112: Chapter 112 Crushing the Divine Core, Seed Sequence Under Scrutiny

In the eighteenth year of the Divine Kingdom, the sky over the Skeleton Wasteland turned completely dark.

One hundred thousand square kilometers of Death Qi surged back from all corners of the wasteland; bone hills collapsed, bone fortresses shattered, and even the low-level undead that had not yet entered the battle were swallowed by the Death Qi, becoming part of the gray toxic cloud.

That toxic cloud bypassed the frontline legions and headed straight for the Divine Kingdom passage.

The Undead Deity had already realized that relying solely on the bone sea and elite legions could not stop Wang Pingan.

It intended to follow the passage and reverse-pollute the Origin of Wang Pingan's Divine Kingdom.

As long as the Death Qi poured into the sixty thousand square kilometer Divine Kingdom, the Spirit Fields would wither, the Academy would fall into chaos, and the Blood Energy Pool would be eroded; even if Wang Pingan won the battle, he would pay a heavy price.

Wang Shan stood on the front line, staring at the approaching toxic cloud, gripping his crimson flame saber tightly. "This thing is coming for the passage."

Wang Mu stood atop the formation platform, waving his command flag repeatedly. "All legions, retreat thirty miles! Stop the random bombardment from the Heavy Artillery Battalion! Formation Hall, activate the Nine Yang Heaven-Locking Formation."

Wang Shan immediately ordered the troops to retreat. He was usually stubborn, but when it came to a clash of Laws, he knew who to listen to.

Behind the Divine Kingdom passage, one hundred C-grade Small Spirit Veins lit up simultaneously.

These Spirit Veins had originally been buried inside the Divine Kingdom, but now they were mobilized by Wang Mu as formation cores. Nine main formation platforms rose in succession, and pure Yang fire liquid, Soul Cleansing Talismans, and vein-stabilizing formation Materials were all fed into the formation center.

Purple Mansion Cultivators divided into nine directions, pouring their True Essence into the formation patterns.

The Nine Yang Heaven-Locking Formation took shape.

Red-gold formation light rose from the inside of the passage, sealing off the first wave of the Undead toxic cloud's impact.

The toxic cloud of Death Qi slammed into the formation screen, pressing the red-gold firelight back continuously, while the Talismans around the formation platform burned out one after another.

Formation Hall Disciples continuously replenished the Talismans, and the maintenance team poured crates of pure Yang Materials into the formation center.

Wang Mu stood in the center of the formation platform, his face illuminated by the formation light. "Do not let the Death Qi cross the line. If it crosses by one foot, an entire city behind us will have to pay the price for the remediation."

This statement pressured everyone so much that they dared not let up.

The toxic cloud grew thicker and thicker; the Undead Deity had compressed the Death Qi of the entire Divine Kingdom and pushed it over.

Wang Pingan looked down at the passage, his Divine Thought resting upon the Nine Yang Heaven-Locking Formation.

He did not intervene to take over for Wang Mu, letting the Divine Kingdom System handle it on its own.

Wang Mu, as expected, did not just defend.

After the formation screen stabilized, he suddenly altered the Spiritual Qi direction of the nine main formation platforms, changing the defensive formation patterns into traction formation patterns.

A Formation Hall manager looked shocked. "Commander, if we reverse-extract the opponent's Origin, the formation pressure will double."

Wang Mu stared intently at the Formation Plate. "It brought the Origin to our doorstep; how could we let it go back?"

The Nine Yang Heaven-Locking Formation switched from defense to offense.

The red-gold formation light latched onto the toxic cloud of Death Qi, beginning to strip away the Origin Spiritual Power within the toxic cloud.

The Death Qi was incinerated by the pure Yang fire liquid, the pollution was filtered out by the Soul Cleansing Talisman power, and the remaining pure Origin was channeled into the Divine Kingdom's Earth Veins, injecting it into new Spirit Fields and the Purple Mansion cultivation area.

The Undead Deity wanted to pollute Wang Pingan's Divine Kingdom.

Wang Mu backhanded it by extracting its Foundation.

Wang Shan rubbed the hilt of his blade and grinned. "Wang Mu, that move of yours is cunning enough."

Wang Mu didn't even look up. "If you know how to talk, go guard the formation."

Wang Shan lifted his blade and turned around. "Fine, I'll guard it. A formation this cunning needs to be protected well."

The Nine Yang Heaven-Locking Formation continuously extracted the Undead Origin; the toxic cloud in the Skeleton Wasteland began to thin, and the distant core bone fortress began to shake.

The Undead Deity was finally pushed to the point of no retreat.

