Chapter 227: Sweeping Up Credits

The next morning, Li Fei walked into the mission hall again, went straight to the second floor, and asked the staff member from yesterday:

"Hello, is there any news about my custom service?"

"Hello, student. Your custom service has results."

This time, the look in the staff member's eyes when looking at Li Fei was different from yesterday, and their tone had become much more respectful.

Custom services usually take three days to provide results, but Li Fei's custom service was only submitted yesterday and already had results today, which showed that the school attached great importance to it.

"The three types of implants you requested require a total of 80 credits and 12, 00 yuan to redeem."

The staff member said to Li Fei.

"80 credits?"

Li Fei nodded.

He could immediately come up with the 12, 00 yuan, but 80 credits were a bit difficult.

"Okay, thank you. I need to redeem one Qi-Combining Pill now."

Li Fei said.

The Qi-Combining Pill is an elixir used by martial artists at the peak of the Body-Breaking Realm to break through their realm after their intent power has been fully polished.

From the Body-Breaking Realm to the Qi-Transformation Realm, any martial artist who does not follow the "breaking the heart barrier" path needs the assistance of elixirs to break through.

There are many types of breakthrough elixirs, and the Qi-Combining Pill is the one with a relatively higher success rate; only a place like the Martial Arts University can directly redeem it.

Of course, the price is not cheap either.

"One Qi-Combining Pill requires 20 credits and 1, 00 yuan."

"Okay."

Li Fei handed over his student ID, then handed over a stack of cash.

He wanted the outside world to see him break through from the Body-Breaking Realm to the Qi-Transformation Realm, so the necessary process had to be complete; thus, an elixir for breaking through was essential.

Fortunately, a pill like the Qi-Combining Pill is priceless in the outside world, so he did not have to worry about wasting it.

Ten minutes later, the staff member handed a wooden box to Li Fei.

Inside the wooden box was a very exquisite small medicine bottle, and inside the bottle was the Qi-Combining Pill.

"Thank you."

Li Fei picked up the wooden box, thanked the staff member politely, and stood up to leave.

Soon, the fact that he had purchased a Qi-Combining Pill was known to the high-level officials of the Martial Arts University.

"Why did he buy those three types of implants? They are all rare spell-system implants. Does he want to cultivate spells?"

"Even if he wants to cultivate spells, there's no need to buy three at once, and they aren't a set. He must be buying them for someone else."

"For whom?"

"He still has a teacher and a martial aunt in Xingcheng."

"Spending 80 credits to buy things for others, isn't this delaying his own cultivation?"

"As long as he has the strength to earn that many credits, it's fine."

"Should we intervene?"

"Let's wait and see."

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So, under a certain consensus, no one at the Martial Arts University stepped forward to criticize Li Fei; instead, they quietly watched him do as he pleased.

"80 credits..."

After finishing the poison class with Mo Yizhou in the morning, Li Fei returned to his dormitory and began to think about how to get 80 credits in a short time.

The "graduation line" set by the Martial Arts University for students is 60 points, which already makes it impossible for many students to graduate smoothly, eventually forcing them to drop out because they cannot afford the rising annual tuition.

For the vast majority of students, 60 credits is not an easy score to get. Students who can get 60 points within four years are already considered excellent students at the Martial Arts University.

And Li Fei now needs to get 80 points!

He had just spent 20 credits to redeem the Qi-Combining Pill, and only 9 credits remained that he could use.

"The top of the martial artist combat power ranking can earn 20 credits per month. Even if I can reach the top of the ranking this month, I will have to wait several months to gather enough credits."

"As for doing missions, the vast majority are group missions, and the credits for individual missions are generally low. It would probably take several months to gather 80 credits."

"In this way, only the options of breaking through the realm and passing course assessments remain."

Li Fei calculated the methods for obtaining credits.

If he wanted to, he could "break through" at any time. According to the regulations of the Martial Arts University, students who break through from the Body-Breaking Realm to the Qi-Transformation Realm can immediately receive 20 credits.

But 20 credits were far from enough. Li Fei began to carefully study the class schedule in his hand.

The schedule had the "threshold score" for every course, as well as the credits that could be obtained after passing the assessment.

After studying the schedule, Li Fei had a preliminary plan.

That afternoon, he did not continue to go to the arena, but came to a small playground.

This was the location for a basic saber technique course.

At this time, there were only a dozen students on the playground. Because the lecturer teaching this basic saber technique course was a special-grade lecturer, there were not many students with enough credits to sign up for his course, and even fewer who still needed to lay the foundation.

When these students saw Li Fei, they were stunned for a moment, and then began to discuss:

"He chose this course?"

