22: Chapter 22 Shocking!

A strong sense of weightlessness and spatial tearing washed over them.

At the same time, high above Tianwu First High School.

A colossal holographic stargazing platform, crafted entirely from pure white jade and anti-gravity metal, slowly emerged.

This was the viewing stand exclusively belonging to the upper class and powerholders of Tianwu City.

The mayor, senior executives of various schools, heads of major conglomerates controlling the economic lifeline of Tianwu City, and several senior officials of the Interstellar Expeditionary Army draped in general coats were currently sitting comfortably in leather high-backed chairs.

Directly in front of them was a super holographic light screen hundreds of meters long, divided into tens of thousands of small screens, precisely locking onto the divine kingdom dynamics of every participating student.

"Everyone, the location for this practical combat exam is the D-09 Abyss Polluted Area, code-named Skeleton Wasteland."

A military chief of staff stood up, his voice spreading across the viewing stand through amplification equipment and synchronously reaching the ears of every student.

"The exam rules are very simple: Slaughter!"

"Killing abyss polluted beasts will automatically calculate faith point scores by the system. The higher the score, the higher the ranking. Not only will you receive a million interest-free loans from the school, but the top ten ranked can also directly enter the military's key cultivation list and be awarded a mysterious grand prize!"

"But remember, the abyss has no mercy! Once your dependents are completely wiped out, the origin of your divine kingdom will suffer irreversible heavy damage! If you want to save your life, you can crush the abstention rune in your hand at any time. Now, the exam officially begins!"

As soon as the chief of staff's voice fell, the images on the holographic light screen instantly became clear.

Ten thousand students had already descended upon the Skeleton Wasteland!

The sky of this wasteland was a dead, dark red, and the ground was covered with grayish-white, unknown bones.

The air was filled with a pungent smell of sulfur and abyss mist capable of eroding minds.

"Ah! My Orcs have gone berserk, they are killing each other!"

"Help! This mist is poisonous, more than half of my low-tier goblins collapsed as soon as they came out!"

The low-tier dependents of countless civilian students simply could not adapt to this harsh combat environment.

Before even encountering monsters, they collapsed first, and the white teleporation light representing abstention constantly lit up at the edge of the battlefield.

The big figures on the stargazing platform simply shook their heads expressionless upon seeing this.

The starry sea expedition was naturally the survival of the fittest.

"Quickly look at the central area!"

Suddenly, someone exclaimed.

The camera of the main screen instantly cut to the central zone of the examination room.

There, Liu Ting was suspended in mid-air like a proud ice and snow queen.

Below her, over a hundred crystal-clear Tier 1 late-stage Frost Elementalists were frantically waving their staffs.

A violent blizzard swept out, instantly freezing hundreds and thousands of charging abyss polluted beasts into ice sculptures, which then shattered into ice shards all over the ground.

On the other side, Zhang Hao's phalanx was equally dazzling.

Hundreds of Lava Behemoths wreathed in roaring flames rampaged across the wasteland, and wherever they passed, the abyss monsters were all turned to ashes.

"Good! As expected of an A-grade talent!"

"That girl from the Liu family and that kid from the Zhang family have truly shone brilliantly this time."

Several conglomerate family heads nodded with satisfaction, and several military generals also showed approving gazes.

In order to show the overall situation of the battlefield, the official broadcast's director camera inadvertently swept past a remote corner of the examination room.

In the corner of the light screen, a familiar name appeared.

[Candidate: Lin Yunfei. Divine Kingdom Rating: F-grade Wasteland.]

Seeing this name, Instructor Chen Zheng on the stargazing platform, along with several informed school leaders, couldn't help letting out a regretful sigh.

"It's a pity for this good seed; his theoretical scores were full marks for three consecutive years, yet he awakened an F-grade Wasteland."

"Yeah, the wasteland has no spiritual veins. In this month, at most, he could only cultivate a few hundred mortal soldiers holding raw iron pieces as weapons. In this kind of abyss wasteland, he probably won't even be able to withstand the first wave of the beast tide."

However, their voices had just fallen.

In that corner image of the holographic light screen, the thick, grayish-dark fog was suddenly forcibly dispersed by an incomparably thick force of blood and Qi!

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Neat, earthquake-like footsteps, through the sound transmitter of the screen, heavily pounded on everyone's hearts.

The fog dispersed.

Presented before everyone's eyes was a cultivating steel torrent of exactly three thousand people, covered entirely in cold dark gold heavy armor!

Sunlight pierced through the red clouds, shining on their dark gold tower shields as thick as city walls, refracting a chilling metallic luster.

Three thousand people breathed with the same frequency and moved in unison.

White true qi converged above their heads, like a concentrated, unyielding, stern gloomy cloud.

"What kind of dependent is this?"

The school leaders who were still regretting just now instantly became interested.

"Dark gold cold-forged heavy armor? Three thousand Tier 1 extraordinary armored soldiers?!"

