Chapter 69: One-Punch Man

Chapter 69: Chapter 69: One-Punch Man

Liu Yue stepped out of the glass pod, her narrow eyes lifting slightly as she coolly swept her gaze over all the Extraordinary Beings in the room.

Seeing the looks of astonishment on everyone’s faces, she felt a rush of satisfaction.

However, she wasn’t as extreme as Wu Jiahao, who practically wore his desire to show off on his face.

She simply glanced around, taking in everyone’s shocked expressions, then quickly walked toward the damage resistance testing area.

As soon as she arrived at the damage resistance testing area, she picked up a handgun, aimed it at her own head, and pulled the trigger.

"BANG!"

A bullet shot out, heading straight for her temple.

Just as the bullet was about to touch her skin,

Liu Yue’s eyes narrowed, and an immense wave of Spiritual Power instantly enveloped her.

The speeding bullet stopped abruptly, hovering in mid-air right against her temple, as if held in place by an invisible barrier.

The other testers present all stared with wide eyes, their faces filled with disbelief.

’What?!’

’She can even stop a bullet?’

’This Liu Yue is insane!’

However, an even more shocking scene was yet to come.

Liu Yue raised a hand to pluck the hovering bullet from the air, set down the handgun, then turned, picked up a bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid from behind her, and, right in front of everyone, tilted her head back and drank it all.

"That’s concentrated sulfuric acid, and she just drank it straight down?"

"Wait, I didn’t think her Physical Strength was that high. How does she dare?"

"Could it be... her Spiritual Control can handle concentrated sulfuric acid?"

The area filled with confused murmurs.

No one could figure out how Liu Yue, who wasn’t known for her Physical Strength, was going to resist the highly corrosive sulfuric acid.

Just as everyone was completely baffled, an astonishing scene occurred!

The concentrated sulfuric acid that Liu Yue had just drunk was now floating out from under her skirt, wisp by wisp, through the air.

Seeing this, everyone had a sudden realization.

It turned out Liu Yue’s method was to use her exquisitely precise Spiritual Power to contain the concentrated sulfuric acid for the entire duration.

She made it hover inside her body’s cavities.

From start to finish, it never made contact with her internal mucous membranes.

To put it simply, from the moment it entered her mouth, the concentrated sulfuric acid was suspended in mid-air. It never touched her mouth, traveling through her esophagus, stomach, and intestines while hovering, before floating out from under her skirt without a single drop left behind.

With zero contact for the entire process, there was naturally zero damage.

Once they understood the principle behind it, the crowd was utterly stunned.

Liu Yue’s proficiency with Spiritual Control was simply, shockingly high.

A super genius like her was definitely a rising star that the Night Court would heavily invest in for the future!

Meanwhile, a staff member on site frowned, troubled.

The original purpose of the damage resistance test was to accurately assess each tester’s physical defense and endurance limits.

But Liu Yue hadn’t used her physical body to resist at all.

Instead, she had relied on her powerful Spiritual Control to bypass the damage resistance portion entirely.

’No damage ever landed on her from start to finish. How am I supposed to evaluate her body’s damage resistance?’

’No, this won’t do. She has to re-test!’

With this thought, the staff member called out to Liu Yue:

"Liu Yue, test again. Don’t play these little tricks, or I won’t be able to record the data for your body’s damage resistance."

"Fine."

Liu Yue shrugged helplessly and cooperatively re-did the test.

The data from her re-test was very average.

She was only slightly stronger than the crowd of Extraordinary Contactors, far from the level of Wu Jiahao, who was also an Extraordinary Awakened.

But none of that mattered, because she had already achieved her goal.

Her dazzling display of skill, using Spiritual Control to cleverly bypass the test, had already deeply shocked everyone present and shown them her astonishing potential.

And that was the true purpose of her trick.

...

「On the second-floor corridor.」

Several men in black began to flatter He Haikun again.

"This Liu Yue is another genius, Captain He! You’ve found a pair of aces. Your merits have just doubled!"

"If it were me, I definitely couldn’t have discovered these two geniuses. Captain He truly has a keen eye for talent!"

"Captain He, I feel like I can congratulate you in advance on your promotion to Captain. Don’t forget us when you’re at the top!"

The men in black spouted endless flattery, hoping to ride He Haikun’s coattails.

He Haikun didn’t mind people kissing his ass; in fact, he quite enjoyed it.

He put on a modest facade, waving his hand with a smile.

"You can’t joke about the Captain position like that. Everything depends on the arrangements from our superiors. Don’t go putting me on a pedestal just to set me up."

Lin Tianyang stood to the side, watching coldly.

He cursed inwardly:

’Heh. It’d be great if a worthless piece of shit like you actually got screwed over and died one day. I’d throw a huge banquet to celebrate.’

...

Below,

The other testers went up one after another.

Soon, three more people were tested, but their performances were unremarkable and failed to cause a stir.

"It’s finally my turn."

Gu Qing muttered to himself and walked toward the punching machine up ahead.

Among the people present, apart from a few girls drawn in by his good looks, no one else paid him much attention.

They were all busy trying to cozy up to Wu Jiahao and Liu Yue.

Liu Yue didn’t care about the flattery from those around her. Like a few other girls, her gaze was fixed on Gu Qing as he went to test his punching power.

She even raised her voice and shouted to Gu Qing:

"Go for it, handsome!"

Her voice immediately caught the attention of Jiahao nearby.

Seeing that the girls’ attention had been stolen by Gu Qing,

Wu Jiahao was inwardly annoyed:

’You ignore a tough guy like me and go fawn over some useless pretty boy?’

’All you care about are looks, not strength?’

’Hah, a bunch of shallow, stupid women. No different from those mindless fangirls. They’re all fucking idiots!’

...

「Over at the testing area.」

Gu Qing walked straight to the punching machine and stopped.

He had no idea that simply by being handsome and attracting the girls’ attention, he had earned the jealousy of Brother Jiahao.

Right now, the only thing in his eyes was the heavy punching machine before him.

’What’s the maximum force this machine can take?’

’It should be tens of thousands of kilograms, right?’

’I wonder if it can withstand a full-power punch in my normal state?’

’Whatever, I’ll play it safe and just use fifty percent of my normal state’s power.’

’Don’t want to break their machine with one punch.’

After a moment of thought, Gu Qing decided not to activate his Muscle Knots mode and to remain in his normal state.

He slowly raised his right arm, aiming his clenched fist at the punching machine’s impact pad.

He took no fancy stance.

No roar to gather his strength.

In the next instant, his waist sank slightly, and with fifty percent of his arm’s strength, he suddenly threw a straight punch.

"BAM!"

A deafening impact rang out.

A torrent of fierce power poured out, slamming violently into the impact pad.

In an instant!

The soft pad first caved inward to its absolute limit, before its plastic surface instantly cracked, peeled back, and exploded into countless fragments that filled the air!

Immediately after!

The anchor bolts at the machine’s base snapped from the immense impact, and the massive, multi-ton machine was lifted off the ground, sent flying violently backward!

Finally, it ended with a thunderous CRASH!

The entire punching machine slammed heavily against the wall, half its body sinking into the structure and sending a shocking web of cracks across its surface!

Gu Qing himself was completely stunned.

’Seriously?’

’It couldn’t even handle half my power in my normal state?’

’This thing is that flimsy?’

...