Zerg Lord of the Devouring Stars

"Click-clack".

Jiang Chen pushed open the door and saw his family waiting for him in the hall outside.

Jiang Chen's parents, younger brother, and younger sister all looked at him with nervousness, trepidation, and worry.

Just now, when Jiang Chen checked his scores, they also checked his college entrance examination results through his father's old laptop.

Father Jiang Ming comforted him, "It's alright, son. At worst, you can start over and repeat a year."

"Oh dear, you're so healthy, how come you suddenly have a headache and have to be hospitalized?" Mother Luo Xinyin looked at her son with worry and heartache.

"Brother, hang in there, it's okay."

"Yeah, brother, relax. I'll take care of you from now on."

Jiang Chen's younger brother, Jiang Xin, and younger sister, Jiang Yin, waved their small, white fists to cheer him on.

Seeing their worried looks, Jiang Chen suddenly smiled and said, "It's nothing. It was originally a big deal, but now the college entrance exam has become a small matter."

"Big or small?"

Everyone stared at Jiang Chen in confusion, not understanding what he meant. Was he talking nonsense because he was too devastated by failing the college entrance exam?

"Yes," Jiang Chen said with a smile, "I don't know why, but after this headache, my strength has greatly increased."

"I should have reached the level of a quasi-martial artist now, which means I can take the martial artist exam."

"What?" The father, mother, younger brother, and younger sister looked at each other in shock.

"Really, bro, you're amazing!" The younger brother was the first to react, his face showing excitement.

"Haha, that's great! My brother is a martial artist!" The younger sister pounced on Jiang Chen and hugged him.

Jiang Chen smiled and gently ruffled his sister's hair.

At this moment, the father and mother no longer looked worried, but instead looked pleasantly surprised.

What is a martial artist?

A martial artist is someone who possesses vast amounts of money and power, and is able to venture into desolate wilderness areas inaccessible to ordinary people to fight monsters.

Martial artists are heroes!

Nowadays, martial artists are held in a very high position. Human society cannot function without them. If martial artists did not exist, the whole world would be destroyed by vicious monsters.

Humanity will disappear from the entire planet.

Once someone becomes a martial artist, their entire family will benefit and gain a significant boost in status.

"Hahaha, that's great, wonderful!" The father patted Jiang Chen's shoulder excitedly. "If that's really the case, then that's wonderful."

"Compared to martial arts practitioners, what is the college entrance examination?"

"Son, Xiao Chen." The mother excitedly grabbed Jiang Chen's hand, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Seeing the family's immense excitement, Jiang Chen once again felt the status and influence of martial artists.

The next day, at six o'clock in the morning, Jiang Chen set off from this dilapidated tenement building.

Destination: Extreme Martial Arts Gym.

"drop."

Jiang Chen swiped his advanced student ID at the entrance of the Extreme Martial Arts Academy and entered the academy.

Jiang Chen looked up at the enormous Limit Martial Arts Hall and felt a sense of suffocation.

Extreme Martial Arts Schools are located all over the world, with one in every base city. They were established by "Hong," currently the world's strongest martial artist.

This extreme martial arts gym is larger than a high school in terms of area, and the gym consists of three silver-white buildings.

These three buildings are—the primary student teaching building, the intermediate student teaching building, and the advanced student teaching building.

Students can become students at the martial arts school at the age of 16 and study in the teaching building. Once they reach the age of 38, they are prohibited from using the teaching building's resources.

Jiang Chen is only 18 years old this year, still very young, and he just reached the advanced student level this year.

Unexpectedly, he may have broken through the martial artist level again this year.

It was only six in the morning, and there weren't many people here yet. The empty training hall seemed to have only Jiang Chen there.

However, he soon spotted another student who had arrived at the training hall—Luo Feng.

"Luo Feng, you're here too?" Jiang Chen asked in surprise.

