Accompanied by waves of terrifying acid mist, the intense corrosion instantly caused Zhang Yu's skin to emit a puff of green smoke, and the severe stinging made him frown involuntarily.
Zhang Yu could feel that if the acid mist continued to corrode him, his flesh would be severely damaged, even endangering his life.
So he immediately stirred the muscles throughout his body, causing them to vibrate. With every inch of his skin exerting force and vibrating, Zhang Yu's entire body seemed to explode with a gust of wind, blowing away the oncoming acid mist.
However, this operation of using force to resist the acid mist inevitably caused Zhang Yu to retract some of his strength.
Similarly, Ye Lingxiao on the other side was also unable to take advantage of Zhang Yu's retraction of force to drag the Dragon Binding Rope, simply because he was also shaking his body, creating gusts of wind to resist the acid mist.
But Zhang Yu could feel that, thanks to the self-healing ability bestowed by the Martial Dao Holy Embryo, whether it was the previous high temperature, high pressure, gravity, or the damage caused by the acid mist, all were gradually recovering.
Moreover… he still had two trump cards that he hadn't used.
Zhang Yu let out a violent roar, and the 'Zen' character on his chest suddenly dissipated, his physical potential being frantically unleashed under the stimulation of the toxins.
Zhang Yu's forehead veins bulged, but he was still roaring in his heart: "Not yet!"
Then came the overload of the Martial Dao Holy Embryo!
Roar!
The muscles in Zhang Yu's arms expanded again, and his entire body rose from meters to meters.
Whether it was the eruption of toxins from the Boundless Zen of Spring and Autumn, or the overload of the Martial Dao Holy Embryo, both were forcing the body's potential, allowing the body to explode with a power that exceeded its own burden.
And when these two methods were used together by Zhang Yu, he felt as if the flesh and blood all over his body were burning.
An endless stream of power was squeezed out from every bit of flesh and blood, and terrifying power was conducted through the muscles, even pressing the bones to creak.
But for Zhang Yu, none of this mattered now.
Because before coming here, Zhang Yu knew one thing.
"Coming here is all about risking your life."
"If you're not risking your life, what are you here for the Foundation Establishment Certificate exam?"
At this moment, Zhang Yu's mind seemed to flash back to the tests, exams, and competitions of the past year…
It was also through these experiences that Zhang Yu deeply understood one thing.
In Kunxu, a strictly controlled world, if you want to climb up, if you want to stand out, if you want to master stronger Immortal Dao techniques, then you need to follow the promotion path drawn by the Ten Great Sects, and defeat your opponents in one exam after another.
And in this process, almost every opponent will do everything possible to self-exploit, family-exploit, and mutually-exploit, pushing their results to the limit.
The Immortal Capital Lord in front of him was no exception.
The other party would never let go of any possibility of winning, and would fight with all their might to defeat him.
And facing this situation, Zhang Yu could only burn all his strength to obtain that extremely precious Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate.
"I already promised Ah Zhen, promised my sister, that we would study at the Ten Greats together."
"I want to go to the Ten Greats, I want to enter a sect!"
"I want to climb up along Kunxu! Break free from the shackles of the ritual! Gain freedom!"
At this moment, the various cultivation methods that he had painstakingly practiced over the past year surged into Zhang Yu's mind, and the muscles and power pathways throughout his body emerged in his eyes.
Technique, strength, potential… everything that could be brought into play was unleashed by Zhang Yu in one breath.
Furious power, unparalleled determination, all passed along the power-circulating cultivation methods, along the steel-like tough muscles, and finally through the Dragon Binding Rope… fiercely transmitted towards Ye Lingxiao.
Bang!
Turning around and taking a step hard on the high platform, Zhang Yu emitted a burst of sound. At the same time, he had frantically dragged the Dragon Binding Rope towards his side, step by step away from the edge of the high platform.
And with Zhang Yu's outburst, Ye Lingxiao only felt an irresistible strange force coming from the other end of the Dragon Binding Rope, dragging him step by step towards the position outside the edge of the high platform.
In an instant, Ye Lingxiao, who had just dragged Zhang Yu to the edge of the high platform, was now dragged to a position only two or three steps away from the edge.
