243: Eating chicken? Go and stop the fight!

After the Old Principal finished his brief opening remarks, the Vice Principal then launched into a lengthy speech.

At the same time, teachers from various Academies were distributing assessment wristbands.

The assessment wristbands contained map information, safe zone details, and a team-up system.

However, the team-up system could only be used outside; once inside, it would be disabled.

After receiving their wristbands, Jiang Yuan and Mu Qianshan immediately chose to team up.

“Is it just the two of you?”

A fifth-year Student, after forming his own team, looked at Jiang Yuan and Mu Qianshan with curiosity and asked.

“Yes, the two of us are enough.”

Mu Qianshan smiled, stepping sideways to block Jiang Yuan, and replied to the Student.

The Student looked at Jiang Yuan with some surprise; he knew Jiang Yuan, whether it was his rise to the top of the rankings in the Jiang Lou Initial Stage or his forceful elimination of the two Yamato Race challengers.

Both incidents were recent hot topics.

And the protagonist of both incidents was Jiang Yuan.

“Alright, as long as you’re confident.”

After nodding, the Student said no more.

Meanwhile, the Old Principal on stage, seeing that everyone was ready, impatiently interrupted the Vice Principal’s long-winded speech.

He gave the Vice Principal a glare and immediately announced the start of the competition.

The four Vice Principals of the Four Top Academies appeared simultaneously, and then the Old Principal also stood up, a gold-quality card appearing in his hand.

The gold-quality card split into three, revealing three spatial passages before everyone.

As the three spatial passages appeared before everyone, the Old Principal’s booming voice echoed through the square.

“All you need to do is take down every single person you encounter!”

As the Old Principal’s voice faded, the four Vice Principals of the Four Top Academies also arrived at the spatial passages.

The Students, according to their respective battlefields, walked into the spatial passages.

After passing through the spatial passage, they would be randomly dropped somewhere on the battlefield.

It was possible that they would find themselves alone, or surrounded by enemies.

It all depended on luck.

But fortunately, if a team was successfully formed, they would drop together.

“The long-lost feeling of ‘eating chicken,’ it’s just a pity there’s no parachuting feature.”

After appearing on the battlefield, Jiang Yuan looked at his surroundings and couldn’t help but exclaim.

He appeared on the rooftop of a city building.

After surveying his surroundings, Jiang Yuan understood that the rooftop they were on was likely the highest point in this city.

The city didn’t seem very large, at least not as big as Zhenhai City; it looked like a small county town with not many buildings.

However, the city was nestled against a mountain; to Jiang Yuan’s left was a towering mountain, directly ahead outside the city was a grassland, and to his right was a forest.

It was a decent spawn point, after all, there were no enemies around.

“Eating chicken? What’s eating chicken?”

Mu Qianshan, beside Jiang Yuan, vigilantly scanned his surroundings while also curiously asking Jiang Yuan.

“Nothing.”

Jiang Yuan smiled, and then four cards appeared in his hand.

As the cards shimmered, a Jade Purification Bottle and a golden miniature pagoda appeared above Jiang Yuan’s head.

The Jade Purification Bottle had also been upgraded to purple quality by Jiang Yuan.

Now, the Jade Purification Bottle not only had many more uses, reaching twenty uses.

But in addition to restoring Star Power, it could also restore mental power.

At the same time, Nezha, holding his Fire Tipped Spear, appeared before the two of them.

“Where is this?”

The first thing Nezha did upon appearing was to look around, then he curiously asked Jiang Yuan.

“This is the Four School Joint Examination battlefield. Just think of it as a Ten Thousand Races Battlefield. Here, anyone you encounter is an enemy.”

Jiang Yuan smiled and explained to Nezha, then, after waiting for his Star Power to recover, he summoned Zhao Gongming and Shi Ji as well.

The three purple-quality Card Spirits, like Jiang Yuan, were all at the Late Stage power level.

After the three appeared, Jiang Yuan summoned all of their weapons one by one.

“Seriously speaking, if we had a sniper rifle right now, this would absolutely be an excellent hunting ground.”

Mu Qianshan looked around and couldn’t help but sigh, “Too bad, such a good hunting ground is being wasted.”

“You don’t know if there are other people around.”

Jiang Yuan smiled, then opened the assessment wristband on his wrist.

