Jiang He had already reached the peak of E-rank. After receiving the "World" enhancement, his strength had entered the D-rank level.
This way, the Word Spirit and Tarot divination skills he used could also provide significant buffs to C-rank peak transcendents like Du Lingwei and Yun Yang.
At this moment, with Du Lingwei's cooperation, he used his spiritual power to lock onto her, successfully glimpsing her "future."
Sure enough, a second outcome appeared for her.
Jiang He, using his enhanced skill, drew a card.
[Upright Temperance]
This Tarot card represents temperance, adjustment, and balance. Its effect was to significantly reduce the consumption of all talents and skills.
It allowed Du Lingwei to freely use various skills, even treating burst ultimate skills as regular moves—an extremely powerful combat amplification!
Du Lingwei felt the changes within herself, her expression filled with pleasant surprise.
"Thank you."
She said eagerly, ready to set off.
But Jiang He stopped her: "There's more."
Du Lingwei's mission was to tie down five B-rank transcendent beasts; merely reducing consumption wouldn't be enough.
Jiang He directly brought out his trump card, activating the Engraving Words skill and speaking.
"Apocalypse," "Godsend," "Spirit Healing," "Spirit Healing"—
Yes, Du Lingwei also possessed the Sun Scorcher path. She even held other advanced professions, which she combined under Zhong Honglian's guidance, allowing her to achieve a 100 battle energy ratio with her A-rank talent.
This also meant that the "near-death combat style" skill combination Jiang He had perfected could similarly take effect on her!
To maximize the amplification, Jiang He even used some of the ultimate Word Curses Bai He had left behind, causing the Word Curses' power to skyrocket!
As the Word Curses were engraved onto her body, Du Lingwei felt these curse marks continuously supplying her with power, bringing a comprehensive enhancement that was likely several times, even more than ten times, stronger!
Du Lingwei's expression was blank.
So Jiang He had been fighting with such terrifying buffs all this time?!
This was Word Spirit?!
With the final Word Curse, Jiang He's spiritual power was completely drained. His vision swam for a moment, and he struggled to maintain control of his mind as he spoke.
"You're enhanced, go!"
Finally finished?
Du Lingwei even let out a sigh of relief.
She activated her flames; though she only used a minimal amount of power, she shot out like a meteor, heading straight for the beast horde, moving at an indiscernible speed!
When she crossed a boundary, she finally arrived in the space where the transcendent beasts were.
The transcendent beasts, which had been "slowly" running, had their speed increase by more than a hundredfold.
Du Lingwei didn't need to do anything to draw aggro; the five B-rank transcendent beasts flew towards her, treading on air, moving at a speed far surpassing that of the other beasts.
Among them, the two Dark Tengu were the fastest. Enveloped in darkness, their forms seemed to swell with it. They opened their pitch-black, gaping maws, devouring the light as they savagely bit towards the ball of flame, as if to swallow the scorching sun.
Seeing this scene, the students on the periphery tensed up.
The higher the level of transcendent power, the greater the disparity between different energy ranks, and thus the harder it was to "fight above one's rank."
The same applied to transcendent beasts. Since they were rated B-rank, they naturally possessed strength comparable to B-rank transcendents. There was no such thing as a transcendent of the same rank necessarily crushing a beast of the same rank—if that were the case, wouldn't they just be rated C-rank?
Therefore, even though Du Lingwei displayed formidable combat power.
Others were equally nervous seeing her confront a B-rank transcendent beast.
However, when the Dark Tengu's teeth landed on the surface of the flame, they were blocked by a blossoming wisp of fire, held in a stalemate, unable to advance.
At this moment, raging flames gathered in Du Lingwei's hand, forming a long spear. It carved an arc, like a perfectly round sun, and slammed onto the Dark Tengu's dark outer shell.
In an instant, most of the darkness was incinerated. The fiery spearhead struck the dog's head, directly sending it flying!
In this clash of power, Du Lingwei actually held the advantage!
She had actually repelled a B-rank transcendent beast head-on!!
She was way too strong, wasn't she?!
"As expected of S-rank Word Spirit, to be able to enhance an A-rank talent to such an extent."
Everyone was shocked by Du Lingwei, but only Yun Yang stared at Jiang He.
His gaze was incredibly fervent, and he urged repeatedly, "Come on, Jiang He, with our dual S-ranks combined, we'll definitely be even stronger!"
