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Thanks to their excellent landing location, Liu Zixuan, Su Muxue, and Fan Tong's team encountered only a few low-level alien beasts along the way before successfully arriving at the castle gate.

Standing outside the dark red iron gate, a hint of worry appeared on Su Muxue's usually aloof face.

"The atmosphere here is too eerie. If the beasts on the outskirts are so strong, there must be even more terrifying monsters hiding inside the castle."

"Should we wait until the other teams have assembled before going in?"

"Wait? Why should we wait?"

Liu Zixuan looked down at Jiang Feng's name, which was far ahead of the leaderboard, and felt a surge of jealousy.

"Mu Xue, you're just too cautious!"

"My sister messaged me saying that this castle is the final stage of the trial, and there are no strange beasts inside, only a few instructors from the school acting as gatekeepers!"

He deliberately leaned closer to Su Muxue, lowered his voice, and said with a strong sense of pride, "Don't worry, my sister has already taken care of everything through her connections."

"Those instructors only need to see me, go through the motions, and they'll hand over the rewards to us!"

"Once I get the reward, I'll crush Jiang Feng under my feet! Let's go!"

Having said that, Liu Zixuan completely ignored Su Muxue's advice and, in his eagerness for quick success, kicked open the castle gate and rushed inside.

Su Muxue gritted her teeth and, with no other choice, followed Fan Tong inside, steeling herself against her will.

Upon entering the castle, the light instantly dimmed.

The walls were adorned with flickering crimson candlelight, and the air was thick with the pungent smell of blood.

In the empty hall, only the echoes of three footsteps reverberated in the corridor, the eerie atmosphere making one shiver involuntarily.

"What the hell? This is just nonsense."

Liu Zixuan walked at the front, looking at the empty hall with disdain.

Just then, a sound of bones grinding together suddenly came from the shadows in front of the hall.

Immediately afterwards, a terrifying humanoid monster slowly emerged from the darkness.

"what!"

Su Muxue and Fan Tong turned pale with fright.

"What's the panic?"

Looking at the monster, Liu Zixuan burst into laughter, his eyes filled with smug self-satisfaction. "My sister was right! This is definitely the instructor testing us. There's nothing to be afraid of. Watch me go up and collect my reward..."

However, before he could finish speaking...

"Whoosh!"

In the darkness, a black and red afterimage flashed by like lightning.

Liu Zixuan, who was laughing loudly just a second ago, suddenly stopped.

His body remained in a forward-walking posture, but suddenly a three-foot-high jet of blood spurted from his neck!

"Gurgle..."

A fine head flew through the air in an arc before crashing heavily at Su Muxue's feet.

Liu Zixuan even retained the smug smile he had before his death on his face!

"roar!!!"

The mutated monster suddenly looked up and let out a ferocious roar that was not human.

The two covered their ears in agony, staring at Liu Zixuan's bloodied head on the ground, their minds completely blank.

"Run! Run!"

The instinct for survival overcame everything; the two screamed, turned around, and fled frantically toward the castle gate.

However, Fan Tong was already obese, and his legs were so weak with fear that he fell to the ground with a thud after only a couple of steps.

Hearing the footsteps getting closer and closer behind him, he completely broke down.

"Mu Xue! Help me! Please pull me out of here!!!"

Su Muxue paused, her kind nature ultimately preventing her from standing by and watching her classmate, with whom she spent every day, die.

She gritted her teeth, resolutely turned around, and, despite her fear, reached out her hand to Fan Tong.

"Get up!"

Seeing Su Muxue's outstretched hand, a mad glint flashed in Fan Tong's eyes.

He grabbed the other person's wrist.

But instead of using the momentum to stand up, he suddenly unleashed a burst of brute force, violently pulling the unsuspecting Su Muxue backward!

"I'm sorry, Mu Xue! Better to die than see you suffer, please shield me for a while!"

With a twisted roar, Fan Tong violently flung Su Muxue toward the mutated monster, while he himself scrambled and crawled toward another corridor.

Su Muxue lost her balance and fell heavily at the monster's feet.

She stared in disbelief at Fan Tong's disappearing figure, then looked up in horror at the mutated monster so close to her. Sharp bone claws were raised high, then crashed down with a deathly aura.

Su Muxue closed her eyes in despair.

However, the bone claw stopped just half an inch away from her brow!

"Ugh... Ahhhhh!!!"

The monster trembled violently, and a look of pain appeared on its face.

It stretched out its claws and pierced into the head.

That was the last shred of consciousness deep within the soul of a teacher at Zhenyue Martial Arts University!

Even though he had been corrupted into a demon by the containment material, the instructor regained some of his senses when he saw the trembling students at his feet!

"Run...run! Run fast!!!"

The monster roared and howled.

Tears welled up in Su Muxue's eyes. She scrambled to her feet and rushed out of the castle gate without looking back.

At the same time.

In another dimly lit corridor, Fan Tong, who thought he had escaped a disaster, was leaning against the wall, panting heavily, with a look of relief and a cold smile on his face.

"Su Muxue, you always act so high and mighty, but in the end, you still became my scapegoat..."

Suddenly, darkness appeared ahead.

One of the right arms had completely transformed into a mutated monster covered in scarlet eyes, silently blocking the way.

Countless scarlet eyes locked onto Fan Tong.

"No...no...ah!!!"

