Yu Hongyuan exclaimed, “Senior Sister, so many people are sending you gifts!”
Li Yang: “?”
The students from the Agricultural Sciences Department all lowered their heads simultaneously to look at their phones, which were showing the livestream status.
Li Yang’s gift value was skyrocketing, quickly surpassing Lin Zhaoxia, who had previously been in first place.
Yu Hongyuan quickly understood what was going on and said, “It’s the students from the Mental Ability Department!”
Li Yang was confused.
“Why are they sending me gifts?”
Xia Putao laughed and said, “You guys really don’t know, huh…”
Lu Shunshun also leaned over to watch the stream and clicked his tongue in amazement.
“These rich folks have finally found somewhere to spend their money.”
Xia Putao began explaining, “The Mental Ability Department has tons of bigshots, but because they specialize in mental powers in the early stages, their combat abilities are weak. So in school, they can’t compete with the Star Combat and Star Magic departments. But… they’re really rich, with deep pockets. Among the nine supreme guardians in the Star Realm… their Mental Ability founder is one who trained three Supremes!”
After Xia Putao’s thorough breakdown, Li Yang and Yu Hongyuan finally understood the situation.
Simply put, their own department couldn’t win, but a lot of people who can train in mental powers aren’t short on cash.
So—early on—they had nowhere to spend money, and decided to shower Li Yang with it instead.
Otherwise, how would they get through it?
Looking at the rapidly increasing gift value and calculating her share of the revenue, Li Yang sighed, “Mental Ability folks… what nice people!”
Lin Zhaoxia and Zhong Qian were already on stage, so everyone put away their phones and focused on the upcoming match.
Especially Li Yang—she concentrated all her mental energy and watched the stage with intense focus.
This was important.
She needed to not only study Lin Zhaoxia’s moves, but also learn as much as possible about Zhong Qian.
Both of them were her opponents, and defeating them wouldn’t be easy.
“3, 2, 1…”
After the countdown ended, Zhong Qian and Lin Zhaoxia charged at each other.
Star Combat duels were incredibly entertaining to watch.
Especially since the two were evenly matched in all aspects, the fight was breathtaking.
Zhong Qian’s star weapon was impressive too.
Though the heavy sword only glowed with blue star energy, its actual quality was surely beyond blue—likely a growth-type star weapon.
Zhong Qian’s moves were wide and powerful, his heavy sword swung with full force.
Lin Zhaoxia wasn’t as strong, but she was incredibly agile—she dodged with a swift sidestep and countered with a strike.
Though Zhong Qian seemed slower, his defenses were always timely, able to block Lin Zhaoxia’s attacks steadily.
And since their star weapons were of similar quality, the energy consumption was about the same on both sides.
“So strong.”
At some point, Zhong Kun had sneaked over to Li Yang and said, “Isn’t my brother super cool?”
Li Yang paused and said, “If he gave me 1,000 merit points, then he’d be cool.”
Zhong Kun bragged, “You’re not even his sister.”
Then he rolled his eyes and said to Li Yang, “Yangzi, I’ll give you 1,000 merit points—how about you lose to my brother?”
(The four in the Agricultural Sciences group gasped.)
Zhong Kun said, “I don’t think my brother would lose to you anyway, but… cough, mainly I’ve got money to burn.”
Li Yang replied with a deadpan face, sounding righteously indignant but actually trying to suppress pain, “Kunzi, do I seem like the kind of person who would break rules for money? I always act with a clear conscience.”
Zhong Kun: “…Last time you said you had a clear conscience, then charged me 50,000 yuan.”
Li Yang remembered that and cleared her throat.
“This time it’s true.”
Zhong Kun: “So last time was a lie, huh?”
Li Yang didn’t want to argue.
“Even if it’s ten thousand merit points, I won’t throw a match for anyone.”
The fight on stage was heating up.
Both had used up the star energy from three star apertures, and both were injured.
As long as the injuries were treatable, Professor Xu wouldn’t call a stop.
Zhong Qian’s heavy sword grazed Lin Zhaoxia’s arm, leaving a long trail of blood.
Lin Zhaoxia’s twin blades struck at Zhong Qian’s waist; he retreated quickly but still received a bleeding wound.
The new students in the audience were gasping.
“Damn, that was close!”
“So dangerous! And they’re not stopping the fight?!”
“Whoa, I didn’t expect such a close match to end with such heavy injuries!”
They knew each other’s strengths and weaknesses well, so they were suppressing one another, trying not to let the other land a killing blow.
Eventually, a victor had to emerge.
Both were nearly drained of star energy.
Lin Zhaoxia’s stamina was clearly more depleted.
Her entire outfit was soaked—some with sweat, some with blood—but her black eyes were shining like stars, brighter than before.
Zhong Qian wasn’t doing much better.
His black clothes were also soaked with blood, but the hand holding the heavy sword remained steady, showing no weakness.
“Judging by this pace, Lin Zhaoxia’s in trouble,” Feng Yiqiao analyzed.
Xia Putao said, “Once they run out of star energy, it’s all about stamina. Zhong Qian clearly has more of it…”
Zhong Kun was actually very nervous, but couldn’t help bragging, “My brother’s definitely winning! He’ll be first in the monthly exam!”
