I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

Along the way, she swiftly retrieved the sharp blades hanging all over her body, which hovered beside her before passing by the cockroach monster.

As her lithe, leopard-like body landed and crouched, all her sharp blades were already sheathed.

The cockroach behind her suddenly stopped moving.

"Kakakaka..."

Before long, its limbs, including its six insect legs and four thin wings, fell off and scattered on the ground.

All the incisions were perfectly executed, made along the gaps between the exoskeleton of the torso and the limbs.

Xue Jing's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "So professional!"

Like a skilled butcher carving up an ox, the movements were so fluid that the blade never came into contact with the hard exoskeleton; the cuts were made entirely at the weakest points of connection.

He sighed inwardly.

White Crow is indeed quite something.

The cockroach monster, which he had struggled to damage much with, was taken down in a single turn by the Phantom Blade.

This involves not only a matter of strength, but also professional issues such as cooperation, understanding, restraint, and equipment.

The cockroach monster, having lost its wings and all its limbs, was lying on the ground, wriggling with its rear end.

Dark green viscous fluid kept oozing from the wounds on his body.

Xu Ren glanced at the cockroach monster and commanded:

"Qiyu, help stop its bleeding, don't let it die. We might be able to find the Heavenly Nest Insect Mother with this."

Upon hearing this, the long-haired man codenamed Qiyu glanced at the disgusting appearance of the cockroach monster and immediately showed a very unwilling and miserable look. However, under the expressionless gaze of Xu Ren, he could only nod in agreement with a sullen expression.

"Xiao Jing, write up the mission report and, while you're at it, request permission to use a 'tracker'..."

The petite girl named Xiaojing nodded and reached into her backpack to take out a small laptop.

While the cleanup work was underway, the mountain demon walked up to Xue Jing.

He slung the short stick over his shoulder and teased:

"Hey, genius, you look a bit disheveled."

Xue Jing didn't mind, and just smiled and said, "You came pretty quickly."

From the time he called Xu Ren until now, it's estimated to be less than ten minutes.

"After the captain received the call, he immediately arranged for a helicopter. We flew directly from the South District... This is considered slow. In a dangerous place like the border area, even a slight delay in support could result in total annihilation."

The mandrill sighed.

Xue Jing's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "Have you made any progress in the southern district...?"

The mandrill shook its head: "That unfinished building area is huge. We've searched for a long time, but we've only searched less than a third of it so far. We haven't found anything yet."

Xue Jing thought for a moment and said, "I do have a new clue."

The mandrill's eyes lit up: "Oh? Tell me about it?"

At this moment, Xu Ren, having arranged the cleanup work, came over.

She also heard Xue Jing's words, and while smoothing her short hair, she asked:

"What's the clue?"

Xue Jing recounted his encounter with Duan Kaiping of the Razor Gang.

"That person is a member of the Razor Gang, a gang in the South District, and also a disciple of the Golden Wind Dojo... It's very strange that he appeared in Qingfu High School and was the first person killed by this cockroach."

Xu Ren said thoughtfully, "You mean you suspect that this thing was brought into the school by that guy named Duan Kaiping?"

Xue Jing wasn't sure either: "Maybe... but I had a little friction with Duan Kaiping before, so we can't rule out the possibility that he came to the school to cause me trouble..."

……

While Xue Jing was talking to the White Crow Squad, the teachers and students watching from a distance breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the terrifying monster had been severed and was lying on the ground.

"That monster is terrifying."

"Who are those people? They're amazing! They took down that monster in no time!"

"Does Senior Xue know them?"

"Wow, what a cool lady, she has such a great figure..."

Lin Shiyu, a junior student, watched Xue Jing chatting and laughing with the White Crow Squad from afar. A strong feeling swept over her that she and Xue Jing were in completely different worlds.

She looked bitter, shook her head, and finally gave up some unrealistic fantasies.

On the teachers' side, Du Shiwei, the head teacher of the elite class, was standing with a well-off middle-aged man who looked to be around fifty years old.

