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Chapter 382 Vote Now

“When you use the terrain to surround me, you also use the terrain to surround yourselves.”

Watching Bu Ziran retreat all the way to the barrier, Zhang Yu sneered and had already conjured four formless warriors, two on the left and two on the right to block the opponent.

Seeing Zhang Yu charging towards him, Bu Ziran really wanted to yell, "Don't come any closer!"

He wasn't afraid of Zhang Yu; he was afraid of his own teammates.

Especially when looking at Zhang Yu's body, which was like he was taking a bath, constantly enduring large amounts of blood lightning, air explosions, and silver palm strikes.

Bu Ziran doesn't have Zhang Yu's ability to withstand attacks head-on.

But Ma Xuan reassured him in the competition group: "Don't worry, we have enabled shared attack intent and marked each other's attack targets, so we won't hit you easily."

At this moment, within the visual field of Ma Xuan and the other three, four kinds of marks kept jumping around: a palm, a drop of blood, a stream of air, and a small sword, representing the four people's attacks.

Each mark represents the landing point of the four people's attack direction.

This marking allows their attacks to be coordinated more closely and also helps them better avoid hitting Bu Ziran.

But no matter how much you try to avoid it, collisions are inevitable in such a fierce battle.

With a single sword stroke, Bu Ziran swept away the blood lightning. Looking at the 32% durability of his hand skeleton, he felt a pang of heartache.

"Watch out! Don't hit me!"

But the next moment, Zhang Yu attacked again, his Wuxiang Yun Gang drawing out bursts of energy, slamming them down on Bu Ziran.

The sword energy and the qi clashed and surged.

After engaging in a fierce battle with Bu Ziran, Zhang Yu withdrew all of his humanoid qi. This would reduce the consumption of his magical power, and the absence of the humanoid qi would further expose Bu Ziran to attacks.

"Sure enough, after engaging in close combat with this guy, Ma Xuan and the others inevitably weakened their offensive power considerably."

At this moment, Zhang Yu did not use the Nine Heavens Cloud Void Force, but instead used the Formless Cloud Gang to continuously guide the incoming attacks and bombard Bu Ziran time and time again.

In those few seconds of intense fighting, Zhang Yu was already covered in blood, his aura tinged with crimson, like flames coiling around his body.

"Perhaps I can take this opportunity to add something..."

With each burst of blood-red lightning that sent shockwaves flying, the Formless Cloud Gang was torn open with large holes, but its speed was also slowed down as a result.

Zhang Yu struck out with his palm, and vortexes of clouds guided a mass of blood lightning to converge at one point. As they spun at high speed, they collided and transformed into a ball of blood... which Zhang Yu then swallowed whole.

The next moment, Zhang Yu's eyes widened suddenly, and he couldn't help but say, "How much medicine did you take? It's really potent."

Feeling the medicinal power being continuously absorbed into his body, stimulating the rapid recovery of his physical strength and magical power, Zhang Yu laughed heartily, then suddenly swept up the silver sand scattered on the ground with his palm, and swallowed it in one gulp.

Zhang Yu tilted his head and grinned, saying, "Although it's not very nutritious, it's good for strengthening the body."

Seeing his silver sand swallowed whole by Zhang Yu, Ma Xuan was furious and shouted, "Keep attacking! He can't hold on much longer!"

Although Zhang Yu was constantly eating and drinking, absorbing the medicinal properties of the sheep flame blood, and digesting the silver sand to strengthen his body, the formless cloud aura around his body was still being torn apart, and the wounds on his body were increasing, making him look like a bloody mess.

The white aura, originally like clouds and mist, gradually turned into light red, then deep red, until it now showed a dark red color, accompanied by the constantly churning aura, burning fiercely like a gloomy flame.

Compared to Zhang Yu's apparent severe injuries, Bu Ziran's heart was bleeding even more.

Zhang Yu, who was locked in combat with him, continuously redirected the incoming Blood Thunder, Qi Explosion, and Silver Arm attacks toward him.

In addition, Ma Xuan and the others accidentally caught Bu Ziran's attack... Although they were attacking Zhang Yu with their teammates, Bu Ziran felt like he was being attacked by Zhang Yu and his teammates.

Amidst such fierce fighting, the constant reports of decreasing durability from his physical body sent a chill down Bu Ziran's spine, a chill even more intense than the coldness contained within Zhang Yu's aura.

"What the hell..."

Bu Ziran angrily unleashed a flurry of sword energy, staring at the bloodied and swaying Zhang Yu before him, his heart pounding with rage: "Why? Why won't you fall? Why won't you surrender?"

The same question arose in Yang Yan's mind. While shooting out streaks of blood lightning, he looked at the billing statement of Fa Hai and couldn't help but slow down his attack.

Looking at Zhang Yu, who was completely enveloped in a blood mist, Yang Yan thought to himself, "This guy probably can't hold on much longer. I should use fewer spirit coins to continue attacking. Besides..."

