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  The competitions between the ace courses were divided into major years and minor years.

  The major years were when prodigies registered into the university in large batches. It meant that stars had gathered together to compete against each other and chase one another. They formed a good competitive environment and gradually created the Golden Era.

  But during the minor years, when no one showed interest in the course and there were no prodigies competing against each other, the lecturers also lacked a certain passion when they taught.

  The past ten years were the minor years for Agricultural University’s martial arts course. They were not able to get really good talents, which was why they just kept being suppressed by the monster controller course.

  But every dog has its days. God seemed to want to compensate for the martial arts course, and stuffed all the good talents he had not given to the martial arts course previously into the course in one go, creating a rare major year where genii and “monsters” competed against each other.

  There was no need to talk about how outstanding Sun Ya, Jiang Rui, and Xie Feng were.

  Even Duan Lian, who was the only one among the Four Great Kings who had not gathered twenty thousand monster coins and had to choose a normal tutor, trained madly day and night with great motivation. He improved quickly and posed a great threat to Sun Ya and the others.

  Meanwhile, the monster controller course had been getting really talented people for the past ten years, but this year, their streak was cut off, and no outstanding newcomer showed up.

  The outstanding new students from both courses were about the same in terms of national college examination marks and the number of spirit meridians they cleared, but the martial arts course had a slight advantage.

  Hence, many of the martial arts course lecturers rubbed their palms together and poured all their blood, sweat, and tears into guiding the new students, hoping that they could take revenge for the humiliation suffered in the past and help them stand with their heads held high once more.

  Just like that, the Four Great Kings spent practically every day creating new spirit energy magnetic fields and mastering all sorts of powerful killing moves. Once every few days, they also cleared another main meridian, and spirit flames circled them. Their spirit tattoos shone brilliantly, and no one could stop their momentum.

  The other students were not as talented as they were, but they had created their own spirit energy magnetic fields and could activate some killing moves as well.

  Although, since they had just learned to do it, the time they spent accumulating power, stiffening up, and cooling down was very long.

  But their tutors told them that their opponents, regardless of whether they were humans or monsters, also had to face the problem of accumulating power, stiffening up, and cooling down.

  “Don’t worry about the long time you take accumulating power and cooling down. As long as you continue training and your muscles come to remember it as well as turn it into your instincts, your time will become shorter than your enemy’s, and that’s enough.”


  The mainstream martial arts’ train of thought was that simple and crude. It all boiled to these words: Form your stance and execute your power.

  And in real fights, most of the hunting squads had martial artists practicing the Beast Soul Style, Machine Armor Style, and Gun Fighting Style following around the martial artists practicing the Overkill Style, and these martial artists had monster controllers, machine masters, or heroic spirit users by their side. Perhaps they would even have a large group of normal soldiers and tanks or armored cars helping them.

  They could work together and launch attacks one after another. Hence, the problem of accumulating power, stiffening up, and cooling down was not really a problem.

  The students mastered many killing moves in their classes and cultivation centers. When sparred against each other, all sorts of sparks flew around, and it was incredibly dazzling.

  The newer anyone was to their technique, the less likely they were to be able to control the surge of their spirit energy. Their spirit tattoos would shine brilliantly, and their spirit energy would spread out, which made the electricity even more dazzling. They were fighting like amateurs, but they were somehow also fighting as desperately as peerless elites, and it helped them walk further down the path. In fact, they even started running through it.

  But they did not know that in the underground basement of the old lecturer hall of the martial arts course, the brand new Ultimate Style was being quietly created. It had now taken root and sprouted.

  The main participants of the Ultimate Style Project were just Gu Jianbo and Meng Chao.

  So, they had to work themselves to the core. They were the researchers as well as the experiment subjects. They were also the modifiers of the cultivation machines, and sometimes had to go out to get more investments. Meng Chao even had to form a close relationship with Yan Feirou, a future entrepreneur.

  Meng Chao was new to this whole thing. Aside from forming a closer relationship with Yan Feirou, his main role was the experiment subject. He was often submerged in different medicinal concoctions to train.

  In the beginning, Gu Jianbo refused to let him do this.

  After all, no one knew better than him just how painful and dangerous it was to cultivation the branch meridians.

  Gu Jianbo was still thinking about doing it himself.

  But Meng Chao knew that the future Blade Dancer had already accumulated many hidden injuries and could not be allowed to go through any more suffering.

