CHAPTER 433: CHAPTER 379: NO MONEY TO COMPETE (THANKS TO ’ANGRY CAT’ FOR THE REWARD)

In Ma Xuan’s mind, thoughts raced, and he quickly made a decision.

"Alright, let’s take this opportunity to directly defeat Zhang Yu and force him out."

So he immediately ordered through the competition group: "Act now! Use the plan we discussed earlier to knock him out!"

After the first half of the competition ended, Ma Xuan and his team naturally summarized their battle experiences, especially their insights from fighting Zhang Yu, and updated their strategy.

At this moment, lightning-speed thoughts flashed through Ma Xuan’s mind.

"Compared to his performance during training half a year ago, Zhang Yu has truly made rapid progress."

"Whether in basic physical strength, mana capacity, combat techniques, or the level of the Nine Heavens Cloud Sky Force... they all far surpass previous levels."

"Plans to knock him away from a distance or suppress him individually have been proven unsuitable in combat."

"Especially with the Level 20 Nine Heavens Cloud Sky Force, it can leverage power for 20 attacks..."

Through the battles in the first half, Ma Xuan and his team began to fully prioritize dealing with Zhang Yu.

In this situation, Ma Xuan decided on the following battle strategy... firstly, to reduce the power of attacks and increase their number.

"Don’t use heavy strikes, but rather unleash more combos within a unit of time."

"In this way, each strike’s power is much weaker, so even if the force is redirected back against us, it’s not a concern."

"Moreover, the torrential, continuous offensive can quickly deplete Zhang Yu."

"Secondly, it’s best to use ranged attacks to further reduce the risk of counterattacks."

For this new battle strategy, Ma Xuan and his team ordered delivery service before the second half began, and either replaced or added to their equipment.

"Also, the medium of attack is very important."

Ma Xuan opened his mouth and spewed streams of silver particles, pouring onto the earth beneath his feet.

This was precisely the silver sand he ordered during the break.

When mixed with mud and sand, it significantly enhances the strength and toughness of the terrain, and with his Small Three Harmonies and command technique, it greatly enhances the destructive power against Zhang Yu’s Gang Qi.

Although powerful, its cost is quite high.

Originally, Ma Xuan hadn’t planned to use such materials in the match against Shi Huaiyu and his team.

He thought to himself, "I wonder how much I can recover after this battle ends."

While contemplating, he activated the recording function in his eye implant, determined to retrieve the silver sand after the battle.

As the sand was poured, the silver color rapidly spread from the spot where Ma Xuan stood at the center.

In the next moment, Ma Xuan operated his mana, and numerous silver arms rose from the ground below him.

The Small Three Harmonies controlled the mud, shaping it, while the command technique increased its strength, and the silver sand further enhanced strength and toughness.

Once the silver arms rose, they rapidly extended like tree branches and viciously slapped towards Zhang Yu.

Amidst the roaring sound of airflow explosions, each strike came down like a siege hammer.

Starting with a dozen or so, the number quickly skyrocketed to several dozen... over a hundred silver arms, some fists, some palms, some fingers, attacked Zhang Yu like a storm.

This was precisely Ma Xuan’s use of the command technique supplemented by the Small Three Harmonies, combined with silver sand, driving the Level 20 martial arts Formless Thousand Hands.

Facing this overwhelming attack, Zhang Yu let out a low shout and immediately unfolded the Formless Cloud Gang to defend.

Accompanied by explosive sounds, Zhang Yu’s Gang Qi surged and churned around him like a turbulent sea of clouds.

Feeling this relentless attack, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Hmph... have they found a tactic to deal with the Nine Heavens Cloud Sky Force?"

As Ma Xuan made his move, the other three joined in simultaneously.

Yang Yan, during the recent break, had swapped out his heart and hand magic remains.

With a violent throbbing of the heart magic remains, mana was infused into them, transforming into charges that surged through his entire body’s bloodstream.

Meanwhile, with a tap of his fingertips, his bloodstream was accelerated electromagnetically through the hand magic remains, unleashing the built-in Level 20 martial arts, Blood Ignition Finger.

In the next instant, blood shadows glowing with electricity erupted, shooting towards Zhang Yu in a flowery rain-like manner.

Each blood bolt consumed mana, enhanced and accelerated by the heart and hand magic remains, and driven by the Level 20 Blood Ignition Finger.

However, since these magic remains were rented, costs were calculated based on the number of blood bolts, with each one costing 0.02 spirit coins.

Watching the continuously rising bill count in his eye implant, Yang Yan felt a surge of battle intent and mentally shouted, "Zhang Yu! You better damn well surrender!"

With battle intent soaring, Yang Yan felt his heart magic remains beat faster, the bill count rising faster in his eye implant, spurring on his mental method to fuel his battle spirit even more.

All of this was within Yang Yan’s expectations because he has always relied heavily on rental magic remains.

This approach allowed him to flaunt his wealth, demonstrating his financial strength to others, while using the constantly updating bill to boost his battle spirit.

By relying on rented magic remains, it necessitates operating them more efficiently and quickly to save on rental costs.

And completing the same task while paying less rent, isn’t that a way to earn money?

Whenever he thought of this, he felt the mental method in his mind operating more wildly, stimulating him to explode with stronger fighting spirit, greater power, and quicker thinking...