Meanwhile, Ji Susu thought to herself, "This guy keeps refusing to surrender. What if I kill him?"

"You can't kill someone, the compensation for killing someone is too high."

Zhang Yu, who appeared to be severely injured, stubbornly held on despite being surrounded and attacked by the crowd.

The more Zhang Yu appeared unsteady, the more the four of them slowed their attacks, afraid that they might accidentally kill him.

Ma Xuan couldn't help but shout, "Zhang Yu! If you don't surrender, do you really want to go bankrupt in this competition?"

"Look at your injuries. Do you have the money to treat them?"

Zhang Yu grinned, waved to them, and said, "Hurry up, you don't have much time left."

Although Zhang Yu appeared to be covered in wounds and completely battered, under the blessing of the Earth and Wood Sacred Body, he could feel his various resistances increasing rapidly, and the opponent's attacks becoming weaker and weaker in his perception.

The physical injuries did not worsen; instead, they continued to heal themselves under the activation of the Mind-Body-Body-Soul-Body ...

Another fierce battle ensued, with waves of supersonic air sweeping through the air as the five people's internal energy and magical power clashed hundreds of times in an instant.

The bills keep rising, the durability keeps decreasing, and another large chunk of silver has been lost...

At this moment, Ma Xuan and the other three felt as if Zhang Yu was a black hole. They kept pouring money into him, but they could never completely defeat him, which made them feel increasingly pained.

It was during this process that Ma Xuan and the other three, seeing that Zhang Yu remained standing for a long time, gradually loosened their grip and intensified their attacks.

But they soon discovered that even with their intensified attacks and all-out assaults, Zhang Yu, though bearing more wounds, still did not fall.

At the same time, Bu Ziran, seeing that the durability of the Fa Hai had reached 21%, finally couldn't take it anymore.

His magical body, which was specifically designed for high-speed sword techniques, was not good at direct combat.

Now, under the "siege" of the four, and with each collision with Zhang Yu, its durability is rapidly declining, and it is about to suffer a serious malfunction, which will cost a huge sum of money to repair.

Bu Ziran: "Enough! Who's going to replace me?! Or you can split the repair costs of the Fahai with me."

When faced with Bu Ziran's question, Ma Xuan and the other two pretended not to hear it.

Bu Ziran instantly flew into a rage, taking a step to the side, but was tightly entangled by Zhang Yu who had been chasing after him, and in the blink of an eye, his durability dropped to 20%.
Seeing Zhang Yu still fighting, Bu Ziran really wanted to say to him, "What are you doing, risking your life?!" But the next moment, Zhang Yu's body suddenly swelled up, having activated the Battle Demon Life-Destroying Technique and the Spring and Autumn Endless Zen in succession, pushing his physical abilities to the limit in one go.

As the negative effects of the War Demon's Life-Destroying Technique worsened his injuries once again, his Earth and Wood Sacred Body was boosted once more, and his various resistances surged dramatically.

Following the fourfold mindset, Zhang Yu activated all the protective techniques he had cultivated at once, raising his resistance to attacks to the extreme.

boom!
He let Bu Ziran's boundless sword energy gently caress his body, and let Ma Xuan and the others' attacks fiercely bombard his back, lower back, and hind legs...

Zhang Yu charged forward, shattering Bu Ziran's sword energy, then grabbed the man's head and slammed him to the ground.

Seeing Zhang Yu and Bu Ziran fighting fiercely on the ground, Ma Xuan and the other two hesitated for a moment, afraid that they might hurt Bu Ziran.

But the next moment, with a soft click, Bu Ziran's hand twisted and malfunctioned when its durability reached 19%.

Bu Ziran felt a surge of magical power within his hand, and his entire body was temporarily frozen in place.

With a scream, Zhang Yu tore off Bu Ziran's hand and then struck him hard in the dantian.

The chilling poison that had been blasting in from both the front and back suddenly erupted at this moment, freezing Bu Ziran's entire body stiff.

Having temporarily subdued Bu Ziran, Zhang Yu turned to look at Ma Xuan and the other two, grinning from his blood-stained face, and asked, "Who's next?"

Looking at Bu Ziran's torn hand and his severely frostbitten body, Ma Xuan and the other two seemed to see a huge bill in front of them, and felt a chill run down their spines.

But being locked onto by Zhang Yu, who was covered in crimson blood, with his fierce gaze gave them the illusion that they were the ones being surrounded, not Zhang Yu.

Shaking his head to shake off this illusion, Ma Xuan suddenly frowned slightly.

"Hmm? The external turmoil has stopped?"

It turned out that during the fierce battle between the two sides, Ma Xuan could feel the surrounding barriers trembling slightly, as if he was being attacked from the outside.

But after the tremor, he sensed it for a moment and was taken aback.

