223: I can fight well too.

“My goodness!”

Nezha was also startled when he saw this scene.

That Steel Whip's single strike dealt almost as much damage as his own Universe Throw?

Perhaps, it even dealt more damage than his Universe Throw?

Nezha was startled, and Jiang Yuan was equally surprised when he saw this scene.

Zhao Gongming's Steel Whip was a purple-grade equipment card he had crafted, so he naturally knew the Steel Whip's effects.

However, he truly hadn't expected the Steel Whip to be so powerful in Zhao Gongming's hands.

【Steel Whip】

Quality: Purple

Type: Equipment Card

Skills:

【Profound Thunder Shock】: When the Steel Whip is swung, it brings forth the power of lightning, dealing burst damage of the thunder attribute upon hitting the target.

If an attack misses, its lightning power can stack.

【Shattered Mountains and Rivers】: The Steel Whip's powerful attack causes the surrounding air to collapse, pulling in the target while dealing both physical and magical damage.

【Sky-Breaking Aura】: Divine Whip, removes defenses of the same level and quality on the target that are weaker than the Steel Whip's attack power.

Increases the power of Energy-based special defenses used against the target by fifty percent.

【Profound Iron Strike】: The Steel Whip instantly weighs ten thousand jun, dealing immense damage to the target and applying a shattering effect.

(After using this skill, fifty percent of the damage is converted into penetration damage.)

【Falling Star】: Consumes Star Power to unleash a powerful attack. The more Star Power consumed, the higher the attack damage, up to two hundred percent.

Enhancement Boosts:

【Demon Suppression】: Increases damage against demons by thirty percent.

【Punish Evil】: If the target actively attacks, damage to the target increases by thirty percent.

【Steel Whip】: Blunt weapon, twenty percent of the damage dealt to the target is converted into penetration damage.

【Supreme Treasure】: Increases damage against non-human targets by thirty percent.

Bond:

【True Monarch】: When Zhao Gongming equips this equipment, his attack power increases by thirty percent.

Advancement Path:

【Steel Whip】—【Black Steel Whip】—【…】

In truth, to be precise, Zhao Gongming's Steel Whip's various skills weren't particularly outstanding.

However, the problem was that all of the Steel Whip's effects, whether skills or enhancement boosts, were geared towards increasing offensive power.

A pure killing weapon!

Zhao Gongming's previous attack had at least three skill effects.

【Profound Thunder Shock】, 【Shattered Mountains and Rivers】, and 【Profound Iron Strike】.

Coupled with various bonus effects, that's how he was able to instantly eliminate that Mechanical Race fellow.

Nezha's Qiankun Circle attack was also very powerful, but a blue-grade Qiankun Circle and a purple-grade Steel Whip were clearly not comparable.

It's just unknown whether Nezha's Qiankun Circle will be able to rival Zhao Gongming's Steel Whip in terms of attack power once it's upgraded to a purple-grade equipment card?

If Nezha's Qiankun Circle were also a purple-grade equipment card, then without a doubt, the Qiankun Circle's first attack would certainly deal more damage than all of the Steel Whip's skills, excluding 【Falling Star】.

After all, Universe Throw doubles damage and also increases attack as strength increases.

The Qiankun Circle's effect might be stronger than the Steel Whip's during its first attack.

However, the Steel Whip's sustained attack effect was clearly better.

But Nezha had more equipment.

The Qiankun Circle, Fire Tipped Spear, Qiankun Bow, and Zhentian Arrow all had considerable attack power.

“This is…”

After Zhao Gongming shattered that mech, Jiang Yuan and the others returned to the small white room.

However, at this moment, Jiang Yuan looked at the three options before him, and his mind couldn't help but freeze.

Not to mention the two purple-grade material cards, they were simply not something that could appear on the 130-plus floors of the Dream Tower.

Or rather, one would need extremely good luck for such items to appear at this level.

But even so, these two options paled in comparison to the other one.

The third option was a white light orb.

It was exactly the same as the white light orb Jiang Yuan had used before, which could increase Star Power.

After glancing at these three options, Jiang Yuan's gaze drifted towards Zhao Gongming.

He should have crafted him first.

This luck, it's unbelievable!

Jiang Yuan didn't hesitate at all and directly chose this white Star Power light orb.

Although the white Star Power light orb wasn't of much use to him right now.

However, it was an excellent choice whether to give it to Mu Qianshan or sell it.

No matter what, this white Star Power light orb was more valuable than a purple-grade material card.

Nothing else, just rare!

And useful.

