Chapter 68: Grouping

In this Martial Dao Competition, each school can send up to ten participants.

When Zhang Yu arrived, he found that there were only forty-some participants in total, thirty of whom belonged to the three major high schools.

The remaining ten-odd contestants were from other ordinary and key high schools.

They might have been unaware of the situation of the Martial Dao Competition, lacked access to information, or held wishful thinking of seeing the world and trying their luck.

But as the powerhouses from the three major high schools took turns demonstrating their strength.

Those students from other high schools gradually developed the intention to withdraw, and began to quit the competition one by one.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, of course, did not retreat.

Zhang Yu recalled the rules, knowing that the contestants would be ranked into different tiers according to their scores.

Then, contestants in the same tier would be randomly drawn and assigned to eight different groups for group elimination matches.

This was to ensure as much as possible that each group would have contestants from high to low tiers, avoiding the premature elimination of multiple high-tier contestants in the same group.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "If I want to avoid being grouped with the most powerful students, I must try to get a high score."

"Only in this way can I avoid encountering formidable experts in the group stage, and ensure a place in the top eight."

Looking at the Yellow Turban Warrior on the stage, Zhang Yu had gradually developed a battle plan in his mind.

After a while, it was finally Zhang Yu's turn to enter the arena.

……

In the audience.

Zhao Tianxing, Qian Shen, and He Dayou sat together.

Apart from He Dayou, who looked disgusted, Qian Shen was watching the arena intently.

Zhao Tianxing felt that the students from the three major high schools were looking at him, and felt a bit awkward that he, from Songyang, was here to watch the competition like them.

He also felt that the Songyang High School uniform he was wearing was so rare and out of place in the hall of Bailong High School, and that the people around him had strange emotions when they saw his Songyang uniform.

Of course, Zhao Tianxing was overthinking it. For most of the high school students from the three famous schools...

Songyang High School? Do the students there know about cultivating immortality? What's so interesting about that? We're here to watch the competition.

But at this moment, a student wearing a Bailong High School uniform walked over and said to He Dayou, "Dayou, you actually came to watch my competition?"

He Dayou looked at him, wondering why his sunglasses and mask were useless.

"Yeah." He Dayou nodded and said, "I came to see what the overall level of this year's three famous schools is like."

Chu Qiuhe from Bailong High School smiled and said, "I saw that your Songyang High School also came to participate. What were you thinking? Aren't you afraid of going bankrupt?"

Although he knew that there was indeed a gap between Songyang and the three major high schools, He Dayou, as the son of a school board member, still felt instinctively uncomfortable hearing this.

To humiliate Songyang in front of the school board member's son, you've already got a death wish.

But he also understood that Songyang and Bailong were indeed a bit different.

Even though he and Chu Qiuhe were junior high school classmates, their friendship had gradually changed since he entered Songyang and the other entered Bailong High School.

In front of the other, He Dayou always felt inferior.

Even now, Chu Qiuhe was only looking at He Dayou, his junior high school classmate, treating Qian Shen and Zhao Tianxing next to He Dayou as air.

After all, Songyang High School... heh.

At this moment, He Dayou said lightly, "Who knows? Anyway, that person got fourth place in the Magic Competition last time, so he might be trying his luck this time."

Hearing the title of fourth place in the Magic Competition, Chu Qiuhe was instantly choked, and smiled awkwardly, "Martial Dao combat is different from the Magic Competition. Martial Dao combat is about overall strength. The gap between Bailong, Ziyun, Hongta, and other high schools is huge."

As he spoke, he looked at the arena and said, "It just so happens that your school's contestant is on stage. Let me help you see what his level is like..."

At the same time, seeing that the contestant who appeared was a student from Songyang High School, many spectators thought it would be a tough fight.

But then they saw Zhang Yu and the Yellow Turban Warrior collide, and then with a bang... the Yellow Turban Warrior was thrown out of bounds.

Zhang Yu, 300 points.

The whole audience was in an uproar. No one had expected a student from Songyang High School to be able to do this.

Chu Qiuhe was also stunned, seeing that before he could finish speaking, the Yellow Turban Warrior was thrown out by Zhang Yu. He said in surprise, "300 points? Can Songyang teach such students?"

His tone... was as if he had seen a flower growing out of cow dung.

Although he hated Zhang Yu, He Dayou had to admit that at this moment, looking at Chu Qiuhe's surprised gaze, he felt a little refreshed, and nodded reservedly, "Our class is quite strong this year."

Qian Shen next to him also said, "Zhang Yu got 653 points after all, he's very powerful."

Looking at the uproar in the audience, Zhao Tianxing also subconsciously straightened his chest, feeling that his Songyang uniform wasn't so humble anymore.

……

When Chu Qiuhe returned to Song Hailong's side, he saw the competition coach leading a few people to watch a slow-motion replay.

The coach analyzed, "This Zhang Yu stood at the edge of the arena from the beginning."

"It was to make the Yellow Turban Warrior take the initiative to attack, and actively come to the edge of the arena."

"Then he used an ordinary straight punch, and then it gets interesting."

In the lens, Zhang Yu intercepted the Yellow Turban Warrior's attack as if he had predicted it in advance.

