Hearing Bai Zhenzhen’s words, Dai Xingzhi raised an eyebrow and coldly said, “Oh? You think the competition in Immortal Metropolis is easier than in other places?”

“Of course,” Bai Zhenzhen replied matter-of-factly, “Immortal Metropolis has far more university slots each year than any other city, right?”

“If getting into university for us is one in a hundred, then for you, it’s one in ten, or even one in three!”

“If you didn’t allocate quotas by city and let all the students of Kunxu’s First Layer compete directly for slots, you Immortal Metropolis people would have had your slots snatched away long ago!”

Dai Xingzhi chuckled and said, “Naive thinking. Immortal cultivation potential depends on money, and Immortal Metropolis is the wealthiest city in the entire Kunxu First Layer. The resources here far exceed those of your small places. No matter what we compete in, we will inevitably have an absolute advantage!”

A hint of pride of an Immortal Metropolis native rose on Dai Xingzhi’s face as he said, “If the entire First Layer really had a unified admission, every high school student in Immortal Metropolis could get into university, and even snatch all the slots of the Ten Great Academies!”

Bai Zhenzhen scoffed and said, “You’re quite proud, but I don’t think your accent sounds like a native of Immortal Metropolis. You weren’t born in Immortal Metropolis, were you? Or were your father or grandfather also from other places?”

At the same time, some high school students from Immortal Metropolis under the arena revealed a faint smile at the corner of their mouths, but quickly suppressed it. However, there was a hint of surprise in their gazes towards Bai Zhenzhen, as if they hadn’t expected this woman from another place to be able to hear the difference between Dai Xingzhi’s accent and theirs. Hearing the other party call his family ‘outsiders’ and mentioning the so-called accent problem, a flush flashed across Dai Xingzhi’s face as he angrily said, “I was born in Immortal Metropolis! You’re the outsider!”

He flashed, and his entire body shot out with a series of afterimages. The afterimages and his true body were mixed together, attacking Bai Zhenzhen from four directions!

Although Dai Xingzhi’s face was full of anger, his mind was incredibly calm and composed!

“How could I fall for such a simple provocation?”

Ambush, provocation, insult – these basic yet crucial combat skills were something that Dai Xingzhi, as an Immortal Metropolis high school student, had been tested on and had received thorough training in!

He had even learned many specialized courses like “How to Discriminate Against Outsiders” and “Three Sentences to Make Outsiders Lose Their Cool,” mastering many techniques to specifically target outsiders and gain an advantage in battle!

After all, Immortal Metropolis natives had a natural advantage in enraging outsiders. In Dai Xingzhi’s view, it was an invaluable talent that must be mastered!

Therefore, after Bai Zhenzhen had only spoken a few sentences, Dai Xingzhi understood her strategy!

“Trying to anger me?”

“Then I’ll pretend to be angered by you!”

Dai Xingzhi flashed, striking out a palm towards Bai Zhenzhen’s head.

At this moment, he looked flushed, with anger in his eyes, appearing as if he had been driven to a rage. The palm technique he used seemed full of openings!

However, Dai Xingzhi’s mind was incredibly clear. His palm, seemingly filled with anger, contained little mana. All his strength was accumulated within his body, waiting for the true explosion. He was absolutely confident that as long as Bai Zhenzhen attacked the deliberate openings in his palm technique, she would be severely injured by his follow-up move!

At the same time, his legs were secretly gathering strength. If anything went wrong, he would retreat at full speed, always keeping a backup plan to avoid getting hurt. This was the ideology that had been passed down through generations, allowing them to gain a foothold in Immortal Metropolis!

To Dai Xingzhi’s astonishment, Bai Zhenzhen slightly tilted her head and used her shoulder to take his palm directly, completely disrupting his subsequent attacks!

In that moment of slight shock, Dai Xingzhi saw the desperate determination in Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes!

From the moment she stepped onto the arena, Bai Zhenzhen had been observing Dai Xingzhi, observing his movements, his fighting style, and his temperament. Because like Dai Xingzhi, Bai Zhenzhen was also aware that the other party was the biggest opponent in this competition for the top two!

And through constant observation, Bai Zhenzhen realized that the opponent was…

Naturally cautious, highly skilled in lightness techniques and footwork, with a speed that was not inferior to her own!

“After all, he is a senior from Immortal Metropolis!”

“Not only is his physical strength above mine, but besides the Myriad Swords Without End Art, he probably knows more powerful techniques than I do. If I fought him with all my strength, my chances of winning…”

“Are only thirty to forty percent!”

“I must target his weaknesses and drag the battlefield into my area of expertise!”

“This guy is so cautious and so good at avoiding injury, which means he probably isn’t good at fighting desperately!”

