Chương 57: War God — Chapter 57 - Wang Xian: See, You're Getting Worked Up Again

Ye Miyue froze, then quickly grabbed her phone: [Wang Xian: Bad photo. Why only the upper body? Where's the lower body? Your classmate opens his heart to you, and you play mind games with him. Classmate Ye, this is very bad! Reshoot.] She stared at the screen for a long time. Finally, she typed: [Ye Miyue: Okay.] [Wang Xian: Right, help me register with Teacher Zhou. I'm still out on special training.] [Ye Miyue: When are you coming back?] [Wang Xian: Why? Want to give me another massage?] Ye Miyue hesitated, her fingers trembling over the keyboard. After a moment, eyes full of shy embarrassment, she typed: [Ye Miyue: I feel like my cultivation has improved a bit lately... my technique should be better now...] [Wang Xian: [Dame], you're way off!] [Ye Miyue:......] [Wang Xian: If you changed into the outfit in the picture, I might consider it though...] Ye Miyue froze. She typed two words: "No way." Thought about it. Deleted them. Typed a few more: "Change into a different outfit, okay?

The one I wore the first time I went to your place..." She thought again. In the end, fingertips trembling, she typed: "Then when you come back..." As soon as she finished, she deleted it. Finally, she replied: [Ye Miyue: No!] [Wang Xian: See, you're getting worked up again. I only said I'd consider it. I didn't say I'd agree.] She clenched her fist. [Wang Xian: Alright, that's it for now. Training.] Ye Miyue typed: "Where are you?" Deleted it. Replied with one word:"Okay."

Unmanaged zone, 20 kilometers outside Bug Valley Town. Safe camp. The camp wasn't big, but it had everything: tavern, convenience store, shopping center, restaurant, inn, martial combat gear shop, military barracks. Bug Valley Camp. Terminal station for the train from Rong City Border Defense Station. Everyone here was a martial warrior. Inside the Bug Valley Tavern. Wang Xian sat at the bar, examining the picture on his phone with an appreciative eye. In the picture, Ye Miyue wore a black one-piece mini dress.

The black made the style more mature. The skirt only reached her upper thighs. A true body-hugging hip mini dress. A white tie belt at the waist. One light pull would outline the ultimate waist-to-hip curve. Combined with the slim fit, the northern and southern hemispheres normally hidden by her school uniform suddenly stood out. Only, the picture covered her face and only showed the upper body.

"Thumbs down!" Wang Xian thought. No lower body at all. This Classmate Ye couldn't even take a proper photo! What a shame. If he'd seen the picture before entering the Skeletal Blade Tomb, he could've had her correct it in time. Love what you're reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. Now a whole month later, too late. Couldn't be helped. Inside the relic, affected by the environment, there was no signal at all.

Even getting slightly close to a relic killed the phone signal. He'd ended up staying a whole month in that mysterious space inside the relic's secret door. After coming out, his phone had long been dead. If he hadn't spent a full day following the map, rushing to this camp to charge it, he still wouldn't be able to contact anyone. As for the Skeletal Blade Tomb. Actually, after coming out, Wang Xian had stayed another day or two. In those days, Wang Xian simply cleared out the entire relic.

To be precise: relic removal. Whether relic or secret realm, removing one meant ensuring no more alien beasts would ever appear inside. Extremely difficult. Even the lowest F-rank relic was very hard to remove. Because to remove a relic, you needed to understand why it formed, and at the same time complete some seemingly impossible tasks. Like the Skeletal Blade Tomb. On the surface, an F-rank relic.

But the reason it formed was the Blood-Drinking Frenzy Blade, a demonic blade passed down for who knows how many years. To remove the relic, you not only had to find the demonic blade, but also take it away and become its wielder. The difficulty was imaginable. Of course, not every F-rank was as freakish as the Skeletal Blade Tomb, hiding so many elements. But removing a relic definitely couldn't be done by strength alone.

After obtaining the demonic blade and clearing out all the alien beasts again, the entire terrain of the Skeletal Blade Tomb transformed. It became ruins. Wang Xian only buried Long Yuan in those ruins, collected the materials from the slain beasts, then truly departed.

