"I... I lost?"
Hu Wei stared dumbfounded at the scene before him, hardly believing that he had been defeated so quickly.
It wasn’t until Sun Yuzhen’s voice rang in his ear that he realized he had truly lost.
Hu Wei’s eyes were fixated on Zhou Bai, ’He knocked me out of the ring in an instant, just how high is this guy’s Primordial Spirit power?’
On the other side, after hearing Sun Yuzhen announce his victory, Zhou Bai walked off the ring with a slight smile and then looked over the other battles on the rings, while curiously sensing the Primordial Spirit power that Sun Yuzhen spread across the entire field.
’Being able to control such a vast area of Primordial Spirit power for coverage,’ Zhou Bai observed while thinking to himself, ’And also multitasking, simultaneously observing the outcomes of a hundred rings and relying on Primordial Spirit power to vibrate the air, to subsequently announce the results on these hundred rings – is this the capability of a high-level cultivator?’
As he walked, Zhou Bai’s gaze swept across the fights happening on each ring.
Most of the students still relied on their Primordial Spirit power for combat, not even reaching the threshold of entering the Dao.
As for geniuses like Xia Li and Qian Wangsun, they basically defeated their opponents in an instant, so Zhou Bai’s one-strike victories didn’t draw too much attention.
In the following rounds of the competition, Zhou Bai sometimes was up for a fight and sometimes not, but whenever he was, it always resulted in a one-strike victory.
The other 24 students in Zhou Bai’s batch, the elite entrants with a Primordial Spirit value of 99 and those like Zuo Dao who had already entered the Dao before enrolling, basically all achieved victory via quick defeats.
Suddenly, Zhou Bai stopped in his tracks; he saw Jing Xiu’s match.
"Is that Jing Xiu? Hmm? She seems to be at a disadvantage..."
He then saw Jing Xiu crouching in one corner of the ring, her left hand dangling limply to one side, gasping for air heavily.
And in front of her, at the other corner of the ring, stood a man over two meters tall, with bulging muscles and a face full of beard, standing proudly with a beastly gleam in his eyes.
He then saw the man’s mouth split into a grin, revealing sharp, white teeth, and he menacingly said, "Woman, I’ll give you just one chance to surrender."
Zhou Bai thought to himself, ’I’ve never seen this man before, is he from Sun Yuzhen’s class? He can suppress Jing Xiu?’
On the other side, Jing Xiu took a deep breath, extended her index and middle fingers of her right hand, and a needle formed from invisible Primordial Spirit power slowly emerged, which she inserted into her left arm.
Zhou Bai thought to himself, "That’s the Primordial Spirit Needle from the Heavenly Diagram. Jing Xiu’s injury looks pretty serious."
Among the nine level-0 divine diagrams, the Heavenly Diagram represented medical and poison techniques.
The Primordial Spirit Needle, which could be mastered at level 0, had mysterious uses for treatment, dealing with enemies, and even stimulating potential.
At that moment, as Jing Xiu inserted the Primordial Spirit Needle into her body, her originally pale skin gradually turned rosy, her cheeks flush like she was drunk on wine, and Zhou Bai could even faintly hear the sound of her blood flowing rapidly within her body.
Christina, who had come to at some point, asked, "Is she using the Primordial Spirit Needle to stimulate her potential?"
Then they saw Jing Xiu slowly stand up, "I will not surrender."
"Then roll down from here," the big man bellowed, landed on all four limbs, and pounced like a fierce tiger.
Amidst the howling wind, Jing Xiu faced the difficulty head-on, her hand flicking out five Primordial Spirit Needles, stabbing towards her opponent.
Both sides exchanged a series of intense blows, their Primordial Spirit power wrapping around, interacting with, and nullifying each other.
The burly man’s Primordial Spirit power was not the least bit inferior to Jing Xiu’s, both around 170, but he possessed a far superior physical constitution, allowing him to completely overpower Jing Xiu in the fight.
Christina frowned and said, "Beast transformation? It must be the Axe Picture."
Zhou Bai nodded, recalling the introduction of the Axe Picture in his mind.
Among the nine basic divine pictures at the 0th layer, the Axe Picture path represented the power of bloodlines, with cultivators integrating, refining, and adjusting their bloodlines to awaken the powers of various demons and divine beasts from the 0th to the 10th layer.
Although the 0th layer’s Axe Picture wouldn’t possess the real power of a divine beast, mastering the skill of beast transformation allowed for an all-around enhancement of the physical body’s quality, sharpened the senses, and even granted intuition second only to the Bow Picture.
The big man’s every punch and kick placed enormous pressure on Jing Xiu, causing her blood to surge and her muscles to ache, as if being continually hammered by a large iron mallet, her bones creaking as if they would break at any moment.
Christina shook her head, "This woman’s Sky Chart only includes medical arts, and she hasn’t learned poison arts; she’s at too great a disadvantage in a fight, she will lose."
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Just as Christina had predicted, the burly man threw another punch, with the air seemingly resounding with the roaring of tigers, the surging power creating waves of air with his blow, which Jing Xiu caught with both hands.
With a thud! Jing Xiu’s left hand, already at its limit, could not catch the blow, and she stumbled several steps backward, arriving at the edge of the arena.
Zhou Bai saw that Jing Xiu’s severely damaged left hand was now twisted abnormally, clearly indicating that her bones had been broken.
On the other side of the arena, Xia Li had arrived unnoticed; seeing Jing Xiu in this state, she frowned and shouted, "Jing Xiu, stop fighting, you’ll get too heavily injured if this continues."
Jing Xiu bit her lip, said nothing, and slowly spat out three Primordial Spirit Needles from her mouth, clenching them between her teeth.
Seeing that Jing Xiu had no intention of surrendering, the big man smiled slightly, "Impressive willpower..."
Bang! He reached out a hand and grasped the Primordial Spirit Needles Jing Xiu had shot, shaking his head, "These Primordial Spirit Needles are too slow."
The next moment, the figure of the big man flashed, like a black thunderbolt, accompanied by the rumbling of thunder, his fists relentlessly pounding Jing Xiu.
Jing Xiu, already at a disadvantage, was now cornered at the edge of the arena, unable to use her left hand at all, and could only take the big man’s blows time after time, completely overwhelmed.
Watching Jing Xiu, who was continually being attacked but refused to step back even once, Xia Li couldn’t help but shout, "Stop fighting, Jing Xiu!"
"If you keep fighting like this and your body is heavily injured, it will affect your future path of cultivation."
The next moment, the big man’s onslaught abruptly stopped, his eyes filled with a bestial glare as he fiercely stared at Xia Li, "Shut up."
"Didn’t you see she’s still holding on?"
The big man coldly said, "Against the Heavenly Demon, mere foot soldiers are useless, and surrendering is also useless. Only absolute warriors willing to fight to the death can protect humankind."
"And the assessment is for selecting the warriors who have this qualification. You watch carefully, respect your friend’s battle."
Xia Li clenched her teeth, looking at Jing Xiu who was still persevering, but she did not speak again, watching as the big man’s Primordial Spirit power swiftly circulated, vague beastly shadows emerging behind him.
Zhou Bai was surprised, "Beast-transformed Primordial Spirit? If I remember correctly, isn’t that the last star point on the 0th layer’s Axe Picture?"
"The Axe Picture has a total of 7 star points, and he has mastered them all in just two months? Are there such geniuses in Sun Yuzhen’s class?"