Chapter 75: Storm

Just as Zhang Yu and Lian Tianji stepped onto the arena.

On the other side of the arena.

Bai Zhenzhen sat cross-legged, waiting for her opponent, Xiong Wenwu from Hongta High School, a demon-blooded student over two meters seven in height and weighing nearly one ton, also a high school student who, like Song Hailong and Zhang Yu, had earned a score of 300.

At that moment, this demon-blooded student was in the Hongta High School rest area, glaring angrily at Hu Yuntao.

"Lost? Why did you lose? And to a Songyang student?"

Xiong Wenwu slapped Hu Yuntao's forehead again and again, while Hu Yuntao, who was so ferocious on the arena, now crouched obediently before him like a little kitten, being scolded.

Only the tail constantly wagging behind his rear showed his inner impatience.

Xiong Wenwu said with exasperation, "You didn't even pass the group stage, which means you didn't get any ranking at all, and your resume is missing one good result."

"Do you know that missing this one result might get you eliminated in your university interview?"

"If you don't get into a good university, Father will disown you as a son and send you straight to work in the factory!"

Disowned! Working in a factory!

Hu Yuntao, who had been obediently listening, couldn't help but stiffen upon hearing this.

Why do many monsters from the reserve not have fathers? It's because monsters who can't study and can only work are directly disowned by Father.

"Do you know what working means?"

Xiong Wenwu continued to scold, "It's hard for monsters to find jobs. You'll have to work in Father's factory, undergo transformation, be planted on the assembly line, eating, drinking, and relieving yourself on the line like those cow demons, horse demons, and monkey demons until you die, spending your whole life repaying the breeding loan."

Hu Yuntao clenched his fists. Remembering the factory he had once visited, where on the assembly line forged from the flesh and blood of great demons, countless workers were fused with the line, working day and night without rest. Thinking of the various monster predecessors on those lines who were half-step elementary, half-step middle school, half-step high school, a trace of fear rose in his heart.

"After over a decade of hard study and getting into high school, is your final goal just to enter the factory?"

Xiong Wenwu continued to curse, "If you reach the peak of university and hold a diploma from a famous school, who could still disown you? Or drag you into the factory?"

Hu Yuntao said with a face full of shame, "Big brother, I know I was wrong. In the next competition, I will give my all and not slack off in the slightest."

Xiong Wenwu sighed, "I just don't want to see you, after years of hard study, end up not getting into university, and after high school graduation be planted on the assembly line to live out your miserable life. Father would lose a good son, and I would lose another brother."

"As for the future, it depends on your own performance."

"As for today's matter, I'll take revenge for you first."

Saying that, he turned around and quickly walked toward the arena.

Hu Yuntao reminded him from behind, "Big brother, that girl has a Stealth Spirit Root that can lower an opponent's perception. You need to be careful..."

Xiong Wenwu waved his hand, then after a short sprint, he leaped up violently, his nearly one-ton body falling like a small mountain, making the entire arena boom and shake crazily.

"Woman, in actual combat I never know what it means to hold back. If you feel like you're about to die, then hurry up and surrender."

After saying this, Xiong Wenwu pulled out three syringes and jabbed them into his neck.

With a sizzling sound, three doses of liquid were instantly pushed into his blood vessels, making every hair on his body stand on end, and the muscles on his bear-like face bulged.

Just by looking at the opponent's height and weight, Bai Zhenzhen could sense the astonishing power contained within.

And based on Lei Jun's earlier judgment, Bai Zhenzhen knew that Xiong Wenwu, this demon-blooded student, likely had the highest physical strength among all the first-year high school students present.

"Approximately between 2.5 and 2.6."

Huh...

Taking a deep breath, Bai Zhenzhen also felt the release of her spirit root.

At this moment, she felt as if some constraint on her brain had been released, and countless martial arts techniques she had learned and seen surged back and forth in her mind, as if they had come alive.

Since entering high school and beginning to cultivate martial arts.

