We made you practice martial arts, and you've mastered the Great Golden Body?

Chapter 120 Ruins of the Divine Kingdom
"Wait a moment." Ji Chenghu's gaze was fixed on the video screen, his brows furrowing deeper as if he were recalling something. His eyes grew increasingly serious, and after a moment, he spoke directly:

"Xiao Du, switch to the Heavenly Eye scene after candidate number 1801 killed the leader-level ferocious beast, adjust the time to 20 minutes ago, adjust the speed to 60x, and start playing."

"Yes, sir." A clear, ethereal AI voice came from the surrounding area.

"What's wrong?" Duan Wuyai asked with concern upon seeing the situation, because examinee number 1801 was none other than Shen Bailian, his beloved disciple.
Upon hearing this, Cheng Shangwu and the others exchanged glances, also looking puzzled. Could it be that Ji Chenghu had discovered that the boy had cheated?
"It has nothing to do with your beloved disciple." Ji Chenghu glanced at Duan Wuyai, knowing what the other was worried about. He stared intently at the rapidly flashing video footage and continued:
"But after your beloved disciple killed that ferocious beast, I discovered something unusual that I need to investigate further."

"abnormal situation?"

Upon hearing this, Duan Wuyai also looked at the screen, but found nothing unusual.

As for the fact that the fur of a ferocious beast becomes dull after it dies, this is perfectly normal, because the primordial energy of heaven and earth does not exist in the body of a dead ferocious beast.

However, the next moment.

"Stop!" The extremely experienced Ji Chenghu said directly when the video was about to pass the fifteen-minute mark: "Xiao Du, rewind the video to fifteen minutes and twelve seconds, zoom in to ten times, and play it at normal speed."

Upon closer inspection, Duan Wuyai and the others also noticed something amiss, because the pool of blood was disappearing far too quickly, unlike the normal rate at which it seeped into the ground.

"Let's send out war robots to investigate first, otherwise we should just suspend the trial. It involves a lot of issues," Chu Yunfei, the dean of the Second Academy, suggested after a moment's hesitation.

Each trial is almost always held in an area no more than 10,000 miles from the front-line battlefield, requiring the cooperation of the front-line troops. Otherwise, where would all these wild and ferocious beasts come from in the trial locations for the beasts to slaughter?

Furthermore, there is a vast surveillance system covering tens of thousands of square kilometers, as well as weapons such as floating city war fortresses, all of which consume a great deal of resources, all in order to ensure the safety of students to the greatest extent possible.

Basically, unless a freshman deliberately courts death, there will be no deaths.

Ordinary top-tier martial arts universities often require multiple schools to collaborate, and only hold such large-scale trials during final and midterm exams.

"Xiao Du, dispatch three war robots to the scene to investigate whether there are any bloodthirsty beasts underground."

"Yes, the order has been conveyed."

Above the trial site, in the sky about two thousand meters above the ground, it seemed empty, but upon closer inspection, one could see that the light was slightly refracted.

Sudden.

A circular hole appeared in the air, and three optically invisible Type III Tiangang war robots flew out silently.

After locking the direction.

call out!call out!call out!
In less than half a minute, they arrived in front of the leader-level ferocious beast that Shen Bailian had killed earlier.

As the optical cloaking was dispelled, three 2.5-meter-tall war robots were revealed. Their heads were streamlined with slightly protruding front ends, and their bodies were made of a high-strength alloy with a smooth metal shell that shimmered with a cold, silvery-gray luster.

In fact, given the current technological level of the Great Xia Dynasty, it has already reached a level sufficient for galactic colonization. However, after the Earth Star expanded by hundreds of times, the first cosmic velocity also increased by at least ten times.

Outside the Earth Star, there are thirty-six layers of gale-force winds, making the possibility of escaping to other planets extremely slim.

On Earthly Star, ferocious beasts are merely the simplest and easiest to deal with; the difficult ones are the divine favored ones, divine ruins, and those pseudo-mythological creatures.
One of the war robots took out a bag of activated beast blood and poured it onto the ground.

Soon, the blood began to seep down the ground.

Inside the Tiangang Conference Room~
Through the war robot's thermal imaging camera, everyone saw the active, worm-like beasts beneath the ground and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, it wasn't the unexplored Divine Ruins. It was a false alarm." Upon seeing this, Cheng Shangwu immediately wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and sat back down.