"I went to the arena yesterday to watch; his saber technique is very powerful."

"Then why does he need to come here for a basic course?"

"Who knows what such a genius is thinking."

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Amidst the discussion, Li Fei walked toward the special-grade lecturer standing to the side:

"Hello, Teacher Zhao, may I apply for the assessment?"

Zhao Ping looked at Li Fei: "Are you here to get credits?"

Li Fei bowed to him: "I hope you don't mind."

"Haha, there's nothing to mind. I opened the course and set the assessment; as long as you have the ability to pass, feel free to take the credits."

Zhao Ping laughed.

He glanced at the other students: "You can just watch as well."

After saying that, he walked to the weapon rack on the side, picked up two steel sabers, and threw one to Li Fei:

"My assessment here is very simple. As long as you can use saber techniques to force me to defend once, you pass the assessment. You are not allowed to use extraordinary abilities during the assessment, and I will control my power level at the Body-Breaking Realm."

Li Fei caught the steel saber and nodded to Zhao Ping:

"The student understands."

"You may begin."

Zhao Ping said to Li Fei.

So Li Fei stepped toward Zhao Ping, then swung his saber in a diagonal slash, executing a Rolling Thunder move.

Zhao Ping struck with his saber almost at the same time, also in a diagonal slash, and the two blades collided fiercely in mid-air.

Clang—

Sparks flew, and a notch was chipped into both blades.

Zhao Ping flicked his wrist, calmly neutralizing the vibrating force from the Rolling Thunder move, then turned his blade and slashed toward Li Fei's chest.

Li Fei completed a change in moves almost simultaneously; his blade pressed tightly against Zhao Ping's blade, pushing forward horizontally!

"Good!"

Zhao Ping's eyes lit up, praising the Mountain-Pushing move Li Fei used to connect.

He immediately rotated his wrist, raised his arm, and held the saber body vertically in front of him, finally blocking the blade Li Fei pushed over. The two steel sabers crossed horizontally and vertically, rubbing against each other and creating another shower of sparks.

"Thank you, Teacher Zhao."

Li Fei withdrew his saber, stepped back, and bowed to Zhao Ping.

Only then did the dozen or so students watching react and exclaim.

The exchange between the two just now happened in the blink of an eye; the strikes were fast, and the changes were even faster!

Before they could react, the two had already exchanged two moves.

Li Fei only used two moves to force Zhao Ping to withdraw his saber and defend!

It wasn't that Zhao Ping, a special-grade lecturer who specialized in teaching saber techniques, was not good at it, but that when the speed and power were not much different, and he could not use innate Qi or force, it was not so easy for him to suppress Li Fei with saber techniques alone.

After all, Li Fei had been taught by Hao Yi for so long that he wouldn't fail a basic assessment.

And although it was said that extraordinary abilities could not be used, in reality, during that exchange, Li Fei still used "Danger Perception," which allowed him to pass the assessment within two moves.

"You have passed the assessment for my course. Give me your student ID."

Zhao Ping said to Li Fei.

Li Fei handed over his student ID with both hands.

Zhao Ping walked to the side, used a pen to record a line of content on Li Fei's student ID, and added 8 points.

For his basic saber technique course, one could get 8 credits by passing the assessment.

After getting the 8 credits, Li Fei continued to the next location.

Soon, he arrived at another playground.

This was the location for a practical combat course.

The teacher was also a special-grade lecturer. This practical combat course was only aimed at martial artists in the Body-Breaking Realm; if they were Martial Masters or Force-Refining Martial Masters, they would have to take other practical combat courses.

This was the reason why Li Fei was not in a hurry to "break through."

He planned to first collect all the credits available at the Martial Artist stage!

"Hello, Teacher, may I apply for an assessment?"

Li Fei found the special-grade lecturer teaching this martial arts combat course and asked.

The other party also readily agreed to Li Fei's assessment application.

The assessment method for this combat course was also very simple; Li Fei only needed to last ten moves against the special-grade lecturer teaching the course to pass.

This special-grade lecturer would also suppress their strength to the Martial Artist level, though they would use extraordinary abilities.

The assessment began quickly. Facing the special-grade lecturer who possessed a mutated lightning-attribute implant, Li Fei relied on "Tyrant Body" to take the lightning attacks head-on, combined with "Danger Perception" for defense, and ultimately succeeded in lasting ten moves, passing the assessment.

After passing the assessment for this combat course, Li Fei received 12 credits.

With this, Li Fei had gained 20 credits in just one day!

At 6: 0 that evening, the credit leaderboard was updated.

A crowd of students was surprised to find that Li Fei's ranking had jumped significantly, going from 87th to 29th in one go!

