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Outside the crimson castle, a thick, blood-red fog, like unyielding blood plasma, enveloped the entire massive ancient building.

The mottled black stone city walls were covered with eerie, dark red vines, and the air was filled with a nauseating stench.

Dozens of powerful energy fluctuations tore through the mist, and several elite teams, led by S-class prodigies such as Yan Wudao, Lei Lie, and Ye Weiyang, finally gathered in front of the ancient castle.

The carnage along the way had left them all stained with the blood of strange beasts, but as they gazed at the aura deep within the castle that symbolized the ultimate reward, their eyes gleamed with fanaticism and greed.

"Charge in! Grab all the merit points and the ultimate reward!"

Someone roared, and dozens of top freshmen swarmed into the hall like locusts.

However, what awaited them was not mountains of gold and silver, but a one-sided massacre.

"roar!"

With three terrifying roars that shattered eardrums, the dome of the castle's main hall collapsed with a deafening crash.

Three enormous creatures, exuding a strong aura of death and distorted pollution, crashed down on the crowd like three mountains.

On the left side, it is nearly four meters tall and covered with a thick, grayish-brown keratinous layer like rock. It even has thick bony plates like those of a pangolin growing on its back.

Although it has a human head, the lower half of its face has completely transformed into a ferocious beast's snout, spewing out murky yellow poisonous gas with every breath. This is a mutated meat shield monster!

From the shadows on the right came a chilling rustling sound.

A hidden spider-like monster, with the lower body of a giant black widow spider but the upper body retaining female human characteristics, is hanging upside down from the ceiling.

Eight long, sharp legs gleamed with a ghostly blue venomous light, and six compound eyes sprouted from its face, dripping with greedy saliva.

The monster standing in the very center was the largest, standing a full five meters tall.

Its lower body had completely transformed into dozens of thick, sticky octopus tentacles, covered with suckers filled with sharp teeth.

What's most chilling is its right arm, which is a black severed arm covered with scarlet eyes—an S-class containment object, the arm of an evil god!

"Wait...wait! Look at that meat shield monster's chest, that's the identification badge of a Zhenyue Martial Arts University instructor!"

From the crowd, a sharp-eyed A-level freshman suddenly screamed in terror, "Oh my god, that face... it's Instructor Zhang from the practical training class! They... they've been corrupted by the aberration!"

"What kind of drill instructors are these? They're just monsters blocking our way! Kill them!"

Lei Lie's eyes widened, and his bones crackled like popping beans.

He roared to the sky and unleashed his innate divine ability, [Savage Overlord Body]!

His already towering 2.2-meter frame instantly expanded to 3 meters, his muscles bulging like steel bars, and his skin gleaming with a dark golden sheen.

"Smash it for me!"

Lei Lie was like a heavy tank, wielding a pair of iron fists the size of water tanks, recklessly smashing them towards the meat shield instructor.

The force of the punch was so powerful that it compressed the air, creating a sonic boom cloud.

At the same time, the figure of the dark web assassin Ye Weiyang vanished from the spot like a wisp of smoke. Her divine power, [Shadow Killing Array], was activated! Dozens of Ye Weiyang's dark afterimages instantly appeared in the hall. The two butterfly knives in her hands transformed into two streaks of dark, deadly light, precisely slicing towards the compound eyes and weak joints of the spider monster hanging upside down from the ceiling.

"Annihilation Slash".

Yan Wudao's expression was cold as he slowly drew the heavy sword from his back.

A desolate, deathly sword intent surged into the sky, and the terrifying cultivation of a sixth-grade, ninth-star expert was poured into the sword without reservation.

A jet-black sword beam, over ten meters long, tore through space, perfectly complementing Lei Lie and Ye Weiyang.

These S-class prodigies possess extremely high combat skills.

Under their relentless onslaught, the tough bone plates of the meat shield monster were cleaved open by Yan Wudao, and then its heart was shattered by Lei Lie's punch.

