127: Maze mechanism, the first wave of ferocious beasts test
One minute later, the changes in the moving maze finally stopped.
Xiao You also stood on a flat open space again.
Su Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the surrounding environment that had stopped changing and had completely different paths.
“It’s a good thing it’s Xiao You. If it were Xiao Yan, its large size would make it really hard to avoid these mechanisms!”
“However, even after the maze changed, the overall forward direction of the route hasn’t changed much. It seems my previous guess was correct!”
After observing for a while, Su Yuan, relying on his powerful Mental Energy and memory, found that even if the maze changed, the direction of the path ahead did not deviate much.
This was not much different from his initial conjecture at the starting point, which immediately boosted Su Yuan’s confidence.
“Xiao You, let’s continue forward.”
“Awoo—”
As soon as Su Yuan finished speaking, before Xiao You could even move.
A gap suddenly opened in the high wall to his right, and a group of wolf-type Vicious Beasts roared out from inside.
The commotion on the right immediately attracted Su Yuan and Xiao You’s attention.
【Iron-Armored Vicious Wolf】
Species: Wolf/Steel
Quality: Rare Five-star
Rank: Awakening-level Seven
Status: Hungry
Skills: Bronze Head Iron Bones, Claw Combo
Evolution Count: 0
Available Evolution Plans: 2
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【Iron-Armored Wolf King】
Species: Wolf/Steel
Quality: Excellent Three-star
Rank: Transcendent Level One
Status: Hungry
Skills: Bronze Head Iron Bones, Claw Combo, Savage Charge, Bone-Drilling Iron Chain
Evolution Count: 1
Available Evolution Plans: None
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“A Wolf King of Transcendent Level One leading ten Vicious Wolves of roughly Awakening-level Seven is no small challenge for ordinary Freshmen.”
“I’m afraid this first wave of maze mechanisms and Vicious Beasts will eliminate half of the Freshmen.”
“Heh, this assessment is really cruel for Freshmen.”
After understanding the strength of this group of Vicious Beasts, Su Yuan sighed.
The Freshmen who entered Nine Provinces Academy through the college entrance examination generally had strength ranging from Awakening-level Seven to Awakening Peak.
Even if there had been a significant improvement in the month since entering the academy, less than half of them should have broken through to Transcendent Level.
If others also faced Vicious Beasts of the same level as those in front of Su Yuan, Freshmen below Transcendent Level would basically all be eliminated.
Su Yuan merely sighed, but he did not find it strange.
Nine Provinces Academy focuses on selecting the best of the best. Even for Geniuses who successfully entered Nine Provinces Academy, it’s better to eliminate those with insufficient strength as early as possible.
Whoosh whoosh~
At this moment, the Iron-Armored Wolf King suddenly activated a skill.
Two iron chains with sharp barbs at their tips struck with a whizzing sound, aiming directly at Su Yuan.
The barbs at the top were incredibly sharp, emitting cold gleams, and their speed was extremely fast.
However, the Iron-Armored Wolf King’s attack infuriated Xiao You.
Having not fought alongside Su Yuan for a long time, and seeing a Vicious Beast dare to attack Su Yuan right away, Xiao You’s eyes turned cold.
It extended a claw and gently swatted, and the two rapidly striking iron chains were shattered into pieces, falling to the ground.
This scene immediately stunned the Iron-Armored Wolf King.
Before the Iron-Armored Wolf King could react, Xiao You swatted again with its front paw, and a mass of black shadows instantly radiated from beneath its feet.
The black shadows, like nimble snakes, instantly rushed towards the Iron-Armored Wolf King and the Iron-Armored Vicious Wolves around it, merging into the shadows beneath their feet.
Then, in the horrified gazes of these creatures, countless tentacle-like dark streaks appeared on their shadows, climbing up their limbs and onto their bodies.
In the blink of an eye, the outer surface of their bodies was entangled by rings of black shadows, as if wrapped in a layer of black bandages.
