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Chapter 132 - 132 108 Sensitive Thanks to the alliance leader 'Lalalalalalalalala'

132: Chapter 108: Sensitive (Thanks to the alliance leader ‘Lalalalalalalalala’) 132: Chapter 108: Sensitive (Thanks to the alliance leader ‘Lalalalalalalalala’) Amid the rumbling of the ground, we saw walls suddenly rise in the stadium, dividing the massive arena into one small room after another.

In the resting area of Songyang High School, Zhang Yu watched this scene in amazement: “Purple Cloud High School’s stadium can transform?

Compared to this, our school’s stadium is like a sandpit!”

Most of the Songyang people nearby grimaced at his words, but considering Zhang Yu’s recent display of 4.95 level physical strength ranking 5th, no one dared to contradict him openly, not even the son of the school director, He Dayou, who could only pretend not to hear what this Songyang Black had said.

After all, at Songyang High School, scores are revered, and with the kind of physical strength Zhang Yu displayed today, he’s a figure even a mere glance from whom could scatter the souls of academic underachievers.

Wang Hai changed the topic: “In sports competitions besides a test of physical strength, agility, speed, and power are also contested next.”

“Agility has a total score of 75, speed also 75, and power is 150 points, each stage is important, and those who focus too narrowly won’t earn good rankings, as the competition tests students’ comprehensive physical quality.”

“Listen carefully, the rules of the competition are about to be announced.”

A big screen started showing an animated video demonstrating the process of the upcoming assessment.

The video showed each contestant standing alone in one of the small rooms on the track.

A halo with a radius of 3 meters lit up under the contestant’s feet.

Of course, according to body size, the halo under larger contestants would be proportionately enlarged.

Next, the video showed the walls of the room starting to constantly eject high-speed steel balls, shooting toward the contestants.

Simultaneously, the halo underfoot would continue to shrink, and as it shrinks, it becomes increasingly difficult for the contestants to dodge the steel balls within the halo.

Once a contestant is hit by a steel ball, this round ends, and stepping out of the circle also counts as a loss.

The score for this round is based on the duration each contestant can hold out within the halo; the longer they last, the better, with the longest being first place.

Any contestant who doesn’t score in the top twenty in this round is directly eliminated and can’t move on to the next round.

Wang Hai said: “Did you all understand?

It’s very similar to the agility training I’ve had you do, just more advanced.”

Zhang Yu rubbed his chin and said: “Seems like the big guys are at a disadvantage in this round; they’ll undoubtedly have to dodge more steel balls simultaneously.”

Wang Hai added: “Larger sizes have advantages for the later power competitions, and naturally come with disadvantages, like being more prone to hits in this agility round, and slower in the next speed round.”

“Sports competitions eventually test the body’s all-around quality, and even though there’s a focus, it won’t let students with severe skill biases achieve high rankings…

Power, speed, agility all are indispensable.”

The video proceeded to introduce some details, like not operating mana during competition, using mana detection patches to monitor mana flow.

Zhang Yu gave a slight nod, knowing he’d have to halt the passive breathing of the Circulation Qi Gathering Method temporarily.

Of course, since the competition is about physical strength, the use of Spirit Root is prohibited as well.

So since boarding the bus today, Bai Zhenzhen has been constantly hiding the Spirit Root within her, not intending to let the strength of the Spirit Root work at all.

After the detailed rules were announced, Bai Zhenzhen said beside him: “There’s ten minutes before the official start, let’s go, Yu Zi, let’s go to the toilet together more importantly, so we aren’t holding it during the match.”

The two set off to the restroom, seeing the various high school competition teams preparing for the match on the way, mostly by taking medicine.

Watching the students of ordinary high schools inject syringe after syringe of unbranded, unpacked solutions into their acne-filled arms.

Seeing the students of White Dragon High School flaunt their strong bodies to the cameras, gulping down bottle after brand-name potion.

Observing the black monsters of Red Tower High School injecting needle after needle into their veins.

Watching Purple Cloud High School’s Le Mulan, Lian Tianji injecting into their hearts and then brains, enhancing their all-round abilities…

Witnessing all this…

what could I say, Zhang Yu was no longer as amazed as before, nor would he question why these competitions did not prohibit doping, when they claimed to only test physique.

Now, if someone asked him, he would confidently explain, “Testing each ability of the body, of course, includes testing the body’s drug tolerance, that’s just how it is at Kunxu.”

Before the restroom, the two parted ways for the male and female restrooms.

Although Zhang Yu had experienced many restrooms in his life, including but not limited to those of Songyang High School, Red Tower High School, White Dragon High School…

Yet at the moment, he was still shocked.

“The hell…

there’s a sideboard here?

And there’s a box of chopsticks and spoons on it?”

Upon seeing the dining table nearby, Zhang Yu was no longer quite as surprised.

But when he saw the warning on the table, ‘No urination on the dining table’…

he fell silent again.

Damn it…

are Purple Cloud High School students so uncivilized?

After reading the notice on the wall, he realized he misunderstood a bit.

Because there were too many broken students causing the school’s previous quarter’s profit to decline, they introduced a caring for underachievers policy.