Shenxu, as the name suggests, is the ruins of a divine kingdom.

After the gods fell, the divine kingdom that once reigned high in the heavens and whose whereabouts were unknown shattered and scattered across the mortal world.

The Divine Ruins are harmless and even have many benefits. Many precious natural treasures are obtained from within the Divine Ruins. After all, only 345 years have passed since the beginning of the new era, while the growth cycle of a second-tier Divine Essence Fruit is 30 years.

However, divine favor is not a good thing. It can be said that, like a ferocious beast, it has an instinctive malice towards mankind, and this malice is even greater, because it is the representative of the gods in the human world.

The Divine Ruins are like landmines, hidden in unknown corners, but there is still no effective way to detect them.

Once it is deployed, it will be a devastating blow to all living beings in the area, including ferocious beasts.

Unexpectedly.

Ji Chenghu was still not satisfied. His eyes were fixed on the light screen. Then he looked at Duan Wuyai beside him and said solemnly, "What do you think?"

"Just in case." Duan Wuyai pondered for a moment, then, for some reason, felt uneasy and said in a low voice:

"Let's send a second-tier special agent team over first. In case of any unexpected events, we'll have some countermeasures. If not, that would be the best outcome."

A typical second-tier special agent martial artist team consists of a Transcendent Realm martial artist with a skill level of 19.0 or higher, plus four ordinary Transcendent Realm martial artists.

It is also the standard team for exploring the Divine Ruins.

Sending high-level beings to the past is useless. When the Divine Ruins are first opened, the gods will set up a resistance aura, and warriors of a certain level or higher will be directly expelled from the range of the Divine Ruins until the divine power is exhausted.

"Okay." Ji Chenghu nodded, then looked at the other teachers below the stage and asked, "Do you have any objections?"

Among the six universities, apart from the president's final decision-making power, any resolution needs to be discussed and requires a two-thirds majority vote to pass when the president is absent.

"no problem!"

"."

“I’m fine with it too.” Cheng Shangwu nodded and raised his hand in agreement.

Anyway, it's better to be prepared than not, and he certainly wouldn't refuse if it could provide those new students with an extra layer of security.

In the narrow pass, the first buffer zone, as the Tiangang III war robot departed, a cool autumn breeze blew by, rustling the leaves.

Here, it was as if nothing had happened; even the traces left by the robot had been cleaned up.

Two days later.

At the Tiangang Academy Square~
The trial period quickly arrived at 11:00 AM on September 3rd. The rankings on the leaderboard fluctuated, and Li Feiyu dropped from second to third place, replaced by Wang Yuxuan.

However, there is one name that has always been ranked first on the list, and by a huge margin.

In less than three days since the start of the competition, Shen Bailian is already close to breaking the previous record, and is less than 100 points away from the highest scorer.

"Hey, the first place is already decided, everyone can go home." "Why does this trial feel so boring?"

"How can it not be boring? There's no suspense about who's number one. Only the freshmen don't know yet. If they see the results, they'll probably shatter their mentality."

"This guy's fishing again."

Some second- and third-year martial arts students lost the desire to continue watching after watching for the third day because it was too boring.

The freshman trial had completely turned into Shen Bailian's personal show.

The first buffer zone is the narrow passage between two narrow passages.

Bang bang bang!
In a mountain forest, tall trees emitted muffled thunderous sounds, and some even crashed to the ground, causing the ground to tremble slightly.

"This time we've really stirred up a hornet's nest!"

Shen Bailian's face flushed red as he quickly traversed the mountains and forests. He wished he could grow wings and fly straight up into the sky.

He is now giving it his all, and his burst speed is approaching a terrifying 74 m/s.

Roar!
A thunderous roar echoed through the mountains and forests, the terrifying sound waves crashing against the trees, causing their leaves to rustle.

Behind Shen Bailian.

Dozens of mature bronze-armored demon wolves, each with a shoulder height of three meters and a body length of nearly six meters, with even the weakest one having a physical attribute level of 15.0.

Their fine, bronze-colored scales shifted and rippled as they ran, as if they were breathing, and their bloodthirsty eyes were filled with murderous intent.

