If I let you practice martial arts, you'll compress your vital energy ten thousand times?

Outside the central command tent of the Starry Sky Training Camp.

The night wind howled, and several high-powered searchlights illuminated the camp gate as brightly as day.

"Help! Enemy attack—!"

A heart-wrenching scream abruptly shattered the tranquility of the camp.

The military sentries on night watch loaded their guns instantly.

Just outside the barbed wire fence at the edge of the camp, a stumbling figure came tumbling and crawling towards them.

It's arrogance.

His appearance at that moment was utterly miserable.

The originally sturdy, specially made combat vest was torn into several rags.

His chest and arms were covered with more than a dozen deep, bone-revealing knife wounds. Blood stained most of his body, leaving a gruesome trail on the ground as he ran.

Of course, no one knew that these seemingly fatal wounds were all inflicted by him with his own sword while he was on the run, in order to make his lies seem impeccable!

He fled frantically through the woods like a stray dog.

Hearing the earth-shattering explosion of true energy behind him, he knew that Su Qinghan definitely wouldn't last more than three seconds.

To avoid being executed by the military as a deserter, he had no choice but to steel himself and point the blade at himself. With each slash, Zhang Kuang cursed Su Qinghan and Zhao Hai in his mind.

The fact that this person can be so ruthless to himself shows how vicious and pathological he is.

"Stop! State your identity!"

Two heavily armed military guards immediately rushed forward and pointed their guns at Zhang Kuang.

"It was my arrogance that led to this!"

Zhang Kuang's legs went weak, and he collapsed at the feet of the guard with a thud.

He was breathing heavily, coughing up blood, and screaming in a voice distorted by fear and agitation:

"Quickly...quickly inform the head instructor!"

"A cult assassin has infiltrated the camp!"

Ugh—!

The piercing alarm of an extreme attack instantly resounded throughout the entire Starry Sky Training Camp.

Less than half a minute.

With a burst of violent true energy, the head instructor of the special training camp, a tough military man at the early stage of the Grandmaster realm, charged out of the tent like an enraged lion.

"Cult assassins? How many? What level of skill?"

The head instructor grabbed Zhang Kuang by the collar and lifted him off the ground, his eyes sharp as knives.

The students in the camp were all awakened by the alarm.

The geniuses from various schools ran out wearing their clothes, and when they saw Zhang Kuang covered in blood, they all gasped in shock.

Zhang Kuang looked at the growing crowd around him, a barely perceptible smug glint in the depths of his eyes.

The stage is already set up.

Next up was his Oscar-worthy performance.

"Reporting, Instructor!"

Zhang Kuang's eyes were red-rimmed, tears mixed with blood streaming down his cheeks, his voice filled with undisguised grief and despair.

"They're from the Dark Spirit Society! Four assassins in total!"

"Moreover... they are all top-tier experts at the Profound Sea Realm!"

boom!

These words shocked the entire camp.

The head instructor's face instantly turned ashen.

Four assassins at the Profound Sea Realm?! If this force were to suddenly attack within the camp, it would be enough to slaughter all of these still-developing students!

"Isn't your patrol team supposed to have three people? Where are Su Qinghan and Zhao Hai?!" the instructor demanded angrily.

Upon hearing the instructor's question, Zhang Kuang's body trembled violently.

He suddenly covered his face with his hands and let out a heart-wrenching wail.

"I couldn't save them!"

"Those four assassins were too strong. The moment we met them, we were completely locked down by their overwhelming pressure from the Profound Sea Realm!"

Zhang Kuang suddenly raised his head, ripped open his tattered shirt, revealing the longest and deepest horrific bloodstain on his chest.

The head instructor squatted down, his rough, large hand pressing against the edge of Zhang Kuang's chest.

The wound was raw and torn, bearing the marks of an unusually strong surge of internal energy. Under the cover of chaos and blood loss, an ordinary person would not be able to immediately tell that it was an injury that Zhang Kuang had faked.

"It was indeed a bloody battle."

The head instructor gritted his teeth, a hint of emotion in his voice.

"The wound was less than a centimeter from your heart. You've really had a brush with death!"