“The location doesn’t seem too good.”

Jiang Yuan looked at the virtual map that popped up on the wristband, slightly raising an eyebrow as he spoke to Mu Qianshan beside him.

“What do you mean?”

Mu Qianshan also curiously opened his wristband; a map appeared, and besides various building models, there were only two small red dots overlapping.

“Look, our current position is in the bottom left corner of the map. If I’m not mistaken, that mountain on the left should be the edge of the map, right? We probably can’t cross it.”

“Hmm?”

Mu Qianshan was a bit confused, as this was his first time participating in this type of assessment.

And since he hadn’t played ‘eating chicken,’ he naturally didn’t understand what starting in a corner meant.

If it were ‘eating chicken’ and they could choose their spawn point, then their current corner would represent safety in the early game, as few people would land in a corner.

But this wasn’t ‘eating chicken’ mode; it was a random spawn point, which meant there might be people around them, perhaps even many.

However, the most important thing was…

“The safe zone will absolutely not shrink at the edges; at the very least, the probability of it shrinking at the edges will be very small.”

Seeing Mu Qianshan’s bewildered expression, Jiang Yuan could only helplessly explain to Mu Qianshan what a “poison circle,” a “safe zone,” a “heaven’s wrath circle,” and a “heaven’s will circle” were.

“Oh, I understand.”

After Jiang Yuan finished explaining, Mu Qianshan nodded in understanding.

However, after understanding the rules, Mu Qianshan looked at the map and frowned slightly.

“In that case, our current position isn’t very good.”

“Correct.”

Jiang Yuan nodded: “Less movement means less exposure, but our current spawn point forces us to move.”

“Or, we can wait for the safe zone information to appear before deciding what to do, because the uninhabitable zone, or the poison circle, shrinks gradually, it’s not suddenly demarcated.”

After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, Mu Qianshan plopped down: “Then let’s wait for the uninhabitable zone to arrive.”

“Anyway, we don’t have an advantage right now.”

Mu Qianshan shook his head helplessly: “I really miss the days when I followed you and went on a killing spree.”

“Then you can pray that I successfully break through to the Fifth Realm, Great Beam, during this Four School Joint Examination.” Jiang Yuan smiled and sat down beside Mu Qianshan.

“Not bad, you understand the competition format quite well.”

Guan Chutian, the Vice Principal from Zhongyuan Academy who had arrived this time, looked at Jiang Yuan and said with excitement in her eyes.

“By the way, I quite like the term ‘poison circle’; it’s simpler and clearer than ‘unsafe zone’.”

As Guan Chutian spoke, the Vice Principals of the other three Academies also nodded in agreement.

Indeed, the terms Jiang Yuan had just used were more vivid and also simpler.

“I’m looking forward to this little guy’s performance.”

“Then you should really look forward to it.”

Jin Lingyu, the Vice Principal of Zhongyuan Academy, pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and said with a gentle smile.

“Jiang Yuan is a genius in our Academy.”

“A while ago, he just broke through to the Fourth Realm, Jiang Lou Initial Stage, and immediately went to challenge the rankings.”

Jin Lingyu’s words made the Vice Principals of the other three schools, including Guan Chutian, look over.

“And then?”

“Then he successfully reached first place with the strength of Jiang Lou Initial Stage.” Jin Lingyu spread his hands and laughed.

“How is that possible!”

Miao Xinghuo, the Vice Principal of Bei Mang Academy, looked incredulous. Not only him, but even Guan Chutian and Yu Chengtian, the Vice Principal of Martial Arts Academy, looked disbelieving.

They had also passed through that stage and knew how difficult it was for someone in the Jiang Lou Initial Stage to defeat someone in the Late Stage.

Not to mention, these were the Four Top Academies, and everyone on the rankings was a genius Student.

After all, if they weren’t genius Students, they wouldn’t be able to enter the Four Academies.

But even so, he was challenged across two ranks?

And it wasn’t just one person.

To challenge for first place, one would have to challenge at least dozens of Students at the Late Stage power level.

But…

They really didn’t believe it. If people from the Four Top Academies went to other second- or third-rate Academies to challenge like this, they might believe it.

But, to reach first place within Zhongyuan Academy?

“Although I don’t quite believe it either, the video is available on our Academy’s official website. You can certainly go check it out if you have time.”