At the same time, Ji Susu on the other side also took action.

To better deal with Zhang Yu, a change in combat methods was necessary.

But for the sake of this competition, Ji Susu, a senior, had already spent all her savings month by month before the battle even began to enhance her strength.

Yet seeing people like Ma Xuan and Yang Yan placing orders decisively without hesitation, Ji Susu could only take out a loan of spirit coins to lease a hand-type Magic Remains, replacing her original hand-type Magic Remains.

The hand-type Magic Remains, called the Air Roar Sword, could absorb and compress air after mana infusion, transforming it into air mines.

Then wrap the air mines with Gang Qi and shoot out Qi Explosion Swords.

Because it was temporarily leased, the rent was extremely high. Knowing she intended to use it for a competition, they outright refused to insure it.

Thus, since the battle started, Ji Susu has been carefully protecting her hand remains, occasionally checking the durability display reported by the self-exam.

And the durability of the hand remains had decreased from 95% at the start of the battle to 94% now.

The so-called durability is an estimated value integrated from various wear and tear metrics of the hand remains.

Generally, when durability drops below 20%, serious malfunctions occur. Below 10%, it can no longer function properly, and at 0%, it is completely scrapped.

Ji Susu also knew that every time the durability of this leased Air Roar Sword drops by more than 10%, the maintenance costs would increase sharply.

She made up her mind: "End this battle before the durability drops to 85%."

At this moment, Ji Susu channeled her mana, activating the Level 15 Red Fire Gang Qi she painstakingly cultivated, and infused it into the hand remains, shooting fiery Qi Explosion Swords at Zhang Yu.

With a series of explosion sounds, a series of Formless Warriors rushed out, actively confronting the Qi Explosion Swords, triggering a series of fierce explosions.

In the surging heat waves and gusts, Bo Ziran on the other side also finally unleashed the Sword Qi he had been holding back for a long time.

During the break in the arena, every time Bo Ziran recalled his setbacks against Zhang Yu in the first half, he felt a pang of frustration in his heart.

To better counter Zhang Yu in the second half, he first changed the Sword Qi output mode of his lung-type Magic Remains, switching from the commonly used Lung Gold Sword Qi to the Geng Gold Cow Hair Sword Qi.

He also replaced his hand-type Magic Remains with one capable of executing high-speed sword techniques, called Swift Sword.

However, since the Swift Sword was an unused backup hand remains for Bo Ziran, it had not been maintained, and the self-checked durability was only 33%.

Perceiving this, Bo Ziran frowned slightly and thought, "It’s okay, this battle shouldn’t wear down the durability too much. I’ll find time to repair it after the battle."

At this moment, Bo Ziran infused the Geng Gold Cow Hair Sword Qi into his right hand’s Swift Sword using his lung-type Magic Remains, and then executed the Level 15 Martial Arts Heavenly Waterfall Sword.

In an instant, streams of golden Sword Qi poured down like a heavenly river, with a crisscross of golden threads, crashing toward Zhang Yu.

At this moment, Zhang Yu encountered the greatest crisis in today’s battle.

Be it Ma Xuan’s Formless Thousand Hands, Yang Yan’s Finger Shot Blood Shock, Ji Susu’s Qi Explosion Sword, or Bo Ziran’s Heavenly Waterfall Sword... they all had been enhanced by various materials, Magic Remains, and Cultivation Techniques, and exploded with power far beyond the original techniques in successive boosts.

Worse still, facing such continuous, quantity-over-quality attacks, the Nine Heavens Cloud Sky Force seemed to have lost its use.

Along with the violent shaking and consumption of Gang Qi, Sword Qi, flames, blood lightning, and silver palms occasionally tore through the Formless Cloud Gang, striking Zhang Yu fiercely.

In no time, his body was covered in more than a dozen wounds, making him look bloody.

"If only there were Xiao Qingxuan’s 20-hit Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Palm in this state."

But Zhang Yu knew that although his Nine Heavens Cloud Sky Force could borrow strength to counter, the borrowed power could only be temporarily stored in the void aperture, and at this moment, there was no strength of the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Palm in the void aperture.

However, maintaining calmness with his Three-Eyed Divine Power constantly observing the entire field, Zhang Yu stayed composed.

He thought to himself: "Being so passively beaten won’t work, I must find a breakthrough point."

"Ha!"

Just hearing Zhang Yu’s roar, the Formless Cloud Gang within him suddenly expanded and spread out to his surroundings.

Simultaneously, figures emerged from the sea of clouds and charged in all directions.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! The figures were shattered under the siege of the four.

Yet, Zhang Yu’s main body also took advantage of the scattered offensive to charge towards the nearest Bo Ziran.

"Long-range attacks do restrain my style."

"But long-range attacks also have a shortcoming, when I and your teammates are in close combat, your offensive will inevitably weaken... even hit your teammates."

"If I’m going to take hits, I might as well find someone to take them with me."

Watching the rapidly retreating Bo Ziran, Zhang Yu grinned viciously and charged at him.

As to why he chose this target, it was naturally because Zhang Yu still remembered Bo Ziran flaunting his wealth in the competition group chat.

Fu Ji thought to himself, "That kid Zhang Yu has always been quite against the rich."