The Demon Eagle was stomped into the ground with unstoppable force and immediately lost the ability to fight, now barely clinging to life.
Yi Luren was horrified beyond belief! *He felt like his entire understanding of the world had been shattered.*
"How, how could you be so damn strong!?"
One move!
Finished in a single blow!
Pure crushing dominance—the Demon Eagle didn't even have a chance to fight back.
SSS-level Summoned Beast, so terrifying!
All the genius trainees present were absolutely stunned.
Xie Mengxuan looked at the dazzling Xiao Ye, and *all she felt was endless regret.*
The Demon Eagle, too weak to maintain his Summoned Beast Form, was forced back into human shape; Yi Luren and the chubby girl coughed up blood and lay on the ground, barely alive. The female Bald Instructor rushed over to check on them, and only relaxed after giving each of them a potion.
Even though the Demon Eagle wasn't as impressive as the White Fox, in the eyes of the Bald Instructor, he was still a prodigy.
They were all good students worth nurturing!
"Tier Five! Physical strength breaking the sound barrier!"
The male Bald Instructor shot a deep look at the White Fox, a flash of shock passing through his eyes.
It had only been five days since her awakening, and yet she had already reached Tier Five realm! SSS-level Summoned Beast, so terrifying!
The White Fox dismissed her Summoned Beast Form, revealing Xiao Ye. He walked up to Yi Luren, reached out his hand, and said indifferently, "Hand it over."
Yi Luren was still in shock and terror, and instinctively shrank back, saying, "What do you want, I'm warning you, don't do anything stupid. I'm the son of the City Guard Pavilion Master's Pavilion Master!"
He had chickened out—couldn't win the fight, so he tried to rely on his family connections.
"What's going on?" The Bald Instructor, afraid someone might die, stepped forward to ask.
Xiao Ye sneered, "This guy stole the Pavilion Master's Communication Token, and tried to trip me up in secret. The Pavilion Master told me to bring the Token back."
"What? He stole the Token?"
"Shameless, way too shameless, turns out he's a petty scumbag!"
"No wonder Xiao Ye hadn't shown up the last few days—it was Yi Luren pulling strings behind the scenes!"
"Good thing the Pavilion Master is fair and didn't cover for his son, letting Xiao Ye come and take the Token back himself."
All the Contractors present stared at the collapsed Yi Luren with looks of contempt.
Social death, total social death!
Yi Luren felt his anger exploding, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and fainted.
The Bald Instructor searched his body for a moment and pulled a completely black Token out of his pocket.
Whoa! Sure enough, it was the Pavilion Master's Communication Token!
"So, it was you giving the orders, huh."
The Bald Instructor finally understood—it wasn't the Pavilion Master giving out commands, it was Yi Luren!
The Bald Instructor was deeply disappointed in Yi Luren, grabbed him, and carried him off toward the military district.
Impersonating the Pavilion Master—you deserve the punishment coming to you!
The female Bald Instructor came over, and in Xiao Ye's line of sight, she wrote in her notebook, Simulation Combat Training Passed: Xiao Ye, Cheng Bingxi, each rewarded with one Tier Three Crystal Core.
Xiao Ye frowned!
*A Tier Three Crystal Core was no use to him anymore!*
"Instructor, if I remember right, the Crystal Core reward is based on the trainee's realm, isn't it?"
The female Bald Instructor nodded at Xiao Ye's question, and said, "Yeah, your current realm is, uh, Tier Three, right?"
The female Bald Instructor remembered the aura that exploded from the Holy White Fox just now—yeah, it was Tier Three.
"Wait, did you already hit Tier Four?" The female instructor glanced suspiciously back and forth between Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi.
Xiao Ye shook his head. During the fight, his Tier Three physical strength had been enough, so he only released his Tier Three aura.
"Boom!!"
A powerful aura erupted from Xiao Ye, whipping up a wild gust of wind.
Nangong Siyao's skirt blew up, revealing her fair, long legs.
