Amid a courtyard littered with corpses, Zhao Xuan stood quietly.
Looking at the bodies of the Golden Armor Guards scattered across the ground, an inexplicable surge of pride rose in his chest.
As that heroic feeling swelled—
The system prompt rang out:
Ding! You have experienced a large-scale, cross-rank battle where you overcame many with few. In this battle, you gained entirely new insights into all your abilities (except swordsmanship). All abilities (except swordsmanship) proficiency +3000!
Ding! You have experienced a large-scale, cross-rank battle where you overcame many with few. You gained unprecedented understanding of your Conqueror's Haki. Conqueror's Haki proficiency +40,000!
The moment the two notifications ended—
A wild grin exploded across Zhao Xuan's face.
Without hesitation, he opened his status panel.
Heaven Rewards Diligence System
Name: Zhao Xuan
Age: 18
Spirit: 500.23 / 546.13
Constitution: 4800.45 / 5014.45
Abilities:
Shave (Grandmaster: 27,500 / 32,000)Iron Body (Transcendent: 2,700 / 640,000)Paper Art (Grandmaster: 28,200 / 32,000)Moonwalk (Grandmaster: 26,900 / 32,000)Tempest Kick (Transcendent: 1,700 / 640,000)Finger Pistol (Grandmaster: 27,000 / 32,000)Swordsmanship (Master: 1,935 / 16,000)Observation Haki (Expert: 65,700 / 80,000)Armament Haki (Expert: 57,700 / 80,000)Conqueror's Haki (Master: 114,701 / 160,000)Azure Dragon Fruit (Expert: 72,600 / 80,000)
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Zhao Xuan threw his head back and laughed wildly.
"Transcendent! Finally Transcendent! Iron Body and Tempest Kick have finally reached the Transcendent tier!"
"And Shave, Moonwalk, Finger Pistol, and Paper Art aren't far behind!"
"And the Azure Dragon Fruit is only a few thousand points from Mastery!"
After calming down for a long while, Zhao Xuan's gaze gradually turned icy.
"Just wait… all of you… just wait…"
A murderous light flickered in his eyes.
He wasn't referring to anyone here.
He meant the group of Eighth- and Ninth-rank ability users who had put a 100-billion bounty on his head in the underground black market on Sky Star Island.
Zhao Xuan was never soft-hearted.
Nor was he forgetful.
Quite the opposite.
He held grudges.
And he was extremely cautious.
Other protagonists might have rushed to challenge those high-ranked enemies already, relying on plot armor to escape again and again before striking back.
Zhao Xuan had no such thoughts.
His plan was simple:
After tomorrow—after collecting all the life stones from the geniuses of various nations at the city gate—he would immediately go into seclusion and break through to Seventh Rank.
Right now, using the one-second secret technique, he could rival top Eighth-rankers.
After reaching Seventh Rank, he would be able to directly clash with Ninth-rank Emperors.
That would be the time to settle scores.
After standing there for a while, Zhao Xuan snapped back to reality.
He shook off his thoughts and began collecting spoils.
Eighty-seven Golden Armor corpses.
His luck was excellent.
He found sixty high-grade life stones.
"Not bad at all."
After putting them away, he immediately headed toward the inner treasury.
Just like the eastern one—
This treasury also had an Eighth-rank Great Perfection Golden Armor guardian.
Without using the one-second secret technique, Zhao Xuan fought it for nearly a hundred exchanges before finally killing it.
Why didn't he use the secret technique?
Because he wanted more proficiency.
If he killed it too easily, he'd gain almost nothing.
This way, he earned 1,000 proficiency points.
Not enough to level anything up.
But he was very satisfied.
He sighed.
"Looks like after leaving here, if I want more proficiency, I'll have to fight peak Eighth-rankers or even Ninth-rank Emperors. Normal Eighth-rankers can't pressure me anymore."
That familiar feeling returned—
How lonely it was to be invincible.
"Your turn."
He turned to the big golden mouse.
"Ji ji!"
The mouse nodded and scurried to the back of the courtyard, waving its paws at empty air.
A minute later—
A crack in space appeared before Zhao Xuan.
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