Jin Lingyu still maintained a gentle tone: “Oh, by the way, two days ago, he also defeated a Yamato Race individual with Fifth Realm, Great Beam (Early Stage) power.”

After Jin Lingyu finished speaking, the three of them opened their holographic screens and began watching.

Compared to defeating a Yamato Race opponent of Fifth Realm power, Jiang Yuan’s achievement of reaching first place was clearly more surprising to them.

Yamato Race?

Just a Second Sequence Race!

The three began watching Jiang Yuan’s challenge video, and they even forgot about what they were about to ask Jiang Yuan regarding the three people he had summoned.

The scene quieted down. Jin Lingyu smiled and spread his hands towards the Old Principal, then, after casually pushing up his gold-rimmed glasses, he continued to watch the battlefield.

The three battlefields were divided into over a thousand small screens, but having undergone body reshaping and having reached their current strength, they were naturally able to clearly see every screen.

If anything unusual happened to a Student on any screen, the screen would immediately switch.

From monitoring mode to live broadcast mode, and even first-person mode.

All of this was due to the assessment wristbands worn by the examinees.

Otherwise, at most it would be live broadcast mode, not first-person mode.

Just like now, a close-quarters battle erupted in the First Battlefield; two small teams collided, and fighting immediately broke out.

And that scene instantly switched from a fixed monitoring view to a movable God’s Eye view.

At the same time, because all four Vice Principals had a controller in front of them, they could change the viewing mode at any time.

However, none of this had anything to do with Jiang Yuan.

“When will the circle appear?”

The two lay on the rooftop, basking in the sun and looking at the sky.

“Who knows? I think I forgot to ask how long this assessment will be?”

Jiang Yuan was also a bit helpless; he had heard the rules of this assessment from his master, Li Yueying.

As for the officially released assessment information, he hadn’t even glanced at it.

Not only him, but Mu Qianshan was the same.

“How about we…”

“Boom!”

Mu Qianshan sat up, just beginning to speak, his words not yet finished, when he heard a violent explosion.

“This is?”

“Someone’s fighting over there!”

Nezha was the first to react, going directly to the rooftop railing and excitedly telling Jiang Yuan as he watched the distant battle.

Hearing that there was a battle, Jiang Yuan and Mu Qianshan quickly went to Nezha’s side and looked towards where the sound had come from.

Sure enough, there were about ten people fighting over there, in a place similar to a city center square, or perhaps a park.

The sound that had just occurred was from someone being sent flying and crashing into the wall of a building.

“It looks like they’re all at the Jiang Lou power level.”

Mu Qianshan cupped his hands like binoculars, watched for a while, then turned to Jiang Yuan, excitedly saying.

“Go?”

“Go!”

Jiang Yuan nodded, then a purple card shimmered, and the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast appeared.

Jiang Yuan rode on the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast, and Mu Qianshan also released a dragon horse.

The purple-quality dragon horse was also purchased after he had previously advanced to the Jiang Lou Initial Stage.

“I’ve been too busy lately. When I have time later, I’ll make you a mount card.”

As Jiang Yuan spoke, he felt Shi Ji’s hand on his waist and then started moving.

Nezha stepped on his Wind Fire Wheels, and Zhao Gongming sat on his black tiger, leaping directly from the rooftop.

Whether it was the dragon horse, the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast, or the black tiger, they all had the ability to jump down from this dozen-story high rooftop without getting injured.

Nezha, of course, needed no mention; his Wind Fire Wheels inherently possessed the ability to fly.

After leaping down, the group directly charged towards where those people had been fighting.

The battle was intense, and four or five people had already been eliminated.

By the time they arrived, there were only twelve people left on the scene.

Nezha and Zhao Gongming didn’t hesitate; before they even reached the scene, Nezha’s Fire Tipped Spear and Qiankun Circle flew out together.

Zhao Gongming sat on his black tiger, lightning flashing in his hand.

【Lightning Release: Kirin Sharp Spear】!

Shi Ji also held her Taia Sword and summoned her Undead Enslavement.

With the boost from the Taia Sword and purple-card Shi Ji, her Undead Enslavement now had the strength of a First Sequence Race.

They were roughly on par with Mu Qianshan without his Xuan Du Purple Mansion Sword.