Gao Wu: From Martial Arts Student to Star Emperor

Chapter 646 Starry Sky University is getting worse every year.

"Bang, bang, boom!"

Inside the battlefield of Death Ridge, the gongs and drums sounded three times.

Three drumbeats signaled the start of the battle.

Within the battleground, the eastern and western battlefields, as well as the four star regions, mobilized simultaneously.

The "Heavenly Stems Battle Formation," a combined martial art from the Eastern Star Region, was unleashed in full force. With the enhancement of the combined battle formation, everyone's power nearly doubled.

Meng Qingwan took the lead, and the moment the third gong sounded, she charged forward and swung her sword.

"Long Wind Sword Technique, Swift Wind Annihilation!"

"Boom boom boom!"

Meng Qingwan unleashed a sword strike, the powerful and sharp energy extending hundreds of meters in an instant, sending Mu Yunsheng and Chen Lili from the Western Star Region flying.

"What a powerful combined attack technique! It can unleash such immense power!"

Seeing Meng Qingwan's fierce attack, Wen Ning from the Western Star Region was somewhat surprised. She drew her sword and stepped forward to engage Meng Qingwan in a duel.

"Extreme Ice Sword Qi, Kill!"

"Boom boom boom!"

As the sword energies clashed, thousands of layers of sand and gravel instantly flew up around them.

As one of the main positions, Crown Prince Zhu Jingxuan of the Great Yan Dynasty, with the support of the combined attack formation, shot towards Guang Hengze of the Western Star Region as soon as the battle began.

"Golden罡霸枪!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The fierce spear light shot straight up, breaking through Guang Hengze's protective true energy.

But then Guang Hengze picked up a black magical sword and slashed down, forcefully blocking the spear's edge.

"Boom boom boom!"

As Zhu Jingxuan and Guang Hengze clashed with their swords and spears, an explosion instantly resounded across Death Ridge.

The battle between the East and West star regions erupted instantly. Zhu Jingxi faced Xuan Minghua from the West Star Region, Xiao Sheng faced Wang Xulong from the West Star Region, Meng Qingwan faced Wen Ning from the West Star Region, Pei Naiqing faced Cheng Mengqing from the West Star Region, and He Zhen faced Jing Zhao from the West Star Region. The ten people from each star region were matched with their opponents.

As soon as the battle began, Tang Xiaowen, the leader of the participants from the Western Star Region, locked onto Chen Lie.

He moved through the crowd at incredible speed, leaping a hundred meters into the air, and struck Chen Lie with a palm strike from above.

A surge of lightning energy coalesced into a lightning palm print, which descended upon Chen Lie with overwhelming force.

Chen Lie unleashed his Golden God True Qi, and the Golden Virtue God within his lungs frantically inhaled and exhaled Golden God True Qi. Facing Tang Xiaowen's fierce palm strike, Chen Lie delivered a direct counterattack.

"Boom boom boom!"

The two massive energies collided instantly, forming a cloud layer that blotted out the sky above Death Ridge.

The indestructible Golden God True Qi was unstoppable, piercing through Tang Xiaowen's lightning palm with overwhelming force.

"Um?"

Tang Xiaowen was startled. Why was Chen Lie's true energy so fierce? It actually broke through his palm strike.

"Golden Thunder Piercing Hand, Annihilate them!"

Tang Xiaowen struck again with a palm, his powerful palm force relentlessly attacking Chen Lie.

Chen Lie's five divine true energy swirled around his body, and the fire god Zhurong, residing in the center of his heart, suddenly opened his eyes, unleashing a massive burst of fire god true energy.

"Boom boom boom!"

Crimson fire god true energy surged from Chen Lie's palm, quickly covering half of the battle field.

Tang Xiaowen's palm strike was suppressed, and the rubble that was flying around due to the storm was suddenly turned into dust by the impact of the Fire God's True Qi.

