Translator: CinderTL
Buzz! A projection materialized before Jiang Ye.
Please select your weapon.
A variety of weapons appeared before him: swords, spears, halberds, axes, and, of course, the option to fight barehanded.
After a moment's deliberation, he chose the Black Dragon Spear, a nine-foot-long weapon.
Perfect timing to test the power of the Great Sun Spear Technique I just learned, Jiang Ye thought to himself.
Across from him, Zhao Qingli had already chosen her weapon: a silver-white Miao Dao.
"A blade?" Jiang Ye was surprised by her choice.
"I've mastered a profound tier blade art," Zhao Qingli said coldly. "Jiang Ye, you'd better be careful."
As her words faded, a message appeared:
Match begins!
The projection vanished.
Boom! Zhao Qingli transformed into a blur, charging toward Jiang Ye like a cannonball. Her Miao Dao flashed like lightning.
Whoosh! The blade descended with a deafening roar, its power clearly honed to the extreme.
A faint silver starlight shimmered with each strike, revealing the terrifying stellar energy infused within her blade.
"Good!" Jiang Ye's eyes lit up. This was exactly the kind of opponent he needed. His spear immediately moved like a dragon.
An inch longer, an inch stronger.
The nine-foot-long Black Dragon Spear erupted forward with explosive force, unleashing a surge of overwhelming power.
Attack as defense!
This had always been Jiang Ye's style.
Clang!
Clang! Boom! Jiang Ye's spear clashed fiercely with Zhao Qingli's blade, accompanied by flashes of silver light.
"Your spear?" A hint of surprise flickered in Zhao Qingli's beautiful eyes.
She distinctly remembered Jiang Ye having only practiced fist and leg techniques. During high school, he had never trained in any other weapon arts!
Yet the spearmanship Jiang Ye displayed now showed no signs of being newly learned.
Still, he's far from reaching Entry level.
In this match, I have the advantage. Zhao Qingli quickly regained her composure. Her profound tier blade arts had already reached the Entry stage.
In terms of combat prowess, she surpassed Jiang Ye by a significant margin!
Just as she thought this, Jiang Ye suddenly shouted, "Class Monitor, watch out!"
In an instant, Jiang Ye's spear became relentlessly sharp, stabbing toward Zhao Qingli like a torrential storm.
[Beauty's Inquiry: When facing an opponent or teammate of the opposite gender, attack speed increases by 35%, and damage dealt has a 50% chance to be doubled.]
Attack speed increased by 35%!
"So fast!"
"How did he suddenly get so much faster?" Zhao Qingli's expression shifted slightly as she continuously parried with her Miao Dao.
She wasn't one to back down easily, constantly searching for an opening.
Bang! Occasionally, a snow-white leg would sweep out, aiming directly for Jiang Ye's lower body.
However, Jiang Ye's fundamental martial arts skills were rock-solid. Rooted to the ground like an unshakeable boulder, he remained completely unmoved.
"This guy..."
"His lower body is so tough!" Zhao Qingli's astonishment grew.
She had been nourished with various martial dao resources since childhood, building an exceptionally deep foundation.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to break into the top 300 among the freshmen.
Yet at this moment, Zhao Qingli realized that Jiang Ye's martial dao foundation was even deeper than hers—impeccable, leaving her no room to exploit a single flaw.
Boom! Boom!
The two continued their fierce clash, their long spear and Miao Dao colliding in deafening roars.
For Jiang Ye, Zhao Qingli was the perfect opponent.
His opponent's combat skill was remarkably close to his own.
In reality, he could never engage in such an unrestrained battle without risking serious injury to both of them.
But in the Virtual Cosmos? All restraints vanished.
[Great Sun Spear Technique: Uninitiated (30% → 31%)]
A system notification flashed silently across his vision.
"My spearmanship," Jiang Ye mused, "improves far more rapidly in actual combat."
No wonder Teacher Zhu Honglie insisted he spend two hours daily climbing the Cosmic Rank.
His entire day of training had been mere accumulation.
Only real combat could unleash that accumulation, transforming it into tangible gains.
"The class monitor's blade arts are improving too."
Jiang Ye could sense Zhao Qingli's blade arts progressing, though not as dramatically as his own spearmanship.
Still, her profound tier blade arts had already reached the Entry realm.
Her combat prowess remained superior to Jiang Ye's.
Without his 35% attack speed boost, he doubted he could have sustained this intense battle for so long.
"Jiang Ye!"
"Hold nothing back!" Zhao Qingli suddenly shouted. "Show me your true strength!"
Boom! As she spoke, her snow-white leg swept across like a cannonball once more.
Jiang Ye braced his spear to block, and with a thunderous crash, he was violently thrown back.
"Good."
"Class Monitor," Jiang Ye grinned, "I won't hold back anymore."
"Neither will I," Zhao Qingli replied, her voice crisp and clear.
Earlier, both had tacitly refrained from unleashing their full power.
Their exchange had been more like sparring, each pushing the other to improve while probing the limits of their opponent's capabilities.
For Jiang Ye, Zhao Qingli was the perfect adversary, and the sentiment was mutual.
But this match would ultimately have a winner and a loser.
Boom! Zhao Qingli's speed suddenly surged, her long blade flashing like lightning as she slashed forward with explosive force.
A silver starlight streaked across the arena.
This strike was several times more ferocious than her previous attacks, so swift it left afterimages in its wake!
"Excellent!" Jiang Ye gripped his spear, neither dodging nor retreating, and lunged forward with explosive force.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Jiang Ye and the girl clashed repeatedly, each collision echoing with thunderous roars.
With every thrust, his spear grew more ferocious and violent.
Massive waves of power, accompanied by dazzling starlight, surged from the spear like tidal waves, each cresting higher than the last!
Boom! In an instant, Jiang Ye and Zhao Qingli had exchanged over a dozen blows. The power coiled within his spear had reached its peak.
Great Sun Spear Technique - Ultimate Move, First Form: Sunrise in the East!
Countless dazzling starlight beams erupted from Jiang Ye's Guanyuan Acupoint.
Hundreds upon thousands of strands of stellar energy surged along a specialized circulation path, converging entirely into his spear.
In an instant, the spear tip pierced through the darkness like dawn's first light, manifesting a radiant yet incomplete halo.
"An ultimate move?" Zhao Qingli's expression shifted slightly, and she instinctively retreated. The overwhelming momentum forced even her to temporarily evade its full force.
But Jiang Ye's spear was already drawn.
"Kill!" Jiang Ye roared, thrusting his spear forward with explosive force.
Boom! A blinding burst of light erupted, resembling the first rays of dawn piercing through the endless night.
Zhao Qingli felt a vast, ocean-like force crashing toward her.
With no time to dodge, she could only raise her blade and strike with all her might.
Whoosh! Her blade slashed through the blinding white light before her!
"I blocked it?" Zhao Qingli murmured, momentarily stunned. But her pupils contracted sharply as she realized the truth.
A spear had already pierced through her chest, blood splattering.
Her figure began to flicker and fade.
She finally understood: she hadn't truly blocked the spear after all.
"You've won," Zhao Qingli said, looking at Jiang Ye with a hint of relief in her eyes.
The man she had kept pinned beneath her for over half a year had finally defeated her fair and square on the arena stage.
Good.
She felt no disappointment, only a sense of relief.
At least her decision to divert family resources to invest in Jiang Ye hadn't been in vain!
(End of the Chapter)
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