Chapter 285: Arrival of the Great Masters! Master of Thunder Martial Arts Academy! Su Qingli!

Shi Zun won!

Amazing! He instantly defeated Bingshan, who also came from a top-tier university!

One Shi Zun, one Lei Di—this year's league has produced two powerhouse talents!

In the audience seats, exclamations of awe never ceased.

Anyone with eyes could see that Wang Qi from Jing University and Xu Jingming from Mo University were on a completely different level from everyone else!

By the way, Wang Qi and Xu Jingming's fighting styles are actually quite similar.

Wang Qi from Jing University cultivates the body-strengthening technique "Thick Earth Body," which also alters his physique and enhances his abilities.

Yes, but unfortunately Xu Jingming's rank is still too low—he might truly lose to Wang Qi this year.

The coaches in the inner audience area were also discussing among themselves.

Wang Qi and Xu Jingming are the top favorites to win the individual competition this year!

Without exception, the champion will emerge from these two.

As for who has the higher chance of winning, most coaches still lean toward Wang Qi from Jing University.

After all, earth-element abilities counter lightning-element abilities, and Wang Qi is an entire major rank higher than Xu Jingming!

Even if Xu Jingming's lightning ability is SS-rank, the level gap should be enough to negate any advantage in ability strength.

Moreover, Wang Qi's "Celestial Meteor Earth" isn't an ordinary A-rank ability—it's a stronger pseudo-S-rank ability.

Of course, this doesn't mean Xu Jingming isn't strong.

In fact, Xu Jingming is absurdly strong!

His strength isn't just due to his SS-rank ability—it's that every aspect of his cultivation is terrifyingly high.

He has pushed his body-strengthening technique to an extremely high level.

He masters multiple A-rank lightning techniques and a powerful S-rank technique!

Many mid-tier fourth-rank ability users can't even achieve this.

Yet Xu Jingming is only a high-tier third-rank cultivator.

More importantly, he's only nineteen years old!

Calling him a genius feels inadequate—only "monster" can describe him.

Youth is his advantage, but also his weakness—he has three fewer years of cultivation than Wang Qi.

In this league, Xu Jingming is indeed slightly inferior.

"This year, Wang Qi from Jing University can hold him back—but what about next year?

Even if another Wang Qi appeared, could he possibly stop him?"

Many coaches sighed inwardly.

Of course, while they sighed, the real headaches belonged to two other top-tier universities.

For ordinary TOP10 universities like theirs, it made little difference.

Even without Xu Jingming, Mo University couldn't possibly enter the top three...

The severely injured Yao Fang was quickly carried off on a medical stretcher.

Mo University's accompanying coaches naturally included a seventh-rank master of restoration.

After taking Yao Fang from the medical team, he immediately began treatment.

"Xu Jingming! Instant kill—I've done it too!

I'm looking forward to fighting you in tomorrow's individual final—hope you don't miss it."

At this moment, Wang Qi also stepped down from the arena.

With a wild grin, he tossed those words at Xu Jingming before leaving, sword in hand.

"Individual final..." Xu Jingming's gaze sharpened slightly.

Today's quarterfinals would advance four competitors.

Tomorrow afternoon, the semifinals and final of the individual competition would be held in sequence.

That meant the champion of the individual event would be decided this afternoon.

"This guy is really arrogant!"

"From his tone, he seems certain he'll win the individual competition!"

Gu Wan and the others immediately grew indignant, but Xu Jingming calmly waved his hand:

"It's fine. We'll meet in the final anyway—then he'll find out who's really the boss..."

After Wang Qi and Yao Fang's match came Kong Shi's bout against Shen Ya, captain of Changnan Institute of Ability.

Like Hangzhou Institute of Ability, Changnan Institute of Ability frequently ranks among the top five universities.

Naturally, their captain was formidable.

Unfortunately, Kong Shi was even stronger!

The battle ended in under ten minutes.

Thus, the quarterfinals of the individual competition concluded.

