Just as Zhang Yu was silently conserving his strength and energy, a collective gasp erupted from the arena.

In the livestreaming room, Gang Shan watched the number “10,000 kilograms” appear on the sky pillar, exclaiming in surprise, “Challenging such a heavy weight in the second round?”

Bearing witness to this spectacle, Xiong Wenwu slowly ascended the stage, his eyes fixed on the descending sky pillar, as if gazing upon the heavens themselves collapsing upon him.

In the next instant, his bear-paw-like hands slammed fiercely against the plummeting pillar.

With a resounding boom, Xiong Wenwu’s muscles tensed, veins bulging, and blood trickling from his clenched teeth.

Despite his Herculean effort, the sky pillar continued its descent, poised to crush him utterly.

Yet, in the next moment, a savage roar ripped from Xiong Wenwu’s throat, a sound akin to a dragon’s bellow, sending shivers down the spines of countless students and spectators.

Simultaneously, a cloud of blood mist erupted from Xiong Wenwu’s body.

Black dragon scales, strained to their limit, cracked open, revealing crimson gashes.

His flesh and scales, unable to withstand the overwhelming force, had been ripped apart by his engorged muscles.

As the blood mist billowed around Xiong Wenwu, the descending sky pillar faltered, momentarily suspended. With another earth-shattering roar, he managed to push it upwards by a fraction.

The 10,000-kilogram challenge was a success.

Below, Hu Yuntao roared like a tiger, leading the Red Pagoda supporters in a chorus of cheers.

Gang Shan said in surprise: “He is betting everything on the second round! His muscles must be severely strained. With such severe injuries, he certainly won’t be able to participate in the next round.”

“However, with a score of 10,000 kilograms, apart from Yu Xinghan, no one else present has a chance to surpass it. Now, we’ll have to see if Yu Xinghan will risk it all in the next round.”

Le Jingchen watched Xiong Wenwu descend from the stage, only to realize that the situation was not as simple.

His injuries…were rapidly healing.

He mused, “Does the Black Dragon bloodline grant them such extraordinary resilience? And…”

Watching the medical team rush towards Xiong Wenwu, Le Jingchen speculated that he might reappear in the third round.

Le Jingchen lamented, “Xiong Wenwu’s score of 10,000 kilograms will definitely spur the other contestants. The next round will be exhilarating.”

As the second round concluded, the contestants began submitting their target weights for the final round.

The staff member, while recording the numbers, thought to himself, “Are they being provoked by Xiong Wenwu’s desperate effort? They are all willing to fight tooth and nail….”

Suddenly, his gaze froze. He looked up at Zhang Yu before him, asking, “Are you sure about this number?”

After confirming multiple times, the staff member reluctantly registered Zhang Yu’s target weight, a question lingering in his mind: “Has he gone mad?”

Meanwhile, at the White Dragon High School’s resting area.

Yu Xinghan, about to submit his own target weight…was stopped.

Yu Xinghan said to Li Xuelian on the other end of the phone, “Senior Sister, why are you stopping me? You know my strength, there’s absolutely no problem with this weight.”

Li Xuelian said calmly, “But you will be injured if you overload yourself.”

“Xinghan, your body is strong, but it also means that repairing your body is expensive.”

“I don’t want to waste Father’s money on medical expenses.”

Yu Xinghan said, “What about the contract? If Xiong Wenwu surpasses me in the next round, I can only get second place.”

Li Xuelian said calmly, “Even if you get second place in this round, the total score will still be first. You are still the champion of this sports competition.”

“Don’t waste money for some insignificant ranking.”

Yu Xinghan still felt a sense of frustration.

Especially when he thought that his strength was clearly stronger than that Xiong Wenwu, but he couldn’t just explode and crush the other party in one go. On the contrary, he might have to let the other party take the first place in the final round… he felt that the ‘Heavenly Martial Heart Refining Technique’ running in his mind was not as smooth as before.

Seeming to sense Yu Xinghan’s dissatisfaction, Li Xuelian continued to warn, “Xinghan, understand that your body no longer belongs to you. Everything you have belongs to Father. You have no right to waste assets and money that don’t belong to you.”

“This is also Father’s intention.”

After Li Xuelian ended the call, she thought to herself, “The long-term Heavenly Martial Heart Refining Technique has made his thinking a bit rigid. It’s a good opportunity to suppress him, which can also be regarded as paving the way for the next mental cultivation technique.”

As for the competition ranking, Li Xuelian had no worries.

On the other side, after Yu Xinghan hung up the phone, he clenched his fist and shattered the phone with a bang. He exuded a cold aura, making the surrounding high school students dare not approach him.

After a long time, under the repeated urging of the staff, he walked over with a frosty face and began to report his target weight for the final round.

As the final round of the sky pillar began, each contestant, after ascending the stage, was no longer as conservative as in the previous round. Instead, they all went all out and began to challenge their limits.

So, some succeeded, some failed, and some were injured.

Gang Shan said: “Everyone is going all out in this round. The specific numbers of the target weights are also very interesting. I think the contestants who can set this target weight more precisely should have a more thorough understanding of their own extreme strength.”

Le Jingchen nodded and said, “Theoretically speaking, the more you understand your own body and state, the more accurate the weight you set.”

When Bai Zhenzhen took the stage, the number displayed on the sky pillar was 8,050 kilograms.

As the huge pressure came from the palm of her hand, the scars on Bai Zhenzhen’s body turned crimson again, like dragon claws slowly tightening around her body.

Seemingly stimulated by the speed race, Bai Zhenzhen’s scars became even more crimson, emitting a light like rubies.

When Bai Zhenzhen lifted the sky pillar in a roar, several scars finally cracked, staining her body with blood.

