novelraw Chapter 67 : Water Battle
Chapter 67 : Water Battle
67: Water Battle
The blue floating island was moored by the lakeshore. Yuyin and the other hundred-plus new students of the Blue Team stepped onto the island. On the other side, the red floating island was in the middle of the lake. The new students of the Red Team boarded the red floating island via the floating paths on their side.
The floating island was only about twenty meters square. After getting on, Yuyin began to observe the terrain of the entire water arena. Although there were three paths, which could be divided into left, middle, and right routes forming a square to connect to the Red Island on the opposite shore, each path was actually connected by floating air cushions of various sizes with gaps between them. The air cushion at the intersection of the three paths in the middle was the largest. Furthermore, there were some floating air cushions around the paths, meaning there was room to detour and maneuver between each path.
"Everyone, get ready. The competition… begins!" Teacher Zhang's roar, full of vigorous Primordial Energy, echoed across Yuehu Lake.
The competition had begun.
"So hasty? They're probably intentionally testing our ability to adapt," Yuyin thought to herself. Even she hadn't fully adapted to this venue yet.
Two senior volunteers with yellow armbands took out a large bag of blue armbands and started distributing them. Yuyin received one as well.
"Those whose names are called must attack within 30 seconds and leave the floating island, or you will be considered to have forfeited, and your points will be reset to zero," a tall, young male teacher with a tablet and a whistle shouted.
The blue floating island bustled with activity.
"Zhang Xiaohu, Chen Lei, Li Ruoying..." He rattled off seven or eight names in one breath. The teacher blew his whistle and started the timer.
These new students had no time to prepare and hurried onto the three paths. The situation on the other side was similar.
Yuyin stood at the edge of the floating island, observing. She saw that Hua Qianyuan was on the Red Island.
At the beginning, everyone was unfamiliar with the setup. The new students cautiously crossed one air cushion after another, probing each other. Their movements mostly looked nimble. After all, although this was sudden, they were not ordinary freshmen; they were geniuses chosen one in a million from across the country.
Using any means necessary to get the person on the other side into the water. At first, everyone was relatively civil. The first two boys from each side met and tried to make the other fall into the water by shaking the air cushions and using feints. But it soon escalated into pulling and shoving.
A few seconds later, one side was in a precarious position, and they made their move!
In quick succession, a boy and a girl from the Blue Team were kicked into the water.
Almost everyone who could get into this academy knew some form of martial arts, cultivation technique, or combat skill. The two sides started fighting in the middle section of the three paths.
A minute later, the referee teacher for the Blue Team announced the next batch of names.
"Ouyang Ning, Xia Yuyin..."
"It's my turn?"
Yuyin didn't expect it to be so soon. The initial order was probably randomized by a program on the tablet.
Yuyin felt that it was fine on the wooden planks of the floating island, but the rubber air cushions were soft and wet, making her high heels very disadvantageous. Without hesitation, she took off her high heels and, wearing only her black stockings, stood barefoot at the exit of the middle path. She had also casually chosen a path.
If she could, she would have taken off her stockings too, but who could have anticipated such an event at registration? This was not the place to take off her stockings in public.
As the whistle blew, even if Yuyin didn't charge forward, the boy behind her would have pushed her. She might as well take quick steps onto the floating island to avoid being pushed by the person behind.
At this moment, the battle of the first batch was still ongoing. Once they had torn off any pretense of civility and started fighting, everyone became cautious, maneuvering to find an opportunity. The actual exchanges were just a few quick moves.
Yuyin had never participated in this kind of "battle" before and had no experience. After rushing forward for a bit, she sidestepped and nimbly jumped onto a green floating air cushion more than two meters away from the path. This air cushion also had a patch of tall, inflatable grass.
"I'll hide here first to avoid their edge, then observe..." Yuyin thought.
However, this patch of inflatable grass could not completely conceal her figure. As soon as she jumped over, a tall boy on the Red Team wearing an NBA jersey left the middle path and quickly jumped from one air cushion to another, circling around the middle path to charge toward her.
An ordinary student might have been fine, but Yuyin... her attractiveness, her status as the top scorer of the college entrance exam, her student ID number, her black stockings... it was impossible for her not to attract attention.
"It seems, quite a few people are targeting me?" Yuyin snorted coldly but didn't panic. She waited on the inflatable grass, well-rested, for her opponent.
The tall boy made a move like a slam dunk, leaping through the air. His heavy body immediately tilted the grassy air cushion, attempting to disrupt Yuyin's balance.
Yuyin stood with her long legs apart, letting herself slide toward the boy's side without even grabbing the inflatable grass.
"Well met! Forgive my rudeness, classmate Xia Yuyin. If I get first place, I'll definitely choose you!" the tall boy said confidently. Looking at Yuyin sliding toward him, he opened his powerful arms to grab her. He had it all planned out: he would pick her up, take the opportunity to cop a feel, and then throw her into the water.
Yuyin planted one foot on the sliding cushion. Whoosh! She suddenly kicked out.
Thud! The boy had no time to react before he was heavily kicked in the abdomen. Just like that, with his arms still open, he flew backward.
Splash!
He fell into the water.
"Hmm?"
"What?"