"—Just a moment." Jiang He said.
The gap between E-rank and C-rank was still too great. He had just exhausted all his spiritual power providing Word Curses to Du Lingwei.
Fortunately, Chi Zhilei was nearby. Her Fragrant Body talent could release "revitalizing scent," which, combined with spiritual potions, could help others recover spiritual power.
At this moment, she was like a portable charger, desperately expending spiritual power to activate her talent, helping Jiang He replenish his spirit.
As a D-rank transcendent, her combat power might be average, but her spiritual strength was still quite good.
Jiang He quickly returned to full spiritual capacity, locking onto Yun Yang with his spiritual power to check his future.
The card face was "The Fool."
It was "Upright."
Jiang He couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
This Tarot divination was quite interesting; it truly wasn't completely random.
Leaving himself aside, Du Lingwei, who usually lived a disciplined and self-controlled life, drew "Temperance."
Yun Yang, on the other hand, drew "The Fool"—which indeed made him seem not very bright.
Of course, whether it was wisdom hidden by folly or folly mistaken for wisdom remained to be seen.
"Hurry up!" Yun Yang urged.
Jiang He no longer hesitated and drew a Tarot card.
Upright Fool represents innocence, purity, straightforward courage, and wisdom hidden by folly. Its effect was to significantly increase basic attributes.
As the card shattered, Yun Yang's physical body, spiritual strength, and energy intensity surged, directly tripling!
This was Tarot divination: difficult to control when used, yet possessing extremely high rewards!
"Oh, oh, oh, what powerful strength!!" Yun Yang exclaimed, his expression agitated.
Tarot divination was just the beginning. Jiang He continued to use Word Curses to provide enhancements for Yun Yang.
Although the Engraving Words skill had already been used on Du Lingwei, Word Curses like Apocalypse and Godsend could also last for a short period, with little difference in intensity.
Moreover, because Yun Yang's My Law Alone talent was rule-based, it didn't benefit from basic attribute bonuses.
The "Apocalypse" Word Curse used by Jiang He became the only skill capable of strengthening My Law Alone.
Yun Yang felt the changes in his talent and became completely exhilarated.
"I knew it, you're my final puzzle piece!"
With that, he eagerly set off, charging towards the transcendent beast horde.
At this moment, Du Lingwei had already, according to the plan, used her flame body's high-speed flight ability to draw the five B-rank transcendent beasts far away.
Yun Yang, meanwhile, stepped on air, charging into the sky above the center of the beast horde, then raised his hand and pressed downwards.
"Domain Expansion!"
As his talent's power was unleashed, all transcendent beasts below C-rank in the horde below were instantly stripped of all their strength; even their physiques reverted to those of ordinary wild animals. In this moment, they even forgot their hatred, wanting desperately to stop, leading to a stampede. One by one, the beasts broke bones and tore tendons, trampled into meat paste, and many flying beasts couldn't even support their own weight, plummeting from the sky.
Only the C-rank transcendent beasts endured varying degrees of weakening, depending on their individual strength.
Yun Yang's face was pale, his forehead covered in sweat. He controlled his trembling voice and struggled to speak.
"It's your turn."
The students in the distance became equally excited upon seeing this scene.
Since the instructor had stated this was practical combat training, their performance and battle achievements would undoubtedly affect future resource rewards.
The transcendent beast horde had already been suppressed; if they didn't seize this opportunity to harvest a wave, what were they waiting for?
At this moment, all the tactics, entry order, and other things Jiang He had previously mentioned were completely cast aside by them.
The students, either running or flying, rushed towards the beast horde one after another, vying for the lead, afraid that if they were too slow, they wouldn't snatch any battle achievements.
At this moment, only Shao Jun's mood was the heaviest.
"Kill them slower, leave a few alive, these are all my family's beasts—"
Jiang He, witnessing this scene, remained quite calm.
That's how team battles were; even the most perfect plan still needed people to execute it.
Fortunately, he was playing a support role this time, performing absolutely perfectly. He definitely didn't need to worry about his score; a minimum of 13.0 was guaranteed.
And Yun Yang saying earlier that Jiang He was his final puzzle piece was truly overthinking it.
A top-tier support like Jiang He was an absolute perfect puzzle piece, no matter where he was placed!
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