Chapter 155

It felt light and airy when swung.

"Let's head to the school Shangcheng first and check out the level-18 professional equipment."

Zhou Yi returned to his bedroom, opened the school's official website, clicked search, and soon a large pile of equipment appeared before his eyes.

However, to his dismay, his credits were actually no longer enough to purchase a full set of level-18 equipment.

Last time he bought an entire set of Gold-grade equipment along with some potions and pills necessary for entering the Gale Wind Mountain Range.

It cost Zhou Yi nearly 800 credits, leaving only a little over 500 credits.

At the time, he figured the set of equipment should last about One semester.

800 credits spent, and that was that.

When it came time to replace the equipment, it would probably be several months later anyway.

By then, he would surely have earned more credits.

However.

It had only been a little over a month, and before he could accumulate more credits, his old equipment was already no longer suitable.

"Now there are two options before me: either just buy a Gold-grade weapon and give up the full Gold set.

Or give up the Gold-grade equipment entirely and directly buy a full set of Silver-grade equipment."

The prices of equipment at different tiers differed enormously.

The remaining 500-plus credits couldn't buy a full set of Gold-grade level-18 equipment, but could buy a full set of Silver-grade level-18 equipment.

"Judging by attribute bonuses, a full set of Silver-grade equipment definitely gives higher attribute bonuses.

But if I only buy Silver-grade, it probably won't be long before this set of equipment needs replacing again — that's not a good deal."

"In that case, I'll just buy a Gold-grade weapon."

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Yi quickly Made a decision.

With his current strength, the slight attribute boost from a Silver set was dispensable......

On the contrary.

If he had a weapon that suited him, he could fight more smoothly.

"Good, it's you!"

After searching for a moment, Zhou Yi spent 300 credits and quickly placed an order in the Shangcheng for a new weapon.

Because it was custom equipment, the new weapon would be delivered to the dormitory tomorrow morning at nine.

"Ding dong~~~"

Suddenly, a phone notification sounded.

A text message appeared on the phone's Lock-screen realm:

"Attention all new students: the opening ceremony will begin promptly at ten tomorrow morning. Immediately after the opening ceremony, the Freshman Grand Competition will be held.

All new students, please prepare all your equipment in advance and arrive at Field No. 1 on time to attend the opening ceremony and the Freshman Grand Competition."

"Starting at ten? Perfect, I'll grab the equipment and head straight to the field."

After confirming the times for the opening ceremony and the Freshman Grand Competition, Zhou Yi turned off his phone, left the bedroom, and entered the training room next door.

Then he began the system's daily routine training that he did every day.

"Awesome! The Freshman Grand Competition is tomorrow!!"

"After the Freshman Grand Competition, the sequence rankings will be refreshed simultaneously! Housing and default credits will also be redistributed!!"

The new students who received the text notification at the same time were equally thrilled.

Heaven pities them.

Anyone who could enroll at Suhang University — weren't they all prodigies from every corner of the Zhongxia Kingdom?

Many of them had been top figures back in high school.

However, upon this registration.

They were shocked to discover that a default sequence ranking had been assigned to them!

If it were just an ethereal sequence ranking, these new students might not have cared.

After enrolling, they could show their strength and have the rankings rearranged.

They would have absolutely no complaints.

But the killer was that this initial default ranking actually determined the new students' housing arrangements and the default credits they received!!

Those ranked high could live in luxury single rooms.

While those ranked low could only live in double rooms, or even quadruple rooms!!

And the default credits received also had a huge gap!

One must know......

At Suhang University, all grades of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, precious professional skill books.

Even all kinds of ultra-high-efficiency life and magic potions required credits to purchase!

Now, the default sequence ranking had artificially divided them into different classes, with credit differences among them.

They naturally couldn't stand for it!

They had long been looking forward to the arrival of the Freshman Grand Competition to redistribute rankings and credits!

With the text notification now out, one by one they were rubbing their fists and palms, all looking forward to tomorrow's competition.

The ordinary new students who had just registered were excited, and the specially-recruited students who had already been at the school for a month were even more thrilled.

"The Freshman Grand Competition is finally about to begin!"

"A month of training — it's time to see the final results!"

"Heh, this time, I must drag Zhou Yi down from first place!"

"Well said!!"

"Hehe, I thought so too."

A month of on-campus training had long since turned the special-recruit students' credits into real strength.

There were plenty whose strength had doubled, even multiplied several times over!

This had given them a taste of the sweet rewards, and they were now eager to climb higher in the rankings!

To grab even more credits!!

And Zhou Yi, who had occupied the top spot and gone over a month without showing his face to the crowd — his strength might even have slipped backward —

naturally became the one the special-recruit students most wanted to replace.

At the same moment.

Inside Villa No. 002.

Shen Lingfeng, seated in the second-floor training room, also received the text notification.

"The Freshman Tournament is about to begin."

Through the training room's wide, transparent floor-to-ceiling window, his gaze rested calmly on the standalone villa higher up the hillside.

As a native of Ning'an City,

he knew perfectly well how fair the freshman rankings published by Suhang University were.

Back when the school had placed his sequence at second and Zhou Yi's at first,

he had understood that Zhou Yi might be even stronger than he had imagined.

The strength the other had casually revealed at the special-recruit meet-and-greet had proven the very same point.

And so, he had taken Zhou Yi as a true rival.

"Too bad you've squandered this past month-plus of training time for nothing."

"I've grown stronger, while you've been treading water — you might even have gone backward."

"You can't even seize an opportunity handed right to your mouth — is this the tragedy of small-town people..."

He shook his head, and a wild, arrogant grin had already spread across his face.

Indeed...

Only a scion of a noble house like him deserved to take first place!