Chapter 69 : Chapter 69
Chapter 69: A Bear Paw Slaps a Tiger’s Face! Fierce as Fire!
“To die?”
Zhu Xiao let out a cold laugh and sneered, “You’re pretty confident!”
As he spoke, tiger-like fur and whiskers once again emerged around his mouth, while a crimson blood aura burst out around his body.
The corners of Ye Ze’s lips curled up. “Let’s hope the equipment on you is good enough.”
Zhu Xiao did not understand why Ye Ze would ask something like that.
If his equipment was good, wouldn’t that only make him harder to beat?
But Zhu Xiao had never been the type to dwell on questions like that. He burst into laughter, and a shocking martial aura exploded from his body.
His presence rose higher and higher, like a volcano on the verge of eruption.
At the sight of this, everyone in the Monitoring Division could not help focusing intently.
“A clash between powerhouses!”
“As expected of someone born into a martial clan. At such a young age, his ancient martial arts are already close to grandmaster level!”
“Can he win?”
In China, there was a certain kind of people who had practiced ancient martial arts since before the Transcendent Era. They never passed them on outside the family, preserving them from one generation to the next.
After the advent of universal class awakenings, they paired those arts with martial-type classes, carrying ancient martial arts forward until they gradually formed powerful martial clans.
The Zhu Clan of West China, to which Zhu Xiao belonged, was one of them.
With ancient martial arts complementing their combat, they were usually stronger than Class Users of the same rank.
The person in charge of West China was watching with full concentration. After all, Zhu Xiao was West China’s last trump card!
As though noticing something, someone exclaimed in astonishment, “He even has a complete-form transformation Talent!”
...
At that moment, accompanied by a tiger’s roar—
A savage killing intent flashed in Zhu Xiao’s eyes as his whole body rapidly swelled.
His head, both arms, torso, and legs tore through his clothes one after another, transforming into a gigantic tiger covered in crimson markings!
A transformation Talent changed some part of the body into the form of another species, enhancing combat power.
But a complete-form transformation...Was of a higher order. The entire body changed form, and combat power soared!
Zhu Xiao might have been arrogant, but he was not careless in the slightest. Right from the start, he used his ultimate move!
Because he had already received word from Central China’s Second Team and had vaguely learned that the instructor before him was no weak opponent...At the same time, two of his teammates layered two sets of support enhancements onto him!
Zhu Xiao’s squad had been built entirely around him as the core, with two support teammates and two control-type classes.
That combination allowed Zhu Xiao’s combat power to be unleashed to the fullest!
“Come on, then!!!”
Zhu Xiao’s fighting spirit surged.
But in the very next instant—A black-and-white figure shot to the front of him at an unbelievable speed.
Zhu Xiao’s pupils abruptly contracted. Even with a martial artist’s perception, he had not sensed the other side’s movement at all!
SMACK—A bear paw slapped across Zhu Xiao’s tiger face.
Martial Saint Aura condensed in the paw and burst forth in an instant, carrying terrifying pressure with it!
The crimson-striped giant tiger was sent flying, knocked two of his teammates unconscious, then smashed into the ground and blasted out a huge crater.
“He really is strong. He actually didn’t die from a single slap from Panda.”
Ye Ze could not help praising him.
In the next moment, however, the crimson-striped figure leaped up from the crater, streaked through the air in a blazing arc, and pounced straight at Martial Saint Panda.
This claw strike was unbelievably fast and explosively powerful. Against an ordinary third-rank Class User, it could easily have inflicted grievous injuries.
But to a Martial Saint...The techniques of an ordinary martial artist were little more than child’s play.
In that split second, Martial Saint Panda calmly turned aside, dodged the attack, then borrowed the momentum of the charge to bring a punch crashing down from above!
BOOM—!
Like a meteor slamming into the earth, the crimson-striped giant tiger crashed to the ground. Dirt and stone exploded outward as yet another massive crater was blasted open.
The gap in strength was simply too obvious.
Inside the Monitoring Division, quite a few people sighed and shook their heads, already shifting their gaze elsewhere.
“This instructor is at least third rank!”
That kid Zhu Xiao really had it rough...
“What level... of power is this?”
Lying in the crater, Zhu Xiao’s mind was in a daze.
He himself was a martial artist. His reaction speed and combat techniques far surpassed those of ordinary people, which was why he had always moved through battle as easily as a fish in water.
Only when facing the elders of his own clan—those martial arts grandmasters—had he ever faintly felt this kind of total suppression.
Utterly powerless to fight back.
And yet this summoned beast was giving him even more pressure than his own elders did!
Above the grandmaster level...?
But he had no chance to think any further. The severe injuries to his back and head left him unable to maintain his transformed state. He reverted to human form and passed out.
With only one support and one control class left...
They surrendered on the spot.
“Squirrel, get to work!”
Ye Ze was in an excellent mood. “So you really did offend Liu Anran. She still hasn’t teleported you back.”
“Then let’s help her get a little revenge. Take five pieces from the leader, and one from each of the others.”
“Once you’re done, kill them.”
...
Only a little over two minutes had passed.
Duan Tianchen and Chu He still had not moved from where they were. They were waiting for Zhu Xiao’s result.
After all, all this talk about how absurdly strong Ye Ze the instructor was had come from Liu Anran’s side of the story alone, which made it hard to verify.
Now that someone was testing it for them, they could also adjust their strategy in time for what came next.
Luo Yao stared fixedly at the team panel, afraid Zhu Xiao’s kill points might suddenly jump.
Liu Anran sat silently.
Inwardly, she too was quietly guessing how the battle was going.
Then, all of a sudden, Luo Yao cried out excitedly, “Sister Anran, the names of everyone on West China’s First Team have all gone gray!”
The moment those words were spoken, everyone was shocked.
Duan Tianchen and Chu He in particular raised their assessment of that instructor’s danger by several more levels.
They knew Zhu Xiao’s strength well, yet he had been killed in a little over two minutes...
No wonder even Liu Anran had been so wary of him!
Liu Anran’s expression remained calm as ever.
But inwardly, she could not help cheering, Well done, Ye Ze!
She was not some living bodhisattva. How could she possibly have no temper after being insulted in public? Letting Ye Ze avenge her a little was perfect!
Wait...She suddenly froze for a moment. Why did this make her feel like some kind of mole?
It did not matter. Ye Ze was still someone she had to deal with now!
After all, they were on different sides inside this dungeon.
Still, with Zhu Xiao dead, Liu Anran’s cooperation with the other two teams went even more smoothly.
While laying out tactics, the alliance continued to grow...
...
As for Ye Ze, he harvested another nine Epic items from West China’s First Team!
And all of them were between two and five stars.
As expected of scions of a great clan—their equipment really was excellent!
“Robbing people really is the fastest way!”
If he had to farm them himself, who knew how long it would take to collect this many Epic items?
Now that he had another set of seven, Ye Ze fed them to Panda again and produced a third Legendary item:
【You Are What You Eat! —】
【Gained: Strength +15, Fire Element Mastery +15%!】
【……】
【Equipment Shredder — Seven pieces of equipment destroyed. New equipment obtained: Fierce as Fire!】