Zerg Lord of the Devouring Stars

The entrance to Monster Town.

One by one, the aspiring martial artists emerged from the town, most of them looking relieved. Many of them had bloodstains on them, some from monsters, and some from themselves.

With a casual glance, Jiang Chen could see that many people had injuries, some even more severe, with broken legs or arms, turning them into disabled martial artists.

The mortality rate in martial arts combat assessments is not high, but the injury rate remains consistently high.

If a martial artist wants to kill a monster, the monster will fight back in its death throes. How could it not struggle desperately when it's about to die?

At this time, martial artists are very likely to get injured.

"This Monster Town experience has given me a glimpse into the threshold of the microscopic level. Given time, I'm sure I'll be able to master it easily."

"If the Zerg Queen were awake, that would be wonderful. An apprentice-level being with world lord-level talent—wouldn't she be like a protagonist from a novel, a true overpowered hero?"

Jiang Chen thought to himself with a smug smile, but it was more likely that he would be brought to a standstill by the exaggerated neural reaction speed of a World Lord, or be burst apart by the sudden surge of energy.

"When Luo Feng, an Earthling, dies, he is reborn through the Golden Horned Beast. But what will happen if I die?" Jiang Chen fell into deep thought. He had never died before and had no idea.

The Zerg Queen now brings herself two benefits.

First, powerful mental energy. The Zerg Queen is a natural-born master of the soul, specializing in mental energy. Even if Jiang Chen inherits only one-thousandth or one-ten-thousandth of it, he would still be among the top on Earth.

Secondly, the Zerg Queen is at the Realm Lord level, which means that, like Luo Feng who possessed the Golden Horned Beast, there will be no bottlenecks in the process of reaching the Realm Lord level. With enough energy and a suitable secret technique for breakthrough, one can smoothly break through to the next stage.

His physical fitness has improved much faster than that of ordinary martial artists. He is already close to becoming a junior warrior, and this is without any guiding techniques. With guiding techniques, his speed will be even faster.

These two advantages are enough for Jiang Chen to dominate the martial arts world on Earth.

"Beep beep..."

Heavy trucks drove out of Monster Town, carrying mangled corpses.

"These are the corpses of the martial artists. Come and collect them."

The bodies were dumped on the open ground, and some of the corpses had been mostly eaten by the monsters and were unrecognizable.

"what!"

"Ah Wei, how did you die?"

"Waaah, Brother Long!"

The cries of the martial artists came from the side. They rushed over and found their familiar relatives and friends, and wept bitterly.

Jiang Chen watched this scene in silence. This was war, a war between humans and monsters. Monsters would die, and humans would die as well. No one was exempt.

"What's the use of crying?" an officer stood up and shouted. "This is war, and in war there is death!"

Why does human society respect martial artists so much? Why do they grant them so many privileges? Because martial artists are heroes, warriors who fight monsters.

"Where one embarks on the path of a martial artist, there will be constant deaths."

"The monsters here are all low-level monsters. Outside, do you expect so many low-level monsters to line up for you to kill?"

"If you're afraid of dying, get out of the martial arts world now. This isn't a place for you to enjoy yourself."

In the wild, monsters also have brains, and clever monsters often lead a large group of monsters on their journey.

Furthermore, some monsters are naturally gregarious, often gathering in groups of dozens. Even martial artists stronger than them can die if they accidentally fall into a group of monsters and become surrounded.

"Alright, everyone come here, let's check the number of monsters you've hunted."

An officer shouted, "Laptops are already set up on each table for recording, and there's also a large pot for pouring directly into the monster's ears."

"Two monsters' left ears, hmm, minor injury to the left arm."

"Three monsters, left ear and minor leg injury, not bad, next!"

One by one, the martial artists stepped forward, opened their backpacks, and examined their injuries.

On one hand, they checked the number of monsters they hunted, and on the other hand, they checked the extent of their injuries. Finally, they entered the data into the main database for comparison and selected the top 60% of warriors to advance.

"Look, Luo Feng is coming out over there too."

"Yes, it's Luo Feng from the Limitless Martial Arts Academy."

"I wonder how many monsters he hunted?"

Many prospective martial artists turned their attention to Luo Feng from Monster Town. These prospective martial artists were already familiar with the four people who had been recruited into the martial arts school ahead of time.

Wan Dong and Ma Xiao from the Thunder Martial Arts School.

Jiang Chen and Luo Feng from the Extreme Martial Arts Academy.

Ignoring the stares of those around him, Luo Feng stepped forward, opened his backpack, and with a clatter, a bunch of monster left ears fell onto the metal pot next to him.

"Huh?" The officer was taken aback and immediately began counting. He quickly came to the conclusion, "Luo Feng has 36 monster left ears. Not bad, and he's not injured. He's currently in first place."

Luo Feng smiled, knowing that regardless of the final ranking, he had passed the preliminary martial artist assessment.

"Since Luo Feng has already checked, I'll go too."

Jiang Chen was still strolling leisurely at the entrance of Monster Town. It didn't matter whether he was early or late; what mattered was whether he could get through.

Let's go there now.

Jiang Chen walked through the crowd and came to the officers who were counting the monster ears.

"It's him, Jiang Chen."

"Another one from the Extreme Martial Arts School. I wonder if he's stronger than Luo Feng."

"I don't know. Luo Feng already has 36. That's monstrous. Even if he's strong, he probably can't be that much stronger."

After Jiang Chen came out, he was also surrounded by a large number of prospective martial artists who wanted to compare who was stronger among those who had joined the martial arts school in advance.

"Splash..."

Jiang Chen opened his backpack and poured the monster's left ear into the metal pot, filling most of it.

"Hmm, a lot." The officer's eyes lit up. To the naked eye, it looked like a little more than Luo Feng's, but he didn't know how much more.

The officer in charge of the assessment began counting the number of monster ears one by one. After a moment, he smiled and said, "Very good, 60 monster left ears, no injuries. Jiang Chen, you are now in first place."

"Mm." Jiang Chen nodded with a smile. His martial arts combat assessment was over, and he would soon be a formal martial artist.

As for the fact that he only hunted 60 monster ears, it's because Jiang Chen treated this battle as a practice opportunity and didn't hunt them with all his might.

If we go all out, doubling the number is not a problem.

"Wan Dong, with 51 monster left ears, you have now surpassed Luo Feng and are behind Jiang Chen, temporarily ranking second." A test officer's voice rang out.

Jiang Chen looked over and saw that Wan Dong had hunted quite a few monsters.

However, neither Jiang Chen, who is currently above Wan Dong, nor Luo Feng, who seems weaker than Wan Dong, cares, because they are simply treating this assessment as a training opportunity.

Even if Luo Feng were to seriously kill them, he could definitely kill more than a hundred monsters in one night.

Killing a lot of people doesn't mean anything; as long as you pass the test, that's enough.

Jiang Chen looked at the sky. The dark clouds had dispersed, the rain had stopped, and the sky was clear. Now, they had finally taken another small step forward.