Martial Artist: Stronger by Coasting Along-Chapter 338 - 86: Four Element Spear Intent, The Whole Arena Petrified
The Great Xia Kingdom is vast and rich in resources.
With seventy-three provinces, its location is complexly intertwined, and its geographical environment is ever-changing.
Ocean City, which belongs to Guanghai Province, is named after the ocean, yet no part of the entire city is adjacent to the ocean.
The third round of assessment involves real-world combat with alien creatures, in an environment where the number of alien creatures is obviously insufficient for all martial arts students to advance.
The yellow sand behind that door and the corrosive stench made many who arrived in Ocean City for the first time feel unfamiliar.
No one expected that as a first-tier province capable of hosting national examination events, Ocean City would have such a forbidden area that humans rarely set foot in.
Just when people thought that the yellow sand world behind that door was their assessment location, an airship capable of accommodating two to three hundred people suddenly landed behind the door.
Under the arrangement of the relevant personnel, everyone walked into that door, queued up, and sat in their designated seats on the airship.
"The assessment location is not in Ocean City?"
Someone murmured. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
"This seems to be Tianping Pass, a closed forbidden zone in Ocean City."
A well-informed person said softly.
The airship ascended.
Zhang Lingfeng looked down from the window, watching the so-called Tianping Pass gradually become a small yellow dot, and from above it gradually turned black and deep, as if there was an abyss beneath the yellow sand, from which the decaying stench emanated.
He was unclear why the airship had to land at Tianping Pass and let them walk in before taking them away, not knowing if this had any significance.
About an hour later, the airship arrived above an abandoned city.
"Qingshui City, your assessment location."
"This city is heavily polluted, uninhabitable for humans, and even alien creatures find it hard to adapt. You only have one day; let’s see who can kill enough alien creatures within the given time."
"Remember, in here, there are very few alien creatures that meet your assessment standards, not nearly enough for you all to scramble over, and with so many martial arts students suddenly arriving, the few alien creatures that do meet your standards will hide, so you must stay sharp."
"Time starts the moment you step off the airship."
"Be ready!"
Said the staff aboard the airship.
Then the airship landed in Qingshui City, in a square overgrown with withered grass, abandoned and dilapidated, many statues damaged, toppled.
"Squeak!"
The airship landed.
The square trembled, and a small swarm of rats appeared.
The flames spewed from the airship burned the rat swarm, but also sank the ground by about a dozen centimeters, luckily not affecting the landing of the airship.
Everyone descended from the airship.
To successfully enter the third round, all martial arts students present possessed Physical Fitness at the Dirt Realm, Vitality Realm, or even Qi Realm.
The pollutants in Qingshui City did not affect them at all.
Upon getting off the airship, everyone quickly dispersed.
Each person held a map in their hand, detailing not only the routes of Qingshui City but also some marked lairs of alien demon beasts.
There were even markings of the beast numbers.
The number of third-line province martial arts students successfully entering the third round far exceeded those from fourth-line provinces; Zhang Lingfeng and his group only numbered three, but the third-line province martial arts students amounted to over a hundred.
They had nearly a fifty percent chance of successfully advancing to the third round.
Based on the map information at this point, the number of Bone Realm demon beasts hidden in Qingshui City could only satisfy half the demand.
The number of Great Demons in the Dirt Realm and Vitality Realm could only satisfy twenty percent of the demand, and as for Qi Realm Great Demons, they could only satisfy fewer than ten people.
This means that even if everyone finds all the alien demon beasts that meet the advancement standards and successfully kills them, the number of people who can finally advance will not exceed half.
Because in the process of killing, mutual scrambling is inevitable, and there is a possibility that someone who is about to be eliminated may have already killed ninety Bone Realm Great Demons, and needs only ten more Bone Realm Great Demons, or one Dirt Realm demon beast, to successfully advance.
Yet due to insufficient quantity, they are forcibly eliminated.
Such occurrences are sure to keep happening.
Even if Qingshui City had enough demon beasts that meet everyone’s advancement standards, it could not ensure that everyone successfully advances, as there is only one day, and during the combat process, it is impossible to guarantee that every martial arts student stays safe and sound.
Thus, this third round of assessment is particularly brutal.
Even those powerful third-line province martial arts students do not dare to guarantee their own advancement; Zhang Lingfeng noticed that several third-line martial arts students who had reached the Qi Realm quickly rushed toward the locations of the Qi Realm Great Demons marked on the map after getting off the airship.
Zhang Lingfeng’s strength also reached the realm of the Qi Phase.
Mastering both Four Element Spear Intent and Four Elements Spiritual Realm, his combat power exceeds 3500.0, supposedly capable of challenging Qi Realm Great Demons.
But for safety’s sake, Zhang Lingfeng did not risk it.
After looking at the map, he led Ming Cheng and Jiao Mei to a more remote spot in Qingshui City.
The three came from a fourth-line province, their average strength far lower than third-line province martial arts students, and could not compete with others at all. To avoid offending those people, the three agreed on the airship to immediately run to a sparsely populated place right after getting off.
They would rather kill fewer Bone Realm Great Demons than directly clash with third-line province martial arts students. Compared to alien creatures, clearly, in Qingshui City, the threat from third-line province martial arts students was even greater.
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