278: Chapter 278 A Great Treasure Appears in the World; It Belongs to the Virtuous!

"Chu Tiankuo! I found this jade marrow bone-cleansing flower first, don't you dare lay a finger on it!" Helan Que's body semi-elementalized, blending into the yellow sand, his voice carrying the cruelty of a lone desert wolf.

"Natural treasures belong to the capable! If you're not satisfied, try taking my Deep Sea Sword Pressure!" Chu Tiankuo's white robes fluttered. He raised his heavy, edgeless sword, preparing to unleash an incredibly terrifying, fatal strike.

Just at the critical moment when these two top experts had locked onto each other's presence, ready to decide the match in a single blow—

Rumble!

A sudden, violent sound of snapping trees echoed from the nearby bushes, accompanied by a frantic, pig-slaughtering shriek:

"Batian! Slow down, slow down! My head is hitting the trees!!!"

Chu Tiankuo and Helan Que both froze at the same time, forcing their fully charged ultimate moves back into their hands.

"Is an incredibly powerful expert coming to snatch it?!"

As top geniuses, their combat instincts were top-tier. They instantly reined in their attacks, retreated over ten meters with extreme vigilance, and stared intently at the violently shaking bushes as if facing a formidable enemy.

In their minds, anyone who dared to recklessly barge into the battlefield of two faction leaders at a time like this had to be a peerless powerhouse with soaring vitality and unfathomable strength!

However...

Whoosh!

As the bushes were violently crashed open...

Under the utterly bewildered, even dumbfounded gazes of Chu Tiankuo and Helan Que...

A burly man with bulging muscles rushed out like a startled rhino, running in a wild posture that lacked any sense of aesthetics but perfectly conformed to "biomechanics."

And on the burly man's shoulder, hanging upside down like a sack of potatoes, was a thin guy wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a tattered black-and-gold team uniform.

As he was bounced around, dry-heaving violently, the thin guy shrieked hysterically:

"Make way! Everyone make way! Magic City Running Men passing through, we won't be held responsible for any collisions, ahhh!!!"

...

Chu Tiankuo was stunned.

Helan Que was also stunned.

Holding their weapons, the two stared as this duo—one big and one thin, two "noobs" with at most early Tier 4 vitality—boldly zipped right through the center of the battlefield where they had just been fighting to the death!

Even when passing by that extremely precious Tier 4 [jade marrow bone-cleansing flower], the two didn't even bat an eye, as if it were just a common weed. They kicked up a messy trail of dust as they vanished into the distance.

Only Gou Fugui's lingering, miserable wails drifted back through the air.

"What is wrong with those two...?"

Chu Tiankuo's cold, handsome face twitched violently.

People are in the middle of a battle here!

This is a top-tier Shura Field of Peak Fourth-Order!

And you two noobs are charging right through the middle of the combat zone?

Do you have a death wish or something?!

Helan Que was also filled with disbelief. Revealing his form from the yellow sand, he furrowed his brows deeply:

"I've long heard that a bunch of brainless lunatics joined Magic City Martial Arts University this year. Seeing them today, it seems the rumors are true! They don't even know how to spell the word 'death'!"

However...

Just as the two, faces full of disdain, thought this was merely a minor interlude and prepared to raise their weapons again to fight for the Tier 4 spiritual herb...

Boom!!!

An extreme heat that violently distorted even the surrounding space, accompanied by a terrifying golden flame, suddenly burst out from the bushes the two noobs had just run out of, like a roaring divine bird!

"You scoundrels! Die!!!"

A female bandit bathed in Divine Phoenix Undying Fire, wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, and a large medical mask, swept violently over the heads of Chu Tiankuo and Helan Que!

The terrifying heat instantly baked the yellow sand within a hundred-meter radius into glass crystals. Even Chu Tiankuo's Deep Sea Sword Qi was evaporated into a massive cloud of white mist in that moment!

Before the two could even recover from this destructive heat...

"Crazy woman! Stay right there!"

Immediately after, an incredibly profound, massive Eight Trigrams array spun wildly in midair.

A handsome man with a soot-covered face, tattered white clothes, and unfocused eyes stepped on a formation plate, carrying sky-high rage as he closely followed, sweeping over their heads!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

These two top experts, radiating terrifying pressure, flew past Chu Tiankuo and Helan Que one after the other like two meteors, their momentum fierce and aggressive.

Most absurdly, when passing by that glowing Tier 4 spiritual herb, they, just like the two noobs before them, didn't even spare it a glance, chasing straight after Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian!

...

Chu Tiankuo's hand holding the heavy sword froze in midair.

Helan Que's semi-elementalized body of yellow sand also halted in the wind.

At this moment, the Brains of both men began to spin at a crazy, rapid pace.

"That golden flame just now... and that familiar formation expert..."

Chu Tiankuo swallowed hard, a trace of extreme shock flashing in his eyes. "That was the SSS-grade Divine Phoenix Undying Fire, unique to Great Xia! Is that the captain of Imperial Capital Martial Arts University's Team One, Qin Zhuo?"

"And the blind man stepping on the formation plate behind her... is definitely the captain of Shushan Daoist Martial Arts' Team One, Yan Qinghuan!"

Helan Que also sucked in a breath of cold air. His beast-like intuition instantly picked up on an unusual scent of "conspiracy."

These two were the most top-tier, proudest peerless geniuses in this session of the Hundred Schools League!

But now?

The two prestigious Team One captains actually turned a blind eye to this top-grade Tier 4 spiritual herb, the [jade marrow bone-cleansing flower], which ordinary Tier 4 Martial Artists would fight to the death for!

Why was that?!

Chu Tiankuo and Helan Que exchanged a tacit glance. At this moment, their brainwaves completed an incredibly bizarre yet highly "logical" epic loop!

"I get it!"

In Chu Tiankuo's deep eyes, a highly fanatical light of greed suddenly burst forth.

"To make geniuses of Qin Zhuo and Yan Qinghuan's level treat a Tier 4 spiritual herb like dirt, and even join forces to hunt them down..."

"Those two Magic City Martial Arts University noobs must be carrying an earth-shattering treasure!"

Helan Que chimed in, his breathing turning rapid. "It must be! After all, this dungeon's predecessor was an S-grade secret realm. Those two noobs must have discovered something incredible!"

In the logic of geniuses, there was no such thing as a pursuit without cause.

Two Tier 3 noobs being chased all over the place by two top experts—besides "killing to steal treasure," they couldn't think of any other reason!

"A great treasure appears, and the virtuous shall claim it!"

"A mere pair of noobs, how do they deserve such a fortune?!"

At this moment, Chu Tiankuo and Helan Que reached a tacit agreement.

They didn't even spare another glance at the Tier 4 spiritual herb on the ground, which they had cherished as a treasure just moments ago.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The two simultaneously withdrew their attacks, pushing their vitality and spiritual power to the absolute limit.

Transforming into two sharp streaks of light, one yellow and one blue, they chased after Qin Zhuo and the others with fanatical treasure-hunting hearts!

As the "ultimate pursuit army" composed of four top geniuses and two Magic City Martial Arts University "noobs" swept away in a grand, dusty rush...