Reincarnated as a Mosquito, I Sucked the Reborn Empress to Tears

Chapter 124: Chapter 124: The 3-Province Joint Examination Begins

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With a soft click, the door to the gaming pod slowly opened.

Gu Yuexi emerged in a daze. Her cold, exquisitely beautiful face was still slack with shock.

Perched lazily atop her head was what looked like a perfectly ordinary White-striped Aedes Mosquito.

Apparently finding it uncomfortable to just lie flat, it used its six legs to ruffle Gu Yuexi’s silky hair into a bird’s nest. Then it sprawled out inside and fell fast asleep.

’Fought more than forty high-intensity battles. Lord Mosquito is exhausted. Gotta sleep for a bit…’

At that moment, Gu Yuexi’s emotions were in utter turmoil.

She had thought her own achievement—racking up twenty-five consecutive victories as a Second-Grade Middle Stage Martial Artist, including several against Third-Grade Middle Stage geniuses—was already world-shaking. She fully expected it to cause a considerable stir, and she’d even felt a tiny sliver of anticipation.

But what was the result?

This mosquito had brought the entire Fourth-Grade Early Stage division to a grinding halt!

Compared to its terrifying record, her own accomplishments were less than nothing!

’This level of combat power… it’s just absurd, isn’t it?’

The sense of crisis and urgency in Gu Yuexi’s heart washed over her once again like a tidal wave.

She had previously thought that by relying on the Ten Thousand Beasts Melting Furnace Technique, she could compete with this mosquito in Qi Blood Cultivation and, at the very least, not be left too far behind.

Now, it seemed… she couldn’t have been more wrong!

Even with her Evil Technique, which allowed her Qi Blood Realm to advance by leaps and bounds, she was completely unable to keep up with the mosquito’s rate of growth!

The creature’s evolution simply defied all logic!

’This won’t do! I have to change my strategy!’

’Qi Blood will have to wait! I must focus everything on my Mental Power!’

’Only by achieving absolute dominance with my Mental Power will I be able to completely control this increasingly preposterous mosquito! That is the most important thing right now!’

’Otherwise, the consequences will be unthinkable!’

Wasting no more time, she turned to head back to the Cultivation Chamber, planning to enter seclusion for one more day and night before the Tri-Province Joint Exam.

She would pour every ounce of her energy into cultivating her Mental Power!

…

Deep in the night, Chu Sheng slowly awoke from his slumber.

He yawned, and the first thing he did was fly over to the Thousand-Year Cold Jade Box containing the Mountain-Shaking Demon Ape Essence Blood.

Seeing that the Essence Blood inside was nearly gone, he didn’t bother holding back. He jabbed his proboscis in and drained the rest in a single gulp!

[Ding! Host has absorbed 423 points of Qi Blood! Current Total Qi Blood: 4531!]

[Estimated digestion time: 6 hours. Estimated gain upon completion: 236 Evolution Points!]

As the last of the Essence Blood went down, Chu Sheng’s Total Qi Blood Value finally broke the 4,500 mark, placing him firmly at the Peak of Third-Grade!

He could clearly feel that his body’s capacity for Qi Blood had seemingly reached its limit.

Like a container, it was filled to the brim.

To advance further, he had to either expand the volume of the container or refine the quality of the liquid inside.

And that was precisely the purpose of the Qi Blood Melting Furnace Realm.

Once a Martial Artist reached the Peak of Third-Grade and comprehended at least one Perfect Fulfillment Realm, they could use this comprehension as a catalyst. It would draw the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into their body, allowing them to perform extreme compression and refinement on their gaseous Qi Blood until it completely liquefied!

When all the Qi Blood in the body had transformed into a liquid as dense and pure as mercury, it signified the completion of the “First Transformation”!

At that point, the power unleashed by each point of Qi Blood would be more than triple what it was at the Peak of Third-Grade! Their Total Qi Blood would also skyrocket directly to six thousand points!