  Anyway, Meng Chao had endured pain that had sent him close to death in his previous life. And not just once.

  He also had the Initial Stage Healing Skill and the Middle Stage Healing Skill to get rid of all his hidden injuries.

  As long as he had enough nutrients, he could torture his body however he wanted.

  Hence, he bravely volunteered for the first experiment. He stayed for a total of three hours in the cultivation cabin modified from a medical cabin and gritted his teeth to bear the great pain while ensuring that his mental strength index remained stable as he guided the electricity and spirit energy into his branch meridians. As if he was guiding a thread through a needle hole, he cleared the fine branch meridians one by one.

  When he crawled out of the cultivation cabin with great difficulty, his blood vessels all burst apart, and his skin burned red, as if he was being roasted.

  Gu Jianbo turned pale. He thought that his spirit energy had deviated.

  But Meng Chao used two Initial Stage Healing Skills and drank two high-calorie nutritional fluids made from superbeast blood, and in ten minutes, he regained normal skin color.

  During the entire process, his mental strength index had fluctuated between eighty percent and one hundred twenty percent, but he did not go over the warning line.

  This performance left Gu Jianbo, who was a four-star superhuman and had seen many things, dumbfounded. He was forced to believe Meng Chao’s words now. The boy was really a monster whose cell regeneration ability was ten times greater than that of a normal person.

  Dragon City was a land of miracles, and many citizens were born with all sorts of strange divine abilities.

  When superhumans awakened, they sometimes also activated strange abilities.

  Gu Jianbo did not think much about it. He could only marvel at his tremendous luck. Meng Chao was truly a blessing from heaven. If he did not manage to create Ultimate Style like this, he would give up on being a human!

  From that day on, Meng Chao was practically in the lab every day, and he went through three-to-five experimental cultivations that lasted for more than ten hours.

  Every time they went through an experiment, his blood vessels and nerves tore up and created fine wounds. It had an impact on his organs, and a lot of blood flowed out of his pores.

  But as long as he traded his points for the Initial Stage Healing Skill and drank a lot of gene medicine, high-calorie nutritional fluids, and ate monster flesh, he could restore his health instantly. It also filled him with energy.

  Of course, the price he needed to pay for the Initial Stage Healing Skill just kept on growing.

  In the beginning, it was one thousand contribution points, but now, it was nearly two thousand points.

  Meng Chao guessed that it was because the injuries he was accumulating were getting worse, so the difficulty in treating them continued to get higher.

  But it was nothing. He had tens of thousands of contribution points. Aside from awakening the skills he needed for his compulsory courses, he threw all his points into healing himself.

  Besides, each time they went through an experiment, a notification popped up in his field of vision, congratulating him on making outstanding contributions to the birth of the Ultimate Style. It gave him hundreds or sometimes even more than one thousand contribution points.

  The points he gained and traded off offset each other. Every time he gave up more than one thousand contribution points, he had the chance to save Gu Jianbo and more of his peers’ lives.

  He felt that it was worth it.

  Time passed, and half a month went by. Meng Chao and Gu Jianbo finished their 112th experiment.

  As they repeatedly modified the medicine formulae, changed the strength and frequency of the bioelectricity, and modified the medical cabins the pain Meng Chao suffered while he cultivated grew lesser, and the effect when he cleared his branch meridians also became better.

  In the darkness, they gradually saw a path formed by dazzling stars leading them to the skies.

  Meng Chao’s cultivation base grew day by day.

  His senses grew sharper, his organs became much better, and the amount of spirit energy his limbs could contain grew higher as well.

  When he carefully guided spirit energy into the branch meridians around his eye sockets, he could see the fine letters of a notebook more than one hundred meters away.

  When he guided spirit energy into the spot behind his nasal cavity, he could tell that the canteen was cooking dozens of dishes while being hundreds of meters away based on the smell. He could also identify most of the ingredients.

  When he guided spirit energy into his cochlea, he could hear autumn leaves falling down, the whispers of the wind, and worms squirming about in the ground, getting entangled with each other.

  As for the sensitivity of his touch……

  In the first few days, when he could not control it at will, he was so sensitive that he could not wear clothes, if cloth rubbed against his crotch, he ended up getting tingles.

  But he did not know just how much his fighting strength had increased because of his incredibly sensitive senses.

