Chapter 361

On the arena stage.

Although Zhou Yi had knocked Feng Qiang down, Feng Qiang was after all wearing the heaviest armor with the strongest defense!

Therefore, this strike was not enough to make him lose consciousness and withdraw from the match.

He could be seen slowly climbing up from the ground, his face filled with disbelief:

"How... how is that possible? How could your strength possibly be greater than mine?!"

Feng Qiang could feel a sharp pain coming from his own hands, caused by the backlash force formed when Zhou Yi's battle axe, with its tremendous power, hacked onto the greatsword!

But compared to the physical pain, the psychological blow was what made him feel the worst.

"Phew, calm down, calm down, the match has only just begun, I still have a chance!"

After taking a deep breath and doing his utmost to stop his hands from trembling, Feng Qiang slowly got up.

Just then, with a whoosh, a glowing golden long spear shot toward him at extreme speed, less than three meters away!

"Not good! It's Zhou Yi's Spear of Victory!"

Only now did Feng Qiang come back to his senses, but it was already too late!

With a piercing sound, the Spear of Victory pierced straight through the heavy armor on his calf, pinning him in place!

"Zoning out in the middle of a fight is not a good habit."

Zhou Yi's tall figure appeared, his black-and-white eyes carrying an incomparably cold, piercing look:

"Air Slash!"

Because of the Spear of Victory, Feng Qiang had no way to dodge at all, and the swung battle axe landed squarely on him!

With a muffled thud, Feng Qiang was directly sent airborne by the Air Slash!

"Hammer of Repentance!"

Without the slightest pause, Zhou Yi lightly touched his brow with his left hand; the Hammer of Repentance skill finished chanting in an instant, and a massive golden holy-light war hammer crashed down!

Boom!!

The hammerhead of the golden war hammer struck Feng Qiang, and the heavy armor famed for its defense instantly deformed!

Splurt—

A huge mouthful of fresh blood also spurted from his mouth at the same time!!

He crashed heavily onto the arena floor with a thud, his entire face contorted from the intense pain.

However, it wasn't over yet!

After the Hammer of Repentance smashed down, it transformed into raging golden holy light that completely enveloped the area around Feng Qiang, ravaging his body!

"Ah—"

Pain-filled wails immediately echoed throughout the entire arena!

"Announce the match over, we concede."

In the rest area, Su Rui stood up and shouted toward the host.

The arena's victory judgment required one side to lose consciousness.

And at this moment Feng Qiang's mind was already occupied by the intense pain, unable to concede on his own, and waiting for him to lose consciousness would still take quite a while.

Since that was the case, it was better to concede early and end the suffering.

"Modu University concedes. The winner of this match is... Zhou Yi!!"

The host Gao Ang's voice rang out, and the surrounding spectator stands immediately erupted in waves of cheers and shouts:

"Zhou Yi! The strongest!"

"Zhou Yi! I love you!!"

"......"

In the first two matches of the fourth round of the singles tournament, the first match took roughly a little over forty minutes, and the second match took roughly ten minutes.

Only this third match ended with what could be called lightning speed!

All in all, it had only taken about a single minute!

And the crushing dominance Zhou Yi displayed throughout the entire battle won him a large batch of new fans!!

Besides the spectators inside the stadium, the bullet comments in the online livestream rooms also began flooding the screen with discussion:

"Zhou Yi winning the fourth round of the singles tournament this easily, he probably still has strength to spare!"

"Terrifying, Zhou Yi's strength stat and intelligence stat are both extremely high!"

"A Holy Knight actually has such fierce damage output—I've decided, I want to switch to Holy Knight too!"

"Heh, Holy Knight is a hidden class, it's not that easy to switch to."

"Fine, my bad......"

"......"

While a group of online viewers were discussing among themselves, they also grew increasingly interested in Zhou Yi's Holy Knight class, and quite a few people wanted to switch to this class.

But when they learned it was a hidden class, one by one they immediately lost their enthusiasm.

A hidden class—without special channels or luck, there was originally no way to successfully change class.

"This is insane."

When the match ended, the energy barrier disappeared, and the audience's cheers, like an avalanche, immediately pierced Zhou Yi's ears.

He could even see the burning gazes of some young women relatively close to the arena, as if he could see little hearts floating in their eyes.

"Quick, quick, quick, start the healing!"

"Tch, this annoying holy light again."

"Obviously, he's Zhou Yi's opponent!"

"......"

Right after that, a squad of priests in white robes ran up onto the arena. After examining Feng Qiang's injuries, they shot a resentful, neglected-wife glare at Zhou Yi.

Priests' healing methods generally use Holy Light to perform treatment.

Zhou Yi's skills also carried Holy Light, but his were of the berserker and punishment types.

But the two ultimately converged on the same path, which meant that when priests tried to heal Zhou Yi's opponents, they first had to purge the berserk Holy Light—otherwise the Healing Technique's effectiveness would be drastically reduced!

Precisely because of this, every time they healed Zhou Yi's opponents, their workload essentially doubled!

"You guys go ahead."

Zhou Yi naturally had no idea about the ins and outs of it. Feeling a chill from their stares, he offered a greeting and quickly headed toward the rest area.

"Bro Yi, you're amazing!"

"So cool!"

"..."

The moment he returned to the rest area, Liu Yang and the others all chimed in with praise.

Zhou Yi smiled, sat down in a seat in the rest area, and continued watching the upcoming battles.

There were five matches in the morning; by the time they ended, it was already 11:30 noon.

And with the conclusion of this fourth round, including the one lucky contestant who advanced directly, a total of six people had entered the fifth round.

They were respectively: Suhang University's Holy Knight Zhou Yi, Spirit Daoist Song Xialan; Magic Capital University's Warrior Wei He, Mage Mu You; and Qingjing University's Warrior Li Yuan, Mechanic Wang Xuan.

It is worth mentioning that Wang Xuan was precisely that lucky contestant who advanced directly.

And although Li Yuan was injured and unable to bring his full strength to bear, his opponent was merely a captain from one of the seven ordinary university representative teams.

With Li Yuan's strength as a top-tier university captain, he naturally crushed his opponent with ease.

The winners' bracket matches ended, and immediately following were the losers' bracket matches.

The losers' bracket had roughly over seventy people. These seventy-plus contestants spent an entire afternoon before finally determining two victors.

These two were respectively Suhang University's Spirit-Sword Wielder Jiang Churan, and Han City University representative team captain Lu Qiang—an 18th-level Gunslinger.

With this, all eight slots for contestants entering the individual competition's fifth round were finalized.

"Of the eight slots entering the fifth round, seven belong to students from the three top-tier universities—as expected of top-tier universities!"

"Obviously. The resources the country pours into these three universities every year aren't spent for nothing!"

"True, but this year's freshman exchange tournament is the most exhilarating one I've watched in years."