And that was just the First Transformation.

The subsequent Second and Third Transformations, as well as the final Heart Fire Tempering Body, each elevated the quality and quantity of one’s Qi Blood to a terrifying new level. The difference in combat power would increase exponentially with each step.p>’No wonder those players thought I was an official game-sanctioned cheat… The gap between the Low-Grade Realm and the Middle-Grade Realm is truly a chasm!’

Chu Sheng felt that his actual combat power had already become frighteningly strong.

’I can slaughter even top-notch Fourth-Grade Early Stage geniuses. So if it were just an ordinary Fourth-Grade Martial Artist… taking on someone at the Fourth-Grade Late Stage might not be impossible, right?’

However, Chu Sheng knew full well that his confidence in Cross-Level Combat stemmed almost entirely from the tens of thousands of fearless minions in his [Nether Flame Insect Nest].

Although his own body’s realm had advanced from the Third-Grade Late Stage to the Peak of Third-Grade, the boost to his overall combat power was negligible.

’If I want to continue increasing my combat power, I either need to increase the number of my minions or improve their quality!’

’Increasing their numbers… Upgrading the [Nether Flame Insect Nest] again costs a whopping two hundred Evolution Points. The cost will only keep rising, since it grows exponentially. I can’t rush that; I’ll just have to save up slowly.’

’That just leaves the path of improving my minions’ quality.’

’I’ll have to find a chance to properly test out this new [Insect Swarm Evolution] feature!’

’I’ll wait until the joint exam is completely over!’

’For now… sleep!’

…

「The next morning.」

In the outskirts of Du Nan City, before the entrance to a massive Secret Realm, three thousand talented examinees who had distinguished themselves in the preliminary rounds were already gathered.

The format for this year’s Tri-Province Joint Exam was once again an arena-style tournament.

However, gathering thousands of examinees from three provinces in a single location was too difficult, too costly, and posed certain security risks.

Thus, the higher-ups devised a brilliant solution: have the students from the three provinces enter the same Secret Realm, where arenas would be built for the competition.

This was a very special Intermediate Secret Realm known as the “Endless Wilderness.”

Ordinary Secret Realms only have one or two fixed entrances and exits.

The entrances and exits to the “Endless Wilderness,” however, were scattered all across the Great Xia Federation’s Southwest Region. Since it could be entered from anywhere, it was undoubtedly the best choice for an exam venue.

Furthermore, the strongest Demon Beasts in the Secret Realm were merely Fourth-Grade, and they had long since been cleared out, which was enough to ensure the students’ safety.

Gu Yuexi had arrived alone this time as well, and her appearance naturally attracted a great deal of attention.

But unlike the previous few days, the focus of everyone’s discussion today was no longer on her.

Almost everyone was chattering away, filled with righteous indignation, about the disgusting and twisted “Evil Giant Mushroom” boss from Spirit Martial Eternity!

“Dammit, the devs are so shameless! They made an overpowered monster and won’t even admit it!”

“I know, right?! And they’re insisting that mushroom is a real player’s Contracted Beast? Who are they trying to fool?!”

Gu Yuexi: “…”

She walked expressionlessly to the exclusive area for the Hidden Dragon Class, only to find Xiao Ran, Huo Mingxuan, and the others were also in the middle of a heated discussion about it.

Huo Mingxuan was particularly agitated, shouting furiously:

“Those asshole devs! They created an overpowered monster that completely wrecked the entire Fourth-Grade division, and they still won’t admit it? They even put out a goddamn announcement saying the mushroom is a real player’s Contracted Beast? Is that a joke?!”

“A Third-Grade Late Stage slaughtering Fourth-Grade Early Stage opponents across levels? What kind of fucking Contracted Beast is that badass?!”

“If that’s real, I’ll fucking chop my dick off and feed it to the dogs!!”

Gu Yuexi: “…”

Chu Sheng: “…”