Starting as an infant, with parents who are blond-haired delinquents?

Off the court, Shen Qiangwei and Zhang Huolong listened to Tan Yue's explanation of the match...

I still can't understand it.

All they knew was that the footage shown in the central courtroom showed Zhang Chaoqiang with a constantly running nose.

They weren't concerned about the situation on site for the time being, but rather worried about whether Zhang Chaoqiang had run into trouble.

As a mother, Shen Qiangwei was very concerned: "Did Chaoqiang catch a cold? Is the air conditioner in that room set too low? It seems like my Chaoqiang has caught a cold; his nose is running..."

This left Tan Yue momentarily speechless. In this synthetic space, you could see the camera at a glance; where was there any so-called air conditioning?

Zhang Huolong patted his chest and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Do you think Chaoqiang is still a child?"

Wife, you probably have no idea how incredibly powerful those martial artists are. Let me put it this way: I've heard that even if a martial artist catches a cold, they can recover completely within a day without taking any medicine!

Shen Qiangwei exclaimed in surprise, "So amazing! Honey, you know so much!"

Tan Yue: "..."

Tan Yue didn't know where Zhang Huolong had heard the rumors from. She only knew that even ordinary people could recover from a common cold after resting for a day or two...

Then, she frowned and explained with some concern, "Zhang Chaoqiang didn't just catch a cold. Perhaps he's facing a more serious problem right now. This is a sign of an urgent lack of mental strength."

Under these circumstances, Zhang Chaoqiang's mental state would fluctuate and become precarious. If he couldn't complete or abandon the task of compressing spiritual energy before completely exhausting his mental power...

Then the mental impact would be even more severe than the attack that Gu Yizheng just suffered from the compression of spiritual energy that rebounded onto his body. If he wasn't careful, the source of his mind, that is, his brain, could suffer serious damage!

Tan Yue said this, but although she said it, she naturally believed that Zhang Chaoqiang would never fight a battle he was not sure of winning.

And everything is done only under the premise of ensuring one's own physical and life safety.

Therefore, under the current circumstances, the two have reached a certain tacit understanding. Tan Yue is worried, but she is not too worried because Zhang Chaoqiang knows what he is doing.

But as she turned her head, she seemed to mutter something ominous to herself…

Both Shen Qiangwei and Zhang Huolong were looking at Tan Yue with disbelief.

From Tan Yue's rambling words, they seemed to hear something about being in imminent danger, mental shock, seriousness, trauma, and so on.

"Xiaoyue, what did you just say?"

Faced with their questions, Tan Yue scratched her head and said with a forced smile, "I said, Zhang Chaoqiang probably caught a cold, you're right..."

"Haha, I knew it! The air conditioning inside is too cold. That machine in the middle looks a bit like a central air conditioning system..."

Zhang Huolong: "Could it be that this giant artificial crystal core spiritual energy hub really has this function? Like a central air conditioner that blows air?"

Shen Qiangwei nodded in confirmation: "I think that's definitely it, honey. Otherwise, how could Chaoqiang have caught a cold? He was clearly sitting right in front of the air conditioner vent. The organizers are so weird, putting our Chaoqiang in such a spot..."

After all that, Tan Yue concluded that Shen Qiangwei and Zhang Huolong's imagination and topics were the ones that truly deserved the word "weird".

Because the two of them had completely steered the conversation off-topic, and Zhang Huolong even wanted to complain to the staff.

However, Shen Qiangwei stopped her. Shen Qiangwei, who thought herself very clever, immediately found the "problem".

"Honey, there's nothing we can do. Those other families are powerful and well-equipped. They're all martial arts families with incredibly strong backgrounds. Naturally, they can only target our family."

Complaining won't help him; it might even make him face more hostility!

Thinking about it, it seems to make sense...

The two stopped thinking about those strange things.

The atmosphere was tense both on and off the field.

Whether it was Xu Shanji and Lei She off the field, the three major families watching the match, Zhang Chaoqiang who was in a crucial position on the field, or Gu Yizheng who had begun to look for another way...

They were all extremely anxious.

The other six contestants have temporarily become mere background figures; the real protagonists and the focus of attention will always be on a select few.

At this moment, Zhang Chaoqiang has reached the final stage of sequence weaving.

call…

He kept exhaling turbid air. Zhang Chaoqiang, whose brain was almost emptied, strained as if he were going to use a high-powered technique, staring intently at his own plate, at the spiritual energy molecules and microscopic structural sequences that were still in the process of being arranged and woven.

The previous particles have been rearranged by Zhang Chaoqiang in reverse order, completing nearly 95% of the process.

Only five percent left!

However, Zhang Chaoqiang's current mental strength is clearly only at the spiritual level, insufficient to sustain him in completing the final weaving arrangement...

The immense pressure weighed on Zhang Chaoqiang's thoughts, pressing down on his cerebral cortex. He was practically suffocating, yet he persevered with unwavering willpower.

No, it won't work...

Although Zhang Chaoqiang's will was firm, consciousness, a basic physiological condition and fundamental physical state of human beings, was declining due to brain fatigue.

Gu Yizheng, who was exploring nearby, did not possess the [diffusion] mechanism that Zhang Chaoqiang had, and therefore had no way of verifying the synthesized sequence.

His mental energy was rapidly depleted, causing his will to enter the microscopic world of spiritual energy molecular structure. He could only observe the spiritual energy that was readily available in other sections, compressed to one-thirtieth of its original value, and then proceed with trial and error little by little.

