“So many wolves?” Li Miaomiao wore soft leather armor, a small shield in her left hand, and a long sword in her right. The shield was only thirty centimeters in diameter, slightly larger than a human hand.

At this moment, Li Miaomiao felt a little flustered. These wolves were too big and too fast.

“This is just the first level of the Starry Sky Tower?” Li Miaomiao watched the pack of wolves begin to encircle and close in, and hurriedly ran. “I have to run, find opportunities while running! I can’t let these wolves form a siege.”

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

The wolves were good at cooperating and were fast, like hunting, patiently compressing Li Miaomiao's range of movement, and would not attack alone.

“These wolves are too cunning.” Li Miaomiao felt bitter inside. “I can’t find a chance to defeat them one by one.”

As her range of movement became smaller and smaller, finally three wolves took the lead and pounced on her.

Whoosh.

Li Miaomiao darted out, raising the small shield in her left hand at the same time, blocking the wolf’s claws, and swiftly stabbing her sword into the wolf’s neck with her right hand.

After all, the virtual world had been open for seven days, and Xu Jingming had been teaching Li Miaomiao individually every day. Xu Jingming had taught her: “You only need to learn one move now—the stab! This is also the most suitable move for the sword. Advancing stab, retreating stab, backhand stab, turning stab… In short, no matter how your body moves, or even if you fall, you must be able to stab out this sword!”

“Hold a small shield in your left hand. After all, you haven't practiced with shields before, and a large shield will affect your swordsmanship. A small shield… also allows your left hand to block and defend.” Xu Jingming taught her step by step.

Puff puff!

Li Miaomiao dodged left and right, using the small shield in her hand to barely block, and her刺sword was also swift, continuously刺killing three wolves. But more wolves pounced on her.

“It’s over.” Watching the large group of wolves pouncing around her, Li Miaomiao instantly clicked to exit.

After exiting, she returned to the outside of the Starry Sky Tower. Looking at the towering Starry Sky Tower, Li Miaomiao muttered, “The first level of the Starry Sky Tower requires dealing with more than a hundred wolves? What will the third level be like? I wonder how Jingming is doing.”

*******

The second level of the Starry Sky Tower was a primitive mountain forest after a heavy snowfall.

“It’s so cold.”

Xu Jingming felt the cold air seeping through his armor and invading his body. He carefully observed his surroundings.

He immediately saw a huge cave in front of him. Five giant brown bears were playing outside the cave. The appearance of these brown bears made Xu Jingming’s expression become serious. These giant brown bears were more than four meters long, with high, arched backs. They were frighteningly strong. The dense brown fur formed in the cold environment was very thick and long. This thick fur and skin were natural armor!

“Giant brown bears over four meters long, with an estimated weight of at least three thousand kilograms. With their size, a single paw strike probably has an impact of tens of thousands of kilograms. Once they charge, the power is even more terrifying. Humans are not suitable for head-on collisions with them.” Xu Jingming observed and made a judgment. “Their thick fur and skin, plus subcutaneous fat! It probably won't be easy to pierce them with a spear. I have to target their vitals.”

The five giant bears all stared at Xu Jingming, the uninvited guest.

“Roar.” One of the giant brown bears suddenly moved. Despite its fat and strong appearance, its speed when charging was terrifying.

When this giant brown bear suddenly charged towards Xu Jingming, the other four brown bears also stood up, but they were not in a hurry to besiege him, apparently thinking that their companion was enough to deal with this outsider.

Xu Jingming stood in the snow, calmly watching the approaching giant brown bear.

The brown bear ran very fast. When it got close, it jumped up directly, and its huge bear paw swatted down.

“Whoosh.”

Xu Jingming moved his feet and nimbly dodged to the side in two steps, causing the giant brown bear to miss.

At the same time as he dodged, Xu Jingming thrust out a spear.

“Chi!” The spear was like a poisonous snake emerging from its hole, instantly piercing into the giant bear’s neck. This was already the giant bear’s ‘vitals’, but Xu Jingming only felt that it was extremely difficult to刺pierce, and the resistance was extremely high. The spearhead only刺pierced a part before it could not be刺pierced any further!

“Buzz.”

Xu Jingming pulled out his spear and avoided the giant bear’s counterattack, then thrust out another spear.

This spear was even faster. The spear tore through the air with a strange sound, and the spear tip instantly刺pierced most of the depth of the giant bear’s neck. As the spear was pulled out, fresh blood gurgled out, and the giant bear also weakly began to fall.

“An ordinary thrusting spear is not powerful enough, and even刺piercing the neck doesn’t刺pierce deeply. Only by using Wu Ying Ci (Shadowless Stab) can I刺kill a giant bear.” Xu Jingming secretly assessed, raising his head to look at the distant cave. The other four giant bears at the cave entrance had not regarded the outsider as a threat, but the outsider had killed their companion with just two spears, one wounding and the second killing. This made them feel a huge threat, and at the same time, they were filled with anger!

“Roar~~”

“Roar~~”

The four giant bears ran over, their roars of anger also carrying sorrow.

“Although they are a bit troublesome, I can still handle four of them.” Xu Jingming clearly judged the situation. “These giant bears have the advantage in size and strength, but they are inferior to me in terms of speed and agility, and they can’t block my Wu Ying Ci.”