Bai Zhenzhen was very clear that for her, the 1 million in medical insurance was already too much, but for a rich young master like the Immortal Metropolis native, the amount of 1 million was too little, even making them feel insecure!

Moreover, these rich people were reluctant to risk their lives, unlike poor wretches like her who often had to risk their lives to earn things that the rich could easily obtain!

Therefore, she deliberately provoked the other party and deliberately took the other party’s moves head-on, hoping to find an opportunity for close combat and a desperate fight, but she didn’t expect the other party to be even more cautious than she imagined. That seemingly angry palm strike was actually a feint!

But it didn’t matter!

At this moment, with their eyes meeting face to face, Bai Zhenzhen’s eyes, filled with burning fighting spirit and lightning, had only one goal!

To use the strongest, fastest, and most vicious strike possible, betting all her strength on one sword strike, to see whether the other party would run out of medical insurance first, or she would!

Since ascending the arena, Bai Zhenzhen had been accumulating mana with the expert-level Breathing Technique: Surging Tide Nine Revolutions!

This Surging Tide Nine Revolutions emphasized continuous generation. After nine revolutions of mana, it could attract even more mana. It was a technique where the longer you breathed, the stronger the effect!

Her Surging Tide Nine Revolutions had performed miraculous feats in her last Foundation Establishment exam. At this moment, after nine revolutions of mana, it burst open like a spring stretched to its limit!

And a series of techniques evolved by the True Spirit Root also erupted at the same time!

In the past few months, Bai Zhenzhen had used her True Spirit Root to evolve almost all the techniques she had mastered, giving them a stronger and more suitable Level 10 effect!

And these Level 10 effects were all related to speed!

Bai Zhenzhen believed that even if her techniques were not as expensive as the other party’s, after repeated evolutions, they were definitely the most suitable for her cultivation and combat style!

At this moment, Lightning Step was fully activated. Traces of thunderous mana ran through her nerves, muscles, and meridians, and under the Level 10 evolution effect, they frantically accelerated the speed of Bai Zhenzhen’s sword!

The expert-level combat technique, Formless Sword Art, allowed her sword intent to stir the air even before the sword was drawn, forming electric fields that reduced the air resistance she would face next!

Even the Frost Soul Ice Heart Art, under the pressure of this desperate battle and the fear of failure, made Bai Zhenzhen’s mind extremely calm, and her body’s mana and muscles were extremely active!

And the thunderous mana running through her body continued to accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate everything.

On the other side, although Dai Xingzhi was stunned for a moment, he quickly reacted to Bai Zhenzhen’s astonishing fighting spirit and the momentum of her sword!

He brought up a storm of wind with one foot, and his right leg seemed to disappear at this moment, leaving only surging force hurtling towards Bai Zhenzhen’s dantian!

Both sides were using speed to fight speed, and the confrontation would be completed in an instant!

But in the eyes of the Righteous Gods around them, this instant could be very, very slow in their observation, slow enough for them to see Dai Xingzhi’s hideous face, Bai Zhenzhen’s hair standing on end from the stimulation of thunderous mana, the flashing of electricity and wind in the air. Even in this instant, the Righteous Gods could complete various communications within the inner network!

Huang Zichou looked at this scene and exclaimed, “I didn’t expect that two people with such speed would decide the winner with one move! I thought they would rely on their respective speeds to engage in a prolonged battle for ten minutes!”

Another Righteous God looked at the two sides fighting in this instant and analyzed, “In this moment of close combat, facing the enemy’s full-strength attack, what is tested is everyone’s most genuine reaction!”

Huang Zichou’s gaze swept over the sword finger stabbed out by Bai Zhenzhen, and the Body Piercing Sword Qi containing thunderous mana. He could feel that this sword was unreserved, and felt the courage within it, born of facing death and betting everything!

Then he looked at Dai Xingzhi on the other side, looking at the storm of wind he had stirred up with his leg, and the muscles that had completely exploded!

But…

Huang Zichou said, “Although Dai Xingzhi also used all his strength, but… perhaps because of habits formed over time, perhaps because of an instinctive aversion to injury, perhaps it was a subconscious reservation!”

“The accumulation of these bits and pieces in the past ultimately led him to subconsciously reserve some strength at this moment, in this most genuine reaction, and not truly give his all!”

Just when the Righteous Gods were communicating at ultra-high speed on the internal network!

The wind surged, and lightning flashed. Bai Zhenzhen and Dai Xingzhi had all completed their attacks!

With a loud bang, Bai Zhenzhen flew out, spitting out a mouthful of blood into the air, mixed with fragments of her internal organs!

But Dai Xingzhi on the other side was clutching a large hole in his chest, watching the wound heal under the power of divinity!

At the same time, the amount of medical insurance above Dai Xingzhi and Bai Zhenzhen’s heads began to decline sharply, and in the blink of an eye, they had both been reduced to zero!