243: Chapter 243 Freshman Competition Rules! Li Fan's Plans!

"What other thoughts could we have? If we run into them, we'll just deal with them in passing!"

"Exactly, it's just a minor matter."

"Count me out, I don't want to get my hands dirty. For small fry like that, I don't think we even need to lift a finger; they'll just perish on their own."

"Makes sense! I don't have time to play games with those two lowly commoners!"

"The fact that those two could defeat Fang Tong and Luo Ling means they must have some level of strength. If you ask me, we might as well kick them out first to stop them from being a nuisance inside. Of course, I'm not suggesting we team up; I just hope that if any of you happen to see them, you'll take care of it as you go."

...

Regarding this issue...

Quite a few Students spoke up one after another.

Some wanted to kick the two out of the competition immediately.

Others didn't want to have any interaction with them at all.

Between the two views, the former clearly held the majority.

In fact, many Students had already reached a private agreement to team up and eliminate the two as soon as they encountered them.

After finishing their discussion about Li Fan and Peng Song...

The Students began to discuss other topics.

However, following a sudden exclamation...

The Students' attention was instantly drawn away.

"It looks like the rules for tomorrow's competition are out! They're visible on the academy's official website!"

Indeed.

It was about the rules for the New Student Competition.

Actually, everyone had discussed this topic at the start of the banquet, but before the academy made the official announcement, they could only speculate based on previous years.

Quickly.

Every Student present immediately opened the academy's official website to check the rules for tomorrow's match.

Before long.

The sound of collective gasps echoed across the venue.

Because this year's New Student Competition seemed rather intense!

The location for this year's New Student Competition was set on a small, Primitive Planet.

After being terraformed, this planet housed a massive number of Starry Sky Giant Beasts from deep space. These Starry Sky Giant Beasts were all incredibly violent, frequently forming beast tides numbering in the hundreds of millions across the planet.

On the planet, the academy had prepared five hundred Shelters.

Depending on the construction materials and the formations used, the impact these Shelters could withstand varied.

What they needed to do was seize a suitable Shelter and then do their utmost to survive.

There was no time limit for this competition.

It would continue until only a single participant remained on the entire planet.

This format was clearly completely different from the pure tests of raw strength between Students in previous years.

The only similarity was that killing those Starry Sky Giant Beasts would earn them points.

However, the points awarded for killing Starry Sky Giant Beasts didn't seem to account for much in this competition.

Instead of spending effort killing Starry Sky Giant Beasts, it seemed better to simply survive longer.

Advancing just one rank would grant a massive amount of points, which was much faster than relying on killing Starry Sky Giant Beasts.

Of course.

One could also actively seek out other Students to eliminate them, thereby moving up a rank and gaining a large number of points.

In short.

The content of this New Student Competition completely exceeded all their expectations.

Consequently.

Heated discussions soon broke out at the scene.

And before long, the banquet came to an end.

The Students all chose to head back at the same time to carefully study their strategies for this New Student Competition.

...

On the other side.

The steel plains above Confinement Valley slowly opened up.

This time, before the Law Enforcement Personnel could even call out, Li Fan stepped out on his own.

Looking at Li Fan's figure...

The attitude of the Law Enforcement Personnel became incredibly friendly.

At this...

Li Fan was completely bewildered.

To make the people of the Discipline Department treat him with such respect...

It seemed that besides that Immortal Level existence observing him in the shadows, no one else would have such great influence.

And just as he suspected.

That was indeed the case.

Currently, many high-level officials in the academy were spreading rumors that Li Fan was well-connected.

As Law Enforcement Personnel, they were able to pick up some news more or less.

They couldn't judge whether Li Fan was actually well-connected or not.

But it was better to believe it might be true than to risk it being false.

They simply decided to treat Li Fan as someone with connections for the time being.

Soon.

Li Fan successfully returned to the dormitory area.

As soon as he stepped into the dormitory area, he drew a crowd of gazes.

This was no surprise.

He and Peng Song were already celebrities within the Sparring Partner circles.

Li Fan didn't care about the attention at all; he went straight back to his dormitory and began checking the situation for tomorrow's New Student Competition.

After Li Fan returned to his dormitory...

Sarcastic remarks began to echo in the surroundings.

"Tomorrow is the New Student Competition. Let's see how much of a joke Li Fan and Peng Song will be. I bet they'll definitely be in the bottom ten."

"Isn't that a given? I even think they won't be able to make it back alive from the New Student Competition!"

"Mere Sparring Partners, two lowly commoners of low birth, dreaming of competing on the same stage as those favored children of heaven—what a joke!"

...

Unsurprisingly, these words mostly came from the mouths of those old Sparring Partners who had completely lost their spirit.

When they said these things, they even deliberately raised their voices, fearing that Li Fan and Peng Song wouldn't hear them.

But Li Fan truly couldn't hear them.

Li Fan's mind was entirely focused on the New Student Competition rules on the academy's official website.

"These rules? This has turned into a survival assessment?"

Inside the room.

Li Fan was also quite surprised as he looked at the New Student Competition rules.

Originally, he thought the New Student Competition would be an arena tournament or a secret realm assessment.

He hadn't expected it to be a survival-type assessment.

He wasn't clear yet on the strength level of those Starry Sky Giant Beast tides, so for now, he categorized them as a level he couldn't deal with directly.

If he used that as a baseline, then the step of choosing a Shelter would be crucial.

Snatching a powerful enough Shelter meant one's ranking could advance significantly.

As for how to face the subsequent survival issues after seizing a Shelter, he would just have to adapt to the actual situation when the time came.

However, if the strength of those Starry Sky Giant Beast tides was at a level he could handle...

Then it would be a completely different story.

He could completely ignore the Shelters and even transform into a 'God of Death,' knocking on the doors of every other Student's Shelter one by one!

Of course, for now, it was impossible to judge which scenario it would be.

He would have to wait until he personally arrived on that planet and came into contact with those Starry Sky Giant Beasts to make a judgment.

But regardless of the situation.

For now, Li Fan was full of confidence about making it into the top ten.

The only thing that concerned him was whether he could take first place.

Because if it was the first scenario...

Then the ranking would involve a bit of luck, and he couldn't guarantee that no unexpected situations would arise.