I conquered the cultivation world with scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Chapter 270 Monster Tide

[Wanqi Ziye truly lives up to his reputation as the most respected person at Lingqing Academy. There should be over thirty Nascent Soul stage cultivators in this group of two hundred; they're terrifyingly strong.]

Wanjue Academy has been overtaken! They haven't even had a chance to warm up in the first ten minutes. It's Ling Qing again! I didn't misread that, hahaha!

Wanqi Ziye said he was looking for S-rank monsters, and there are already S-rank monsters in the second phase this year? Shouldn't they appear in the third phase?

The glaciers are mostly inhabited by monsters resistant to low temperatures. Monsters are less common on glaciers, and those beneath them are usually hidden very deep. Wanqi Ziye's deduction has some merit; I think it's quite possible.

If the second phase brings an S-rank monster, wouldn't that be incredibly exciting? This is an S-rank monster! Even cultivators at the Transformation stage would struggle for a while, let alone those mostly at the Golden Core stage. Whether they can last a minute is questionable. Even with so many Nascent Soul cultivators, they probably couldn't win.

Not necessarily. Lingqing Academy is roughly strong enough to defeat them, Xiling Academy has a chance, but it's hard to say about the other academies.

By the way, Ling Qing can only defeat them if there are at least 300 people involved, and it's impossible to finish them all in one day. The monsters here have some similarities to those in the Trial Tower; many of them are numerically based, with no significant differences in strength between weak and strong monsters of the same type at the same stage. Their strength is all grouped into a specific range. Just wait and see.

Good grief, I want to see Ling Qing discover an S-rank monster on one hand, and on the other hand, I want to go watch the competition with Jiang He on the other.

Watching in split screen? How silly!

Too many to see

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The university competition is divided into three phases. The first phase lasts about three days, during which supplies will be refreshed once.

The second phase will last about fifteen days, during which supplies will refresh. Once the second phase is reached, the environmental systems of each map will gradually collapse, which is equivalent to temperature imbalance.

As for Jiang He and the others, they were unaware of this setting because Hengxing Technology only finalized the three-stage competition plan and released it online after the university competition began.

Based on past experience, the map will change at each stage.

For example, in the previous session, a large number of low-level monsters spawned within the map during the first phase, allowing various academies to accumulate resources in the early stages.

In the second phase, monsters on the map no longer spawn, and their numbers decrease, allowing academies to eliminate each other and reduce the number of students. This continues until the end of the second phase when higher-level monsters spawn on the map. The second and third phases are connected. In the third phase, in order to further reduce the number of academy students, S-rank monsters are spawned.

The previous planner liked to have universities eliminate each other, so the content and purpose of each stage of updates were very clear.

This is why Jiang He initially thought the resource spawn point would be at the intersection of the two maps.

This year's planning maintains the same style, except that it prepares for fierce competition between various universities from the very beginning of the first phase.

As for this second phase...

As Jiang He sensed the rising temperature of the glacier map, she roughly made a guess:

"A monster tide is coming."

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"A monster tide?! What nonsense are you talking about? Lu Xiaoxiao, why don't you do another divination? I'm getting a little panicked by what you're doing." Due to the extreme heat of the swamp map, Lan Yingshu's face, which looked like that of a high school homeroom teacher, showed a very incongruous sense of surprise.

Lu Xiaoxiao clutched her chest, feeling extremely weak.

Who would have thought that the seemingly stern Lan Yingshu had two sides to her? Lu Xiaoxiao, however, found it quite unsettling to see Lan Yingshu like this.

"Yes, the divination results are fine."

This was her third divination session, and each time the questions became more detailed. In the last divination, Lu Xiaoxiao concluded that the map was experiencing hypothermia.

Temperature out of control? That's a monster tide.

“There’s an 80% chance of a monster surge coming soon. This might be our Xiling Academy’s chance to overtake other academies, but…” Lu Xiaoxiao sighed as she looked at Lan Yingshu.

"But what is it? Tell me quickly, I'm in a hurry!" Lan Yingshu said.

When Lu Xiaoxiao first saw Lan Yingshu, he looked like a cultivator from a homeroom teacher's cult, or at least his face was fierce. Lu Xiaoxiao knew in advance that she would be strictly disciplined by Lan Yingshu.

Lan Yingshu's behavior and actions shattered her imagination of this face. Lan Yingshu was very impatient, completely different from that calm face.

She's always in a rush whenever something happens, and Lu Xiaoxiao sometimes feels really tired. Lan Yingshu was supposed to be in charge, but she's always the one cleaning up the messes. Lu Xiaoxiao feels like she's aged ten years in these three days of the academy competition. She said helplessly:

"Leader, you are the next Goddess's messenger, so calm down. Let's not rush this time, or we'll end up like Mingyue, being used as pawns."

Lan Yingshu's enthusiasm was instantly extinguished. She also heard the cause and effect of the fight between Mingyue and Xiling from Mu Sui. Lan Yingshu nodded vigorously.

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you this time. If you say go west, I'll never go east." Lu Xiaoxiao: "It's good that the monster tide is coming. It's just that there are only a little over a hundred of us here. It feels like we're too big a target. I'm afraid we'll be scattered by the monster tide. If there are high-level monsters, we'll easily become their targets. So before the monster tide arrives, we'd better find a relatively safe location to observe."

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"Are the planners inhuman? With the arrival of the monster tide, a large number of cultivators have been wiped out. Half of them will be eliminated in the second phase, and maybe even more. Will there be anyone left in the third phase?"

After Zhong Liyu deduced from Jiang He that monster tides would soon break out in various maps, the four of them, including Li Ling, started complaining about the game planner.

When Li Ling learned about the monster tide, she was devastated. She remembered that her college entrance examination this year had undergone various reforms and changes in the exam papers, and even the bug of an S-level monster appeared at the end.

This left Li Ling with a bit of a trauma.

Li Ling strongly suspects that the organizers of the university competition never intended for them to survive to the third stage. They might have reduced the number of participants to the minimum required to finish the competition by the second stage.

This is a monster tide! The monsters have rioted due to the chaotic temperature conditions, and all kinds of monsters are scrambling to escape across the map. It can be said that when the monster tide arrives, the attack power of the monsters will increase to an unprecedented level.

At that point, they won't even be able to fight with other universities.

They are completely overwhelmed with their own problems.

All kinds of monsters, from low-level to high-level, began to flee for their lives. And when these monsters saw the cultivators, they were the first targets they chose to attack.

It's either escape or die.

This whole thing is a complete indiscriminate attack.