What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

Chapter 381 What kind of competition is there if you have no money? (Thanks to 'Angry Cat' for the generous donation)
Ma Xuan's mind raced, and he quickly made a decision.

"Alright, let's take this opportunity to crush Zhang Yu and force him to leave the stage."

So he directly ordered through the competition group: "Go! Use the method we discussed before, and force him out of the game!"

After the first half of the competition ended, Ma Xuan and his team naturally summarized their combat experience, especially their insights from fighting Zhang Yu, and updated their combat tactics.

At that moment, related thoughts flashed through Ma Xuan's mind like lightning.

"Compared to his performance during his first training session six months ago, Zhang Yu has made remarkable progress."

"Whether it's basic physical strength, mana capacity, combat skills, or the level of the Nine Heavens Cloud Force... everything far surpasses what it used to be."

"The previous plan of shooting down enemies from a distance or suppressing them with a single person has been proven to be inappropriate in combat."

"Especially the level 20 Nine Heavens Cloud Force, which can borrow force for 20 strikes..."

After the first half of the battle, Ma Xuan and his team had come to take Zhang Yu very seriously.

Under these circumstances, Ma Xuan's battle strategy... was first to reduce the power of his attacks and increase the number of attacks.

Instead of delivering heavy blows, the strategy is to unleash more combos within a given time frame.

"In this way, the power of each strike is greatly reduced, so we are not afraid of being countered even if someone uses our force against us."

"And the relentless, torrential attacks can quickly wear down Zhang Yu."

"Secondly, it is best to use a remote attack, which can further reduce the risk of being hit by a bounce attack."

In preparation for this new battle strategy, Ma Xuan and the others ordered takeout and changed or added to their equipment before the start of the second half.

"Furthermore, the medium of attack is also very important."

Ma Xuan opened his mouth and spat out streams of silver particles, which poured down onto the ground beneath his feet.

It was during his break that he ordered the silver sand.

When mixed with mud and sand, this substance can significantly enhance the strength and toughness of the mud and sand. Combined with his Minor Three Harmonies and Ground-to-Steel Technique, it can greatly increase the destructive power against Zhang Yu's Qi.

While its effects are powerful, it is also quite expensive.

Ma Xuan hadn't originally planned to use this kind of thing in the competition against Shi Huaiyu's team.

He thought to himself, "I wonder how much we can recover after this is over."

While he was thinking about this, he had already activated the recording function of his eyeballs, determined to recycle the silver sand after the war.

As the silver sand was poured in, silver rapidly spread across the ground beneath Ma Xuan's feet, centered on the spot where he stood.

The next moment, Ma Xuan activated his magic power, and silver arms rose from the ground beneath his feet.

The three-component mixture controls sediment and shapes its form, the ground steel increases strength, and the silver sand further enhances strength and toughness.

After the silver arms rose up, they grew rapidly like tree branches and then slammed down on Zhang Yu.

Amidst the booming sound of exploding air currents, each palm strike came down like a battering ram.

At first, there were only a dozen or so, but they quickly surged to dozens... hundreds of silver arms, some fists, some palms, some fingers, attacked Zhang Yu like a storm.

It was Ma Xuan who used his finger to create steel, combined with the Small Three Harmonies and the Sand Silver, to propel the level 20 martial art, Formless Thousand Hands.

Faced with this overwhelming attack, Zhang Yu let out a low shout and immediately unleashed the Formless Cloud罡 to defend against it.

With a series of loud bangs, Zhang Yu's aura surged and trembled violently like waves in a sea of ​​clouds.

Feeling the relentless attacks, Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Hmph... have you found a tactic to deal with the Nine Heavens Cloud Void Force?"

Just as Ma Xuan made his move, the other three also joined in.

During her rest period, Yang Yan changed into the newly rented Heart and Hand Magic Skeletons.

With a violent throbbing of his heart, streams of magical power poured into it, then transformed into streams of electrical charge that surged forth, instantly covering his entire body's bloodstream.

At the same time, he lightly tapped his fingertips, and the blood flowed through the electromagnetic acceleration of the magical skeleton in his hand, activating the level 20 martial art "Flick of Blood".

In the next instant, countless blood shadows crackling with electricity burst forth from his body, shooting towards Zhang Yu like a rain of flowers.

Each blood lightning bolt consumes mana, and after being strengthened and accelerated by the heart and hand mana fragments, it is finally propelled by a level 20 finger flick blood shock.

However, since the Dharma Bodies are all rented, they are priced according to the number of Blood Lightning Bolts, with each one costing 0.02 Spirit Coins.

Seeing the bills piling up in his eyes, Yang Yan's fighting spirit surged, and he roared inwardly, "Zhang Yu! You better hurry up and spend all that money!"

With his fighting spirit surging, Yang Yan felt his heart beating faster and the bills in his eyes rising even faster. Then, as his mental cultivation technique circulated, it brought him an even more surging fighting spirit.

All of this was within Yang Yan's expectations, because he had always mainly rented out the magical artifacts he used.

This allows him to flaunt his wealth and demonstrate his financial power to others, while also fueling his competitive spirit through constantly updated bills.

Because when using rented Dharma remains, it is necessary to operate the Dharma remains more efficiently and quickly in order to save on rental costs.

To accomplish the same task but pay less rent, isn't that a way to make money?
Whenever he thought of this, he felt the mental techniques in his mind running more and more wildly, stimulating him to unleash a stronger fighting spirit, stronger power, and faster thinking... At the same time, Ji Susu on the other side also made her move.

