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

As night fell, a scarlet crescent moon hung high above the dome of the Seventh Safe Zone.

In a dilapidated rental house in a working-class neighborhood.

Lin Yuan stood quietly in front of Lin Xiaoya's bed, watching his sister breathe steadily. He left a note on the bedside table that read, "Going out for a morning run, breakfast is in the pot," and then gently closed the wooden door to the bedroom.

He walked to the window and pushed open the rusty windowpane.

The night wind carried a faint, earthy scent unique to the wilderness, wafting towards us.

Lin Yuan lowered his head, his dark and deep eyes coldly glancing at the faint fluctuation on the hem of his old school uniform that was imperceptible to ordinary people.

That was a mark of true energy left by a late-stage town general.

"A dark and windy night, a night for murder."

His extreme blood energy, which had been stagnant at 290,000 cycles, was now emitting a deep roar within his body, like that of an ancient behemoth, frantically urging him to plunder, tear apart, and devour!

To break through the absolute threshold of 300,000 attempts and unlock the legendary third form.

The resources in these greenhouses in the Seventh Security Zone are far from sufficient.

He needs the flesh and blood of high-level demonic beasts, but even more so... that late-stage town general-level "fat sheep" who offered himself up!

Whoosh!

He did not use even a trace of his true energy.

With just a slight exertion of his legs, Lin Yuan leaped out of the narrow window like a ghost disappearing into the night, vanishing silently into the intricate alleyways of the tenement building.

Target: The endless wilderness outside the seventh safe zone!

……

at the same time.

Inside the highest-level military guesthouse in the center of the Seventh Security Zone.

The luxurious VIP ward was filled with the pungent smell of high-grade medicine.

Xiao Chen lay in the life support pod. Although his right arm, which had been crippled by the recoil, had been fitted with an alloy brace, the excruciating pain still made him sweat profusely.

"Elder Cangming! What is that bastard Lin Yuan doing right now?!"

Xiao Chen gritted his teeth and growled, his eyes bloodshot: "I don't want him to live a second longer! I want him dead! Right now!"

At the bedside.

Cang Ming had already changed into a tight-fitting night suit that blended completely into the darkness.

His face, as white as withered tree bark, gleamed with an unprecedented greed and malice.

"Don't worry, young master."

Cang Ming closed his eyes, and his immense divine sense instantly locked onto the true energy marker that was moving rapidly more than ten kilometers away.

"That kid's gone mad for some reason; he left the civilian area in the middle of the night and is heading towards the wilderness outside the city!"

Upon hearing this, a burst of wild joy flashed in Cang Ming's eyes.

"Heaven is helping me!"

"I was worried that taking action in the civilian area would attract the attention of those old geezers in the military. Since he's courting death by running outside the city, he can't blame me!"

Cang Ming turned his head, looked at Xiao Chen in the life support pod, and smiled sinisterly.

"Young Master, please rest and recuperate here."

"At the latest, within an hour, I will return to you carrying that brat's head, along with his top-tier defensive magic artifacts and illusionary treasures!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Chen's face finally revealed an extremely twisted sense of pleasure.

"Alright! Elder, go and return quickly!"

"Remember, don't let him die too easily! Crush his bones inch by inch!"

Cang Ming sneered, his figure like a wisp of green smoke, instantly passing through the window of the ward and merging into the dark night outside.

His cultivation level exploded, and he became like a giant bat in the night sky, rushing towards the wilderness at full speed following the markings!

however.

Whether it was Xiao Chen, whose eyes were blinded by hatred, or Cang Ming, whose mind was clouded by greed.

They didn't notice.

The moment Cang Ming left the guesthouse.

Inside the luxury suite on the top floor of the guesthouse.

A stunningly beautiful woman, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the French windows, meditating with her eyes closed, suddenly opened her eyes, which were as cold as stars.

Grandmaster Peak, Royal Observer, Luo Xingshuang!

"Such intense killing intent..."

Luo Xingshuang frowned slightly, her gaze piercing through the night, precisely locking onto the afterimage of Cang Ming's departure.

"That old bastard Cang Ming still can't swallow this insult and is preparing to assassinate that student named Lin Yuan."

A deep sense of disgust and contempt flashed in Luo Xingshuang's eyes.

A powerful figure in the late stage of a town general's reign, and an elder of a prestigious family in the central capital.

Out of spite, he actually planned to assassinate a Qi and Blood Realm student who didn't even have any true Qi at night! This kind of behavior is simply a disgrace to the Central Royal Family and Longyuan Academy!

But contempt is contempt.

At the same time, an overwhelming sense of curiosity rose in Luo Xingshuang's heart.

"Is that Lin Yuan... really just a good-for-nothing who abuses his power by relying on magical artifacts bestowed upon him by his elders?"

The scene on the playground during the day kept replaying in Luo Xingshuang's mind.

The terrifying commotion of the explosion in the stands, Cang Ming's deathly pale face, and Lin Yuan's absolute indifference, which didn't even cause his eyelashes to tremble from beginning to end.

This is all too bizarre!

Luo Xingshuang had a vague feeling that a big secret was hidden in that thin boy!

More importantly, if Lin Yuan really dies at Cang Ming's hands, and that legendary "mysterious master" who can defeat the Ghost King goes mad, the entire Seventh Safe Zone and even the special mission will face annihilation!

"No! I have to go check it out!"

Luo Xingshuang suddenly stood up, and with a flick of her wrist, a semi-transparent cloak shimmering with starlight instantly draped over her body.

This is the Star Concealment Cloak, a top-tier concealment artifact unique to the Central Royal Family!

Once she puts on this cloak, even a peak-level town general would have no chance of detecting her presence unless she deliberately revealed her killing intent.

Swish!

Luo Xingshuang leaped into the air, like a light starlight feather, silently following Cang Ming from behind, stealthily heading towards the endless wilderness outside the city.

……

Thirty kilometers outside the seventh security zone.

This is a true no-man's-land, a deathly wilderness overrun by high-level mutated beasts.

The howling wind raged across the ravaged land like the wailing of ghosts and wolves.

A gaunt figure was speeding across the wilderness at a terrifying pace that defied fluid dynamics and ergonomics!

No movement techniques or martial arts skills were used.

It's all thanks to the muscle groups in my legs that have been compressed 290,000 times!

Each time Lin Yuan's toes touched the ground, they created a spiderweb-like crater half a meter deep in the hard rock. Using this terrifying physical reaction force, his body propelled him like a cruise missile skimming the ground, instantly covering a distance of over a hundred meters!

"Soon..."

As Lin Yuan felt the fierce wind rushing towards him, a bloodthirsty excitement gleamed in his deep eyes.

In his perception.

Ten kilometers behind, the aura belonging to Cangming was relentlessly pursuing them like a mad dog.

Lin Yuan's lips curled into a cold smile of amusement.

boom!

Lin Yuan leaped again, his body tracing a perfect parabola in mid-air, and landed steadily at the entrance of a dark, huge valley surrounded by countless tall, mutated plants.

This is the tomb he carefully chose for Cangming.

Lin Yuan stopped and did not continue to venture further.

He turned around, facing the direction of the Seventh Safe Zone, and his dark eyes could no longer conceal the palpable killing intent within them.

The night breeze blew against his faded old school uniform.

Lin Yuan slowly raised his head, looking at the scarlet crescent moon with anticipation in his eyes.

"A big fish has taken the bait!"