"Pfft!"

The chilling sounds of tearing and chewing echoed down the corridor.

"ah!!!"

"Help me!"

"Su Muxue, I was wrong! Please save me!"

A moment later, the castle fell silent once more.

……

Outside the Bone Swamp, Jiang Feng and his companions were speeding towards the Crimson Castle.

Suddenly, Tang Tang, who was at the back of the group, stopped abruptly. With her keen senses, she pointed to the withered trees ahead and said urgently, "Brother Jiang Feng, there are people over there!!"

Jiang Feng's eyes narrowed, and his divine sense instantly locked onto the scene several kilometers away.

When he saw the stumbling, disheveled figure clearly, he was suddenly taken aback.

"It's Su Muxue, let's go!"

……

At this moment, deep within the deadwood forest.

"Bang!"

Su Muxue's legs gave way, and she fell heavily into the mud.

Her fair face was covered in mud and tear stains, and she was panting heavily, her internal energy already depleted.

Having finally escaped from the castle, they unfortunately ran into a small team of veteran hunters who were out hunting.

"Running? Junior, why did you stop running?"

A lewd, obscene laugh came from behind.

Three senior students walked over unhurriedly, blocking all of Su Muxue's escape routes.

The leader was a young man with a face full of pockmarks.

Wang Ma, a sophomore.

He licked his dry, cracked lips, his lewd gaze sweeping unabashedly over Su Muxue's alluring curves pressed against his body, his greed evident in his eyes.

"Wow, the quality of this year's freshmen is really high."

"I never expected to find such a top-quality item in this wretched swamp."

Wang Ma rubbed his hands together, approaching step by step, his tone extremely vulgar.

"Junior, obediently hand over your token and merit points."

"If you make me feel comfortable, I promise I won't kill you, how about it?"

"Captain, you'd better hurry up and get it done, don't leave the brothers just watching!"

A skinny guy next to him swallowed hard and shouted impatiently, "We'll go after you're done, Captain!"

"Such a beautiful girl, I'd never have a chance to touch her at school. Today, in this secret place, I'm going to have some fun with her!"

"Haha, don't worry, everyone gets a share!"

Hearing these foul words, Su Muxue trembled, her face filled with despair.

She never imagined that Zhenyue Martial Arts University would have such a scumbag who was worse than an animal!

She'd rather die than be violated by these people!

"Don't come any closer..."

She clenched her teeth, and the remaining true energy in her body began to flow backward, preparing to directly sever her heart meridian.

Even if it meant death, she would never let those beasts touch her!

Wang Ma saw through her intention, sneered, and pounced like a hungry wolf: "Want to die? In front of me, you don't even have the right to die! Come here!"

"boom!!!"

In that very instant.

A deafening sonic boom suddenly rang out.

The violent airflow instantly uprooted dozens of towering, dead trees in the surrounding area!

"die!"

Before Wang Ma could even see the person's face clearly, a sharp pain shot through his chest!

"Snap!"

Jiang Feng's right leg swept out like a battle axe, kicking Wang Ma hard in the chest.

Wang Ma's sternum caved in instantly, and he was sent flying dozens of meters away, crashing heavily into the muddy ground. His fate was unknown.

"team leader?!"

The remaining two senior students were shocked and, seeing the situation was bad, instinctively reached for their weapons.

"Were you allowed to draw your swords?"

A gentle and refined voice sounded behind the two of them.

Ji Fan landed lightly from mid-air.

He didn't even glance at the two of them, but simply tapped them lightly with the 'Golden Poseidon's Fork' in his hand.

"Buzz!"

A-level containment object combined with level 6 vector ability, the power of dual rules erupts instantly!

A terrifying gravitational force, dozens of times stronger than normal, slammed down on the shoulders of the two senior students.

The two men felt their knees buckle and were forced to their knees in the mud with a thud, their eyes filled with fear.

"Mu Xue!!!"

Tang Tang, who arrived from behind, saw Su Muxue sitting in the mud and burst into tears.

She didn't care about anything else and rushed over, hugging her best friend tightly in her arms.

"Waaaah... Mu Xue, are you alright? I'm so sorry we're late, you scared me to death!"

Holding her best friend tightly, Su Muxue finally couldn't hold back anymore and burst into tears, her tears flowing like a broken dam.

"Tangtang...thank goodness you came...otherwise I...waaaaah..."

At this moment, Jiang Feng was walking step by step toward Wang Manan.

"No...don't kill me! I'm a sophomore...we were just joking..."

Wang Ma, his face covered in blood, stared in terror at his junior who resembled a god of death.

"Snapped!"

Jiang Feng raised his foot expressionlessly and brutally stomped on his right hand.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

The pig-like screams echoed through the withered forest.

"Do you think that just because the trial rules forbid killing, I can't deal with you?"

Jiang Feng squatted down, grabbed Wang Ma's hair, lifted his pained and contorted face, and then slammed it down hard into the mud.

"Ah! My face! My nose!"

……

"Break all four limbs of these three good-for-nothings!"

A few minutes later, Jiang Feng said coldly.

Qin Hongye, who was not far away, snorted coldly and flicked her thunder whip: "This old lady likes dealing with scum the most."

Hearing the screams of the three senior students, Su Muxue felt no fear, but rather a warm feeling.

"Jiang Feng... thank you."