With the support of the combined attack formation, Chen Lie's strength increased greatly. Relying on the power of the Five Divine True Qi, he exchanged over a thousand moves with Tang Xiaowen in just a few minutes, suppressing him throughout.

On the mountain peak guarded by guards outside the arena, Princess Qin Zhenkui of Chengning frowned slightly.

Princess Qin Zhenling of Shaokang asked, "Royal elder sister, who injured your eight-star pet beast?"

Yun Youyou pointed to Chen Lie in the battle arena and said, "That's the guy."

"It's him?"

Qin Zhenling's gaze fell on Chen Lie in the arena.

"Zhenkui, there are also powerful figures on the edge of your Canglan Starfield. Even from this distance, I can feel the intense heat of his Fire Element True Qi."

Judging from his strength, he doesn't seem like someone who has unlocked the Fire God's Treasury, right?

Even without unlocking the Fire God's Treasury, his true energy is comparable to someone like me who has already unlocked it. In our Demon Heaven...

"Doors are also a rare sight," Yun Youyou said.

"Sister Yun, you think too highly of this person!"

These people are all peak fourth-order Qi Gathering Realm martial artists. The fact that they haven't been able to open their Divine Treasury at this level shows that they are just ordinary people.

"Those people in the battlefield, let alone you and me, every single one of them, wouldn't be able to get past me, their imperial sister."

Qin Zhenkui turned her gaze to Qin Zhenling.

"Your Majesty, you are mistaken."

I suddenly realized that the person who injured your pet beast did not seem to be the mediocre person you described.

"He is the top freshman in the entire Canglong Starry Sky University Martial Arts Competition," Qin Zhenling said.

"What? The top freshman at Starry Sky University?"

Qin Zhenkui frowned: "How can someone from a peripheral star region win first place among freshmen at Starry Sky University?"

"Yes! In the thousand-year history of Starry Sky University, this is the first person from a non-Ten Star Alliance planet to become the top freshman at Starry Sky University."

Qin Zhenkui sneered, "It seems that Starry Sky University is getting worse year by year. It's a joke that someone from a remote star system planet took first place."

"Royal sister, our Beimang Star didn't even have a single student in the top ten of the entire department this year, so it's not that this year's Starry Sky University freshmen are bad. Is it because this Blue Star person named Chen Lie is really exceptionally talented?"

How can someone start at a much lower starting line than others and still surpass countless peers?

Qin Zhenkui snorted coldly: "It seems that this person is arrogant and thinks he is extraordinary just because he won first place among the freshmen of Starry Sky University. That's why he has the confidence to be so arrogant and offend me."

On the battlefield, in the eastern and western star regions, and the southern and northern star regions, the battle between the southern and northern star regions has already come to a conclusion.

Because the Southern Star Region was far stronger than the Northern Star Region, and because the Northern Star Region had not been able to scout out the Death Ridge beforehand and was unable to adapt to the extreme environment within the Death Ridge, the Northern Star Region was crushed as soon as the battle began.

The Southern Star Region, led by Qi Donglin, completely defeated the Northern Star Region in less than ten minutes, eliminating the Northern Star Region from the competition.

At this moment, the gong and drum sounded three times, followed by a series of sounds.

"Northern Star Region eliminated, Southern Star Region victorious!"

The ten contestants from the Northern Star Region left the battle arena dejectedly.

Blue Star University President Lei Jinglong had been observing the strength of the Southern Star Region, witnessing its overwhelming victory over the Northern Star Region.

Yu shook his head and sighed.

"The Southern Star Region is too strong, clearly ahead of the other three star regions."

The Southern Star Region has 11 inhabited planets, more than twice the number of those in the Eastern Star Region, and naturally, it has more geniuses.

These ten participants in the battle for the four star regions were all carefully selected, unlike the Eastern Star Region, which was almost unable to gather all the participants.

"Come and see, the ten people from the Eastern Star Region seem to have mastered a combined attack martial art, and their martial arts strength is not weak."

Langya Star Ji Yuyan said calmly, "Their strength is not weak, but it is not strong either."

