Chapter 629: Top Eight

As the battle ended, Zhang Yu, carrying Ying Ming Chi, was enveloped in layers of divine light and guided back to the waiting area.

"Finally won."

Zhang Yu glanced at Ying Ming Chi, who was now only half left, and silently marveled at the formidable physique of his opponent—truly the strongest he had ever faced.

"Compared to humans, the physical limits of these demon descendants are indeed higher; he almost escaped."

"But... why does this guy smell more and more delicious?"

Smelling the aroma of roasted dragon meat emanating from his opponent, Zhang Yu felt his stomach churn with anticipation, and saliva secreted faster in his mouth.

Zhang Yu wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, and the next moment, he and Ying Ming Chi had already landed in the waiting area.

Watching Zhang Yu return from battle, Jiu Tian Liu's gaze became very complex.

He had never expected that Zhang Yu, who had originally only agreed to gather intelligence on Ying Ming Chi for him, could actually defeat his opponent, and even defeat Ying Ming Chi head-on in a direct confrontation.

At this moment, Jiu Tian Liu saw something called ambition in Zhang Yu.

This junior, who had grown from the Civil Engineering Department, once looked down upon by him, once dim and unnoticed in Wanfa University, and never regarded as an opponent by him, had imperceptibly grown to a level close to his own.

"This junior of mine, who is only in his fifth year..."

Jiu Tian Liu thought to himself: "Just how far has his ambition reached?"

Just as Jiu Tian Liu was watching Zhang Yu, Kuang Tian Qing beside him was also looking at Zhang Yu with great interest, thinking: "Has he improved again?"

"Although in this Top Ten Tournament, almost every student improved in every battle."

"But there is almost no one with a rate of improvement like Zhang Yu's."

"No wonder Dao Qiankun values this kid."

"And that hardness..."

Kuang Tian Qing recalled the scenes from the first team match when she frantically attacked Zhang Yu at the end.

It could be said that Zhang Yu's toughness after his Living Stake Transformation left a deep impression on her.

"What a tough guy, even tougher than I estimated during the team match."

"Heh, if there's a chance to fight again, should I compete with him in hardness? Or use softness to overcome hardness?"

Kuang Tian Qing licked her lips, feeling that the Zhang Yu before her was increasingly worth defeating.

Bang!

After Zhang Yu returned, he casually threw Ying Ming Chi, who now only had half a dragon body, onto the ground.

On Ying Ming Chi's body, various injuries surged like waves, constantly ravaging him.

But compared to the physical pain, the anger and humiliation in his heart caused him even more suffering.

"I actually lost completely in a head-on close-quarters battle to this scumbag, this demon descendant discriminator..."

"A gross humiliation... truly a gross humiliation."

At this moment, Ying Ming Chi did not even dare to open his Eye Skeleton, afraid that as soon as he contacted the Spirit Realm, he would see the overwhelming waves of teasing, criticism, and abuse pouring in.

Especially, Ying Ming Chi could imagine that a considerable portion of it would come from demon descendants.

Besides the blow to his reputation, this defeat also severely struck Ying Ming Chi's long-held values.

"The path of immortal cultivation considers the human form as beautiful because it is the most standardized form, the basic form considered by the ten great sects when designing the immortal cultivation framework, and the form most suitable for cultivating various techniques and using various Dharma Skeletons and Dharma Artifacts."

"Although the bloodline of the demon race grants powerful physiques and different abilities, their potential and adaptability in immortal cultivation are therefore inferior to the human form."

"But now... I have even lost to him in physique... lost to a human?"

"Then even if I find an immortal sect technique to convert human bloodline into demon descendant bloodline... what use would it be?"

He kept thinking, but never found an answer.

Just as his thoughts were collapsing wave after wave, gradually about to completely crush this true dragon, Ying Ming Chi suddenly detected a familiar feeling from Zhang Yu's gaze toward him.

It was the gaze of a demon descendant looking at another demon descendant.

In Ying Ming Chi's mind, the scene of Zhang Yu creating dragon beasts on the arena surfaced again.

There was also the image of fighting head-on with himself in the sea of fire.

In the end, all these images converged, turning into lines of text about the theory of the common origin of humans and demons.

"Humans are also demons."

"Perhaps this Zhang Yu also, because of atavism, awakened the human's demonic bloodline, and only then defeated me."

Ying Mingchi thought to himself: "I did not lose to a human; I merely lost to another demon descendant."

Zhang Yu was feeling dizzy and uncomfortable from the meat fragrance coming off Ying Mingchi's body, so he simply activated his Eye Skeleton and looked at the battles of other matches.

Besides him and Jiu Tianliu, Yan Xiang from Netherworld University and Zang Shenyu from Vajra University had also already finished their battles.

Yan Xiang defeated Xu Haixuan, the number one of the Talisman Department at Wanfa University, while Zang Shenyu defeated Di Lianzhong, the number one of White Bone University.