244: Run away, hide, this battlefield is too dangerous!

“Shi Ji, want to try out your new skill?”

Seeing Nezha and Zhao Gongming rush over while Shi Ji remained behind him, Jiang Yuan asked Shi Ji with interest.

“Forget it. All my skills are single-target attacks. There are too many people on the other side, so let them go.”

Shi Ji chuckled, a black skull staff appeared in her hand, and then a dark light wave was released with Shi Ji at its center.

Nezha, Zhao Gongming, Mu Qianshan, and Shi Ji's Undead Enslavement all had a black halo appear around them.

At the same time, the twelve people from the two groups who had just been fighting also had black halos appear around them.

However, Jiang Yuan could clearly feel that they seemed to be a little different?

The next second, a young man who was about to block Zhao Gongming's attack suddenly slipped, and then his head hit Zhao Gongming's Steel Whip.

“Bang!”

Like a shattered watermelon, the young man's head burst, and he disappeared from his spot the next second.

“What a pity. This is an assessment ground after all. If it were the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, we could be collecting spoils of war right now.”

Jiang Yuan was slightly disappointed, but the next second he turned to look at Shi Ji curiously: “By the way, what skill did you just use?”

Both of them were sitting on the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast, so they were already very close. With Jiang Yuan's turn, his face almost touched Shi Ji's lips.

“Staff of Misfortune, similar to Zhao Gongming’s God of Wealth skill, but not as effective as his.”

Shi Ji's lips curved slightly. After retreating a little, she finally spoke.

“However, judging by that person just now, if two skills are used at the same time, it probably has an effect of one plus one greater than two.”

“I see.”

Jiang Yuan nodded. He was already half-turned, so he didn't even notice how ambiguous their posture had just been.

The two teams in front of them were probably of Jiang Lou Mid Stage and Late Stage strength. They didn't last long against Nezha, Zhao Gongming, Mu Qianshan, and the Undead Enslavement before being taken down.

“There are no spoils of war, no points, no leaderboards, nothing. It’s really a bit disorienting.”

Seeing Nezha and Mu Qianshan return, Jiang Yuan also said with a smile.

“Whoosh!”

Just as Jiang Yuan spoke, a blue arrow shot towards Jiang Yuan.

“Clang!”

The blue arrow hit the body of the Linglong Pagoda, consuming almost half of Jiang Yuan's Star Power.

Jiang Yuan’s expression changed, and he immediately urged the Unicorn Dark Smoke Beast: “Run!”

With a loud shout, neither Nezha, Zhao Gongming, nor Mu Qianshan hesitated.

The Undead Enslavement stayed behind to block the opponents, and the four of them directly chose to leave.

Before leaving, Shi Ji also summoned some Bone Spirit to hinder the opponents.

After [Shi Ji]'s quality was upgraded to purple, a new type of Bone Spirit could be summoned.

Bone Beast!

Similar to the Black Flame Bone Horse, but with more forms.

Like tigers, wolves, elephants, and so on.

Just like the hyenas that appeared now.

The Bone Beast's strength was slightly stronger than the Bone Spirit, but only slightly.

After all, the Bone Spirit also enjoyed the bonus from [Shi Ji]'s quality upgrade.

Everyone did not hesitate, but just as they started, two people came chasing after them.

Mu Qianshan looked back and couldn't help but be shocked.

“Daliang!”

Fifth Realm Daliang strength!

And not just one person!

“That’s why I said run.”

The wind carried away Jiang Yuan’s voice, but Mu Qianshan could still hear it.

He nodded, naturally understanding how Jiang Yuan had judged the opponent's strength.

Linglong Pagoda!

The Linglong Pagoda can resist the opponent's attack by consuming Star Power. The more Star Power consumed, the stronger the opponent's attack.

However, when people of the same realm as Jiang Yuan attack him, the attack of purple quality cards can generally only consume about one-tenth of his Star Power.

If it's the same realm but one minor level higher, the Star Power consumption is about one-fifth.

And if it's one major level higher, even if Jiang Yuan is at Late Stage strength like now, facing an attack from a Da Liang Initial Stage opponent, the Star Power consumption will skyrocket to half of Jiang Yuan's total Star Power.

By analogy, Daliang would be two-thirds, and a Late Stage attack could leave Jiang Yuan with only a drop of Star Power.