The bronze-armored demon wolf, charging at the forefront, had its bronze scales gleaming faintly with silver light in the beams of light filtering through the leaves.

Its strength has reached a terrifying level of 16.0, showing a trend of transforming into a Silverback Wolf.

This is why Shen Bailian fled so frantically; being surrounded would be extremely troublesome.

In this dense forest, there are trees that are tens or even hundreds of meters tall, and the gaps between the trees are quite large for Shen Bailian.

However, for those enormous ferocious beasts, it somewhat hampered them, slightly slowing down their running speed.

"It's just that a few wolf cubs were killed, is it really necessary to send out the whole nest like this?" Shen Bailian looked back and felt deeply angry, but there was nothing he could do.

He never expected that he would be so stingy as to send out his entire pack of bronze-armored demon wolves after he had only killed a few.

boom!
Shen Bailian suddenly turned around, as if he had eyes in the back of his head, frantically dodging the bronze-armored demon wolves that pounced on him, causing all the bronze-armored demon wolves to miss.

After the bronze-armored wolf pounced on the trees, it tore a huge gash in them, and some trees even snapped in two under its immense force.

"I wonder if this counts as indiscriminate logging?"

Shen Bailian saw the familiar landmark a hundred meters away through the Eye of God. He was overjoyed, his internal organs began to resonate, his muscles and bones throbbed, and he suddenly accelerated.

Suddenly.

Suddenly, the view opened up, and in front of Shen Bailian appeared a black obsidian rock wall with an 80-degree incline. The surface was extremely smooth, and the height reached 70 or 80 meters.

However, one can vaguely see that there are more than a dozen basic first-tier arrows that have been violently bent.

Without any hesitation, Shen Bailian continued to accelerate forward.

At the same time, a flash of silver light appeared in his hand, the Dragon Slayer Blade disappeared, and the Star Shooting War Bow and three Tier 1 basic arrows appeared in his hand.

Take a bow and shoot an arrow.

"Om~~"

A heavy sound suddenly rang out, the bowstring twanged like thunder, and the arrow flew like lightning.

With three sharp whooshing sounds, the three Tier 1 basic arrows instantly formed a "品" shape and embedded themselves hard into the smooth obsidian rock wall.

When Shen Bailian was still more than ten meters away from the rock wall, his eyes suddenly narrowed, his legs bent slightly, and he began to gather his strength, his blood surging out like a long river.

then.

boom!
Like a cannonball shooting into the sky, Shen Bailian's figure instantly rose from the ground, and where he disappeared, terrifying cracks immediately appeared.

With the help of arrows, they quickly reached the rock wall.

Above the rock face was an irregular, huge flat surface, devoid of any weeds. A gentle breeze carried the intense stench of blood across the surface.

Some dark red bloodstains were still clearly visible on the ground.

Shen Bailian did not choose to run away. Instead, after retreating to a safe distance, he held his breath and concentrated. His internal organs began to rumble violently, and his energy surged.

With a flash of silver light, the Dragon Slayer instantly appeared in his hand.

In less than 0.5 seconds, it completely entered its full state, ready to unleash its strongest attack at any moment.

This is a natural 'fishing platform' that Shen Bailian discovered at noon on September 2nd.

The most troublesome thing about most ferocious beasts is that they come in groups, and their siege tactics are terrifying.

However, this 'Diaoyutai' has a minimum tilt angle of 80 degrees, a relatively smooth surface covered with moss, and a height of nearly 100 meters.

Generally speaking, the ferocious beasts that can ascend quickly are at least level 14.5 or higher. Even the Bronze Armored Demon Wolves, which know how to coordinate, would take several tens of seconds to ascend.

This is a pattern that Shen Bailian has summarized over the past two days.

They waited silently for a while.

Sudden.

Roar!
A roar that sounded like thunder exploded in the sky, and a huge figure suddenly leaped up from below the rock wall. The massive body and the shadow it cast immediately enveloped Shen Bailian's body.

"End the battle within one minute!"

Shen Bailian gripped the Dragon Slayer in his hand, moved his feet slightly, and instantly disappeared from his original spot, like a bolt of lightning, rushing straight towards the leader-level bronze-armored demon wolf!
(End of this chapter)