"Shi Huaiyu... isn't attacking the barrier, he's reinforcing it?"

"She thickened my barriers by many layers."

"What do you mean? Are you going to lock us up here with Zhang Yu? Are you just going to abandon your teammates like this? Do you have any sportsmanship at all?"

Just as Ma Xuan was stunned, a cloud of mud and sand shot up from beside Zhang Yu, and Xiao Qingxuan had already climbed out of it.

Seeing this, Ma Xuan's heart skipped a beat: "Have they dug them in?"

Looking at Zhang Yu's severely injured state and then at Bu Ziran, who was pinned beneath him, Xiao Qingxuan's eyes showed a look of surprise.

With a palm on Zhang Yu's shoulder, Xiao Qingxuan sent a private message through his eye: "I'll help you with your treatment, but remember, it's only during the competition. Don't let anyone else know."

"Treatment...treatment?" Zhang Yu also messaged privately, "You've studied medical school? Are you a doctor?"

Xiao Qingxuan said calmly, "My parents aren't doctors, so how could I be a doctor? It's just that the ancient Golden Core cultivator who possessed me before, in the era when he was asleep, cultivators learned a lot of diverse things, and it's said that every cultivator knew how to heal injuries."

"Ninety-nine percent of the immortal techniques mastered by the ancient Golden Elixir cultivators are now obsolete."

"However, his ancient medical skills are still somewhat useful."

"Ancient medical techniques?" Zhang Yu couldn't help but reply, "We learned in history class that these are all scams, unreliable, without standards, and using them haphazardly can worsen injuries..."

Zhang Yu was genuinely worried that this guy might have used some ancient medical techniques to cure him and made things worse.

Xiao Qingxuan responded calmly, "That's ancient medical techniques that pharmaceutical companies now hire online trolls to smear, just to monopolize medical resources."

"Don't worry, I will use the Five Elements True Qi to activate the mutual generation power of your internal organs, which will nourish your body, repair your injuries, and prevent your internal injuries from worsening... Hmm? Your constitution is so strong, it's actually working hard to heal on its own? That's even better, the treatment will be faster."

Zhang Yu felt his heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, and lungs gradually healing faster under the opponent's magical power. He asked in surprise, "What's the principle behind this?"

Xiao Qingxuan replied, "Don't ask me why about the principles of mutual generation and restraint of the internal organs. I understand the mutual generation and restraint of the internal organs, and I also understand cells and bacteria, but I don't understand the relationship between the two, and I can't explain it to you."

"I can only tell you that ancient medical techniques and the medical technology of the modern Taoist system are completely different things."

Xiao Qingxuan simply patted Zhang Yu's shoulder, and the exchange between the two was completed in an instant.

At the same moment that Xiao Qingxuan and Zhang Yu were communicating, Ma Xuan also completed his communication with Ji Yuanshu and Cong Na outside.

Ji Yuanshu: What's the situation inside?
Ma Xuan: Bu Ziran has been knocked down.
Ji Yuanshu: What about Zhang Yu?

Ma Xuan: Still fighting us
Ji Yuanshu: ? ? ?

Ji Yuanshu was surprised when he saw Ma Xuan's answer.

"The four of you surrounded Zhang Yu for over twenty seconds, four upperclassmen ganging up on a sophomore... and you ended up getting one of them killed?"

"Did you guys rig the match?"

Ji Yuanshu wanted to ask Ma Xuan and the other three these questions, but he knew he couldn't say things that would undermine unity right now.

He could only say, "Shi Huaiyu is leading men to chase after me and Cong Na. Cong Na is too slow and we're about to be caught. What do we do now?"

Ma Xuan never expected that the situation would change drastically on both the inside and outside sides in just twenty seconds.

Zhang Yu and Xiao Qingxuan were already charging towards them, and a chaotic battle broke out again amidst the layers of barriers.

Streaks of dragon-shaped energy surged from Xiao Qingxuan's body, sweeping across the crowd before him.

Zhang Yu moved around Xiao Qingxuan's side, constantly blocking attacks for him.

As Xiao Qingxuan occasionally infused Zhang Yu with a stream of Five Elements True Qi to heal his injuries.

With the help of Zhang Yu's Crippled Ox Body-Sacrifice Technique and Earth and Wood Sacred Body, his injuries gradually stabilized within a certain range, maintaining extremely high defensive power while also being able to unleash extremely strong combat power.

With Xiao Qingxuan and Zhang Yu working together, one attacking and the other defending, Ma Xuan and the other two felt their bills keep skyrocketing, while the two in front of them remained energetic and showed no signs of weakness.

After Cong Na, who was outside, was also won over by Shi Huaiyu, Bu Ziran said directly in the group: "Just vote, don't waste your money."

Bu Ziran: Four against six, there's no way to win anymore.

Yang Yan: Let's surrender.
Ji Susu: I voted.
Ji Yuanshu: ? ? ?
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