Chapter 533

Mid-October.

Inside the dormitory.

Zhang Yu had just finished his cultivation and returned his consciousness from the Supreme Pure Realm when he saw the congratulatory notice from Wanfa University.

Reading its contents, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Has the Top Ten League ended?"

"It seems to have ended earlier than in previous years."

"Dao Qiankun from the Dao Arts Department took second place in Dharma Combat. Jiutian Liu from Finance took first in Fortune Combat, and from our Artifact Refining Department, Yan Qianji took second in Treasure Combat, while Senior Sister Ye Xingli took tenth…"

Zhang Yu mused, "Senior Sister's artifact design ability is amazing—she can make the top five among a hundred schools. But when it comes to directly competing with artifacts in battle, she's still a step behind the top students from other schools for now."

Yet this also made Zhang Yu appreciate even more his senior sister’s talent in artifact design, strengthening his desire to copy her Dao Seed.

Zhang Yu thought further, "Yan Qianji, as a Nascent Soul disciple, is already the face of our Artifact Refining Department. Even he lost one match and couldn't take first?"

Zhang Yu looked at the remaining rankings and summarized in his mind, "This year, first place in Dharma Combat and first in Treasure Combat went to Tianmo University and Youming University respectively."

"Tianmo and Youming truly are, like Wanfa, the three strongest schools among the Top Ten."

Gazing at the names on the leaderboard, Zhang Yu sighed softly, "The Top Ten League is truly full of experts."

And thinking that he would have to step over so many top students, defeating them one by one to obtain the Immortal Sect techniques, Zhang Yu felt both worried and nervous, yet also a surge of excitement.

Just then, he also saw Bai Zhenzhen's ranking at seventh in Sword Combat.

"Ah Zhen did pretty well this time too—she's only a senior and already got this ranking…"

Zhang Yu sent a congratulatory message to Bai Zhenzhen.

After a moment's thought, he also sent a congratulatory message to Ye Xingli.

Ye Xingli: Thank you! I was lucky this time; I still need to keep working hard.

Looking at Ye Xingli’s reply, Zhang Yu thought, "Sigh, Senior Sister used to attach a transfer with every message. Why hasn't she been sending any spirit coins lately?"

He even had a strange illusion that lately talking to Ye Xingli felt like chatting with people in the Songyang hometown group.

Just then, Bai Zhenzhen's invitation appeared.

As Zhang Yu accepted, his consciousness crossed layers of the spirit world and arrived in a room.

This was the secret room that the Seven Emotions Divine Lord had opened for him and Bai Zhenzhen in the spirit world, the place where they had met every day for some time.

The moment they met, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen hugged each other tightly.

Feeling Zhang Yu’s arms holding her firmly, Bai Zhenzhen whispered, "Yu Zi, I'm sorry I never replied to your messages. Mom wouldn't let me contact you."

Feeling Bai Zhenzhen quietly leaning against his chest, Zhang Yu looked at his usually energetic buddy, now unusually serene, and said with a smile, "I'm just glad you're okay."

Bai Zhenzhen asked, "What about you? Did you run into any demon cultists?"

So they held each other, telling each other about their experiences over this period.

Of course, in the room that the Seven Emotions had opened for them, Zhang Yu couldn't possibly talk about his real experience fighting a demon cult Golden Core to the death; he just repeated the story he had already told the Righteous Gods.

When they got to talking about the Top Ten League, Bai Zhenzhen also shared the news about the league's restructuring next year.

Hearing Bai Zhenzhen's news, Zhang Yu was startled and said, "So starting next year, the results of the Top Ten League will determine more of the resource distribution among the Top Ten Universities, and the competition will become even fiercer?"

"And there's the option to self-select a technique from the Immortal Sect." Bai Zhenzhen said gravely, "Being able to choose a technique from the Dao Canon Catalog—that reward is too tempting."

"And it's hard to say if the Top Ten League will ever offer such a prize again. It's very likely that this is a one-time opportunity."

Whenever she thought about this, Bai Zhenzhen couldn't help but sigh, "The Dao Canon Catalog was created by the Ten Great Sects back when they were building the new immortal cultivation system, specifically to record all kinds of immortal cultivation knowledge in the world. They say it contains every technique in existence."

"Even if that's an exaggeration—maybe not all techniques are recorded, or the Ten Great Sects will place restrictions on the selection—there are still far too many techniques to choose from, and all at the Immortal Sect level…"

"If Master-level techniques are just conventionally powerful, and Military-level techniques start to defy common sense, then Immortal Sect-level techniques can change the entire landscape, delivering a dimensionality reduction attack against any technique below the Immortal Sect level. They're a whole other tier of techniques."

Hearing this, Zhang Yu nodded repeatedly, a boundless yearning rising in his heart.

But when Bai Zhenzhen got to this point, her voice dropped again. "Too bad… next year is too soon."

Zhang Yu asked, "Will the competition format change?"

Bai Zhenzhen nodded. "The specifics haven't come down yet, but according to rumors, all military competitions will be merged into a single event."

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"One event?" Zhang Yu was stunned inwardly: "Doesn't that mean... students from events like competition of techniques, competition of treasures, competition of fortune, competition of swords, etc., will all be crowded into one track to compete?"

Bai Zhenzhen nodded, then sighed softly: "What a pity. If it could be delayed by two or three years, we would be able to compete for it."

"Next year..."

Thinking of the top three geniuses in this sword competition, and the other prodigies from various original different tracks, Bai Zhenzhen let out another long sigh.

Originally, with her current strength, there was already a gap between her and these upperclassmen.

However, Bai Zhenzhen had confidence that as long as she was given a little more time, she would definitely be able to catch up to these upperclassmen in the future.

But one year was still too tight, especially with the eruption of conflicts among the ten great universities this time, and the bait of self-selected immortal sect cultivation methods next year. These upperclassmen would inevitably receive full support from the school and various support from Nascent Soul Divine Lords.

As a result, it would be even harder to catch up to these upperclassmen within one year.