Chapter 387: The Final Offensive
Amidst the fierce battles raging in the arena, Zhang Yu, Shi Huaiyu, and their teammates continued to strategize in the Contest Group chat.
Shi Huaiyu: “Zhang Yu, you’ve definitely slowed their progress.”
Shi Huaiyu: “But Su Yanyang’s construction capabilities are too strong. They’ve already secured over 50% of the Spirit Vein.”
Che Yufei: “Then why hasn’t he launched his offensive yet?”
Shi Huaiyu: “Knowing Su Yanyang’s personality, he’s likely planning to accumulate formation power until the very last moment of the competition, then unleash a devastating attack.”
Shi Huaiyu: “This would inflict maximum damage on us while leaving no time for repairs.”
Xiao Qingxuan: “He probably aims to reduce our final completion rate to below 20%, or even 10%.”
Xiao Qingxuan: “After all, the outcome of this battle indirectly determines the final rankings for the top seven.”
Hearing Xiao Qingxuan’s words in the chat, Yu Xinghan, still somewhat confused, turned to Ying Xin, who was sitting beside him on the substitute bench.
Ying Xin explained, “Among the top ten teams, the strongest are undoubtedly Mo Shangjin and Xuan Liangtian’s teams. They wield the Heavenly Kunlun Mountain-Moving Divine Power, and their teammates are all exceptionally skilled.”
“But the opponents of those two teams are in trouble. Their scores in this round are likely to be at the bottom.”
“Among the remaining teams, the biggest gap in overall strength is probably between our team and Su Yanyang’s team.”
“If our completion rate drops below 20%, we’ll almost certainly end up in the bottom three along with the opponents of Mo Shangjin and Xuan Liangtian.”
Yu Xinghan immediately understood. “So that’s it! Once the bottom three are determined, the remaining teams will naturally be in the top seven. Su Yanyang’s team can then guarantee themselves the Seven Absolutes of Civil Engineering reward.”
Ying Xin nodded. “Exactly. That’s why Su Yanyang will do everything he can to suppress us.”
The official team members had either already figured this out or been reminded of it during the competition.
Everyone knew that Su Yanyang was operating the formation, absorbing spiritual energy, and constantly accumulating power, like a spring being compressed tighter and tighter, building up to a final, devastating attack.
Zhang Yu and the others naturally wouldn’t sit idly by. They were each preparing their own defenses.
With just three minutes left in the match, the entire arena suddenly began to tremble violently.
Sensing the tremors from the simulated Spirit Vein beneath the ground, Shi Huaiyu’s gaze sharpened. “He’s coming!”
At that moment, the earth surged like a raging tide, with Su Yanyang floating atop the crest. Supported by his Bionic, he stood in mid-air, positioned at the highest and foremost point of the rolling mud waves.
Now, he had complete control over the great formation’s power. The surging spiritual energy accumulated within the formation erupted at his command, while the Spirit Vein beneath the ground stirred slowly at his will, gradually reshaping the terrain according to his intentions.
His goal was to utterly crush the enemy’s bunker into dust, reducing its completion rate below 10% and securing his team’s place among the top seven.
“Shi Huaiyu, Zhang Yu, Xiao Qingxuan…” Su Yanyang coldly addressed the direction of their construction site. “Your defeat today isn’t at my hands, but at the hands of new technologies: smart construction and financial innovation.”
“Your defeat is not merely technological; it’s a defeat of outdated thinking.”
Zhang Yu’s figure flashed as he raced toward the construction site to reinforce their defenses, thinking to himself, “This guy… he’s deliberately saying all this because he knows many teachers are watching the competition.”
Within the Spirit Realm Space, a teacher immediately nodded in agreement. “Su Yanyang is right. Cross-disciplinary collaboration, leveraging intelligent technology, information technology, and financial technology to empower traditional industries, is the key to unlocking new vitality.”
Wei Huai echoed with enthusiastic nods. “Without financial innovation to provide funding and intelligent technology to serve as a foundation, how can we advance smart buildings? How can we drive the next generation of civil engineering transformation?”
Listening to the teachers from the Peace Faction and Neutral Faction praising each other, Tu Lishan sneered inwardly.
He knew that True Monarch Sacred Mountain, a prominent figure in the Neutral Faction, had long advocated for collaboration between the Civil Engineering and Talisman Departments, promoting smart buildings, smart factories, and smart cities. Their goal was to transform the entire 2nd to 6th tiers of the city, and potentially the future 7th to 10th tiers.
However, after True Monarch Sacred Mountain became preoccupied with his lifespan issues, he largely abandoned these initiatives.
While the university still offered related courses, practical applications remained scarce.
Meanwhile, the Finance Department and Talisman Department had maintained extensive collaboration, annually producing numerous financial innovations and Spirit Realm finance projects.
“Could it be that after the Peace Faction and Neutral Faction joined forces, they’ve also roped in the Talisman Department to stir things up? Are they planning to push forward with smart buildings together?”
Thinking this, Tu Lishan couldn’t help but frown as he watched Zhang Yu and Su Yanyang’s duel. It felt like witnessing a lone warrior battling the combined forces of the Neutral and Peace Factions against the War Faction.
Just then, Su Yanyang, who had been gathering momentum, suddenly stopped.
