Chapter 200: Breaking Through The Three Academies (1/2)

About a thousand students from the ten academies were participating in this tournament, and this was only because participation was limited. Otherwise, every single student would have chosen to join.

Astral-3, Astral-7, and Astral-10 had to send students to defend the valley, which left around 700 students from the other academies to charge into the valley. One versus 700 plus students from the Astral Combat Academy: it was a pressure that could only be imagined. But Chilian Daynight’s face remained calm as two-lined battle force appeared all around his body.

It was no surprise for an Area Master to possess two-lined battle force, but in the context of the poisonous seaweed-filled valley, it caused many students to despair.

The dozen of students that were leading the charge ran right into the poisonous seaweed. As soon as they made contact with it, they directly collapsed to the ground, dead. However, despite their near instantaneous death, their bodies gradually vanished from view. All of the competing students wanted to charge straight through the valley, but they first had to face the intense poison of the seaweed forest.

Countless people throughout the universe saw this scene depicted on their screens, and they could all feel the terror of the intense poison.

Nobody knew how the Astral Combat Academy was able to broadcast what was happening in the Lifeseek Realm, but because they were, Chilian Daynight’s name immediately became known by many. He, by himself, was enough to deal with nearly half of all the students here.

In the rearmost area of the valley, Silver leaned against a wall in a relaxed pose with his classic wolfish grin. Lu Yin’s brows furrowed the moment he saw Silver’s grin. He had an odd premonition that this fellow, or perhaps actually the Neohuman Alliance behind him, wanted to mess things up!

Suddenly, the scene in the valley changed once again; a blue aura had covered the skies and frozen the poisonous seaweed. Blue had replaced the green as far as the eye could see.

Liu Xiaoyun’s face shifted; this drastic change was a result of someone forcefully using star energy to simulate ice, to the point where even the color of the sky had changed. A powerhouse had joined the battle.

In the middle of the valley, Chilian Daynight’s face also shifted, and he gritted his teeth as he stared into the distance. “Sha.”

Sha was from Astral-4 and was the Dao of Slaughter’s Ice Domain Area Master. He had also been Silver’s backer when Astral-10 student first entered the Dao of Slaughter.

The previously frozen poisonous seaweed shook as they tried to break free from the layer of ice to reach the students.

The crowd of students did not wait for his attack to land and continued charging toward the back of the valley as quickly as they could.

When Chilian Daynight had acted earlier, he had eliminated almost a hundred students. But now, he was now obstructed by Sha. Even more importantly, a giant beast had suddenly appeared, overshadowing almost half of the valley. It rose into the air, covering the sky and separating Chilian Daynight from the students below him.

Outside the valley, the students watching the battle exclaimed, “It’s Long Ze, the sylvan dragon clan’s powerhouse! He’s one of Astral-4’s Area Masters as well.”

“It looks like Astral-4 is doing their best to help half of the students pass through so that all three academies guarding the gate will be eliminated. It would reduce the number of opponents.”

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To the south of the valley, there was a high peak that stood above all the others. Ten seats had been placed there for the seeded students from the ten academies. The seeds represented the academy leaders, as was tradition. Aside from the first, seventh, and tenth seats, all of the others were filled.

A girl sat in the third seat, her black-and-white long hair undulating in the gentle breeze. Half of her face was covered by her hair, revealing only her purple eyes. She was Astral-3’s leader, the Undying Realm’s Realm Master, Nightqueen Yanqing.

As she watched the scene unfold before them, her purple pupils glanced coldly to one side. “Was this your idea?”

A male was sitting on the fourth seat, not far from Nightqueen Yanqing. He had shocking red hair, a cold expression, and a thin, indistinct red aura emanated from his body. He was Astral-4’s leader, Dao of Slaughter’s Realm Master, Xue Liuyun.

Xue Liuyun did not say anything when he heard Nightqueen Yanqing’s accusation, though a scarlet red glint appeared in his eyes. He was the most detached academy leaders among them.

Nightqueen Yanqing frowned and did not speak further. Even further down along the row of seats, Kuang Wang laughed. “Daynight lady, after so many years, you still don’t understand the old blood, do you? Does he look like the plotting sort? Obviously, someone further down is ignoring him.”

Nightqueen Yanqing snorted. “Humans change. It’s no secret that Astral-4 has always wanted to take my Astral-3’s position, but unfortunately, Astral-7 will go down together with them.”

Xue Liuyun’s eyes widened slightly, and he hoarsely replied, “I will make Long Ze pay, but I’m not familiar with the other person.”

Kuang Wang said, “You mean Sha. He’s a bit of an oddball.”

Nightqueen Yanqing stopped talking, as Xue Liuyun’s meaning was clear. The actions currently taking place went against his instructions. The sylvan dragon was simply too haughty and dared to ignore his Realm Master’s wishes. It really thought that its race had established itself in the human realm, but really, it was only a race that had betrayed the astral beast star expanse and then been forced to settle down in a fiery fringe Flowzone.

In the northernmost area of the valley, the rampant forest of poisonous seaweed finally broke through the ice seal and descended to once again attack all of the charging students. But unfortunately for Chilian Daylight, a good portion of the seaweed was blocked off by Long Ze’s enormous body. The dragon had an enormous body, but it also had extreme speed. Though it was not allowed to attack Chilian Daynight, it could still defend itself.

A moment later, the blue ice seal expanded once more and rose above the dragon to cover the sky and isolate Chilian Daynight from the students.

Nightqueen Yanqing’s face turned ugly as she remarked, “That fool.”

In the middle of the valley, the student from Astral-7 had a solemn expression on his face. He had thought that this stage would be easy to pass, and he had not expected that Chilian Daynight would be targeted. When Astral-4 used its full force, even the power of the Daynight clan was not enough to compete against them.

Dai Ao could hear Chilian Daynight’s furious roar, but it would be very difficult for him to break through the defenses of two Area Masters who were each as strong as himself.

Back on the Nalan family’s spacecraft, Liu Xiaoyun’s face turned ugly as she watched the scene. This sort of incident rarely happened in the past during the first stage of the tournament. The Astral Combat Tournament paid great attention to fairness, and this first stage was only meant to eliminate the students who did not qualify for the next stage of drawing lots. It was very rare for someone to intentionally attempt to knock out the three defending academies, as this would incite conflict between the academy branches. This had occurred in the last tournament because Astral-10 student had been too lousy and burdened the other two. Now, even though Chilian Daynight had acted, more than half of the students had managed to break past him. This was already equal to them half-successfully breaking through the three academies.