15: Chapter 15 Ruins!

Alien Disaster Division.

Staff Cafeteria.

Su Ming sat down by the window.

A large area around him remained empty, and the looks everyone gave him were full of awe.

This young man was like a god of slaughter possessed!

He started killing the moment he woke up!

Killing from dawn until dusk!

Passing mad dogs and lurking cats in the corners all had to take a spear thrust; even the plague rats in the floor cracks had to be dragged out and minced.

Simply brutal!

"372 refinement points."

"Not bad."

Su Ming shoveled a mouthful of braised pork, a hint of joy in his eyes.

Just at this moment.

Brother Biao walked over quickly.

He sat down opposite Su Ming, slapped an ID badge on the table, and pushed it in front of Su Ming.

"I have fulfilled the mission."

Su Ming did not look at the ID badge at first, but looked up at Brother Biao.

His face looked a bit haggard.

His hair was messy.

With large dark circles under his eyes, he looked severely sleep-deprived.

"Thank you."

Su Ming thanked him.

He put away the badge.

Brother Biao had been running around these past few days; Su Ming had seen it all and kept it in his heart.

Some things didn't need to be said out loud.

He would remember this favor.

"You can go over now."

Brother Biao pulled a cigarette from his pack and lit it. "The Sharp Knife Selection is about to begin."

"You don't look like someone who uses close-quarters weapons, so how about this: go pick out a spear to take with you."

He fished a thick envelope out of his pocket and pushed it in front of Su Ming.

"Your wages for the recent period."

Su Ming nodded in acknowledgement.

He grabbed the envelope and got up to leave.

...

East of the city, Martial Arts Plaza.

"Screech!"

The armored vehicle dragged a black mark behind it and came to a steady stop on the side of the road.

"Brother Ming has arrived."

Skinny Monkey turned his head and shouted.

Su Ming patted his shoulder and opened the door to get out. As Skinny Monkey watched that receding back, he vaguely seemed to hear a clear, crisp spear resonance explode over the plaza.

Skinny Monkey sighed softly.

Indeed, shallow waters cannot contain a true Dragon; he was destined to head toward a higher stage after all.

At this moment, the corner of his eye caught sight of a thick envelope on the seat.

...

Martial Arts Plaza.

Checkpoint.

"Su Ming."

The inspector took the badge, compared the data on the computer, and returned it to Su Ming.

"Go on in."

Watching Su Ming walk away, the inspector shrugged.

"Seventeen years old, unemployed, no student status, no Realm record. Tsk tsk, another one here to join the fun. Wonder which rich Young Master this is, coming here to gild their resume."

Just after Su Ming left, Principal Zhong led Lu Jingtian and the others to the plaza entrance.

...

Inside the Martial Arts Plaza.

Dozens of people were scattered across the huge plaza, some standing with arms crossed, others whispering to each other.

In the center of the plaza stood a five-meter-tall ancient disc, its surface engraved with twisted, complex blood-red patterns. An inexplicable, desolate aura rushed toward them.

In front of the ancient disc.

Three people dressed in black uniforms, each with a long blade strapped to their waist, stood in a row with their hands behind their backs.

They did not speak or move.

They just stood there quietly, yet they were like three unsheathed sharp blades, making people afraid to look directly at them.

Sharp!

Cold!

Filled with awe-inspiring Evil Qi!

The woman in black in the center of the three scanned the crowd and stepped forward.

She said indifferently.

"Everyone is here. Let's begin."

No extra nonsense.

Since they came to participate in the selection or training, they naturally understood the rules.

"Hum!"

A buzzing sound rang in everyone's ears.

The blood-red patterns on the ancient disc suddenly lit up, twisting and deforming into a deep black hole.

"Enter."

"If you encounter a life-or-death crisis and don't want to die, crush your badge to leave the ruins."

The woman in black's voice was not loud, but every word was clear.

Upon hearing this.

Everyone stepped into the black hole one after another.

The top students from The Fourth Martial Arts High School jogged into the Martial Arts Plaza. Jiang Xinyu watched that back disappearing into the entrance, her pupils suddenly constricting.

She blurted out subconsciously.

"Su... Su Ming?"

She was very familiar with this back!

In every martial arts test before the spiritual aptitude test, she had always struggled beneath him, which was why it left such a deep impression.

Everyone paused for a moment.