And the place outside the edge, at this moment, in Ye Lingxiao's eyes, seemed to have turned into a cliff.
Once he fell, it would be like falling from the clouds, not only losing the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate, but also losing a lot of wealth and the best opportunity to climb up.
In a trance, Ye Lingxiao seemed to hear some voices ringing in his heart.
"Brother, let our brothers fight him together!"
"Brother?" Ye Lingxiao murmured in his heart: "So you have always been with my heart, accompanying me?"
"Don't let us sacrifice in vain."
"Don't let the countless members of the Ye family, generation after generation, sacrifice in vain."
"Brother, borrow our strength, and lead the Ye family to rush up, rush out of this mud pit on the first level, and rush to the upper levels of Kunxu…"
Unknowingly, Ye Lingxiao had bitten open the second Divine Soul Pill in his mouth.
As the temperature of his brain rose rapidly, he felt a burst of dizziness in his head, but miraculously maintained three kinds of thinking, like three selves, operating his body and running three times the number of cultivation methods in his normal state.
Blood flow, internal organs, bones, fascia… every inch of flesh and blood throughout his body was mobilized 100%, allowing Ye Lingxiao's body power to reach an unprecedented peak.
It also made the frantically dragged Dragon Binding Rope suddenly slow down.
But… it's not enough!
With a crisp snap, Zhang Yu's finger bones suddenly cracked under his terrifying power.
Correspondingly, Ye Lingxiao was one step closer to the cliff.
"Still not enough?"
"We… are still not his opponent?"
"Then let's continue to fight."
"University representatives, don't you like to watch the geniuses below risk their lives?"
"Then watch enough today."
The next moment, Zhang Yu only felt that the power coming from the other end of the Dragon Binding Rope had increased once again, and then increased again, with a tendency to drag him over.
"He still has this kind of trump card?"
"No, this voice is…"
Zhang Yu suddenly turned his head to look at Ye Lingxiao, only to see green smoke billowing on another high platform, accompanied by a sizzling sound, and a large amount of acid mist was constantly corroding Ye Lingxiao's flesh and blood.
"This guy… gave up using some of his strength to resist the acid mist, and used all his strength to fight me?"
At the same time, the dangerous environment changed again, and waves of poisonous mist swept towards Zhang Yu and Ye Lingxiao at the same time.
Zhang Yu vibrated his muscles, stirring up strong winds to blow away the poisonous mist.
But at this moment, Ye Lingxiao still did not waste any strength to blow away the poisonous mist.
His eyes were fixed on Zhang Yu, fixed on the Dragon Binding Rope. At this moment, there seemed to be only one thought left in his mind: he wanted to win! He wanted to do everything in his power to win the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate!
Looking at Ye Lingxiao's desperate struggle, Zhang Yu suddenly understood the true purpose of this exam.
"Those True Gods, they had already predicted this, knowing that if we fought to the end, the victor would be decided in a life-or-death crisis, right?"
"Do those high and mighty fellows in the audience seats enjoy watching us fight to the death so much?"
Zhang Yu looked at Ye Lingxiao, who was gradually covered in blood, turning blue and purple, and thought to himself, "Although I still don't know your name."
"But from the power transmitted through this Dragon Binding Cord, I have felt your will and experienced your determination."
"But I will never admit defeat."
"Besides, if it comes to fighting to the death… I am definitely better at it than you!"
Zhang Yu also stopped resisting the poisonous mist, concentrating all his spirit and all his strength on the Dragon Binding Cord.
Boom!
As the two people's strength fiercely clashed on the Dragon Binding Cord, a strong tremor came from the cord.
At the same time, the high-risk environment began to change again.
High temperature, high pressure, strong acid, toxins…
But at this moment, no matter what kind of threat or what kind of damage, it could no longer distract Zhang Yu and Ye Lingxiao in the slightest.
Whether it was the burning of the body under high temperature, the burning of the internal organs,
Or the rupture of the air cavity under high pressure, causing physical damage,
Or the bloody flesh on the body, and the severe burns inside and outside the body,
Or the body's toxic reaction, with the toxins constantly spreading as the operation became more intense…
At this moment, all of this was no longer important in their eyes.
