A stern voice echoed, and before long, five men of varying heights appeared before them.

Their faces were filled with anger, and one of them leered at Zhao Ziyue with a sleazy gaze.

The leader, a man with a gloomy expression, stepped forward.

"Friends, that Giant Earth Bear was a prey our Killing God Guild has been hunting for three days. I'm afraid it's not appropriate for you to snatch our victory like this, is it?"

Qiao Yu recognized the voice as the one who had just shouted.

"Sorry about that. How about I give you the soul core, and I'll help you find another one?" Yang Xiangdi scratched his head sheepishly.

Seeing how easygoing Yang Xiangdi was, the leader immediately changed his mind.

He winked at the sleazy man beside him.

The sleazy man understood and immediately pretended to be aggrieved, yelling, "How can that be! My D-grade broadsword is still stuck in that bear. If you kill it, my equipment is gone too! You have to compensate me for my equipment!"

Qiao Yu's brow furrowed. Could Yang Xiangdi's Earth Blast Technique melt D-grade equipment? He was pulling their legs.

"Little brother, you see, I can't let my brother be wronged," the leader said with a hypocritical smile.

"How about this, you compensate me with a D-grade equipment, and we'll call it even?"

He looked greedily at the pink robe on Yang Xiangdi, clearly recognizing it as a D-grade item.

"That's not how it's going to be. If you push your luck, don't blame us for being impolite." Qiao Yu stepped forward, blocking Yang Xiangdi.

Ma Fei's response was even more direct. A longsword resembling autumn water appeared in his hand, and the others vaguely heard a dragon's roar.

"Get lost!"

Ma Fei shouted fiercely, but the faces of the five men instantly changed, filled with intense greed!

"B-grade equipment!"

The immense temptation made it impossible for them to continue pretending.

"Fifth, go back and notify the guild leader. Tell him there's an initial-stage kid here with a B-grade equipment! The rest of you, hold these kids back!"

The leader made a decisive decision and immediately attacked!

"Yes!"

The sleazy man glanced at Qiao Yu and the others, then turned and disappeared into the forest.

This scene stunned Ma Fei.

He had been on campus and only interacted with students.

Were people outside the safety zone so ruthless? They wanted to snatch his Clear Dragon Sword the moment they saw it.

But...they were too weak!

"Earth Dragon Bullet!"

"A Sword Across Worlds!"

"Dark Star Shield!"

"...Ordinary Punch!"

In the blink of an eye, they had dealt with the four men.

The entire battle lasted less than three seconds.

The leader's face was no longer filled with greed, replaced by a look of horror. He realized he had kicked a steel plate.

"Are you college students?"

With the same initial-stage cultivation, only the geniuses from those universities could defeat them so easily.

"Yu-ge, what do we do with these guys?" Yang Xiangdi asked.

Qiao Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, remembering the Zhou brothers who had almost killed him.

He parted his lips and uttered a single word: "Kill!"

The four men's faces changed again, and they quickly begged for mercy.

"Little brother, I'm sorry. We were just blinded by greed!"

"Let us go, and we promise not to bother you again!"

"Yes, please let us go. We really know we were wrong!"

Qiao Yu remained silent.

These four men were essentially the same type of people as the Zhou brothers, like bloodthirsty wolves who would try to bite off a piece of you whenever they had the chance.

Their pleas for mercy weren't because they knew they were wrong; they were just crocodile tears.

Yang Xiangdi and Ma Fei were both uneasy.

"If we don't kill them, the Killing God Guild will come looking for us and kill us anyway," Qiao Yu said.

"But Qiao Yu, we don't have any real grudges with them, do we?" Ma Fei hesitated.

"Yeah, yeah! We don't need to go that far!" the leader said, a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

"There were also three strangers once. I didn't know them, and I didn't have any real grudges with them, but they stabbed me through the heart."

Qiao Yu didn't say much more. Ignoring the leader's pleas, he punched him, sending him back to the safety zone to resurrect.

He understood that outside the safety zone was a world of naked survival of the fittest.

If he didn't kill these four men, the Killing God Guild would have four more helpers.

Seeing that their leader was dead, the other three men begged for mercy even louder.

"Whether to kill the remaining three is up to you," Qiao Yu sighed, not forcing the others to act.

After all, when facing the Zhou brothers, he wouldn't have been able to make such a decisive move unless he had been forced into a life-or-death situation.

"Thump!"

"Earth Blast Technique!"

Two men were killed almost simultaneously. To Qiao Yu's surprise, Zuo You's attack was also very decisive.

The other man's head was smashed into the ground by Zuo You's shield.

"Ma Fei, what are you waiting for? I didn't see you hesitate when you killed Shi Yimin!" Yang Xiangdi was puzzled.

"It's different!" Ma Fei shook his head. "Shi Yimin used you as a shield; he harmed you first."

"But these men are very weak. They were just blinded by greed for a moment and didn't do anything substantially bad."

"Ugh, why are you so rigid..."

Yang Xiangdi was interrupted by Zuo You.

"Let me."

Zuo You: "Ma Fei, I just heard that guy say you're much worse than Qiao Yu."

Ma Fei: "?"

Zuo You: "He also said that not only is your strength inferior to Qiao Yu's, but you're also uglier."

Ma Fei: "???"

Zuo You: "He also said that even if all the women in the world married Qiao Yu, they wouldn't marry you."

[Self-esteem Frustration Level 100%, Damage Amplification 10000%]

The next second, countless sword energies crisscrossed, turning the man into a hornet's nest.

That guy felt bitter. He clearly heard the sword-wielding man say he wouldn't kill him, but the next second he inexplicably went crazy and started stabbing him.

Filled with grievances, he followed in the footsteps of the other three and turned into starlight.

"Did you learn something? This is the right way to use Ma Fei," Zuo You said to the others.

Yang Xiangdi's eyes lit up. So that's how Ma Fei could be used!

Zhao Ziyue also looked eager to try.

Ma Fei: "..."

Qiao Yu couldn't help but rub his chin, wondering if the effect would be better if he personally mocked Ma Fei.

Meanwhile, the sleazy man who had left earlier finally returned to the guild district in the safety zone.

The guild district was next to the high tower, and the sleazy man went straight to the Killing God Guild.

But as soon as he entered the guild, he saw four familiar figures. The sleazy man asked in confusion, "Big brother? Weren't you four supposed to hold back those kids? How did you get back faster than me?"