The competition coach analyzed, "At that moment, he judged the Yellow Turban Warrior's attack, and then interrupted it in advance, and then used the Wuji Cloud Hand to guide the Yellow Turban Warrior's strength, and finally threw the Yellow Turban Warrior a few steps away."

"And these few steps away happened to be out of bounds because of his position."

"Before and after, every move was calculated just right..."

After listening to this analysis, Song Hailong's originally interested gaze instantly faded, and he turned his head and said boringly, "I thought this kid was a dark horse like in the Magic Competition, and should have some strength."

"But he likes to use these little tricks, it's really boring."

The competition coach didn't refute Song Hailong's words, because he was not only the dominating number one in the grade, but also absolutely rich, so he could say anything as long as he didn't insult the teacher.

Moreover, the coach also knew that this ace's son really didn't need to consider players of Zhang Yu's level.

But the competition coach still looked at other students and reminded, "Don't underestimate him. Although there is a component of trickery, to be able to make a judgment at that moment, either his reaction and concentration are particularly strong, and his understanding of martial arts is also very deep."

"Or he has observed the Yellow Turban Warrior for a long time in advance, and can understand some of the Yellow Turban Warrior's attack patterns."

"Although his various values ​​should not be as high as yours, this kind of opponent is likely to win by weakness. If you encounter him, you must not take it lightly."

"Whoever loses to an opponent outside the three famous schools today will be fined 10,000 yuan after going back, and you will all kneel to attend class this month."

The students immediately responded loudly.

Listening to the competition coach's analysis, Chu Qiuhe secretly thought, "So that's how it is."

At first, when he saw Zhang Yu instantly defeat the Yellow Turban Warrior, he thought the other party was a strong man like Song Hailong.

But now after listening to it, he felt that if he prepared himself, it seemed that he could do this kind of thing too.

……

On the other side, in the preparation area of Ziyun High School.

Lian Tianji laughed and said, "Zhang Yu is really amazing."

Le Mulan glanced at it and said indifferently, "Even the most basic combat spirit root can't be rented, the poor are really miserable."

"But even though they are so poor, they still have to risk bankruptcy to participate in the competition, I really can't understand."

Le Mulan turned to look at Lian Tianji, asking curiously and puzzled, "You are so much poorer than me, can you understand their thoughts?"

Lian Tianji smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say for a while, and could only keep comforting himself in his heart, "The sacred number one is just straightforward, she doesn't mean to despise me on purpose, there's no need to take it to heart."

……

And not long after Zhang Yu left the arena, it was finally Bai Zhenzhen's turn to enter the arena.

In the audience, Qian Shen and Zhao Tianxing were originally looking forward to Bai Zhenzhen's performance.

Who knew that after a while, they found that Bai Zhenzhen was fighting hard on the arena, trying her best to dodge the Yellow Turban Warrior, while barely finding gaps to touch the sensing chip on the Yellow Turban Warrior.

"Is Bai Zhenzhen fighting so reluctantly?"

He Dayou looked at Bai Zhenzhen, who was high-spirited when she beat him, but was now struggling under the Yellow Turban Warrior's offensive, and suddenly found that he didn't feel any pleasure in his heart, but rather a kind of bitterness.

And this kind of bitterness was not so much because of Bai Zhenzhen, but rather because of himself who had been beaten by Bai Zhenzhen.

Qian Shen frowned, "Bai Zhenzhen's fighting style doesn't seem suitable for dealing with the Yellow Turban Warrior."

Zhao Tianxing said worriedly, "If this continues, won't she be assigned to a group with high-scoring contestants? She might be eliminated in the group stage."

……

As Bai Zhenzhen fought hard on the arena, the audience and other contestants quickly lost interest.

Song Hailong had already closed his eyes boredly, seemingly feeling that even looking at this kind of battle was a waste of time.

Lian Tianji on the other side also secretly felt surprised, "The girl who came to participate with Zhang Yu seems to have come with Zhang Yu in the last Magic Competition too."

"She is so weak, why does she still insist on accompanying Zhang Yu to participate? Could it be... Zhang Yu's slave in Songyang High School? Has Songyang also started playing this game?"

Zhang Yu's old mother, do you understand the bonds between us?

Lei Jun looked at this scene, but was thoughtful and said, "It seems that Bai Zhenzhen feels that her fighting style is not suitable for fighting the Yellow Turban Warrior, so she simply hides her strength."

As a teacher who had tutored Bai Zhenzhen for two weeks, Lei Jun knew that Bai Zhenzhen's strength was definitely not just what she was showing on the arena at the moment.

Zhang Yu crossed his arms and looked at the figure on the arena, gradually understanding the other's plan.

Although the Yellow Turban Warrior only maintained 1.98 of the physical strength output, its material itself did not change, and it was still as strong as students could not destroy.

And Bai Zhenzhen's fighting method has always been to attack the enemy's flaws. Facing the Yellow Turban Warrior, who is invulnerable to swords and spears and needs to fight hard, she is obviously easy to fall into disadvantage.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "My goal is to avoid encountering strong players in the group stage as much as possible, and to guarantee a place in the top eight."

"It seems that Ah Zhen knows that she can't get a high score, so she simply hides her strength, and when she encounters a strong player in the group stage, she will give the opponent a surprise?"

In the end, Bai Zhenzhen scored 89.