Chapter 86: Instant-killing three Tian Demons, why is he so brutal?
Chapter 98: Seven people surrounding and killing one? Lin Chuan eliminates three in a single move.
"Those three Tian Demons are coming for me, I have to go butcher them. Hide yourselves properly, and I will come find you when it is done."
Ye Qinghe did not act coy at all.
She was an apothecary, and if she ran into a tier-three Tian Demon, staying behind would purely make her a burden to Lin Chuan.
"Alright, as long as you know what you are doing. If you cannot hold on, retreat to the west, and I will leave the door open for you."
Lin Chuan glanced outside the ruins, where three tyrannical black auras were rampaging over.
"Rest assured, if bro enters the field, it is pure noob-bashing."
"Fine, fine, fine, you are the best fighter, hurry up and go bash them."
With a wave of her hand, Ye Qinghe pulled the nearby examinees, strapped her medicine chest tightly, and plunged straight into the western shelter without looking back.
Almost back-to-back, the three Tian Demons crashed heavily in front of the ruins.
"You must be Lin Chuan, we were ordered to execute you today."
"Very well, then let us give it a try." Lin Chuan let out a cold laugh, his expression quite natural in the face of the three Tian Demons' encirclement.
...
On the other side.
Lin He brought six examinees, trapping a Peak tier-three Tian Demon tightly within a pile of boulders.
"Do not hold anything back! One is worth fifty thousand points, they are not that easy to get! I will hold the front, and you all smash your ultimate skills onto it. Whoever cannot hold on, shout immediately!"
Before his voice even faded, six thunder rings burst open around Lin He.
The dazzling Six-Color Ancient Thunder slurry poured into the ground, instantly transforming into a violent cage a hundred meters in radius.
"Six Extremes Thunder Prison!"
Rumble!
Dozens of thick thunder spears burst out from the ground, piercing straight through the Tian Demon's legs on the spot.
The Tian Demon roared in pain, the scales on its arms bulging out, and actually managed to take two large steps forward against the tearing of the thunder arcs!
"Damn it, it can still walk after taking the Thunder Prison head-on?!"
"Push it back together! If this beast crashes out, we will all lose our lives here!"
Veins bulged on the few people's foreheads as vines, ice locks, and rock walls were smashed down all at once, forcefully pinning the Tian Demon back into the center of the thunder formation.
Seizing the gap, Lin He flashed and drew his sword, a lightning slash instantly severing its entire left arm!
Before they could even breathe a sigh of relief, black blood gushed wildly from the Tian Demon's severed arm, and granulation tissue wriggled frantically like threadworms, drilling out a brand new black-scaled arm in the blink of an eye!
The Tian Demon's expression was ferocious: "You examinees actually still dare to resist! Today I will slaughter all of you and make you the blood food for my evolution!"
Those examinees were speechless.
"Why is the Tian Demon so hard to fight? Just how many racial talents does it have? It can even regenerate severed limbs, this healing speed is way too fast."
The shield-bearing examinee holding the front had his face turn green:
"Did the Examination Bureau have their brains squeezed in a door? Releasing this kind of monster in here, these fifty thousand points are fucking exchanged with our lives!"
Whoosh—!
The Tian Demon opened its mouth and spat out a mouthful of scalding demonic flames, the pitch-black tongues of fire licking against the shield, burning the Spiritual Qi light barrier until it sizzled and severely deformed.
Following that, it slammed forward against the thunder light, its sharp claws sweeping out and instantly tearing apart an examinee's armor, bringing out a large splash of blood.
"Save me!!"
Lin He's sword light trembled, striking the demonic claw, while the remaining people flurriedly threw out talismans and Martial Techniques, barely managing to snatch the person out in the nick of time.
The wounded person clutched their mangled chest, collapsed on the ground, tremblingly poured a tube of high-tier potion down their throat, and cursed while panting heavily:
"Lin He, this thing is simply not the foundation of a normal tier-three Demonic Beast! If we drain like this any longer, we will all be done for!"
"You are telling me to retreat at this point? Will it let us retreat?"
Lin He himself also tilted his head back and chugged a bottle of Qi-recovery potion, his eyes turning fierce:
"Take whatever potions you want, put all the expenses on me, and I will reimburse you double when we get out! Pin it down for another ten seconds for me, next I will use the Six-Color Ancient Thunder rings to charge up a major move, and I will execute it with the final sword!"
Hearing that someone was footing the bill for the potions, the desire to retreat in the few people's eyes was instantly suppressed by greed.
"Fine, then I will go crazy with you! If you get the provincial top scorer and dare to renege on the debt when we get out, I will smash your family's front door!"
"What nonsense are you talking about, the livestream is hanging right there, do you think I lack these few bucks?!"
"Do it!"
The demonic flames were forcefully dispersed, their retreat routes were completely sealed off, and the few people smashed all their remaining True Qi onto the Tian Demon's lower body.
The Six Extremes Thunder Prison suddenly contracted!
Countless thunder spears completely pierced the Tian Demon into a hedgehog, nailing it dead amidst the rubble.
"Lin He! Chop it!!"
The Six Extremes Thunder Rings drove frantically, and terrifying energy poured into Lin He's body, causing his overall attributes to skyrocket by six times.
Lin He was like thunder piercing the sun, the longsword in his hand stabbing straight through the demonic core in the Tian Demon's chest!
Bang!
The demonic core shattered, and the Tian Demon's massive body crashed heavily to the ground.
"Succeeded, I chopped to death a tier-three Tian Demon, hahahahaha! I did it!"
They had struggled for nearly ten minutes in total.
The ground was covered in empty potion tubes, the seven people's faces were pale, panting heavily from exhaustion.
Lin He, however, wore a look of excitement, because this was fifty thousand points! Once these fifty thousand points were secured, wouldn't he steadily win the provincial top scorer?
[Killed a Peak tier-three Tian Demon!]
[Local points + 50,000!]
[Current local points: 73,180!]
Lin He's mouth finally curved into an arc.
However, he felt it was still not guaranteed; he had to find a way to take down another one. Getting 100,000 points should make it stable.
Slaughter one more, and his total points would break 120,000. This Dongzhou Province top scorer would then be completely welded into his hands.
"Everyone rest and start recovering your True Qi. If you don't have enough potions, come find me to get some, and we will hunt down the next one in a moment."
The examinee who had just taken a claw leaned against the rotten wall and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva unhappily:
"Still coming? We've really become your laborers. The next one counts as the next one's price, even close brothers settle accounts clearly!"
"You won't be short of anything."
...
The livestream bullet comments had already flown past, with viewers being both shocked and cursing.
"Seven against one almost got wiped out, this thing is beyond the syllabus, right?!"
"It's a good thing Lin He held the front; if it were any other team, the first wave would have been crushed."
"To be fair, this kid Lin He, as expected of the S-Rank Talent Six-Color Ancient Thunder, truly has some strength! The Thunder King's guidance during this period has also improved his strength quite a bit. I feel Lin He's combat power now should have already surpassed Lin Chuan's!"
"There is that possibility, after all Lin He is an S-Rank Talent, while Lin Chuan only has a C-rank Poison Talent!"
"But they don't even know that this Tian Demon is a tumor let in by the Tianyi Cult, and not exam content at all! They are still treating it like a hidden BOSS to farm!"
Just at this moment, the main camera suddenly shook, abruptly cutting to a patch of broken walls and ruins on the outer periphery of the gray zone.
Lin Chuan stood in the center, and three even more massive Peak tier-three Tian Demons formed a triangular encirclement, blocking him tightly in a dead end.
One spat demonic flames to seal off the retreat path, one bared ferocious bone spikes and rampaged over, and the last one flapped its fleshy wings, soaring straight toward the top of his head!
