Chương 127: War God — Chapter 127 - Yan Zhaoxue: What Is Their Relationship?

Everyone present was stunned by the scene before them. What had happened earlier, they hadn't seen. But this final scene — especially seeing Wang Xian standing atop the crocodile's head, single blade in hand. No need to think. A fierce battle must have erupted. And the victor was Wang Xian. But...

"No way, bro, how did he pull that off?" Not just the new students. Even the two instructors who had come along were completely baffled. No matter how formidable you are, Wang Xian, you haven't even reached the Third Realm! Even if you could kill over a thousand E-rank Bone-Eroding Leopards in that tunnel. But the Rotmarsh Crocodile Turtle... that's a genuine D-rank beast. Not the kind that's locally mutated, either. It's a BOSS-level alien beast that inhabits D-rank unmanaged zones year-round!

And with this aquatic environment. A warrior at the peak of the Second Realm — forget killing it. One slash wouldn't even break its defense. You'd most likely be one-shot by a sneeze from this crocodile turtle. The kind you absolutely couldn't resist. And now. You're telling me you slaughtered it right here? If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes... No, even seeing it with my own eyes, it still feels like a dream.

"He really doesn't have a taboo talent?" Lei Hao was struggling to convince himself. If what just happened was real, Wang Xian must have a taboo talent, right? A few of us fought with everything we had, leading a team under the instructor's guidance, and barely managed to kill an elite beast in one area. And you single-handedly slaughtered the most monstrous beast in the Water Manor! Look at the blood mist around here. And he did it in an environment filled with blood mist and rapid currents.

Absolutely heaven-defying! Even with a taboo talent, he felt it might not be possible...

"Could there have been senior students here helping or something?" Su Wan looked around curiously.

"What do you mean?"

"Before I came, the water ripples from the melodies I played told me... there seemed to be two people here." Su Wan looked toward the shattered sunken ship. Another person?

"Now that you mention it, I can barely accept it." Dao Sanxiao looked around.

"Let me see which senior it is." Anyone who could train here alone had to be a highly skilled senior. In the crowd. Ye Miyue exhaled in relief, looking ahead. She thought for a moment, then pulled a sketchbook from her embrace and lightly sketched a few lines on it with a special pen.

"Oh, Xiaoyue, what are you doing?" Su Wan, beside her, saw this and stole a glance.

"N-nothing." After sketching, Ye Miyue quickly tucked it back into her embrace, afraid someone might see.

"I'm recording data here... look, there are still some blood crocodile corpses over there..."

"Oh..." Su Wan nodded. Their team's military training assignment did include that task. At this moment. Lin Wujin suddenly shouted:"Someone flew out from the ruins of the sunken ship — uh, it seems it really is a senior sister?" Everyone quickly looked over. Sure enough, they saw a woman in black armor, with a proud and striking bearing, burst out from the sunken ship like a falcon. However, she was still some distance from Wang Xian.

After flying out, the woman stood at the very top of the broken sunken ship, then fixed her gaze on Wang Xian not far away. That heroic and dashing presence made the new students' hearts tremble.

"So it's her!" Lu Tiesheng saw who had arrived, abruptly came back to his senses, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"So this girl..." The female instructor standing beside Lu Tiesheng also barely relaxed.

"If Wang Xian really killed that crocodile turtle alone, even I can't quite understand it. The gap is too huge... completely impossible."

"Instructor, instructor, who is this senior sister?"

"This senior uses a spear! So cool!" Su Wan's eyes sparkled.

"Such a beautiful person... but that gaze..." Dao Sanxiao looked up and felt that as the woman's peripheral glance swept over him, his entire body felt seen through and treated like garbage. Goosebumps rose all over him. A single glance had that kind of power.

"The current direct-line successor of the Dragon Spear, one of Dragon Country's five joint exchange students, top hundred in the previous Dragon Country Youth Martial Arts Tournament — Yan Zhaoxue." Lu Tiesheng laughed heartily.

"Also the president of your Tiandu University's Spear Arts Association. Once this school year starts, she'll be a senior."

"Currently at the peak of the Fourth Realm, and should reach the Fifth Realm before long."

"Not long ago, she personally led a team to clear the C-rank relic 'Hidden Dragon Abyss.' She's a renowned heroine across every region's military department." Everyone listened. Damn. So many titles?

"The current direct-line Dragon Spear successor?" Lin Wujin's heart shook.

"Could she be a descendant of Senior Yan Tingxiao?"

"Correct." Lu Tiesheng glanced at the kid.

"The Dragon Spear school was expanded and developed by Senior Yan Tingxiao decades ago, properly forming the Nation-Guarding Dragon Spear style. This senior of yours is his direct descendant..."

"The top inheritor of the Dragon Spear school." The many new students all gazed at that heroic figure atop the sunken ship. Only. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. At this moment, the latter was merely staring at Wang Xian on the turtle's head. No one found this strange. They figured this senior sister must have stepped in. Only Ye Miyue stared blankly at Yan Zhaoxue. In her eyes, there was a faint glimmer.