  However, it benefitted him in every way when it came to supporting courses.

  As agreed, Meng Chao went to the resource course to be an assistant for two hours every day.

  Very soon, he became a target for Ning Shewo and all the other lecturers to fight over in the resource course.

  He was also the nightmare of all new students and even the upperclassmen in the resource course.

  His harvesting skills improved by leaps and bounds, and his meticulous control over the monsters’ mutated organs was matchless among his peers. It allowed the lecturers he helped to feel like they could do whatever they wished, and their harvests would still be perfect.

  The only problem was that after they worked with Meng Chao and called over their own students, they felt that they could not perform smoothly no matter what. Even when they performed the simplest movements, they felt that there were hiccups everywhere, and they no longer felt the pleasurable feeling of operating smoothly.

  The lecturers became increasingly gloomy, and they could not help but scold their students.

  “Look at how careless you are. How could you not even be able to compete with a new student from a martial arts course?”


  The new students from the resource course moaned incessantly. ‘Meng Chao is a monster. You might not find one of him even in ten years. How can we hope to compare?’


  In the beginning, some people could not take this lying down and wanted to compete with this boy from the martial arts course.

  However, the three sophomores were all stunned by Meng Chao’s lightning fast and perfect movements, and no new student acted hostilely toward him anymore.

  Their hostility faded away even more when Meng Chao spoke with great familiarity about various mutated monsters. Before the lecturers could say anything, he would give clear explanations about mutated organs that the new students had never seen before and which looked completely different from the ones in textbooks.

  He could tell them how the organ mutated, what its functions were, how they should harvest it, and how it could be refined with other materials. There was nothing that he did not know.

  The resource course students were dumbfounded, and they could only be impressed by him.

  This was the weird thing about human psychology. When the difference between the two sides was not great, the weaker party might get jealous.

  But when the distance was so wide that the other party could not even get close, the person would become idolized as if it were completely normal.

  There were also a few students from Ninth High School who had gotten into Agricultural University.

  Hence, very soon, Ace Student Chao’s name spread from Ninth High School to Agricultural University’s resource course.

  As Meng Chao faded further into obscurity in the martial arts course and became a nobody, he became a legendary existence in the resource course.

  Chapter 125: Improving by Leaps and Bounds while Remaining Nameless

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  Meng Chao did not intend to keep his knowledge to himself.

  Every day, he went to the resource course to be an assistant, and aside from working at high intensity like a harvesting machine, when he was free, he would answer questions from the new students, and they would compare their harvesting skills with each other.

  Since he was also a student, the angle from which he viewed a problem was different. Sometimes, his answers were more suited for the new students’ needs. Because of it, his relationship with the resource course students became better than his relationship with the people in the martial arts course.

  He also got a lot of contribution points from the resource course lecturers, and he used them to exchange for the Initial Stage Healing Skills so that he could explore the Ultimate Style further.

  Of course, everyone had questions.

  “Ace Student Chao, if you’re so good at harvesting, why did you run off to the martial arts course? You should just join the resource course!”


  “That’s right, we’re the real ace course in Agricultural University. The martial arts and monster controller course have to ask our resource course for favors all the time!”


  The students were not the only ones who said that. Quite a number of lecturers extended the invitation as well. If he just said yes, they would handle the matter of him changing courses.

  Meng Chao understood their good will, but he was very satisfied with his current situation.

  He experimented, trained, harvested, went to his professional classes, visited the library, went to the canteen to eat, used his contribution points to trade for the Initial Stage Healing Skill, awakened new skills, and improved his Skillfulness. He worked day and night without wasting a second. Forget about going home, he seldom even called home.

  Even though it was tough, he enjoyed it. He felt like he had turned into a rocket, and dazzling flames were coming out from behind his butt. He improved by leaps and bounds every day, every hour, every minute, and every second. There was not even a need to mention just how much he enjoyed exploring an unknown world.

  Besides, he got to know a group of new friends.

  Even though he did not come into a lot of contact with people in the martial arts course, he had been socializing with the students in the refresher course, and he found that they were very interesting people.

  Perhaps it was because Meng Chao had been tormented by society for decades in his previous life, so he could not be considered a completely new student. He was like an old veteran who was sent back to the furnace to be recreated, and he was on the same wavelength as the students from society.

  Among them were people like Ma Hong, who was a scout from the military who had fled from the jaws of a monster and even killed it. In the process, he awakened to supernatural abilities.