Above and below, all paths to survival were cut off!
"Holy shit! How did Lin Chuan get blocked in a dead end?!"
"Lin He's seven people ground down one and almost flipped over, he ran into three by himself?!"
"It's over, what's the point of watching this, hurry up and run!"
Haicheng Lin Family.
Lin Nan sat on the sofa and couldn't help frowning:
"Courting death! Having taken a tier 4 thunder saber, he really thinks he is invincible? Fifty thousand per head, can he swallow these one hundred and fifty thousand?"
Third Sister Lin didn't answer, only tightly clutching her palms, staring at the screen.
In the picture, Lin Chuan, who was driven into a desperate situation, didn't even move a step.
He looked at the three monsters pressing over and raised an eyebrow.
Saves me the trouble of looking everywhere.
Thousand-Thread Mind Control Method, rise!
He just lightly raised his hand.
Hum—!
The six pitch-black demonic blades behind him instantly un-sheathed, suspended in mid-air.
Boom!
The violent Purple Heaven Divine Thunder completely exploded across the bodies of the six blades without any warning!
Two split open the sea of fire, two hard-shook the bone spikes, and the last two pulled out dazzling purple exhaust flames, executing a reverse slash against the air!
The black demonic flames that seemed to burn everything collided with the thunder light, and the moment they did, they were torn apart on the spot like thin paper.
The Heavy Armor and bone spikes of the Tian Demon charging head-on shattered inch by inch. Before its massive body could even touch within three zhang of Lin Chuan, two thunder blades crossed and pierced through its chest at an extremely brutal angle!
The one in the air didn't even have time to emit a scream before the purple blade light flashed and passed, dismembering it right in mid-air!
Three intersecting purple lights suddenly paused in mid-air.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three core demonic cores were simultaneously ground into powder by the terrifying thunder force!
Three massive charred corpses crashed heavily into the ruins, stirring up dust all over the sky.
From the initiation to the end.
In total, less than ten seconds.
Instant kill, an absolute sense of instant kill!
[Killed a Peak tier-three Tian Demon!]
[Killed a Peak tier-three Tian Demon!]
[Killed a Peak tier-three Tian Demon!]
[Local points + 150,000!]
[Current local points: 150,032!]
The six demonic blades let out a soft hum, flew back, and obediently hovered behind Lin Chuan.
Lin Chuan patted the dust off his cuffs and sensed his Dantian.
The consumption was not even one percent.
He clicked his tongue, somewhat speechless. He had thought the three Tian Demons might be a bit difficult to deal with, but now his strength was far greater than when he fought the Tian Demon Moga previously. To him, these three were no different from three stray dogs on the roadside.
"These points are so easy to get!"
...
Inside the livestream, the bullet comments directly exploded!
"????? "
"What the hell was that thing that flashed past just now?!"
"My niang! Lin He's team almost coughed their lungs out coughing up potions to grind one to death, and he just raised his hand and instant-killed three?!"
"No way, did Lin Chuan's demonic blades have this much power back then?"
"Yeah, I remember when they fought in the arena matches, his demonic blades could still be defended against by other people."
"And yet you're telling me that in less than ten days, he can now instant-kill tier-three Tian Demons. This speed of getting stronger is too terrifying."
"Which know-it-all said he couldn't do it just now? Get out here and walk a few steps!"
"Director, don't cut the camera! Lock onto Lin Chuan! I want to see how many heads he can chop off today!"
In the monitoring room.
Pei Wubing was shocked for a long time before turning his head to glance at Thunder King Yue Jinglei beside him:
"Old Yue, is my disciple awesome or what?"
Thunder King Yue Jinglei's old face twitched, and he said unhappily:
"Simply demonic, why is he so brutal?!"
Chapter 87 Lin Chuan is on a killing spree!
"You guys help me pin him down, and I will deal the final strike to him."
Lin He gripped the thunder light sword with both hands, but the blade got stuck in the heavenly demon's chest and couldn't pierce through no matter what.
Six examinees nearby gritted their teeth and made their move.
Ice chains bound its arms, a rock pillar pressed against its back, and the boy holding a shield simply pounced forward, pinning one of the heavenly demon's legs tightly.
Lin He poured his last bit of True Qi into the long sword.
Puff!
The blade finally pierced through the sternum, shattering the demonic core inside on the spot.
The moment the heavenly demon fell, Lin He slumped onto the ground as well.
[Killed a Tier 3 Peak heavenly demon!]
[Local Points + 50,000!]
[Current Local Points: 123,180!]
"Lin He, go check if it's actually dead or not?"
The shield-bearing boy lay flat on the ground, lacking even the strength to crawl back up.
"It's completely dead, the exam ring has already reported the points."
Lin He panted heavily, his chest rising and falling violently.
The emergency recovery agent had already been used once, and his newly recovered True Qi had been squeezed dry again. Right now, let alone Six Extremes Thunder Prison, he couldn't even conjure a single arc of electricity.
A team member staggered over, wanting to help him up.
"No, I really can't hold on anymore. Let's stop here; even if another one comes, I won't be able to fight."
Lin He waved his hand and lowered his head to look at the exam ring.
Over 123,000 points!
After going through all this trouble, it wasn't in vain after all.
"After we get out, not a single thing that belongs to you guys will be missing."
Hearing this, several team members finally breathed a sigh of relief.
They were genuinely afraid that this young master Lin would get carried away by the killing and lead everyone to risk their lives again.
"Lin He, after helping you hack down this heavenly demon this time, several of us brothers almost died. When you become the provincial top scorer, don't forget about us!"
"Rest assured, rest assured, I am a person who knows how to repay gratitude the most."
...
On the other side.
Lu Lingxiao likewise lacked the strength to continue.
The second heavenly demon was pierced through the chest by the poyue spear and collapsed in the middle of the mountain road.
He sat down leaning against a tree, his arms trembling endlessly. Shen Ye sat nearby, tilting a medicine bottle into his mouth for a long time before realizing it had long been empty.
[Current Local Points: 118,460!]
"Young Master Lu, let's take a break. My head hurts terribly right now, and if I use my Innate Talent again, I'm afraid I'll pass out."
Lu Lingxiao glanced at him.
"We've taken down two, 100,000 points. We've already broken Dongzhou Province's record over the years. The top scorer spot should be secure; others are impossible to reach this score."
Shen Ye leaned against the tree and completely stopped making a sound.
Two Tier 3 Peak heavenly demons had hollowed out their foundation completely.
In the center of the grey zone.
However, Qingyin Envoy couldn't even be bothered to look at them.
He stared at Lin Chuan in the blood mirror, his expression looking terribly ugly.
Three heavenly demons were gone in the blink of an eye.
Furthermore, after Lin Chuan finished killing them, he didn't seem to have used much strength at all. He even had the mind to check the blood patterns on the ground!
"Transfer all the surrounding heavenly demons over to me!"
Qingyin Envoy pressed the token into the blood array.
The cultist nearby quickly reminded him.
"Lord, there are thirteen in total. Several have already blocked the examinees; if we transfer them away now, those people will be safe!"
"Then let them off for now!"
Qingyin Envoy turned his head and glared at him.
"Lin Chuan is almost tracing his way over along the blood patterns, and you're still thinking about those few examinees? Kill him first, the others can't run away!"
Three aren't enough? Then thirteen go up together!
He wasn't unaware of the strong burst of a Spirit Reader.
But the stronger the move, the greater the consumption.
He didn't believe that Lin Chuan could keep killing like this indefinitely!
...
Inner Canyon.
Tang Hanyi's Hanyue Sword had already pierced into the heavenly demon's shoulder.
Several examinees swarmed up from all directions, excitement visible in their eyes.