The twenty-first year of the Divine Kingdom, the twenty-first day in the outside world.

The core bone fortress shattered with a boom, and an Undead Deity standing a hundred zhang tall killed its way out from the bone fortress.

It wore a gray bone crown, was clad in shattered bone armor, and a dim Divine Core hung within its chest cavity, while the Soul Fire in its eye sockets burned extremely intensely.

It gave up mobilizing the bone sea and the Undead legions, heading straight for the projection of Wang Pingan's true self in the sky.

Decapitation.

This was its last chance.

The Undead Deity took a step, Death Qi covering the sky; the remaining bone beasts and the shattered bones of Death Knights were absorbed into its divine body, and its hundred-zhang-tall frame grew even taller.

Wang Shan raised his blade to charge, but was held back by Wang Pingan's Divine Thought.

"Let it come."

Wang Shan stopped in his tracks, Battle Intent surging in his eyes, but he did not disobey the order.

Wang Mu also raised his hand to hold back the Artillery Battalion, waiting for Wang Pingan's order.

The Undead Deity rushed above the Divine Kingdom passage, its gray bone spear stabbing towards Wang Pingan's Divine Thought Incarnation, with Death Qi gathering at the tip of the spear.

Wang Pingan stood in the sky, releasing his First-Order Deity pressure without reservation for the first time.

Golden Divine Fire spread out, and the Law of Time pressed down along with his Divine Thought.

The Undead Deity's movements were frozen for half a breath.

Half a breath was already fatal enough for a First-Order Deity.

Wang Pingan's voice fell. "Shatter it."

Wang Mu's command flag pressed down fiercely; two hundred Purple Mansion-grade rune heavy cannons had already completed their energy charging.

The first round of pure Yang explosive shells bombarded the Undead Deity's chest armor, shattering pieces of the gray bone armor in swaths.

The second round of artillery fire blasted through its shoulder bones and spine, causing the Undead Deity's hundred-zhang divine body to tumble forward.

Wang Shan led five thousand elite Purple Mansion Martial Masters in a charge, the Xianwu Meat Grinder Array grinding against the Undead divine body.

The crimson flame saber split the gray bone crown, Purple Mansion True Essence poured into the skull along the crack, and the Martial Masters' Blood Energy suppressed the remaining Soul Fire back into the chest cavity.

The third round of artillery fire focused on the Divine Core position in its chest.

The Undead Deity broke free from the time suppression, emitting a silent roar; the Death Qi wanted to gather again, but was firmly suppressed by the Nine Yang Heaven-Locking Formation.

Wang Pingan raised his hand and reached into the battlefield.

A giant golden hand of Divine Thought passed through the artillery fire and Death Qi, grabbing that dim Divine Core.

The Undead Deity struggled with all its might, its divine body collapsing inch by inch within the Xianwu Meat Grinder Array.

Wang Pingan closed his five fingers.

The dim Divine Core shattered.

The Undead Deity's Soul Fire extinguished on the spot.

The entire Skeleton Wasteland shook violently, bone fortresses collapsed, the Death Qi turbulence lost its core control, and large swaths of the Undead army tide scattered into bone powder.

The System task confirmation screen lit up in Wang Pingan's consciousness.

[Skeleton Wasteland Deity has fallen, Divine Core shattered, mission complete.]

The Divine Kingdom passage opened completely, and both Wang Shan and Wang Mu were waiting for the annexation order.

A one hundred thousand square kilometer First-Order Undead Divine Kingdom lay before them; if they swallowed it all, the area of Wang Pingan's Divine Kingdom would directly skyrocket.

But Wang Pingan did not greedily swallow it immediately.

His Divine Thought swept across the entire wasteland.

The outer eighty thousand square kilometers had already been saturated with Death Qi, the Earth Vein pollution had penetrated deep into the root layers, and the Undead resurrection Law had left behind a large amount of residue; forcing it into the Divine Kingdom would only drag down the ecosystem, and subsequent cleanup would consume a massive amount of Divine Power.

The core twenty thousand square kilometers were different.

That area had been repeatedly filtered by the Nine Yang Heaven-Locking Formation, the Death Qi had been burned away for the most part, and the Soul Power and Earth Vein Origin were purer, making it suitable for integration into the Divine Kingdom to strengthen the subjects' Divine Souls and Purple Mansion Foundation.

Wang Pingan issued a Divine Oracle. "Discard the outer eighty thousand square kilometer heavily polluted area, only take the Origin of the core twenty thousand square kilometers."

Wang Shan stopped in his tracks. "Divine Lord, that is eighty thousand square kilometers."

Wang Mu bowed to accept the order. "It is better to swallow less than to bring rotten land home."