Of course, this is just approximate data and not very accurate, as everyone's attack methods and intensity are different.

But this method can be used to roughly judge the opponent's strength.

“Those guys don’t seem to be able to catch up with us.”

Mu Qianshan turned his head and looked at the other party again before smiling.

Although Shi Ji's Undead Enslavement and Bone Spirit Legion were not that numerous, they could still temporarily block them.

Although they were instantly killed with just one attack, Jiang Yuan and the others' speed was not slow. The time delayed by the Undead Enslavement and Bone Spirit Legion was enough for them to run a long distance.

“This small city looked like there was no one, no one, but as soon as a fight started, so many people appeared.”

After Mu Qianshan finished speaking, Jiang Yuan forced a smile.

He was still a bit unaccustomed to this feeling, like a startled bird, immediately wanting to run away when attacked.

Before, whether it was the Undead race's cave or the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, he had always made full preparations before entering.

Ensuring that he was invincible among peers, or at least able to run if he encountered a strong opponent, only then did he choose to enter a cave of the same level.

But now, there are no fewer people in the Great Beam realm than in the Jiang Lou period!

This means that as long as Jiang Yuan encounters one person, there's a 50% chance they're in the Great Beam realm.

All of them needed to escape.

This competition format…

Jiang Yuan shook his head helplessly. He certainly knew that his previous approach of making thorough preparations before entering a cave would not last long.

But he really didn't expect it to come so quickly.

After all, once one reaches the Sixth Realm, there will be no more restrictions on any cave.

The highest restricted cave is for the Great Beam realm.

That is, restrictions below the Sixth Realm.

It can even be said that the restrictions of the caves are all aimed at the Sixth Realm.

After all, after breaking through the Sixth Realm, regardless of the race, the enhancement brought by body reshaping is very terrifying.

Therefore, since the Sixth Realm, there will be no more caves that only restrict entry below the Sixth Realm, or only restrict entry below the Seventh Realm.

Ordinary caves are fine, but the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield is where the real danger lies.

If circumstances didn't allow it, Jiang Yuan would even want to wait until he reached the 12th Level Ximu before going to the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield.

But obviously, that's impossible.

Whether it's first-hand spoils of war or anything else, sometimes you have to go yourself.

“They shouldn’t be able to catch up now, right?”

After running for a while, Jiang Yuan finally looked back towards the city and spoke.

“Let’s rest here.”

They were currently in the forest to the right of the city. The dense forest provided many obstructions, making it basically difficult to be ambushed by long-range attacks as in the city.

However, precisely because there were many obstructions, if enemies discovered them and chose to ambush, they would directly appear in front of them.

But as long as there were no long-range ambushes, it would be fine.

After all, he now had formation cards. As long as he wasn't discovered and wasn't affected by attacks, it would be fine.

The formation Shi Ji used to hide in the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield was very good.

The [Earthly Flames Formation] unfolded, and Jiang Yuan, Mu Qianshan, and Nezha all entered the formation together.

Suddenly, Jiang Yuan and the others disappeared from the forest.

“Truly a genius.”

Guan Chutian, the Vice Principal of Da Xia Academy, said after watching the video and falling silent for a moment.

From Jiang Lou Initial Stage, he crushed his way to Late Stage, topping the Zhongyuan Academy's fourth-year leaderboard.

At first, they thought it was because this year's fourth-year Students at Zhongyuan Academy were not good enough, which led to Jiang Yuan challenging and quickly clearing his way through.

But after watching, they finally understood.

It turned out that, just as Jin Lingyu had said, Jiang Yuan was too strong.

Even though they were now Tenth Realm powerhouses, if they were to return to Fourth Realm, Jiang Lou strength, they really might not be able to defeat Jiang Yuan.

“By the way, is this a Card Spirit?”

Yu Chengtian of Martial Arts Academy closed the holographic image, turned to Jin Lingyu, and asked curiously.

The four of them knew something about Card Spirits.

After all, people from the four major academies had all gone to Zhenhai City for recruitment.

And Ji Qingming and others who had seen Jiang Yuan fight naturally reported the Card Spirit to their schools.

However, they only knew about Card Spirits; they didn't really understand what a Card Spirit was.

