Transcending Godhood: I Extract Keywords and Crush the Gods

The playground of the Third Divine Academy in Jiangcheng.

Senior high school teachers and students, fully armed, lined up and assembled.

Class teacher Lei Yan stood at the front of the line, doing the final count.

His gaze swept over the students of Class 7, finally settling on Lin Yuan at the end of the line.

Lin Yuan was wearing ordinary combat uniform, his hands in his pockets, and his posture was relaxed.

Lei Yan suddenly frowned.

This kid... something's not right.

As a powerful demigod at the fifth level, Lei Yan has an extremely keen sense of the aura of laws.

Just a moment ago, he tried to use his mental power to check on Lin Yuan's condition.

But it felt like I had stepped into thin air and fallen into an abyss.

There was no overflow of laws, no fluctuation of divine power.

It was as calm as a stagnant pool.

But beneath the stagnant water, Lei Yan vaguely sensed a chilling unease that sent shivers down his spine.

That feeling was even more terrifying than when he faced a high-level monster.

He has the foundation of a fifth-level demigod!

"An illusion?" Lei Yan shook his head, forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart.

Even if Lin Yuan is exceptionally talented, he is still just a high school student.

Having only awakened the Divine Realm a few months ago, how could he possibly surpass me in terms of aura and foundation?

"General Xiao Lie must have secretly given him some high-level artifact to conceal his aura," Lei Yan thought to himself, offering a reasonable explanation.

A person valued by the Commander-in-Chief of the Starfire Legion.

It's perfectly normal to have some trump cards up your sleeve.

He looked away and stopped thinking about it.

"All personnel, board the ship!"

Three hours later.

Tianhai Province, near-Earth orbit in interstellar space.

Three hundred thousand senior high school students across the province traveled through interstellar military ports in their respective cities.

They were all pulled and transported to a giant space fortress.

The fortress is named "Demon Suppression".

A steel fortress stretching tens of thousands of kilometers lies horizontally in the depths of the universe.

Three hundred thousand students stood in the open-air plaza in the center of the fortress.

Everyone looked up through the transparent energy dome.

Directly in front of the fortress, a planet floats silently.

The planet's surface is covered with jagged cracks, and dark red magma flows through the rift valleys.

The atmosphere was shrouded in a thick, dark red fog, with occasional bursts of lightning within it.

Extreme repression, mania, and evil pollution of the laws.

Even through the void and the shield, many students still felt a tightness in their chest and difficulty breathing.

This is [Code Name: Ember-07].

The sleeping place of a living, lower-ranking abyssal demon god.

"Buzz—"

A piercing alarm suddenly blared over the fortress.

Three figures rose into the air from the main control tower of the fortress.

Without the aid of any anti-gravity devices, the three of them floated above the heads of hundreds of thousands of students using only their physical bodies.

In the center is an officer wearing the rank of general.

He was a burly man with a mechanical prosthetic eye in his left eye and a scar running across his right cheek.

A god-level pressure descended with a thunderous roar.

Compared to General Raymond's performance in the last major test in Jiangcheng, this pressure was more restrained, but also more deadly.

The square fell silent instantly; the 300,000 people didn't even dare to breathe.

"I am Chen Tie, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Tianhai Province War Zone."

The lieutenant general's voice resounded through the military matrix, echoing in everyone's minds.

"I don't want to waste any more time on nonsense."

Chen Tie pointed to the dark red planet outside the shield.

"That will be your next grave, or your throne."

Chen Tie raised his hand, and a screen of light unfolded in the starry sky.

"The official rules for the midterm placement exam are as follows!"

"First, a merit-based system. Killing monsters and seizing resources will be automatically calculated by the system."

"Secondly, there is no fixed time limit for major exams!"

This statement caused a stir among the students below.

No time limit? Then how long will the exam last?

Chen Tie stared coldly down below, his mechanical prosthetic eye glowing red.

There are only two conditions for termination of the assessment.

"First, someone has the ability to break through the core defenses of this planet and destroy the [Pseudo-Abyss Core Source] deep within the Demon God Plane."

"Secondly, the student attrition rate exceeded 30%!"

silence.

A deathly silence.

The next second, the entire square erupted in uproar.

"Are you crazy! Destroy the core source? That's the heart of the Demon God plane! Going to the core area is suicide!"

"An elimination rate of over 30%? Out of 300,000 people, 90,000 will have to die or be forced to withdraw before the exam can end?"

"The last major exam in Jiangcheng only had a 5% elimination rate!"

Panic spread among the crowd.

Fatty Wang stood beside Lin Yuan, his face alternating between pale and flushed.

In the past few days, he has stockpiled tens of thousands of bronze four-star black demon pigs in the Divine Realm.

I thought we could rely on this wave of troops.

If you find a mine on the outer edge and hide there, you can reliably get a passing grade.

But now, hearing this attrition rate...

His legs went weak.

"Yuan... Brother Yuan." Fatty Wang swallowed hard and grabbed Lin Yuan's clothes tightly.

"Thirty percent... Is the border area really safe? This godforsaken place doesn't look like there's any chance of survival."

Lin Yuan supported the fat man's shoulder with one hand, stabilizing him.

"Take a deep breath." Lin Yuan's voice was steady. "Since you're already here, you have to go in whether you're afraid of dying. Remember what I told you: after you land, mine and hide well."

