Fist Of Fantasy

Liang De, a twenty-seven-year-old corporate slave, dies from overwork and awakens in a square, iron-gray room spanning over one thousand square meters. A cold mechanical female voice announces the start of an entrance exam for Sheng Wuxu Private High School. He is given a candidate notice and told to use the examination tools to kill a twenty-five-meter long, ten-meter tall Sawtooth Lizard-Lion from World 441 of the Other Shore of the Void Sea. The beast is docile until he crosses a silver dividing line, but if he fails to complete the exam within three hours, a fifty-thousand-ton ceiling will crush him. The tools provided include armor, mechanical components, and various weapons, but Liang De lacks combat skills and finds no use for them. He discovers that the Sawtooth Lizard-Lion is injected with a degeneration agent, shrinking and evolving at fifty-minute intervals until it reaches juvenile stage at the final thirty minutes, but an unknown entity has secretly replaced it with an evolution agent, making it more dangerous. Desperate, Liang De uses industrial wire cutters and later a hydraulic rebar cutter to sever the timing hemp rope, but it remains unharmed. He attempts to extinguish the rope with artificial liquid, but it burns through. With one-third of the rope already burned, a wall begins advancing toward him, pushing him toward the beast. After the first evolution, the Sawtooth Lizard-Lion shrinks to fourteen meters in length, but it is still formidable. Liang De realizes the only way to survive is to burn the rope himself. He ignites the end of the rope, reducing the time to one minute. As the ceiling descends, he lies down by the silver line. The Sawtooth Lizard-Lion, unable to cross the line, is crushed by the fifty-thousand-ton metal slab. The beast dies, and the teleportation talisman array activates, transporting Liang De out of the testing room. He wakes in a classroom with a teacher and a girl in a sailor uniform. The girl is a student from another department, and the confrontation reveals the school's lethal environment. Liang De meets Lin Baolong, the Land Department grade leader, a burly man who explains that this is a Sword Immortal Ruins which captures souls after death. His body was remade, and he is now a student attending compulsory general studies classes. Moments after arriving, Bai Hekong, a study committee member from the Sea Department, attacks him, and Lin Baolong intervenes. Lin Baolong informs Liang De that the Land Department first year is ranked last in points, and if he cannot become a qualified combatant within seven days, the department will kill him to avoid point deductions. Points are directly tied to survival; after each final exam, students are subjected to random kill draws based on department rankings. The weaker the department, the higher the death rate. The fastest student to enter the Realm Origin, the necessary realm to become a combatant, took three months, but Liang De has only seven days. Liang De questions why points are valued over life, but Lin Baolong insists that at this school, points are life. The school motto is to cultivate talent possessing both strength and luck. Liang De reflects on his previous unhappy life and the absurdity of his situation. He hesitates to fight for survival, but Lin Baolong offers him a choice: either try to become stronger or be killed now. Liang De realizes he has no option but to embark on the path to strength, though he feels the immense pressure of the time constraint and the danger of the school's environment. He must now prepare for the impending battle to survive.