At this moment, many new students on both floating islands were startled. Although she wasn't the first one to fall into the water, Yuyin's kick was exceptionally crisp, and the splash was enormous.
"For the astonishment of your fellow new students. Gained 5 Soul Charm Points," a female voice announced at the right moment.
"Xia Yuyin, is it? She really has some skills." On the side with the red hair, Qin Feizhen, number two, frowned.
That tall boy's Primordial Energy was probably just over 150. The gap between him and Yuyin, who had already broken through to become a Source Martial Practitioner and was far beyond those of the same realm, was enormous. Yuyin had only used about a third of her strength.
"Is that all?" Yuyin was gradually adapting. She jumped back to the middle path in one step and accelerated toward the large air cushion in the center.
"Make way."
Yuyin quickly strode along the edge of the cushion, passing by three of her own male teammates who were grouped together. By the time they felt the gust of wind and her faint fragrance, all they saw was her graceful receding figure.
Yuyin used her momentum and the slipperiness of the cushion to slide forward, charging toward two male students from the Red Team.
Both were startled and tried to get into a fighting stance, but they lacked coordination and bumped into each other. Yuyin supported herself with one hand on the cushion, her long, beautiful leg executing a sliding sweep.
Whoosh! Her long leg carved out a crescent-moon arc.
Splash, splash!
The two boys were swept into the lake.
The referee teachers from both sides, and even Chen Qian'ning standing by the lake, were startled.
"For the slight astonishment of Chen Qian'ning and the other teachers. Gained 5 Soul Charm Points."
Seeing three of their male classmates kicked into the water by one girl, the Red Team was enraged. Several male and female students charged toward the middle path, with two of the girls outflanking from the sides.
The Blue Team hadn't expected this, and those scattered on the other two paths were at a loss.
For a moment, Yuyin was surrounded.
"Go!" The three Blue Team members on the middle path also charged forward to help Yuyin.
Instantly, a melee broke out between the four Blue Team members and six Red Team members on the central island.
This melee was very obstructive. Yuyin was almost knocked over by one of her own teammates.
Facing the three boys charging at her, Yuyin leaped high into the air.
She jumped so high that the boys were all startled. They came to a sudden stop while flexibly adjusting their footing, waiting for her landing spot.
Yuyin raised one of her long, black-stockinged legs high. Her two legs were almost perfectly vertical, forming an "I" shape. A current of air, like a disturbance, rose around her.
The boys below raised their arms to block. If they could just block this one kick, they could seize the opportunity to grab her foot, and then this freshman "campus belle" would be at their mercy. Yuyin didn't know it, but in these few minutes, she had already been voted the campus belle of this year on Red Island...
"Hmph." Yuyin looked down upon everyone from above. She had practiced this kick a thousand times.
Ancient Temple Leg Technique, Second Layer!
Thud!
Her beautiful foot, wrapped in black silk, fell like a peerless, divine weapon.
It landed heavily on the arms of the boy in the center, making him feel as if his bones were about to break.
Splash, splash, splash! The large air cushion shook violently, sending water several meters into the air. Everyone on top lost their balance and staggered.
The boy had been kicked to his knees. After landing, Yuyin sensed the positions of the others amidst the sky full of white spray.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
She kicked out three times in succession, kicking two of the off-balance boys into the water and sending the third rolling to the edge of the island.
However, the violent shaking of the air cushion caused one of her own male teammates, who was in a standoff with a girl, to grab onto each other's clothes and fall into the water together.
As the spray settled, the two Blue Team boys hastily retreated from the cushion. It was too dangerous to be with this woman.
On the Red Team, only one person remained on the cushion.
Sometimes, you don't know certain things until you've fought. Only after this exchange did Yuyin realize how big the gap was between her and these ordinary new students with Primordial Energy in the range of 150 to 160. Perhaps a difference of a few dozen points in Primordial Energy during the college entrance exam wasn't that obvious, but with Yuyin breaking through with a value over 300 and using a superior secret method, the gap had multiplied several times. For these new students who had not yet broken through to become Source Martial Practitioners, it was very difficult to block even a single move from her!
At this moment, Yuyin had already jumped to first place on the scoreboard with 5 points.
"This bitch! Get her!"
"Ding, for the shock and anger of the Red Team students, and for their intense emotions of wanting to immediately pin you down and throw you into the water to get you soaked. Gained 20 Soul Charm Points..."
The fourth batch of students launched their attack. Among them, a few from the first batch on the Red Team had returned and were planning to take the initiative.
Several boys, led by a burly boy with a buzz cut and small eyes, student ID number 4, named Hu Yidun, split into three groups, planning to outflank Yuyin via the smaller air cushions.
Yuyin had clearly angered the Red Team.
But Yuyin glanced at the scoreboard and the time, smiled faintly, and quickly retreated from the middle path, returning to her own Blue Island.
"What!?" Hu Yidun was furious. "This woman, she's running?" They aggressively occupied the central cushion. Hu Yidun made a power-type provocation toward Yuyin.
But Yuyin walked directly to a corner at the back of the Blue Island. There, on a plastic rack, was a pile of wooden weapons, guarded by a senior female student.
"Classmate, am I allowed to take a weapon now?" Yuyin asked.