They wagered their lives, betting all the strength they could muster.
At this moment, the only thing in their eyes was each other, only that one thought remained.
Win!
Use their strongest strength, their strongest will, to drag the other over!
With a crisp crack, Ye Lingxiao's right leg bone finally completely broke in the repeated damage, causing him to kneel on the ground.
On the other side, Zhang Yu, relying on his powerful self-healing ability, although he also looked bloody, still maintained a complete structure.
This fracture of Ye Lingxiao was like breaking the balance of the scales, making it impossible for Ye Lingxiao to stop the movement of the Dragon Binding Cord.
"Am I going to lose?"
Looking at himself being dragged step by step towards the cliff edge like an abyss, a trace of despair suddenly flashed in Ye Lingxiao's heart.
"Is it over here?"
The family's heavy trust, the entrustment of his brothers and sisters before their deaths, endless exams, grades, awards, one first place after another…
All of this had made Ye Lingxiao feel more and more like shackles, strands of spider silk, tightly缠绕ing his life, making him feel more and more tired and exhausted.
But later he gradually understood that even without these, he still wanted to climb the immortal path. The family gave him heavy responsibilities, but also gave him opportunities and help far beyond others.
"I want the future Ye family descendants to no longer have to make such sacrifices, no longer have to pay the price of tens of thousands of people, to reach the starting line that some people are born with."
"I want the Ye family to move to the second layer, have a second-layer household registration, and become a second-layer family."
Ye Lingxiao understood in his heart that the family's heavy trust and the entrustment of his brothers and sisters were never his shackles.
They were like his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, accompanying him at all times, silently pushing him from behind, sending him to where he was today.
Until this moment, Ye Lingxiao felt as if he had been pushed again by them.
At the same time, amidst the roaring sounds, Zhang Yu, who had inhaled a large amount of poisonous mist on the other high platform, had now carried out a second burst of the Boundless Spring and Autumn Meditation.
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The previous burst came from the toxins accumulated after he took a large amount of medicine.
And this burst was after inhaling a large amount of poisonous mist in the high-risk environment, he found that the "Zen" character on his chest had accumulated a lot of toxins again.
Although Ye Lingxiao had knelt on the ground, Zhang Yu did not relax in the slightest as long as he had not reached the final moment of victory.
Because no matter from his life experience or the combat experience taught to him by Bai Zhenzhen, the more important the battle at this critical moment, the more careful he must be about the opponent's counterattack at the last moment.
At this moment, the second burst of the Boundless Spring and Autumn Meditation caused Zhang Yu's whole body to explode with clusters of blood mist, and every cell in his body seemed to be groaning, wailing, and roaring with near-death.
But in this more dangerous and more hopeless condition, with the operation of the Remnant Ox's Body-Sacrificing Heart Technique, Zhang Yu felt a kind of excitement, and even the pain on his body seemed to be suppressed a lot, and his Dao heart was even more enhanced.
Zhang Yu roared, "I am determined to get the Foundation Establishment Certificate!"
On the other side, Ye Lingxiao crushed the last Divine Spirit Pill in his mouth.
His mind recalled the warning from the person in charge of the laboratory: "You must never take more than three pills in one day."
"Otherwise, the brain will not be able to bear it, even your perfect bloodline will not work."
Counting the Divine Spirit Pill taken during the first level of the Divine Spiritual Root assessment, this was already the fourth Divine Spirit Pill that Ye Lingxiao had taken in one day.
Feeling the power of the medicine surging in his body, rushing towards his brain, Ye Lingxiao suddenly found his thinking clear, as if something had awakened from his mind.
"I can do it…"
"I can handle four pills."
At this moment, Ye Lingxiao felt that there were four selves working together in his body, like a working group, each sharing different body operations, and competing with each other, performing performance appraisals…
At the same time, under Zhang Yu's violent exertion, the Dragon Binding Cord seemed to have turned into a real giant dragon, twisting violently in Ye Lingxiao's hands.
Ye Lingxiao was thinking about how to suppress this "giant dragon", how to resist Zhang Yu's violent power, but the next moment his arm had also directly fractured in the confrontation of power.
