Chapter 156: As if He’s a Completely Different Person

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Alright!”

Surging Lightning was custom made for the future One Hundred Saber Techniques. Meng Chao himself had a lot of shares in this, so it was only natural that he needed to test it personally.

“Also, when you’re fighting at the northern frontlines, remember to fight beautifully so that we can upload videos online. It’ll help us create momentum for Surging Lightning and yourself.

“But don’t upload them using your own account. Look for a few coursemates and pretend that they accidentally recorded a video of you. Make the video titles thrilling, like ‘Shocking! A freshman actually did this to the monsters!’. It’s only then that you’ll be able to attract attention, understand?” Luo Hai said.

“If you don’t have any suitable people to use, I can contact a group and film you from multiple angles. We’ll also get copywriters and ghostwriters and deal with everything in one go.

“If the saber’s performance is really good and the results of your fight are great, my dad will film a documentary to talk about your story. We’ll turn it into a pretty package with a ribbon tied on top and turn you into an internet celebrity. Then, we’ll use it to promote the saber as well.”

Meng Chao was slightly stunned. “Why is it me, but not you? You’re his son.”

“There’re more topics about you!” Luo Hai said matter-of-factly. “The son of Soul Breaking Saber has great saber skills. There’s nothing special about that. But a poor kid who lived in a public renting house managing to climb to the top with his own strength and even understanding an amazing saber technique along the way?

“Now that’s news, it’s even a selling point. After all, the main market of the youth version of Surging Lightning is the normal citizens, so of course we have to turn you into an idol!”

“Makes sense, go on.” Meng Chao declined to make any comments and smiled. He rubbed the tiger cowry pattern on the saber. As he stared at Luo Hai, his gaze turned sharp. “If we’re really going to film a documentary, what do you think of this opening? A poor kid living in a public renting house fought against the son of Soul Breaking Saber Luo Wu in a cultivation room with Surging Lightning in hand. In the end, he defeated this superior, noble son of a powerful martial artist at the peak of Heaven Realm.”

Luo Hai instantly understood what he meant.

He laughed and got up quickly, then placed his saber on his shoulder. Spirit flames instantly surged out of his body. The spirit tattoos on his body were even finer and more beautiful than two months ago.

“Sure. Even though I’m not some noble son, if you want to fight, we’ll fight. Come, let me see just how much you’ve improved compared to the moment you awakened, you monster!”

Ten minutes later, both of them lay in a disheveled cultivation room. They were exhausted and gasped for breath with sweat and blood covering their bodies.

There was a terrifying gash on Meng Chao’s chest. His flesh had been cut before it was burnt by heat that was hundreds of degrees Celsius high. With the slightest movement, it cracked again, and the sight of it could make anyone’s skin crawl.

Luo Hai’s body was covered in numerous fine wounds that looked like a toddler’s mouth flipped inside out. Even though each wound was not fatal, all of them were very close to his tendons. If they moved by another half an inch, he might have become disabled.

Neither one could move, and their sabers had been knocked off their hands due to a fierce clash just now. They could only stare at each other with wide eyes.

Now, the person who healed faster would be the winner.

Luo Hai shut his eyes and used the Tiger Soul that was passed down in his family to increase the circulation of his spirit energy. It allowed him to quickly recover his stamina.

However, right after he regained control over his upper body, Meng Chao started crawling toward the two sabers. He picked them up and observed the chips on the blades while gasping in amazement.

“Not bad. Just now, I delivered 1,154 slashes, and you executed 825 slashes. We clashed 122 times. The chips on the blade are absolutely acceptable. This is a good saber!”

Meng Chao tossed Luo Hai’s saber back at him and reached out to help him up.

If they were in a real fight, he could have just plunged his saber into Luo Hai’s heart.

Luo Hai was stunned for a long time, then shook his head and smiled wryly. “My dad’s right. He told me not to strive for temporary superiority against a monster like you; otherwise, my confidence will be completely crushed.

“I thought that I would be able to turn the tides after training madly for nearly two months in Dragon City University’s martial arts course. I was repeatedly tormented by the monster-level geniuses over there, and my strength increased by leaps and bounds, but who would’ve known that you were training just as crazily in Agricultural University’s martial arts course. You’re at about the same level as the most terrifying monsters in our course!”

Meng Chao grinned shyly and said, “Your fighting strength has really increased a lot. It’s really shocking. If the cut on my chest had gone half an inch further, my sternum would have been cut through. Then, the results of the fight would have been completely different. And you’re telling me that there is someone who can torment you in Dragon City University’s martial arts course?”

“Of course there is. I’m only ranked around the twentieth place among the freshmen in Dragon City University’s martial arts course. The ones in front are all horrific monsters.

“We have three specially recruited students in our batch this year, you know? When stuck between these monsters, you find yourself wanting to die as they bully the crap out of you every day. Seriously, it’s completely different from the university life I had envisioned,” Luo Hai said with a bitter look.

“I’m beginning to wonder whether it was the right choice for me to enroll in Dragon City University’s martial arts course. I should have enrolled in Agricultural University’s martial arts course like you and Xie Feng and become attention seekers like you so that I can enjoy ace lecturers and get a lot of cultivation resources. That would’ve been great!”

“You’re the attention seeker!” Meng Chao did not know whether he should laugh or cry.

