Evolving infinitely from ground zero

“A 4.2-meter vertical jump from a standstill? What kind of spring-loaded person is this?”

“Lifting a 690kg barbell with one hand, a punch from him could probably kill a cow. No, make that two cows.”

“100 meters in 5.86 seconds, Wuxing is the man!”

In the classroom of Senior Year Class 1, students were praising a muscular boy.

The boy’s name was Chen Wuxing, the king of the top students in the senior class. His recent results from the Kyoto University special talents exam had just been released, causing an uproar among his classmates.

As he basked in everyone’s exclamations, a student from the next desk leaned over and said:

“Wuxing, I heard that Yan Shaoxuan has gone over to the gym to ‘educate’ that arrogant freshman. Seems like he’s trying to imitate what you did to him last year.”

“He’s not as handsome as me, nor does he have my charisma. He can’t learn it.”

Chen Wuxing said with a calm face.

After that, he stood up from his seat and headed out of the classroom.

The class discipline officer, a girl with shoulder-length bobbed hair, noticed he wasn’t heading to the bathroom but going downstairs, so she immediately chased after him and asked:

“Chen Wuxing, class is about to start. Where are you going?”

“To the gym, to illustrate how a senior year should teach a sophomore.”

“Class begins in less than ten minutes. Are you planning to skip?”

“I am skipping class. So what?” Chen Wuxing stopped, turned around to look at the meddlesome girl at the classroom door, and said coolly:

“I’ve already passed the special admission exam for Kyoto University. Even if I drop out now, I’ll still be a Kyoto University student come next September. Don’t try to constrain me with the same rules that bind you, get it?”

After dropping those words, Chen Wuxing turned and headed towards the staircase.

Leaving the girl only a dashing silhouette.

Inside the gymnasium.

Two people stood on the Martial Stage.

One was Lin Zichen, who held the position of the defender, and the other was Yan Shaoxuan, the challenger.

The former was the overlord of the first year, and the latter was the overlord of the second year.

This battle between the new and old attracted a lot of spectators.

Many teachers without classes next period even came to witness this peak showdown.

“Who do you think will win?”

“Yan Shaoxuan, I guess.”

“I think so too. Although Lin Zichen has become famous lately, after taking down nearly half of the second year’s Class 3 by himself, that’s still just an advanced class, and not on the same level as the elite class.”

“To take a class down singlehandedly, Yan Shaoxuan easily did that last year. And then what? When he went on to challenge Chen Wuxing, a grade above him, wasn’t he thoroughly beaten?”

“Indeed, they are all top-tier geniuses in the elite classes. There’s not much difference in talent; an extra year of practice simply makes one much stronger.”

A group of teachers analyzed the likelihood of victory from below the stage.

Their conclusion overwhelmingly doubted Lin Zichen’s chances.

After all, not everyone is Wu Tiancheng, capable of taking down the entire school in his first year.

Besides, when Wu Tiancheng was a first-year, the senior students happened to be a weaker cohort, which allowed him to dominate the entire school.

Right place, right time, neither can be lacking.

On the Martial Stage.

Yan Shaoxuan, with one hand in his pocket and casually flicking his bangs that covered his eyes, said with an air of arrogance:

“Junior, I was as arrogant as you in my first year.”

“But after being trashed by someone, I learned that there is always someone better.”

“Today, I will give you your first lesson in life, teaching you how to be a genius who is neither arrogant nor impetuous.”

Last year, in his first year, he was insufferably arrogant, picking a fight with an entire senior class all on his own from the start of the school year.

Starting with the second year, he fought his way up, smashing through the regular and advanced classes until he reached the elite class, only to be hung and beaten by Chen Wuxing in a David versus Goliath fight and brutally grinded against the Martial Stage.

Now, he was the upperclassman, and he wanted to bully the lower-grade geniuses, making them suffer the same humiliation he had encountered.

If he couldn’t beat the higher grades, could he not beat the lower ones?

Today he had to brutally trounce the freshman who was showing off!

Lin Zichen was oblivious to the drama playing out in Yan Shaoxuan’s mind and didn’t wish to listen to his paternalistic preaching.

So he looked at the referee and said, “Teacher, we’re both in position, can we start the duel?”

The referee nodded, then turned to Yan Shaoxuan and asked, “Are you ready?”

“Ready,” replied Yan Shaoxuan.

Hearing this, the referee immediately raised his right hand and swiftly chopped it down, declaring, “The duel begins!”

“Junior, I suggest… Bam!”

Yan Shaoxuan wanted to say something preachy, but before he could finish, he was kicked off the Martial Stage by Lin Zichen.

Always talking, hurry down from the stage and let others come up for a challenge, don’t delay my “Survival of the Fittest” achievement…

Muttering to himself, Lin Zichen shouted to the others below, “Lunch break is almost over, does anyone else want to challenge?”

No one responded from below.

Because, at that moment, everyone on site was dumbfounded.

What just happened?

Yan Shaoxuan got defeated in a second?

That was the overlord of the second year, a genius who ranked among the top five in the entire school!

He was just knocked down by a freshman with a single kick?

You’ve got to be kidding!

How is this possible!

After a moment, as the shock wore off, the entire gymnasium suddenly filled with incredulous chatter.