At this moment, although Ye Lingxiao had made some progress in his brain and spirit, his body had already been on the verge of collapse, and there was no room for him to exert himself.
At the same time, the side effects of the fourth Divine Spirit Pill began to appear, and Ye Lingxiao only felt a sharp pain in his brain, as if to tear his head apart and insert iron skewers into it.
The next moment, Ye Lingxiao could no longer resist Zhang Yu.
Under the drag of that violent force, Ye Lingxiao felt that his sublimated spirit at this moment, like a dream full of color, was ultimately no match for the cold reality and gravity, and was dragged into the abyss.
Boom!
It was seen that the Dragon Binding Cord was directly thrown into the sky with a bang under the infusion of Zhang Yu's extremely violent power.
Ye Lingxiao, who was tightly holding the Dragon Binding Cord, was also thrown into the sky.
He slowly swept his gaze downward, and seemed to still be able to see the majestic figure standing in a piece of blood mist on the high platform.
Large swaths of white hot air rolled outward with the opponent's exertion, and coupled with the blood mist constantly exploding on Zhang Yu's body, it made him like a war god burning with blood and fire.
Ye Lingxiao sighed in his heart, "How can this guy… have such a strong body?"
It was seen that Zhang Yu grabbed the Dragon Binding Cord with both hands and threw Ye Lingxiao and the rope together.
Whoosh!
With Zhang Yu's forceful throw, Ye Lingxiao, along with the Dragon Binding Cord, shot towards the audience like a long comet.
The numerous spectators watching this scene all revealed a hint of surprise on their faces, never expecting that Zhang Yu would gain such an overwhelming advantage in the end, even flinging Ye Lingxiao away.
Seeing Ye Lingxiao about to fly in front of them in the blink of an eye, the crowd in the audience seats had different expressions and thoughts.
At the same time, accompanied by bursts of divine power rippling back and forth in mid-air, Ye Lingxiao, who was just a little bit away from crashing into the audience seats, slowly stopped in mid-air.
Zhang Yu looked at Huang Zichou, who appeared in front of him, and asked seriously, "Did I win?"
"The Foundation Establishment Certificate... is it mine?"
Huang Zichou waved his hand and cast a series of spells, first using the divine power of the Ministry of Health to stabilize Zhang Yu's injuries, and then slowly announced, "Zhang Yu, the winner of the third round!"
"Zhang Yu, the overall winner of the third round of the Foundation Establishment Examination!"
"I announce that Zhang Yu, the final winner of the sports track of this year's Foundation Establishment Examination, will be granted the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate by the Heavenly Court and will possess Foundation Establishment Qualification!"
After hearing Huang Zichou's words, Zhang Yu felt that all the strength in his body was about to be drawn away, and his whole body suddenly collapsed into the pool of blood.
"Finally..."
Day and night, tireless struggles, life-and-death fights, after paying almost everything he could, plus the millions of debts in the bank, and finally gambling with his life, Zhang Yu finally stepped half a foot into the threshold of the top ten.
Looking back at the road he had traveled, Zhang Yu only felt it was so difficult, wanting to climb up in Kunxu... it was really so difficult.
Thinking of this, he suddenly let out a long roar, as if to vent all the unhappiness and resentment accumulated in his heart.
Looking at Zhang Yu's appearance of roaring at the sky, Huang Zichou didn't care. He had seen all kinds of reactions after receiving the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate. There were heart attacks, cerebral infarctions, and even people who went crazy on the spot. Zhang Yu was considered relatively normal.
At the same time, Ye Lingxiao on the other side had fallen into a coma due to the side effects of the drugs and the injuries on his body.
The "Laughing and Crying Emoji" in the audience said, "Mother, it seems that the Ye family you mentioned is not very good. Even the strongest successor has lost."
Looking at Ye Lingxiao, who was casually pulled in mid-air by divine power and had already passed out, the "Smiling Emoji" in the audience frowned, feeling that Ye Lingxiao at this moment was like a dead dog on the side of the road, no matter how he looked at him, he didn't like it.