Qi Tai said solemnly, "Don't underestimate our enemy."

Qi Donglin replied, "It's not that we underestimated our opponents. These ten people from the Eastern Star Region have mastered a combined martial art, and we are not without one either."

Moreover, judging from their strength, in terms of pure martial arts, Chen Lie and Zhu Jingxuan belong to the first tier, followed by Ning Fan and Meng Qingwan.

Among the ten of us, even the weakest, Zhang Jingnian, is no weaker than Ning Fan and Meng Qingwan. Our overall strength is a level above that of the Eastern Star Region.

"That's right, Dean Qi. Our Southern Star Region is the strongest of the four star regions in terms of overall strength. This is common knowledge. It's just that the Eastern Star Region produced Chen Lie, who is said to be very powerful in terms of mental strength."

"I don't think so. Maybe it's just something the Eastern Star Region boasted about," Ji Yuyan said.

As soon as she said this, the other fighters from the Southern Star Region echoed her sentiments.

What Chen Lie from the Eastern Star Region said sounds so mysterious, who knows if it's true?

Even if one's mental strength is exceptional, there must be a limit, right?

Upon seeing this, Qi Tai's expression immediately changed: "Shut up! Ji Yuyan, are you trying to incite everyone to underestimate us?"

"Dean Qi, I didn't!"

"Whether you have it or not, this is a battle for control of the four star regions. Regardless of the strength of the enemy, we should all take them seriously. Even a lion will use its full strength to hunt a rabbit."

Do you understand?

Qi Tai glanced at everyone with a deep look in his eyes.

"Understood!"

After the numerous participants from the Southern Star Region responded, they all turned their attention to the battle between the Eastern and Western Star Regions.

Inside the battle arena, Chen Lie, empowered by the Heavenly Stems Battle Formation, used the sharpness of the Five Divine True Qi to suppress Tang Xiaowen for thousands of moves.

Looking at the overall battle situation, the Eastern Star Region side held the advantage, with the support of combined martial arts techniques, suppressing the Western Star Region in all aspects.

After Chen Lie and Tang Xiaowen exchanged a palm strike, all the participants from the Western Star Region suddenly retreated a hundred steps at the same time.

"Chen Lie from Blue Star? I've heard of you before!"

Tang Xiaowen looked at Chen Lie and said calmly, "You are a year behind us, yet you possess such strength. Your talent is truly one in a trillion."

We've figured out your combined attack techniques, but you haven't seen ours yet, have you?

"Form ranks!"

Under Tang Xiaowen's orders, the ten people from the Western Star Region formed a five-man formation and simultaneously unleashed two different five-person combined attack techniques.

"Five Great Qi Army Battle Formation, Kill!"

Led by Tang Xiaowen, the five people from the Western Star Region gathered their true energy, and the two major formations supported each other as they attacked the Eastern Star Region.

"Five Luo Qi Soldiers!"

With a wave of his hand, Tang Xiaowen gathered the power of ten people, and a massive handprint of true energy solidified in the air, striking the people from the Eastern Star Region.

It struck down hard.

"Boom boom boom!"

The powerful handprint of true energy descended, and despite the best efforts of the ten people from the Eastern Star Region to resist, their formation was still broken.

The ten people from the Western Star Region, who unleashed their combined attack technique, saw their combat power increase dramatically.

Tang Xiaowen gave his opponent no chance to breathe and launched another attack.

Seeing this, Chen Lie immediately said to Zhu Jingxuan and Ning Fan, who were in the two main positions, "You two maintain your battle formation, I will go and attack their formation."

"Understood!" Ning Fan and Zhu Jingxuan answered in unison.

Chen Lie rushed forward, unleashing his Five Divine True Qi, and launched an attack on the weakest link in the Western Star Region's formation.

"Boom boom boom!"

Countless streams of golden divine energy erupted from Chen Lie's body, all rushing towards the person named Cheng Mengqing in the Western Star Domain.