  Some of the students from society worked for organizations that built communication towers. They were tasked to build signal towers in the fog and often had to climb more than one hundred meters barehanded. While the fog rolled around them and they listened to the monsters’ cries, they had to focus and work for several hours, which was how they refined an unbreakable mind.

  Some of them were also miners. They had to work in horrible conditions with high radiation, and each squad had to quickly remove themselves from the situation after working for around ten minutes. Otherwise, their bodies would be affected by all sorts of radiation sicknesses.

  And there were all sorts of powerful underground creatures around the mines.

  Hence, the miners had to use picks and impact hammers to break the monsters’ heads aside from digging out crystals.

  They fought day and night. Some people died quietly, while some awakened to supernatural abilities and went to universities and their refresher courses.

  Everyone was a broken-star superhuman, and when they leveled up, they usually had to pay a huge price for it. Aside from their main meridians shrinking, a lot of them had a lot of terrifying scars.

  But when they talked about their past, about their wounds, and how their comrades had sacrificed themselves, they spoke in a relaxed manner and even laughed about it. They had the elegance of those who forgot about their fear after they healed from their injuries.

  Compared to the rich children who enjoyed a large amount of resources since they were young and broke through according to procedures, Meng Chao preferred staying with the students from the refresher course. Based on their lively descriptions, Meng Chao could see and remember a wider and more exciting world.

  “The Ultimate Style is meant for us.” Meng Chao said seriously to the students from society. “As long as our minds and wills are strong enough, anyone can reach the ultimate stage of life. Very soon, the days of people saying that broken-star superhumans don’t have enough room for growth, are limited, and can never be like normal superhumans will be gone!”


  The students from society believed his words.

  Under Ma Hong’s lead, they bravely volunteered themselves to help Meng Chao and Gu Jianbo.

  Based on Ma Hong’s words, aside from having flirtatious relationships with female entrepreneurs, Gu Jianbo was a pretty good person.

  Many of their friends were in the refresher courses of other universities, and they were really just there to get a cert. The lecturers did not teach them seriously, and the students usually did not have the heart to learn either.

  But here, Gu Jianbo taught them everything he could. He even helped them get resources and risked his reputation to do something as deviant as telling them to bet on the monster controller course.

  “We’ve never treated Big Brother Bo as our brother, but a friend with whom we share an unbreakable bond. Since we know that Big Brother Bo and Big Brother Zong have done so much for the Ultimate Style and this brand new cultivation method can help broken-star superhumans break our bottlenecks and the ceiling above us, how can we just watch the two of you risk your lives for us?” Ma Hong said with a smile.

  Meng Chao and Gu Jianbo spoke with each other. The most dangerous and torturous part of the experiment was already over. With Meng Chao’s great regenerative ability, they had already figured out a few low-danger medicine formulae.

  With the factories providing technical support, they had also modified the medical cabins in different ways and turned them into brand new cultivation cabins.

  If they wanted to promote the Ultimate Style, they would definitely need the acknowledgement of normal martial artists and low-grade superhumans.

  If this were a style that only a monster like Meng Chao could practice, it would be meaningless.

  Hence, they passionately invited Ma Hong and the other students from society to join them.

  By then, they had already sent the results of their experiments to Yan Organization. Yan Hengbo was very pleased with the results, and he gave them another huge sum to sponsor them.

  And Gu Jianbo had used some sort of method to convince Dean Zong to give them experimental equipment and cultivation machines that had been eliminated from the martial arts course but were still mostly new. They could now launch seven sets of comparison experiments simultaneously.

  Their efficiency increased by leaps and bounds, and they could now conduct dozens of experiments per day.

  The legend of Meng Chao the Monster also continued spreading among the students working in society.

  Most of the students working in society, including Ma Hong, who was still serving in the Red Dragon Army, could only take electrical shocks and their branch meridians being cleared for ten minutes maximum. Then, they would start groaning in pain. Their mental strength indices would shoot over the safe zone, and they would have to leave the cultivation cabin.

  But Meng Chao could calmly stay in the cultivation cabin for a few hours. In fact, it even looked like he enjoyed being in there.

  His record was staying submerged in gene medicine for seven hours while being shocked by electricity. He also managed to absorb every last drop of the thick medicine.