Her former self, who could only use her spirit root to hide... after coming into contact with martial arts, she began to gain more and more insights into martial arts. Not only did she learn martial arts faster, but after actual combat, she could gradually see the flaws in various martial arts.

3, 2, 1, fight!

With the referee's whistle, Xiong Wenwu leaped up suddenly, diving down like a cannonball.

Unable to take it head-on, she could only retreat first.

Bai Zhenzhen swiftly retreated backward, and at the same time, wisps of spiritual energy flickered at her fingertips, and a sharp sword aura burst forth from her body.

Expert-level technique—Corpse-Breaking Sword Qi Level 3 activated.

A foot-length sword qi extended from Bai Zhenzhen's fingertip, stabbing toward Xiong Wenwu, who had just landed.

But as fur scattered everywhere, Bai Zhenzhen only felt that this sword of hers seemed to have struck a steel plate—after splitting the fur and epidermis, it could hardly penetrate deeper into the muscle.

"A body-protecting technique? Plus the effect of a combat Spirit Root, and formidable physical strength..."

Bai Zhenzhen frowned, and in the next instant her figure vanished from Xiong Wenwu's sight.

But Xiong Wenwu was well-prepared for this; without a trace of hesitation, like a rampaging beast, his claws carried flashes of cold light, attacking without pause like a storm toward the direction where Bai Zhenzhen had disappeared.

At the same time, while attacking, Xiong Wenwu frantically sniffed with his nose, as if using scent to determine Bai Zhenzhen's position.

Bai Zhenzhen's eyes widened as she watched his movements. With the boost from her Spirit Root, every motion he made, every shift of spiritual mechanism triggered by each technique, was clearly seen in her eyes.

She could even vaguely judge his subsequent attacks based on the flow of these spiritual mechanisms in the air.

But even combining her stealth ability, after dodging to the limit time and again, wounds still began to appear on her arms, thighs, and waist.

The sharp claws swept across her skin and muscles like a scorching blade cutting through butter, effortlessly leaving terrifying wounds where flesh and skin curled outward on her body.

In contrast, her Corpse-Breaking Sword Qi could only slice off the fur on his body each time, leaving insignificant scratches.

"In the end, the difference in strength and speed is too great."

"At most, in another four or five seconds, I'll lose."

Even so, Bai Zhenzhen felt extremely calm in her heart at this moment. As his attacks grew more frequent and the surrounding spiritual mechanisms became denser, the techniques and body she saw in her eyes became clearer and clearer.

Now in her eyes, Xiong Wenwu was like a super furnace, with more and more spiritual mechanisms and mana condensing inside, burning fiercely to drive his powerful physique.

Besides this, Bai Zhenzhen could also see spiritual mechanisms densely covering his epidermis, as if he were wearing spiritual mechanisms like armor.

"No flaws anywhere on his body... no, there are flaws."

As several deep, bone-deep claw marks were left on her calf, Bai Zhenzhen gradually saw his flaws.

Flaws in his techniques… flaws in his body…

Finally, she stepped out, like a butterfly dancing gracefully in the midst of a storm.

Step by step, she passed through the rushing biting cold, step by step she dodged the deadly sharpness.

"I don't want to stay on the first floor working my whole life…"

"I want to get into the Top Ten!"

"I want to go further on the immortal path!"

! .

The sword qi at Bai Zhenzhen's fingertip roared as she slashed with a sword toward the flaw in her eyes.

…

In the audience stands.

Qian Shen and the other two were staring wide-eyed at the exchange between Xiong Wenwu and Bai Zhenzhen.

Xiong Wenwu's attacks were too fierce, his movements too swift, pressing down on Bai Zhenzhen like lightning and thunder.

So much so that the three couldn't spare a single thought to speak, and even from a distance, they felt an illusion of being oppressed by his aura.

Especially since Bai Zhenzhen's figure appeared so small before Xiong Wenwu, giving a feeling of being too fragile.