Wang Pingan nodded. "Extract."

The Nine Yang Heaven-Locking Formation operated once again, and the Formation Hall used the one hundred C-grade Small Spirit Veins as anchors to draw the core Origin into the Divine Kingdom.

The outer polluted area had its connection severed, turning into wasteland turbulence during the disintegration of the Skeleton Wasteland, and was recovered and sealed by the school's battlefield System.

The Origin of the core twenty thousand square kilometers turned into pure Soul Power, Earth Veins, and a small amount of Yin soil (after the Death Qi was purified), gradually merging into the edge of Wang Pingan's Divine Kingdom.

The sixty thousand square kilometer territory expanded once again.

A new Yin and Yang boundary mountain range was generated in the north, and pure Soul Power flowed along the Academy, the Ancestral Court, and the Hundred Arts Hall; three million subjects' Divine Souls were nourished, and many subjects who were stuck at the Peak of Foundation Establishment and Blood Condensation stabilized their Foundation on the spot.

Purple Mansion Cultivators closed their eyes to receive the Soul Power, their Divine Soul Foundation noticeably elevated.

The Martial Master legions also benefited from the Soul Power cleansing, their sensing of battle formation coordination becoming clearer, and the aura of the five thousand elites behind Wang Shan became more solid once again.

Wang Pingan opened the panel.

[Divine Kingdom area has reached eighty thousand square kilometers.]

The population, Spirit Fields, Spirit Veins, legions, and Hundred Arts System were not damaged by the Undead pollution; instead, they gained a new area capable of nourishing Divine Souls.

In this battle, he didn't swallow much, but he swallowed it cleanly.

Wang Mu presented the battle damage report, his tone rising. "Zero casualties in the main combat legions, zero casualties in the Auxiliary Army, four hundred sixty-two seriously injured, all rescued; nineteen Purple Mansion-grade heavy cannons destroyed, thirteen can be repaired."

Wang Shan walked back carrying his crimson flame saber, his shoulder armor covered in bone ash. "This battle was fought satisfyingly; there were plenty of bones, and the harvest was solid."

Wang Mu glanced at the ledger. "We'll calculate the military supply consumption when we go back."

Wang Shan's mouth stiffened. "Can you wait until I'm done being happy before you say that?"

Wang Pingan withdrew his Divine Thought, ending the battlefield connection.

On the twenty-first day in the outside world, inside the Xinghe University Mission Hall, many freshmen were still paying attention to the status of the Skeleton Wasteland mission.

Lu Ming had come almost every day for these twenty-one days.

He told himself over and over that the Skeleton Wasteland could not be cleared solo; the longer Wang Pingan stayed out, the greater the possibility of his Divine Kingdom being damaged.

The Lu Family branch behind him was also waiting for the result.

As long as Wang Pingan's Divine Kingdom was damaged, Lu Ming could still retain a portion of his resource stake and prove to the Family that he hadn't been completely suppressed.

In the center of the hall, the mission screen suddenly lit up with a golden notification.

Blinding golden light filled the entire hall, and all sounds were suppressed.

On the screen, a line of large characters popped out.

[Grade A Sequence Wang Pingan, solo clear of the high-risk First-Order Divine Kingdom Skeleton Wasteland, time taken: twenty-one days, comprehensive evaluation: S+.]

No one in the hall made a sound anymore.

The Grey-Robed Deacon stood behind the verification desk, staring at that line of text, motionless for a long while.

The Skeleton Wasteland, which had once wiped out an entire First-Order squad, had been cleared solo by Wang Pingan.

Lu Ming stood under the screen, his face tight, his body swaying.

He wanted to open his mouth and say it was impossible, but that golden notification was pressing down right there; the school System could not fake it, and the S+ evaluation could not be faked either.

He didn't even have the energy to be jealous anymore.

Because the gap was already so large that it could not be covered up by jealousy.

From this moment on, Lu Ming knew very clearly that he no longer had the qualifications to treat Wang Pingan as an opponent.

In the hall, those who had previously been waiting to see Wang Pingan make a fool of himself all shut their mouths; many people didn't even dare to look at Lu Ming.

Wang Pingan had not yet appeared, but this slap in the face was already direct enough.

Deep within Xinghe University, inside the cultivation halls where high-ranking mentors resided, several gazes simultaneously fell upon the freshman mission leaderboard.

Further away, on the exclusive screen where the Seed Sequence observation list was located, Wang Pingan's name was marked in red alone for the first time.

Several gazes belonging to high-ranking mentors and Seed Sequences truly fell upon Wang Pingan's name for the first time.

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