Chapter 607: The Battlefield Best Suited for Me

Chapter 607: The Battlefield Most Suited for Me

Zhang Yu intended to drag Kuang Tianqing into his own domain, into a battlefield that belonged solely to him.

And in the process, he had to rally more teammates to join the fray.

Wanfa, Tianjian, Jingang, Xianbing... all of them were within his sights.

Zhang Yu certainly did not expect to drag so many people into a siege against Kuang Tianqing alone.

After all, Kuang Tianqing was no fool, nor were the top scholars from the other academies; they would not easily blunder into such a massive encirclement.

Zhang Yu understood even better that once the powerhouses from his four academies, including Wanfa, gathered together, the experts from Kuang Tianqing's four academies—Tianmo, Hehuan, Youming, and Baigu—would inevitably begin to converge as well.

But this suited his intentions perfectly.

"Among the hundred students in this team battle, Kuang Tianqing possesses the most supreme individual prowess."

"For an opponent with such overwhelmingly powerful individual strength, the more people she faces on the battlefield, the more her individual advantages will be eroded."

"Kuang Tianqing... not only will I drag her into my battlefield, but I will also pull in even more people, weakening her individual advantages as much as possible, step by step... devouring her popularity and traffic."

Yet Zhang Yu knew that to draw more people into his battlefield, his own prestige alone was clearly insufficient. Looking at Dao Qiankun before him, he realized that borrowing the other's prestige would better help him achieve his goals.

Having made up his mind, Zhang Yu continued, "Wen Wuya's long-range sword attacks render him invincible, but after the long-range assault, how to transport and guard the prisoners remains a massive problem."

"They need powerhouses on the front lines to coordinate with them and help secure the captives."

"And you, Senior Brother... are a top-tier powerhouse capable of contending with Kuang Tianqing. The Wanfa academy team under your leadership also boasts the most supreme strength among the ten academy teams, making you their ideal partners."

Dao Qiankun nodded slightly, looking at the junior before him, surprised that the other had laid out parts of his original plans one by one.

He smiled faintly and said, "Go on."

Zhang Yu said, "Besides capturing prisoners on the front lines, guarding them is also the key to this team battle."

"After all, during the team battle, prisoners can be snatched from one another, and even rescued by their teammates."

"To guard the prisoners until the very end of the team battle and truly turn them into points, we need to establish a defensive stronghold capable of holding captives, forging fortresses, setting up grand formations, and constructing defensive works."

"And formations and earthworks are precisely my areas of expertise. If I take charge of these logistics, you and the powerhouses from Tianjian and other academies can reduce the forces needed to guard prisoners, making it easier to venture out and capture as many as possible..."

Dao Qiankun looked at Zhang Yu and said, "Yan Qianji can do this as well. He has experience building his own production lines, has mastered considerable earthwork and formation skills, and moreover... he has already completed most of it."

Upon hearing the mention of earthwork abilities, Zhang Yu's aura suddenly shifted.

He seemed to grow taller in an instant, gazing unyieldingly at Dao Qiankun, and said solemnly, "Senior Brother... just as your overall personal strength and combat prowess rank among the top in this team battle of a hundred people."

"My earthwork abilities are equally among the absolute best of the hundred."

"The earthwork skills required to build factories... I already had them in my freshman year."

As Zhang Yu spoke, as if to corroborate his words, his Military Civil Engineering Certificate and his Civil Engineering Competition Championship Certificate appeared one after another.

All of this seemed to tell Dao Qiankun one thing: I am the civil engineering competition champion among the ten academies; earthworks are my domain, and even if Yan Qianji comes, he must step aside.

Dao Qiankun looked at Zhang Yu and the certificates behind him, smiling slightly as he said, "You speak the truth. This is your domain."

"Then the prisons for holding those captives... shall be left to you."

Hearing these words from Dao Qiankun, Zhang Yu's spirit lifted, knowing this step of his had succeeded, bringing him one step closer to dragging Kuang Tianqing completely into his battlefield.

At the same time, scenes of battle flashed through Dao Qiankun's eyes.

Just as he had been talking with Zhang Yu, he was simultaneously watching the combat videos recorded by Zhang Yu.

And as he watched, Dao Qiankun couldn't help but think, "In this battle, apart from Kuang Tianqing, Zhang Yu is the second person who constantly altered the rhythm of the battlefield."

"Although his strength is not formidable, he indeed had an impact on Kuang Tianqing."

Especially when Dao Qiankun saw the final exchange of words between Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing, a flash of light seemed to gleam in his eyes.

Dao Qiankun mused inwardly, "Capture Zhang Yu within three days?"

Dao Qiankun understood that under the gaze of so many livestream viewers, having spoken those words, Kuang Tianqing had to make it happen.

Especially with the unprecedented hype surrounding this edition of the Top Ten League, if Kuang Tianqing failed to deliver, it would affect not only her personal brand value but even Tianmo University.

"Kuang Tianqing has set her sights on Zhang Yu."

"Once Zhang Yu goes out to fight, he is highly likely to face an ambush from Kuang Tianqing."

"Then leaving Zhang Yu here to play in the mud is the best arrangement."

