SSS Grade Saint Knight - Chapter 192

Chapter 192: The Origin of the Ice Bloodline! Tianlan Zhou Family!

TL: Rui88

Unlike the one-sided crushing victory of Suhang University over Rongyang University.

Hancheng University and Jinzhong University displayed an evenly matched state; not long after the battle began, they fell into a stalemate.

Across the entire arena, fireballs, wind blades…

Various spells and magical skills flew chaotically everywhere.

Their power was so strong that they flew over a hundred meters, crashing into the defensive energy shield and causing ripple after ripple to form upon it.

“Hiss, is this the strength of this year’s freshmen? Too strong!”

“It felt like any random student in there was stronger than me, a 20-level professional!”

“This was outrageous; that 18-level mage’s chanting time for spellcasting took less than 0.5 seconds!”

“…”

During the morning opening ceremony, there was also a team match.

But the battle time was too short; the fight ended in just three minutes.

Moreover, because the strength gap between the two sides was too great, some skills and spells hadn’t even had a chance to be used.

But now, the evenly matched battle between Hancheng University and Jinzhong University had the audience exclaiming with delight!

Jiang Churan sat in her seat, holding a cup of cold milk tea with both hands, and asked Zhou Yi, “Brother Zhou Yi, which side do you think will win?”

Because she was not wearing the school uniform, at that moment she dressed in a simple casual outfit like an ordinary girl.

But even so, her impressive figure could not be concealed.

Even her top, raised high by that hint of fullness, appeared taut.

This scene, if it were seen by others, would definitely attract a lot of attention.

But fortunately, the two chose rather secluded seats, and there were almost no other spectators around.

Zhou Yi did not hesitate in the slightest, “Hancheng University.”

It was thanks to the holographic projection in midair.

Although their seats were rather remote, the entire match was captured in full view.

Zhou Yi explained, “Hancheng University won for its fierce output of firepower, while Jinzhong University won for its agile movements, constantly dodging.”

“Now, 12 minutes have passed, and the defensive energy shield has already begun to shrink. If Jinzhong University does not have any other means, they will surely lose!”

Just as Zhou Yi predicted.

When, at the 15th minute of the match, the defensive energy shield shrunk the entire arena to a length and width of 200 meters, one misstep by a warrior from Jinzhong University allowed Hancheng University to seize a flaw and eliminate him directly.

The first team member fell, and the remaining members were quickly subsequently crushed.

Finally, at the 16th minute of the match, Hancheng University won the victory!!

As the electronic prompt sounded, “In this match, the winner is Hancheng University!!”

The entire audience immediately erupted into rounds of applause.

“Well played!”

“Spectacular!”

“…”

The spectators applauded enthusiastically.

On the lower field, the members of Hancheng University who finished the match politely shook hands with the members of Jinzhong University.

This was the rule of team matches: friendship first, competition second.

However, awkwardly, among all of Jinzhong University, only the team captain had enough strength to remain standing.

Of course…

Naturally, as the victors, Hancheng University did not feel embarrassed; after shaking hands individually with that somewhat pitiful team captain, they returned to their own field.

Zhu Yu clapped his hands in encouragement, “Well done!”

Then, immediately, he arranged for the priests to begin casting healing spells on them.

Zhou Xiaobai glanced in the direction of where the match began.

After confirming that Zhou Yi had not left, she immediately spoke up, “Teacher, I have some other matters; I want to leave first.”

Zhu Yu replied, “Go ahead.”

To that, Zhu Yu did not object.

Being a mage professional, Zhou Xiaobai performed exceptionally well in the battle just now.

At the same time, she was the best protected by the entire team, received not the slightest bit of injury, and naturally did not need to receive any healing.

Moreover, their school only had this one match this afternoon; now that the match ended, everyone could engage in free activities.

…

…

After leaving the lower field, Zhou Xiaobai quickly stored all her equipment into her backpack space, revealing a Hancheng University short-skirt school uniform.

Then she walked up to the stands, approaching in the direction where Zhou Yi was located.

As she got closer to Zhou Yi, Zhou Xiaobai’s slender fingers unconsciously twisted together, growing increasingly nervous.

Their Zhou Family was a long-standing clan that existed for several hundred years in Tianlan Province.

And the founder of the family, the Zhou Family Patriarch, was among the first batch of players in the Eternal Game.

As a player, the Zhou Family Patriarch did not choose the human race when creating his character.

Instead, he chose a rare race similar in appearance to humans, the Ice Descendants.

After the Eternal Game and reality merged, the Zhou Family Patriarch also inherited the Ice Bloodline.

Compared to ordinary bloodlines, the Ice Bloodline allowed one to naturally possess the power of ice and to control the force of the ice element, which was extremely formidable!!

Relying on the Ice Bloodline and the formidable strength of the Zhou Family Patriarch himself, the entire Zhou Family gradually developed and risen.