"Teacher Du, you've raised a fine student!" The well-off middle-aged man said with a smile, looking at Xue Jing in the distance.

Du Shiwei was still in shock, but he quickly said, "It's all thanks to your excellent leadership, Principal, that our affiliated high school has been able to cultivate such good students."

Principal Tang Yanzhong waved his hand, "Hey, no need for such flattery."

He took two steps, his eyes deep in thought, and said:

"This student Xue is so talented, he could actually have gotten into an inner-ring university through the 'martial arts exam'."

……

Qi Yu, the long-haired man from the White Raven Squad, was holding bandages as he approached the cockroach monster wriggling on the ground.

He glanced at the cockroach monster with disgust and spat, "Disgusting thing."

But he couldn't disobey the captain's orders, so he had to suppress his nausea, squat down, and untie the bandages, wrapping the cockroach monster up and down like a mummy.

The cockroach monster's compound eyes stared at him eerily.

After roughly bandaging it, Qi Yu shook off the dark green slime on her hands, stood up, and turned to call out towards the Void Blade:

"Captain, all done—"

His voice stopped abruptly.

Xue Jing and Xu Ren turned to look at him.

But Qi Yu stood there dumbfounded, her face filled with disbelief.

Xu Ren's expression changed drastically, and he shouted sharply, "Xiao Jing, get out of there immediately!"

Upon hearing this, the petite girl who was sitting on the floor typing on her laptop stood up without hesitation and ran to the side.

"Pull-"

Qi Yu was like a piece of paper, forcibly torn in two, with blood and internal organs flowing all over the ground.

The cause of this result was two insect legs covered in barbs.

The mandrill's pupils contracted, and it exclaimed incredulously, "Super-fast regeneration?"

"No, it's shedding skin, damn it!"

He looked behind Qi Yu's corpse, where a cockroach monster even larger than the one from before was standing, covered in blood.

On the ground, there was a cockroach shell wrapped in bandages!

After molting, the cockroach monster turned milky white all over. Not only did its limbs and thin wings grow back, but it also became much larger.

Its newly formed milky-white exoskeleton is turning black at a visible rate.

"Ah-"

"Ahhhhh!!"

The teachers and students who were watching were so frightened by the scene that they fled outside again.

The newborn cockroach monster spread its four thin wings behind it, flapped them wildly, stirring up countless grains of sand, and took flight.

"Damn it, it's trying to run away!" the mandrill yelled.

Xu Ren's eyes flashed with coldness: "It can't escape—"

She immediately activated the dragon wing device, enveloping her entire body in an anti-gravity field, causing her to float in the air, and then she was about to give chase.

At that moment, Xue Jing, who was next to her, moved.

"Captain Xu Ren, could I borrow your knife?" Xue Jing asked.

Before the dagger could respond, Xue Jing reached out and took a sharp blade from her waist.

He weighed the knife in his hand, made a rough estimate, and then took a deep breath.

The breathing technique is activated, the energy surges, and the dragon's roar rises.

Spiral grooves appeared on the arm holding the knife, extending to the fingertips.

The aiming ability at level 5 hasn't been used much for a long time.

Xue Jing looked up, his gaze fixed on the cockroach monster in the air.

Tornado Thunder, extreme compression of force.

Twin power, twin speed—

Xue Jing's gaze sharpened.

"boom!"

A thunderous roar erupted as a sharp blade ripped through the void, stirring up visible white air currents as it spiraled towards the cockroach monster.

Like a shooting star, like lightning, a flash of white light appeared in an instant before anyone could react.

"puff--"

The cockroach monster in the air suddenly exploded with a spiral hole 30 centimeters in diameter in the center of its chest, its wing flapping stopped abruptly, and it slowly fell from the sky.

At this moment, Xue Jing once again entered the realm of the Stone-Throwing Immortal.

……

Chapter 82 Golden Scales, the World Cup that made Xue Jing lose his composure (4K, please vote)