49: Chapter 49 Jiang Qingyao Meets He Yan Again

"Are we even that close?"

"Do you seriously have zero sense of boundaries?"

"Besides, have you got no self-awareness at all about what you were thinking and doing just now?"

Shen Xingchen was truly speechless.

"You…" The classmate with slender eyebrows wanted to say something else.

The boy beside him pulled him back. "Lü Ming, if they don't agree, just forget it."

The slender-browed boy named Lü Ming was instantly displeased. "Right, I admit you're strong, but with so many demons in this exam venue, wouldn't it be better if we helped each other out?"

"Yeah, with you joining us, the scores of our group will improve quite a bit, but you aren't losing out either, right?"

"If our behavior just now made you dissatisfied, I can even apologize to you. How about that? Sincere enough, right?"

Lü Ming grew more and more excited as he spoke.

Shen Xingchen listened from the side, amused.

Sure, I could help you on a whim without even delaying myself, but did you ever ask if I was willing?

When you apologize, did you ever ask if I even care to hear it?

"Am I your dad? Why should I spoil you like this?" Shen Xingchen looked at him coldly.

In his pupils, cyan-gold flames were burning.

"Make way!"

In just an instant, Lü Ming felt an astonishing pressure.

He involuntarily took two steps back.

Shen Xingchen looked at him with a disdainful gaze, then walked past the group and headed into the distance.

The four-person team fell silent for a long time.

Suddenly, someone spoke up.

"If we had helped him just now, would he have stayed to carry us along?" asked another girl in the team.

Everyone was speechless.

...

Northern Wangshan Ruins.

He Yan sat on the branch of a withered tree. "Have you found her?"

Beneath the tree, a boy dressed in black nodded. "Big Sis, found her. Jiang Qingyao is thirty kilometers to the southeast."

He Yan nodded with satisfaction.

This reporting boy was a student from Wudao No. 1 High School named Gou Peng, who had acknowledged Qi Yang as his boss long ago.

His Talent Divine Ability was called [Swallower of Suns].

It was a pitch-black, slender divine hound rated at Grade A.

Besides providing strength and agility bonuses in battle, this divine beast-type Talent Divine Ability had a very practical skill.

—— Tracking!

He Yan knew she was no match for Shen Xingchen.

But she could target Jiang Qingyao.

During the last Six Academies Grand Competition, the two of them had already fought a match, and Jiang Qingyao was not her opponent.

She heard that those two had an extremely close relationship.

Since Shen Xingchen ruined Qi Yang,

then she would ruin Jiang Qingyao!

He Yan said to Gou Peng, "Confirm the location one more time, and then we'll head over!"

A malicious smile flashed across the corner of her mouth.

Jiang Qingyao, such a beautiful name, such a beautiful person.

I wonder how heartbroken Shen Xingchen will be when he hears the news of your death?

Gou Peng immediately took action.

He pinched his nose, and an illusory, large black dog manifested behind him.

"Heaven and earth boundlessly limitless, track for ten thousand miles!"

Gou Peng's consciousness plunged into the world of taste, extending thirty kilometers away.

Jiang Qingyao's aura was fluctuating, seeming to have fallen into a bitter battle. The creature opposite her should be a demon.

"Big Sis, follow me!"

Gou Peng sprinted in a certain direction.

He Yan immediately followed.

...

A quarter of an hour later.

On a mountain path, Jiang Qingyao exerted some effort and finally killed a Tier 2 demon.

"If only Shen Xingchen were here…"

Jiang Qingyao fell into a daydreaming state.

That brute probably wouldn't find killing these demons exhausting at all.

She recalled the way Shen Xingchen fought.

If he killed a Tier 2 demon, he probably wouldn't experience much emotional fluctuation either.

When others asked him about it, he would reply with things like "I didn't really use much strength", "Can't you guys do it?", or "Just pure luck."

Then people would get more and more angry the more they listened.

He was just like that, extremely arrogant!

Forget it, why bother thinking about that big scumbag!

Jiang Qingyao shook her head, tossing Shen Xingchen out of her mind.

Just as she intended to continue moving forward,

"So you really are here!" a female voice rang out, revealing a mocking tone.

Jiang Qingyao looked up.

He Yan!

Behind He Yan stood a boy in black clothes, also smiling malevolently.

"What do you want to do?" Jiang Qingyao raised her pretty willow-leaf eyebrows, looking at them coldly.

He Yan smiled and said, "I wonder if you've heard, every year in the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination, there is a death quota!"

...

Shen Xingchen was wandering around the periphery of the exam venue.

After a whole day, he had already killed over 200 Tier 1 demons and 10 Tier 2 demons.

The main part of the process was spent searching for them.

With his killings, the number of demons was getting smaller and smaller.

"It's time to walk a bit deeper into Wang Mountain."

Shen Xingchen picked up his long spear and walked along a path toward the center.

He had just taken two steps when

a candidate rushed over in a panic, a trace of astonishment flashing across his face when he saw Shen Xingchen.

He shouted as he ran, "Brother, run quickly, there's a Tier 3 demon behind me…"

Shen Xingchen was feeling puzzled, but upon hearing the candidate's words, his eyes lit up.

He grabbed the candidate by the collar and hurriedly asked, "Where?"

He had been in here for a day and hadn't even seen a Tier 3 demon yet!

That candidate was running happily when he was suddenly grabbed by the collar; his lower body kept sprinting forward, but his upper body didn't keep up, causing him to go horizontal.

With an anxious expression, he said, "Don't ask anymore, run with me quickly!"

Right at that moment,

a wolf-headed, human-bodied monster charged over at an extremely fast speed, its eyes devoid of any emotion, just like a cold-blooded killing machine.

A Shadow Demon Wolf!

The candidate from earlier no longer cared about anything else and desperately tried to break free from Shen Xingchen's hand.

But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't shake the hand tightly gripping him.

His heart was shaken.

He was a Tier 2 martial artist himself, yet he was completely unable to rival the other party in terms of strength.

Suddenly, the hand tightly gripping his collar loosened.

That figure, bathed all over in cyan-gold spiritual energy, charged straight at the Shadow Demon Wolf.

"What are you doing? Have you lost your mind!?"

In a split second,

Shen Xingchen had already arrived in front of the Shadow Demon Wolf.

The Shadow Demon Wolf had low intelligence and only felt that its prey was right before its eyes, its face full of excitement.

Boom——

The fist light had arrived.

The Shadow Demon Wolf's claws collided with Shen Xingchen's fist, creating a booming explosion as gravel flew everywhere.

The cyan-gold dragon shadow on Shen Xingchen's arm surged along his arm toward the body of the Shadow Demon Wolf.

With a swift flash,

the dragon shadow pierced through the body of the Shadow Demon Wolf, letting out a resonant dragon roar.

The strike was over.

The eyes of the Shadow Demon Wolf gradually dimmed.

Shen Xingchen withdrew his stance.

He had to admit that the combat power of a Tier 3 demon was somewhat formidable; he had to use his strongest killing move to be certain of success.

However, this demon wolf's IQ wasn't very good either; it probably mistook him for the candidate from earlier and didn't even use its full strength.

One was fully prepared, while the other outputted power hastily.

That was why a single punch ended a Tier 3 demon.

The candidate on the side was dumbfounded.

Could a Tier 3 demon be resolved this easily?

That's not how the teachers taught him!

The teacher said that when you see a Tier 3 demon, run as fast as you can, and do your utmost to run out of its territory range…