The Golden God's True Qi was incredibly sharp. Seeing Chen Lie attacking, Cheng Mengqing, unable to retaliate, immediately used her True Qi to defend herself.

However, the Golden God True Qi directly penetrated Cheng Mengqing's protective True Qi, and the powerful force violently impacted Cheng Mengqing's internal organs.

She coughed up a mouthful of blood with a "poof," and under the destruction of the Golden God's True Qi, she completely lost her fighting ability.

With one link in the Western Star Region's combined attack formation broken, the formation's power instantly weakened, which made Zhu Jingxuan and Ning Fan much more relaxed.

Meanwhile, in the Eastern Star Region, due to Guang Hengze's fierce attack, You Mingyue was also seriously injured and unable to maintain her position.

The battle between the East and West star regions suddenly intensified. Within minutes, Mu Yunsheng, Chen Lili, He Zhen, and Zhang Yingxue from both star regions were injured and eliminated one after another.

The combined attack formation of both sides quickly became incomplete.

Tang Xiaowen of the Western Star Region also saw this predicament, and to that he simply uttered two words: "Change formation!"

The original five-person formations of the two major formations in the Western Star Region immediately transformed into a seven-person combined attack formation.

Off the field, Wang Shou said gravely, "The Western Star Region actually prepared a second type of combined attack technique?"

Inside the battlefield, the effects of the super storm intensified, forcing Chen Lie to divert some of his energy to resist the harsh environment of Death Ridge.

In the battle in the middle of the arena, three people from each of the East and West Star Regions were eliminated. The Heavenly Stems Combined Attack Formation of the East Star Region was now incomplete, with less than half of its previous power.

However, the Western Star Region formed a formation of seven people using a combined martial arts technique.

The combined power of seven people attacking together must be multiplied many times over.

Sensing the storm intensifying at Death Ridge, Chen Lie knew that this battle formation would be difficult to deploy.

He immediately said, "The Heavenly Stems Combined Attack Formation must be maintained. All the power should be concentrated on me. You only need to provide the power and do not take the initiative to attack."

"yes!"

Zhu Jingxuan, Zhu Jingxi, Ning Fan, Meng Qingwan, and the others immediately followed Chen Lie's instructions and gathered all their strength at Chen Lie's C formation position.

Chen Lie was the leader, and everyone had to follow his orders on the battlefield; this was decided before we arrived.

By combining the remaining power of the battle formation, Chen Lie's strength instantly doubled.

He took out the Blood River Blade from his storage bag, its blade pointing directly at the seven-man battle formation in the Western Star Region.

At this moment, under Tang Xiaowen's command, the seven-person battle formation of the Western Star Region was fully formed.

"Seven Star Battle Formation, Kill!"

With the added power of their combined martial arts technique, Tang Xiaowen, Guang Hengze, Xuan Minghua, and the other four from the Western Star Region became as one and charged towards Chen Lie.

"Seven Star Sky-Piercing Hand, Annihilate!"

Tang Xiaowen charged ahead, unleashing powerful martial arts techniques.

A single strike combining the power of seven people erupts.

"Boom boom boom!"

Despite the overwhelming force, Chen Lie remained unfazed.

He raised the Blood River Blade, and under the extreme circulation of Chen Lie's true energy, the five elemental gods residing in Chen Lie's five internal organs opened their eyes and breathed in and out the true energy of the five gods.

"Blood Dragon—One Slash to Cleave!"

With the full support of the combined martial arts technique, the power of Chen Lie's blade surged.

A sword aura over two thousand meters long appeared, a blood-red sword aura shaped like a dragon, descending from the sky as if it were about to slice through it.

"Boom boom boom!"

Chen Lie unleashed a powerful slash, imbued with the true energy of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth), which sent the seven members of the Western Star Region, led by Tang Xiaowen, crashing to the edge of the battlefield.

In the center of the battleground at Death Ridge, a two-thousand-meter-long knife mark appeared.