Ever since she witnessed Yun Jing's power in the first two rounds of the Foundation Establishment Examination, and understood the gap between herself and him in terms of strength and financial resources, Bai Zhenzhen quickly realized something.
“If I simply improve my strength step by step, even if I try my best, I will only reach a level similar to my opponent's. Then, the probability of winning in a fight will be fifty-fifty.”
“So, if I want to obtain the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate, it is not enough to bury myself in improving my strength.”
“And it’s not like I don’t have any advantages… My advantage is that I was weak enough in the first two rounds, so weak that the opponent wouldn’t even take me seriously.”
From the moment the groups were formed, she had regarded Yun Jing as her greatest opponent, constantly paying attention to him, understanding him, and collecting information.
“I understand his Dharma body, his cultivation techniques, his double-dantian technique… but he doesn’t know much about me.”
This information gap formed because of her weakness was Bai Zhenzhen's advantage.
“If I want to make good use of this information advantage, I must become stronger in a targeted way.”
“My goal is not to surpass my opponent, but to defeat him in the arena.”
“These are actually two different directions.”
It's like, if you want your strength to surpass a high school student from Songyang High School, you need to cultivate diligently day and night.
But to defeat a high school student from Songyang High School, you might only need a muck truck, or put a pirated secret manual in his desk drawer.
It was when she realized this that Bai Zhenzhen began to gradually adjust her cultivation direction.
For example, the choice of new cultivation techniques, the direction of True Spirit Root's derivation of cultivation techniques, and the change of combat style… all began to focus on the arena battle and Yun Jing as the ultimate goal.
Bai Zhenzhen wanted to specialize herself into—the state most suitable for defeating Yun Jing in the arena.
Even if it meant sacrificing the improvement of her strength in other aspects in the process, she would still do it, just to obtain the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate.
At this moment, at the beginning of the third round of the arena battle, after Yun Jing heard Bai Zhenzhen's words, he once again activated the double-dantian within his body, turning his mana into a sea of fire and bombarding Bai Zhenzhen wildly.
Looking at Bai Zhenzhen's appearance of rushing left and right and running around to escape under his bombardment, Yun Jing sneered in his heart: “You say you’ll defeat me with one sword, but first get close to me.”
But Yun Jing quickly realized that something was wrong, because the Bai Zhenzhen in front of him was not trying to get close to him at all, but was splitting open the sea of fire with one sword after another, as if she and those seas of fire were the real enemies.
“What exactly does this woman want to do?”
“No, no matter what she wants to do, I must stop her.”
“I must not fall here, the Yun family is still waiting for me to revitalize it.”
In the loud noise of a sword splitting open a fire dragon, Bai Zhenzhen was covered in scorched marks, but she still continued to meet the next fire dragon without stopping.
One sword… one sword… and another sword… The electric light on Bai Zhenzhen's long sword became more and more dazzling, and the speed of her moves became faster and faster.
It was the effect of the level 10 Myriad Swords Without End technique after being derived by the True Spirit Root, which allowed the sword moves to continuously accelerate under the infusion of thunder mana, each move faster than the last, until it reached its limit at the 15th move, breaking the sound barrier.
In the blink of an eye, she had already performed the 14th move of the Myriad Swords Without End technique.
At this moment, Bai Zhenzhen's aura suddenly changed, and her eyes emitted a sharp light, already fixed on Yun Jing at the other end of the sea of fire.
Then, Bai Zhenzhen activated the martial art she had newly practiced in the past three months—Thunderous Steps Across the Nine Heavens.
In addition to accelerating the body technique with thunder mana, the greatest feature of this technique is that it can leave thunder mana on the ground, forming an electric field within an area, continuously accelerating the practitioner's body technique.
It can be said that the longer this technique is used in continuous combat within a fixed range, the stronger the electric field created, and the stronger the acceleration effect on the practitioner.
After Bai Zhenzhen performed the derivation with the True Spirit Root, she greatly increased the time that this technique could leave thunder mana to form an electric field.
This was the technique she had specially selected, practiced, and derived for the arena battle, which could further enhance her speed advantage in the arena.
And today's best-of-three rules were even more suitable for her than she had expected.
In the second round of the arena battle just now, she wholeheartedly delayed the time, not seeking victory at all, just to leave enough thunder mana on the arena so that the effect of Thunderous Steps Across the Nine Heavens could reach its limit in the third round.
At this moment, one could see streaks of electric light suddenly bursting out from the ground of the arena, turning into an invisible electric field covering the arena.
Bai Zhenzhen felt that this electric field and the thunder mana all over her body were attracting each other, as if circles of springs were tightening behind her, waiting for her to give an order to launch her like an electromagnetic cannon.
“Not enough…”
Bai Zhenzhen knew that she only had one chance with this sword, so she wanted to make this sword the ultimate.
So, she activated another martial art that she had never used in front of Yun Jing—Thunder God's霹雳 Annihilation.
By using the thunderous astral energy refined from mana to reinforce her body, she could increase her speed while withstanding the physical stress of high-speed movement.