Not only did they install dining tables and cupboards in the restrooms to ensure comfort and safety in eating, but they also prohibited bullying in the restrooms.

“I see, it’s to care for underachievers…

yet it feels even weirder.”

Outside the female restroom.

Bai Zhenzhen was curiously observing several doors besides the male and female ran…

One was labeled as exclusively for Le Mulan.

“A restroom just for the grade’s top student?”

Bai Zhenzhen wanted to try it, but found that the door didn’t even have a handle, seemingly requiring identification to open.

A glimmer of envy flashed in Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes: “Songyang High is so behind.

They should really learn from Purple Cloud and build a top-three exclusive restroom.”

A moment later, they returned next to the arena.

Before officially entering the arena, Bai Zhenzhen took a dose of cognition enhancer to boost her focus in the upcoming competition.

Zhang Yu also took a stimulant, enhancing his movement speed in the upcoming competition.

Though he followed the natural body refinement path, if it could raise his score a few points, Zhang Yu saw no reason not to take it.

Then, both took some neural replenishment drinks to avoid fatigue later in the night’s competition.

Soon, all the contestants entered the field, each equipped with a mana detection patch, and they were assigned to individual small rooms.

As the halo on the ground suddenly lit up, Zhang Yu tensed his nerves.

In the next moment, with a whistling sound, countless steel balls shot at high speed from the surrounding walls.

“Fortunately…

it’s much slower than the Breaking Body Sword Qi Azhen cast.”

With the stimulant coursing through him, Zhang Yu’s muscles were fully exhilarated, his reaction swift.

Watching the shooting steel balls, he constantly moved his body, dodging.

“Since the circle on the ground is large enough, full concentration isn’t needed yet.”

Full concentration mode is a level 10 effect of the Heavenly Martial Heart Refinement Technique; it focuses Zhang Yu’s concentration unprecedentedly, causing a sensation of time slowing down even as he observes the world.

However, full concentration has a drawback in that it can’t be sustained for long periods.

Initially, Zhang Yu could maintain it for only one minute when he mastered it.

With the increasing strength of Dao Heart and Martial Arts Intent, the time is now stretched to a minute and a half.

“But since I can still hold up in this normal state, I’ll wait until the circle tightens more, and it becomes harder to dodge, then I’ll use the full concentration mode…”

…

In the audience stands.

As an online celebrity, Gang Shan commented on the competition: “As the circle continues to shrink, this round’s difficulty will soar, testing not only the body’s reaction and speed but also if the brain’s focus is enduring…”

At this time, students had already started facing elimination on the field.

A high-speed steel ball struck a student from an ordinary high school in the leg with a thud, causing him to stumble.

As his movements faltered, more steel balls darted toward him.

The student felt his mind in chaos, and neither his physical fitness nor brain reaction kept up with the non-stop high-speed steel balls.

“Is the competition much harder than our daily practice at school?”

The next moment, with steel balls pelting down his body, he collapsed, spitting blood.

After retiring, he enviously and jealously gazed at those students on the big screen who were still competing.

“Are these key high school or three major school students monsters, being able to dodge until now?”

Similar scenes were unfolding across the competition field, with many students from ordinary high schools not only eliminated but also injured.

Gang Shan glancing at the eliminated students from ordinary high schools, then at Purple Cloud High School students elegantly evading steel balls.

In the circle, Lian Tianji observed and listened in all directions, constantly making small movements to dodge incoming steel balls.

Not too far, Le Mulan looked even more relaxed, strolling as if in a garden within the circle, letting the steel balls’ trailing shadows dance around her.

Gang Shan sighed: “The gap is too significant, all the students from ordinary high schools are pretty much out, while the three major schools haven’t even reached their limits.”

Le Jingchen observed those eliminated ordinary students, feeling only a sense of foolishness.

A few grand a month just to try and learn cultivation?

Le Jingchen didn’t understand why these poor people worked so hard to cultivate.

In his view, with or without cultivation, their lives didn’t vary much, forcibly turning to cultivation only sought trouble.

But of course, Le Jingchen wouldn’t say this out loud, else where would Purple Cloud Pharmaceutical earn so much money for them, and offer his family such resources?

So in the live stream now, Le Jingchen said: “Actually, the gap isn’t as big as it seems.

I believe ordinary high schools also have students of extraordinary talent, and their large disparities with the students of the three major schools are oft due to lagging information.”

Before the start, the three major high schools had been keeping each breakthrough in their body refining technologies confidential and probed at each other.

But now that the competition had begun, Le Jingchen knew there was no need to keep those secrets anymore.

He continued: “For instance, Purple Cloud High School has super metabolism surgery, and even lesser, White Dragon High has pseudo-demon muscle surgery.

If students from ordinary high schools knew these techniques easily and performed them, they might stand a chance against Le Mulan, Song Halong, and others.”

With that, Le Jingchen pointed to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen: “Look, Gang Shan, these two students from Songyang High School adopted new body refining technology and have caught up to the three major schools now, haven’t they?”

Realizing Songyang High School wanted to make a mark in this sports competition, Le Jingchen didn’t mind flipping around and using them to promote new body refining technology.