High-level martial arts: Starting with a heart of steel, stats crush everything.

As soon as Chen Mo emerged from the abyss, his phone, which he hadn't checked for seven days, started ringing like crazy.

Looking up, he saw that Chen Li and Xu Liu had called him at least a hundred times.

In the car next to him, Liang Yongsheng, whose eyes were bloodshot, suddenly widened his eyes.

"Old Tian! Do you think that kid is Chen Mo?"

"Huh? Ah?" Tian Xingxing sat up straight and looked at where Liang Yongsheng was pointing.

"Holy crap! It really is him!"

"That kid really didn't die, hahahahaha!"

Tian Xingxing laughed wildly as she opened the car door and rushed out, grabbing a bewildered Chen Mo in her arms.

"You scared us to death! Seven days! You stayed in the abyss rift for a full seven days!"

"If there hadn't been no death announcement from the broadcasting station, we would have both been thinking of starting a feast."

Tian Xingxing patted Chen Mo twice, then noticed the large sack on his back.

"What...is all of this?"

"Ah, I met a kind person who gave me this sack. Inside are the materials I obtained from hunting abyssal beasts this week."

Chen Mo took the large sack off his back, and the strong smell of blood made Tian Xingxing stagger.

"That can't be right. I remember there were only a few useful parts on the Abyss Beast, how come you have such a huge sack of this..."

Tian Xingxing was initially a little confused, but when he saw what was in the sack, he was completely stunned.

The sack contained not only materials from level one abyssal beasts, but he also saw materials from level two and three abyssal beasts.

"You didn't end up in the level two or level three zones, did you?"

Tian Xingxing felt a wave of fear wash over her; Chen Mo was incredibly audacious!

"I got lost, and somehow I ended up in the Level 3 area."

Chen Mo was not lying at all. If he hadn't encountered a supply station along the way, he probably would have been able to reach the deepest part of the rift.

"..." Liang Yongsheng, who had just walked over, happened to hear what Chen Mo said, and his mind was momentarily blank.

"No, you got lost and ended up in the level 3 area?"

"And then you hunted so many Abyss Beasts?"

"Yes, we've reached the Level 3 area before we knew it." Chen Mo nodded, retied the burlap sack, and slung it over his shoulder.

"If I hadn't discovered that the Abyss Beasts in the Level 3 area are much more resilient, I wouldn't have noticed it at all."

Compared to the average health of level 1 and level 2 abyssal beasts, which is around 1,000, level 3 abyssal beasts have at least 10,000 health.

The strength can be described as a qualitative leap, just like that of human martial artists.

Level one and level two martial artists are only considered beginners in martial arts.

Level three is the threshold for determining whether a person can continue on their path.

Once a martial artist breaks through to the third level, they can be called extraordinary.

If he can't break through, then the highest achievement he can attain in his life will be a level two martial artist.

Tian Xingxing and Liang Yongsheng exchanged a glance. Their minds were in a daze, and they couldn't tell which of Chen Mo's words were true and which were false.

"By the way, Brother Tian, ​​do you have any channels for dealing with these materials?"

Chen Mo patted the sack on his back and asked.

"You've already gone all the way to the Level 3 area, and you didn't even know there was a material recycling station at the entrance?"

Tian Xingxing looked incredulous; Chen Mo was definitely pretending to be stupid.

"Okay, you two wait for me, I'm going to retrieve it."

Chen Mo genuinely didn't know there was a material recycling station at the entrance, and the people he encountered inside the rift wouldn't have told him such a basic fact.

Tian Xingxing and Liang Yongsheng returned to the car, and Liang Yongsheng picked up his phone and called Wei Zhen.

"Wei Zhen, Chen Mo has emerged from the rift."

"Yes, I know, I will talk to him about it."

"Yeah, don't let No. 37 Middle School do anything useless. It's best to keep a low profile."

After Liang Yongsheng hung up the phone, Chen Mo had just finished collecting all the materials he had hunted.

The material value of a level one abyss beast ranges from fifty to two hundred, while the value of a level two beast is double that.

Materials from level three abyssal beasts are already considered rare, with even the worst resale value exceeding two thousand.

Chen Mo's harvest in the abyss rift made his wallet bulge.

"Seven hundred and sixty-five thousand..."

Chen Mo couldn't help but laugh out loud when he looked at the cash in his account.

"We can exchange for many better potions at the Martial Arts Center now."

"What are you grinning about, you little idiot?"

Tian Xingxing shouted at Chen Mo, who was pondering how to spend the money.

"Ah, I'm thinking about how to spend this money in a way that's cost-effective."

Chen Mo didn't say much, and naturally opened the car door and sat in the back seat.

"Chen Mo, you have to go to No. 37 Middle School to register tomorrow. You also have to go with the people from No. 37 Middle School on the day of the college entrance examination."

"Your student registration is currently at No. 37 Middle School. Don't cause trouble after you arrive."

"Okay, I'm not the kind of person who causes trouble." Chen Mo patted his chest confidently.

"Ha, I wonder who punched their classmate into the ICU and got expelled."

Tian Xingxing chuckled, and Liang Yongsheng punched him from the side.

"One more thing, are you interested in the national competition?"

After punching Tian Xingxing, Liang Yongsheng finally asked the question that Wei Zhen had asked him to ask.

"National Competition?" Chen Mo was stunned for a moment, and then found this super-large competition comparable to the Spring Festival Gala in the original owner's memories.

The national competition begins a few days after the National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) ends each year.

Each prefecture-level city will send its strongest genius who is over eighteen years old to participate in the competition.

This competition is related to the annual resource allocation of each city, so everyone attaches great importance to it.

Moreover, the rewards for the top ten in the national competition are increasingly valuable, with the first place winner even having the chance to secure the position of the top official in a future city.

In Taizhou, almost every year, the contestants are eliminated in the first round; they just go up there to make a cameo appearance and are quickly defeated.

This has led Taizhou City into a vicious cycle.

Without resources, you can't cultivate geniuses. And if your own players get crushed in national competitions, resources will become increasingly scarce.

"Yes, Director Wei of the Martial Arts Education Bureau asked me to ask you if you would be willing to represent Taizhou in this year's national competition."

Liang Yongsheng nodded; he also hoped that Chen Mo could participate in the national competition.

This would break the vicious cycle of Taizhou consistently ranking at the bottom for many years.

"Taizhou City will certainly not treat you unfairly, and it's not just you."

"If you survive the first round, the city will transfer your parents to work at the Martial Arts Education Bureau. The work is easy and the pay is high."

"You will also receive a cash bonus of five million and a large apartment in the city center."

"As for any other rewards, that will depend on your final results."

Chen Mo frowned; he was well aware of the dangers of the national competition.

"Or should we..."

Before Chen Mo could speak, the system, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly beeped.

[Challenge mission detected!]

[Challenge: Participate in the national competition and achieve excellent results]

Each advancement in the rounds will grant generous rewards, with the quality of the final reward depending on the host's final ranking.