Chapter 50: Ascending the Primordial Realm Once More

The next day, Saturday.

Over the weekend, there was no need to go to Central South University, and the municipal training class would not reassemble until next Monday.

Shi Yu practiced all morning, and in the afternoon, he decided to try charging into the Silver tier of the Hongmeng Ranking Match to test the mettle of Foundation Establishment realm Silver martial artists.

After some thought, he sealed his divine soul level to 12.6.

The extra 0.6 corresponded to the second stage of the Qi Gathering realm, which would be the cultivation level he openly displayed to the public for some time to come.

As for when he would release it to the third stage, that would depend on how hard the students in the municipal elite class worked. Speaking of which, those guys really needed to learn what true diligence was from Li Luoke.

[Welcome, Shiyu, to the Hongmeng Network.]

[You have 3,604 unread friend requests. Please review them.]

The moment Shi Yu logged on, he was startled by the explosion of private messages.

What was going on here?

He came to Hongmeng to hone his martial arts and earn Hongmeng coins, not to make friends.

Otherwise, if he just spent his time chatting in groups, when would he have time to cultivate!

Shi Yu decided to ignore these messages. Anyway, his account only had a one-month validity period, so accepting them would be pointless.

He went straight into the ranking arena and clicked the application button for Silver promotion.

The system voice rang out.

[The Silver promotion match is about to begin. Please get ready!]

Shi Yu's figure disappeared from the personal lobby and instantly reappeared in a hilly region.

A moment later, he narrowed his eyes slightly as he spotted an old friend.

About twenty meters ahead, a Dark Nether tribesman wearing sturdy armor and two ferocious Shadow-toothed Beasts gradually materialized.

Shi Yu had encountered these enemies before during the war experience game on Mount Yuelu.

Back then, however, neither side was operating at full combat power.

Times had changed, and Shi Yu was no longer the person he was that day. Whether in divine soul, cultivation, or martial arts, he was beyond comparison.

[Countdown: 3, 2, 1]

In the air more than ten meters above, the countdown characters kept shifting.

The very instant the characters vanished!

"Boom!!"

Accompanied by a deafening roar, Shi Yu's figure vanished from where he stood!

A fraction of a second later, he had fiercely traversed a space of more than twenty meters.

The dark iron staff tightly gripped in his hand was raised high.

Under the moonlight, it flashed with a piercing, cold light, resembling a massive star plummeting from the night sky.

In the dark red eyes of the Nether tribesman, Shi Yu's majestic and imposing figure was now completely reflected.

An unprecedented sense of oppression.

It felt as though the entire sky was collapsing at this very moment.

The stars were falling!

With the force of a thunderbolt, unstoppable!

......

Qian Mingjie was hurriedly and frantically logging into the Hongmeng Network.

Ever since he successfully deduced that Shi Yu was Shiyu, he had specifically set a special notification on his phone for Shiyu's logins on Hongmeng.

Whenever Shiyu logged in, he would receive the alert at the very first moment.

"Charge, charge, charge!"

Qian Mingjie roared inwardly; he could not afford to miss a single one of Shiyu's matches.

[Welcome, Little Ming, to...]

Before the system voice could finish, he abruptly cut it off, closing the welcome screen.

"The big boss is definitely going to charge into the Silver tier!"

"Promotion match, promotion match..." he muttered to himself.

Promotion matches for every rank were never easy. In the past, even for the top-ranked martial artist in the Bronze tier, the probability of passing the first promotion match was only about sixty or seventy percent.

Of course, Qian Mingjie had a lot of confidence in Shiyu; promotion would definitely not be a problem, it was just a matter of how much time it would take.

"Ha, I see it."

He spotted the system's notification screen at a glance.

[Shiyu's Silver promotion match is about to begin. Countdown: 3, 2, 1...]

Just in time!

He caught it!

A wave of relief washed over Qian Mingjie, and he hurriedly clicked in to watch.

[Combat loading...]

Two seconds later, he successfully entered!

"This is..."

Qian Mingjie's gaze instantly went blank.

He stared at the characters flashing incessantly in the air.

[Promotion match ended. The winner is Shiyu!]

