Chapter 267 - 190: Legend

Chapter 267: Chapter 190: Legend

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The Sentong Firing Range had recently gotten livelier. Spurred on by Yu Fei, the other prodigies accelerated their pace through the general education curriculum. Of the three assessments, Yu Fei had dominated the first. The second assessment was related to superpowered weapons, which meant his initial advantage would carry over and accumulate.

The mere thought of this left the S-rank prodigies restless. Aside from necessary basic cultivation and meals, they wished they could spend all their time inside their Virtual Mirror Helmets.

The A-rank prodigies, who were eager to advance, refused to be outdone. To be honest, some of them were quite powerful; their abilities were only slightly weaker due to a lack of resources and exposure in high school. Seeing the S-ranks ahead of them working so hard, they gritted their teeth and kept pace.

Before they knew it, an intense rivalry had sparked among the students of the three Celestial Pride Classes. As a result, this year’s cohort completed their first assessment unusually early and all around the same time.

This unhealthy trend was even spreading to the more numerous C-rank and D-rank students, and showed signs of developing among the regular classes.

The teachers and instructors remained silent, only offering the classic, tough-love critique: "You’re the worst class we’ve ever taught!"

Shenhan University’s approach to cultivating new students was that the higher a student’s aptitude, the more freedom they enjoyed. The regular classes, on the other hand, were under almost completely closed-off management during their first year. The support department, where Li Mengyao and Du Mingxuan were, was comparatively more relaxed.

According to Shenhan University’s philosophy, geniuses needed freedom while ordinary people needed self-discipline. Don’t understand self-discipline? No problem—they had discipline for you!

Of course, this was all just a side note. As the number of students grew, the number of instructors teaching superpowered firearm shooting at the Sentong Firing Range increased to ten. Xia Lan could no longer focus solely on Yu Fei; he could hear her roaring from halfway across the training grounds.

"You idiot! If it’s about to blow, don’t you know to throw it in the blast container? Are you trying to get yourself killed?!"

Xia Lan moved like a bolt of lightning, snatching the superpowered bullet from the student’s hand. The moment she tossed it away, she heard a deafening ROAR.

She had been so angry the last two days that the corners of her mouth were practically foaming. ’These greenhorns who came later are nothing like prodigies. I already explained it once, but they still don’t get it. It’s beyond ridiculous. Not only is their energy infusion slow, but they also can’t sense the danger.’

’Even if the bullet isn’t heating up, don’t they have any sense? Someone like Yu Fei is even more cunning than I am, tossing me a bullet seconds before it’s due to explode. This bunch of idiots is an insult to the title of prodigy.’

Comparisons are always cruel. These prodigies, considered dragons among men out in the world, all seemed like idiots when Xia Lan measured them against Yu Fei’s standard.

All sorts of monsters scurried about in the Virtual Mirror. After a week of study, Yu Fei was already challenging the highest difficulty level.

At first, the monsters’ virtual images moved slowly, mainly to help him get the feel of hitting moving targets. Then, the speed gradually increased, leading to the current challenge mode.

In this mode, the Virtual Mirror would initially assign several assassination targets. Once he was ready, these targets would mix into a crowd of monsters and move rapidly. He needed to find and hit them.

The challenge was divided into five difficulty levels. Normally, completing the third level within a month was considered finishing the training. After that, students could come to the Sentong Firing Range at any time to practice and maintain their touch, but the range would start charging fees.

Yu Fei was now attempting the fifth level—the most difficult one.

Xia Lan had told him that if he completed this level, he could earn challenge merit points. If he could break the record, he would be rewarded with ten thousand merit points for every day he beat the record by.

When Yu Fei heard this news, his mind exploded. That was ten thousand merit points!

Mr. Ye had said that cultivating the Melt Gold Jade Body Skill to mastery in the Inner Qi Realm had a deficit of over a hundred million merit points, not to mention the resources he needed for his daily cultivation. ’If I could...’

He then checked the record and was surprised to find it was held by an acquaintance.

[Sentong Firing Range Sniper Training Record Holder: Yu Wen Baji]

[Date: October 5, 835 N.C.]

[Total Training Time: 15 days]

Looking at this record on his third day, Yu Fei’s heart burned with excitement. It wasn’t anything personal against Xiaoji, but he was very confident he could beat this training record. Beating it by even one day meant ten thousand merit points. This was likely the biggest reward he could get since enrolling, aside from his S-rank subsidy.

The Sentong Firing Range calculated the time from the day a student officially reported for training until they completed the fifth-level challenge. Of course, the difficulty was slightly increased for Inner Qi Realm Martial Artists, but it wasn’t a huge difference.

For sniping, the only real difference for the Inner Qi Realm was a slower energy infusion time; the bullet’s trajectory distance was largely the same for both.

Yu Fei believed his completion time would be far less than 15 days. This wasn’t arrogance; with his Fleeting Moment and Illusory Cicada Star Pupil abilities, he had the confidence. 𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

His Fleeting Moment ability, in particular, gave him a fifteen-fold bonus to his neural reaction speed, a massive advantage that allowed him to seize far more firing opportunities. Furthermore, his immense Qi Blood and strength let him completely ignore the recoil from the Xialong.

In the Virtual Mirror, Yu Fei completed the fifth-level simulation challenge three times in a row. He took off the Virtual Mirror Helmet, set the Xialong aside, and greeted a few people nearby.

"Ace, I’m afraid it’s time to say goodbye!"

Today was Yu Fei’s eighth day at the Sentong Firing Range. The other S-rank and many of the A-rank prodigies had been chasing him day and night, and had finally started to catch up. Even so, only a handful of them had reached the free-fire training stage.

Hearing this, the ace took off his Virtual Mirror Helmet and asked curiously, "You leaving early today?" The others also looked over.