Both the Iron-Armored Wolf King and the Iron-Armored Vicious Wolves’ movements paused, as if under a petrification spell, stopping in place.
Some Iron-Armored Vicious Wolves even maintained the action of stepping forward with a foot.
“Roar!!!”
Looking at these Vicious Beasts frozen in place, Xiao You let out an angry roar.
Puff puff puff!!!
The black shadows wrapped around the Iron-Armored Vicious Wolves and the Iron-Armored Wolf King instantly tightened, the powerful constricting force making these Vicious Wolves’ eyes bulge out. They wanted to wail but found they couldn't make any sound.
The next moment, the black shadows wrapped around their bodies actually squeezed them all to explode alive!
This was precisely Xiao You’s skill—Swift Shadow Bind.
Through shadows, it could control the enemy’s movements.
At Xiao You’s current Lord-level Rank One, facing these Vicious Beasts, which at most were only Transcendent Level One, even if Swift Shadow Bind was not a primary offensive control skill, it still easily instantly killed these Vicious Beasts.
After dealing with the Iron-Armored Wolf King and the Iron-Armored Vicious Wolves, Xiao You disdainfully glanced at the corpses on the ground.
Su Yuan also did not collect the crystal cores of these Vicious Beasts.
He directly urged Xiao You to rush towards the depths of the maze.
Crystal cores of mere Awakening-level and Transcendent Level One Vicious Beasts no longer caught Su Yuan’s eye.
It was just like when Song Zhenfeng instantly killed a large number of Volcano Ravens in the Molten Volcano Mountains; except for the Lord-level Volcanic Raven King’s crystal core, he didn’t spend time collecting the other Volcano Raven crystal cores.
Swish!!!
In another direction, Nie Shaoming stood in place. A Flying Sword beside him swept around, instantly slaying all the Vicious Beasts that charged over.
The Flying Sword pierced through the heads of all the Vicious Beasts but remained unstained by a single drop of blood.
After returning to Nie Shaoming’s side, this Flying Sword turned and came to Nie Shaoming’s feet, carrying him towards the intersection ahead.
“Caw!!!”
A sharp shriek rang out, and a dozen-meter-long ice-blue bird carried Shangguan Yunqian towards the maze entrance ahead.
Behind them, more than a dozen Vicious Beasts were frozen into ice sculptures.
Thump thump thump!!!
On Huangfu Yunzhao’s side, she stood on the back of a Shadow Dragon Scorpion. The massive Shadow Dragon Scorpion’s six thick legs stomped on the ground, emitting clanging roars like hammering iron.
Behind were several Vicious Beast corpses poisoned by the Shadow Dragon Scorpion, lying on the ground.
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Those who could be specially recruited into Nine Provinces Academy all had good talent and were already Transcendent Level Beastmasters.
After another month of arduous cultivation, plus the points from clearing the Tower of Babel could be exchanged for Beastmaster evolution resources.
The current Ranks of these specially recruited Genius students had basically all reached Transcendent Level Five and above, and the quality of their main Beasts was also not bad, basically all Perfect quality and above.
Facing the first wave of Vicious Beast blocking the path, Shangguan Yunqian, Nie Shaoming, and other Genius students specially recruited by Nine Provinces Academy dealt with it without any difficulty.
However, for other students who entered Nine Provinces Academy through the formal college entrance examination, after continuously encountering maze mechanisms and Vicious Beasts blocking their way, more than half of them had already been eliminated.
In the Central Square of Illusory Moon City at the center of the Secret Realm, a flash of teleportation light would occasionally shine, and one disheveled Freshman after another, along with their Beasts, would be teleported back together.
Every Freshman teleported to Illusory Moon City felt relieved to have survived, but the smiles on their faces were tinged with bitterness.
Being teleported to Illusory Moon City meant that they had not achieved any results in this Freshman Competition.
This was indeed a significant blow to them, who were hailed as top Geniuses in their respective cities.
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