  As he faced the dual stimulation from the gene medicine and the bioelectricity, his bones crackled, his muscles swelled, and spirit tattoos that were as fine as hair and incredibly profound and complicated appeared on his skin. The aggressive and burning spirit tattoos were something that even the cultivation cabins could not hide. It gave others a feeling that they were standing beside a steel smelting furnace.

  Even Ma Hong and the students who had fought hundreds of battles could not help but shudder.

  In the second half of September, the experiment reached a critical period.

  Meng Chao became even busier. He practically stayed in the lab twenty-four hours a day, which made it difficult for him to fulfill his promise of being a harvesting assistant for two hours every day.

  To the martial arts course students, his existence was now as thin as a ghost’s.

  And by that, they meant that it was very difficult to see him even in major lectures that hundreds of people attended, cultivation centers where the students loved going because they could show off, the canteen, the dorms, or the clubs that the new students participated in passionately. Meng Chao could not be met anywhere.

  Even if he occasionally showed up in the very important professional classes, he looked as if he had been squeezed dry and moved around like a drifting ghost. His sense of presence was extremely lacking.

  Another month or so passed, and no one mentioned his shocking performance during the admission test anymore.

  Some people heard about Ace Student Chao from the resource course, but since they were from a different course, his deeds felt completely unrelated to their world. A pure martial artist usually thought that a harvester’s skill was nothing extraordinary. They believed that harvesters only cleaned up after them and cleared the battlefield.

  There were also those who thought that Meng Chao was derelict in his studies and did not focus.

  “If he wants to be a harvester, he should have applied for the resource course. Since he awakened in the battlefield and killed a Bloody Moon Wolf King by chance, he overestimated his fighting abilities and enrolled in the martial arts course.

  “But after he entered university, he noticed that the path of a martial artist is not easy for a broken-star superhuman, so now he wants to become a harvester. That must be the case.”


  That was what Duan Lian told the other students behind Meng Chao’s back.

  Meng Chao had launched a counterattack and struck him first during the admission test, which made him miss getting under the tutelage of the two ace lecturers. It was a major regret that he could not forget.

  He was filled with anger, and when he spoke, his words were, naturally, laced with fury.

  Yet even if the students thought about it carefully, they felt that they could not refute Duan Lian’s words.

  “By the looks of it, before long, he will leave the martial arts course.” Duan Lian gritted his teeth in exasperation. ‘But before he leaves, I will definitely let him know that even without the two ace lecturers, I am still one of the Four Great Kings of the martial arts course!’


  Xie Feng had also heard about Duan Lian’s intentions to cause Meng Chao trouble, so he found Meng Chao and advised him earnestly.

  “Meng Chao, what have you been doing lately? This is your precious golden period, so you can’t waste it just like that!

  “Look, Sun Ya, Jiang Rui, and I all got ourselves ace tutors. We have ample resources and a lot of chances to get monster coins. In just a short month of so, we’ve cleared a lot of spirit meridians and can create around twenty spirit energy magnetic fields. Our fighting strength has increased more than three times!

  “But what about you? You always hide in a corner during classes and daydream. When you cultivate, you look like you have myasthenia gravis. You don’t join the clubs either even though they can increase your knowledge, help you earn monster coins, and introduce you to our upperclassmen!

  “I mean, I know that broken-star superhumans can’t master a lot of killing moves, but even if you’ve only cleared four main meridians in your right arm, when you organize them, you can still create quite a number of spirit energy magnetic fields. Yet how many have you mastered?

  “Also, over the past month or so, aside from shoving food down your throat in the canteen, you haven’t been using your monster coins at all. You haven’t even registered for a lavish single dorm. You should still have ten thousand or so monster coins left, right?

  “The protection period for new students is now over. Students can challenge each other freely. I heard that Duan Lian is not the only one who wants to cause you trouble.

  “Many of the new students have also improved by leaps and bounds, and they’re all sharpening their weapons knowing that you have a lot of money in your hands. They want to snatch your coins! After all, you’re famous, and your strength is…… obvious to all. Everyone bullies the weak, so if they don’t bully you, who else are they going to target?

  “If you really don’t have the heart to walk down the path of a martial artist, it’d be best for you to switch courses as soon as possible. I heard that you’re doing pretty good in the resource course. If you still want to become a martial artist, don’t involve yourself in Project 1024 anymore! Ms. Li said that it’s a dead-end that can never be cleared!”