88: Chapter 88 Heroes of the world are as numerous as carp crossing a river.
On the third day of the individual competition, the matches had entered the white-hot stage.
The top 16 have currently been decided.
Modu Ability University maintained its past strength; all the third-year students entered the top 16, two second-year students entered the top 16, and one first-year student entered the top 16.
After the host congratulated the contestants for entering the top 16, they began to announce slight changes to the competition rules.
The subsequent matches would no longer be held simultaneously but would be one-on-one battles.
In other words, there were 24 matches today, and the watchability of the matches after the top 16 would be greatly improved.
At the same time, each contestant would only have one battle per day; even if it finished in two and a half minutes, a second match would absolutely not be scheduled.
From the top 32 to the champion, there would be a total of five rounds of matches, which means five days plus the previous two days, making the individual competition last seven days in total.
Soon, the third-year matches began. As Mu Feng was the number one seed, she was the first to go on stage to compete.
However, Mu Feng's dominance was still very strong. Her opponent in this round was a student from Kyoto Ability University.
Their strength was certainly beyond question, and they should have been able to enter the top eight in a normal match, but unfortunately, they encountered Mu Feng.
“Mu Feng versus Wang Zheng, the match begins now.”
Wang Zheng was a fire-attribute ability user. As soon as the match started, he waved his arms and released a sky full of flames.
Seeing this, Mu Feng did not meet it with force but moved quickly through the rain of fire.
Su Mu watched Mu Feng's figure and used his Eye of Prediction. He had never seen Mu Feng use this Combat Technique before.
“It should be a Combat Technique she learned recently.”
Su Mu had previously looked through all of Mu Feng's Combat Techniques, but he had never seen this one that allowed for rapid movement in a narrow space.
However, he figured it was likely because Su Mu had learned Thunder Armor and Thousand Shadows to increase his self-protection capabilities, making Mu Feng realize her own lack of self-protection methods and prompting her to learn it.
However, compared to Su Mu choosing defensive Combat Techniques first, Mu Feng chose an evasion-type Combat Technique.
Soon, all the fire rain had fallen, but Mu Feng did not have even a speck of dust on her body.
Using her ghost-like movement technique, she moved a step closer to Wang Zheng every time she evaded a fire rain attack.
When all the fire rain hit the ground, Mu Feng was already less than ten meters away from Wang Zheng.
She immediately launched a counterattack.
The spear rotated from her back to her front, and her body followed the rotation, charging toward Wang Zheng like a flame tornado.
Although Wang Zheng had just used a large-scale Combat Technique and his stamina consumption was not light, he did not sit still and wait for death.
A ring of fire ignited within a five-meter radius centered on him.
“Crimson Refinement!”
Wang Zheng shouted, and the flames immediately spread outward. Seeing this, Mu Feng immediately withdrew her spear and turned back.
But she was still hit by the flames and only finally stood firm after retreating a dozen steps in a row.
“This move is quite powerful; even Senior Sister was forced back.”
Su Mu couldn't help but sigh.
“What? Do you still want to take the championship without using all your strength?”
Professor Lu Ming couldn't help but tease when he heard Su Mu's words.
“I thought that with Senior Sister's strength, she should be able to win easily!”
Professor Lu Ming rolled his eyes right then; he didn't expect Su Mu to actually think that way.
“Little Su! I admit you are indeed a peerless Genius, but you should also know that others aren't just trash.
If you want to take the championship using only fifty or seventy percent of your strength, you're looking down on others too much.”
Without waiting for Su Mu to reply, Professor Lu Ming continued.
“Do you know why every contestant only participates in one match per day starting from this round?
It's to give you time to heal your injuries.”
Su Mu looked at the other seniors, and they all nodded one after another.
“That intense? But why wasn't it like this before?”
“On one hand, there were time constraints. On the other hand, everyone was holding back, afraid that if their trump cards were used early, they would be targeted later.
So, it was all an unspoken agreement.”
Su Mu looked at Guan Yue.
“You knew all of this?”
Guan Yue nodded, but this made Su Mu even more bewildered.
It turned out he was the only one who didn't know.
“Who told you to only come for special training on the first and last days and skip all the other times?”
“Uh...”
The conversation was killed instantly.
Su Mu looked back at the battle on the stage to hide his embarrassment.
By this time, Mu Feng had already put away her spear. After all, with that fire ring Combat Technique, Mu Feng was completely unable to attack at close range.
Holding the spear was purely a hindrance.
Her hands condensed Rapid Lightning Chidori, preparing for a long-range attack.
But what Su Mu didn't expect was that the Rapid Lightning Chidori thrown by Mu Feng split in mid-air.
One lightning bird turned into two, and two turned into four.
The Rapid Lightning Chidori originally on her hands turned into eight small lightning birds.
Then, the eight thunderbirds circled above Wang Zheng.
Su Mu's eyes lit up. He didn't expect Senior Sister to have actually developed such an attack method for Rapid Lightning Chidori.
Unlike the previous fire rain, Rapid Lightning Chidori could be controlled, although controlling eight thunderbirds at the same time could not be done with perfect precision.
“Zzzzt—”
Soon, Wang Zheng was defeated by Mu Feng's move and fell to the ground.
“Senior Sister, when did you come up with this move? You even kept it from your Junior Brother!”
Su Mu said to Mu Feng with a hint of resentment.
Rapid Lightning Chidori was taught by Su Mu, and the remote control of Rapid Lightning Chidori was also something Su Mu had realized and taught to Mu Feng.
Mu Feng saw through Su Mu's expression. She didn't intend to hide it; Su Mu had been very good to her, teaching her Combat Techniques as soon as he had them.
“I just came up with it not long ago, and it hasn't been perfected yet. Currently, it can only split twice, and the power attenuation is very large. I'll teach you once I've perfected it.”
Su Mu's lips curled into a smile as he nodded in thanks.
After Mu Feng's battle ended, the second through fifth matches were not matches involving Modu Ability University.
However, the watchability was still very good. For example, in the second match, both sides were Reinforcement Type ability users, hitting each other to the bone, fighting until they were a bloody mess.
Su Mu also truly felt the intense competition format of the University Ability Competition.
The sixth match was between Modu Ability University's third-year Senior Sister Liang Mengmeng and a student from Kyoto Ability University.
Liang Mengmeng had a sweet loli-style appearance, but her figure was incredible.
And she was a classic legal loli.
Especially after putting on a tight-fitting combat suit...
But most unfortunately, Liang Mengmeng lost in the end.
Her ability was water-attribute, and her luck was very bad; her opponent was an earth-attribute ability user.
Liang Mengmeng's trump card was the S-Rank Combat Skill, Endless Tsunami.
This was a large-scale, powerful attack skill. Unlike the fire rain, there was completely no possibility of evading it.
But who would have thought she would encounter an earth-attribute ability user who also had an S-Rank defensive Combat Technique.
In the end, she could only surrender.
Su Mu watched with great excitement, and Mu Feng was equally excited.
Because both of them possessed the Eye of Prediction, they could observe the Source Power circulation patterns of various S-Rank Combat Skills by keeping the Eye of Prediction active.
Although they couldn't learn them, they could deepen their understanding of Combat Techniques. In the future, when facing an enemy, they could roughly judge what type of Combat Technique it was as soon as the opponent's Source Power began to circulate.
The two of them directly found a spot on the side, communicating while observing.
This scene made the other students from Modu Ability University feel extremely surprised.
Because some of these battles were completely meaningless to watch.
Especially for these two monsters, Su Mu and Mu Feng, only the top leaders of those few high schools could be their opponents.
But the two didn't care at all, tirelessly watching those high-level Combat Techniques.