"BANG!"

Blades of grass flew and star fragments scattered!

Zonglu’s face paled. He tensed his legs and immediately leaped backward to avoid being caught in the exploding star fragments.

But he wasn’t about to retreat so easily. He thrust his hands forward, unleashing a shower of sharp ice needles.

A double barrage of ice needles!

"Jump! That’s right! Go on and jump! You dare to jump in front of me?!" Rong Taotao spun around and ran to the side, dodging the area where the ice needles rained down while waving his hands repeatedly.

’Everyone’s got ranged attacks, right?’

In an instant, one brilliant star after another quietly appeared.

Starfield Soul Skill: Lesser Starfall!

The lowest-grade, common Lesser Starfall, when poured onto the Snow Realm Soul Martial Artist Zonglu, actually inflicted Excellent Level damage!

"THUD! THUD! THUD!"

This was what you call a baptism by... er, a baptism by starlight!

"AHHHHHH!" For a moment, Zonglu’s screams were just as loud as his girlfriend’s had been!

As three stars smashed into his head one after another, waves of intense pain surged through his body, spreading to every limb.

"BANG!" The Snow Burst Ball in Zonglu’s hand exploded, and his figure shot backward.

He had finally dodged, but in his intense pain, did the explosion actually blast him higher into the air?

If Zonglu had been blasted toward the ground, it would have been easier to dodge.

You have to remember, those stars were falling from the sky. Why would you fly up to meet them? Did you think their path was too long? Trying to shorten the distance for them?

This...

The stands erupted. But beyond the cheers, weren’t most of the sounds actually curses?

"Fuck... I knew that bastard was holding onto his Starfield Soul Skills!"

"So insidious! So vicious! He doesn’t strike often, but when he does, he goes for the kill!"

"Is anyone going to do anything about this little Starfield punk running wild in our Snow Realm Arena? Huh?"

"You wanna go deal with him?"

"Er... never mind, never mind. Forget I said anything..."

This was Rong Taotao, after all. Would he miss a chance to kick a man when he was down?

He took off after him, and seizing the right moment, he waved his hands again and again. A chain of Lesser Starfalls, almost forming a continuous line, rained down from the sky in a display of breathtaking beauty.

Nine Stars Linked Pearls—a baptism with every star!

"AHHHHHHHH..."

There are many people in the world who will kick a man when he’s down.

Zonglu’s current predicament was the result of a chain reaction, triggered when his girlfriend’s defense fell. Rong Taotao had seized that opportunity, starting a snowball effect that led to this very moment.

On the other side of the battlefield,

The female student was screaming in terror. Having stumbled and fallen to the ground, she kicked her legs frantically and scrabbled at the turf with her hands, scrambling backward.

The more she panicked, the more she lost her composure, her eyes invariably locking with Gao Lingwei’s as she strode toward her.

"AHHH... urk!" The female student’s scream cut off abruptly.

Gao Lingwei strode forward. In the end, she held back. Instead of piercing the girl’s body with her blade, she raised her foot and stomped down hard on her stomach.

At the same time, the Snow Burst Ball on the sole of her boot also exploded!

"BANG..."

Gao Lingwei’s stomp had curled the female student up like a shrimp, but the impact of the Snow Burst’s shockwave instantly slammed her folded body flat against the ground.

Gao Lingwei bent down, grabbed the female student by the neck, and casually tossed her out of the arena. Only then did she turn to look at Rong Taotao’s side of the fight.

Only to find Rong Taotao sitting cross-legged on the ground, elbows on his knees and chin in his hand, intently admiring her heroic display.

Far behind him, a group of students in white lab coats were carrying Zonglu—the recipient of the "baptism with every star"—off the field...

A slight smile touched Gao Lingwei’s lips as she sent him a thought: "I just asked you to hold him off, not finish him."

"I was planning on just holding him off, but this ’venerable’ senior was just too stubborn! He insisted on flying up into the sky, insisting on crashing into my stars. You expect me to just let him have his way...?"

Gao Lingwei: "..."

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I’m completely wiped from writing today, so that’s it for the updates. Just these two. Don’t wait up for one at 8 PM. Hope you guys had a blast reading this Chapter. I gotta go crash, been writing all day and I’m running on empty.