Chapter 378: No Money, No Competition

Thoughts raced through Ma Xuan’s mind, and he quickly made a decision.

“Alright, let’s take this opportunity to directly explode Zhang Yu and make him quit.”

So, he immediately issued an order through the competition group chat: “Act! Use the method we discussed before and beat him out!”

After the first half of the match ended, Ma Xuan and the others naturally summarized their combat experience, especially their insights from fighting Zhang Yu, and updated their strategy.

At this moment, related thoughts flashed through Ma Xuan’s mind like lightning.

“Compared to his performance the first time he trained half a year ago, Zhang Yu can be said to have made rapid progress!”

“Whether it’s basic physical strength, magic power capacity, combat skills, or the level of *Jiu Tian Yun Tian Jin*... Everything far exceeds the past!”

“That kind of plan where we beat him far away or suppressed him alone has already been proven unsuitable in combat!”

“Especially level 20 *Jiu Tian Yun Tian Jin*, it can fully borrow force for 20 strikes…”

After the first half of the fight, Ma Xuan and the others had completely started to take Zhang Yu seriously!

And in this situation, Ma Xuan decided on the operational strategy… The first is to reduce the strike power and increase the number of strikes!

“Don’t use heavy strikes, but unleash more continuous strikes within a unit of time!”

“This way, the power of each strike is much weaker, and we won’t even be afraid of being hit by borrowed force!”

“And a continuous, endless offensive like a torrential downpour can also quickly consume Zhang Yu!”

“Secondly, it’s best to use remote attacks, which can further reduce the risk of being counterattacked!”

For this new operational strategy, before the second half began, Ma Xuan and the others also ordered takeout and changed or increased their body equipment!

“Also, the attack medium is very important!”

Ma Xuan opened his mouth and a stream of silver particles sprayed out, pouring onto the earth beneath his feet!

Exactly the silver sand he ordered during the break!

When this substance is mixed into mud and sand, it can greatly increase the strength and toughness of the mud and sand over a large area. Coupled with his *Xiao San He* and *Dian Di Cheng Gang*, it can further greatly enhance the destructive power against Zhang Yu’s *Gang Qi*!

Although the effect is powerful, the price is also quite expensive!

Originally, Ma Xuan didn’t even consider using this thing in the team competition with Shi Huaiyu and the others!

He secretly said in his heart: “I wonder how much I can recover after this match ends!”

While thinking in his heart, he had already opened the recording function of his eye shell, and decided to recover the silver sand in his mind after the war!

And along with the pouring of silver sand, the earth beneath his feet, with Ma Xuan’s standing position as the center, was rapidly spreading with a silver color!

The next moment, Ma Xuan operated his magic power, and a path of silver arms rose up from the earth beneath his feet!

*Xiao San He* controls the mud and sand and shapes it, *Dian Di Cheng Gang* increases the strength, and the silver sand further enhances the strength and toughness!

After one silver arm rose up, it grew violently like a tree branch all the way, and then heavily slapped towards Zhang Yu!

Amidst the rumbling air explosion sounds, each palm was like a siege hammer smashing down!

At first, there were more than ten paths, but very quickly they rapidly grew to several dozen paths… Over a hundred silver arms, or fists, or palms, or fingers, attacked Zhang Yu like a storm of rain!

This was Ma Xuan’s level 20 martial art, *Wu Xiang Qian Shou*, which he unleashed by augmenting *Xiao San He* with *Dian Di Cheng Gang* and then combining it with silver sand!

Facing this sky-covering attack, Zhang Yu let out a low roar and unfolded *Wu Xiang Yun Gang* to block it for the first time!

Accompanied by bang bang bang explosion sounds, Zhang Yu’s entire body’s *Gang Qi* surged and shook violently like a sea of clouds!

Feeling this continuous, endless attack, Zhang Yu secretly said in his heart, “Hmph… Have they found a tactic to deal with *Jiu Tian Yun Tian Jin*?”

And just as Ma Xuan acted, the other three also acted together!

Yang Yan had just changed into the newly rented heart shell and hand shell during the break.

As the heart shell vibrated violently, streams of magic power poured into it, which then turned into streams of electric charges that sprayed out wildly, instantly covering the blood flow throughout his body!

At the same time, he lightly tapped his fingertip, and the blood flow passed through the hand shell’s electromagnetic acceleration, unleashing the built-in level 20 martial art, *Tan Zhi Jing Xue*!

The next instant, drops of blood shadow with electric light broke out of his body and shot towards Zhang Yu in the manner of a sky full of scattered flowers!

Each drop of blood thunder consumed magic power, passed through the strengthening and acceleration of the heart shell and hand shell, and was finally unleashed with level 20 *Tan Zhi Jing Xue*!

However, because the shells were all rented, the price per drop was 0.02 spirit coins based on the number of blood thunder!

Looking at the continuously rising bill in his eye shell, Yang Yan’s battle intent surged, and he roared in his heart: “Zhang Yu. You damn well better defeat me quickly!”

Under the surge of battle intent, Yang Yan only felt his heart shell jump faster, and the bill in his eye shell also rose faster. Then, as his heart method operated, it brought him even more surging battle intent!

And all of this was within Yang Yan’s expectations, because he always used rented shells, with renting being the main method.

Doing this could both show off his wealth and display his financial power to the crowd, and he could stimulate his battle intent by continuously refreshing the bill!

Because when using rented shells, he needed to operate them more efficiently and rapidly to save on rent!

And completing the same task while paying less rent, how is this not a kind of earning money?

Every time he thought of this, he felt his heart method operate more fiercely in his mind, stimulating him to unleash stronger battle intent, stronger power, faster thinking… At the same time, on the other side, Gusu Su also acted in the same way!