She thought for a moment, lowered her head as if pondering something, then looked up at Wang Xian again, her gaze clear and deep. As for Wang Xian, he was in no mood to pay attention to anyone else right now. He'd slaughtered the crocodile turtle. He had to go collect the sha crystals in the sunken ship. As for... Yan Zhaoxue... The moment she came down, Wang Xian had sensed it. He'd even noticed she wasn't carrying a weapon.

He'd originally thought that if Yan Zhaoxue had brought a weapon, maybe he wouldn't have needed to act. Letting this senior sister handle it wouldn't have been out of the question. But she hadn't even brought a weapon. She might not have been able to break the crocodile turtle's defense here. Better to do it himself. As for being seen, he didn't care. Aside from himself, no one knew about the divine meridians. Even if outsiders could sense something off, they'd never guess what it was.

She could look and still not understand. At most, she'd make out some secret skills, advanced martial arts, and the like. These things didn't need to be hidden anyway. In university training, they'd come to light sooner or later. End it fast. No point dragging things out. Otherwise, if the crocodile turtle sensed something wrong and just bolted, the trip would've been for nothing. Old beasts like the crocodile turtle weren't stupid. The moment it felt something off, it might not even fight you. Just slip away.

And with its strong defense, if it took the sha crystals with it, it would truly be drawing water with a bamboo basket. Back at the bottom of the sunken ship, Wang Xian rummaged around the crocodile turtle's lair. Sure enough, he found a prismatic sha crystal. Inside the water-blue sha crystal, scarlet energy flowed.

"High-purity spirit sha!"

"The overall quality might not be high by Alien Star Battlefield standards."

"But it's enough for my current needs!"

"Old beast really knows how to hoard. To think it had this thing..." Wang Xian searched around. Suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Oh!" Inside the crocodile turtle's nest, Wang Xian saw a piece of shell covered in blood crystal clusters.

"Damn, this old beast was about to break through. This is a shed Rotmarsh crystal shell." Wang Xian smiled.

"This thing is a good 30% harder than the shell it's wearing now." The Rotmarsh Crocodile Turtle was no ordinary beast. As an alien beast from the Alien Star Battlefield, when it breaks through realms, it sheds its original shell. Then it voraciously absorbs new spirit sha and condenses a new shell. Once successfully condensed, it can become a C-rank beast. At that point, the old shell shrinks, gradually condensing into a single shell plate. The crocodile turtle would embed this plate in its abdomen.

Then it would cycle spirit sha, nurturing this inner shell plate, gradually making it grow until it covered the entire abdomen. In the end, the inner shell would possess even stronger defense than its outer shell, thereby compensating for its own weaknesses. Once activated, it could even withstand a super-strong blow from a B-rank beast. If embedded into some modern combat gear, it wouldn't just greatly enhance defense. It could also grant the gear some extraordinary defensive combat techniques. A rare item indeed.

Even if not used in combat gear, applied directly on oneself, if one studied the elemental force smelting course in modern materials engineering — one could refine it into a single-use combat protective item, used in critical moments to block fatal attacks. It was an excellent, top-quality material. Plus, having been shed for some time, the sha aura wasn't too dense. For most warriors, it was very usable.

"Gladly accepted!" Wang Xian put away the shell plate, which had already condensed to the size of a tablet computer. With both treasures stored. Wang Xian then walked out. Outside. The crocodile turtle's corpse — he didn't plan to deal with it. It wasn't because his divine meridians lacked spirit sha. On the contrary. The demon blade's Tiger Sha saber technique had absorbed a massive amount of blood and sha aura during the kill.

Of his 20 divine meridians, at most a few had been drained, and they were already more than half replenished. To be honest, if he'd been fighting a genius warrior at the peak of the Third Realm, he might not even have won. A peak Third Realm genius warrior had talent and advanced martial arts. Most importantly, Third Realm warriors generally unlocked gene locks. At the same time, they'd also have secret skills. No worse in any aspect than himself at the Second Realm.

Even with divine meridians opened, if the fight dragged on, it wouldn't be easy. Even if he won, it would probably be a narrow victory. But using the demon blade to kill C-rank beasts, with all kinds of secret skill buffs and demon blade absorption. Pure ultimate counter. He was practically in a perpetual state, unless it was a beast with a special bloodline. Otherwise, it really was just a stomp. On the other side. Yan Zhaoxue watched Wang Xian walk into the sunken ship.

She didn't follow, just silently observed for a while. Then she turned toward the instructors on the other side. And walked over.

"You girl, to think you'd come here to train!" The female instructor waved a hand. Yan Zhaoxue nodded lightly:"Captain Shen, Captain Lu... I was just training here by chance..."

"Hahaha, that crocodile turtle — you stepped in to help, right?" Lu Tiesheng laughed. However, Yan Zhaoxue shook her head:"No, I didn't have time to act. The battle was already over." She was silent for a few seconds, then added:"That Rotmarsh Crocodile Turtle was defeated by that new student alone."