"With heavy defenses set up in advance, once I detect Kuang Tianqing's intrusion, I can rush back as quickly as possible and fight her with the advantage of terrain."

"This is the battlefield most suited for my clash with Kuang Tianqing."

"Luring her here will increase my chances of victory."

At this moment, in Dao Qiankun's eyes, Zhang Yu was the perfect bait to lure Kuang Tianqing.

Thus, following this, Dao Qiankun, along with Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, contacted Wen Wuya, and after a round of negotiations, the two sides finalized a cooperation agreement.

During this process, Bai Zhenzhen looked at Dao Qiankun and asked, "Can I follow you out to fight?"

Bai Zhenzhen wanted to continue refining her swordsmanship in battle; she wanted to catch up to Kuang Tianqing's level, and her Divine Spirit Root was indeed the most suited to progress through combat.

But Bai Zhenzhen also knew that she too had been targeted by Kuang Tianqing, and charging out blindly would easily leave her vulnerable to an ambush.

Therefore, following Dao Qiankun out to battle seemed to be the best choice.

"Dao Qiankun is also the most supreme powerhouse on this current battlefield; by his side... might just be the battlefield most suited for me right now."

For Dao Qiankun, who was already planning to cooperate with Tianjian, this was naturally no problem at all.

And after reaching a cooperation agreement with Tianjian, Dao Qiankun used his contact list to pull in Zang Shenyu, the first rank of Jingang University, and Tiansheng Gong, the first rank of Xianbing University, to begin discussing the four-academy collaboration.

Watching Dao Qiankun's every move from the side, Zhang Yu secretly compared the differences between Dao Qiankun and Kuang Tianqing in his heart.

For Zhang Yu, who harbored the ambition to claim first place in the Top Ten League, besides Kuang Tianqing, Dao Qiankun before him might also become his rival in the future.

"Compared to Kuang Tianqing's lone-wolf ways and unscrupulous methods..."

"Dao Qiankun gives me the impression that he prefers to leverage his personal strength to shift massive momentum, using an overwhelming tide of power to achieve his goals."

And just before the meeting concluded, as Zhang Yu was leaving, his gaze swept over Dao Qiankun's back, and he suddenly thought of another matter.

"A powerhouse like Dao Qiankun should also possess a Dao Seed, shouldn't he?"

But Zhang Yu only pondered it for a moment; for him, having just begun to interact with Dao Qiankun, the matter of the Dao Seed was still premature.

Next, Zhang Yu found Yan Qianji and began taking over the work of constructing the stronghold.

Yan Qianji cooperated fully, for he had never been interested in such construction work, and in his view, these tasks were unlikely to shine in the team battle.

Compared to doing this hard, thankless labor behind the scenes, Yan Qianji preferred to suppress his opponents on the front lines and snatch captives; only then could he assert his presence, gain more traffic and popularity, and achieve higher immortal potential.

After taking over Yan Qianji's work, Zhang Yu found that the other had already laid an excellent foundation, mined quite a few surrounding mineral veins, and prepared a good amount of building materials.

However, in Zhang Yu's eyes, the other's scale of construction was still a bit too small.

"We need to draw in spiritual veins, build denser and larger-scale defensive works, and set up more powerful grand formations."

"And to achieve all this, the very first step is... materials."

As Zhang Yu pondered, a streak of fiery light shot into the sky; under his control, the Heavenly Sun Radiant God flew toward the mineral veins, beginning to refine the ores and metals.

At the same time, Zhang Yu's Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power suddenly erupted, and large swathes of building materials before him were snatched over through the air.

In Zhang Yu's mind surfaced the temporary puppet he had designed during the design competition trials, combining the essence of Heavenly Craftsmanship and the Spiritual Resonance of Artifacts.

"As long as a single master automaton is forged for these puppets, it can continuously devour materials, reproduce itself, and gather even more resources."

"It is perfectly suited for the current team tournament, specifically for plundering the resources of the floating continent."

While one strand of his consciousness forged a temporary master automaton, another of Zhang Yu's thoughts unleashed the Earth Fiend's gravitational pull, probing deep into the earth beneath his feet.

Zhang Yu mused inwardly, "I recall the floating continent possesses a complete environment, complete with artificially cultivated spiritual veins..."

In the next instant, his eyes flashed with sudden brilliance, and he abruptly roared, "Spiritual veins! Come to me!"

A deafening roar erupted like an earthquake, and the very earth beneath Zhang Yu's feet began to tremble and quake violently.

In the time that followed, Zhang Yu devoted himself wholeheartedly to the construction of the prison.

Mountain peaks were leveled, spiritual veins were drawn in one after another, defensive towers rose from the ground, and vast swarms of puppets of myriad shapes began to spread across the mountains and plains...

Yet just as Zhang Yu threw himself fully into construction and production, the academies of Myriad Arts, Heavenly Sword, Vajra, and Immortal Armaments gradually forged an alliance.

Under the guidance of Dao Qiankun, the other three academies agreed to send all their captives over, to be guarded jointly by the four schools.

Furthermore, during every shift, it was guaranteed that at least one first-ranked disciple of the entire academy stood guard at the prison.

(End of Chapter)