Chapters [245-246]

Chapter 245. Double the Joy, Double the Price

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Lin Ling: "…"

She looked at how excited Lu Ze was, and her mouth twitched.

What was he thinking??

Only three days were left before the school would start?!

Why choose to go now?

"Wait!" Lin Ling's face went red. "We should, at least, leave after we've finished all the things needed to be done before school starts! We can't just go now!"

Lu Ze scratched his head.

He just realized that he still had a lot of academic credits not used yet. If he went to Earth now, he could only stay for a day.

It was a rush.

Lu Ze felt Lin Ling was right.

Earth was really close. They could go whenever they liked. It didn't need to be done right away.

Despite this, Lu Ze felt disappointed.

Argh… all the food there was on Earth…

Lin Ling became speechless after seeing Lu Ze reminisce about something. She retreated and looked at Lu Ze with disdain. "I don't know what you're thinking, but your expression is so lewd."

Lu Ze: "…"

He said seriously. "I want to know if our mother planet has those historical cultures, sites, and food. How can I be lewd? I'm worried about our cultural heritage!"

Lin Ling glanced at Lu Ze and said nothing.

She checked the time and saw that it was almost noon. "I'm going back. I'm going to challenge you after some time!"

Lu Ze smiled. "You're welcome anytime. Don't cry when you lose."

"I'm not that weak!"

Lin Ling walked out.

Lu Ze put away his school uniform and went upstairs.

He immediately logged onto the dawn network.

After lending out 700,000 academic credits, he still had 9.1 million left.

It seemed as though he was wealthy, but Lu Ze knew he was poor in reality.

He could only afford a tenth of the [Fire Clone Divine Art]?

He started to browse at the dawn network thoroughly. There were sections similar to that of the martial arts site, but there was a unique school section.

There were also mission sections.

Some missions were school-specific, but some were meant for all students in the system. These missions were usually put up by the Federation.

There was a Dawn System forum, as well as the school's own forums.

Bo Yibo placed that paid post in the Dawn System forum.

Lu Ze hadn't clicked into it yet.

What a joke, 10 academic credits!

So expensive!

Lu Ze found in surprise that there really was a place to order food on the net!

It was in the living section. There were spirit food ingredients and readily-made spirit food for sale!

Lu Ze's eyes lit up.

Great!

He was almost out of food.

He didn't need to worry about starving to death now.

After he finished the remaining spirit food, he could live on ordering food if Alice's support hadn't arrived yet.

Lu Ze opened the [Divine Art] section on the dawn network.

His face immediately showed pain.

Most of the academic credits would be leaving him.

He saw the [Divine Art] list that the martial arts site had. There were even [Divine Arts] that weren't on the martial arts site.

However, Lu Ze stopped looking after seeing the price.

It was higher than even a fire clone.

He didn't need to think about it.

The cheapest was still the [Wings of the Wind].

The second was [Ice Divine Art]. Lu Ze wasn't going to buy this.

The next one was a [Special Divine Art] that Lu Ze couldn't use too.

He kept browsing and soon, his eyes lit up. He found a [Divine Art] he could use.

"[Divine Art: Wings of Lightning]"

"Price: 1.8 million"

Lu Ze clicked on it and found that [Wings of the Wind and Lightning] were complementary.

If you cultivated both, you could cultivate [Divine Art Wings of Wind and Lightning].

The two [God Arts] were also complementary.

This meant that his wind and lightning could fuse like wind and fire!

That would be a huge increase in power.

His [Fire God Art] hadn't improved in quite a while. By the looks of it, his [Lightning God Art] had much more room for improvement!

Improving his [Wind and Lightning God Arts] made the level of his happiness increase more than double!

After purchasing the [Wings of Lightning], he went on to browse further and found the [Wings of Wind and Lightning Divine Art].

"Price: 6 million academic credits"

Lu Ze: "…."

His heart ached.

This was too expensive!!

The [Wings of the Wind] was only 1.2 million while the [Wings of Lightning] was only 1.8 million. Why was the combined version 6 million?!

His heart shattered.

But, he had to buy this.

The improvement he would obtain from it would be huge.

Lu Ze resisted his pain and bought it.