After fighting for so long, they were finally going to take it down!
"Its chest armor is already shattered, strike it again!"
Just as Tang Hanyi was about to pull out her sword, the blood pattern on the heavenly demon's forehead suddenly lit up.
That thing abruptly broke free from the restraints, ignoring even the sword stuck in its shoulder, and with a flap of its wings, it charged straight into mid-air.
Tang Hanyi was dragged forward to stumble two steps, quickly pulling out her sword.
"Damn it, this thing actually wants to escape."
An examinee stamped his feet in anxiety.
"Chase after it, we've already drunk our potions, we can't let our efforts go to waste!"
The crowd chased in the direction the heavenly demon flew away.
But after crossing the mountain slope ahead, the examinee who had shouted the loudest just now turned around and ran back.
"Stop chasing! Damn it, it called for backup!"
"Holy crap, so many, this is too dangerous, we can't go over there!"
Near the ruins ahead, over a dozen streams of Demonic Qiwere gathering.
After the heavenly demon they chased flew over, it also stopped in mid-air, lowering its head to stare at the center of the ruins.
Lin Chuan was standing right there.
"Lin Chuan, run fast! That whole group over there are all Tier 3!"
Someone shouted from afar and quickly turned around to slip away.
Tang Hanyi looked at Lin Chuan, who showed no reaction, gritted her teeth, and instead charged forward with her sword in hand.
"Lin Chuan, why are you still standing here?"
She came to Lin Chuan's side and raised her hand to grab his arm.
"I still have a move called Extreme Cold Ice Domain, which can freeze them for a while. Once the cold Qi rises later, we'll run. With so many heavenly demons, what on earth is the Examination Hall trying to do this time?
Do they want to kill us all? It's too crazy, this is no longer at the level of an exam!"
Lin Chuan looked at her, then looked at the several examinees who had already run far away.
He hadn't expected this girl to still be willing to stay and help.
Although her name was Tang Hanyi and her attribute Innate Talent was ice-type, he didn't expect that while she looked cold on the outside, her actions were quite warm.
"Little sister, there's no need to help brother. The moment I make a move against these things, it's an overwhelming stomp. What are these heavenly demons even worth?"
Tang Hanyi was almost angered to laughter by him.
"Stop messing around, what time is it, why are you still acting cool? Look at how many heavenly demons are in the sky. If they come down and surround you, giving you a fork each, you'll be dead."
As she spoke, her foot touched a piece of black armor.
Tang Hanyi lowered her head, only then noticing the corpses beside them.
One, two, three.
All of them were heavenly demons!
The chests of all three heavenly demons were pierced through, and the blood on the ground hadn't even dried yet.
The hand she was holding Lin Chuan's with involuntarily loosened.
"Oh my god, are all these heavenly demons on the ground killed by you? You killed them all by yourself?"
"Yeah, just finished cleaning them up."
Looking at his spotless battle uniform, Tang Hanyi's heart suddenly trembled.
The several of them swarmed around one and still ended up looking all dusty and battered.
Lin Chuan killed three by himself and yet acted like it was nothing?
But she raised her head to glance at the sky, still feeling uneasy.
"I know why you're unwilling to leave, but are three and thirteen the same? If they pounce down together, no matter how powerful you are, there will be places you can't cover."
Lin Chuan raised his hand, and six demonic blades had already flown to his side.
"Really, don't worry about me. I didn't even use my mental-type Martial Technique just now. Step aside and watch how I slaughter these thirteen heavenly demons."
Tang Hanyi opened her mouth.
This guy simply couldn't be persuaded!
She could only retreat to the broken wall behind her, grip the Hanyue Sword tightly, and prepare to activate the ice domain at any time.
The thirteen heavenly demons also pounced down simultaneously at this moment.
Black demonic flames poured down from mid-air.
The few heavenly demons in the front expanded their protective demonic light, crashing into the ruins with bone spurs all over their bodies, causing the walls along the way to collapse one after another.
The live broadcast room instantly erupted into a clamor.
"They really surrounded him! Why won't Lin Chuan just leave!"
"He can instantly kill three, I believe that, but thirteen coming up together—even a high-level Grandmasterwould meet their doom here. This Lin Chuan is far too arrogant."
"Tang Hanyi is still preparing to help in the back; this girl is truly loyal."
"This girl is pretty and righteous; after she finishes the gaokao, I am willing to marry her."
"What are you daydreaming about here? Is it your turn to get married? That's my wife."
But Lin Chuan had already poured his Mental Strength into the six demonic blades.
Perfection-tier Soul-Splitting Sting!
Hum!
The six demonic blades spun wildly, pressing out ripples of air in front of the blade tips.
Purple thunder followed, swirling and wrapping around the blade bodies, expanding outward.
In just the blink of an eye, six over-ten-meter-long thunder drills had appeared above the ruins!
"Die for me!"
Lin Chuan waved his hand forward.
Six bolts of thunder light shot out roaringly!
The foremost heavenly demon opened its mouth to spew demonic flames. As soon as the black fire collided with the drills, it was shredded and splattered in all directions.
The demonic blades pushed against the flames and continued forward, slamming fiercely into its chest.
Boom!
The protective demonic light exploded instantly.
The thick chest armor didn't even hold out for a single breath before being drilled through by the high-speed rotating blade tips.
Flesh and armor fragments sprayed all around, and the demonic core hidden behind the sternum shattered together!
Before that heavenly demon fell, the demonic blades had already burst out from its back, crashing toward the next one!
The six thunder drills rampaged wildly among the pack of heavenly demons.
Whatever bone spurs, whatever demonic armor—upon contact, it meant a giant hole!
One heavenly demon crossed its arms, trying to forcibly embrace the demonic blade.
The blade edge turned, shredding both arms directly, along with half of its chest exploding together.
Another heavenly demon had just released a large area of demonic flames when the thunder light pierced out from the sea of fire, nailing it flying dozens of meters and smashing it into the stone building behind.
Rumble!
The entire stone building exploded from the middle, with rubble shattering everywhere.
The remaining heavenly demons were finally afraid.
How the fuck is this supposed to be blocked?
Protective demonic light is useless, body armor is useless either; upon colliding with those six blades, there isn't even a chance to struggle!
Just as they wanted to scatter, the six drills hooked back in mid-air.
Purple thunder light consecutively pierced through their bodies.
Several corpses smashed down from mid-air, and the remaining heavenly demons were also caught up by the demonic blades, blasted to pieces along with the broken walls along the way.
The final one-armed heavenly demon was precisely the one Tang Hanyi had chased over.
It had already escaped the ruins.
But before it even had time to rejoice, the sound of thunder from behind arrived.
Puff!
The demonic blade drilled in from the back, pierced the demonic core, and then rushed out from the chest!
The heavenly demon toppled headfirst down the slope, rolled a few times, and completely stopped moving.
Thirteen in total, all killed!
[Local Points + 650,000!]
[Current Local Points: 800,032!]
The six demonic blades flew back to Lin Chuan's side.
The thunder light on the blade bodies was still jumping; let alone a decrease in power, even the spinning speed hadn't slowed down much.
Feeling the consumption, Lin Chuan grinned widely.
Exhilarating!
Much more exhilarating than chasing and killing them one by one!
Tang Hanyi stood behind the broken wall, motionless for a long time.
The cold Qi had already gathered on her sword.
As a result, before she even had time to release it, the heavenly demons were all dead.
Just now she even saw the one she had fought against.
That armor which was so hard to hack was like paper mache in front of Lin Chuan's demonic blades!
"Lin Chuan, are you even a human? Could you be some powerful expert's reincarnation? Those are thirteen Tier 3 heavenly demons, and their defense is comparable to human Grandmaster experts!