He immediately realized that Luo Feng's own strength had also improved, so naturally he would come over to check his results.

"Jiang Chen, you're here too." Luo Feng said with a smile. He was in a good mood. The test just now made him realize that he had reached the standard of a quasi-martial artist.

Jiang Chen walked to a corner of the training hall on the third floor, where testing machines were set up.

"Let me help you." Luo Feng turned on the machine; he had just finished testing it and turned it off.

"Thanks."

Jiang Chen walked to the punching power testing machine, swung his arms and moved his legs, then took a deep breath, coordinated his waist and stance, twisted his body, and used the power of his arms to transfer to his fists, then swung them out forcefully.

"That felt great, all the power was released, it must have increased a lot."

"Beep beep beep".

The punching power testing machine emits a beeping sound, indicating that the punching power has exceeded 1000kg.

Jiang Chen saw Luo Feng give a thumbs up, smiled, walked over, and saw his own result—"1069kg".

"Oh, that's definitely a lot more." Jiang Chen's expression revealed his joy.

The last time he tested his strength, it was 806kg, but now it has reached 1069kg, a huge improvement, far exceeding the punching power of a quasi-martial artist of 900kg.

"Let's test the speed again."

Luo Feng turned on the speed test machine again, and Jiang Chen swung his arm violently, like a cheetah, and his whole body turned into a phantom as he rushed towards the finish line.

"Not bad, Jiang Chen," Luo Feng said with a smile. "It seems we can participate in the preliminary martial artist assessment together."

"Let me see." Jiang Chen smiled and walked over, seeing his own speed.

"28.0 m/s," Jiang Chen laughed. "What a coincidence, exactly 28."

On the fourth floor of the advanced teaching building, two martial artists were walking side by side, chatting.

One person had red hair and a lean body.

One of them was bald and dressed in all black.

They were surprised when they heard a "beep beep beep" sound coming from downstairs.

This is where the trainees stay; only those weighing over 1000kg can make the machine make this sound.

Could it be that another student has achieved a breakthrough?

The two martial artists transformed into two phantoms and rushed to the third floor, where they saw the only two people on the third floor.

"Luo Feng, Jiang Chen, was that you two?" Jiang Nian, the bald instructor in black, asked in surprise. "Which of you made that sound just now?"

"Instructor," Jiang Chen and Luo Feng greeted each other with smiles.

Jiang Chen looked at the red-haired man beside him. He remembered this man; he was a martial artist, probably a warrior at the general level.

Upon hearing the instructor's question, Jiang Chen quickly replied, "It was me, but Luo Feng also exceeded 1000kg. If it was something I heard before, it was Luo Feng who did it."

"That's right, Instructor," Luo Feng said with a smile. He had no intention of hiding it, since he was about to undergo the preliminary martial artist assessment, and it was impossible to keep it a secret.

"What?" Instructor Jiang Nian was both surprised and delighted that two of his students had simultaneously reached the qualifying level for martial arts.

"Impressive." The man in red exclaimed, as if he were seeing his younger self, though these two looked much younger than he had back then.

"Quickly, give me a punch!" Instructor Jiang Nian urged.

"Yes."

Jiang Chen and Luo Feng stood in front of the punching power testing machine and began the test. The results came out quickly, and both of them exceeded "1000kg", which is obviously more than the 900kg limit for a quasi-martial artist.

Then he checked their speed. The two of them were also faster than the 25m/s required for the quasi-martial artist assessment. As for their reaction speed, Jiang Nian knew that they had already passed the test and should be even better now.

"Great!" Instructor Jiang Nian laughed heartily, appearing very pleased.

Jiang Chen and Luo Feng looked at each other and smiled. They both saw the joy in each other's eyes. Becoming a martial artist and improving their family's living conditions were their common goals.

Now, that moment has finally arrived.

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P.S.: The first 20 chapters are for group reading. Readers who don't like this can skip to chapter 27 onwards.

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