The spider monster, meanwhile, had its central nervous system precisely severed by Ye Weiyang's butterfly knife, which was soaked in deadly poison, and it plummeted from the dome with a miserable howl.

"That's all there is to it!"

Lei Lie was panting heavily, grinning wildly.

However, just when they thought victory was assured, the octopus-like monster that had remained motionless in the center of the hall suddenly let out a chilling laugh.

"Void flesh and blood... Divine Kingdom."

The countless scarlet eyes on the evil god's arm on the monster's chest opened simultaneously.

boom!!!

A terrifying pressure, surpassing even a seventh-grade Martial Emperor and nearly reaching an eighth-grade Martial Saint, suddenly descended. The floor of the main hall instantly transformed into a churning swamp of blood and flesh, as dozens of thick octopus tentacles burst forth from the earth like a raging demon!

"Pfft!"

Lei Lie didn't even have time to dodge before a tentacle lashed out at his chest.

His proud, untamed physique shattered like paper, and he coughed up blood as he flew backward.

Yan Wudao's heavy sword struck the tentacles, but it was as if he had hit flexible rubber. Instead of causing any damage, the sword was corroded by the strong acid secreted by the tentacles, making a sizzling sound.

Ye Weiyang's afterimage was instantly shattered under the indiscriminate strangulation of the tentacles, forcing him to reveal his true form, his face deathly pale.

"There's something strange about its right arm! It's draining our life force!"

Yan Wudao was horrified to discover that the blood and qi in the area where he had been scratched by the tentacles were draining away at an alarming rate, feeding back into the octopus monster.

A sense of despair instantly spread throughout the hall.

Faced with this half-step Martial Saint level monster that had fused with an S-class containment object, these proud freshmen finally felt the fear of death.

Many people's life-protection tokens have begun to crack, and once they shatter, they will completely lose their qualification for this trial.

"Are we going to be completely wiped out...?"

Lei Lie closed his eyes in despair.

"BOOM!!!"

Just at this critical moment, the castle's dilapidated gate was smashed apart by an even more violent force!

A blinding beam of lightning, carrying an overbearing sword intent capable of severing everything, poured into the hall from outside like a silver river from the heavens!

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

Those incredibly tough octopus tentacles, which even Yan Wudao's heavy sword couldn't sever, were instantly cut off like fragile withered grass in front of this blade of light—more than a dozen of them were severed! Black blood gushed out everywhere!

"Who said this year's freshmen are going to be a complete failure?"

A tall, slender figure, carrying a battle sword, slowly walked into the main hall, stepping over the blood and gore scattered on the ground. Jiang Feng's eyes were as cold as knives, and his body was surrounded by the violent aura of a peak sixth-grade cultivator, making him look like a god of death descended to earth.

Behind him, Ji Fan pushed up his black-rimmed glasses and slammed the golden Poseidon trident in his hand to the ground.

"Ten times gravity, vector confinement."

hum!

A layer of dark golden ripples spread out instantly.

The octopus monster's body suddenly sank, and its remaining tentacles, as if filled with lead, were firmly suppressed in the swamp of flesh and blood, struggling frantically but unable to move.

"whisper!"

The chubby soul beast Dudu flew off Jiang Feng's shoulder, its whole body radiating a holy milky white light.

Innate Divine Power [Purification] activated!

A dazzling beam of light enveloped the evil god's hand on the octopus monster's right arm. Under the purifying light, the crimson eyes let out a shrill scream and closed up, instantly severing the monster's ability to absorb life force!

"Well done."

Jiang Feng's lips curled into a cold smile.

He slightly bent his knees, and the bluestone floor beneath his feet instantly became covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

"cut!"

Jiang Feng transformed into a pillar of lightning connecting heaven and earth, raising his battle blade high and slashing down with an overwhelming aura of destruction towards the octopus monster's head.

Under the utterly shocked gazes of Lei Lie, Yan Wudao, and the others.

The terrifying monster that had cornered them didn't even have time to let out a scream before Jiang Feng cleaved it in two from head to toe with his blade!