Looking at the remaining 1.3 million academic credits, his heart bled.

He optimistically thought he could use this for a month.

How naive was he?

He quickly left the [Divine Art] page.

It was too painful to watch and not be able to buy.

Lu Ze looked outside.

He watched the bamboo sway in the wind as he eased his pain.

Moments later, Lu Ze looked back on the computer.

This time, he was going to look at the [Cultivation Method of Wings of Lightning Divine Art].

It was nearly 4 million words compared to the 3 million of [Wings of the Wind].

From the price, one could tell that this [Divine Art] was harder than the [Wings of the Wind].

He burned the last [Purple Orb] left by the black tiger boss, and his mind became clear. He soon immersed himself in the enlightenment of the [Wings of Lightning Divine Art].

Three days later at night.

The bamboo leaves shuffled in the wind, bringing some life to the night.

Lu Ze looked up. His eyes flashed with lightning

He stretched up and smiled.

Bountiful harvest!

There were many similarities between the [Wings of Wind] and [Wings of Lightning]. They were both part of the [Divine Art Wings of Wind and Lightning].

With his previous cultivation experience, he used just three days to learn it completely.

However, the last [Purple Orb] from the boss was used up. Only [Purple Orbs] from Aperture Opening State beasts that devoured [God Art Shards] remained.

His learning speed would slow down.

Despite this, Lu Ze was confident that he could completely learn [Wings of Wind and Lightning] in a month!

By then…

Lu Ze's eyes flashed and he smiled.

He could do whatever he wanted in the [Pocket Hunting Dimension]!

Those bosses wouldn't be able to catch up to him!

If he couldn't beat them, he would run. He would pick fights with those injured boss.

Lu Ze felt great just thinking about it.

Then, Lu Ze sat down and entered the [Pocket Hunting Dimension] once again.

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Chapter 246. First on Martial Leader Board

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Lu Ze appeared inside the [Pocket Hunting Dimension].

He scanned the environment as usual and tried to use his [Wings of Lightning].

He started using his [Lightning God Art] as traces of lightning appeared on his body.

Finally, the lightning gathered on his back, forming a pair of purple wings.

It was very similar to the [Wings of the Wind].

However, there would be wind circulating on the [Wings of the Wind].

Lu Ze flapped his wings, and his body disappeared in purple lightning.

Compared to the [Wings of the Wind], it was slower.

After all, Lu Ze's [Wind God Art] was much stronger than [Lightning God Art].

After going around in a few circles, Lu Ze switched back to [Wings of the Wind].

He sighed disappointedly. Before he learned [Wings of Wind and Lightning], this [Wings of Lightning] was practically useless.

Lu Ze once again headed on his journey of hunting in the jungle.

Four days later, in the morning, Lu Ze was in a small bush that was only 1.5 meters tall.

He bent over and stared keenly before him.

Look what he found?

A heavily injured warhorse boss!

Not far ahead was a patch of 3 meters tall grass. The boss was lying there.

Its armor-like scales were heavily damaged. It was covered in deep wounds everywhere.

Blood continuously dripped, painting the grass red.

One could even see the organs from the injuries.

Its purple crystal-like lightning horn was half broken.

Lu Ze's eyes flashed.

Just what did this boss encounter to end up like this?

But that didn't concern Lu Ze.

This guy seemed a little tired. As a good person, Lu Ze felt he had the responsibility to send the boss on his way.

He felt great. As soon as he used up the resources from the black tiger boss, he found another heavily injured boss.

His power was many times stronger than when he killed the black tiger boss. He was confident he could kill this heavily injured boss.

Lu Ze was planning to charge up.

Rumble!!

At this moment, a Divine Punishment-like Lightning strike came down from the heavens and struck the warhorse.

"Roar!!"

It was clearly a lightning element boss, but it was still heavily damaged.

Its body even started shaking.

Lu Ze: "…"

Lu Ze was scared immediately at this scene.

It must be a super boss!

Just when he was planning to leave, he became dazed when he turned around.

His forehead sweated. He looked at a figure, which appeared a hundred meters behind him, in shock.

It was a four-meter tall white figure.

It had long ears, cute triangular lips, red eyes, a fat juicy body, and a purple horn…

Wait! Purple horn?!