You pierced through all of them just using your demonic blades. The Martial Technique you used just now was a mental-type one, right!
Why is your Mental Strength so strong? How many ke of Mental Strength do you have right now? You wouldn't happen to be a Second-Turn Spirit Reader right now, would you?"
Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Tang Hanyi was already shocked to the point of incoherence.
Lin Chuan turned his head to look at her.
"I'm still quite glad that you were willing to come back and help me. Little sister, you're a good person."
Tang Hanyi didn't even know what to say for a moment.
She had come back to help.
Yet from beginning to end, apart from standing aside and worrying blindly, it seemed she hadn't helped with anything at all!
The live broadcast room had completely exploded.
"Thirteen! I counted just now, a full thirteen, all gone!"
"This is even fiercer than killing the previous three! Just how many things is he hiding?"
"Lin He's seven people are still lying on the ground, Lu Lingxiao can't even hold his spear steady anymore, yet this single person over here has already taken down sixteen!"
"Eighty thousand points! Lin Chuan's first place is definitely at an overwhelming level. Even if the following nine added together aren't as high as him, he's just too fierce!"
"Where is the Tianyi Cult? Hurry up and send over some more heavenly demons. Let me see if this year's dark horse of Dongzhou Province can hit 1.00 million points in one go! If he can get 1.00 million points, wouldn't he directly become the national top scorer? Hahaha, this year's national top scorer belongs to our Dongzhou Province!"
In front of the surveillance screen.
Ning Zhaoyue looked at the six demonic blades hovering beside Lin Chuan again, the surprise on her face not diminishing by even a bit.
"This kid's Mental Strength is a whole lot stronger than the last time we met!"
She had been staring at Lin Chuan's moves the entire time just now.
The six demonic blades simultaneously executed the Soul-Splitting Sting, breaking through the demonic flames, piercing through the demonic armor, and after continuously killing enemies, they could still turn and pursue at that kind of speed.
This wasn't something that could be achieved just by having sharp weapons.
"Soul-Splitting Sting is an A-grade mental-type cultivation technique, and he has also reached Perfection in it! How long has it even been?"
Ning Zhaoyue couldn't help but take two steps forward.
She had seen Lin Chuan's Mental Strength last time and considered herself very clear on his strength.
Looking at it now, where was this still the level she knew!
This powerful Mental Strength was at least 10 times greater than when she first knew him. Is this Lin Chuaneven human?
"When he comes out, I have to ask him."
Ning Zhaoyue stared at the screen, truly unable to hold back.
"Other people cultivation Mental Strength bit by bit by grinding. Look at him instead; how come every time I see him, it's like riding a rocket, vaulting up a huge floor!"
Chapter 88: Hundred-Meter Devil, Thunder Blade Howls!
Center of the grey zone.
The token in the Qingyin Envoy's hand had all thirteen blood lines dim.
In the blood mirror, Lin Chuan had already put away his magic blade and was talking to Tang Hanyi beside him.
Not to mention getting injured, this kid didn't even catch an extra breath!
The cultists beside him lowered their heads, not daring to make a single sound.
Just earlier, the Qingyin Envoy said that if the thirteen devils went up together, they could wear Lin Chuan to death.
As a result, Lin Chuan was fine now, and all thirteen devils were dead.
Not only that, but Lin Chuan became more spirited the more he killed.
"Damn it, why is this kid so good at fighting? Open the blood pool right now!"
The Qingyin Envoy turned and walked toward the altar, and several cultists hurriedly followed, pulling out the black flags planted around the edge of the pool one by one.
The bloody water in the pool suddenly began to churn.
The Qingyin Envoy stood by the pool and bent down.
"Your Highness, there has been a bit of a situation; we must trouble you to act personally."
Beneath the blood pool, two huge eyes suddenly opened.
Boom!
A huge black claw reached out, gripping the edge of the pool.
The altar, along with the surrounding stone pillars, was instantly crushed to pieces.
Immediately after, the entire blood pool exploded!
A massive amount of bloody water surged in all directions, and several cultists failed to dodge in time, being washed rolling down the hillside.
A colossal demonic body stood up from the blood pool.
Over one hundred and twenty meters tall!
The trees within dozens of meters nearby hadn't even reached its calves yet.
Two curved black horns pointed straight into the sky, and layers of demonic armor on its chest opened up, sucking in all the residual bloody water.
Whoosh!
The wings on its back suddenly unfurled, the ensuing violent wind blowing away gravel, and a large expanse of the mountain forest was shrouded in shadow.
The Qingyin Envoy leaped and landed on its shoulder, quickly steadying himself.
"This exam! There are fifty thousand human Geniuses? You've been busy until now, and you only prepared this little bit of blood for me?"
The Demon King prince lowered his head, his voice shaking the gravel by the edge of the pool so that it kept falling down.
The Qingyin Envoy hurriedly explained.
"They are all inside, the exit has been sealed off, not a single one can escape."
"These examinees are all young Martial Artists with abundant Qi and blood, enough for Your Highness to devour and further elevate Your Highness's royal bloodline!"
Hearing this, the prince finally looked into the distance.
In the mountain forests, canyons, and ruins, the presence of humans was everywhere.
It grinned, revealing a row of sharp teeth.
"Then what are we dawdling for?"
"An accident occurred this time; an examinee named Lin Chuan killed sixteen devils in succession."
"Just now, I dispatched thirteen to surround and attack him, but still couldn't take him down."
"A person that a dozen or so devils couldn't handle—hahaha, this is a great thing!"
"His bloodline and spiritual charm must be quite extraordinary!"
"Step aside, I'll do it myself."
The prince raised his foot and stepped directly over the hillside outside the blood pool.
Thud!
The entire ground shook along with it.
Beside the pile of rubble.
Lin He had just been helped up by his team members when a violent vibration came from underfoot.
Several people looked up, and their expressions changed at the same time.
Above the distant mountain forest, a huge head poked out.
Looking further down, they realized that the creature's body was still behind; a single arm alone was countless times larger than the devils they had just killed!
The exam ring vibrated along.
[Target Identification: Fourth-tier Devil!]
Lin He stared at the prompt, his eyelids twitching.
"What the fuck is this out of the syllabus? Fourth-tier devils are here? What is the Examination Institute bringing this thing in for?"
The shield-bearing boy swallowed a mouthful of saliva, pulling the shield in his hand back behind him.
This crappy shield struggled even to block the claws of a third-tier devil; taking it to block that big guy probably wouldn't even withstand a single kick.
A 120-meter-tall devil, compared to them, humans were like little ants.
Jumping up, you could only hit the devil's toenail.
"After fighting third-tier ones, there are still fourth-tier ones. What on earth does this year's gaokao want to recruit? Surely they don't really expect us to go up and kill them!"
"Did they change the event? Earlier it tested hunting, now it tests fleeing; running out counts as passing?"
After another examinee finished speaking, even he felt it made some sense.
Otherwise?
The seven of them student experts had fought desperately until now, and had only managed to kill two third-tier ones.
Such a huge fourth-tier one couldn't possibly be meant for them to go over and throw their lives away, right?
"Never mind what is being tested, get away from it first!"
Lin He rested his arm on his team member's shoulder and pointed toward the canyon beside them.
"Help me out, go that way. I don't have a single bit of True Qi left right now; if it really catches up, no one will escape."
The few of them did not dare to delay, supporting each other as they plunged into the canyon, their vision quickly blocked by the mountain body.
On another mountain road, Lu Lingxiao likewise couldn't stand still.
He got up leaning on the poyue spear, while Shen Ye was still looking up at that devil.
"Young Master Lu, you don't want to go and try, do you?"
"Do I look like someone with a bad brain? This time it probably tests survival ability."