Especially for people in the first three cultivation realms.

Jiang Yuan was somewhat excited. After making his choice, he started challenging the tower again.

With Zhao Gongming's addition, the difficulty of challenging the tower significantly decreased, and in no time, they reached the 141st floor.

At this point, their opponents were already at the Great Beam (Mid Stage) of the Fifth Realm.

Jiang Yuan directly chose to give up.

After all, they had already struggled greatly against the Boss on the 140th floor.

However, being able to defeat the strongest opponent, a whole major realm higher, Jiang Yuan was already satisfied.

But he didn't know if it was because Jiang Yuan's, or rather Zhao Gongming's, luck had run out, the subsequent rewards weren't as good as the initial one.

However, Jiang Yuan didn't care much. Although the rewards weren't as good as the one when Zhao Gongming first appeared, the later rewards were clearly much better than before Zhao Gongming appeared.

He just wondered how rich his spoils would be when Ao Zhu and Zhao Gongming were added together.

Jiang Yuan glanced at Zhao Gongming, then exited the Dream Tower.

He would consider whether to visit the grotto-heaven bordering the Element Spirit Race after some time.

After all, Zhao Gongming had the skill Controlling Thunder and Electricity.

This skill allowed Zhao Gongming to easily learn various lightning-attribute skills.

Just like with Shi Ji back then, when she needed a boost, Jiang Yuan went to the Undead's grotto-heaven.

Now, if Zhao Gongming's skill needed to be boosted, the best target would naturally be the Thunder Elemental Spirit Race, which was also a First Sequence Race.

There were over three thousand fourth-year students in Zhongyuan Academy. Jiang Yuan, having just been promoted to fourth year, had no ranking for the time being.

Or rather, he was ranked last.

Out of a total of 3,471 people, if Jiang Yuan wanted to challenge now, he could only challenge those ranked 3,421 and below.

Jiang Yuan naturally chose the 3421st ranked person.

Coincidentally, the opponent was also at school and had already accepted his challenge when Jiang Yuan was challenging the Dream Tower.

“Someone who just got promoted from a lower grade wants to challenge me.”

Zhu Zhenzhong, a fourth-year student, said to the person next to him with a displeased look, “After I defeat this guy who just got promoted from a lower grade, I’m definitely going to challenge a few ranks higher.”

“This rank is too bad. I need to move up at least dozens of ranks, exploit the fifty-rank bug, and avoid having my inbox full of challenge notifications every time I return from a grotto-heaven.”

Zhu Zhenzhong was full of displeasure. Among the combat personnel, he was purely at this rank because he was often in various grotto-heavens and hadn't paid much attention to the school's rankings.

Furthermore, by the time he paid attention to the rankings, challenging upwards would be quite time-consuming.

When challenging upwards, one could only choose someone within 50 ranks above them at most, and even then, they had to check if the opponent was in the academy.

If they weren't in the academy, they would have to change their challenge target.

Compared to the rewards obtained from rankings, due to his considerable strength, the spoils he obtained in the grotto-heavens were no less than those of the top five hundred.

However, with his Jiang Lou Mid Stage strength, entering the top five hundred of Zhongyuan Academy's fourth-year students was clearly somewhat difficult.

Therefore, he didn't pay much attention to the rankings.

Or rather, online students in the fourth year of the four top academies didn't care much about these rankings anymore.

After all, for them, the academy rewards obtained from rankings were not as good as the spoils obtained in the grotto-heavens.

Only those students in the first, second, and third years, who couldn't obtain many spoils from the grotto-heavens, would care about the rewards given by the academy.

“It seems his luck is pretty bad, since he picked you.”

Hearing Zhu Zhenzhong say this, another fourth-year student next to him couldn't help but laugh.

“Who would have thought that a guy ranked low among the fourth-year students could actually rank in the top thousand in terms of real strength?”

“Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go see who this unlucky fellow is.”

“It seems there’s only one person who recently got promoted to fourth year, right? But he’s never shown up in class,” a short-haired girl next to them also said.

They were in the same team as Zhu Zhenzhong and similarly didn't care about their ranking in the academy.

However, it seemed nice to have some excitement so soon after returning from the grotto-heaven.

“Let’s go, let’s go, let’s give this newcomer a taste of what’s to come.” Zhu Zhenzhong's face broke into an arrogant smile upon hearing this.

Just like that, Zhu Zhenzhong and his group of four walked towards the Martial Arts Arena in the academy.

On the way to the Martial Arts Arena, people continuously joined their group of four.

