Chapter 22

The two Primary Lord-level Fire Scale Trident Pigs had fewer than a hundred monsters left nearby, and the Beast General-level monsters were less than half.

The Lord-level monster's defense was truly astonishing!

The over‑ten‑story building collapsed; even though some of it struck the Fire Scale Trident Pig, the pig swished its tail, the concrete columns shattered, exposing the steel rebars that were flung away, and not a single mark marred the pig's scales.

Xiao Yu's figure flashed, his feet landing on the third‑floor roof of the Carrefour supermarket, then he surged toward the One‑eyed Fire Scale Trident Pig like a sniper bullet.

After four consecutive accelerations, his initial speed reached twice the speed of sound.

The Fire Scale Trident Pig also charged at Xiao Yu; at the moment of collision, Xiao Yu's body darted to the side of the One‑eyed Fire Scale Trident Pig like lightning, and he thrust the Silver Moon Battle Knife forward.

After four consecutive accelerations, the knife's speed instantly became supersonic, piercing the blood‑spouting eye socket of the Fire Scale Trident Pig. Because the pig had lost one eye and its vision was poor, by the time it sensed Xiao Yu's attack through sound, the knife had already fully driven into the pig's skull. The knife in his hand spun.

The One‑eyed Fire Scale Trident Pig trembled, its whole body convulsing incessantly.

The other Fire Scale Trident Pig, seeing Xiao Yu attack its companion, staggered toward Xiao Yu; Xiao Yu flashed quickly, pulling the knife from the pig's eye socket, sending sprays of red and white fluid. It then slammed into the trembling Fire Scale Trident Pig, and both Primary Lord-level monsters fell to the ground.

"Wha‑la~"

The battle knife shattered into countless pieces.

The battle knife before me was the a6 Model; managing to hold out against a Primary Lord in this fight before breaking is actually pretty good.

Swap the Silver Moon Battle Knife from the left hand to the right hand.

In an instant, he arrived in front of the Fire Scale Trident Pig with a wounded forelimb; the Silver Moon Battle Knife flashed, its tip delivering a shockwave toward the pig's left eye.

The Fire Scale Trident Pig's head suddenly slammed toward Xiao Yu. Simultaneously, the knife in Xiao Yu's hand accelerated four times in succession, its tip staying fixed on the pig's left eye, piercing the eyeball accurately and disappearing entirely into the pig's skull.

At the same time, the pig's head struck Xiao Yu's body, hurling him away, but fortunately the pig's horn did not hit him.

The Fire Scale Trident Pig's body kept trembling, its whole form convulsing endlessly.

Thus, both Primary Lord-level monsters were already down, and this turn of events left the surrounding attacking monsters utterly astonished.

A lone one fled in all directions.

His thoughts shifted, and the corpses of the monsters vanished one by by, leaving only piles of valuable materials on the ground.

【Absorbed two Primary Lord-level Fire Scale Trident Pigs and gained 30,000 Wish Points.】

【Absorbed 76 Beast General-level monsters and gained 110,000 Wish Points.】

【Absorbed 3,000 Beast Soldier-level monsters and gained 120,000 Wish Points.】

He walked to the piles of monster materials, touched them with both hands, stored them into the Storage Ring, and after finishing, quickly returned to the temporary base.

"System, check remaining Wish Points."

【Remaining Wish Points: 1,302,800.】

"I'll rest for a while today, sort the monster materials, then head back directly."

His spirit probed the Space Ring, his thoughts scanning all the monster materials, and the quantities of the materials flashed in his mind.

He placed all the primary Beast General materials and some intermediate Beast General materials into three backpacks.

Then he carried one backpack on his back, held a backpack in each hand, and quickly returned to the Southeast Military Region.

A day later, to the astonished gazes of everyone, Xiao Yu arrived at the Supply Base's monster material shop.

