Chapter 589: Rules, Storm

Looking at the projection of the Dao Canon's catalogue, faced with this existence that claimed to record all immortal techniques in the world, every student present showed a look of desire in their eyes.

And as the Heavenly Evolution Divine Lord's speech ended, a series of images appeared in the projection before everyone's eyes, which began to explain the rules of the first match.

The first thing that emerged in the projection was the floating continent beneath their feet.

As rays of light flowed, beams representing the 100 students shot toward various parts of the continent.

Dao Qiankun's gaze shifted: "Are the 100 contestants randomly teleported to various locations on the floating continent?"

"So it's this kind of team battle?" Wen Wuyue's eyes shone with curiosity: "We can freely use the spirit realm, all communication technology, and the Sky-Patrolling Flying Swords are still usable, but we can't communicate with anyone outside the arena... This is perfect for me to shine."

More rules continued to emerge, and the floating continent in the projection seemed to erupt into fierce battle, constantly shaking mountains and moving earth.

Ye Xingli's eyes flickered as she quickly captured and saved each rule, while thinking to herself: "This team battle lasts for 3 days, and the final outcome is determined by the number of captives each school has?"

Yan Qianji smiled softly: "Hehe, just defeating opponents isn't enough, you have to capture them? At the moment the match ends, the more captives you have, the more points you earn. And captives can be rescued along the way, so the key to the match lies entirely in the word 'captive,' doesn't it?"

Jiutian Liu, standing nearby, calmly thought: "The ranking at the end of this team battle will determine the number of advancement slots and the number of contestants for the second match."

"The top-ranked school team can have 10 advancement slots. The last-ranked school team can only have 1 advancement slot—meaning from a team of 10 people, only one person can be chosen to participate in the next match."

Jiutian Liu made a judgment in his mind: "The result of this match will have a huge impact on subsequent matches. The higher the ranking, the more students can be selected for the next match. To win, we need to quickly regroup with teammates and with allies from other schools."

Zhang Yu took a deep breath and thought to himself: "In this team battle, as both sides continuously gather and group up, it will probably eventually turn into... a decisive battle between the two major alliances led by Wanfa and Tianmo respectively."

Looking at one of the rules, Zhang Yu thought: "Especially that during the match, killing opponents is allowed. You won't be eliminated for killing an opponent, and you don't even have to pay compensation in spirit coins."

"Moreover, many people should have enough money to revive, and some schools can even pay for revivals."

"That means even if you die in battle, as long as you have enough value, you can be revived and then be selected into the advancement slots... to participate in the next match."

Seeing this point, Zhang Yu could already imagine just how brutal this battle would become in the end.

On the other side, within the Tianmo University team, Kuang Tianqing couldn't help but laugh when he saw the end of the rules: "Tch, during the same time period, a contestant can only carry one captive at a time when moving?"

"So even if I defeat them all, I can only grab one as a captive at a time... Hmph, are they trying to restrict me?"

At the same time, countless resources like plants, materials, minerals, spirit beasts, and even spirit veins rained down from the sky onto the floating continent in the projection, spreading across the entire land, as if forming a complete ecological and natural environment.

Anzhen True Lord thought to himself: "With all kinds of resources available, plus the 3-day match time, it's enough for every specialty to demonstrate their strengths. That means how to use the resources on the floating continent to increase one's on-the-spot combat power during these 3 days is also very important."

Then Anzhen True Lord looked at the vast amount of resources on the floating continent and couldn't help thinking: "The company that took on the construction of this match venue must be making a killing."

After the content and rules of the first match were fully announced, a 5-minute countdown immediately appeared before everyone.

And after 5 minutes, the 100 students from the ten major schools at the scene would be randomly teleported across the entire continent.

These 5 minutes were everyone's final preparation time.

Anzhen True Lord's eyes flickered, and he immediately said in the school team group: After this match begins, you cannot communicate with the outside world, but contestants on the field can still communicate with each other, and you can also use the school team group or the Four-School Alliance group for internal communication—that's fine.

Anzhen True Lord: The first thing after entering the arena is to confirm your respective positions, then quickly communicate and determine a meeting point.

Anzhen True Lord: Don't get bogged down in fights on the way, don't fight alone. The key early in this match is to regroup as quickly as possible...

Ye Xingli asked: What if we run into people from Tianjian, Jingang, or Xianbing on the way?

Anzhen True Lord: They are still trustworthy. If it's along the way, go with them.

Along with the exchange between Anzhen True Lord and the students, the 5 minutes quickly passed.

In an instant, strands of light seemed to coil around the students in the spirit realm.

From this moment on, they could no longer contact anyone outside the arena.

The next moment, as an invisible force acted on Zhang Yu, he felt his body shoot upward, and in the blink of an eye he turned into a streak of light, shooting toward a corner of the floating continent.

At the same time, a full hundred streaks of light, like a hundred falling stars, sliced through the sky, covering the entire continent.

"Senior sister is at that position..."

Zhang Yu's eyes rapidly swept over the trajectories of the streaks of light.

Although he could no longer make out the people inside the light, since they were all students of Wanfa University and had been standing together just before being wrapped in light, Zhang Yu could remember which light represented whom among those near him.

"Dao Qiankun, Jiutian Liu, Yan Qianji... they're all quite far from me."

As he pondered, the ground below grew closer and closer, and with a thunderous crash, Zhang Yu crashed into a patch of jungle.

Leaves and branches flew as the immense force whipped up violent winds, tearing a large swath of giant trees from their roots, carving out a clearing in the middle of this dense jungle.