Chapter 242: Tournament Rewards! World-Ending Skill! The Tournament Begins
It seems the student council members are not all mindless sycophants.
There are still some clear-headed individuals among them.
With the situation developing to this point, it is beyond what these student council members can handle.
Not just them, even He Chuan and the other three team competition members are not qualified to intervene.
So when these people heard the clear-headed person's words.
Their opportunistic desire to perform in front of the president was extinguished in time.
Recalling Ling Zhan's terrifying punch that sent the Nine-Tailed Fox, a divine beast, flying through dozens of red brick walls.
They felt fortunate to have restrained themselves in time.
Only now did they realize that this non-specialist had unknowingly become so powerful!
To suppress a divine beast with sheer physical strength!
His progress speed is terrifying!
Now, talents like Zhu Yaoguang, Ji Wuming, and Gao Yao are probably far behind Ling Zhan!
At this moment, Li Chaoge's cold and stunning face turned slightly somber.
She looked up at the standoff between the Nine-Tailed Fox, the Divine Bird Bifang, and the Xinyue Jade Rabbit, then at the young man before her who remained cold even towards her...
And the Azure Dragon girl beside him, ready to reveal her true form and join the battle at any moment.
Sigh...
Li Chaoge had to take a deep breath to calm her irritation and shame.
It seems the student council's information on Ling Zhan had many omissions.
This young man is far stronger than the records indicated!
The reason Li Chaoge returned to school and first checked this peculiar non-specialist's file was not just curiosity about why the five deans jointly recommended him for the global Beast War Tournament.
She also wondered if she could recruit such talent into her special squad on the frontlines of the magic cave.
After all, Ling Zhan's records mirrored hers almost exactly!
She also won first place in the freshman trial during her first year!
In the national freshman exchange trial competition, she also outshone everyone and won the championship!
Moreover, it's said that this non-specialist broke her record in the Secret Realm Hall...
Considering all this, Li Chaoge's attention was on Ling Zhan upon her return to school.
But she didn't expect her invitation to be rejected, which displeased her, used to obedience.
Thus, the intense conflict ensued.
Of course...
Because of this, the long-extinguished fighting spirit within Li Chaoge reignited!
Finally, a peer who can rival her appeared!
In her sophomore year, she had defeated the top junior!
After going to the frontlines of the magic cave, she completely defeated the top juniors from other prestigious schools!
So for more than a year, she could only fight the magic cave monsters, not seeing any peer worthy of a fight.
Now, finally, one appeared...
Her originally indifferent eyes suddenly became slightly lively.
She looked at Ling Zhan and said coldly, "In that case, the old rule, you and I, without our contracted divine beasts, straight to the arena?"
Wow!
The surrounding audience was instantly in an uproar.
Everyone was excited!
Is it going to happen?
Great!
Coming to watch the excitement today was the right choice!
They don't even need to wait for the global Beast War Tournament to see a peak duel between their own contestants first!
Ling Zhan didn't disappoint the onlookers.
"Gladly!"
However...
It turns out that the school deans sometimes do things that spoil the mood.
Like on a Sunday night when boarding students, not having classes, go to the classroom to watch movies on a projector, only to be scolded and ordered to turn off the movie by patrolling school leaders.
Leaving the originally enthusiastic students wailing in regret.
Just like now...
When Ling Zhan agreed to the duel with Li Chaoge, the morning sun, previously obscured, suddenly reappeared.
The dark night turned back to daylight.
And the three divine beasts, facing off, involuntarily reverted to human form.
Turning to look...
The five deans had appeared out of nowhere, smiling in Tianyan Square.
"Alright, this farce ends here. Your duel can wait until the global Beast War Tournament."
"The teleportation time is almost here; get ready."
Dean Zhou Hongfu gestured for the two prodigies to stop.
Although Li Chaoge was extremely unwilling, with the dean speaking, she had no choice.
She turned and gave Ling Zhan a cold look before heading towards the giant teleportation array.
Ling Zhan didn't care.
He led his three divine beast girls towards the teleportation array.
As for the Nine-Tailed Fox...
She gritted her teeth, her beautiful face filled with anger, glaring at Ling Zhan with hatred.
The five deans exchanged glances and couldn't help but shake their heads and smile wryly.
Well.
They didn't expect these two to have a conflict before the start.
Luckily, Ling Zhan is not a team competition player, unlike Li Chaoge, who has both individual and team slots.
So, it doesn't affect the competition.
"Deans, aren't we taking departure photos?"
At this moment, the photographer, an ordinary person, asked, trembling.
What he saw today almost scared him to death.
The apocalyptic scene of divine beasts obscuring the sun was truly shocking for an ordinary person.
"Not this year. I doubt these two would want to stand in the same frame now."
"We'll take victory photos when they return."
Dean Zhou Hongfu said helplessly.
"With Chaoge and Ling Zhan in the individual competition, I'm not worried."
"Mainly the team competition…"
Dean Wang Shi said softly.
The other deans fell silent, their expressions not good.
The main issue…
For nearly ten years, the Dragon Kingdom's team competition results have been very poor.
Especially last year!
The Dragon Kingdom's team was eliminated in the group stage!
When Western countries and various ethnic teams faced the Dragon Kingdom team, they could easily crush them!
Many Western countries even made bold claims.
That achieving good results was nothing but a pipe dream!