The evolved effect of this technique allowed Bai Zhenzhen to unleash all the thunderous mana within her body in one go, delivering a swift sword strike that surpassed her limits.
Whether it was the 'Endless Sword of Myriad,' the 'Thunderous Steps Across Nine Heavens,' or the 'Thunder God's霹雳 Annihilation,' Bai Zhenzhen's selection of techniques and subsequent evolution were all geared toward one goal: to gain an advantage and increase her chances of victory when fighting Yun Jing on the arena.
As the 'Thunder God's霹雳 Annihilation' was activated with full force, Bai Zhenzhen felt the thunderous mana throughout her body surge out without reservation.
Under the operation of the 'Ice Heart of Profound Cold' technique, in this dangerous situation with no room for error, Bai Zhenzhen could feel her flesh, power, and astral energy becoming increasingly vibrant under the technique's enhancement.
Boom!
In the next moment, accelerated by layers of electric fields, Bai Zhenzhen took a step forward, already crashing head-on into the sea of fire, and slashed her sword towards Yun Jing.
The fifteenth sword of the 'Endless Sword of Myriad' was like riding a rocket, emitting a burst of thunder and the sound of colliding air.
The operation of the 'Thunder God's霹雳 Annihilation' further allowed Bai Zhenzhen to pour all the mana from her body into this sword strike.
"Go! Take all my mana and astral energy!"
She roared inwardly, even injecting her protective thunderous astral energy into this sword, all to make it faster, even faster.
Due to the lack of astral energy protection, Bai Zhenzhen's body quickly became a bloody mess under the rapid high pressure, bursting with cracks.
Amidst the booming sounds, Bai Zhenzhen had already surpassed the sound, passing through the sea of fire that was squeezed and shattered by waves of energy, and arrived in front of Yun Jing.
Her sword had been accelerating little by little since the first match today, and at this moment in the third match, the speed of this sword finally reached its limit, surpassing the speed of sound!
Under the full operation of the technique and the extreme concentration of her mind, even though it was a sword that had surpassed the speed of sound, Bai Zhenzhen felt that the whole world seemed to slow down in her eyes.
She watched as the sword in her hand pierced towards Yun Jing's shoulder inch by inch, while the other's eyes were blank, without any reaction.
"As expected, according to my previous estimates, after accelerating to this level, it should be able to exceed the observation limit of Yun Jing's ocular magic artifact..."
Having thoroughly memorized the various parameters of Yun Jing's ocular magic artifact, Bai Zhenzhen knew that the most reliable way to break through this artifact was to accelerate to a point where the opponent couldn't recognize it in time.
"Today's three battles were all to accelerate this sword to this point..."
"No..." Bai Zhenzhen's mind suddenly flashed back to the arduous training of the past year, the repeated life-and-death battles, and the times she had stubbornly withstood the overwhelming pressure.
She even thought of more, recalling the distress of hiding her spiritual roots since childhood, and the diligent study to climb the path of immortality since childhood...
"For this sword, I have accumulated for more than ten years, accelerated for more than ten years, and chased you for more than ten years."
"Now... this sword has finally caught up with you."
Bang!
As the sword collided with Yun Jing, Yun Jing's skin, muscles, and bones shattered layer by layer, a large hole was opened in the upper half of his body, and then he flew out with a bang.
After this all-out sword strike, Bai Zhenzhen's body had also become a bloody mess along with this sword that surpassed the limit and crossed the sound barrier, her muscles and tendons seemed to be tearing apart.
Feeling the envelopment of divine power, Bai Zhenzhen suddenly opened her eyes and said, "Did I... win?"
Huang Zichou looked at Bai Zhenzhen in front of him and nodded, "You won. One of today's four Foundation Establishment qualification certificates belongs to you."
Bai Zhenzhen smiled slightly upon hearing this, thinking, "Yuzi, Mom has taken care of things here, the rest is up to you."
In the next moment, Bai Zhenzhen had completely fainted.
In the audience seats, "Smiling Crying Expression" watched the replays of the three arena matches in their entirety and said, "Interesting."
"Bai Zhenzhen's raw strength is not as strong as Yun Jing's, but her combat talent and combat potential are obviously better."
"Now she also has a Foundation Establishment qualification certificate..."
"Smiling Crying Expression" immediately felt that Bai Zhenzhen was worth investing in and could imagine that many universities were already discussing what admission conditions to give Bai Zhenzhen.
"Oh? Also from Songyang City?"
"Smiling Crying Expression" glanced at the candidate information and smiled slightly, "Also from the same school as Zhang Yu? Then I might as well hire her as well."
"It just so happens that when they go to university, I should be able to finish my work and go back, right?"
This time, even the "Smiling Expression" next to him did not deny this proposal, but said, "Although this Bai Zhenzhen is also a super poor person, since she was able to take the Foundation Establishment exam for the first time and obtain a Foundation Establishment qualification certificate, she is indeed a talent, and she can help you when she goes to university in the future..."
"But don't forget to give her new employee training, set up rules for her, and don't let her bring the habits of a poor person from the first floor in the future..."
At this moment, Zhang Yu and Ye Lingxiao on the other side had already started the final, and many viewers immediately focused their attention on it.