To better deal with Zhang Yu, we need to change our fighting methods.

However, in preparation for this competition, Ji Susu, a senior, had already spent all her savings a month before the competition began to improve her skills.

Seeing Ma Xuan, Yang Yan, and the others place their orders without hesitation, Ji Susu could only borrow some spirit coins to rent a hand-shaped artifact in exchange for her original hand-shaped artifact.

The hand-shaped magical artifact known as the Sky Roar Sword, after being infused with magical power, can absorb air and compress it, transforming it into bolts of lightning.

Then, he enveloped the Qi Thunder with his own Qi and unleashed a series of Qi Explosion Swords.

Because it was a temporary rental, the rent was extremely high, and given that they knew she intended to use it for a competition, they refused to provide insurance.

Since the start of the war, Ji Susu has been carefully protecting her hand remains, frequently checking the durability display reported by the hand remains' self-check.

The durability of the hand skeleton has also decreased from 95% at the start of the war to 94% now.

The so-called durability is an estimated value that takes into account various wear and tear values ​​of the hand.

Generally, serious malfunctions will occur when the durability drops below 20%, it will not be able to operate normally when it drops below 10%, and it will be completely scrapped when it reaches 0%.

Ji Susu knew even better that for this rented Sky Howl Sword, every time its durability decreased by more than 10%, there would be a sharp increase in additional maintenance costs.

She made up her mind: "End this battle before the durability drops to 85%."

At this moment, Ji Susu activated her magic power, channeling her level 15 Crimson Fire Qi, which she had painstakingly cultivated, into her hand, and unleashed a series of fiery Qi explosion swords towards Zhang Yu.

Amidst the resounding explosions, countless warriors of formless strength charged out, meeting the Qi Explosion Sword head-on and unleashing a series of violent blasts.

Amidst surging heat waves and hurricanes, Bu Ziran on the other side finally unleashed the sword energy he had been accumulating for so long.

During the break, Bu Ziran felt a surge of frustration whenever he recalled the defeat he suffered at Zhang Yu's hands in the first half.

In order to better counter Zhang Yu in the second half, he first changed the sword energy output mode of his lung-based magical body, switching from the commonly used lung metal sword energy to the Geng metal hair sword energy.

The hand part of the body was also replaced with a hand part that could perform high-speed sword techniques, named Swift Sword.

However, because the Swift Sword was Bu Ziran's spare hand, which he did not use often, it had never been maintained or serviced, and its durability after self-inspection was only 33%.

Upon realizing this, Bu Ziran frowned slightly, thinking, "It's alright, this battle shouldn't wear down the durability too much. I'll find time to repair it after the battle."

At this moment, Bu Ziran used his lungs to propel the Gengjin Ox Hair Sword Qi into the Swift Sword in his right hand, and then unleashed the level 15 martial art, Heavenly Waterfall Sword.

In an instant, streams of golden sword energy poured out like a celestial river flowing backward, carrying overlapping and intertwined golden threads, towards Zhang Yu.

At that moment, Zhang Yu faced the greatest crisis of the day.

Whether it's Ma Xuan's Formless Thousand Hands, Yang Yan's Flick of Blood, Ji Susu's Qi Explosion Sword, or Bu Ziran's Heavenly Waterfall Sword... all of them have been enhanced by various materials, magical remains, and techniques, and in the process of being pushed forward step by step, they have unleashed power far exceeding the original techniques.

Worse still, faced with this relentless, quantity-driven attack, the Nine Heavens Cloud Force seemed to have suddenly lost its effectiveness.

As the protective energy violently vibrated and was consumed, sword energy, flames, blood lightning, and silver palms would tear through the formless cloud energy from time to time and strike Zhang Yu's body fiercely.

In the blink of an eye, he had more than a dozen wounds all over his body, and he looked covered in blood.

"If only I had Xiao Qingxuan's 20-strike Nine Dragons Heavenly Palm technique in this state."

But Zhang Yu knew that although his Nine Heavens Cloud Void Force could borrow force to fight back, the borrowed force could only be temporarily stored in the void. At this moment, there was no power of the Nine Dragons Heavenly Gang Palm in the void.

However, Zhang Yu, who was constantly observing the entire scene with his three-eyed supernatural powers, remained calm.

He thought to himself, "I can't keep taking this beating passively. I have to find a way out."

"drink!"

With a roar, Zhang Yu's formless cloud energy suddenly expanded and spread outwards in all directions.

At the same time, figures emerged from the sea of ​​clouds, rushing in all directions.

Bang bang bang bang, figures were brutally destroyed under the combined attack of the four.

However, taking advantage of the distraction of the attack, Zhang Yu's main body rushed towards Bu Ziran, who was closest to him.

"Range attacks do counter my playstyle."

"But ranged attacks also have a drawback: when I'm in melee combat with your teammates, your offensive will inevitably be weakened... and you might even end up attacking your teammates."

"If you're going to get beaten up, then find someone to take it with you."

Seeing Bu Ziran retreating rapidly in front of him, Zhang Yu grinned and charged forward.

As for why he chose this target, it was naturally because Zhang Yu still remembered how the other party flaunted their wealth in the competition group.

Fu Ji thought to herself, "Zhang Yu has always been quite resentful of the rich."

(End of this chapter)