After watching several of Fang Zheng's matches, everyone had basically figured out how he did it.
Put simply, Fang Zheng used his powerful psychic senses to lock onto his opponents' positions right from the start, then used his extraordinarily long-range magic to directly activate their secret monuments and read the password input devices.
They had figured out the whole process, but... it was completely useless!!!
It was like medieval infantry facing a modern tank. What did it matter if you knew how it fought? My firepower was stronger, my armor was thicker, I was faster, and my range was farther. You could die of rage and still not reach me. What could you possibly do about it?
Besides that, something else happened.
During the girls' Illusion Star Picking event, Miyuki Shiba unexpectedly used Flying Magic!
The rules of Illusion Star Picking were exactly as its name implied. Contestants had to leap into the air and swing a baton to strike Energy Spheres matching their assigned colors high above them, which was why it was called "star picking." Before Flying Magic existed, the event primarily tested how long contestants could remain airborne, along with their speed, trajectory, angles, and precision.
But once Flying Magic entered the picture, it naturally became a completely one-sided competition...
However, Miyuki Shiba's Flying Magic operated on completely different principles from Fang Zheng's invention. Fang Zheng flew through jets of air, while Miyuki Shiba flew directly through anti-gravity. Naturally, Miyuki Shiba also won the rookie division's Illusion Star Picking championship.
There was also a small incident. After Miyuki Shiba used Flying Magic to clear the preliminaries, the other schools all went to the organizing committee to protest, claiming that this was blatantly against the rules. Considering that this Nine Schools Competition had already left the eight major