanship skilled, he slays demon beasts decisively, the Contract Spirit Beast ability has special effects, tentative rating…」

After a moment's hesitation, Fan Gang wrote it down firmly.

「B+ rank! 」

Reaching a B grade will draw Hua Qing's close attention in the subsequent practical assessment; if they indeed meet the criteria, they will be offered admission one tier lower.

A B+ grade is above B, and the treatment can be raised to admission two tiers lower.

Just like Fan Gang, who was writing furiously, Zhou Xiaoyu on the other side was also lowering her head to write something.

However, what she wrote was somewhat different from Fan Gang's.

"D217 surveillance footage: the examinee's personality is bold and confident, knife technique is proficient, combat style is precise and efficient, remains very calm during battle, contract spirit beast's skill effect is rare, provisional rating…"

In her mind flashed Qin Chuan's remarkably calm expression when facing the descending bear claw; Zhou Xiaoyu took a deep breath and firmly wrote it down.

"A grade!"

Reaching an A grade, once confirmed to meet the criteria, the corresponding treatment is…

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