"Brother Wang, are you there? I need to sell a batch of monster materials here," Xiao Yu said through his communication watch to the manager surnamed Wang.

"Brother Xiao! I'm here, I'll be right out."

In less than a minute, a figure darted to Xiao Yu's front.

"Brother Xiao, please come in, looks like this haul is pretty good!"

Xiao Yu nodded and followed inside.

The interior décor was far more luxurious than the outside; Manager Wang walked to a wide, curved bar in the center, fetched two tall glass cups from behind him, and poured two glasses of red wine from a bottle beneath the bar.

He handed Xiao Yu a glass.

"Brother Xiao, if you're comfortable, just leave your backpack here; I'll have someone sort it, and we can have a drink over there," Manager Wang said.

Xiao Yu nodded in agreement.

"Brother Xiao, let's sit over here for a while."

Manager Wang led Xiao Yu to a nearby lounge area, where two sofas were placed.

"Alright," Xiao Yu said, sitting on the sofa.

"Lao Han, bring two people out to sort the materials," Manager Wang shouted toward a half‑open door behind the bar.

"Coming right away!" an elderly voice rang out.

As soon as the words finished, an elderly man with speckled white hair arrived at the bar with two apprentices.

"Brother Xiao, I haven't formally introduced myself before; my surname is Wang, given name Deqing, full name Wang Deqing," Wang Deqing said. "Let's have a drink together!"

"Cheers."

Xiao Yu said.

After a quarter of an hour, all the monster materials were tallied. Wang Deqing laughed, "This time there are a total of 112 primary Beast General monster materials, averaging 12 million each; 56 intermediate Beast General monster materials, averaging 85 million each; rounding up, the total is 6.2 billion Huaxia Currency."

Xiao Yu nodded and laughed, "No problem."

"Then it's a deal."

Wang Deqing and Xiao Yu clasped hands, sealing the transaction.

After resting for a night, Xiao Yu repacked the remaining monster materials into his backpack, took the special train back to Jiangnan Base City, then rode the Extreme Martial Arts Hall shuttle to the Extreme Headquarters.

The Extreme Headquarters is the old stronghold of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall in Jiangnan Base City; although Xiao Yu has a villa here, he rarely comes, spending most of his time at his home in Yangzhou City.

Upon entering the first floor of the Extreme Headquarters, many martial artists recognized Xiao Yu and greeted him warmly. Xiao Yu and they chatted cheerfully; most of the martial artists had met while resting at the Supply Base.

Led by a woman in a black suit, Xiao Yu took the elevator up to the 23rd floor.

"Ding!"

The elevator doors opened.

"Please follow me," the woman in the black suit smiled, leading Xiao Yu into an office where a middle‑aged woman was seated at a computer.

"Is that Xiao Yu from the Iron Blood Squad? Welcome, welcome." the middle-aged woman said with a smile, "My name is Luo Yunqin."

"Hello, Manager Luo!" Xiao Yu said with a smile, "Manager Luo, these are the monster materials I brought this time; take a look." He then set down his two oversized backpacks, pulled open the ropes, and a large amount of monster materials immediately poured into a large metal tub beside him.

Luo Yunqin's eyes lit up; she immediately took out her password box, opened it, and retrieved the tools.

"Beep beep beep beep~~"

Under the instrument's scan, the quality, name, and price of each monster material appeared directly on the screen. No manual inspection was needed, and soon the total price appeared on the screen.

"The total price is 2.8 billion, and the contribution points are 1,400,000." Luo Yunqin said with a smile.

Xiao Yu nodded slightly.

If these materials were sold to the HR Alliance, they would be worth at least 4.2 billion; but at the Extreme Martial Arts Hall Headquarters, they could only be sold for two-thirds of that price, 2.8 billion—although that's 1.4 billion less, it yields 1.4 million contribution points. If one relied solely on donations to earn contribution points, they would need a full 14 billion.

After doing the math, as a warrior of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, it's still more economical to sell the materials to the Extreme Martial Arts Hall.