To better deal with Zhang Yu, she needed to change her fighting methods!

But for this competition, fourth-year student Su Su had already spent her deposit continuously for a month before the competition started, using it to improve her strength!

But looking at Ma Xuan, Yang Yan, and the others, who didn’t hesitate to place orders for benefits, Su Su could only borrow a sum of spirit coins and rent a hand shell to replace her original hand shell!

After magic power was poured into the hand shell called Empty Roar Sword, it could absorb and compress air, turning it into paths of air thunder! Then, wrapped with *Gang Qi*, it shot out paths of air explosion swords!

Because it was a temporary rental, the rent was extremely high, and in addition to knowing that she was using it to participate in the competition, she was directly refused insurance!

Therefore, since the competition started, Su Su had always carefully protected her hand shell, checking the durability display in the hand shell’s self-check report from time to time!

And the hand shell’s durability had also decreased from 95 at the start of the competition to 94 now!

The so-called durability was the estimated value after comprehensively evaluating the wear value of each item in the hand shell!

Generally, if the durability drops below 20, serious malfunctions will appear; if it drops below 10, it will be unable to operate normally; and at 0, it will be completely scrapped!

And Su Su knew even more that for this rented Empty Roar Sword… If the durability drops by more than 10, there will be a sharp increase in extra maintenance fees!

She made up her mind in her heart: “End this fight before the durability drops below 85!”

At this moment, Su Su operated her magic power, operated her hard-cultivated level 15 *Hong Huo Gang Qi*, poured the *Gang Qi* into the hand shell, and shot out paths of flame air explosion swords towards Zhang Yu!

Amidst the bang bang bang explosion sounds, paths of *Wu Xiang Li Shi* rushed out wildly, actively welcoming the air explosion swords, stirring up arrays of violent explosions!

Amidst streams of surging heat waves and hurricanes, on the other side, Bu Ziran also finally spat out the sword *Qi* he had accumulated for a long time!

During the break in the field, every time Bu Ziran thought of the setback he suffered at Zhang Yu’s hands in the first half, he couldn’t help but feel a suffocating feeling in his heart!

To better restrain Zhang Yu in the second half, he first changed the output mode of his lung shell’s sword *Qi*, switching from the commonly used *Fei Jin Jian Qi* to *Geng Jin Niu Mao Jian Qi*!

He also changed his hand shell to one that could display high-speed sword skills, called Fast Sword!

But because Fast Sword was Bu Ziran’s less commonly used backup hand shell, it had never been maintained or preserved, and after a self-check, its durability was only 33!

Perceiving this, Bu Ziran frowned slightly and said in his heart: “It doesn’t matter, this battle shouldn’t wear down too much durability. I’ll find time to repair it after the war!”

And at this moment, Bu Ziran used his lung shell to unleash *Geng Jin Niu Mao Jian Qi*, poured it into the Fast Sword in his right hand, and then displayed the level 15 martial art, *Tian Pu Jian*!

In a flash, paths of golden sword *Qi* like a heavenly river poured down, bringing overlapping golden threads, pouring towards Zhang Yu!

At this instant, Zhang Yu could be said to be facing the biggest crisis of the day’s battle!

Whether it was Ma Xuan’s *Wu Xiang Qian Shou*, Yang Yan’s *Tan Zhi Jing Xue*, Gusu Su’s air explosion swords, or Bu Ziran’s *Tian Pu Jian*… All were strengthened through various materials, shells, and skills, unleashing power far exceeding the original skills through layered amplification!

What was even worse was that facing this continuous, endless attack that won by quantity, *Jiu Tian Yun Tian Jin* seemed to have lost its effectiveness for a moment!

Accompanied by the violent surge and consumption of *Gang Qi*, from time to time, sword *Qi*, flames, blood thunder, and silver palms tore through *Wu Xiang Yun Gang*, heavily bombarding Zhang Yu’s body!

In the blink of an eye, his entire body’s skin and flesh already had more than ten wounds, making him look covered in blood!

“If only I had Xiao Qingxuan’s 20 strikes of *Jiu Long Tian Gang Zhang* in this state!”

But Zhang Yu knew that although his *Jiu Tian Yun Tian Jin* could borrow force to hit force, the borrowed force could only be stored in the empty orifices for a short time. At this moment, there was fundamentally no power of *Jiu Long Tian Gang Zhang* in the empty orifices!

However, Zhang Yu, who was continuously observing the entire field with his Three Eye Divine Ability, still remained calm!

He secretly said in his heart: “It’s not good to be passively hit like this, I must find a breakthrough point!”

“Drink!”

Zhang Yu let out a violent roar, and the *Wu Xiang Yun Gang* inside his body suddenly expanded, spreading out in all four directions!

At the same time, figures appeared in the sea of clouds and rushed fiercely in all directions!

Bang bang bang bang, figures were directly beaten and exploded under the combined attack of the four people!

But Zhang Yu’s body also used the opportunity of the attack being dispersed to rush towards Bu Ziran, who was closest to him!

“Remote attacks indeed restrain my fighting method!”

“But remote attacks also have a flaw. When I’m in close combat with your teammates, your offensive will inevitably weaken… Or even hit your teammates!”

“If you want to get hit, then let’s get hit together!”

Looking at Bu Ziran quickly retreating in front of him, Zhang Yu grinned and rushed forward!

As for why he chose this target, it was naturally because Zhang Yu still remembered the other party’s display of wealth in the competition group chat!

Fu Ji secretly said: “This kid Zhang Yu has always hated the rich quite a bit!”