Although his mental energy was being depleted rapidly—20% of it was used up in a short time—it wasn't all for naught. He had also benefited from the arrangement of the microscopic sequences…

At this moment, a crazy smile crept onto his face. It seemed this method would work! This wouldn't cause any backlash of spiritual energy, and given enough time, he might even succeed in the end!

Turning around again, the scene he saw made him feel inexplicably fortunate and secretly excited.

Because he saw that Zhang Chaoqiang, who was standing next to him, had his eyelids drooping as if they were carrying a huge boulder.

His head drooped to one side, and he was completely listless. Only his fingers were still moving slightly, mirroring Gu Yizheng's movements. Gu Yizheng could tell that the other person had exhausted all his mental energy and could no longer sustain the slightest manipulation of the microscopic structure...

Only muscle memory was still causing the movements throughout the body.

Gu Yizheng, whose mental level had reached the intermediate level of the fourth level, suddenly gained confidence, even though the way he worked consumed a lot of mental energy.

As long as one proceeds steadily and surely, even if one's mental strength is insufficient to sustain the successful completion of all the first-order pure spiritual energy microstructure molecular arrangements...

That way, we can also surpass our competitors in terms of progress.

Facing Zhang Chaoqiang's third-level intermediate mental strength, Gu Yizheng was a whole level higher!

Xu Shanji, sitting in the audience, finally saw the worry he felt for Zhang Chaoqiang in his eyes and expression.

Only Old Chen, who knew Zhang Chaoqiang very well, understood that Zhang Chaoqiang would be fine in the first place.

Compared to the "meticulous care" that Zhang Huolong and Shen Qiangwei gave him when he was a child, these setbacks and challenges are nothing!

Under the relentless scrutiny of unwavering will, Zhang Chaoqiang's spiritual power completely dissolved into nothingness...

In that instant, the brain, which was originally in a stable state, was triggered to a higher level of activity by the high intensity of pressure.

Just now, during Zhang Chaoqiang's high-intensity exertion and exploration of the microstructure, the brain was provided with a high-intensity stress environment that was different from usual.

Thus, in that instant, a firm will, under the impact of a high-pressure environment, gave rise to a surging power!

And it's spiritual power!

The mental energy, under the stimulation of such collision, rubbed back and forth, growing from the brain like a bamboo stalk that can transform into infinite possibilities in a short time.

swish swish swish…

Zhang Chaoqiang's spiritual level is increasing at a rapid pace.

Three levels of intermediate, three levels of advanced, three levels of peak…

Only after he completely broke through this constraint and reached the fourth low level, with the replenishment of his spiritual power, did the radiance emanating from his entire body gradually dim.

Zhang Chaoqiang, who had suddenly experienced rapid growth, was full of energy and showed no signs of fatigue from before.

Furthermore, he could sense that the stability of his spiritual level was absolutely unwavering, with not the slightest instability in his realm.

This is likely closely related to the talent of "growing through adversity".

Recalling what had just happened, his mental energy had completely dissipated, making it insufficient to maintain normal observation of microscopic molecules, and he would naturally suffer a backlash from his mental energy.

Isn't this precisely adversity?

Zhang Chaoqiang's breakthrough at the last minute impressed the audience, both physically and psychologically.

Under Gu Yizheng's horrified gaze, Zhang Chaoqiang paid no attention to anything else around him; his fingers were moving rapidly!

The final five percent of the progress was being rapidly completed by Zhang Chaoqiang.

In just thirty seconds, with the help of abundant mental energy and the blessing of spiritual power, Zhang Chaoqiang successfully completed the last step!

In that instant, the plate he had compressed shone with a unique and dazzling brilliance among the other 30,000 spiritual energy storage plates.

A beam of light, which was clearly white, was reflected in all sorts of colors through spatial refraction in another dimension, dazzling everyone's eyes.

People involuntarily closed their eyes, and when they opened them, Zhang Chaoqiang had already walked out of the synthetic space.

"I'm done."

These words echoed throughout the entire building…

Chapter 245 A mountain is as high as a mountain

The first person in the entire venue, accompanied by Zhang Chaoqiang's voice.

Within the synthetic space behind them, there was still a faint light, a state where the beam of light that had just pierced the sky had not completely dimmed.

The first to react to this situation were undoubtedly Xu Shanji and Lei She.

Meanwhile, the contestants inside the synthesis space behind them were basically caught off guard.

All they knew was that a fierce light was shining right in front of them, completely obscuring their pupils, making it impossible for them to see anything clearly.

Even Gu Yizheng, who was exploring the microstructure, was momentarily stunned by Zhang Chaoqiang's actions.

Fortunately, the light lasted only a very short time. They only realized what had happened after the light disappeared from the giant artificial crystal core's spiritual energy center in front of them...

Zhang Chaoqiang, who was just beside them, was no longer within the synthetic space.

Turning around, I realized the other person had already left the synthetic space. Considering the astonishing commotion just now, it goes without saying…

It has been shown that Zhang Chaoqiang successfully compressed the pure spiritual energy of the inner plate to one-thirtieth of its original value, accomplishing such an amazing feat!

The contestants present—Wu Ma Mengchao from Xinyun City, Dang Zhenpeng from Jiangnan City, Yang Yunqing from Yangyun City, and Xiang Yunlian from Jingran City—all revealed strange expressions.

Meanwhile, Gao Guojun and Xiao Xia, who had been eliminated yesterday, gritted their teeth upon seeing Zhang Chaoqiang emerge from the synthetic space, their hearts filled with resentment.

Meanwhile, the expressions of the contestants inside the arena grew increasingly strange, and as they cast another glance at Zhang Chaoqiang…

It was filled with a gaze and meaning that didn't seem to be observing its own kind.