Bai Zhenzhen groaned in pain and roared inwardly, “Damn it…hold on! I want to get into the top 10!”

After persevering for 5 seconds, Bai Zhenzhen put down her hands that were supporting the sky pillar and walked off the platform covered in blood.

Wang Hai immediately ran over and sighed helplessly, “You know your situation, why didn’t you report a lower weight?”

Bai Zhenzhen smiled slightly without saying a word, but thought to herself, “Last martial arts competition, I didn’t have the money or confidence to fight to the end.”

“This time, Yu Zi won the championship and helped me reimburse the medical expenses, and I can finally let go a little bit.”

Thinking of this, Bai Zhenzhen looked at Zhang Yu, who was still immersed in his own world, oblivious to everything outside, and thought to herself, “Very good, Yu Zi, keep it up. My injuries depend on you to reimburse the medical expenses.”

Just then, Bai Zhenzhen felt a heat wave coming towards her. She saw Le Mulan passing by and about to take the stage, her whole body emitting billowing heat, as if she was about to be cooked.

Bai Zhenzhen secretly complained in her heart, “How much medicine did this thing eat? Is she trying to become a furnace for elixirs?”

Le Mulan recalled the process of taking the medicine just now.

The competition coach said worriedly from the side: “Even if it’s Chairman Le Jingchen’s request, is this amount too dangerous?”

Le Mulan said indifferently: “Give it to me.”

She said slowly to the advertisement camera on the side: “For other students, this level is just to challenge their own limits of strength, but for me who has undergone super metabolic surgery, this level can also be used to challenge my own limits of drug intake.”

After showing the medicines one by one, Le Mulan pushed them into her body one by one. After a while, she only felt her heart beating violently, and her face turned red in an instant.

“My target weight is 9,000 kilograms, which is a score that only strength-type players can achieve, but now I…can do it!”

On the stage, after Le Mulan supported the 9,000-kilogram sky pillar for 5 seconds while trembling all over, she suddenly fell to her knees. She felt her leg bones breaking.

But facing the countless cameras and the numerous publicity campaigns that followed, she knew that she could not show weakness, because this was her responsibility and duty as an important member of the family’s key cultivation program.

As Le Mulan successfully achieved 9,000 kilograms, Song Hailong supported a weight of 9,300 kilograms, Hu Yuntao supported 9,800 kilograms with his body covered in blood, and Yu Xinghan broke through 10,001 kilograms, becoming the second player in the audience to successfully challenge the 10,000-kilogram sky pillar.

Then, under the spotlight, Xiong Wenwu, with traces of blood still on his body, slowly took the stage.

Just as everyone was looking forward to Xiong Wenwu’s performance, Wang Hai noticed something strange.

“Where is Zhang Yu? Why hasn’t he come on stage yet?”

“Could it be that he is behind Xiong Wenwu?”

“How many kilograms did he report?”

At the same time, Xiong Wenwu looked up at the slowly descending sky pillar again, feeling the dark pillar gradually blocking his vision, as if the sky had collapsed.

And he has experienced this feeling of the sky collapsing countless times since he was a child.

Every selection in the breeding base, every time a companion was eliminated, every exam after entering high school…every time was so nervous, so scared, and made him feel so helpless.

Just like at this moment, when he tried to prop up his palms and wanted to withstand the pressure falling from the sky.

He could only feel the weight of 10,800 kilograms continuing to press down with an unstoppable force, pressing him to lower his head, bend his back, and press him to kneel on the ground.

The referee on the side asked: “Xiong Wenwu, do you want to continue?”

Xiong Wenwu did not hear what the referee said. His mind only echoed the order issued by his father.

“10,800 kilograms, you should be able to do this, right? Shouldn’t the strength stage be your forte? If you can’t even do this, who will come to buy the new technology launched by Red Pagoda this time?”

“Injured?”

“If you don’t get injured, how can you show the healing ability of the new technology?”

“Getting injured is a good thing. The more severe the injury, the more you can show your recovery ability.”

At this moment, Xiong Wenwu’s muscles were getting tighter and tighter, his teeth were about to be crushed, and his heart was beating violently like a car engine.

I can!

I can do it, Father!

The current me is no longer the 33456 who could only accept fate and watch the sky fall.

The current me has read books, has practiced immortal cultivation, is a high school student! I am a proud son of heaven who will go to university!

The current me…can hold up the sky!

With the bursting of muscles in both arms, Xiong Wenwu suddenly held up the descending sky pillar.

Then, as his huge body stood up with a bang, the sky pillar was pushed back by a meter.

With the breaking of muscles, the rupturing of bones, a trail of blood also burst from Xiong Wenwu’s body, and a trace of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth came from the internal organs.

And the next 5 seconds made him feel as long as his past life.

When Xiong Wenwu reacted, he had already fallen on the stage.

Looking at Hu Yuntao rushing in front of him, Xiong Wenwu murmured: “Did I…succeed?”

Hu Yuntao nodded repeatedly and said excitedly: “Brother! You succeeded! With your publicity this time, the Black Dragon bloodline technology will definitely sell well!”

At the same time, the camera immediately followed up and began to record the entire process of Xiong Wenwu’s injury recovery.

Hu Yuntao encouraged from the side: “Brother! Be sure to persevere and don’t faint! There are still advertising slogans that haven’t been said yet…”

While Xiong Wenwu was being carried down, the Red Pagoda people excitedly called out the name of the first place, and many students and spectators lamented Xiong Wenwu’s achievements.

The sky pillar on the stage vibrated slightly and displayed a number.

12,531 kilograms.

Everyone then realized that there were still experts!