"That's right, but Young Master Lu, we drank all our medicine just now, what should we do next?"
"Run first and talk later! Otherwise, do you still want to turn into shit and say the Examination Institute is fully responsible!"
Lu Lingxiao pulled him along and led the others to retreat outward along the mountain road.
Until this moment, they still thought that the powerful figures responsible for rescue were nearby.
If someone really couldn't hold on, someone ought to make a move.
But the next moment, the screams coming from the center of the grey zone made everyone's expressions change.
The Demon King prince stopped in front of a river valley.
A large number of examinees gathered below; some had just escaped from the inner layer, and others were bandaging injured companions.
Seeing the shadow pressing down from overhead, everyone dropped their things and ran.
The prince opened his mouth and took a fierce breath.
Boom!
The wind in the river valley suddenly reversed!
Tree after tree was uprooted, the river water was sucked into mid-air, and the surrounding rocks flew up as well.
"Grab onto something! Don't let go!"
A boy stabbed a long spear into the ground, his two hands tightly gripping the shaft.
His companion beside him had just hugged his waist when the entire patch of ground beneath their feet was flipped up!
Over a hundred examinees were swept into mid-air.
Protective shields lit up one after another; someone desperately threw out ropes, someone waved weapons, wanting to break free from the violent wind.
But those shields were crushed to pieces the moment they got close to the giant mouth.
"Teacher! Help!"
Before the shout could travel far, the person had already disappeared into the devil's mouth.
The prince closed his mouth, his throat rolled once, and the blood lines on his chest became even more vividly red.
The river valley that had just been packed with people was left with only a patch of scraped-open muddy ground.
Those examinees had just been eaten like that!
"Withdraw! I want to withdraw from the exam!"
A girl who fled to the valley entrance pressed her exam ring while running; after pressing it a dozen times, there were still only those two energy interference prompts on it.
Someone beside her held up their exam ring and shouted, their voice cracking.
"Did you hear that! People died inside, hurry and teleport us out!"
"Examination Institute, are you crazy? Is an exam of this level trying to make us die? We've worked hard for over a dozen years, not to come here and throw our lives away!"
"This exam is too out of the syllabus, I want to report this!"
No one responded at all.
The Demon King prince looked at the crowd fleeing in all directions and instead laughed.
"Qingyin Envoy, watch the exit well; now is my delicious buffet time."
"As you command, Your Highness."
In the ruins several thousand meters away, Lin Chuansuddenly raised his head.
The moment that sucking force stopped, he had already put away the six magic blades and rushed toward the river valley.
Tang Hanyi hurriedly followed a couple of steps.
"We really have to leave this time! It swallowed so many people in one gulp, who knows what else is coming next? What on earth is going on with this year's exam!"
"This is not an exam; it's the Tianyi Cult making a move."
Thunder light lit up under Lin Chuan's feet, his gaze sweeping over the examinees fleeing toward this side.
"You lead them to retreat westward, there is a shelter over there. I'll go over and stop it."
Tang Hanyi's heart sank.
No wonder no one ever came to rescue!
She still wanted to remind Lin Chuan, but two examinees running head-on tumbled into the gravel, one of whose legs couldn't even stand straight.
Tang Hanyi hurriedly reached out to pull the person up.
Raising her head again, Lin Chuan had already rushed out of the ruins.
In the outside live broadcast room, the bullet comments were completely in chaos.
"That gulp just now, over a hundred people! Just gone like that?!"
"What on earth is the Dongzhou official doing? Those who died everywhere earlier, plus these just now, it's already several hundred! You guys haven't gone in yet?!"
"My younger brother is inside, can you cut to the western scene? I'm begging you, I can't find him!"
"How many times has the suspension notice been sent, but it can't be received inside at all! And you can't withdraw either, damn Tianyi Cult beasts!"
"Don't just let us watch, save people!"
At the boundary of the grey zone, Fan Biao half-knelt on the ground, his palm pressing against a Formation pattern continuously bubbling with blood.
Several Zhenyuan Division members beside him were cleaning away soil downwards; the excavated stones were covered with sticky blood lines.
"Did you find the one in the north?"
"Found the location, it's buried too deep, still clearing downwards!"
"Transfer two more groups of people over, quick!"
Fan Biao glanced at the screen in his communicator, the flesh on his face pulled taut to the extreme.
People died right before their eyes.
But this Formation bit onto the grey zone boundary; if forced open, the people inside would only die in even greater numbers!
On the west side, Pei Wubing suppressed the churning bloody Seal, his gaze locked tightly onto the surveillance screen.
The figure on the devil's shoulder had been magnified.
Qingyin Envoy!
Fifth-heaven Grandmaster!
"Send a message to Lin Chuan, tell him to bypass! There is still a person on that beast's shoulder, don't let him only stare at the devil!"
The staff member responsible for communication tried several times in succession, getting so anxious their voice changes.
"Elder Pei, no! We can see him, but the message can't get in!"
Veins bulged on the back of Pei Wubing's hand.
Lin Chuan could kill third-tier ones; he had seen it with his own eyes just now.
But now it was a fourth-tier royal devil, and beside it was a fifth-heaven Grandmaster Qingyin Envoy waiting to make a move.
No matter how strong this kid was, he was only a Martial Artist!
Thunder King Yue Jinglei on the east side likewise stared at the screen, the thunder light on his body continuously pressing toward the Seal, yet not daring to cross the blood line marked out by Fan Biao.
In the live broadcast screen, Lin Chuan had already charged up the mountain road leading to the river valley against the fleeing crowd.
"Lin Chuan?"
Lu Lingxiao had just bypassed a broken tree in front when he saw him coming head-on.
He subconsciously reached out to block him.
"What are you running over there for? That thing swallowed over a hundred people in one gulp!"
"Saw it, you guys go first."
Lin Chuan had already swept past his side, his right hand gripping the hilt of the blade.
Clang!
The tier 4 thunder saber was unsheathed!
A burst of purple thunder flame roared up along the blade body, and the originally dim blade surface instantly lit up.
Densely packed electric arcs danced on the blade edge, and the gravel nearby was blasted into powder by the overflowing thunder light before the wind could even blow it up.
Lu Lingxiao's arm went numb, and his outstretched hand froze on the spot.
A progressively louder blade hum rang in his ears!
Shen Ye abruptly covered his ears and looked back. Lin Chuan was already carrying the battle blade and standing on the slope ahead.
The shadow of the hundred-meter devil pressed over.
The purple thunder flame on that blade was still surging upward!
"Is he really going up to fight?!"
"Lin Chuan, don't go! Are third-tier and fourth-tier the same!"
The bullet comments were still trying to persuade, but Thunder King Yue Jinglei on the east side suddenly fixed his eyes on the blade body.
"That's not right... A third-tier thunder bead is absolutely impossible to release thunder of this intensity!"
Having cultivated thunder techniques for so many years, he was far too familiar with the movements of thunder-attribute battle weapons.
That increasingly loud hum was by no means the sound made by ordinary thunder vibrating the blade body.
The tier 4 thunder saber was excited!
As purple thunder continuously poured in, all the patterns on the entire blade lit up, and the blade hum rushed out of the valley, almost drowning out the sound of the devil flapping its wings!
Thunder King Yue Jinglei clenched the communicator in his hand tightly.
That blade was roaring excitedly for the supreme thunder winding around its body!
Chapter 89: Killing a Fourth-Tier with a Single Blade, Obliterating a Fifth-Layer with a Single Finger!
Whoosh—!
The Celestial Demon Prince opened its huge mouth once again.
A black vortex expanded between its fangs, a gale rolled backward along the valley, and the rubble all over the ground was sucked into the air.
