269: Chapter 269 Pre-match Tough Words Showdown

The commentator's voice cut in at the perfect moment, adding with extreme professionalism:

"Of course! To prevent some extremely rare, heaven-defying stroke of luck from occurring during this melee."

"For example, if a contestant teleports to an absolute safe zone upon landing, then relies on digging a hole to sleep, or uses some incredibly sleazy stealth tactics to stubbornly survive until the end..."

"To avoid this kind of extreme 'survival-by-luck' behavior where luck outweighs skill, this Survival Melee will be held in two rounds!"

"If the winners who survive to the end of these two melee rounds do not belong to the same academy!"

"Then, these two academy teams will engage in one final, ultimate team battle! The final winner will be the true champion of this Hundred Schools League!"

The commentator suddenly thought of something and continued to explain: "Of course, if the champions of both melee rounds are from the same academy, then naturally there will be no final team battle. That academy will directly lift the championship trophy and obtain the priority exploration rights to [Dragon Fall Abyss]!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the prodigies from each school rubbed their hands together, their fighting spirit soaring.

"Two rounds is great! Double insurance! Now, no one can think about relying on luck to get first place!" Zhao Zhenlei clenched his fists, his gaze scanning the other academies' camps with extreme ferocity.

Meanwhile, Jiang You was standing there blankly, feeling as if the sky had collapsed.

Two rounds?! They actually want to fight two rounds?! The workload has just doubled! Heartless tournament format! Absolutely heartless tournament format!!!

Just as Jiang You was grieving over his soon-to-be-increased "sleeping workload," his inner world, the [Organ Chat Group], had completely fallen into a state of maniacal rampage!

[Kidneys (eyes spurting blood, howling at the sky)]: "A brand new S-Rank Dungeon! An unmined treasure mountain!!!"

"Brother Brain! Once we finish this job, we'll be completely financially free!"

[Right Hand (waving frantically, manifesting countless afterimages)]: "Rob! We must rob first place! Whoever dares to stop me from going to Dragon Fall Abyss to stock up, I'll slap them into a vegetative state right here in Forbidden Zone No. 009 today!"

[stomach (emitting a deafening roar)]: "Eat them all! Eat all the resources in Forbidden Zone No. 009! Then go to Dragon Fall Abyss and eat at the buffet!"

[Brain (pushing up reflective glasses with an extremely devious look, a wild, cold smirk of the ultimate demon king curling at the corners of his mouth)]: "Fellow colleagues, does this even need to be asked?"

"What bullsh*t luck? What bullsh*t alliances?"

"Today, we will use this body to teach these prodigies in the greenhouse a good lesson!"

"However, our 'Zero-Yuan Purchase Plan' will have to be delayed a bit. After all, there is a live broadcast in the dungeon, and people will see us robbing things inside!"

"However, the fact that the competition is divided into two rounds is practically tailor-made for us brothers! After entering the first round, play dead and don't make a move. Think of a way to decipher the dungeon's rules first, and then in the second round, just turn off the lights and attack!"

"Hehehe..."

Outside, President Xia Yun on the high platform waved his hand, and the hundred-meter-tall, deep blue teleportation light gate behind him erupted with an extremely blinding spatial radiance!

"Children! The Hundred Schools League Melee!" "Now... it officially begins!!!" "Let the participating teams enter the arena!!!"

High above the platform, as soon as President Xia Yun's voice fell, the cheers of the one hundred thousand spectators in the stadium exploded like a mountain collapsing and the sea overturning!

"Boom—!" That deep blue teleportation light gate erupted with extremely blinding spatial fluctuations, as if it were a starry-sky behemoth with its giant mouth wide open, waiting to devour this group of the top prodigies of Great Xia.

Jiang You slowly raised his head. What rushed towards him was the deafening shouting and colorful flags fluttering from the stands of one hundred thousand people!

Coming into view were the prodigies from prestigious schools beside him, whose life force was like dragons, whose fighting spirit soared to the heavens, and who wished they could poke a hole in the sky!

Listening to the deafening battle song in the venue, and feeling the extreme passion in the air that was so scorching it made one's pores expand.

At this moment, Jiang You's salted-fish heart, which had been soaked in brine for years and was already well-cured, actually began to beat... extremely violently, in a rare occurrence!

"Thump! Thump!"