Everyone couldn’t believe what they had just witnessed was real, wondering if they were dreaming.

As for the person involved, Yan Shaoxuan, he sat on the ground in a daze, as if his soul had left his body.

Last year, when I was a junior, I was bullied and beaten up by the seniors. Now that I’m a senior, I’m getting instantly killed by my juniors trying to overthrow me. Either way, it looks like I’m the one who’s always getting beaten up?

Lin Zichen didn’t even glance at the defeated under his hand, ignoring the gasps of astonishment that kept coming from around him.

He looked around at the people below the stage and shouted,

“Anyone else want to come up for a challenge? Participate to get a chance to draw a prize! You could win a month of free milk tea vouchers! Or the latest fruit brand smartphone!”

After shouting for a while and seeing that no one else stepped forward, Lin Zichen turned towards a bespectacled girl standing at the edge of the Martial Stage and asked with a smile, “Classmate, do you want to come up and try a few moves?”

“Ah? Umm… I’m just a freshman from a liberal arts class, I’m just here for the excitement.”

“No worries, come on up for the experience.”

Saying this, Lin Zichen grabbed the bespectacled girl onto the Martial Stage, stuffed a raffle ticket into her hand, and then instantly knocked her out with one move.

Survival of the Fittest achievement progress +1!

Watching this, even the female principal was a bit stunned.

She pondered, Lin Zichen deliberately organized a personal challenge match, shouldn’t he be eager for a clash of the strong?

Why is he now not even sparing the liberal arts freshmen who came to join in the fun?

Does he have a battle addiction?

Crazed?

Not picky at all about his opponents?

The female principal was at a loss.

However, it didn’t matter if she didn’t understand, as long as she grasped one thing, and that was—to cater to Lin Zichen’s needs as much as possible.

Thinking this, the female principal immediately arranged a task for the teachers present, instructing them to organize the students who hadn’t had a turn to go up on stage and challenge Lin Zichen.

So, in the time that followed,

Many students who originally just came for the fun were herded onto the Martial Stage like ducks and then instantly defeated by Lin Zichen.

Seeing the progress bar shoot up, Lin Zichen was overjoyed, thinking to himself that a strong woman who could be principal really was different with a keen ability to read the situation.

Soon, the bell for class rang, and the students expressed that they needed to go back for their lessons.

The female principal directly said there was no need to worry about it, if their teachers held them accountable, they should say it was the principal who told them to stay in the gym.

“Look, Chen Wuxing is here!”

“Is he here for the challenge?”

“I didn’t expect even Chen Wuxing, the top student of our school, to come for the challenge. This is going to be good!”

Right at the moment the bell finished ringing, such a commotion arose from the crowd.

Lin Zichen followed the crowd’s gaze toward a boy approaching from afar.

Chen Wuxing?

The number one student in the school?

So after the juniors come the seniors?

Seeing him watching, the boy immediately sped up with a dash, pushed hard off the ground with his calves, and leapt up with a “thud” as he landed onto the Martial Stage.

Just like Yan Shaoxuan’s entrance.

The only difference was that this boy’s leg muscles had more explosive power, he jumped higher, and he was even more handsome.

“I really didn’t expect Yan Shaoxuan to lose to you,”

On the Martial Stage, Chen Wuxing said calmly as he looked at Lin Zichen who was even more attractive than him.

After finishing his sentence, he quickly added, “You are indeed very strong, but…”

“Teacher, we’re all set in our positions, and we can start the duel,”

Without waiting for Chen Wuxing to finish, Lin Zichen interrupted him and said this to the referee beside him.

Chen Wuxing looked like another chatterbox show-off, and Lin Zichen couldn’t be bothered to waste time on him.

“Junior, you seem a bit impatient,”

Chen Wuxing shook his head and then said with a smile, “But that’s alright, once the duel starts, I’ll let you settle down and listen properly.”

After about ten seconds,

“Bang!”

Accompanied by the sound of impact, the school’s top student who had just been thinking to teach Lin Zichen a lesson was kicked off the Martial Stage, along with his pride, in an instant.

When dealing with those who talked too much and interfered with him completing the Survival of the Fittest achievement, a quick defeat was the way to go.

Without paying attention to the shock of those around him, Lin Zichen urged the students lined up below to get on the stage,

“Classmate, don’t daydream, hurry up to the stage.”

“Oh, oh, okay,”

The boy at the front of the line snapped back to reality and responded.

He then went up to challenge and was speedily defeated by Lin Zichen.

From getting on stage to being knocked down, the whole process took less than 10 seconds, finished in a quick and clean manner.

“Next!”

“Come on, next!”

“Keep it going!”

And so, after match after match, by the time it was almost four in the afternoon, the Survival of the Fittest achievement was finally completed.

[In a formal competitive setting, using the most primitive means of biology, you have cumulatively eliminated 1000 different competitors. Achievement reached.]

[Acquired Biometric Attribute: Survival of the Fittest]

[Survival of the Fittest: Increases the damage you inflict on other organisms.]

After reading the message, Lin Zichen was quite satisfied with the effect of the Biometric Attribute Survival of the Fittest.

A simple and brutal increase to damage dealt.

Very practical.

The only slightly disappointing part was that it didn’t specify how much damage would be increased, leaving it rather vague.

PS: Begging for monthly and recommendation tickets!