"Hold on! Don't let go!"
An examinee hugged the tree trunk tightly, grabbing their companion's collar with the other hand.
But the next instant, the soil under the tree roots completely overturned.
The color drained from both of their faces instantly.
We're totally screwed!
A streak of purple thunder light also rushed into the valley entrance at this moment.
Lin Chuan had arrived.
He swept his gaze over the whipped-up examinees, spreading his Mental Strength instantly to forcefully support the bodies of the few people at the very front.
"Tang Hanyi, catch them!"
In the rear, Tang Hanyi immediately rushed toward the mountain col on the side.
"Those who can stand, walk over to my side. Don't block the valley entrance!"
The Celestial Demon Prince sensed the resistance, lowered its head, and its gaze fell on Lin Chuan.
Its nostrils twitched slightly, and the brutality in its eyes unexpectedly turned into greed.
Such exuberant Qi and blood!
Compared to the examinees desperately fleeing below, this youth before it was simply worlds apart!
"Is it him?"
"Yes, Your Highness. Those thirteen celestial demons just now all died at his hands."
The Qingyin Envoy stared at Lin Chuan, rich blood-red light already gathering beneath his palms.
However, the prince split its mouth, revealing a row of blood-stained fangs.
"Don't smash him up; I want to eat him whole."
Its massive head pressed downward, and the swallowing vortex abruptly turned toward Lin Chuan!
The Qingyin Envoy also moved to the outer side of its shoulder.
In their view, even if Lin Chuan hadn't exhausted his physical strength after killing so many celestial demons earlier, it was absolutely impossible for him to have suffered zero consumption.
Yet he still dared to rush out to save people now?
Then don't leave!
As long as he engaged in combat with Your Highness and revealed even a tiny flaw, he would be able to take his life!
Lin Chuan's right hand holding the tier 4 thunder saberlifted upward.
Extreme realm, Thunder Sword Technique!
Boom!
Purple Heaven Divine Thunder surged madly from within his body, pouring entirely into the tier 4 thunder saberalong his arm.
The thunder patterns on the blade lit up one after another, and blinding purple light rushed out of the blade edge, condensing into a huge thunder light sword shadow above Lin Chuan's head!
One hundred meters!
Two hundred meters!
The sword shadow continued to extend upward, and the rolling thunder flames dyed the valley entrance in a brilliant purple glow.
Although what he held in his hand was a blade, the sword shadow driven by the Thunder Sword Technique did not have the slightest stagnation.
An extreme realm sword technique, wielded with Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.
Did this fourth-tier celestial demon before him really think it had him in the bag?
"Die!"
Lin Chuan swung his blade out.
The huge purple sword shadow roared across the valley entrance, slamming head-on into the swallowing vortex!
Rumble!
A purple crack abruptly tore through from the center of the vortex.
The wind pillar rolling backward along the valley was split into two on the spot!
The giant trees and rocks being sucked into the sky lost their traction and flew sideways, and those examinees who had not yet been swallowed also plummeted downwards abruptly.
Lin Chuan's Mental Strength retracted accordingly, supporting them toward the rear side.
Tang Hanyi raised her hand to pull a falling girl, and several other examinees who could still move rushed up to receive people.
"Go down first! There are still people ahead, don't look back!"
Before her voice faded, the roar of the Celestial Demon Prince came from overhead.
"You're courting death!"
With the swallowing vortex broken, it finally sensed danger.
The royal devil patterns on its chest lit up one after another, and heavy black devilic light gushed out from between the scales, propping up a huge barrier in front of it.
The purple sword shadow had already arrived!
Bang!
As soon as the devilic light barrier formed, its center concaved inward, followed by a thunderous explosion.
The thunder light did not stop, continuing forward to slam fiercely into the prince's chest!
Those black chest plates, larger than chariots, instantly burst open with dense cracks.
The shattered armor plates sprayed in all directions, and the royal devil patterns deeply hidden beneath them were directly obliterated by the thunder!
"Impossible!"
The prince suddenly lowered its head.
It saw that its chest had been completely pierced through by that thunder light sword shadow.
Its sternum shattered.
A devil core rich with blood-red light was completely exposed within the thunder.
Its proud royal devil body actually failed to block even this single strike!
The devil core still wanted to gush out power, but the purple sword blade had already rolled over it.
Boom——!
Blood light burst open!
The devil core, along with the surrounding flesh and blood, was blasted to pieces together by the violent Purple Heaven Divine Thunder!
A thick streak of thunder light rushed out from behind the prince, and the remaining force pushed its hundred-meter devil body backward to topple toward the unmanned hillside in the rear.
It opened its mouth, wanting to say something.
But only a large mass of purple thunder fire gushed out from its throat.
It was a royal family member!
How could a human who wasn't even a Grandmaster...
Rumble rumble!
The massive body pressed onto the hillside, and two protruding stone mounds collapsed on the spot.
Its wings snapped, giant boulders rolled down, and dozens of meters high of dust and smoke surged up along the slope.
The entire valley shook violently!
Behind the rock wall on the side.
Lu Lingxiao raised his head, the expression on his face completely freezing.
Clang!
The poyue spear slipped from his hand and smashed beside his feet.
Shen Ye was right beside him, but he even forgot to reach out and catch it.
The two of them watched blankly as that hundred-meter devil body fell, looking at the large hole straight through its chest, and for a moment, neither of them could speak.
They had risked their lives just now, yet could only kill two third-tier celestial demons.
As a result, Lin Chuan walked up to face this fourth-tier prince and raised his hand for a single blade strike.
And slaughtered it just like that?
In the live broadcast room, the bullet comments that had originally been urging Lin Chuan to escape suddenly changed.
"Wait a minute! Is that celestial demon the one that fell?!"
"Is my screen lagging? Why did it suddenly die?"
"It's not lagging! I've been watching the whole time, he only struck a single blade!"
"Fourth-tier! That's a fourth-tier Celestial Demon Prince, can he really kill it?!"
At the very moment the prince fell, a bloody figure had already burst out from its shoulder.
"Lin Chuan!"
The Qingyin Envoy was both shocked and angry, yet a hint of ruthlessness lurked deep within his eyes.
The prince actually died!
But after Lin Chuan had just slashed out such a strike, he had to catch his breath, right?
Now was the chance!
Without holding back a bit, his fifth-layer GrandmasterTrue Qi erupted fully, thick blood-red light enveloping his entire body as he slammed a palm downward toward Lin Chuan's head!
A dozen-meter-wide blood-red palm print covered the sky above, and before it even landed, the palm wind pressed the nearby rubble into successive explosions.
"Watch out above!"
Tang Hanyi had just steadied an examinee when she looked up and saw this palm strike.
Outside the gray zone, Pei Wubing's expression also changed abruptly.
"You bastard, how dare you ambush my disciple!"
But Lin Chuan had already raised his empty left hand.
The thunder blade was still hanging on his right side, not waved again at all.
A wisp of purple electric light lit up on the index finger of his left hand.
Meteor Thunder Finger!
The thunder light at his fingertip suddenly expanded, transforming into a thick purple thunder pillar that blasted upward to meet the Qingyin Envoy!
Boom!
The blood-red palm print pressing down was directly pierced through from the center by the thunder pillar.
A large expanse of blood light exploded outward, and before the Qingyin Envoy could even retract his arm, his entire right arm shattered within the thunder!
"Ah!"
He was scared out of his wits, his protective True Qigathering frantically in front of him.
Yet how could the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, which even the royal chest armor couldn't stop, be something he could resist?
The protective blood light only lit up for a split second before being completely pierced through.
The purple thunder pillar penetrated his chest, and the violent thunder force surged through his meridians into all his limbs and bones.
