17: Chapter 17 Storm Priest

"Starting from the seventh wave, Old Duan has really stopped acting human!"

Watching the thirty Four-Armed Nagas walk out from the Gate of the Divine Kingdom, Du Ruo shook his head with a bitter smile.

This was the eighth wave of kin he was facing, and starting from the seventh stage, the original ordinary Nagas had been replaced by these elite-level Four-Armed Nagas.

"Thirty Tier 4 Nagas—how am I supposed to fight that!"

Du Ruo glanced at the few remaining two-headed ogres by his side; these were the only Tier 4 kin under his command.

"Forget it!"

After hesitating for a few seconds, Du Ruo chose to give up.

Although with Duan Fei watching over them, neither the Nagas nor his own kin would be in any danger to their Life.

But getting injured was also a hassle; he would still have to spend divine power to heal them, and some severely injured or disabled ones would even require the trouble of family elders who possessed healing divine arts.

Knowing that he couldn't win, this trade-off wasn't worth it.

"I wonder if I can surpass Liu Yiyi, and as for Ye Kaige..."

Du Ruo sighed; clearly, even he felt there wasn't much hope.

...

"He's out, Du Ruo is out."

As Du Ruo's figure appeared before the eyes of the Students, the rankings for this week's exam were finalized.

Du Ruo glanced around and, as expected, did not see the figure he had been 'hoping' for, but he wasn't too disappointed, as Liu Yiyi, the daughter of a True God who had always been in a 'second or third place rivalry' with him, had already been eliminated one step ahead of him.

"Haha... Chen Mo, I'm second."

Seeing Chen Mo walking up, Du Ruo habitually threw a punch.

This time, Chen Mo had learned to be smart and dodged directly to the side.

"Ouch!"

A scream rang out, and Bai Yuanyu fell to the ground in response.

"Sorry, sorry!"

Du Ruo felt a bit embarrassed and hurriedly pulled him up.

Bai Yuanyu, with a pained expression, clutched his chest and looked resentfully at Chen Mo, who should have been standing in front of him.

"Don't blame me; who told you to react so slowly."

Chen Mo didn't hesitate at all to shift the blame onto Bai Yuanyu himself.

"Fine, I admit defeat."

Bai Yuanyu, having stood back up, glared at Chen Mo, then curiously looked at Du Ruo, who had reached out to pull him up.

"Du Ruo, which stage were you eliminated at?"

"The eighth stage. Thirty Four-Armed Nagas; I really couldn't block them, and I didn't want my kin to get hurt, so I gave up."

"Awesome, I gave up at the first wave." Bai Yuanyu gave Du Ruo a thumbs up.

"It's fine, it's not embarrassing. You two just condensed your divine domains; this situation is very normal in the class."

Perhaps because of his earlier guilt, Du Ruo's attitude toward Bai Yuanyu had improved significantly, but Bai Yuanyu's next words left Du Ruo stunned on the spot.

"It's true that I gave up at the first wave, but Chen Mo..."

Bai Yuanyu glanced at Chen Mo and continued in a tone of shared pride: "Chen Mo actually made it into the top ten."

"What?"

Du Ruo was slightly stunned, then looked at Chen Mo in disbelief.

"Luck, just luck!" Chen Mo smiled 'shyly'.

"What place?"

"It seems to be ninth. In the fourth stage, I only managed to take out 12 Storm Nagas," Chen Mo answered truthfully.

"This..." Du Ruo's eyes suddenly became somewhat complex.

Actually, Chen Mo's situation was not an exception; whether it was him or Liu Yiyi, both had achieved good results in their first weekly exam.

Although there weren't many people in the class who had condensed their divine domains at that time, the difficulty was about the same.

For example, Du Ruo himself had made it all the way to the third stage back then, but it was only the third stage.

"He actually matched Ye Kaige's first weekly exam results?"

Du Ruo stared fixedly at Chen Mo, as if wanting to see through this classmate and relative, with whom he had a good relationship but had never really understood in depth.

Chen Mo felt creeped out by Du Ruo's stare and took the initiative to change the subject: "How many stages do you think that person can clear this time?"

Du Ruo, of course, understood who Chen Mo was talking about. After thinking for a few seconds, he said in a deep voice: "The eighth stage is no difficulty for him; he cleared it during the last weekly exam, and it's even possible for him to clear the ninth stage."

"What about the tenth stage?" Bai Yuanyu immediately asked excitedly.

Du Ruo shook his head: "Difficult, very difficult!"

...

At this moment, on the only floating island where the Gate of the Divine Kingdom still existed, a handsome youth with a faint purple mark between his brows looked up at the sky.

"Teacher Duan, the ninth stage can no longer stop me!"

As he spoke, the youth waved his right hand, and the two figures beside him immediately took action.

Those were two figures shrouded in black robes, holding bone staves, with palms like dried corpses surging with immense magic power.

Liches!

And two Tier 6 Liches at that.

In an instant, a terrifying black ripple swept across the battlefield.

The Four-Armed Nagas, who were being besieged by thousands of bone warriors, fell one after another and were then directly teleported back to the Divine Kingdom.

The entire battle took less than three minutes.

"Let me see what surprise the tenth stage has prepared for me."

The youth's lips curled up slightly, and at this moment, a figure walked out from the Gate of the Divine Kingdom in the distance.

It was a creature completely different from ordinary Nagas; it had facial features more similar to a human's, but its figure was five meters tall.

These facts were actually not important; the key was that this Naga possessed a full six arms.

A Six-Armed Naga, also known as a Storm Priest!

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