“Yes, but about this, you should ask her.” Jin Lingyu smiled and then pointed to Li Yueying beside her.

“Not only is she Jiang Yuan’s master, but she also has a Card Spirit.”

As Jin Lingyu's words fell, Li Yueying also looked at the three and nodded slightly with a smile.

After Li Yueying explained the Card Spirit to them, the three looked at each other and then simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief.

This Card Spirit mechanism is too abnormal!

If it's based on the one-on-one rules of the arena, this Card Spirit behavior is equivalent to one person against several, or even dozens of people.

Can this not be called invincible among peers?

If it can't be called invincible among peers, then it can only be that the Card Spirit created by that person is too weak.

Just like Li Yueying now, with Tenth Realm Longevity Star Mid Stage strength, as a Card Creator herself, her combat power is not top-tier.

But now, with this Demon race Card Spirit, which is also Tenth Realm Longevity Star Mid Stage, her combat power in a one-on-one situation is top-tier within the same realm.

A teammate of equal strength, with whom one is in perfect sync, facing a single opponent.

It sounds like cheating.

However, fortunately, the Four School Joint Examination format involves people of two different strength levels on one battlefield.

Jiang Yuan's advantage is great when facing people of Fourth Realm, Jiang Lou strength, but not so good when facing people of Fifth Realm, Great Beam strength.

After all, no matter how talented Jiang Yuan is, no matter how gifted and powerful in combat, he cannot single-handedly lead his Card Spirit to fight across a major realm.

After all, it's still that saying: everyone present is a genius from the four major academies, and they certainly won't be like that guy from the Second-Sequence Race Yamato Race.

This is also why they all breathed a sigh of relief just now.

Otherwise, if it were one realm, one battlefield, then Jiang Yuan would truly be going insane with kills.

“By the way, Jiang Yuan just encountered a team of enemies. Do you want to see?”

Jin Lingyu saw that their conversation had ended and then smiled at Guan Chutian and the others.

“Sure.”

The three nodded, and Jin Lingyu immediately activated the intelligent terminal, projecting a replay of Jiang Yuan's recent battle using a holographic image.

From the initial collision of the two teams to Jiang Yuan and his companions being discovered, and then to the ambush by the Daliang Realm powerhouses.

After watching everything, Guan Chutian leaned on the table, resting her forehead in her hand, looking somewhat helpless.

“It’s really annoying. Our fourth-year class also produced a genius. I originally thought he was the strongest fourth-year Student among the four schools…”

“This one of yours is truly a monster.”

Guan Chutian shook her head unhappily, looking at Jiang Yuan, whose figure no longer appeared on the screen.

If it weren't for Jiang Yuan's information still being in the upper right corner, they would have suspected that the monitoring system was malfunctioning.

“Who can see through this disguise?”

“How about we shrink the circle earlier?”

Miao Xinghuo from Bei Mang Academy, seeing a team of Late Stage strength from his academy pass by where Jiang Yuan and his group were hiding without noticing anything unusual, also spoke with some annoyance.

The freshman assessments of the four major academies are similar; none of them have a poison circle mechanism, so new Students might choose to hide themselves until they can no longer hide.

But what made him most angry was that team from their academy, who had no sense of danger whatsoever, just swaggered past Jiang Yuan and his group, laughing and joking.

According to the combat power Jiang Yuan displayed in the video he had just watched, if he were to suddenly launch a sneak attack, even with a major realm difference, it might cause casualties in that small team, right?

It was just that Jiang Yuan and his group didn't directly attack.

Were they being cautious?

He wasn't sure, but he knew that the team from their academy was too complacent and definitely wouldn't get far.

“Quick, look at screen No. 172. The battle has started there—one person fighting a group!”

Just as Miao Xinghuo was feeling annoyed, Yu Chengtian next to him looked at the genius from his own academy.

A Late Stage genius Student!

Wang Boqing, who entered the Four School Joint Examination battlefield alone and did not team up with anyone!

Wang Boqing, with a single sword, ran head-on into a team of Daliang Mid Stage strength.

Neither side spoke, completely skipping the trash-talking phase and going straight into battle.

One side was confident in their own strength, while the other relied on their numbers.

And the place where they were fighting was not very far from where Jiang Yuan was hiding!