This was simply humiliating!
And the leader of the previous team was the top junior from Huaxing Academy.
This time...
Even with Li Chaoge present, there's no guarantee of winning the championship, given it's a team competition with 50 participants!
But the Dragon Kingdom needs a championship victory to wash away nearly a decade of humiliation!
"Sigh, I hope this year's team competition can achieve good results," Luo Yang sighed softly.
"I personally think we should temporarily include Ling Zhan in the team competition!"
"We have witnessed Ling Zhan's endless skills these past days!"
"Perfect assassination techniques, terrifyingly sharp swordsmanship, mind-blowing control of summoning, devastating group attacks, and a sense of security in group support…"
"He is a versatile powerhouse like a hexagonal kaleidoscope! He can fill any gap in the team!"
"I've always wondered why the five deans didn't include Ling Zhan in the team competition…"
At this moment, a teacher who had taught Ling Zhan a remote sniping course voiced his doubts.
The five deans, hearing this, only looked helpless.
"Do you think we didn't want to include this kid in the team competition?"
"But sometimes, things can't be done just because we want them to!"
"Even we, as strong as we are, have rules we cannot break."
"Forcibly placing Ling Zhan in the individual competition was already the limit."
"Any team competition member is almost always someone with a strong background."
"Either their family has a hundred-level four-turn powerhouse, or they have a terrifying web of connections."
"No matter whom we offend, it's not something Tianyan Academy wants to see."
Dean Zhou Hongfu sighed.
This is the reality of the Dragon Kingdom.
Some might think.
Isn't this a world where strength speaks? Let Ling Zhan compete with a team member, and if he wins, he rightfully gets the spot, right?
Yes.
That is possible.
But it doesn't mean the excluded member's backers will accept it without complaint!
Take the example of Ling Zhan replacing He Chuan in the individual competition.
Shortly after it happened.
He Chuan's grandfather, a hundred-level four-turn powerhouse, personally visited Tianyan Academy, as a private guest at Zhou Hongfu's home!
The old man didn't blame Zhou Hongfu at all!
They enjoyed a banquet together!
To an outsider, it might seem normal.
But He Chuan's grandfather showing up at Zhou Hongfu's house was a sign of the He family's dissatisfaction!
Why else would he visit?
Individual competition spots can be defended by "strength speaks," barely making sense.
But team competition spots affect many families!
Removing any family's prodigy would cause dissatisfaction.
"Even if other families' prodigies aren't strong, why target my family's prodigy?"
Moreover…
This year's team is led by Li Chaoge.
Everyone believes that this year's team competition will have good results, if not a championship!
Having their family's prodigy on the team adds prestige and gives their prodigy valuable experience!
The global Beast War Tournament is jointly hosted by the International Transfer Association, the Global Adventurers Guild, and various world-class organizations!
This means the rewards for top teams are extremely generous!
These organizations control high-level and high-difficulty secret realms.
And various real-world resource secret realms.
Recently, the Adventurers Guild organized three SSS-level teams to tackle a 120-level mythic secret realm!
Three extremely rare SS-level general skill books dropped!
In this golden age of talents, to encourage and stimulate every young prodigy.
These organizations decided to reward two of the SS-level skill books to the individual competition champion and the FMVP of the team competition!
These are super divine skills!
Top talents worldwide usually only possess S-level skills!
S-level skills are known as "divine skills"!
SS-level is "super divine skills"!
A hundred-level powerhouse's four-turn awakening skills are only classified as SS-level!
As for SSS-level…
These are known as "world-ending skills"!
So far, no human has possessed one!
But there have been skills similar to world-ending skills!
For example, the ruler of Takamagahara, leading the Hundred Ghost Clan, once swung a sword that destroyed a country, categorized by experts as a "semi-world-ending" skill!
Also known as "SS+"!
This shows how generous the global Beast War Tournament rewards are!
SS-level general skill books!
In some previous tournaments, SS-level skill books were rewarded.
But in recent decades, no SS-level skill books have been produced.
This meant that the champions of the past decades could only lament their bad luck.
These organizations won't issue backdated SS-level skill books…
Even mythic secret realms have a minuscule chance of dropping SS-level skill books!
And mythic secret realms cannot be controlled or modified!
So to get SS-level skill books, three or more SSS-level teams must tackle them!
But how many SSS-level teams are there?
Reminder, Dean Wang Shi, a hundred-level four-turn powerhouse, once led an SSS-level team.
A team of hundred-level powerhouses… do you think they're common?
Also…
Everyone can only get one reward!
If anyone in the team has received a reward, no one else in the team will get any reward!
So if you want to farm a mythic secret realm repeatedly for SS-level skill books, each team must have no one who has received the reward!
Some might argue.
Can't you just not claim the reward if it's not an SS-level skill book and try again?
Brother…
Once you defeat the boss and see the rewards, the mythic secret realm automatically considers you have cleared it and obtained the rewards!
There's no such thing as abandoning the rewards based on what you get!
That's ridiculous!
In summary…
Ling Zhan won at the right time this global tournament.
And other countries' prodigies are determined to win these extremely generous rewards.
Now…
Dean Zhou Hongfu, personally leading the team, gathered the contestants and deans.
They stepped onto the giant teleportation array to the Holy Light Empire.
The global Beast War Tournament…
Is officially beginning!!
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