"How could this be a foundation that an F-grade Wasteland can produce?!"

Just as everyone was shocked, the mud in the depths of the abyss suddenly exploded.

The area where Lin Yunfei was located attracted an unprecedentedly large-scale mutant beast tide.

As many as ten thousand Abyss Bone Wolves and corrupted wild boars with scarlet eyes and bone spurs all over their bodies roared and swarmed from all directions, like a grayish-white tsunami of death, fiercely lunging toward the human position.

"The number is too large!"

Chen Zheng suddenly stood up and clenched his fists.

"Without the area-of-effect damage of elemental spells, once pure physical dependents are surrounded, the formation will be instantly shattered!"

"Xuanwu, guard the array."

Just as Leader Yan Er's voice fell!

High above the platform, High Priest Xi fiercely waved the huge array flag in his hand embroidered with turtle shell star patterns!

"Roar!"

Three thousand dark gold armored soldiers roared in unison.

The one thousand heavy shield soldiers on the outermost perimeter fiercely smashed their half-person-high dark gold tower shields into the ground.

The grooves on the edges of the shields interlocked tightly within milliseconds, and the thick white true qi instantly connected into a defensive closed loop!

Rumbling!!!

Ten thousand rampaging polluted beasts, carrying huge impact force, fiercely crashed into the human array.

Amidst everyone's horrified gazes,

that seemingly thin black defense line actually didn't retreat half a step!

The strength of three thousand people was perfectly shared through the special lines of the array.

When an Abyss Bone Wolf crashed into the shield, what it faced was not the strength of a single armored soldier, but the heavy foundation of the entire Xuanwu Heavy Armor Killing Array!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Countless mutated beasts had their heads bleeding and bones broken.

They frantically scratched with sharp claws and bit with fangs, yet they couldn't leave even a trace of a crack on the dark gold tower shields and the white true qi protective cover.

This group of monsters encountered a military array like the Wall of Sighs, and the only thing they could do was sigh!

"Array! That's a military array!"

At the highest point of the stargazing platform, a major general of the Interstellar Expeditionary Army suddenly slapped the table and stood up, his eyes staring fixedly at the screen, his voice revealing unconcealable excitement.

"Moreover, this is definitely not those generic junk bought from starnet!"

"The interlocking of the shield array and the circulation frequency of true qi perfectly match the muscle exertion habits of these armored soldiers! This is a native perfect military array deduced and comprehended by the divine kingdom dependents themselves!"

As soon as these words came out, the senior executives of the entire stargazing platform all drew a sharp breath of cold air.

Making dependents create such a rigorous military array on their own?

What kind of terrifying ecological deduction ability and species comprehension ability would this require?

Is this something a freshman of an F-grade Wasteland can do?!

Just when the hearts of all the big figures were beating wildly,

on the battlefield, the array flag in High Priest Xi's hand suddenly pressed down, its color instantly switching from the black representing defense to the blood red representing slaughter!

"Xuanwu Claw Search, Sancai Ultimate Kill!"

The defensive counterattack begins!

The next second,

two thousand armor-piercing spears tempered with cold light thrust out like poisonous snakes coming out of their holes from the gaps in the shields with lightning speed!

Thrust! Retract! Thrust again!

Under the blessing of the Xuanwu Heavy Armor Killing Array, the three thousand armored soldiers turned into an emotionless mincing machine.

Every time a spear thrust out, a polluted beast's skull was bound to be pierced; every time a spear retracted, it brought up a cluster of stinky black blood.

The phalanx was like a slowly moving war behemoth, steadily advancing forward in the beast tide several times larger than its own side.

Wherever it passed, abyss monsters were cut down in patches, turning into debris all over the ground.

"Zero casualties..."

A conglomerate family head looked at the extremely stable vital sign data at the bottom of the screen, his voice trembling.

"Facing the siege of ten thousand polluted beasts, they actually achieved zero-casualty advancement..."

Liu Ting's frost was indeed gorgeous, and Zhang Hao's flames were indeed fierce, but those were all wildly burning the divine kingdom's origin and mana.

And Lin Yunfei's army had very minimal consumption and unpretentious movements, but the efficiency of the slaughter made all the battle-hardened military bigshots present feel a burst of scalp numbness.

If Liu Ting and Zhang Hao were showing off their skills,

then Lin Yunfei was demonstrating what a true war machine is called!

"Investigate!"

Major General Lu Shuang of the Interstellar Expeditionary Army had shining eyes as he suddenly turned his head to look at the adjutant beside him, his tone extremely urgent.

"Immediately pull all the information of this candidate for me!"

Just when the gazes of all the big figures instantly moved away from those conglomerate children and locked firmly onto Lin Yunfei,

the exam score leaderboard on the Central Square of Tianwu City also began to undergo drastic changes.

Lin Yunfei's name was originally ranked thousands behind.

But along with the terrifying harvesting speed of the Xuanwu Killing Array, his score numbers began to skyrocket frantically at a dizzying speed!