The "Smiling Emoji" said lightly, "If you don't want to use this person, then don't use him, but the Ye family is very useful on the first floor, you can't give up."
The "Laughing and Crying Emoji" said, "Actually, this Ye Lingxiao is already quite powerful, more powerful than most high school students on the second and third floors, right? It's just that he was unlucky and met a more powerful opponent."
"I will still use him."
"It's just compared to him..." Speaking of this, he looked at Zhang Yu with interest: "I am more interested in this Zhang Yu."
The "Smiling Emoji" frowned and said, "You want to sign him as a formal employee?"
The "Laughing and Crying Emoji" said, "What's wrong with that? As long as he can satisfy me, whether it's him, that Bai Zhenzhen, or even this Ye Lingxiao, I can make them formal employees."
The "Smiling Emoji" shook his head and sighed, "Dogs can't be fed too full, alas... you will understand sooner or later."
The "Laughing and Crying Emoji" didn't think so in his heart and had already decided to contact the Oasis Company on the first floor and send representatives to Suoyang City to spend money directly.
At the same time, many representatives from other universities in the audience also focused their attention on Zhang Yu.
After all, although Ye Lingxiao was very excellent, he now seemed dim in comparison to Zhang Yu, especially considering that Zhang Yu was still one grade younger, which made many university admissions representatives eager to try and determined to recruit Zhang Yu into their university.
The Cat Head from Wanfa University looked at this scene and said to the Husky Head beside him, "It seems that the price you plan to offer is not enough."
The Husky Head frowned and said, "It's okay for us top ten universities to compete for people."
He looked in a certain direction in the audience and snorted coldly, "I can understand the thoughts of Colonel 36 and Lieutenant Colonel 72 daring to have ideas."
"But how dare those junior colleges also want to recruit such talents?"
"Are they worthy?"
"If Zhang Yu enters a junior college, what's the difference between that and being in jail? Don't even think about taking the postgraduate entrance examination in this life, and don't even think about achieving the Golden Core."
The Cat Head reminded him from the side, "If you want to snatch people, then you better act quickly, lest this Zhang Yu is too poor and hasn't seen the world, and if he's too short-sighted, he might be tricked away by some junior college pretending to be a university."
"After the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate is issued here, the candidates' information should no longer be confidential, you better act quickly."
The Husky Head's heart sank upon hearing this. What the other party said was correct. It wasn't like this kind of thing hadn't happened before.
He thought to himself, "I really should quickly contact the representative of the company on the first floor and find someone to contact this Zhang Yu."
However, before leaving, he seemed to have thought of something and confirmed again, "Are you sure that your Finance Department won't recruit these students?"
The Cat Head said lightly, "Their qualifications are indeed good, but it's good enough for them to do security and civil engineering. Want to enter the door of finance? When they can gain a foothold above, perhaps their descendants will have a little bit of a chance after several generations of struggle."
On the other side of the audience, a teacher from a junior college was already on the phone with his principal. He said decisively, "Principal, as long as we get this student and fully cultivate him to become a Golden Core, who will dare to say that junior colleges can't produce Golden Cores in the future? Our school's rating will definitely have a chance to go up!"
Just as the figures in the audience were getting fewer and fewer, and one by one were leaving.
The injuries on Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's bodies had also been completely healed.
At this moment, they gathered together with all the other contestants and were about to start issuing the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificates.
Seeing Bai Zhenzhen, Zhang Yu quickly walked up and asked, "A-Zhen, did you make it?"
Bai Zhenzhen nodded with a big smile and said, "I made it, Yu-zi, what about you?"
"I made it too!" Zhang Yu hugged Bai Zhenzhen with a hearty laugh: "A-Zhen! We can go to university together!"
Hearing these words, Bai Zhenzhen felt as if a big rock had fallen to the ground in her heart. She was really worried that Zhang Yu hadn't passed the exam. At this moment, she also hugged Zhang Yu tightly and couldn't help but laugh loudly: "Have you thought about which of the top ten universities to choose? Shouldn't we make plans for the postgraduate and doctoral entrance examinations?"
Yun Jing, who was on the side, watched the two of them hug each other and spin around. His already gloomy face suddenly became even more unsightly.