But at this moment—

“Roar~~~~~” Suddenly, a much deeper and more雄渾 roar came from the cave. This roar made Xu Jingming’s face change. He saw the cave shaking, and an extremely huge bear rushed out of the cave. This was a super giant brown bear with a body length of six meters. Compared to it, the previous five giant bears were like cubs.

“Could it be that these five smaller bears are really its children?” Xu Jingming muttered to himself, but a cold glint flashed in his eyes. Not only did he not escape, but he instead took the initiative to meet the angry four giant bears.

His footwork was ghostly. As he approached the four giant bears, he made a sharp turn, followed by a spear thrust.

In seven days, Xu Jingming’s spear and shield techniques had improved, but the biggest improvement was his footwork! These four giant bears seemed too clumsy in front of Xu Jingming.

“Puff!”

A spear deeply刺pierced into the neck of a large bear. When another large bear angrily pounced and swatted its paw, Xu Jingming immediately retracted his spear and dodged away. At the same time as he dodged, he turned around and performed a 回马枪 (huima qiang, a move where one turns around to strike back)! The spear also erupted with full force, once again刺piercing into the neck of a large bear.

With just a few steps, he killed two large bears in a row.

“Those top experts would maintain their distance, carefully defend, and not give me a chance to use Wu Ying Ci. But these big bears… don’t defend at all, they just know how to charge.” After killing two big bears, Xu Jingming glanced at the super giant brown bear that was charging madly from a distance.

“The Bear King is coming. It’s faster than me, so it’s very difficult to deal with.”

Xu Jingming thought to himself.

Puff!

While moving, he used Wu Ying Ci again, leaving a large hole in the neck of a large bear. Now only the last large bear was left. That large bear was afraid and turned around to run towards the Bear King!

“So I have to get rid of the other small bears as soon as possible.” Xu Jingming did not care about the approaching Bear King, but instead took the initiative to chase after the last large bear. He was still faster than these large bears.

“Bang!”

Head-on chase, a fierce and violent 破山 (po shan, mountain splitting)! The spear刺pierced from the mouth of the large bear, which was turning around to defend in a panic, and貫穿pierced through its head.

“Roar—” The Bear King roared in extreme anger and pounced.

Xu Jingming calmly pulled out his spear and dodged, avoiding the pounce.

“I am not as good as this Bear King in terms of size, strength, and speed. Only agility and skill are my advantages.” Xu Jingming understood a truth when he was a teenager. In a one-on-one fight in the ring, once you lose your composure, you lose most of the battle.

One-on-one fighting is about avoiding your weaknesses and exploiting your strengths.

“Tear—”

The Bear King was six meters long and too large. When its pair of bear paws swatted open, they could cover an area. Xu Jingming also dodged by using the trees in the mountain forest. These trees… were helpful for himself, who was small.

“Bang.” The bear paw hit a large tree, and the tree trunk broke directly under the impact, causing Xu Jingming’s eyes to twitch.

He knew that the Bear King’s strength must be terrifying. But it was too terrifying.

“As long as I get hit by one of its paws, I’m done.” Xu Jingming dodged carefully, looking for an opportunity to attack.

The Bear King chased after him.

Xu Jingming used the terrain to constantly dodge.

For a time, trees fell one after another, and the snow was shaken and thrown into the air.

In the flying snow, a spear suddenly刺pierced out! The spear was as fast as lightning, and it appeared suddenly at close range. The Bear King, which was衝撞charging angrily, crashed into this spear.

“Puff.” The spear刺pierced into one of the Bear King’s eyes, but it only刺pierced a part before it got stuck.

Whoosh.

Xu Jingming instantly pulled out his spear and retreated violently.

“Roar~~~” The Bear King, which had been blinded in one eye, became even more angry and crazy.

“It’s still not dead after that?” Xu Jingming couldn’t believe it.

……

The crazy Bear King chased and刺killed Xu Jingming. Xu Jingming used the terrain of the mountain forest to constantly dodge, occasionally counterattacking with a spear. The Bear King was also very careful to protect its only eye, but its neck was also刺pierced with one hole after another by Xu Jingming.

After a full eighteen minutes of difficult fighting, the Bear King finally fell weakly.

Xu Jingming was also exhausted.

Eighteen minutes!

Eighteen minutes of high tension and full-force combat!

“I刺pierced so many holes in the Bear King’s neck, and it still relied on bleeding to death.” Xu Jingming was also helpless. “It’s really too thick-skinned.”

“刺piercing its chest and back doesn’t pierce through at all.” Xu Jingming was also quite helpless. He looked around. A large number of trees had fallen around him, and the snow was also a mess. “Fortunately, my footwork has improved a lot in the seven days since the virtual world opened. If I had encountered this Bear King on the first day, I would have been slapped to death with one paw, and I wouldn’t have been able to maneuver for so long.”

Long-term training in body exertion and being surrounded by hundreds of brave bandits had made Xu Jingming’s footwork much more slippery.

“The second level has been passed. Prepare to enter the third level of the Starry Sky Tower.” A voice rang in his ears.

Xu Jingming’s fatigue faded away, his body returned to its peak state, and his spear and armor became clean again.

The scene in front of him also began to change, and he arrived at the third level of the Starry Sky Tower.