Zhu Zhenzhong was considered an oddity among their fourth-year students.

Without mentioning anything else, several students who were promoted to fourth year after Zhu Zhenzhong had been severely beaten by him.

So, seeing this situation happen again, they also followed along with interest.

Beating up kids was still a very popular pastime.

Jiang Yuan had already arrived at the Martial Arts Arena and was waiting for his opponent to arrive.

“What’s wrong?”

“I’m at the Martial Arts Arena.”

“Alright, then come over.”

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yuan checked the time.

It was almost time, only ten minutes until the agreed-upon combat time.

There were still two people fighting in the arena at the moment. From their appearance, they seemed to be third-year students, as both were at Zouzi Mid Stage strength.

Jiang Yuan didn't watch for long before their battle ended.

There weren't many people in the audience, seemingly their friends or something, and Jiang Yuan didn't pay them any mind.

“You’re the one who wants to challenge me, right?”

Zhu Zhenzhong, leading a group of people, also arrived at the Martial Arts Arena. He grinned at Jiang Yuan, who was standing beside the arena stage, and then asked him.

“Yes.”

Jiang Yuan nodded and sized up Zhu Zhenzhong.

Mm, he was indeed his challenge target.

“Kid, think carefully. I’m at the Fourth Realm, Jiang Lou Mid Stage. If you give up the challenge now, there’ll be no problem at all.”

Zhu Zhenzhong smiled, looking at Jiang Yuan: “You look like you just got promoted from third year, right? Your strength is at Jiang Lou Initial Stage?”

“Yes.”

Jiang Yuan nodded: “But giving up the challenge is out of the question. I think I can do it.”

“You think you can?”

As soon as Jiang Yuan spoke, a young man with medium-length hair next to him couldn't help but laugh.

“Your opponent is very strong, so think carefully!”

“I'm not bad myself.”

After Jiang Yuan nodded, he made a gesturing motion to Zhu Zhenzhong.

Zhu Zhenzhong clearly hadn't expected Jiang Yuan to be so calm.

Was he a genius or an Innocent Fool?

“Alright, just for your courage, I’ll go easy on you later.”

Zhu Zhenzhong smiled, patted Jiang Yuan’s shoulder, and then walked onto the Martial Arts Arena ahead of him.

Whether you're a genius or an Innocent Fool, I, Zhu Zhenzhong, am not weak!

Genius?

I once transcended realms in a grotto-heaven to slay an opponent who was also a First Sequence Race and at the Late Stage!

Jiang Yuan's height of over 1.8 meters was not considered short among humans, but he was still a bit shorter than Zhu Zhenzhong's nearly two-meter height.

However, Jiang Yuan didn't pay attention to Zhu Zhenzhong's actions. He followed behind Zhu Zhenzhong and entered the arena.

As the 【Martial Arts Arena】 card activated, those who came with Zhu Zhenzhong also grinned and found seats in the audience.

Some even took out recording devices, preparing to post it on the school's official website later to get some clicks.

“Eh? Has it started already?”

Just as the two entered the Martial Arts Arena space, Mu Qianshan arrived.

Looking at the two people in the arena, Mu Qianshan could only find a seat and watch their battle.

He also wanted to see how strong Jiang Yuan was after reaching the Fourth Realm, Jiang Lou.

“Are you ready?”

“Yes, let's begin.”

After Jiang Yuan nodded, a purple-grade card instantly appeared in Zhu Zhenzhong's hand.

Seeing the purple-grade card in Zhu Zhenzhong's hand, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but be stunned.

Purple-grade card?

And he was really at Jiang Lou Mid Stage strength?

But why was his ranking so low?

Although Jiang Yuan was stunned for a moment, his hands didn't stop moving. Blue light shimmered, and Shi Ji appeared in the arena.

Zhu Zhenzhong couldn't help but smile inwardly when he saw the blue-grade card in Jiang Yuan's hand.

An Innocent Fool!

What genius would not upgrade or replace their main combat card when breaking through to the Fourth Realm, Jiang Lou?

Of course, it was also possible that he hadn't had time to replace or upgrade his main combat card yet.

Jiang Yuan sighed slightly.

What a pity. He had originally planned to have Shi Ji's Undead Enslavement fight its way up, and only bring out Nezha when they couldn't win anymore.

Just like in the Dream Tower.

But he hadn't expected the first opponent to be so strong.

Looking at the broadsword that appeared in the opponent's hand and the charging figure, Jiang Yuan did not summon Nezha or Zhao Gongming.

Shi Ji should be enough, right?