"The battles in the Divine Arena are not real. They are virtual. Not only are the gods virtual, but everyone fighting them is virtual as well. Even if you die in battle, there's no need to worry. So once you enter the Divine Arena, you can fight without holding back."
A student immediately questioned it.
"What's the point of a virtual battle? We bet our lives when we hunt gods outside."
Xie Hongbo continued, "Although the Divine Arena uses virtual battles, the experience is extremely close to reality. Whether it's the impact of attacks, the use of abilities, or the pain of being hit by a god, everything is made as close to real as possible."
"Also, if you die or suffer severe injuries in battle and lose against a simulated god, you'll have to pay one bottle of sequence potion as a penalty."
The students immediately voiced their doubts, "Huh? Why? Why do we get punished for losing to a god?"
"Isn't the whole reason we're here because we can't beat them and want to improve? Who would waste sequence potions fighting gods they can easily defeat?"
Xie Hongbo explained, "If you die or are severely injured, it shows that you don't fully understand your own strength. It also means you'll have a higher chance of running into danger outside the Safe Zone. This penalty exists to make students who always challenge opponents beyond their abilities pay a price."
"You should know that simulating a sequence ability user consumes no fewer sequence potions than simulating a god. If you waste the Divine Arena's time and sequence potions, then naturally you need to compensate for it."
Another student objected, "But failure doesn't mean it's worthless! I can still learn and improve from losing! Nobody succeeds all at once!"
"That's a fair point. Failure is the mother of success, and the lessons learned from failure are not meaningless."
Xie Hongbo first acknowledged the student's argument, then changed direction.
"But the school has its own concerns. South Glory University prefers to train students who advance steadily, improve step by step, and can bring value to the school and the Safe Zone in the future, not troublemakers who always take huge risks."
"You can say things like, 'Youth without recklessness isn't youth,' or 'Young people should be hot-blooded.' But you need to learn to pay for your own risks instead of expecting others to cover for you. That's South Glory's warning to you."
"Any other questions?"
Xie Hongbo paused for ten seconds. Seeing that the freshmen had nothing more to ask, he began explaining the Divine Arena's usage rules.
"There are only one hundred Divine Arenas in the entire God Hunter Building. With more than two thousand freshmen, you'll have to share them. I'll explain how they'll be assigned."
"You should have already finished yesterday's Freshman Ranking Tournament. The top five students can each use one Divine Arena alone until class ends."
"Students ranked sixth through tenth will share three arenas. Usage time will be divided equally. The sixth-ranked student, meaning the one with the highest points, decides the order."
"Students ranked eleventh through one hundred will share arenas in groups of ten. The groups will be assigned using a snake draft system. Students ranked eleventh through nineteenth will be placed into nine different Divine Arenas. Usage time is split equally, and the student with the highest points decides the order."
"Students ranked one hundred and first and below will share the remaining Divine Arenas. Grouping will also use a snake draft system to ensure the highest-scoring students are distributed across different arenas. Usage time is divided equally, and the student with the highest points sets the order."
"Understood?"
"Understood..."
The freshmen answered weakly.
No one argued with this method of resource allocation.
After nearly a week at South Glory University, they had learned that the school's idea of "fairness" truly existed everywhere.
Students with more points genuinely had more privileges.
If they wanted more resources, they had to hunt gods, publish papers, and earn more points.
"Alright. Begin."
Qin Siyang and the other four immediately chose the five Divine Arenas closest to the lobby entrance. After putting on the equipment, they entered.
After opening the door, Qin Siyang looked at the Divine Arena's space, which was only about twenty square meters, and could not help feeling surprised.
"A place this small can simulate battles with gods?"
Qin Siyang planned to first understand how combat in the Divine Arena worked, so he used the Simulation Control Unit to select an Mutated Sickle.
Bzzz!
After a humming sound, Qin Siyang saw the walls around the Divine Arena suddenly disappear. He found himself standing on an open plain.
"Not bad. Pretty advanced."
A moment later, an Mutated Sickle appeared out of nowhere about twenty meters away.
The moment it saw Qin Siyang, it entered combat mode and charged at him wildly.
Qin Siyang pressed one foot against the creature's head. No matter how it attacked, he remained unmoved, carefully examining this simulated god.
After observing it for about a minute, he crushed its head underfoot.
"You know, this simulated god really looks the part. It's just like the real thing."
Qin Siyang then simulated a medium-sized god, a Ghost-Faced Heron.
A short while later, a giant ghost-faced bird appeared in the sky.
Qin Siyang wanted to see how strong the Divine Arena's simulated medium-sized gods were, so he did not attack. Instead, he waited for the Ghost-Faced Heron to swallow him whole.
Inside its stomach, a powerful sense of extreme weight wrapped around his body. He could feel the Ghost-Faced Heron rapidly flying upward.
Qin Siyang touched the stomach wall.
"The feel is realistic. The question is how accurate its abilities are."
He lightly threw a punch. A large section of the stomach wall shattered, then quickly healed.
"The regeneration ability is fine too. It's basically a perfect recreation. But the Ghost-Faced Heron doesn't have the lizardfish inside it. That's a flaw."
"Students fighting a simulated Ghost-Faced Heron in the Divine Arena won't see lizardfish inside its body. If they encounter the same situation in a real battle, they won't think of using the lizardfish to suppress the Ghost-Faced Heron's abilities."
Qin Siyang sighed, "As expected, you can't rely completely on books. Only practice can test what is true."
He then activated Origin Violence. One punch tore through the Ghost-Faced Heron's body, and another shattered its heart. After stepping off the corpse and falling from the sky, he landed steadily using his jumping ability and physical strength.
After killing the Ghost-Faced Heron, Qin Siyang simulated a Corrosive Black Centipede.
A few punches smashed its head shell. After crushing its insect brain, Qin Siyang returned to the ground.
"The warm-up is pretty much over. Time for the main course."
He opened the Custom God function and rubbed his chin.
"What did the Sacrificial Giant Vine look like again..."
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