Chapter 300 — The Ginseng Baby Wants to Self-Destruct
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Across the vast grounds, trees stood in neat rows and green grass spread like a carpet, while countless young figures sweated and strained upon it.
In a corner of the training field, a vigorous figure walked over to the white wall, leaned against it slightly, and stretched out her pale legs and arms in a languid yawn.
Bai Xi wiped the fragrant sweat from her face and neck with a blue sports towel, then took her phone out of her relic space.
Since returning from Mirage Abyss City, she had gone back to Ancient Capital University to supervise the school team members' extra training—after all, the national tournament was fast approaching.
Just moments ago, the instructor of Ancient Capital University's battle club had come to the training field to inform everyone about the rule changes for this year's national tournament.
Because of the World Championship, this year's and next year's national tournaments would undergo certain rule adjustments, mainly to align with the World Championship and even the domestic Sequence Contest—the prizes had been raised as well.
As expected, every school would fight tooth and nail in this year's national tournament, using the final half month to frantically pour resources into their students.
"What are you up to?"
Once the call connected, Bai Xi yawned tiredly and asked.
"Cramming in training." A voice came from the other end.
"Ning! (Beast tamer, cram in some points!)"
"Oh... you're raising that water slime..." Bai Xi understood.
Though he was not at Ancient Capital University, it seemed Shi Cen was working quite hard.
With Shi Ying's strength already surpassing hers, there was indeed no need for him to train with the school team.
She was already looking forward to the picture of Shi Jin and Susu slaughtering everyone at the national tournament.
"Wait, the rules changed this year—I might be one of the ones getting slaughtered." Bai Xi's face suddenly darkened.
"What's wrong, senior?"
"The rule changes for the national tournament are out. This year it's being split into groups by strength."
"Beast tamers below master level go to the team competition. Master-level tamers are no longer allowed in the team competition. Conversely, this year's individual competition is open only to master-level tamers."
"There are still two titles: national champion team and individual national champion."
Shi Jin: "Huh, that's not such a big change, is it? Masters just can't join the team competition, and the individual competition now has a strength threshold."
Bai Xi: "No, it's huge. This national tournament lowers the weighting of team competition rewards and raises that of individual competition rewards. So this year at Ancient Capital University, I'd guess only the two of us can enter the individual competition. And the individual competition rules are the most outrageous change of all."
"What are the specific rules for the individual competition?" Shi Tang asked.
"That's the real trap. The team competition is the same as in past years—a bunch of people honestly fighting it out on the arena. But this year's individual competition..."
"It's a lot like the survival trial in the professional assessment. Supposedly all contestants are dropped onto a giant island crawling with ferocious beasts, and then they're left to fight wild, no holds barred."
"The condition to advance to the next round is to eliminate two master-level beast tamers from other schools or your own on the island, and successfully survive until the contest's time-quota runs out."
"The advancing contestants then fight a second round to decide the individual national champion."
"That doesn't mean a person can only eliminate two on the island, though. The more contestants each competitor eliminates, the bigger the share of rewards they carve out."