Qian Shen thought to himself: "Too fierce—just a graze would tear skin and flesh. If she takes a direct hit, Bai Zhenzhen will surely be dead or severely injured."

"She's going to lose…"

Seeing a burst of blood on Bai Zhenzhen's calf and another wound added, the three of them couldn't help but feel their hearts sink, as if they could already see Bai Zhenzhen's body covered in blood and shredded flesh.

But in the next moment, they watched in shock as Bai Zhenzhen passed through the storm of claws, and then a sword qi slashed upward in reverse.

Xiong Wenwu's figure seemed to pause for an instant, and then a large spray of blood burst from behind him.

Zhao Tianxing exclaimed: "Broke through the defense?"

He Dayou: "Just now she clearly couldn't break through Xiong Wenwu's muscles, so why is she suddenly able to now?"

Qian Shen frowned thoughtfully and said, "Could it be that he hit a flaw in the opponent's technique?"

Watching the blood spraying more and more violently behind Xiong Wenwu, gradually like a fountain, Qian Shen exclaimed, "Did he cut an artery? The amount of blood loss is terrifying!"

In the other arena.

Lei Jun looked at Xiong Wenwu, who was gushing blood behind him, and stared at the spot where the blood was spurting; suddenly his eyes flickered: "It's hemorrhoids! External hemorrhoids!"

"That's right—demonic beasts mostly move on all fours, and after taking human form to study and cultivate, they have to sit for long periods every day, so their hemorrhoids must be more severe and bigger."

"Especially since the external hemorrhoids have already prolapsed out of the body, they aren't protected by body-tempering techniques!"

"Plus, Xiong Wenwu was just doing intense exercise and took so many stimulant drugs, his whole body is engorged with blood—this massive bleed is even worse."

Lei Jun got excited: "To actually find such a weak point? My tutoring sessions weren't wasted after all..."

But the next moment, Xiong Wenwu on the platform had bloodshot eyes and let out a wild roar, like a dying beast.

Xiong Wenwu roared inwardly: "I want to study! I don't want to die on the assembly line! I want to always be Father's son!"

In the next instant, as Xiong Wenwu spun at high speed, blood and claw shadows covered the surroundings in all directions.

"Not good!" Lei Jun's gaze sharpened: "This monster has gone berserk! He's attacking completely randomly..."

Watching Bai Zhenzhen, who had a leg injury and was caught in Xiong Wenwu's onslaught, he knew that facing such chaotic, patternless attacks, Bai Zhenzhen, whose movements were limited by her leg wound, would have an extremely hard time dodging.

When Lei Jun reached the edge of the platform,

he saw Xiong Wenwu already lying on the ground, covered in blood.

Beside him, Bai Zhenzhen stood there panting heavily, and apart from the scratches all over her body, there was nothing under her empty right elbow.

Her right arm had been torn off by the frenzied Xiong Wenwu.

Bai Zhenzhen wins!

Lei Jun quickly picked up her severed arm, carried Bai Zhenzhen, and sent her to the first-aid area.

The emergency doctor glanced at her and couldn't help laughing inwardly, but when he turned to see his colleague receiving Xiong Wenwu, a trace of envy appeared on his face.

"Massive bleeding, overexertion of qi, organ failure, plus a hemorrhoid surgery—and with such high physical resilience... That bear demon will spend at least several hundred thousand."

With a sigh, he shifted his attention back to Bai Zhenzhen.

But just as he was about to treat her, Bai Zhenzhen struggled and asked, "How much? Can insurance cover it?"

The emergency doctor said flatly, "Examination, basic treatment, and arm reattachment—that'll be 88,000. There's another 30,000 in procedures that insurance won't cover—you'll have to pay out of pocket."

"Out of pocket?" Bai Zhenzhen snapped angrily, "I bought insurance, and you want me to pay thirty thousand myself?"

The emergency doctor ignored Bai Zhenzhen and only urged, "Get treated if you want—if the arm necrosis gets too bad, I can't fix it here. If you have to go to the hospital, it'll be at least three hundred thousand."

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