The Qingyin Envoy's eyes bulged out.
Only then did he clearly see Lin Chuan's raised finger.
Bare-handed!
This thunder actually belonged to him!
Bang!
The Qingyin Envoy's body exploded in mid-air, and before the scattered blood light could even fall, it was incinerated by the rolling thunder flames.
The thunder pillar's remaining momentum did not diminish as it rushed obliquely into the high sky, blasting a huge hole through the large patch of remaining Demonic Qioverhead.
Fifth-layer Grandmaster.
Obliterated with a single finger!
Lin Chuan withdrew his left hand; streaks of purple electric arcs were still entwined around the thunder blade in his right hand.
From slaying the prince to obliterating the Qingyin Envoy, he hadn't even moved the position of his feet.
He was uninjured.
Even his breathing wasn't disordered!
"Still waiting for me to run out of strength?"
Lin Chuan glanced at the place where the Qingyin Envoyhad disappeared.
"You really know how to think."
Tang Hanyi supported an examinee as she stood in the mountain col, her fingers tightening involuntarily.
"Classmate Tang, it hurts..."
The girl next to her reminded her softly, and only then did she snap back to her senses, hurriedly loosening her grip a bit.
"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Can you still walk? I'll help you down."
The girl nodded, but couldn't help looking toward Lin Chuan again.
"He killed that cultist too?"
"Yeah, they're both dead."
After saying these words, Tang Hanyi herself felt it was somewhat unreal.
Just now, she genuinely thought Lin Chuan wouldn't be able to come back after going over this time.
A fourth-tier celestial demon and a fifth-layer Grandmaster!
With these two things blocking the front, who wouldn't be terrified looking at them?
As a result, he took them out one by one—one blade, one finger—clearing them all out!
On the side, Lu Lingxiao finally bent down and picked up the poyue spear.
Shen Ye was still gazing at the sky, his Adam's apple moving.
"Young Master Lu, this Lin Chuan seems a bit formidable."
Lu Lingxiao glanced at him.
"Stop fucking talking nonsense, I'm not blind."
Shen Ye nodded immediately.
When that Qingyin Envoy rushed over, he was much more fierce than the two of them combined.
Now even his corpse couldn't be found!
On the live broadcast screen, bullet comments had densely packed the entire screen.
"Holy shit, the ambusher is gone too?!"
"He didn't use a blade just now! Did you guys see that, the thunder was blasted out with his finger!"
"So those previous bolts of thunder were completely released by himself? I kept thinking his weapon was just overpowered!"
"Lin Chuan, please save the others! There are still many kids inside who haven't run out!"
"Those few who were whipped up just now all survived, I saw them walking down the mountain!"
Many parents guarding in front of the screens only dared to breathe again at this moment.
Someone hurriedly zoomed in on the screen to look for their child in the retreating crowd.
Someone still had trembling hands, repeating Lin Chuan's name over and over again.
On the east side of the gray zone.
Thunder King Yue Jinglei stared at the monitoring screen, his eyes unprecedentedly solemn.
When that thunder blade buzzed excitedly earlier, he knew something was wrong.
Now seeing with his own eyes that Lin Chuan could bare-handedly release the same purple thunder, his last shred of doubt completely vanished.
"Old Pei, that thunder belongs to him."
On the other end of the communicator, Pei Wubing's just-loosened fists slowly clenched again.
"What, my disciple has a lightning-type talent?"
"Lightning power condensed from his fingertips, could I be wrong?"
Thunder King Yue Jinglei took a breath.
"That third-tier thunder bead cannot release this kind of thunder. Let alone slaying the prince, it couldn't even support his finger strike just now!"
Pei Wubing looked back at Lin Chuan in the screen, the corners of his mouth finally twitching.
This brat!
He hides things really deep!
Causing him to almost fail to hold back earlier and directly blast open this layer of blood curtain before his eyes.
At the valley entrance.
Lin Chuan lowered his head, and the prompts on his exam ring lit up successively.
[Killed a fourth-tier celestial demon!]
[Local points + 500,000!]
[Current local points: 1,300,032!]
One million three hundred thousand points!
As for the Qingyin Envoy, his bounty and Zhenyuan Division military exploits would be calculated separately after going out.
Lin Chuan glanced at it, then raised his head to look at the blood curtain still enveloping the gray zone.
This layer of stuff still hadn't dispersed.
Almost at the same time.
In Fan Biao's communicator, an urgent report finally came through.
"Found it! The last formation eye is beneath the abandoned well on the north side! The blood patterns go around from the bottom of the well, the location has been marked!"
Fan Biao abruptly straightened his body.
"Send the location to everyone, confirm the formation eyes everywhere!"
"West side in position!"
"East side in position!"
Amidst the successively ringing responses, Pei Wubingand Thunder King Yue Jinglei simultaneously withdrew their gazes, their power rapidly converging along the palms of their hands.
Fan Biao stared at the blood patterns still flowing before his eyes, raising his right hand.
"Everyone listen to my command, strike together!"
"Break the formation!"
Chapter 90 Lin Chuan! Top Scholar!
Boom!
Several eye-formations were destroyed simultaneously, and the blood-red curtain shrouding the grey zone finally dissipated.
The exit reopened, and the communication symbol on the exam ring lit up as well.
"Rescue team, go in! Pick up the wounded first, and everyone else follow the guidance to evacuate!"
At Fan Biao's command, the rescue personnel who had been waiting outside for a long time immediately rushed in.
The remaining four Tier 3 Heavenly Demons in other areas were also successively killed by the experts who rushed over.
The doors of the shelter opened.
Ye Qinghe came out carrying her medicine chest, and seeing the stretchers outside, she immediately followed them.
"I am a pharmacist, where is someone needed?"
"Over here, help look after these few first, the vehicles will be here right away!"
Ye Qinghe acknowledged, squatted down beside the wounded, and opened her medicine chest.
...
On the other side of the valley.
Lin He was still being helped along by others when a notification suddenly sounded in his exam ring.
"Due to an attack by the Tianyi Cult, this exam is terminated immediately. All examinees must stop hunting, proceed to the nearest exit according to the guidance, and wait for rescue personnel to meet them."
After hearing this, several people all stopped.
"The Tianyi Cult? Those Heavenly Demons just now were let in by the Tianyi Cult?"
"I thought it was a hidden assessment! Damn it, I almost lost my life in there!"
The shield-bearing boy couldn't help cursing.
Lin He was also stunned for a moment.
But very quickly, he looked at his points, and his eyes lit up instead.
Real Heavenly Demons!
He had led people to kill two of them!
Even a true Peak Tier 3 Heavenly Demon could be taken down; with this score, who could still say he wasn't up to par?
He hurriedly asked the staff member who came to meet them.
"Teacher, will the points for killing the Heavenly Demons just now still count?"
"Recorded valid kills will be scored as usual after verification. Go out first, and those who are injured should hurry and get treatment."
As long as the points count!
The last bit of worry in Lin He's heart disappeared.
Over one hundred twenty-three thousand points.
This time, the provincial top scholar should finally be his, right?
"Help me up, let's head out."
Supporting himself on his team members' shoulders, he walked even faster than before.
...
Outside the exam venue.
The examinees who came out were led to the settlement area, and the local records in their exam rings began to be uploaded one after another.
The leaderboard, which had been paused for a long time, finally moved again.
The names on it kept changing.
The examinees who were originally ranked at the front were squeezed down in the blink of an eye. The top spot had just crossed forty thousand points, and soon changed to over seventy thousand points.
"Don't push, the data hasn't finished transmitting yet. In the end, the scores announced by the Examination Academyshall prevail!"
The staff maintained order.
Lin He sat to the side. When someone handed him water, he took it but didn't drink, keeping his eyes glued to the large screen.
