Chapter 471: War Trigger?

Feeling Zhang Yu's aura skyrocket, watching the enormous mountain that blotted out the sky and sun as Zhang Yu smashed it down at him, Yue Guanqiong's heart trembled.

"A breakthrough in the midst of battle? Twice in a row?"

"Or did Wanfa conceal information, and the breakthrough from the yin organ experiment allowed Zhang Yu to reach level 18 of Tiankunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power, instead of level 16?"

"Or is it the aftereffect of the yin organ experiment... that Zhang Yu had already completed the accumulation and resources needed for his cultivation technique's advancement back when he underwent the experiment, and today's fierce competition helped him accelerate the digestion process, ushering in a new breakthrough..."

Thoughts surged through his mind like lightning, but Yue Guanqiong suppressed them one by one.

Because he knew that no matter which reason led to Zhang Yu's breakthrough, he had no time to think about it.

At this moment, the top priority was still to block the giant mountain pressing down with heaven-shattering force.

With a furious shout, Yue Guanqiong unleashed his Great Freedom Transient Prison Sword Qi at full power. Countless swords rose from the sword formation like a torrent of metal, roaring as they blasted toward the giant mountain.

"Open this mountain for me!"

Amid the rumbling explosions, the giant mountain was continuously shattered under the assault of the metal torrent. Large sections of rock suddenly cracked apart, turning into flying gravel and dust.

But just as the mountain was being cut and broken apart, Zhang Yu reached out and grabbed the earth from a distance. A mass of sand and rock shot up, merging into the giant mountain.

"Move the mountain!"

"Crush them all down!"

Behind him, Su Yanyang, Shi Huaiyu, and the others all activated their arts together, jointly driving the formation.

Su Yanyang: "Zhang Yu! We'll help you!"

Shi Huaiyu: "Don't give them a chance to counterattack!"

With a loud boom, a torrent like a mudslide suddenly surged, raising earth-dragons that joined Zhang Yu's giant mountain.

At the same time, Yue Guanqiong let out a low shout: "Hold firm with me!"

"If he moves the mountain, we'll split it open and break through the earth!"

"Swords, come!"

Under the efforts of the other members of Tianjian University, large amounts of sand and rock were transformed into swords and sent before Yue Guanqiong, who used them to fly out and shatter the giant mountain descending closer and closer to the airborne fortress.

With a deafening roar, the mountain body, rock layers, metal, silt... collided violently under the wills of both sides, producing earth-shattering explosions.

The rising dust and smoke nearly swallowed the entire arena.

Xiang Shan of Tianyao University watched the scene and remarked, "On Wanfa's side, they dig earth and move mountains; on Tianjian's side, they split mountains and break ground."

"This is a contest of the purest and most fundamental construction capability."

Wan Gouxuan from Xianbing University nodded beside him: "With extreme focus and ultimate power, they drive the construction instincts honed through countless drills, and the victor will inevitably be the one with the highest construction efficiency."

The next moment, as the giant mountain gradually descended, the mountain body and the airborne fortress collided fiercely.

Amid the ear-splitting noise, the airborne fortress of Tianjian University gradually tilted, sinking slowly like a ship plunging into water.

Xiang Shan sighed, "Yue Guanqiong is still leading his people in a desperate resistance, but just like in the previous battle, the Great Freedom Transient Prison Sword Qi could suppress Zhang Yu at a distance."

"Now that the distance between them has closed, Tiankunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power has the advantage..."

As he spoke, the airborne fortress floating in midair suddenly cracked apart, as if being torn repeatedly by invisible giant hands, sending large chunks scattering across the sky.

While the mountain and the fortress were falling together, sword qi howled and dust shot into the air, indicating that Tianjian University's resistance was still ongoing.

This resistance did not cease even after the fortress crashed into the ground; instead, it grew even more intense.

But as the battlefield moved to the ground, Zhang Yu's advantage was further magnified.

Watching the earth churn violently like boiling water, constantly crushing and scattering everything, Xiang Shan said calmly, "It's over."

Wan Gouxuan beside him nodded slightly but said nothing.

Although the match had ended, the two of them looked even more solemn, both recalling the process of Zhang Yu's breakthrough in the heat of battle.

To be honest, in Xiang Shan and Wan Gouxuan's view... a breakthrough in the midst of battle was nothing special. After all, cultivators train their techniques every day, and breaking through right during a competition was mostly just a coincidence.

Two consecutive breakthroughs in a short time were much rarer, but still not unprecedented in history. And if the battle dragged on long enough, some geniuses could use battle to nourish their cultivation, sometimes breaking through three or four times in a single major conflict.

Even more gifted individuals, in ancient history, had broken through from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core or from Golden Core to Nascent Soul right on the battlefield—these were not isolated cases. After all, in ancient times, there were no qualification certificates, and no illegal breakthroughs existed.

But as Xiangshan would put it, he desperately hoped that Zhang Yu was such an unprecedented genius, that Zhang Yu had completed the breakthrough of this Level 2 technique through his own talent.

"No matter how powerful an unprecedented genius is, it's still just the power of a single person."

Xiangshan thought to himself: "And now Zhang Yu's breakthrough might very well represent a breakthrough in Wanfa's immortal technique."

"If that's really the case, then in the future Wanfa… I'm afraid there will be even more such students like him."

"It's not just the Civil Engineering Department that might see more Zhang Yus; even students from other departments will become stronger as well."

"If that's the case, it won't just be a matter of competitions."

"Just in the field of civil engineering projects, if Wanfa has more highly efficient construction personnel, it can further reduce construction costs and gain a huge advantage in project competition."

Xiangshan knew that Wanfa University and Tianyao University had always been in fierce competition in construction projects.

Once Wanfa University gains the advantage and takes on more projects, that means Tianyao University will have fewer projects, less work, and less income…

"If something like that happens, and it happens before I graduate…"