Just as he shouted that, the tide turned on stage.
Even though Lin Zhaoxia was exhausted, she suddenly erupted with an even more intense red glow.
Her “Fervor” ability had been massively amplified due to excessive blood loss!
The freshmen didn’t understand, but the upperclassmen were exclaiming on the livestream barrage:
“Holy crap! Even blue-grade ‘Fervor’ can do this?!”
“Damn, it’s not about quality—I’ve upgraded mine to purple and still can’t pull that off!”
“Lin Zhaoxia is hardcore. A bunch of those wounds were deliberate—just to boost the ‘Fervor’ effect.”
Just as both were on the brink of collapse, Lin Zhaoxia’s “Fervor” effect doubled.
With the explosion of incredible speed, even Zhong Qian—despite his usual solid defense—couldn’t keep up.
She quickly cast “Spacebreaker,” finally triggering the final “Execution” effect.
Professor Xu called out in time, “Stop!”
“Lin Zhaoxia wins!”
The match had been too extreme—both were about to collapse.
Medics rushed onto the stage to speed up their treatment.
Zhong Kun was dumbfounded. It took him a moment to find his voice.
“My brother…”
Yu Hongyuan muttered under his breath, “What a jinx.”
Zhong Kun: “…”
Because the match was so intense, the intermission lasted longer than usual.
But Li Yang didn’t rest—she kept replaying the footage Yu Hongyuan recorded, watching it over and over.
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It’s difficult.
The more she watched, the clearer it became to her how hard it was to trigger Lin Zhaoxia’s doubled “Frenzy” effect.
Even if Li Yang raised the blue “Frenzy” to the third level, the chances of triggering this effect were still slim.
This was a “technique.”
To trigger it successfully, one needed to sustain injuries, manage one’s health points carefully, and also suppress the state of “Frenzy”…However, Li Yang was thinking about how to prevent Lin Zhaoxia from triggering the doubled “Frenzy.”
Zhong Qian was heavily injured, but the teachers from the Star Support System were very skilled and restored him to his previous state in no time.
As the second round was about to begin, Zhong Kun grabbed Li Yang’s arm and looked at her pitifully:
“Yangzi, can we go ‘ask my conscience’ one more time?”
Li Yang, of course, understood his hint and replied, “Next time, definitely.”
Zhong Kun immediately howled in disappointment.
Yu Hongyuan snorted, “Your brother hasn’t even lost yet, stop crying.”
Zhong Kun was angry: “My brother won’t lose again!”
If Zhong Qian didn’t lose, didn’t that mean Li Yang would lose?
Yu Hongyuan was also angry: “My senior sister will never lose!”
Feng Yiqiao and his team were speechless: “Ah, youth is so great, so full of energy.”
Compared to his younger brother’s crying, Zhong Qian’s mindset was very steady.
He had lost the first match, but his expression remained cold and composed.
Even when he looked at Li Yang, his black eyes burned with intense fighting spirit.
“We meet again.”
“Mm.”
“This time, I won’t lose.”
“I won’t either.”
A brief exchange of words, but the tension was already palpable.
The senior students in the live broadcast chat were curious:
“Do these two have a past?”
“They’re both from Donghua Province!”
“Oh, oh, oh! Li Yang stole Zhong Qian’s top position in Donghua Province.”
“Is that a Star Law major talking? How can you say that? The top position in Donghua Province should have gone to Li Yang!”
“I’m not a Star Law major, I’m from Star Battle.”
“Oh, so you’re the big fool from Star Battle.”
“…”
Even Star Law students couldn’t argue back against the Spirit System, and the Star Battle students were even worse.
They were more used to fighting than talking, but when it came to fighting the Spirit System… there weren’t many legitimate chances to do so, so they ended up just repeating, “Spirit System! Weaklings!”
The students from the Spirit System couldn’t even be bothered to argue with them anymore.
It was more fun to mock Star Law students.
But unfortunately, no one from Star Law made it into the top three, so they stopped speaking.
In the chat, the new students began discussing how likely Li Yang was to win this round.
“Zhong Qian already lost once, he definitely won’t make it to first place. He’s probably just going to slack off now!”
“Yeah, if he’s not in first, second place isn’t worth much either.”
“Wait a second… what if Lin Zhaoxia beats Zhong Qian, and Zhong Qian beats Li Yang, but Li Yang beats Lin Zhaoxia… How do we rank them then?”
“Add a match! It’s not like it’s never happened before.”
“I found it! In the 290th session, there was a tiebreaker, and the three of them played six rounds before deciding the winner.”
“Never mind, I’m waiting for dinner. Please, Li Yang, do your best and just win two rounds.”
The students from Star Battle couldn’t sit still, and said, “First and second place are ours! Li Yang can only be third!”
“Zhong Qian is in peak condition right now. Our strong combos are just starting to show their power!”
“I bet Li Yang will be off the stage in five minutes!”
“I bet three minutes!”
“Seriously?” Some Spirit System students, who were just enjoying the show, replied, “Let’s bet with gifts. If Li Yang wins, you each give her 5 points worth of contribution as gifts.”
“What if she loses?”
“I’ll give Zhong Qian 5 points.”
“Deal! I’m in!”
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