"No rush to go back just yet. Rest here a few days first." Wang Xian pondered. With the demonic blade in hand, Wang Xian would naturally continue killing alien beasts, absorbing spirit sha, and opening divine meridians. Going back this early, what else could he do? Besides, he needed to accumulate a large amount of war merit to exchange for some martial arts and secret skills exclusive to the military. Secret skills were different from martial arts.

The spear martial arts he knew in his past life, he could execute at will as long as his realm was sufficient. But secret skill cultivation relied on corresponding memory crystals fusing with the body to take effect. The secret skills he knew in his past life, even if he remembered them in this life, without the corresponding memory crystals in his body, he completely lacked their actual effects. He could only retrain them. But retraining had its benefits.

He could plan the cultivation of corresponding secret skills more rationally, maximizing his own strength. For example, the military had several corresponding blade technique and spear technique secret skills. Right now, Butcher's Beast Dissection had reached 95% progress. 5% remaining. At most half a month, and it would be done. At that point, he'd definitely need to start cultivating other secret skills. Naturally, he had to plan ahead.

Thinking of this, Wang Xian sent a message to Zheng Changhong at the club to report in, while walking toward the camp's temporary military barracks. The barracks here, aside from maintaining camp security, also constantly monitored Bug Valley Town, that large unmanaged zone. Similarly, it could settle war merit and exchange for some basic martial arts. The military, as a national force, was open to all professional martial warriors nationwide. Walking into the barracks, Wang Xian saw a familiar figure.

"20 saber-tooth wolves, 2 double-headed mutant-tooth wolves. Young man, not simple at all. Not even first realm yet, and you killed this many in a month?" The barracks wasn't large. In the logistics room, a square-faced officer looked at the aloof youth before him and smiled.

"Not bad, not bad. Our country's martial warriors are getting more and more formidable. Good, good!"

"One saber-tooth wolf, 5 points. Double-headed mutant-tooth wolf, 10 points. Total: 120 points of war merit." The aloof youth slightly raised his head. Facing the surprised gazes from all around, there wasn't the slightest hint of pride. As if everything was only natural. Quite a few martial warriors were here to exchange war merit. After all, just a few dozen li away was a large Bug Valley Town. The variety of alien beasts inside was vast.

"Tsk, on average, killing one saber-tooth wolf a day. With less than first-realm life force, less than 10 life force points, killing one a day, damn impressive."

"That's over a hundred war merit already. I'm almost second realm, and in a month I can only manage about that number at most."

"That guy's full set of gear is worth over a million, right?"

"True, look at his equipment. A Heavenly Rainbow Military martial combat sword, wearing Heavenly Rainbow Military titanium alloy armor. Hell, even his shoes are Flying Feather Boots that enhance movement martial art effects. This stuff doesn't have tier restrictions, does it?"

"Probably more than just a million."

"But that's still pretty damn impressive, isn't it?" The aloof youth shook his head lightly, ignoring the crowd's discussion. Suddenly, his gaze paused on a figure. He said with some surprise:"You're from that mixed squad?" He looked toward Wang Xian.

"You actually haven't gone back to the city yet? You came all the way here alone?" The aloof youth had an exceptional memory and was quite astonished.

"Yeah." Wang Xian nodded. This youth was the one he'd encountered before at the Rong City Defense Bureau. The one who'd demanded Wang Xian's squad not go to Shadow Wolf Cave. Said he would reserve the entire Shadow Wolf Cave. But saying he'd reserve it, it didn't seem like he killed that many.

"You're the new guy in that squad, right? You came here to exchange war merit?" The aloof youth suddenly laughed.

"How many alien beasts did you kill?"

"A few?" Wang Xian thought about it. Sorry, couldn't quite count them all. The youth didn't say more and walked away. Probably didn't think the other party could kill that many. Wang Xian walked toward the logistics room.

"Young man, you want to exchange war merit? Hand over the corresponding materials from the slain alien beasts as proof." The officer glanced at Wang Xian and smiled. Another young lad. Wang Xian nodded and upended the sack of spoils in his hand. The next moment, piles upon piles of bone shards dropped by soldier-corpse beasts and broken blades dropped by blade puppets cascaded down like snow from the sack in an endless stream. ➤ Next: If You Go to the Skeletal Blade Tomb, You Probably Won't Find a Single Exotic...