When system cheat becomes rampant!

Xiang Beifei took out the glittering Ronin Sword!

Sun Yushan was completely stunned!

It was this sword! This very sword!

"I actually haven't fully learned swordsmanship," Xiang Beifei honestly said.

Sun Yushan: "..."

To this extent, and still not fully learned?

Then what am I?

A myriad of curses stampeded through her mind...

"You now understand why I wanted him to go to the outland desolate regions for training ahead of time, right? The arena is no longer enough for him. You two take good care of him and teach him real combat experience. I've already told him about the desolate beasts in the western mountain area of the Cultivated Domain and how to deal with them. I've also applied for the related tools from the black tech department for you. But remember, desolate beasts will wander, textbook theories and reality are different, stay alert," Ye Changfeng said, earnestly advising them at the end.

However, since Sun Yushan and Fan Kai were both in the Meridian Opening Realm as advanced students, taking Xiang Beifei along should not be a problem.

"Alrighty, Mr. Ye, don't worry, no problem with me!" Fan Kai said enthusiastically.

His attitude towards Xiang Beifei was quite good; hearing about Xiang Beifei's capabilities made him even more curious.

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Liangzhou University was located at the edge of the frontier of the outland desolate region, but technically speaking, it was still twenty kilometers away.

After all, the Jiuzhou Alliance's frontline defense projects needed to be kept a distance from civilian areas, leaving a twenty-kilometer gap in case the beast tide breached the defenses, which also allowed time for a response.

Yet within these twenty kilometers was wild, uncultivated land filled with various traps specifically for desolate beasts; ordinary people were not allowed to approach recklessly, they could only use the safe passages.

Normal cultivators were allowed to enter the outland desolate region, such as Kong Daming with his restaurant, who would catch desolate beasts for gourmet dishes, or some pharmaceutical companies needing desolate beasts for research.

However, if they were civilians, they would need to pass through the specified checkpoints, show their credentials, and register before they were allowed to leave Jiuzhou's safe boundaries.

This was also to prevent any vulnerabilities in Jiuzhou's defenses, so generally only a few entrances and exits were maintained, with all other directions securely blocked.

However, the students of Liangzhou University were an exception. Being an elite school meant to cultivate pioneers, their students had special privileges, though these privileges required a teacher's permission. Generally, teachers would set up teleportation arrays in the outland desolate region for their students, allowing them to bypass the Alliance's checkpoints without queuing.

Ye Changfeng's teleportation array was set in a rather concealed cave, guarded by various sword arrays, so ordinary desolate beasts couldn't get in, and even if they did, they couldn't use the teleportation array.

"I thought there was a fourth person," Xiang Beifei remembered.

There were three advanced students in the Meridian Opening Realm, and typically, an official team exploring the outland desolate region would have at least five people with different abilities, but their club couldn't even gather that many.

"Zhuang Bo has his own practical task; it's just the three of us today, which is actually enough. The place we're going isn't too dangerous," Fan Kai said.

Sun Yushan had been sullen ever since they left the school and had not spoken a word; it was probably because she realized that the SR genius sword cultivator "Idle Fish Sent Me to Patrol the Mountain" had suddenly turned into the impostor sword cultivator Xiang Beifei.

The psychological gap was huge, hard to accept.

An impostor sword cultivator, how could he manifest such Sword Intent!

"You've graduated as postgraduates but still stayed at the university, what do you usually do?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"We're accumulating practical points because we all plan to pursue careers as developers. The developer teams from the Jiuzhou Alliance have strict assessments, requiring a certain number of practical points. They list many types of desolate beasts, and for each type, you need to kill a sufficient number—approximately one hundred types. Typically, you have to kill a hundred beasts of the Qi-Controlling phase and fifty of the Meridian Opening phase. Only after amassing enough practical points are you allowed to join the team."

Fan Kai, who was good-natured and plump, responded readily to Xiang Beifei's inquiries.

The Alliance's developer teams aren't just accessible to graduates from elite universities; they also require specific selections. After graduation, if students want to join the developers, they must first hunt various common desolate beasts and master the methods of killing each type. Only then will their survival chances in the outside desolate domain be somewhat higher.

Hunting common desolate beasts was relatively easy for them, but for the more formidable ones, they needed teachers to lead and instruct them. Ye Changfeng often took them out to teach them how to kill beasts that were akin in strength to those in the Meridian Opening Realm.

However, Ye Changfeng generally only ensured their safety from the sidelines. The actual killing had to be done by Fan Kai and Sun Yushan themselves, who needed to complete the task on their own.

In such matters, unless their lives were at stake, the teacher wouldn't intervene. Since developers needed to operate in the outside desolate domain, if they didn't learn to master the killing methods on their own, they would still lose their lives when facing the corresponding beasts even after becoming developers.

Any university teacher with a sense of responsibility wouldn't assist students in cheating during developer practice, as it would only harm the students. Becoming a developer was no child's play, which Fan Kai and Sun Yushan were well aware of.

Many elite students started practicing from their junior year to become developers, just like Fan Kai and others. After their junior and senior years, they still hadn't fully accumulated enough practical points and stayed to continue their studies, which was now their second year of continuation.

In the end, Fan Kai added, "Our practical points are different from your student points, but fortunately, this Wen Lin mission is also one of our hunting targets. I've already killed forty-six Wen Lins, just short of four. That's why Mr. Ye had you join us."

Wen Lin is a type of desolate beast, which is a bounty issued by the dissecting instructor of desolate beasts at the Martial Arts College. It offered sixty points and ten thousand yuan, so Ye Changfeng took the mission for them, letting Xiang Beifei follow Fan Kai and Sun Yushan.

After completing the task, Xiang Beifei could take sixty points, Fan Kai and Sun Yushan would take practical points, and the money would be divided equally among the three.

"Wen Lin possesses the strength of the initial stages of Meridian Opening, don't underestimate it, and be cautious here." Sun Yushan glanced at Xiang Beifei, then walked out of the cave.

The view was a misty area that seemed to be a barren wilderness with tall grass and scattered jagged rocks everywhere. The sky was overcast, even the crescent sun was invisible.

"Stay close to me, I'll protect you if it's dangerous," Fan Kai said to Xiang Beifei.

"Sure, thanks."

Xiang Beifei didn't take his safety for granted.

Yuchi Shen had once thrown him into that area, at least confirming that the strength of the desolate beasts in that area was only at the Qi-Controlling phase. But this time, they were clearly facing much stronger beasts, it was no joking matter.

Carefully, Fan Kai searched among a pile of rocks, then found a stone and chuckled, saying, "Taking a shortcut, grab my arm."

Sun Yushan quickly grabbed Fan Kai's arm, and Xiang Beifei also reached out to grab it. Then, a flash of Spiritual Power lit up in Fan Kai's hand, flickering as it transmitted into the stone, and abruptly pulled all three of them away.

When they reappeared, they had already landed in a forest.

"This is my ability, moving using the earth element. My mobility and defense capabilities are strong," Fan Kai explained to Xiang Beifei.

Actually, Xiang Beifei already knew this.

Fan Kai's [Class S Earth Element Control System] had a very special ability, the Escape Technique, akin to Tu Xingsun. He could condense the earth element into several stones and distribute these stones in various places.

In times of danger, he could use the stones to instantly escape to the vicinity of another stone.

Fan Kai often trained in the outside desolate domain, so he was familiar with the area and had buried stones at specific locations.

Currently, he could control up to eight stones, meaning he had eight escape points. The distance between each escape point was about ten kilometers; any further would consume too much Spiritual Power, and he couldn't withstand it, ten kilometers was the most suitable distance.