Chapter 204 - 104: Mosquito Breaks the Limit! Directly Tempering 100 Bones

Chapter 204: Chapter 104: Mosquito Breaks the Limit! Directly Tempering 100 Bones

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As of now.

Only two people, Li Hao and Lu Xue, had broken into the highly difficult Tier Six.

The members of Class A were generally stuck at Tier Five.

The rules of the Combat Chamber were simple: defeat the opponent inside or survive their attacks for one hour.

Lin Yi pulled up his own results and took a look.

[#1000: Lin Yi, Untested.]

He was dead last in the entire training camp.

This was perfectly normal, of course.

After all, he hadn’t been tested yet.

’Go on. You’re not needed here for now.’

With a flicker of Lin Yi’s will, the Mosquito Avatar on his shoulder silently buzzed its wings and took flight, deftly slipping through a crack in the window and disappearing into the vast darkness outside the training camp.

It flew toward the Taihang Mountain Range.

He no longer needed the Mosquito Avatar here.

Leaving the Mosquito Avatar at the training camp was a complete waste.

So, Lin Yi decided to send the Mosquito Avatar back to the Taihang Mountain Range to continue hunting or searching for Spirit Medicine.

After the Mosquito Avatar had departed, Lin Yi stood up, and an indescribable stench of sour sweat immediately assaulted his nostrils.

Ten straight days of high-intensity Bone Tempering had caused his body to expel a large amount of impurities, which mixed with his sweat to form a thin layer of grime on his skin.

’If I go take the test like this, I’ll probably knock everyone out with the smell.’

He chuckled self-deprecatingly.

With light yet steady steps, he walked toward the bathroom.

After his breakthrough, the lines of his muscles were more fluid and defined, brimming with a sense of explosive power.

The warm water washed over him, cleansing him of all the filth and fatigue, as if washing away all the hardships of the past ten days.

The young man in the mirror had eyes as sharp as an eagle’s. His spirit and energy were full, and he looked completely renewed!

Having bathed and changed, Lin Yi put on his Martial Arts Uniform. Feeling the majestic Qi and Blood surging restlessly within him—far surpassing what he had before—the corner of his mouth curled into a sharp, confident arc.

’The Combat Chamber... Time to test the results of my seclusion!’

He pushed open the door.

He strode purposefully toward the core area of the training camp.

The hallway lights cast a long shadow behind him. His steps were firm, carrying the powerful aura of one who had emerged from a chrysalis.

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After countless trainees had cultivated there, the vast alloy training ground was filthy.

Liu Ying gripped a mop with both hands, struggling against the stains on the floor.

’Almost... almost there...’

She repeated to herself over and over.

’Once today’s class placement assessment results are out, with how hard I’ve worked these past ten days, I’ll definitely get promoted to Class B! Then, I’ll never have to do these damned chores again!’

At this thought, a powerful surge of resentment welled up in her heart.

It even added a vicious edge to her mopping.

’It’s all Lin Yi’s fault! That bastard! Back in Yang City, if he’d just been willing to show his strength earlier and carry me through the entrance exam, or... or if he’d been willing to sell his points to me, I wouldn’t have fallen so low, scrubbing the floor here every day like the lowest of servants!’

She sighed heavily and, as if resigned to her fate, buried her head in her work once more.

Her movements weren’t exactly standard or powerful, but her proficiency spoke of a bitter experience.

Ten days. A mere ten days!

Life in this training camp had ruthlessly dragged her from the clouds down into the mud.

Back in Yang City, she was the center of attention, the chosen daughter of heaven, the star of tomorrow coddled by her school. When had she ever done such dirty, exhausting, and undignified manual labor?

But upon entering this cruel training camp, everything was crushed to dust by the cold Rules of the point system!

Here, points were more important than anything!

Want to buy cultivation resources? You need points!

A precious Cultivation Room? You need points!

Even private instruction from an instructor required points!

And she was just a bottom-tier Class C member, pathetically receiving only 10 free points a day.

Faced with the high costs of cultivation, this amount was a mere drop in the bucket!

What was even more despairing was that for the challenges in the cultivation facilities that awarded large amounts of points—like the Combat Tower, the Gravity Tower, and the Body Technique Tower—she was stuck before Tier Four, unable to advance a single step.

Failing to pass meant no big point rewards.

’What could she do?’

’She could only do what she was doing now: accumulating meager points bit by bit through odd jobs, running errands, and working as a janitor.’