But he was shocked by the foundation and strength of Dragon City University’s martial arts course.

Luo Hai’s base power was about the same as his.

Meng Chao only managed to gain a slight advantage because he cultivated 1,024 branch meridians and could recover faster.

Yet there were more than twenty students who were stronger than him in Dragon City’s martial arts course? And there were even three specially recruited students?

It has to be known that Agricultural University only had two specially recruited students.

Aside from Wu Wu, there was another student who was snatched by the etherealized plants course, because they were rumored to be able to hear the murmurs of the Other World plants since birth. That student should be able to become an outstanding etherealized plants botanist, but it was unlikely that they had any fighting power.

Yet Dragon City’s martial arts course had more specially recruited students in one course compared to Agricultural University. It was the strongest fighting course in Dragon City for a reason!

‘My opponents are really strong!’ Meng Chao mumbled in his heart. ‘That’s… awesome!’

His fighting spirit became even stronger.

“But when I fight against you, the feeling that I have is completely different when compared to being trampled all over by those monsters.” Luo Hai recalled the fight just a moment ago, and cold sweat covered his forehead.

“When I fight against the monsters in Dragon City University’s monsters, I know just which aspect of theirs is stronger than mine, and I know why I lose. I can see the difference between us clearly. Even if I am defeated, at least I know the reason behind it.

“But when I fight against you, I feel as if I’m facing obstructions everywhere, and all the moves I make are sloppy. When I want to create my spirit energy magnetic field, you interrupt my moves, and if I died, I wouldn’t even know how I died. It just feels horrible.

“Is that the Ultimate Style?”

The Luo family was also one of the investors in the Ultimate Style, so it was only natural that Luo Hai knew about it.

Meng Chao did not hide it from him. He nodded and said, “Yeah, a few days ago, the Ultimate Style achieved progressive success. Now, this can be considered the beta version. We’re going to test it in real fights now.”

“Your efficiency is really high. I just knew that nothing will go wrong if I invest in your project.”

Luo Hai hesitated for a moment. It looked like he had something to say, but was holding himself back.

Meng Chao frowned a little. “What do you want to say?”

“So, is this the reason behind why you dealt such a heavy blow to Duan Lian and the other nine people? You wanted to leave behind a deep impression of the Ultimate Style in them?”

Meng Chao was slightly stunned. “You know about this too? … Well, it makes sense. Duan Lian graduated from Construction High. I even asked you about him last time. Besides, you’re close to Xie Feng, and you have a lot of high school mates in my course. It only makes sense that I can’t hide this from you.”

“Why were you so ruthless? I don’t think this is good for promoting the Ultimate Style. No one will think that your martial art is strong. They’ll just think that you’re shameless, crazy, and maybe a little perverse,” Luo Hai said.

Meng Chao shrugged. “How else was I supposed to resolve the conflict between me and Duan Lian? You’re highschool mates, so you know his character very well. Even if I won against him legitimately in the arena ten times, do you think that he would admit defeat and stop attacking me?”

Luo Hai thought about it carefully, then shook his head. “I don’t think so. He would only think that he was humiliated ten times and that all the people laughed at him ten times. He would even think that you are the cause of his humiliation, which will lead to him hating you even more.”

“That’s right, so I started thinking. Since I can’t really kill him, I can only use this reckless plan. In the end, I managed to turn an enemy into a friend,” Meng Chao said with a shrug.

“What about the other nine students?” Luo Hai asked. “They didn’t provoke you.”

“I didn’t harm them. I saved them,” Meng Chao said faintly. “If they can’t change their student-like mindsets and throw all the rules, laws, logic, and habits into the wind, when they reached the wild, they would die without even knowing how they died.

“Fighting with the city as our battlefield and running into a monster’s nest, which is their turf, are two completely different things. I’m shameless, mad, and perverse? Those monsters are definitely even more shameless, crazy, and perverted than I am!

“If those students can’t accept this fighting style, then they should stay in the university obediently and come up with theories as well as conduct research in the labs. Why should they run to the wild and lose their lives as well as drag others down into the mud with them?”

“You…” Luo Hai looked at Meng Chao with a complicated expression for a long time before he exhaled. “Alright. I understand your kind will, but as your friend, let me give you a reminder. Next time, when you do something, could you just pay attention to the method that you use? Do you have any idea what Duan Lian and the others say about you now?”

Meng Chao let out a bark of laughter. “No way. Is Duan Lian really that stubborn and hasn’t had his fill yet?”

“No. He has completely admitted defeat. He won’t dare to provoke you again,” Luo Hai said. “He said that you have a multiple personality disorder. On the surface, you look like an average university student, but in the depths of your heart lies a crazy lunatic who looks like… a veteran who suffers from PTSD because he has been tormented by hundreds of battles, and that veteran is someone who will react in extreme ways at any moment. That lunatic is also a merciless assassin and an inhumane killing machine.

“Honestly, I think he’s pretty accurate. You might not notice it, but after you awakened to your supernatural abilities, you’ve been changing a lot. Just now, your gaze was like that of the God of Death himself, and the presence you gave off when you attacked was completely different from when we fought together during the national college examination’s practical test.

“Even though all superhumans experience certain changes after they awaken, they usually aren’t like you. You’re like a completely different person now.

“So, Meng Chao… are you okay?”

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