Chapter 636: Battle of the Fine Tickets

Chapter 636: The Battle of Fines

Black clouds churned across the sky, accompanied by flashes of lightning and rolls of thunder.

Beneath the dark clouds, torrential floods surged while a blazing sun ascended.

A man and a dragon clashed fiercely amidst the howling storm, where thunder and fire intertwined.

As Zhang Yu and Ying Mingchi fought, the audience watching the battle steadily grew.

A glance into the Spirit Realm would reveal that within the spiritual spaces gathered by various demon descendants, people were ceaselessly promoting the duel between Ying Mingchi and Zhang Yu.

"That Zhang Yu who insulted the demon descendants is about to get beaten!"

"Ying Mingchi, the top student of Heavenly Demon University, is giving Zhang Yu a brutal lesson."

"The demon-descendant discriminator gets punched hard and humiliated like crazy."

"Ying Mingchi is going to ruthlessly skewer Zhang Yu! He'll make this scum bear demon seeds!"

Under such promotion, the battle, already drawing much attention from demon descendants, suddenly skyrocketed in popularity, with more and more demon descendants tuning in, hoping to witness Zhang Yu's crushing defeat.

Those voices spreading the word everywhere originated from the soul cultivators of the Finance Department at Wanfa University.

This was the request Zhang Yu had made to Jiu Tianliu: to use the Finance Department's internet trolls to help boost the hype for his battle against Ying Mingchi.

When Jiu Tianliu asked what Zhang Yu wanted, Zhang Yu had considered various magical treasures, dharma relics, and even spirit coins.

If he couldn't defeat Ying Mingchi, he might not have hesitated much and would have simply taken the money, but since he intended to win and claim the championship of the Top Ten League, Zhang Yu's choice was different.

"Rather than a one-off deal, I might as well use this opportunity to further boost my popularity and elevate my immortal dao potential."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Spirit coins are just a single transaction and won't fetch a high price."

"But popularity and traffic can bring more continuous income, representing my immortal dao potential far better than mere spirit coins."

"It's more like an amplifier, magnifying the fruits of every victory I achieve from now on."

Boom!

The man and the dragon clashed violently in the raging storm.

Amidst Ying Mingchi's roars, his white dragon body heaved violently, and amidst the fierce expansion of his flesh, another colossal dragon burst forth from his very being.

It was the military-grade technique of Heavenly Demon University—the Boundless Demon Aspect Art.

Self-replicating and self-breeding, as the Boundless Demon Aspect Art activated, three colossal dragons transformed from Ying Mingchi suddenly appeared on the field.

One plunged into the black clouds, continuing to condense the rainstorm and resist the divine punishment.

Another tumbled and rolled, fighting fiercely with Zhang Yu.

The remaining one dove into the flood summoned by the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor, calling forth aquatic demon beasts one after another.

"Zhang Yu," the three Ying Mingchis spoke in unison, "when it comes to breeding techniques, we demon descendants are the ancestors."

In the next instant, Ying Mingchi led a massive horde of aquatic demon beasts, charging toward the beasts Zhang Yu was breeding in the water.

In a flash, blood mist diffused through the flood as the beasts bred by both sides clashed, leaving a battlefield strewn with corpses.

But with a series of dragon roars, Zhang Yu's beasts trembled, their combat power drastically reduced, and they were immediately driven back in a crushing retreat.

Just as it seemed the opponent's aquatic army was about to be completely annihilated, Ying Mingchi noticed dragon shadows gradually emerging within the enemy's beast swarm.

"What?"

Staring at the scrawny, deformed creature that looked half-fish and half-dragon, bred by his opponent, Ying Mingchi was plunged into shock.

Zhang Yu laughed, "Little dragon, aren't you going to greet your descendants?"

Despite the vast difference in appearance, Ying Mingchi could keenly sense that it was indeed a dragon beast bred from his own bloodline.

"Did this guy steal my demon blood during our fight to breed temporary combat units?"

With the emergence of these dragon beasts, Zhang Yu's aquatic army instantly withstood the dragon roars, and leveraging the water-controlling power of the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor, gradually turned the tide.

"How did he do it?"

Ying Mingchi thought to himself, "Such powerful breeding technique? Could this scum also know the Demon Saint's Myriad Changes Divine Scripture? Impossible, that's a technique demon descendants comprehend from their bloodline; how could a human who discriminates against us so much possibly learn it?"

"So why? Why on earth could he use my bloodline to create dragon beasts so quickly?"

Although they were merely temporary combat units, seeing a human who discriminated against demon descendants display such formidable breeding skills left Ying Mingchi both astonished and furious.

But he quickly suppressed this emotion, refocusing his attention on the battle at hand.

Only to see Ying Mingchi open his dragon maw wide and roar, "You haven't bought the combat copyright for my demon blood, on what grounds..."

Ying Mingchi knew that whether using demon blood for writing papers, conducting research, or for combat, doing so without purchasing the copyright was infringement. Even if not as severe as truly breeding descendants, it would still incur hefty fines.

The Heaven Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power surged, and Zhang Yu slammed a palm fiercely toward Ying Mingchi, while lines of projected text emerged behind him: "Isn't it just a fine?"

"I'll pay it after the match!" Hu Yuntao: "Little beast!"

"If you're afraid of fines, why even fight in the Top Ten League?"

At this moment, watching Zhang Yu fight with such blatant infringement, treating fines as nothing, countless spectators felt a sense of immense wealth and true swagger.

This posture of fighting while risking fines seemed infinitely more imposing to the countless spectators than Zhang Yu's previous desperate struggles.

