Chapter 646
Elite Martial Arts Colleges at universities are primarily dedicated to training pioneers and guardians, which means their fundamental curriculum revolves around combat.
When facing a beast tide, the strength of desolate beasts is unequal, so each school must teach students how to utilize effective manpower to maximize combat power.
This new student competition seems very unfair at first glance, with Meridian Opening students potentially facing off against those in the Qi-Controlling phase, resulting in a one-sided trend that doesn’t truly reflect the freshmen’s abilities.
However, the reality is, when facing desolate beasts, there is never any talk of fairness!
In battles with desolate beasts, their strength is often a bit more overwhelming.
Therefore, how to achieve victory and score the most points is actually a test of the tactical coordination abilities of the various universities.
Which battles to give up on, which to commit all resources to, who to dispatch against different opponents, learning to choose wisely, engaging in psychological gamesmanship with each other – it’s not only a contest of courage but also of strategy.
Although Elder Luo usually seems bored to death and far from serious, he once served as the grand commander of the Jiuzhou Alliance’s resistance against the beast tide, with a formidable strategic vision for commanding battles.
He couldn’t be clearer about the original intention behind this type of competition among the nine elite schools.
In other words, Elder Luo has an idea of how to break through this situation, but he didn’t spell it out; he wanted Xiang Beifei and his team to think for themselves first, as this is also a form of training.
If their ideas don’t work out, then Elder Luo would provide further guidance.
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Hearing Elder Luo’s words, no one had any more grounds to complain.
Ye Changfeng and Yuchi Shen also sat to the side, staying silent and watching the five members led by Xiang Beifei.
Xiang Beifei and the others remained quiet.
After a long while, Long Guocheng was the first to speak, “Tomorrow’s competition, our first match is the second round, against Qingzhou University. We don’t know who they will send to face us.”
Xiang Beifei said, “The person Qingzhou University sends over tomorrow will definitely be Hou Chengwu, no surprises there.”
Long Guocheng asked, “Are you so sure? Qingzhou University has two SSRs, one UR, and two SRs, and they still haven’t confirmed their selections.”
Xiang Beifei said, “It will be Hou Chengwu! He initially refused Liangzhou University and switched to Qingzhou University. He must prove to others that not choosing Liangzhou University was the right decision, and he will prove it by personally defeating us.”
“That makes sense,” Li Zimu nodded thoughtfully, “I suppose after you refuted him today, he would want to take revenge.”
“Xiang Beifei, are you capable of defeating Hou Chengwu?” Xi Keyao asked.
Xiang Beifei was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly.
The expressions on Long Guocheng and the others improved a little, as they all recognized Xiang Beifei’s strength by now.
This fellow might not be an SSR, but his strength was ridiculously strong.
With him around, even if Liangzhou University might not be as overtly strong as those top three schools, they were still on par with the other universities.
“But if the other schools all send SSRs to face us, we are almost certain to lose. Xiang Beifei can only enter the field twice, meaning at most he can score two points, but we four are most likely to lose,” Ma Ziqian said.
“Unless we figure out a way to prevent them from all using SSRs against us,” Li Zimu said.
“They all think we’re easy targets now, how can we change their minds?” Long Guocheng asked.
“It’s simple. We must let them know we aren’t that weak,” Xiang Beifei said.
Li Zimu caught on and said, “I get it now, we have to show them that our school also has a Meridian Opening phase student. That way, they won’t all send Meridian Opening students against us. This means, Xiang Beifei, you must enter the field tomorrow against Qingzhou University.”
A person can appear on the stage at most twice, thus after Xiang Beifei’s first move, as long as he slightly reveals his power, it would be enough to intimidate people from other schools and make them wary.
Realizing that the ‘persimmon’ of Liangzhou University might not be so easy to squeeze!
Because if the SSR they send out encounters Xiang Beifei, the tough opponent, and loses, it would be a significant loss. Therefore, the other schools would not recklessly send their SSRs to challenge Liangzhou University.
This ability is very unique; any creature or person with sins can be targeted by it, and a ‘covering door’ will automatically form in the mind. Even if this ‘covering door’ is not originally the opponent’s weakness.
Take, for example, the Triangular Thunder Krait, whose original weakness is in its eyes, but if Yuchi Shen uses the “Seven Deadly Sins Kill,” he can forcibly shift this weakness to somewhere else, such as transferring the ‘covering door’ to the tail of the Triangular Thunder Krait.
Then, as long as Yuchi Shen hits the tail of the Triangular Thunder Krait, it will surely die!
“This ability is amazing, forcibly changing the opponent’s weakness?” Xiang Beifei was quite impressed.
“Yes, I heard that originally two SSR Awakeners were going to come to our Liangzhou University, but because Liangzhou University admitted an N-level, those two SSRs looked down on our university and went to other elite schools instead.”
“Wouldn’t the school be furious? Losing two SSRs over an N-level student?”
“Exactly! That N-level Awakener really knows how to stir trouble.”
Just then, Xiang Beifei let out a startled exclamation because he noticed that a figure had suddenly appeared behind the baby!
This figure seemed to have teleported there, holding a sword in hand and exuding a powerful aura, ignoring all the tendrils!
It was Ye Changfeng!
Ye Changfeng frowned as he looked at the baby, and then he swung his sword at the baby!
The baby seemed to react, but before it could turn around, Ye Changfeng’s sword had already cut it in two!
However, the baby did not dissipate; after it was split, countless tendrils sprang out of its body and merged into the surrounding tendrils.
“To death with you!”
Ye Changfeng gripped his longsword and struck out another sword blow forward!
This sword was like a bolt of lightning, carrying a terrifying force. The chilling Sword Qi stretched for hundreds of meters, creating a crack through the sky of tendrils!
As the tendrils were split apart, they tried to reassemble, but soon, countless bursts of Sword Qi exploded among them—
Boom! Boom! Boom!
All the tendrils failed to escape under Ye Changfeng’s sword and were utterly destroyed!
The sliced tendrils were shredded by the Sword Qi, and the remaining tendrils, now fearful, began to retreat toward the ground and quickly disappeared from sight.
“You all wait here, don’t run around!”
Ye Changfeng flung his sword, and the Longyuan Sword hovered above their heads, as if to protect them. Meanwhile, another sword appeared in his hand, and with a step, his figure flickered and vanished into thin air.
“Thank goodness Mr. Ye came.” Fan Kai sighed in relief, knowing that if Mr. Ye had not arrived in time, they might have been doomed on this venture.
But Sun Yushan didn’t quite understand and asked, “What kind of desolate beast is this? Why have we never seen it before?”
The two of them had also trained in the Cultivated Domain for three years, and they were fairly familiar with the types of desolate beasts there. Some desolate beasts, although powerful, had never been as troublesome as this time. They hadn’t expected that today they would nearly lose their lives.
Xiang Beifei pondered for a moment and then turned to Xiaohei, “Xiaohei, you should be able to lead him out of this space, right?”
Xiaohei nodded; this was a space created by the System, and no power of the System could trap Xiaohei. It could leave the System’s constraints at will.