Jiang You took a deep breath of this air filled with spiritual energy and fanaticism, and his eyes gradually changed.

He looked at his slender, fair hands, and an illusion called "Main Character Halo" pierced through his crown like an electric current in an instant!

Wait... Jiang You's breathing gradually became rapid, and various experiences since his transmigration flashed crazily through his mind.

He had transmigrated into this high-martial arts world. Not only was he handsome, but upon awakening, he immediately received the legendary SSS-rank talent, "Eye of Tianshu"!

He also knew the extremely heaven-defying "Inverse Blood Flow Technique," where fighting above one's level was as easy as drinking water!

Furthermore, he seemed to have an "Omnipotent Old Master" hidden inside his body who helped him fight, helped him show off, and could even help him pick up girls!

Jiang You's eyes widened further and further, and a scalp-tingling sense of destiny made his whole body tremble!

This... isn't this the top-tier, most classic, invincible-protagonist script from online novels?

"I am a transmigrator! I am the captain of Team One of Magic City Martial Arts University! I am the hope of the whole village!"

"Everyone else is fighting for their lives, why should I keep hiding?"

Jiang You clenched his fists fiercely, his dead-fish eyes completely transforming into burning torches, his hot blood surging crazily: "This champion of the Hundred Schools League, I, Jiang You, shall compete for it as well!"

"This new dungeon in Dragon Fall Abyss is the starting point for me, Jiang You, to begin my path to an eternal legend! I want to overturn this world and create a story that belongs to me, Jiang You!!!"

Just as Jiang You had fed himself a whole ton of chicken soup for the soul, and was feeling as if he had been injected with full-strength adrenaline, ready to go all out.

Up ahead, the teams from the various major universities had already begun lining up to walk toward that giant teleportation light gate.

I don't know if it was because the atmosphere at the scene was too fiery, or because the prodigies' misplaced arrogance was at play.

When the team from Southern Yaodu University walked to the light gate, a tall, thin boy with a silver pocket watch and a full head of silver hair—the chief of Southern Yaodu University, Ji Daixu—suddenly stopped.

He didn't go in directly, but turned around to face a dozen high-definition live broadcast cameras.

He opened the pocket watch with extreme elegance. With a "click," he watched the second hand tick, his eyes deep, his tone revealing an extremely grand outlook, and he softly chanted:

"Time is a journey, we are but passing travelers for a hundred generations." "Today, at the end of time, it shall be I, Ji, who carves the final chapter."

Wow! As soon as these words were spoken, the entire audience was instantly hyped! Too cool! Too much swagger! This is the presence a time-type big shot should have!

However, this extremely pretentious sentence from Ji Daixu was like opening Pandora's box.

As the saying goes, in literature there is no first, in martial arts there is no second. Everyone is a god at the peak of the pyramid of their respective schools, why should you get all the limelight? One must not lose face for their own school!

Consequently, the subsequent entrance directly evolved into a pretentious shura field of a "pre-match trash talk competition"!

The blind genius of Shushan Dao-Wu Academy, Yan Qinghuan, walked to the light gate.

His eyes were covered with a white silk blindfold, and he held a crystal-clear white jade chess piece in his hand. A gentle-as-jade smile hung on the corners of his mouth, but his tone revealed absolute control:

"Heaven and earth are the board, all living things are the pieces. Everyone, please enter this chess game."

Boom! The whole audience screamed again!

Immediately after, Chu Tiankuo of West Sea Academy strode forward, his edgeless heavy sword planted on the ground, sword qi crisscrossing: "Beneath the sea abyss, only suffocation remains. My sword will tell you what is heavy!"

Helan Que of the Desert Martial Arts Academy transformed into a cloud of yellow sand and rolled to the front of the gate, leaving behind only a cold, bone-chilling killing tone: "Wild sands cover withered bones, in the desert, no one survives. When the wind rises, that is the day you all shall be buried!"

Finally, Zhao Zhenlei of the Northern Border Military Academy stood in front of the camera like an iron tower, his rough voice deafening: "In the face of absolute power, all the fancy tricks are bullsh*t! When I, Old Zhao, go in, I'll flatten this Forbidden Zone!"

One sentence after another! Each one crazier than the last! Each one with a grander outlook than the last! The atmosphere of the entire stadium had been pushed to a breaking point by the pre-match declarations of these prodigies!

Finally, it was the turn of the Magic City Martial Arts University team!