[Shiyu has successfully promoted to Silver!]

"What? It... it's over??"

Qian Mingjie stared incredulously at the screen before him. He had clicked in at the very first second without wasting a single minute or second!

He looked into the distance, where a huge crater had appeared on the ground.

It looked like a meteorite impact crater.

When the meteorite struck, it formed a shockwave that swept across the entire hilly area.

And in the center of the crater.

Some points of light still remained, slowly dissipating and drifting into the air.

"Damn it!!!"

Qian Mingjie cursed inwardly. No matter how fast he rushed, he still missed it.

Big Boss Shiyu, could you please slow down a little?

How can a man be so fast!

However, fortunately, the combat recording could still be saved. He would hurry up and cut a video out of it later.

......

To Qian Mingjie's surprise, however, not long after, the Hongmeng system actually took the initiative to push out the video of this arena match.

[Bronze tier Shiyu returns as a king!]

[An unprecedented promotion match: 1.8 seconds!]

[Foundation Establishment realm Silver martial artists, are you ready?]

Staring at these titles, Qian Mingjie fell into a brief silence. They had used all the names he wanted to use, so what was he supposed to do?

The next second.

[Ding!]

The system popped up another window.

[Shiyu has started his first Silver tier ranking match. Please enter the live broadcast lobby to watch.]

Qian Mingjie's spirits lifted, and he lost no time in entering.

When the arena screen loaded, he was immediately startled.

Nearly a thousand people were already in the venue, and the number was rapidly increasing, with Bronze tier and Silver tier martial artists accounting for half each.

"King Shiyu, conquer the Silver tier, march toward Gold!"

Someone shouted excitedly; the person shouting this slogan definitely came from the Bronze tier.

Qian Mingjie shook his head slightly upon hearing this; it was too chuni.

They were all college students; could they be a bit more mature?

A few breaths later, within the battlefield, the figures of both sides suddenly appeared.

Shiyu's opponent was a tall, slender woman.

She wore an exquisite cloud-patterned, arrow-sleeved combat outfit, and on her back hung a spirit bow that emitted a faint flame-like luster.

"What?!"

"How could Shiyu's matched opponent be her?"

Exclamations arose one after another in the spectator stands, surging like a tide.

Qian Mingjie was clueless. As an old Bronze tier player, he hadn't paid much attention to the people in the Silver tier.

Curiously, he grabbed a person nearby who was wearing an eyepatch and disguised as a pirate, and asked, "Brother, what's this woman's background?"

The one-eyed pirate glanced at him and tutted, "This woman's ID is Feng Wu, and she is ranked tenth in the Silver tier!"

Qian Mingjie was stunned: "Shiyu just promoted to Silver, how could he be matched against someone in the top ten in his very first battle?"

"Has this ever happened before?"

The one-eyed pirate shook his head: "Never. But since it has happened, it can only mean one thing."

"What?"

"The Hongmeng system believes that Shiyu's standard is at this level."

"Therefore, the automatic matchmaking mechanism directly matched a top-ten martial artist with Shiyu!"

In the spectator stands, the discussions grew louder and louder.

Most people realized this point.

Thus, the slogan of the Bronze tier martial artists quickly gained an extra sentence.

"King Shiyu, trample the top ten, conquer the Silver tier, march toward Gold!"

One had to admit that this slogan carried quite a bit of momentum.

As Qian Mingjie listened, his blood began to boil as well. Maturity or no maturity, following along and shouting was the right thing to do!

After shouting a few times, he noticed the one-eyed pirate beside him sneering.

"Brother, what are you laughing at?" Qian Mingjie asked, puzzled.

"I'm laughing at you people in the Bronze tier for being so ignorant."

"I've also watched Shiyu's previous match videos; he's indeed very strong."

"But Feng Wu is definitely not easy to deal with..."

The one-eyed pirate said in a deep voice, "She might not be the strongest person in the Silver tier, but she is definitely the trickiest contestant."

"Especially since the battlefield is this kind of unobstructed open wilderness."

"To her, Shiyu is just a moving target."

"I'm very curious: how is the Bronze King going to win his first Silver battle?"