Lu Ze looked dazedly at the purple horn that appeared on the super rabbit boss' head.

It was so much stronger than that warhorse.

Clearly, this rabbit was the boss who stole the purple rune.

Lu Ze was speechless while looking at its powerful chi. That rabbit grew again.

Last time, it wasn't like this despite using its powerful move.

Lu Ze felt that this white rabbit boss had evolved into a super boss.

He planned to give this super rabbit a name.

Rabbit One.

This super rabbit should be the strongest rabbit in this region, right?

It was staring deadly at Lu Ze as Lu Ze stared back in return.

He couldn't run now for sure.

Thus, Lu Ze had a bold idea.

Eyes were the window to one's soul. Lu Ze felt if he transmitted his genuine kindness toward Rabbit One, it would understand, and perhaps, let him go instead?

Lu Ze showed a gentle and handsome smile. "Rabbit.. cough, boss, I'm just a passer-by noob, I'll…"

Rumble!!

Before Lu Ze could finish speaking, he saw a purple light flash, and his vision sunk into darkness.

Lu Ze opened his eyes filled with discomfort.

He felt he was probably turned to dust.

He was in extreme pain.

He shivered as he looked up, forcing himself not to cry.

This was a new way to die.

Was that dammed rabbit blind? Could it not see his kindness?

He was going to remember this!

Then, he thought perhaps that rabbit might be able to continue getting strong.

Last time, it definitely wasn't this strong. At least, it didn't have horns.

Now, it grew stronger, but seeing how small the horns were, clearly, it wasn't mature yet.

Not too good…

Lu Ze hadn't encountered the lord of this region yet.

Would the rabbit grow to that level?

Two lords. This was exciting.

Moments later, the pain eased, and Lu Ze sat up.

He thought for a moment and left his room, coming to the third floor.

He was planning to go visit the martial trial tower.

He just used up 7.8 million academic credits. He felt that if he bought some more tomorrow, he wouldn't even have money for food.

He should go earn money.

Third floor.

Lu Ze entered the virtual reality pod, and his vision sunk into darkness again.

Then, Lu Ze appeared within a huge city.

There were people going along on the streets. Their faces looked young.

Lu Ze looked around curiously.

So this was the virtual martial city?

There was very little information about the martial leaderboard on the dawn network.

He only knew it was in this city, and only martial arts students could enter the leaderboard.

Not all people had powerful martial arts talent. Other than martial arts, there were other faculties designated for science, galactic battle commanding, and so forth.

There was also an academic leaderboard.

Those on there were science and commanding prodigies.

Lu Ze wasn't interested in that.

The martial leaderboard was separated into the grand leaderboard and four-year level leaderboards.

The first on the grand leader board received 100,000 academic credits a month. The second and third had 50,000 academic credits a month. 4th to 10th had 30,000.

11th to 100th had 10,000.

It grew progressively less.

The other leaderboards had fewer rewards than the grand leader board.

The first received 30,000 a month while second and third received 20,000. On the other hand, 4th to 10th had 10,000.

It was a stable source of income for students, especially if you were on two leader boards.

The first of the grand leaderboard would definitely be the first on his year level leaderboard. In that case, he would get 150,000 a month.

That was a lot!

There was also a virtual reality battle live stream.

People could set up live streams for the battle and make it a paid stream. However, people usually only watched the fights of those high on the martial leader board.

The virtual reality battle was marketed to the martial arts students. In the entire Dawn System, there were less than 10 million martial arts students. Most of them watched the battle to learn.

Lu Ze felt if he was to fight, he would need to use live streams to earn academic credits.

This was free.

But he would need to save a few cards and not show all of his power.

At this moment, a voice could be heard.

"Look, the first on the grand leader board changed!"

Lu Ze saw everyone look in the air, so he did too.

Then, Lu Ze's eyes widened.

There were one big and four small bronze tablets floating.

Each bronze tablet had ten names. The first was gold, second and third were silver, and the rest were white.

The big tablet was flashing with a rainbow color.

The third became first, and its color turned to gold.

The name was Margaret.

Lu Ze's eyes widened.

Senior schoolmate Margaret was this strong??

She was ranked first?!

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