The bit of pride and reserve she once had as a genius had long since been ground away by the daily grind of menial chores.

She could only grit her teeth and endure.

She looked up. The prodigies of Class A, with their outstanding talent, only grew more brilliant under the pile of resources bought with points, so dazzling it was suffocating.

"Hey, did you hear? That guy Li Hao dived back into the Combat Tower again!"

A trainee next to her, who was also wiping down equipment, whispered mysteriously, unable to hide the excitement in his voice,

"He might actually pass Tier Six and enter Tier Seven this time! My god, if he succeeds, he’ll get 2,000 points in one go! Two thousand!"

"Tier Seven?!"

Liu Ying’s hands froze. She was so shocked she nearly threw her mop away, and her voice went sharp.

"Are you sure? For real?"

"Of course it’s real!"

Another trainee, who was struggling to move some weight plates, leaned in, practically spraying spittle,

"It’s all over Class A! Li Hao is a real beast. I heard he was just a hair’s breadth away last time! If he makes it, he might even break the training camp’s record for the fastest to clear Tier Six! That would go down in the camp’s history books!"

But Liu Ying just felt her heart clench violently.

An indescribable sense of shock and helplessness washed over her.

Tier Seven...

’What did that even mean?’

She clearly remembered mustering her courage to challenge the Combat Tower last time. She had given it her all, ending up in a sorry state, and had only barely made it to Tier Four.

Within minutes, the simulated combat puppet inside had beaten her black and blue, and she’d been knocked unconscious and sent out.

Tier Seven?

She simply couldn’t imagine what kind of Hell-level difficulty that was.

’If I went in, I’d probably be killed instantly, turned to dust before I could even react, right?’

"What a... monster!"

She muttered under her breath, her voice filled with deep awe and a hint of imperceptible jealousy.

She shook her head, forced herself to stop thinking about it, and went back to wrestling with a stubborn bloodstain.

But the people next to her were deep in conversation.

"Hey, what about that Lin Yi guy? It’s been almost ten days, right? I heard he’s been locked in his room the whole time, hasn’t even taken a single step outside!" a voice suddenly piped up, shifting the topic to another person of interest. "Liu Ying, aren’t you from Yang City like him? Do you know what kind of weird stuff he’s up to?"

Hearing Lin Yi’s name, Liu Ying’s fingers tightened abruptly around the mop handle, her knuckles turning white as her movements stiffened for an imperceptible moment.

But she quickly resumed her vigorous mopping, pretending she hadn’t heard.

She didn’t want to bring up that irritating name, Lin Yi.

The person next to her clearly hadn’t expected an answer and continued on their own:

"Exactly! Remember how arrogant that Lin Yi was when he first joined the camp? His presence was overwhelming, suppressing all the other geniuses. He stole all the limelight! And what happened? Heh, the very next day, he completely deflated and pulled a disappearing act! Just look at the leaderboards for the major cultivation facilities now. You can’t even find his name in the top one hundred! Not a trace!"

"Isn’t it obvious?" another trainee chimed in with a mocking tone, clearly enjoying the misfortune, "He tried to be clever and shot himself in the foot! He’d just arrived and already sold off all his points! Tsk tsk, killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. So shortsighted! Now he’s got nothing, not a single point to his name. He can’t use any of the facilities in the camp that can quickly boost his strength! If that’s not cutting off your own path, what is?"

"You’re right!" someone immediately agreed. "In these ten days, no matter how bad we are, our strength has still improved noticeably, right? And don’t even get me started on freaks like Li Hao and Lu Xue, who were already absurdly powerful to begin with!"

"I heard Lu Xue just cleared the seventh floor of the Body Technique Tower yesterday, and Li Hao passed Tier Seven of the Gravity Tower. The points are just pouring in for them, rewards of one or two thousand at a time! Their strength now compared to when they first entered the camp is terrifyingly greater!"

"And Lin Yi? Hiding in his room like a coward, no Cultivation and no resources for ten days. He’s probably been left in the dust by everyone else, completely washed up..."

Hearing this, Liu Ying abruptly looked up, a nearly twisted smile on her face.

She nodded emphatically, gloating,

"Heh heh! That’s right! Lin Yi is washed up! Serves him right! Who told him to be so arrogant, so condescending, and sell all his points? Now he’s reaping what he sowed. It’s karma! Let’s see how arrogant he can be now!"

After speaking, as if she had vented all her frustrations, she slammed the mop down even harder, as if the stain on the floor were Lin Yi’s hateful face.