"Are you sure you want to sell?" Luo Yunqin asked, smiling at Xiao Yu.

"Certainly." Xiao Yu nodded.

"Count the materials from those two primary-level lord monsters toward my battle record." Xiao Yu said.

"Alright. Now your warrior rank is 'Primary War God Rank'." Luo Yunqin nodded and entered it directly, "Upon becoming a war god, one usually joins the War God Palace directly and receives a Consciousness Sensor. However, the War God Palace will send people to test Mr. Xiao's strength."

Xiao Yu glanced at the screen.

The screen showed Xiao Yu's information, and in the rank column it read 'War God Level (Primary)'.

Below that was a pop-up window with some text—

"War God Palace application, under evaluation……"

Only a few seconds.

Luo Yunqin smiled and said, "Mr. Xiao, someone from the War God Palace will come tomorrow, shortly."

Late that night, in Xiao Yu's home audiovisual room.

On the wall screen, the 'Extreme Home' webpage was opened, and the most prominent thing on it was a list.

Name: Xiao Yu

Gender: Male

Address: Huaxia Nation, Jiangnan Base City

Warrior ID: 426123203803213251

Rank: War God Level (Primary)

Contribution points: 1,400,000 (Three-star Rank)

Currency balance: 10,561,250,000 Huaxia Currency

"Online store, Nine Thunder Knife manual." Xiao Yu quickly tapped the wireless keyboard touchscreen, entering the purchase page for the Nine Thunder Knife manual.

The first six levels of the Nine Thunder Knife manual—price 10 billion Huaxia Currency (full price), 5 billion Huaxia Currency (half price, requiring Three-star Rank contribution points).

Xiao Yu lightly tapped the purchase button for the first six levels of the manual.

"Please confirm: purchase the first six levels of the Nine Thunder Knife manual, requiring payment of 5 billion Huaxia Currency!"

"Confirmed!" Xiao Yu clicked once.

"Please verify via fingerprint, then confirm again."

Xiao Yu placed his finger on the fingerprint collector of the wireless keyboard.

"Beep!"

"Fingerprint verification passed."

"Purchase successful!"

"Deduction successful!"

"The first six levels of the Nine Thunder Knife manual will be delivered to Mr. Xiao Yu's home within 24 hours." Notifications appeared consecutively on the screen.

The manual has been purchased; next are the combat suit and battle knife.

Both Silver Moon Battle Knives were completely damaged, and the combat suit is only a d6 series, which is no longer suitable; at minimum, a d8 series combat suit is now needed.

"Silver Moon Battle Knife weapon series." Xiao Yu quickly tapped the wireless keyboard touchscreen, entering the purchase page for the Silver Moon Battle Knife weapons.

Silver Moon Battle Knife No. 3 series, a7 model—price: 100 million Huaxia Currency (full price), 50 million Huaxia Currency (half price, requiring Two-star Rank contribution points).

Silver Moon Battle Knife No. 3 series, a8 model—price: 500 million Huaxia Currency (full price), 250 million Huaxia Currency (half price, requiring Two-star Rank contribution points).

Silver Moon Battle Knife No. 3 series, a9 model—price: 2 billion Huaxia Currency (full price), 1 billion Huaxia Currency (half price, requiring Three-star Rank contribution points).

After checking the weapons, he then looked at the combat suit prices. A full set of d8 series combat suit costs 10 billion Huaxia Currency at full price, and half price also requires 5 billion (Two-star Rank contribution points). Meanwhile, the d9 series combat suit costs 40 billion Huaxia Currency at full price, and half price also requires 20 billion (Three-star Rank contribution points).

After comprehensive consideration, Xiao Yu chose two a9-model Silver Moon Battle Knives and a d9 series combat suit, spending a total of 4 billion Huaxia Currency. This left him with 1.5 billion Huaxia Currency remaining.

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