The delicacies of the heavens begin with obtaining gem meat.

As Jiang Yan watched the two prisoners' actions, his gaze gradually turned cold.

"Wrong choice".

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Yan suddenly moved, appearing beside the two of them like a ghost.

The two prisoners didn't even see Jiang Yan's movements clearly. They only felt a blur before their eyes, followed by a sharp pain in their arms.

"Snap!" "Snap!"

Two crisp cracking sounds rang out as Jiang Yan forcefully broke the arms of two prisoners.

The two screamed and fell to their knees, their clothes instantly soaked with cold sweat. Their arrogance vanished, replaced by pain and fear.

Jiang Yan looked down at the two prisoners.

"Now you should know the gap between us, admit defeat."

However, Jiang Yan was met with complete silence.

The two prisoners gritted their teeth, veins bulging on their foreheads, but refused to utter the word "surrender".

After all, delaying the process can also result in a reduced sentence.

Jiang Yan frowned and looked at Hisoka standing outside the arena.

Hisoka leaned against the stone wall, a playful smile on his face.

Seeing Jiang Yan looking over, he slowly began to speak.

"As I just said, these two are your responsibility."

Clearly, Hisoka had no intention of making a move.

Jiang Yan became very irritable.

He looked again at the two prisoners on the ground, trembling with pain but still refusing to admit defeat, his voice carrying a hint of ferocity.

"I don't have time to waste here with you."

"I'm giving you one last chance—either admit defeat, or die."

Murder! Jiang Yan had never actually considered this before.

Jiang Yan knew very well that this was something he had to face, and that's why, even though he hesitated before, he still agreed to take action.

..............................

Faced with Jiang Yan's ultimatum, the two prisoners, though pale-faced and fearful, still bit their lips tightly and refused to give in.

They were betting that Jiang Yan wouldn't dare to kill anyone.

Jiang Yan's gaze gradually turned cold.

With the House of All Realms and Worlds around him, he will definitely encounter many enemies in the future.

If you don't even have the awareness to kill, you might as well just stay in the world of Food Wars!

Moreover, these two prisoners were already heinous criminals, and their deaths were not a pity.

Having made his decision, Jiang Yan calmly squatted down.

Under the horrified gazes of the two prisoners, he reached out and grabbed one of them by the neck.

With a soft "click," the prisoner fell silent.

There was no discomfort or nausea as I had imagined.

Jiang Yan felt completely calm at this moment.

He casually tossed aside the dead prisoner and looked at another prisoner.

The prisoner was terrified by Jiang Yan's actions and wanted to beg for mercy, but Jiang Yan had already grabbed his neck.

A moment later, the arena fell completely silent.

A look of satisfaction flashed in Hisoka's eyes as he watched Jiang Yan take care of the two men.

He clapped his hands, his tone tinged with pleasure.

"Great! Great... Little Apple is finally starting to grow up..."

Jiang Yan glanced coldly at Hisoka, then turned and walked towards the passage that opened at the other end of the arena.

It's too early for him to fight Hisoka now.

Faced with Jiang Yan's murderous gaze, Hisoka became even more excited.

..............................

Continuing onward, after passing through several more checkpoints, Jiang Yan and Xi Suo stepped into a spacious stone chamber.

The moment the two stepped in, a person slowly raised his head from the shadows, revealing a face crisscrossed with scars. It was Iwata, the examiner who had been seriously injured by Hisoka during last year's Hunter Exam.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Hisoka!"

Iwata glared fiercely at Hisoka.

As for Jiang Yan beside Xisuo, he completely ignored him.

"This year I am not here as an examiner, but as an avenger."

"Ever since last year's exam... my goal has been to kill you."

As he spoke, Iwata suddenly drew his curved sword from his waist.

During last year's Hunter Exam, he was an examiner but was severely injured by Hisoka, who was a candidate.

The scars on his face were a lifelong shame, and only killing Hisoka could wash them away.

