Chapter 398

Six fighting platforms were equipped with audio collection devices, as Xu Jingming was the focal point of this examination.

Thus, the audio on Platform 3 was set to maximum volume.

Xu Jingming's words reached every spectator in the arena with perfect clarity.

"Should feel honored? This Xu Jingming is so arrogant?"

"SS-rank energy awakener—his arrogance is normal."

"True, if it were me, I might be even more arrogant than him!"

"......"

Xu Jingming's attitude did not provoke strong aversion among the spectators.

On one hand, he was still young, in the fiery age of Rexue.

On the other hand, he truly had the right to be arrogant.

But Ling Shuang, former vice-principal of Magic University who had watched him grow, was somewhat surprised.

Xu Jingming had always struck her as excessively composed; she never expected such a reckless side.

"Before you arrived, Xu Jingming told Chen Hai he could defeat him with just one finger."

A martial arts instructor behind him added with a smile.

"Oh?"

Ling Shuang's eyebrows lifted slightly; after a moment of surprise, she understood.

Xu Jingming was deliberately showcasing himself to amplify Su Qingli's influence.

"This little Xu Jingming—turns out he's coarse on the outside but meticulous inside."

Ling Shuang couldn't help but nod slightly, silently praising him.

Just from this alone, Xu Jingming's mental maturity far surpassed his peers.

"Both contestants, prepare! The match is about to begin!"

Soon after Wei Chang stepped onto Platform 3, a mechanical electronic voice rang out.

A few seconds later, a dazzling digital countdown flickered across the transparent energy shield enveloping Platform 3:

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

"Begin!"

"Body Petrification!"

BOOM!!

As soon as the match started, Wei Chang activated his energy ability.

His entire body began to petrify from the heart outward, swelling rapidly in size!

In just two breaths, he transformed from a normal human of 1.9 meters.

Into a towering black-blue stone giant over three meters tall!

The originally massive alloy shield now looked like a toy in his grip.

"Xu Jingming, I've slain six-rank energy awakeners, but I admit my offensive power doesn't match yours.

Yet my defense is equally beyond your reach!

If you can break through my defense, you win this match!"

Wei Chang's rock-like face looked down, his deep voice echoing across the entire arena.

Then he knelt on one knee, raising the giant alloy shield before him in a defensive posture.

"Damn! Wei Chang has completely abandoned offense!"

"A-rank energy ability: Body Rockification—defensive power is its strength."

"If he attacked, he'd lose to Xu Jingming for sure.

But if he just hides behind defense, Xu Jingming might not be able to defeat him—this could end in a draw!"

"Holy shit! Smart move! Drawing with an SS-rank energy awakener? That's a face-saving result!"

"......"

Seeing Wei Chang's move, the audience erupted in uproar.

This was cheating!

Each match lasted at most fifteen minutes.

If Xu Jingming failed to defeat Wei Chang within that time, the result would indeed be a draw!

And Wei Chang's shield was an S-rank alloy weapon, over twenty centimeters thick alone!

Not to mention his petrified body was now as hard as alloy.

Combined, their defensive power reached a terrifying level!

Nearly impossible to break!

"Tsk, Wei Chang's the one who went first."

Chen Hai on Platform 5 also watched warily.

Even he couldn't pierce Wei Chang's defense.

After his wariness, he felt a twinge of schadenfreude.

Xu Jingming was Su Qingli's disciple—and an SS-rank energy awakener.

Losing his debut match in the Prodigy Training Camp to a draw would cost him face.

Especially after his earlier arrogant words.

"Break your defense?"

Xu Jingming on Platform 3 raised his sword-like eyebrows: "That's too easy. Thunder Extreme Form!"

BOOM!!

Xu Jingming instantly shifted into his two-point-two-meter enhanced form.

Violent, brilliant golden lightning erupted from him in a furious wave!

In an instant,

The entire platform became a standoff between a human-shaped tyrannosaur and a stone giant.

The savage aura radiating from Xu Jingming made weaker spectators shudder, instinctively holding their breath.

As if fearing their own breath might anger him and get them torn apart.

"Thunder Flash!"

ZZZT!

Golden lightning flashed—Xu Jingming's muscular frame vanished from his spot.

Instantly covering over a hundred meters, he appeared just before Wei Chang.

"Come on! Let's see if your shield is thicker—or my spear sharper! Lei Guan Demon-Slaying Spear!"

The dark-gold spear was engulfed in brilliant golden light, its shaft etched with sleek, flowing patterns.

Then, as if the entire spear had been heated to red-hot, Xu Jingming thrust it forward with all his might!

Wei Chang, hidden behind the alloy shield, couldn't see Xu Jingming's movements.

But his spiritual sense sensed an utterly terrifying energy surge!

This energy level was far beyond what he could possibly resist!

"Petrified Defense!"

In panic, he activated his strongest S-rank defensive technique.

A layer of rock, over ten centimeters thick, surfaced across his entire stone body!

This was Petrified Defense!

It maximized bodily protection and absorbed damage.

Wei Chang had survived countless near-death moments using this technique.

"Come on, come on! With Petrified Defense, you can't beat me!!" Wei Chang's face twisted in maniacal glee.

BOOM!!

With a deafening explosion, the golden lightning-wrapped, searing spear slammed into the alloy shield!

The twenty-centimeter-thick S-rank alloy shield shattered instantly—pierced clean through!

"How is this possible?!" Wei Chang, behind the shield, stared in horror.

Before he could react, a thick, furious bolt of golden lightning erupted from the spear tip that had pierced the shield!

The lightning, unstoppable, tore through the rock layer and struck his right shoulder blade!

The tyrannical Dautian Divine Thunder obliterated his entire right half—the stone body vanished!

It blasted over a hundred meters before finally dissipating against the energy barrier.

Wei Chang's alloy shield, Petrified Defense, and battle armor—all three layers of defense—

Were utterly useless against this Kuangbao strike.