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

The leader glanced at Chen Mo the moment he drew his sword, and only resumed his fierce demeanor after Chen Mo nodded.

That's right, they had already made arrangements before Chen Mo brought them in.

In fact, martial artists are usually very friendly with each other. Although there are some fierce individuals, they will not turn on their own people.

This situation can only fool these newbies who have just joined. Anyone who has been here a few times knows that this is unreasonable.

Chen Mo had only one reason for having these people do this: to see if these students from the Mountain City Martial Arts Academy truly had any backbone.

If people remain indifferent to insults, they will always be cowards.

Especially since their opponents were much weaker than themselves, if they didn't dare to fight back, then Chen Mo wouldn't have needed to bring them along.

At most, I'll just take them for a stroll in the abyss, hunt a few abyssal beasts to appease them, and then send them back safely.

"We're not cowards..."

The strongest student, named Lu Xiong, was now bulging with veins on his forehead, clearly in a state of rage.

"Then make your move. You're afraid to even kill a level three martial artist like me?"

"What else are you but a coward?"

The middle-aged martial artist leading the squad grinned maliciously, placing his long sword directly against Lu Xiong's neck.

"I told you, I just didn't want to hurt my own kind!"

Lu Xiong suddenly erupted, his dense lightning-attribute blood energy shattering the longsword.

"I'm not using these skills to fight my own people, understand?"

"Furthermore, I'm not a coward, and neither is the Mountain City Martial Arts Academy!"

Fuck your grandpa!

boom!

Lu Xiong's face turned fierce, and he threw a punch at the leader of the martial artists' heads.

Seeing this, the other students gritted their teeth, drew their weapons, and rushed forward.

They absolutely cannot lose face in front of Chen Mo; they must prove that they still have guts and are not a bunch of cowards!

"Okay, let's stop here."

Chen Mo's lips curled up. The fact that they dared to make a move proved that they still had guts; they were just influenced by that group of academics.

"Get out of here right now, or I'll have to do it."

The leading martial artist glared fiercely at Lu Xiong, then turned and left.

After walking a distance, a drone threw him a small piece of energy stone.

"Let's go, you guys are pretty good."

Chen Mo was relatively satisfied with the performance of these people.

Although I was terrified at first, daring to take action is a good start.

It's a pity he was facing someone weaker than himself; it would have been better if he had drawn his sword to face a stronger opponent.

Chen Mo also understood that nothing should be rushed, as rushing things would only make things worse.

The deep rifts of the mountain city connect to the shallow abyss, and the resources here are much richer than those in the shallow abyss of Taizhou.

Of course, the "resources" here refer to various powerful abyssal beasts.

"Aaaaaah! Help!"

A student at only the third level of cultivation was running wildly while letting out a piercing scream.

It's not that they've developed osteomalacia; it's just one of the techniques they use to lure the abyss beasts.

Yes, Chen Mo taught me.

Chen Mo and his companions sat on a nearby rock, watching with great interest the students who were besieging a level four abyss beast.

"They are progressing very quickly. It's clear that they were just too well protected before and had never seen blood."

Ma Wanglin, holding the red-tasseled spear in his arms, sat on a large rock watching the students.

"I think they were older than us, right?"

Gu Feng was a little confused. What had these people been doing all these years? Had they just been holed up in the academy cultivating every day?

"Yes, but the path of martial arts doesn't discriminate based on age. There are many martial artists in their forties or fifties who are not as strong as us."

Chen Mo smiled. From their perspective, this group of students was indeed somewhat weak.

But how many people can actually enter the Great Xia Grandmaster Academy at the age of eighteen?

How many people can break through the siege of such a brutal competition format as the national competition?

People like them are few and far between; the vast majority of students at Shancheng Martial Arts Academy are those who follow the established path.

Most students are already considered quite good if they can become a Level 3 martial artist by graduation.

A level three martial artist is qualified to serve as the principal of a middle or high school, or the head of a district police station.

Their strength is sufficient to maintain the normal operation of human society, but it's not enough in the deep abyss of Kunlun Mountain.

"That's about enough, I'm going to go have some fun."

Chen Mo glanced at the several level 5 or 6 abyssal beasts that were attacking from a distance, then jumped off the large rock and walked over.

The level 4 and below Abyss Beasts are left for the students to play with, while the level 5 and above Abyss Beasts are kept for steel.

"Quickly! Finish it off!"

Just as the students were putting all their effort into killing the level four abyss beast, Chen Mo was smashing a bunch of Chaoshan beef balls out with each punch.

"Oh ho, all done?"

Throwing the pieces of meat from his hand onto the ground, Chen Mo turned to look at the panting students.

"Good, continue."

Ignoring the stunned crowd, Chen Mo carried the Phoenix Beak Dragon Fang Halberd and continued walking towards the depths of the shallow abyss.

"I must not be seeing things, right?"

Lu Xiong rubbed his eyes, looking at the people around him with a bewildered expression.

"That level six abyss beast..."

"Killed him with just one easy punch?"

"You haven't seen enough. Chen Mo can kill an eighth-level martial artist with a single punch."

Liu Yeqing stood on tiptoe and patted Lu Xiong on the shoulder. The scene back then was much more terrifying than it is now.

"One punch to instantly kill an eighth-level martial artist..."

Lu Xiong's face turned pale and then red. As a 22-year-old senior college student, he was not even as good as an 18-year-old boy.

He thought he could make a name for himself in the outside world with his abilities, and that was indeed the case.

From that moment on, Lu Xiong's ambitions changed; he planned to go to the military for training after graduation.

Even if I can't become as powerful as Chen Mo, I absolutely cannot let my martial arts path stagnate at level five.

"Defending one's country is a man's romance..."

Lu Xiong recalled the content of the speech given by the military when they came to the Mountain City Martial Arts Academy, and now he understood the value of those words.

This is what men should pursue, not meaningless money.

Strength is the foundation of a person's standing!

"Senior Lu, what's wrong?"

Liu Yeqing nudged Lu Xiong, who was standing there in a daze. Could it be that Senior Lu was frightened?

"I'm fine, keep up."

A fierce flame called fighting spirit ignited in Lu Xiong's eyes, and the lazy, slacking person he once was disappeared.

......

Another week has passed, and every day Chen Mo leads two teams of students from the Mountain City Martial Arts Academy into the Abyss Rift for training.

Among them are many outstanding students who are still full of passion, as well as some who are completely unable to change their ways and only care about their own interests.

Overall, the majority of the students were still full of enthusiasm, and only a few disappointed Chen Mo.

In the principal's office, Wu Yaozu looked at the complaints from various colleges against the college-affiliated teachers and fell into deep thought.

"Mountain City Martial Arts Academy...is about to change."

Wu Yaozu sighed. As the leader of the Mountain City Martial Arts Academy, he knew that the situation was beyond saving.

It wasn't that he was careless; he genuinely didn't expect these young children to be able to do something like that.