For newly enrolled students, it would take at least a year or half a year of study to have a chance at passing a course assessment; even among those specially admitted students with impressive strength, no one could pass a course assessment as easily as Li Fei.

However, Li Fei's "credit-sweeping" behavior was not yet over.

The next day, he still went to attend Mo Yizhou's poison course in the morning.

After class, he waited for more than 20 minutes and walked into another classroom.

This classroom was where "Detailed Explanation of Metal-Attribute Implant Control" was taught. This course was opened by a first-grade lecturer and was also specifically aimed at Martial Artists in the Body-Breaking stage.

"Li Fei?"

The first-grade lecturer was a woman in her thirties. Seeing Li Fei walk into the classroom, a smile appeared on her face.

"Hello, Teacher Zhou."

Li Fei bowed to her.

Zhou Qian looked at Li Fei with interest: "Are you here to apply for an assessment?"

"Yes."

Li Fei nodded.

At this moment, the rest of the students sitting in the classroom were already in an uproar.

Yesterday, many of them were still discussing this legendary freshman, and today they were seeing him up close.

"Alright, your implant is a Grade 2 superior 【Steel Armor】?"

Zhou Qian continued to ask.

Li Fei nodded: "Yes."

"Whoa, Grade 2 superior!"

"No wonder he's so powerful!"

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The students in the classroom were in another round of discussion.

"Alright, quiet."

Zhou Qian first let the others quiet down, then looked at Li Fei and smiled:

"For my course, the assessment content is very simple. As long as you can successfully control the implant in your body to trigger an extraordinary ability ten consecutive times under strong interference, you pass. Your implant is Grade 2 superior, so the interference you receive will be stronger. Do you understand?"

"This student understands."

Li Fei bowed to Zhou Qian, "Please start the assessment, Teacher."

Zhou Qian nodded with satisfaction, took a medicine bottle from her drawer, and handed it to Li Fei:

"This is a Gold-Melting Pill. Take five of them, wait five minutes, and then you can begin."

Hearing this, the students in the classroom could no longer sit still:

"Damn, taking five at once? That's too ruthless!"

"Does Teacher Zhou have a grudge against Li Fei?"

"Taking five Gold-Melting Pills, who could still control their implant normally?"

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Among the students present, quite a few had tried to pass the assessment before, but without exception, they had all failed.

The Gold-Melting Pill is a drug that causes strong interference with metal-attribute implants. Taking just one would make many Martial Artists in the Body-Breaking stage "lose all their Wu Gong," let alone taking five at once!

Therefore, many students felt that Zhou Qian must have an issue with Li Fei to intentionally set such a difficult assessment.

Zhou Qian looked up and glared at the other students, immediately making everyone shut up, afraid to speak again for fear that they would also have to take five Gold-Melting Pills when they were assessed in the future.

Li Fei did not hesitate; he picked up the small medicine bottle on the table, poured out five Gold-Melting Pills, and swallowed them in one gulp.

Afterward, he stood in place and waited quietly for five minutes for the drug's effects to take hold.

He could actually use the Ten Thousand Blood Bead to absorb the drug's effects directly; if he did that, let alone five Gold-Melting Pills, even taking fifty would have no effect on him.

But he wanted to see what his true level of control over his implant was, so he voluntarily cut off his connection with the Ten Thousand Blood Bead.

Five minutes later, Li Fei felt the 【Steel Armor】 fall into a "manic" state, took a deep breath, and began to trigger "Tyrant Body."

If triggering "Tyrant Body" under normal circumstances was as simple as picking up a cup to drink water, then at this moment, the "cup" had become heavy, and his hand was trembling non-stop, somewhat refusing to obey.

However, this still could not stump Li Fei.

He successfully triggered "Tyrant Body," and after the duration of "Tyrant Body" ended, he continued to trigger "Tyrant Body" without pause, repeating this ten times.

Having completed the breakthrough by way of "Breaking the Heart Barrier," Li Fei's heart-intent power far exceeded that of Martial Masters at the same realm, and his control over his implant was naturally the same, so this kind of assessment was not difficult for him.

"Very good."

Seeing Li Fei successfully complete the assessment, Zhou Qian nodded with satisfaction.

It was indeed intentional that she made Li Fei take five Gold-Melting Pills; she just wanted to see to what extent this peerless genius who had risen to fame could perform.

"It seems you are not far from breaking through to the next realm. Congratulations."

Zhou Qian said to Li Fei.

After speaking, she asked Li Fei for his student ID and recorded 15 credits on it.

Today, Li Fei gained another 15 credits!

After he left Zhou Qian's classroom, he went to the next classroom...

(End of chapter)