With the head instructor's personal endorsement, Zhang Kuang performed even more energetically.

He suddenly grabbed the head instructor's arm, bursting into tears.

"Instructor! Those bastards are after me!"

"I desperately burned my life force to stand in front of Qinghan and Zhao Hai!"

"I took a poisoned dagger from the assassin leader with my own body, desperately cutting off their attack and buying them a sliver of an opening to escape!"

"But the assassin was too fast..."

Zhang Kuang choked back sobs, pounding his fists into the mud until they bled profusely.

"I was severely wounded by three other assassins, but I fought my way through the encirclement to return and deliver the message."

"Qinghan and Zhao Hai... they've probably already been killed by those beasts!"

In the end, Zhang Kuang broke down in tears and banged his head hard on the ground.

Upon hearing this poignant description, the students around him instantly teared up.

What is a hero?

This is a hero!

Faced with four terrifying assassins at the Profound Sea Realm, he not only did not flee, but instead burned his life force to shield his teammates and buy them a chance to survive. In the end, he fought his way out of the encirclement and returned to report the news!

"The class monitor... the class monitor is so great!"

In the group from Gaowu No.1 Middle School, several girls couldn't help but cover their mouths and burst into tears.

"If it were me, facing a Xuanhai Realm assassin, I probably wouldn't even have the courage to draw my sword!"

"Senior Zhang Kuang is truly a role model for martial artists! No wonder even that mysterious grandmaster holds him in high regard!"

"The school must apply for a special merit award for him! The military should also directly recommend him to the highest institution of learning!"

Listening to the respectful, even somewhat fanatical, discussions around me.

Zhang Kuang, lying on the stretcher, buried his face tightly between his arms.

His shoulders were trembling violently.

Others thought he was crying because he had lost his comrades.

But in fact.

He was desperately suppressing his overwhelming joy, which was almost bursting out laughing!

The insane, maniacal grin on his lips stretched almost to his ears.

Good riddance!

Su Qinghan, that arrogant bitch.

And then there's Zhao Hai, that fat bastard who's so reckless and always follows Lin Yuan around.

They died under the assassin's blade; it was as if even the heavens were helping him to be arrogant!

Once these two people in the know are dead, everything that happened tonight will be absolutely impossible to prove!

His arrogance not only washed away the shame of the day.

He will also step on the corpses of his classmates to solidify his unparalleled halo as a "young hero" and "the only successor of the Grandmaster"!

From now on, all special resources in the entire Seventh Security Zone will be directed towards him!

The head instructor's face was ashen.

He found it somewhat unbelievable that Zhang Kuang could escape from four Xuanhai Realm experts.

But seeing the horrific knife wounds covering Zhang Kuang's body, his doubts were completely dispelled. Who would risk their life like that?

"Medic! Immediately treat Zhang Kuang with the best medicine!"

The chief instructor turned around, drew his sidearm from his waist, and fired a warning shot into the sky.

boom!

"All instructors, assemble!"

"Fully armed, with heavy armored vehicles leading the way, follow me out of camp to search for Su Qinghan and Zhao Hai!"

"I want to see him alive or dead!"

Rumble—!

Just as the military instructors had finished assembling with menacing intent, and the engines of the armored vehicles roared deafeningly, ready to burst out of the camp gate.

From the darkness surrounding the camp, a series of incredibly heavy footsteps, accompanied by painful gasps, suddenly echoed.

rustle……

Everyone stopped abruptly, and countless searchlights were instantly shone in the direction from which the sound came.

The intense light tore through the darkness.

Zhang Kuang was lying on a stretcher receiving bandages from a medic, enjoying the treatment of a hero.

He also subconsciously turned his head to look.

I only glanced at it.

hum!

The arrogant brain felt as if it had been smashed by a ten-thousand-ton hammer!

In that instant, the "sorrow" and "majesty" on his face froze into an extreme distortion that was a thousand times more terrifying than seeing a ghost!

All that could be seen was the edge of the dense forest.

A fat man covered in blood, his teeth clenched and his eyes burning with overwhelming rage, struggled to support a beautiful young woman with a pale face and a broken sword in her hand.

Supporting each other, the two walked step by step out of the darkness.