Xu Jingming and Kong Shi from Mo University, Wang Qi and Zou Taizhi from Jing University—these four advanced to the semifinals...

March 17th was the eighth day of the second stage of the National University League!

Today featured not only the team matches between Qingjing Institute of Ability and Jincheng Institute of Ability, but also the semifinals and final of the individual competition!

As a result, the entire stadium's audience seats were exceptionally lively.

Online viewership across major livestream platforms reached nearly five million!

There were five team matches in the morning; Jing University versus Jincheng University was the first.

As soon as the match began, Jincheng's team displayed overwhelming dominance.

Three elemental ranged ability users continuously unleashed attacks; even with Wang Qi charging forward to absorb the damage, Jing University couldn't shatter the multiple S-rank elemental shields all at once.

They tried four or five times in succession.

It took over twenty minutes before they finally defeated Jincheng and claimed victory.

Jincheng's members all felt regretful.

If not for the severe injuries inflicted by Xu Jingming's Thunder God Finger yesterday,

which still hadn't fully healed, drastically reducing their overall strength,

the outcome of this team match might have been uncertain.

After winning, Jing University's record matched Mo University's: eight wins, zero losses.

The final match to determine the team champion would be held tomorrow, March 18th, as the third match.

But before that, the individual champion would be crowned this afternoon...

In March, Qingxu City had entered spring; the midday sun shone warmly, not scorching.

Even before the afternoon matches officially began at two p. ., the entire stadium was once again packed!

Online viewership hit a new record—over ten million!

The inner audience seats, which still had many empty spots in the morning, were now nearly full.

"No way! Isn't that Wu Yuan, Deputy Director of the National Education Bureau? He actually came in person?"

"Not just him! The Deputy Commander of the Flame Dragon Legion is here too!"

"The Flame Dragon Legion has official state backing—its deputy commander came?"

The Flame Dragon Corps has official state backing—so even their deputy commander came?

Many spectators were astonished to discover

that the new arrivals in the inner audience seats included several familiar faces commonly seen on TV news.

Even those whose identities they couldn't recognize radiated formidable energy.

Each carried an aura of quiet authority—clearly long accustomed to holding high positions.

"I remember last year, big shots came to watch too, but the caliber didn't seem this high!"

"Obviously—look at the strength of this year's students! Their power has surged so much, of course it draws in all these big shots!"

Of course, look at the strength of this year's batch of students! With such a huge leap in power, it's no surprise so many big shots showed up!

last year's National University League featured competitors mostly at peak third-rank or low fourth-rank.

But this year, aside from a few peak third-rank students in lower-ranked universities,

every member of the top five universities was uniformly low fourth-rank ability users!

Several were mid-fourth-rank, and the highest-ranked even reached high fourth-rank!

In terms of overall strength, this year's league was incomparable to last year's.

"No way! Another big shot just arrived!"

"Huh? I don't recognize this one, but she's incredibly beautiful."

"True—she looks like she stepped right out of a painting..."

Indeed, like someone stepped right out of a painting...

A stir ran through the audience; many male spectators stared hungrily toward the VIP entrance.

There, a group of four entered.

Leading them was a woman dressed in black, her figure slender and graceful.

At the forefront was a woman dressed in a black robe, her figure slender and graceful.

The woman appeared to be around twenty-seven or twenty-eight, her beauty flawless like white lambskin jade.

Her aura was like that of a celestial immortal from legend—sacred and noble, inspiring not the slightest hint of disrespect.

"Su Qingli! Why is she here too?"

"Shouldn't she be at the global headquarters of Lei Ting Martial Arts?"

Upon seeing this woman, many in the inner audience, even some eighth-rank Grand Masters, showed expressions of surprise.

Ordinary spectators might not know who she was, but could they not know?

This is the current director of one of Great Xia's two top martial arts academies—Lei Ting Martial Arts!

Su Qingli, who wields the S-rank Lightning ability "Yu Qing Divine Thunder" and has entered the ninth-rank Martial Saint realm!