With a yelp, Nangong Siyao's face turned scarlet. She said coyly, "You jerk!"
"Tier Five!!"
The female Bald Instructor was totally shocked, "You guys made it to Tier Five already?"
Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi nodded, and all the Contractors at the scene were amazed by the news.
"Tier Five? No way, it's only been a few days, three or four at most!"
"Crazy! You really can't judge an SSS-level Contractor by normal standards—Tier Five in four days? Might be a Grandmaster in a month!"
"Damn, that's wild, a Grandmaster could legit be a City Lord!"
"How many resources did the rich girl have to give him? Don't tell me she had to settle for being his side chick?"
"Shhh, keep your voice down. At this rate, the rich girl's gonna have his kid in no time!"
"Damn! The current City Lord of Wilderness Base City is about to retire and have a grandkid—Xiao Ye's taking over!"
Nangong Siyao blushed even harder at the chatter around her and ran off with a cry.
Xiao Ye grabbed the female Bald Instructor to update the reward record, and the instructor, half-crying, half-laughing, changed it to:
Xiao Ye, Cheng Bingxi, each rewarded with one Tier Five Crystal Core!
"Training's over, dismissed!"
Nangong Siyao came running back, waiting for Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi outside the training field. She wanted to eat lunch with Xiao Ye.
*Right now, Nangong Siyao felt pretty troubled. With her relationship with Xiao Ye out in the open, it was getting hard to explain things to her dad. Two girls contracted to one guy at the same time—who knows what her City Lord father would think if he found out...*
"What's wrong?" Seeing the Fruit Girl clinging tightly to his arm with a worried expression, Xiao Ye couldn't help asking.
Nangong Siyao shook her head and said, "Today I can eat ice!"
"Just so happens the high-end hunting restaurant is getting a batch of Ice Trace Beast today. Supposedly, the Demon Beast meat dishes made from it are served below zero, silky smooth and chewy—let's go try it!"
Cheng Bingxi, clinging to Xiao Ye's other arm, lit up with excitement and said, "Me too, I want in!"
Cheng Bingxi was a foodie, absolutely obsessed with tasty food, especially dishes she'd never tried before that had some hype behind them.
So with both girls hanging off him, Xiao Ye ended up at the high-end hunting restaurant.
In the private room, after seeing the price of the dish, Xiao Ye couldn't help but gasp.
One dish cost a Tier Seven Crystal Core! No tabs, no IOUs, pay on the spot!
One meal down, gone—a Tier Seven Crystal Core, and two Tier Six Cores!
You gotta be loaded to afford that kind of meal.
This whole time, plenty of people who knew Nangong Siyao's status noticed how unusually close she was with Xiao Ye. After their meal, rumors about Nangong Siyao zipped through the whole Youth Training Camp, even reaching the City Guard Pavilion camp.
At that moment, at the top floor of the tallest building in the center of Wilderness Base City—
The city's one and only City Lord, Nangong Qitao, was staring at a map, frowning deeply. He drew circles over a spot on the city's edge, *trying to come up with a plan, headache intensifying.*
"If I'm not mistaken, the Demon Snake Forest will launch another Beast Tide against the city sometime soon."
"That Serpent King, it's probably gotten even stronger at the Grandmaster level."
Last time, it had taken both him and the Pavilion Master—two Grandmasters—working together to barely beat back that Serpent King. When the Beast King retreated, the Beast Tide faded away two years ago; otherwise, Wilderness Base City would've been totally devastated.
That Serpent King was the Beast King of Demon Snake Forest, commanding eight Grandmaster-level Demon Snakes, dozens of Tier Nine elites, over a hundred Tier Seven powerhouses, hundreds of Tier Five, and thousands of Tier Three Demon Snakes.
The Jiao had noble blood, formed when a magic snake devoured a rare Exotic Treasure and transformed over a thousand years.
Jiao naturally suppressed the bloodline of other Demon Snakes.
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