"?" Everyone. The group instantly turned to stone. What did she mean, she didn't have time to act? Could it be... The battle ended that quickly? Yan Zhaoxue was telling the truth. The battle really was too fast. She could roughly understand why. Although she didn't know what method that new student had used to instantly boost his own strength, it clearly couldn't last long. A quick decisive battle was the only path to victory. If the fight had lasted just a little longer, the outcome would have been uncertain.

"Then how did Wang Xian win?" Lu Tiesheng's voice trembled slightly. The other new students' gazes were also filled with curiosity. Yan Zhaoxue thought for a long time. She herself couldn't fully understand it. How could she explain? After thinking for ages, she finally uttered a single sentence:"Secret skills and advanced martial arts, I suppose..."

"Hm? Captain Lu, you said his name is Wang Xian?" Wang Xian? Wasn't that this year's Martial Exam top scorer? She knew a little. Not long ago, Principal Song had personally come to invite her grandfather out of retirement to teach. It was for this Martial Exam top scorer who had joined Tiandu Jingwu University. With no talent, on the Old Martial Arts path, he'd achieved the highest top-scorer score ever recorded! So, Yan Zhaoxue hadn't been completely unaware. She just hadn't met him.

"Advanced martial arts..." Lu Tiesheng frowned. Advanced martial arts were strong. But not strong to this extent, right?

"What advanced saber technique?" Dao Sanxiao's breath caught.

"Don't tell me it's Tiger Sha Saber Technique? Among advanced martial arts, only this one is the hardest to train, and its power rivals certain superior martial arts..."

"You guessed right." Yan Zhaoxue said flatly.

"It is the Tiger Sha Saber Technique."

"And moreover, it should be the Tiger Sha Saber Technique at the peak mastery level." Dao Sanxiao's entire body jolted as if struck by lightning, staggering back several steps. Peak mastery... Tiger Sha Saber Technique? No way, bro. We haven't even touched advanced saber techniques yet! And you've already reached peak mastery? How do you even train that at the Second Realm? Can you even execute a full set? At peak mastery, how much elemental force would that consume?

With less than a thousand life force points, is that enough for you to execute a full set? It's not enough! It's completely not enough! And it's even Tiger Sha Three Blades, one of the hardest among advanced saber techniques? What kind of joke is this... Forget me. Even those senior and super-senior students at Tiandu University probably can't pull that off, right?

"Peak mastery Tiger Sha Three Blades..." Lu Tiesheng murmured. What kind of monster was this? Wait... If that was the case. Then he could understand that horrifying scene in the tunnel. So that was it!

"I'll head back first..." Yan Zhaoxue waved to the group. Right now, her heart was filled with many, many questions. For instance.

'Tiger Sha Three Blades, such a difficult saber technique... and this Wang Xian actually knows it too... and to such a high level!'

'He's also at the Second Realm... that senior was also at the Second Realm...'

'Their silhouettes from behind are somewhat similar...'

'That combat style... also so similar...' The combat style was what left the deepest impression on her. Back then in Hidden Dragon Abyss, when the second Flame Demon Dragon appeared, that senior struck with lightning speed, killing it in an instant, utterly decisive. As if he'd been prepared all along. This Wang Xian had the exact same style. From the moment he struck, he gave the crocodile turtle absolutely no chance to counterattack or escape. That kind of...

combat that seemed to have been rehearsed countless times, without a single error from start to finish. It left far too deep an impression on her.

'Apart from the different appearance, but that senior had already been in disguise when he came to Hidden Dragon Abyss...' This pile of doubts... Made her really want to just ask directly... But she knew. It wasn't the time, it wasn't the place, and it was completely inappropriate. At this moment. Wang Xian walked up from the distance. He walked over to the instructors and smiled:"Instructor Lu, sorry for making you worry."

"Mainly I got separated and accidentally ended up here."

"..." Instructor Lu. Right now, he was a little suspicious. Did you, kid, get separated on purpose? But it was only a suspicion. He didn't dare confirm it.

"No helping it. As you instructors know..."

"This was the crocodile turtle's territory... it locked onto me... I couldn't escape even if I wanted to... so rather than wait to die..." Wang Xian said, "I could only give it everything I had. In the end, with my life hanging by a thread, I barely won..." Hearing this, combined with what Yan Zhaoxue had said. Lu Tiesheng nodded slightly, reluctantly accepting it, though he still glared at Wang Xian:"You kid, don't take risks like this next time!"

"Next time I definitely won't!" On the other side, Ye Miyue walked up to Wang Xian, looked him over from left to right, and said softly:"You... you're not hurt, are you?"

"No."

"Let me check..." Saying this, Ye Miyue circled around Wang Xian once. Only when she felt everything was fine did she nod. Above, Yan Zhaoxue, who was almost out of the reef area, seemed to sense something and glanced back at the two. Her gaze froze slightly...

'What's their relationship...' BANG. Distracted, she crashed into a reef, her form thrown into disarray. Thankfully, her physical conditioning was extraordinary. Yan Zhaoxue smashed that reef to pieces in an instant, then left the area with something resembling composure... ➤ Next: All of This Is Far Too Coincidental