Jiang Yan chose a clean stone step and sat down, casually tapping the stone surface with his fingertips, clearly intending to observe from the sidelines.

He had no interest in getting involved in this personal feud.

Hisoka tilted his head, his face full of contemptuous smile.

"That only proves that you, the examiner, are utterly incompetent."

"That's what they call 'trying to teach someone but getting hated instead.'"

He doesn't mind others seeking revenge against him; after all, it's one of his sources of amusement.

Therefore, he really hoped that this former examiner could bring him some unexpected surprises.

"raving!"

Hisoka's attitude ignited Iwata's pent-up anger, which had been building up for a year.

With a roar, Iwata drew another curved sword with his backhand.

Then the two curved blades began to spin at high speed.

"You'd better be prepared!"

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"Dual-wielding?"

Hisoka raised an eyebrow, the expectation in his eyes fading slightly.

Compared to last year, there's just one more knife.

That's really boring.

However, just as Hisoka was feeling disappointed, Iwata suddenly threw the two curved swords in his hand into the air.

Then he drew two more curved swords from the scabbard behind him!

This piqued Hisoka's interest somewhat.

"Infinite Four-Sword Style - Take this!"

Iwata gave a low shout, and with a sudden burst of strength in his wrist, the two curved swords in his hand shot rapidly toward Hisoka.

Faced with such an attack, Hisoka swayed and easily dodged it.

However, Iwata had anticipated this and naturally did not expect that these two strikes would be enough.

This was just the prelude to his killing move.

Iwata caught the two curved swords falling from the sky and then lunged at Hisoka.

At the same time, the two curved swords that had been thrown earlier changed direction like boomerangs, and came from behind Hisoka with a whistling sound!

This sudden change even startled Hisoka slightly.

He hastily dodged to the side, but was still a step too slow.

The blade sliced ​​through his clothes, leaving two bloody marks on his shoulder and abdomen.

Jiang Yan, standing on the stone steps, squinted slightly as he looked at Iwata in the arena and gently shook his head.

Judging from Iwata's irritable and easily angered personality and wild attire, he is most likely an enhancement-type ability user.

However, he developed his Nen ability into controlling throwing knives, a manipulation-type ability.

If you take the wrong path, no matter how much effort you put in, it will be counterproductive.

The outcome of this battle was never in doubt from the very beginning.

Iwata had no idea what Jiang Yan was thinking. Seeing Hisoka injured, his eyes blazed with wild joy.

"It's not over yet!"

Iwata tossed the scimitar into the air again, then caught the other two that spun back into the air.

"Up, down, left, right, front, back, front, back! Hisoka, you have nowhere to run!"

"Struggle in agony! And then—die, Hisoka!"

At this moment, Iwata was completely immersed in the thrill of his impending revenge.

..............................

Hisoka's smile faded little by little, and a hint of impatience flashed in his eyes.

I've had enough fun.

Seriously, this is so boring.

So when Iwata threw two more high-speed spinning scimitars, Hisoka did not choose to dodge.

"Indeed, it would be quite troublesome to avoid it."

As he spoke, Hisoka caught the two rapidly spinning scimitars that flew towards him.

"Then all you have to do is... catch these knives."

Hisoka weighed the curved sword in his hand, twirled it casually, and looked up at Iwata with an extremely wicked smile on his face.

"Well, it's simpler than I imagined."

"You've really gone through a lot of trouble, doing so much... pointless effort."

Seeing Hisoka accomplish what it had taken him six months to achieve, Iwata's pupils suddenly contracted, and he completely lost the courage to resist.

He was then easily killed by Hisoka.

After dealing with Iwata, Jiang Yan and Hisoka continued on their way.

After passing through a not-too-long, dark passage, the two arrived at a huge room.

Liber's voice followed immediately.

"Number 44, Hisoka."

"The first-place finisher passed the third exam."

"Time taken - six hours and fifty-five minutes."

"Number 103, Jiang Yan."

"Second place passed the third exam."

"Time taken - six hours and fifty-five minutes."