Although many demon descendants hated and loathed Zhang Yu, at this moment they had to admit that his aura was in no way inferior to Ying Mingchi's.

Ying Mingchi was also shaken, his dragon eyes narrowing as he roared, "Good! Scum! Then let's go all out!"

With that, the white dragon that had been condensing the rain clouds also joined the fray.

The twin dragons entangled Zhang Yu, instantly battling from the sky down to the underwater depths, while the other white dragon and the aquatic legion directly entered the fight.

Zhang Yu had bred a total of four dragon beasts; now, standing atop two dragons with two more circling him, he summoned towering tsunamis and a dark mass of aquatic legions, charging at Ying Mingchi once again.

As the two sides tumbled and clashed, infringement warnings scrolled line by line in Zhang Yu's eye relic.

In Ying Mingchi's eyes, weather fines constantly fluctuated.

Yet the man and the dragon ignored it all, as if even if they were fined into bankruptcy or their souls scattered, they would still ruthlessly defeat each other and turn the world upside down!

Boom!

Amidst the fierce slaughter, demon beast corpses littered the flood, and under the manipulation of Zhang Yu's Heaven and Earth Ruinous Tribulation Formless Mind Weapon, they quickly transformed into various temporary flying swords, joining his offensive.

Once the temporary flying swords reached a certain scale, a sky full of sword shadows completely enveloped the three colossal dragons, locking onto Ying Mingchi like a sword formation.

Ying Mingchi had long studied Zhang Yu's intelligence, knew of this tactic, and was fully prepared.

"Scum!" Ying Mingchi roared, "I anticipated this move long ago!"

With a fierce shout from the three colossal dragons transformed by Ying Mingchi, the Demon Summoning Banner behind him shook violently, and countless demon descendant soul cultivators surged forth, rushing toward the beast corpses to seize control of the flying swords.

Watching the flying swords suddenly turn toward Zhang Yu himself, Ying Mingchi laughed wildly; the three colossal dragons flashed, each extending dragon claws and pushing the Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations Art to its limit, each transforming into the giant claws of three different demon descendants, surrounding and attacking Zhang Yu like nine great demons.

Zhang Yu sneered, instantly recalling the Heaven and Earth Ruinous Tribulation Formless Mind Weapon, turning the flying swords back into corpses, and then the body surrounded by the three dragons suddenly shook, erupting in a spray of demon beast flesh and blood.

"Hmm?" Ying Mingchi's heart sank; the Zhang Yu wrapped in the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor had been replaced by a demon beast substitute at some unknown point.

"Taking advantage of the Demon Summoning Banner's forceful control over the temporary flying swords, he used the Sword Realm to suppress my Spirit Realm communication level, hiding from my perception..."

Just as Ying Mingchi's thoughts flashed like lightning, the gravity cluster erupted by the Seven Absolutes Dharma Relic suddenly locked onto the three colossal dragons.

In the next instant, Zhang Yu, his entire body enveloped in the Eternal Sun's Blazing Flames, charged forward and entangled with the three colossal dragons in a fierce melee.

The Heavenly Sun Radiant Deity swelled in a sudden, majestic surge, unleashing the Eternal Sun Radiant Flames to engulf a hundred meters in every direction, fiercely incinerating Zhang Yu and the three-headed dragon alike.

Though the Eternal Sun Radiant Flames would not directly consume Zhang Yu, the searing heat they generated inevitably scorched him all the same.

A deafening roar!

Amidst roars of shock and fury, Ying Mingchi bellowed, "Have you gone mad? You are burning yourself alive in the process!"

Zhang Yu gazed at him with a smile. "Worried your medical bills won't be covered? If you're afraid, just surrender."

Meanwhile, surging torrents coiled around the Eternal Sun Radiant Flames, harmonizing with the inner and outer sword arrays forged from twenty-four Taihao Holy Law flying swords to form an inescapable aqueous prison, barring any living soul from fleeing the sea of fire.

Ying Mingchi's gaze hardened; shattering this aqueous prison would not be difficult for him alone, but coupled with the layered obstacles Zhang Yu had laid and the man's own relentless harassment, it was no longer a barrier that could be breached in a mere instant.

Recalling the moment Zhang Yu had activated the sword array just now, Ying Mingchi gradually realized the truth.

"He omitted the sponsored catchphrase just now, which means he never intended to win with the sword array from the very beginning."

"This brat intended to drag me into this very predicament from the very start."

"He wants to play a game of life and death with me."

A vicious grin twisted across Ying Mingchi's three dragon heads. "Scum, who gave you the audacity to gamble your life against mine so desperately?"

"My flesh is far mightier than that of you fragile humans..."

Zhang Yu replied coolly, "Then bring it on, and let us see who breaks first."

Amidst the roaring sea of fire conjured by the Eternal Sun Radiant Flames, the two foes locked into a brutal struggle to the death.

At first, Ying Mingchi brimmed with confidence, but soon his certainty melted into doubt, then bewilderment, then blank confusion, and finally curdled into fear, sheer terror, and utter despair.

The looming threat of the weather fines, in particular, bore down upon Ying Mingchi's mind with an ever-mounting, crushing weight.

Another earth-shaking roar!

The colossal dragon, shrieking as it thrashed to burst from the inferno, let out a sudden squeal as a pair of charred, massive hands dragged it violently back into the blaze.

"Why?"

"Why is this man not dead yet?"

As the inferno finally dispersed, a thoroughly charred Zhang Yu stood holding the dying, half-obliterated remains of Ying Mingchi in his grasp.

Wanfa University, Zhang Yu, victorious!

(End of Chapter)