Another batch of records was uploaded.
The top spot changed.
Lu Lingxiao, 118,460 points!
A burst of discussion immediately sounded nearby.
"One hundred eighteen thousand? So many!"
"He must have killed Heavenly Demons too, right? How could normal Demonic Beasts give so many points."
Looking at that number, Lin He couldn't help smiling.
Fewer than him!
What he worried about most before was Lu Lingxiao. Now that even Lu Lingxiao hadn't surpassed him, who else could?
Just as he was thinking this, two people walked over from the exit.
Lu Lingxiao carried the poyue spear, with Shen Yefollowing beside him. The two of them hadn't spoken much along the way.
"Young Shifu Lu, sit here and rest for a while!"
Lin He took the initiative to greet him.
Lu Lingxiao glanced at him and walked over to sit down nearby.
Lin He handed the water in his hand over.
"Were there two on your side as well?"
"Yeah, after the fight I had no strength left."
"I'm about the same. I used up all my recovery agents, and in the end, I still had to be helped out by them."
As Lin He spoke, his tone grew lighter and more cheerful.
Everyone killed two Heavenly Demons.
But the points he had accumulated beforehand were more!
Lu Lingxiao and Shen Ye's dejected appearance was probably because they saw the rankings and knew they had no chance left.
"Actually, your score is already very high. One hundred eighteen thousand, in past years..."
Before Lin He finished speaking, a team member beside him suddenly patted him.
"Lin He! You went up!"
He hurriedly looked up.
[First Place: Lin He, 123,180 points!]
Lu Lingxiao's name was pushed down to second place.
Lin He stood up abruptly. Before his legs were steady, he let out a laugh first.
"First place! I knew my hard work wasn't in vain!"
"Young Shifu Lin, congratulations!"
"Don't forget what you promised us when we get out!"
Several team members were also happy along with him.
Lin He waved his hand.
"Rest assured, not a single thing will be missing! Thanks to your help this time, after we get out, I'll properly thank you all!"
The more he spoke, the more excited he became.
Provincial top scholar!
If his father found out, how happy would he be?
Lu Lingxiao looked at him, and just as he wanted to speak, a new prompt appeared at the top of the large screen.
[Score verification complete.]
The Examination Academy had finished cross-referencing the local records with the live broadcast footage.
All valid hunting scores were retained.
Rescue merits and military exploits for slaying Tianyi Cultmembers were registered separately.
Afterwards, the leaderboard refreshed one last time.
Lin He's name moved down one row.
[First Place: Lin Chuan, 1,300,032 points!]
[Second Place: Lin He, 123,180 points!]
[Third Place: Lu Lingxiao, 118,460 points!]
The smile on Lin He's face hadn't even had time to retract.
He stared at the first row, looking at the name first, then the points, and then re-reading the name again.
Lin Chuan?
One million three hundred thousand?
"That can't be right, did they type an extra zero by mistake?"
As Lin He said this, he took two steps forward.
But the numbers on the screen did not change, and the final scores synchronously received in the exam rings were also exactly the same.
1,300,032!
"Teacher, was this score transmitted incorrectly?"
He hurriedly looked at the nearby staff member.
"He wasn't even there just now, how did it suddenly become one million three hundred thousand?"
"There is no transmission error. Lin Chuan's hunting records involved a Tier 4 Heavenly Demon. The Examination Academy just finished verifying it and confirmed it is correct."
After finishing, the staff member went to receive the next batch of examinees.
Lin He just stood there, his mind unable to process it for a moment.
He had led six people, drank potions, risked his life, and fought until he couldn't even hold his sword, only managing to get over one hundred twenty thousand points.
By what right did Lin Chuan have one million three hundred thousand?
Someone nearby had already calculated it out.
"The first place is ten point five five times the second place... This gap is way too huge!"
Ten point five five times!
Hearing this, Lin He's face changed completely.
"Have you guys watched the live stream? What on earth did Lin Chuan do?"
"Sixteen Tier 3s, one Tier 4, that equals one million three hundred thousand. Those thirty-two points in the front don't even need to be counted."
"Sixteen? I ran away the moment I bumped into one, and he killed sixteen?"
These discussions came one after another, and the more Lin He heard, the less he believed it.
A Tier 4 Heavenly Demon!
That monster from just now that was over a hundred meters tall and could swallow hundreds of people in one bite?
He subconsciously looked at Lu Lingxiao.
Lu Lingxiao held his water, and only at this moment did he unscrew the bottle cap and take a sip.
"There's no mistake. That Tier 4 Heavenly Demon, as well as the Grandmaster standing on its shoulders, were all killed by Lin Chuan."
Lin He abruptly turned around.
"You saw it?"
"Shen Ye and I were right beside them, watching from beginning to end."
Lin He opened his mouth, suddenly thinking of a possibility.
"Did Pei Wubing give him some disposable forbidden artifact? Right, it must be that! As a Martial Artist, there's no way he could actually kill a Tier 4 Heavenly Demon, right?"
Lu Lingxiao fell silent.
He actually hoped Lin Chuan had used a forbidden artifact.
At least that way, he could still leave himself some shred of hope.
Regrettably, he had witnessed it with his own eyes.
"No, just the Thunder Sword Technique and Meteor Thunder Finger."
Lu Lingxiao looked at Lin He and finished his sentence directly.
"The prince was killed by the Thunder Sword Technique, and the Grandmaster was killed by the Meteor Thunder Finger. Just two moves, and Lin Chuan didn't even get injured."
Lin He completely stopped talking.
Shen Ye added a sentence from the side.
"So when you said you got first place just now, I didn't even know how to respond."
Holding his exam ring, Lin He slowly sat back down.
Turns out those two people's expressions earlier weren't because their scores were lower than his.
They were scared by Lin Chuan!
The several team members nearby also stopped mentioning the celebration and just looked at each other.
They were just happy for Lin He a moment ago.
Who could have thought that this first-place seat wouldn't even stay warm before it was gone.
"Second place again!"
"Fucking second place again!"
"Why!! Why on earth is this happening!!"
Lin He was now so angry he wanted to go on a crazy killing spree—no, no, no, would a mere killing spree even suffice!
He practically wanted to rage indiscriminately, lashing out at whoever crossed his path!
...
On the other side of the settlement area.
After looking over Lin Chuan's medical check results, Pei Wubing finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Alright, you really aren't injured. When you brat was charging forward in there, you almost scared me to death with anxiety."
Lin Chuan handed the check-up sheet back.
"Shifu, I'm not stupid; if I can't beat them, of course I'll run first."
"Knowing to run is fine, just don't charge forward like that again if you happen to run into something even stronger next time."
After saying this, Pei Wubing raised his head to look at the large screen.
"The scores are out, take a look for yourself."
Lin Chuan glanced at it and smiled.
"Do I even need to look? I wiped out a Tier 4, who could possibly surpass me!"
One million three hundred thousand and thirty-two.
It was broadcasted live the entire way, who would dare dock even a single point from him.
Second place was still Lin He; that kid managed to get over one hundred twenty thousand points, looks like he didn't toss and turn for nothing.
"Lin Chuan, congratulations."
Tang Hanyi walked over from the side and glanced at the leaderboard.
"This time, really no one can compete with you."
As soon as her voice fell, the on-site broadcast sounded.
The exact same score announcement also appeared on the official website of the Dongzhou Province Examination Academy, as well as on the live gaokao broadcast screens all over the province.
"Upon verification, Haicheng No. 1 High School examinee Lin Chuan has a final score of 1,300,032 points, ranking first in the entire province."
"Now officially announcing—"
"Lin Chuan is this year's Dongzhou Province Gaokao Top Scholar!"