After comforting the fat man, Lin Yuan turned his gaze to the termination conditions on the light screen.

His gaze didn't linger on "30%", but was fixed on the first one.

Pseudo-Abyss Core Source.

The source of the demon god's power.

"quiet!"

With a roar, Chen Tie unleashed his divine aura once again, sweeping across the entire arena.

He forcefully suppressed everyone's voices back into their throats.

"Scared? Want to quit?"

Chen Tie let out a cold laugh.

"The Abyss has no place for the weak. You enjoy the resources of the Federation and breathe the air that the soldiers on the front lines risked their lives for, so you should be prepared to die at any moment!"

"Whether you're from a noble family or a commoner, once you enter this door, the demons will only recognize your flesh and blood!"

"Those who can't handle it should crush their amulets and go back to the logistics department to clean toilets."

"But as long as you stand in this examination hall for even a second, show me the spirit of gods!"

Chen Tie swung his right hand heavily.

"Transmission matrix, full capacity!"

"Deploy!"

boom!

Blue patterns lit up the ground of the square.

The beam of light shot into the sky, engulfing all 300,000 students.

The light dissipated.

The empty square was deserted.

The top floor of the fortress, the highest-level VIP viewing room.

The scene here is completely different from the desolate atmosphere below.

The hall was carpeted, and a long table was set with various precious fruits and wines that could enhance divine power.

Dozens of men and women sat on sofas, watching the projection screen that occupied the entire wall in front of them.

On the screen, three hundred thousand points of light, like a meteor shower, fell into that dark red demon planet.

Those who can sit here are all the real big shots of Tianhai Province.

The head of a top conglomerate, the patriarch of a first-class family, a legion commander in the military...

Compared to the previous city-level executives at Jiangcheng Xinggang.

Every single person here could make the entire Tianhai Province tremble with a stomp of their foot.

Xiao Lie, the commander-in-chief of the Jiangcheng war zone of the Starfire Legion, was also among them.

He was wearing a dark green combat uniform without any rank insignia, holding a glass of strong liquor in his hand, his eyes fixed on a tiny dot of light on the screen.

"General Xiao, it's been a long time."

A deep voice echoed in Xiao Lie's mind.

Transmitting sound secretly.

Xiao Lie did not turn his head, but his hand holding the wine glass paused slightly.

Sitting diagonally opposite him was a middle-aged man wearing a dark gold robe.

The man had a cold and stern face, and his brows bore a resemblance to Xiao Ting's.

Xiao Tiannan is the current head of the Xiao family, a dominant force in Tianhai Province.

"What advice do you have?" Xiao Lie took a sip of wine and responded faintly in his mind.

"I dare not presume to offer guidance." Xiao Zhan leaned back on the sofa, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest.

"I just feel that General Xiao has been meddling too much lately."

Xiao Lie didn't reply, but listened quietly.

"The Federation's resources are limited," Xiao Zhan's voice transmission carried an arrogant tone.

"Powerful families and conglomerates control resources and cultivate the strongest individuals to guard the Abyss defenses. This is the order that has been established over hundreds of years."

"The children of commoners have poor backgrounds and mediocre bloodlines. Giving them resources is just a waste of money."

Xiao Zhan's gaze turned cold: "But you, the commander-in-chief of the Starfire Legion, instead of supporting your own family members, you're throwing massive amounts of specially approved military resources at a commoner in Jiangcheng."

"Xiao Lie, you are breaking the rules."

"You have not only damaged the interests of the aristocratic families, but you are also a sinner of my Xiao family."

"How long has Ting'er prepared for this important exam? Yet you secretly support an outsider to become his stumbling block."

After hearing these words, Xiao Lie suddenly laughed.

He put down his wine glass, turned his head, and looked Xiao Zhan straight in the eye without any hesitation.

"rule?"

Xiao Lie sent a telepathic message back, his voice as cold as ice.

"So your so-called rules are just allowing you vampires to monopolize 90% of the province's resources and then cultivate a bunch of hothouse flowers who've never even seen real combat?"

"When the Abyss Demons attack, will they care about your bloodline? Will they look at your family's genealogy?"

A hint of mockery flashed in Xiao Lie's eyes.

"Xiao Zhan, you haven't been to the front lines in too long. You have no idea how dire the Abyss defenses have become."

"I don't need a young master who only knows how to set up battle formations and compare equipment."

"What I need are monsters that can crawl out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood."

Xiao Zhan's face darkened.

Xiao Lie's words were tantamount to pointing his finger at him and cursing him.

"A commoner who awakened in the Wasteland God Realm, does he even deserve to be called a monster?" Xiao Zhan sneered, his tone full of disdain.

"They're just cannon fodder cobbled together with resources. They're utterly defenseless against the true foundation of a powerful family."

"Yeah?"

Xiao Lie withdrew his gaze and looked back at the big screen.

"We'll see."

Xiao Lie's lips curled up slightly.

"Open your eyes and look carefully."

"Look at this ordinary person I invested in, how he outshone you pampered privileged children and tycoon heirs who were nurtured with countless resources in this major test..."

"They were all beaten to a pulp."

Xiao Tiannan remained expressionless and scoffed.

"You're so arrogant, just you wait and see."