Thus, over several decades, the Zhou Family Patriarch, who already reached the peak of 70-level professional, disappeared after a trip to another world.

Although the Zhou Family Patriarch vanished, the special bloodline could awaken in the descendants, and the Zhou Family continued to develop for several decades.

Within the clan, several third-transfer experts who also possessed the Ice Bloodline emerged, sufficient to establish themselves.

Thus, although they lost the Zhou Family Patriarch, the entire Zhou Family continued to develop.

However, the advent of the Dark Age and the invasion of the other world dealt a heavy blow to the entire Zhou Family!!

Nearly seven third-transfer experts with the Ice Bloodline within the clan all perished at the hands of powerful others from the other world!!

Only two third-transfer experts preserved their souls and were resurrected through resurrection spells.

However, due to the side effects of the resurrection spells, the four-dimensional attributes of these two third-transfer experts drastically dropped, and their strength was reduced by nearly half!!

Moreover, what was even harder to accept was that.

Because one of the experts, during a battle with an otherworldly creature, was affected by the most powerful Otherworldly Devil Lord’s Eternal Curse Technique.

At first, the Eternal Curse Technique did not bring any side effects to this expert, and the Zhou Family did not pay much attention.

Later, the clan’s experts were astonished to discover that the probability of any Zhou Family descendant awakening the Ice Bloodline was greatly reduced, even to less than one-tenth of what it was originally!

From then on, everyone in the Zhou Family knew.

It turned out that the accidentally affected Eternal Curse Technique actually greatly reduced the probability of any Zhou Family descendant awakening the Ice Bloodline!!

This curse technique was extremely domineering!

It was inseparable from the continuation of the bloodline; it could not be removed! It could not be purified!

After nearly ten years of attempts by various experts who could not break the curse, the entire Zhou Family resigned themselves to fate.

From then on, every clan member who awakened the Ice Bloodline was cherished beyond measure.

However, even so, as of now, the Zhou Family members who still possessed the Ice Bloodline became very few, and they were all elderly!

Among the young, there were also individuals who awakened the Ice Bloodline.

But the power of their bloodline was extremely thin, rendering it completely unfit for use!

Under such circumstances of no successors, the Zhou Family appeared vast, but in reality, was extremely weak.

As soon as those few aged third-transfer experts passed away, the entire Zhou Family would be completely devoured by other forces that long coveted them!!

Therefore, once it was confirmed that Zhou Yi was a member of the Zhou Family, possessed the Ice Bloodline, and that its concentration was not low, then the entire Zhou Family would be saved!!

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaobai involuntarily took a deep breath, and her steps grew even more resolute!

10 meters!

9 meters!

8 meters!

…

As the distance to Zhou Yi decreased, Zhou Xiaobai’s eyes grew brighter.

She herself possessed an extremely thin Ice Bloodline, and therefore, she easily sensed from Zhou Yi a bloodline aura of extreme intensity!!

This bloodline aura was like that of a god, powerful and domineering…

“The bloodline concentration is at least 10 degrees or above!!”

A silent cry erupted in Zhou Xiaobai’s heart, followed by a surge of ecstatic joy!!

Degrees were the unit of measurement for bloodline concentration.

The higher the degree, the more concentrated the bloodline was!!

Because of the existence of the Zhou Family Patriarch, many of the Zhou Family’s inheritances, even hidden professions, all required the Ice Bloodline to reach a certain degree of concentration in order to be learned and inherited.

And a bloodline concentration of 10 degrees was already extremely formidable!!

She herself was only less than 1 degree!!

“As expected, Zhou Yi is one of our Zhou Family.”

At that moment, Zhou Xiaobai finally was sure.

After all, after several hundred years of development, the Zhou Family had branch clan members all over the country.

Zhou Yi, evidently, was one among many branch clan members!!

Suppressing the joy within her heart, Zhou Xiaobai quickened her pace and soon arrived in front of Zhou Yi:

“Hello, Zhou Yi, I am Zhou Xiaobai.”

Looking at the short-skirted girl in front of him, Zhou Yi naturally recognized her as the Hancheng University student who just battled on the lower arena.

He immediately asked in confusion, “Is there something?”

Zhou Xiaobai said, “It is like this…”

Seeing that Zhou Yi did not ignore her, Zhou Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief and then proceeded to divulge everything about her Tianlan Province Zhou Family, along with the matter of the Ice Bloodline.

Ten minutes later, Zhou Xiaobai finished narrating everything, and she summarized:

“No matter what, you, who possess the Ice Bloodline, must be a member of our Tianlan Province Zhou Family!”

After that narration completed, even Zhou Yi, who experienced two lifetimes, was slightly taken aback.

Ice Bloodline, Tianlan Province Zhou Family…

This news came too suddenly, and he was unprepared in the slightest.