Following Jiang Xinyu's gaze, they only saw a pitch-black ruin entrance.

"Su Ming? How could he possibly be here!"

"You must have seen wrong!"

"The moment he was tested and found to have no spiritual aptitude, it became impossible for him to ever appear in a place like this in his life."

Jiang Xinyu rubbed her temples.

Indeed!

Having been suppressed for two and a half years, she felt like she was going crazy; it was just a similar back.

It definitely couldn't be the same person.

"Let's go, he and we are no longer on the same path."

Lu Jingtian waved his hand.

He was the first to step into the ruin entrance.

Everyone followed.

After a while, the ruin entrance closed, and the disc's surface returned to its original twisted blood-red patterns.

"The difficulty is a bit high this time."

Ghost Hand, one of the three, said indifferently, his tone carrying a hint of mockery.

"Arranging for the Grey-Faced Nuo Ape to appear; I'm afraid this group will be wiped out."

You have to know that the legendary figure of Pingan City, the previous director of the Wilderness Suppression Bureau, also faced the Grey-Faced Nuo Ape when participating in the Sharp Knife Selection.

At the time, relying on his Peak Realm cultivation and Major Achievement level basic blade technique, he had spent quite a lot of effort to barely defeat the Grey-Faced Nuo Ape.

Even now.

Facing the Grey-Faced Nuo Ape during the Sharp Knife Selection remains Purgatory difficulty.

Ye Qingluan said coldly.

"Better to have nothing than to accept inferior quality."

...

Inside the Stone Forest Ruins.

Su Ming felt a moment of dizziness, as if his whole body was being stretched infinitely, only to suddenly contract and recover the next moment.

When he opened his eyes again.

He was in a valley.

As far as the eye could see.

It was full of craggy rocks, with a few twisted, strange trees scattered among them, their branches bare, without a single green leaf.

Looking up.

The view was dark red, and the clouds, like patches of dark brown stagnant blood, filled the entire sky.

[Detected exotic beast Rock-Horned Sheep, can be refined!]

[Detected exotic beast Rock Lizard, can be refined!]

[Detected exotic beast Rift Valley Bug, can be refined!]

...

The pleasant notification sounds exploded one after another in the depths of his mind.

Su Ming licked his lips, the corners of his mouth rising uncontrollably, a look of fanaticism in his eyes.

"Very good."

"Fresh refinement points."

"Swoosh!"

A slight sound of breaking air attacked.

Su Ming's eyes moved slightly.

He reached back to take down the spear he was carrying, swept it from bottom to top, and drew a silvery-white arc at his side.

The black shadow closed in!

But the spear arrived first despite starting later!

"Puchi!"

The spear blade cut into flesh without the slightest hesitation, and the Rock Python's massive body was split in two!

The two halves of the corpse fell silently to the ground.

The Rock Python's residual muscle memory drove its half-body to squirm and struggle on the ground, carving messy marks, before finally settling down after a long while.

[Killed Rock Python, refinement points +1]

Su Ming's eyes moved slightly.

The exotic beasts here were stronger than Mutants but weaker than the Lizard Monster.

However, with the Innate Spear Spine enhancement.

In Su Ming's eyes, these so-called exotic beasts and Mutants were almost no different.

Only one spear strike was needed.

Raise his hand and they are wiped out.

Su Ming moved his gaze away from the corpse.

He strode forward.

Walking a few steps.

A Rock-Horned Sheep suddenly attacked from the side.

Su Ming raised his spear.

Thrust out.

"Pu!"

The spear tip pierced the Rock-Horned Sheep's throat.

With its throat as the center, its body bent instantly, and its head and limbs slammed heavily against the spear shaft.

The spear didn't move a bit.

It was as if the Rock-Horned Sheep was actively seeking death.

Su Ming exerted force with his wrist.

Pulled it out.

"Pu!"

A burst of crimson blood mist exploded.

[Killed Rock-Horned Sheep, refinement points +1]

Su Ming's eyes were as calm as water.

His footsteps did not pause at all.

He strode forward, his spear pointing diagonally at the sky, his feet stepping on the ground, making a crisp rustling sound.

[Killed Rock Lizard, refinement points +1]

[Killed Rock Python, refinement points +1]

[Killed Rock-Horned Sheep, refinement points +1]

...

The pleasant notification sounds frantically scrolled across Su Ming's mind, as sweet as heavenly music.