A teacher exclaimed in surprise, “Why did he stop? Is there a malfunction?”
Another teacher speculated, “Did the formation overload?”
True Monarch Sacred Mountain calmly replied, “It’s nothing. The smart building has self-diagnostic capabilities. It will identify the problem quickly.”
In the competition feed, Su Yanyang indeed used the building’s self-diagnostic system to pinpoint the issue: multiple spiritual energy circuits had malfunctioned.
Lang Yougong used the replay function, his eyes gleaming. “Heh, so Zhang Yu digested the building materials, regurgitated high-strength waste, and had Tian Yang use it to block critical points in the spiritual energy circuits.”
“Normal operation works fine, but full-power operation causes the system to fail.”
Seeing Su Yanyang’s construction site littered with the digested waste Zhang Yu had stolen, eaten, and regurgitated, many teachers couldn’t help but think: “This kid can really eat… If he ever works on my site, I’ll have to keep a close eye on him.”
Wei Huai shook his head. “Just a temporary delay. It won’t make much difference.”
In the blink of an eye, the building’s self-diagnostic system completed its analysis. Su Yanyang directed a series of repairs, leaving only two minutes until the competition’s end.
Despite the interruption, Su Yanyang’s face remained impassive as he continued his previous actions.
He raised both hands, channeling immense force into the Spirit Vein. The entire arena floor began to tremble violently.
Terrifying shockwaves, transmitted through the earth, surged from the Spirit Vein toward Zhang Yu’s bunker.
As the waves passed, the ground cracked open, dust and sand billowed into the air, and everything in the arena seemed on the verge of being leveled. Zhang Yu’s bunker shook violently.
Inside and outside the bunker, Zhang Yu and his team moved in a blur, their Gang Qi surging as they desperately tried to stabilize the structure.
Within the Spirit Realm Space, Lang Yougong nodded slightly. “Tian Yang has brought over some of the high-strength materials Zhang Yu fabricated to reinforce the bunker.”
“They also used the Blood Sacrifice Technique, adding bone ash to enhance its durability.”
“With their constant repairs and reinforcements, this initial tremor shouldn’t destroy the bunker.”
Wei Huai said calmly, “This is merely the prelude to Su Yanyang’s true assault.”
Twenty seconds later, as the violent shaking subsided, only 100 seconds remained until the end of the competition.
And then Su Yanyang’s full offensive arrived.
Following the earlier manipulation of the Spirit Vein and the shifting terrain, vast stretches of mud and sand transformed into raging torrents, surging toward the bunker with the force of Heaven Collapse and Earth Shattering, threatening to engulf Zhang Yu and his team along with their fortress.
From a distance, the dark, writhing currents resembled black dragons, their claws bared as they crashed against the bunker.
With thunderous roars, Zhang Yu and his five companions flexed their muscles, stretching their limbs and bones, transforming in an instant into giants ranging from six or seven meters to over ten meters tall.
As giants, they unleashed torrents of Gang Qi, blasting the oncoming mudflows with overwhelming force.
Under their combined defense, the mudslide’s onslaught was significantly weakened, but the residual force still slammed into the bunker, causing violent tremors.
Wei Huai said, “Their Magic Power is already severely depleted. If this continues, they won’t last much longer.”
As the group’s strength waned and some mudslides broke through their defenses, the bunker shook more violently. Che Yufei suddenly shrank, his aura plummeting as he dove into the bunker.
Lang Yougong’s eyes flickered. “A False Death Living Stake? He’s putting himself into a state of suspended animation to temporarily act as a Living Stake, reinforcing the structure.”
The teachers nearby raised their eyebrows slightly but offered no further comment.
Tu Lishan knew that False Death Living Stakes involved hiring workers with weak vitality to temporarily replace Living Stakes during inspections. It was a practice never taught in Civil Engineering textbooks, a tacitly acknowledged secret among teachers.
Despite the group’s united resistance, the relentless mudslide quickly submerged half of the three-story bunker.
Watching this unfold, Su Yanyang coldly remarked, “Look at the pathetic methods you’re resorting to.”
“Stealing materials, devouring materials, wreaking havoc and spitting everywhere on my construction site, and now resorting to something as vile as False Death Living Stakes.”
“Do you really think you can oppose me with such low-grade tactics?”
“No funding, no advanced technology — just outdated tricks. Do you honestly believe you can stand against the latest intelligent construction techniques?”
Hearing Su Yanyang’s words, many non-War Faction teachers in the Spirit Realm Space nodded in agreement.
With only 60 seconds remaining, Su Yanyang launched his next wave of attacks.
As the terrain shifted, the underground structure supporting the bunker underwent violent transformations.
With a thunderous boom, massive sinkholes began to appear around the bunker as the ground collapsed.
Shi Huaiyu roared, “Rise!”
Activating the Minor Threefold Combination, she stirred the mud and sand, loosening them from the bunker’s foundations.
Simultaneously, Shi Huaiyu and Zhang Yu activated the Profound Yellow Mountain-Suppressing Seal, channeling streams of Profound Yellow Qi into the bunker to continuously reduce the weight of its materials.
Then, with a united surge of effort, the entire bunker was forcibly uprooted.