Chapter 618: Eternal Spring Scripture

As the contestants completed their races one by one, the entire fourth stage came to a complete end.

With the total times of the first four stages added together, the overall standings of each team were arranged.

Looking at their own team's results, the faces of the crowd showed both worry and joy.

Everyone understood that the time taken in the upcoming fifth stage would determine which six teams would ultimately advance.

As the fifth stage officially began, a dark spot of cloud suddenly formed in the sky, then, like a drop of ink splashing into water, the dark cloud swelled abruptly and in an instant covered the sky above everyone.

Immediately afterward, scattered raindrops began to fall, and in the blink of an eye, a fierce storm broke out.

The content of this fifth stage was to change the weather, turning the raging storm back into a clear, sunny sky.

The time each contestant spent in this process was their score for this stage.

Dao Qiankun stepped through the sky one step at a time; black and white thunderbolts from his two hands crashed together with a roar, transforming into a pillar of light that shot up into the sky, piercing the heavens and sweeping across the world.

Blinding radiance illuminated the entire world, as if a hundred thousand bolts of lightning had exploded simultaneously in the air.

When the white-hot light gradually faded, the wind and rain in the sky had stopped without anyone noticing, and the dark clouds that had covered the entire arena had vanished without a trace.

Watching this scene, Zhang Yu took a deep breath, and the excitement he had felt from his victory began to cool down.

He glanced at the timer in his eye socket and thought to himself: "So fast."

"Dao Qiankun's overall strength right now is still greater than mine."

"To catch up to him, to win first place in the Ten Great Leagues, I have to keep pushing forward…"

Next, one by one, the contestants of the fifth stage made their grand appearances, each using their own means to change the weather. Among them, two performances caught Zhang Yu's attention, and he deeply memorized their names.

One of them had a dragon's head and a human body—Ying Mingchi, the top-ranked student from the Heavenly Demon University. He and Ying Zhoufan were the only two remaining contestants from the Heavenly Demon University in the Ten Great Leagues.

Unlike Ying Zhoufan, Ying Mingchi was not a transformed dragon; he possessed a true high-grade dragon bloodline.

He transformed into a white dragon, and a single dragon roar shook the sky, causing the black clouds to roll back, quickly ending the storm.

However, because the scope of his interference with the weather was too large—even extending beyond the examination grounds—the moment he finished… a pile of weather violation tickets descended, directly projected before him through the spirit realm, wrapping around him like layers of cordons.

The other was Xu Haixuan, the top-ranked student of the Talisman Department from the Ten Thousand Methods University. He set up an altar on the spot, invoked talismans, and directly pulled up a spirit-realm interface called the Weather Controller; a moment later, he ended the storm.

With the end of the fifth stage, the final rankings of the entire relay race emerged.

Zhang Yu looked at the rankings projected in the sky and thought: "First place is Dao Qiankun and my team."

"Second place is that dragon Ying Mingchi, Ying Zhoufan, and Di Lianzhong, the top-ranked student from the White Bone University, along with their team."

"Third place is Zang Shenyu, Tian Sheng Gong, senior sister Ye Xingli, and Xu Haixuan, the top-ranked student of the Talisman Department, along with their team."

"Fourth place is Kuang Tianqing's team."

"Fifth place is Wen Wuyou and A Zhen's team."

"Sixth place is Jiutian Liu and those finance-department students' team…"

With this, the thirty contestants participating in the final match were completely decided.

All students from the Danding University were eliminated at this point.

Mu Qiansi, the top-ranked student from the Hehuan University, was also eliminated, to the surprise and astonishment of the crowd.

Seeing the thirty students in the rankings, Zhang Yu knew that the ultimate champion would be born among these thirty. Every one of them would be his opponent, competitors in his quest for first place in the Ten Great Leagues.

…

After the relay race ended.

In the rest room of the Ten Thousand Methods University, True Lord Anzhen looked at the students who had advanced and said, "One week from now, the final match is about to begin."

"From the first round's team battle, to the second round's relay race, and then to the last match… according to the school's prediction, it will be a pure individual competition."

Zhang Yu nodded slightly upon hearing this, sensing that the Ten Great Leagues events were gradually shifting from team-oriented to individual-oriented.

True Lord Anzhen continued, "What exactly the final match format will be has not been announced yet; we probably won't know until the day of the competition."

"But no matter what the content is, it will revolve around testing individual ability, and the entire process will certainly not be short."

"These next seven days are your chance to rest well and make a final sprint. Use whatever assets, methods, or ideas you have while you can. I won't say more than that."

After Lord Zhenjun An left, Ye Xingli looked at Zhang Yu and asked, "Junior brother, how do you plan to arrange this coming week?"

Zhang Yu said, "Continue cultivating, and also adjust the magic artifact and the Dharma Skeleton along the way."

"In this relay race, the Seven Extremes Dharma Skeleton suffered considerable wear and tear, and also needs repairing."