144: Chapter 144 didn't go to the wrong exam room either, did it?

"You motherfucker, you're even more pretentious than me!"

An angry curse resounded throughout the entire arena.

[Mass Engine] fully engaged!

The ruins beneath Su Ming's feet exploded with a bang.

He was like an anti-tank missile,

trailing a screeching shockwave,

shooting straight toward the Mantis King, who was still laughing maniacally in mid-air.

His 300-ton silicon-based body completed its acceleration in an instant,

his palm, wrapped in terrifying mass-gravity,

slammed toward the Mantis King's neck!

This grab was enough to crush space itself!

Just as Su Ming's fingertips were about to touch his skin,

the Mantis King suddenly pulled a prepared dark purple jade talisman from his chest.

Su Ming's pupils constricted.

Not good!

"Snap!"

The jade talisman shattered.

Dark purple light exploded outward,

and space twisted violently.

The Mantis King's body began to dissipate from his feet,

turning into countless particles of light, blown away by the wind like sand.

Su Ming grabbed at empty air,

the violent mass force crushing the air in his palm.

Within the teleportation light,

with only his head remaining suspended in the Void Realm,

the Mantis King's final gaze passed over Su Ming,

and looked with contempt at the silver figure outside the barrier who had just broken the formation with a single shot.

"A Space-Breaking Talent? Interesting..."

Before the words finished, his head completely turned into points of light,

disappearing into the twisted spatial ripples.

The chance to get loot! Gone again!

After losing his upward momentum,

Su Ming's body hung in the air for less than 0.3 seconds.

Then, the 300-ton silicon-based body,

fell straight down, faithfully summoned by gravity.

He couldn't even be bothered to assume a deceleration posture.

"Boom—!!"

The alloy ruins of the Martial Arts Arena were smashed into a crater ten meters in diameter,

gravel and metal fragments were thrown into the air by the shockwave,

scattering like fireworks.

The ground tremor traveled over a hundred meters away.

Commander Huangfu Jing, who had just landed after breaking the formation and hadn't stood firm yet, swayed,

subconsciously gripping the silver spear in her hand.

Commander Qin Luo's heart tightened.

Someone had fallen!

It seemed the fight inside was very intense...

"Cough... my battle armor..."

A lean figure brushed the dust off his body,

and climbed out of the pit as if nothing had happened.

He didn't even have a scratch.

He looked down at the remains of his dark star battle armor, which was shattered to the point where only the frame remained,

and gasped in pain.

At this moment,

Su Ming felt more heartbroken over his battle armor than failing to catch the Mantis King.

...

Meanwhile.

With the shattering of the Spirit Locking Array,

the Source Energy shackles suppressing the entire arena completely vanished.

The instructors in the underground shelter,

had been on edge all afternoon!

Feeling the torrent of Source Energy surging back into their bodies,

their eyes turned red.

It wasn't from being touched.

It was frustration.

Dignified Tier 4 and Tier 5s,

were being rubbed into the ground by a bunch of scum!

When they ran out, they looked like a group of refugees crawling out of an air-raid shelter,

disheveled and covered in dust.

Their Face was shattered all over the floor.

Now they had to pick it up and stick it back on their Faces.

The two blood-soaked Tier 5 Wolf Kings clearly felt the Source Energy shackles vanish as well.

They looked at each other,

their eyes full of terror.

The Scorpion King was dead.

The Mantis King had run away.

The great formation was broken.

It was over!

The two Wolf Kings didn't say a word,

turned around, and sprinted toward the edge of the training ground.

"Scum of the Tongyuan Society! You still want to run?!"

Tie Moshan roared,

his Tier 5 Source Energy erupting,

like a tiger released from its cage,

lunging directly at one of the Tier 5 Wolf Kings preparing to flee.

He charged his right fist,

and thick rock armor surged onto his body surface.

That was the full-force strike of a Tier 5 Body Cultivator,

a big move that he couldn't unleash earlier when the Spirit Locking Array suppressed him to the Early Stage of Tier 4,

and now he unleashed it with one punch.

Lang Qingyun also struck from another direction,

the two of them working in perfect coordination,

unleashing big moves as if they were free!

He activated his dual Wind and Lightning combat Source Energy simultaneously,

and just as the Wolf King ran ten meters,

he kicked it in the spine,

ruining its entire hind leg on the spot.

"You were pretty arrogant when you were chasing me earlier, weren't you?"

Lang Qingyun stepped on the Wolf King's head,

his words full of sarcasm.

On the other side,

Chu Yao and Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng confronted the other Wolf King,

wind blades and frost intertwined,

beating the opponent until it had no power to fight back.

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng's Ice-element Source Energy directly froze the second Wolf King into an ice sculpture,

and Chu Yao flipped her wrist,

slicing off the Wolf King's head with a wind blade!

Clean and swift.

In the corner,

two Tier 4 Beast-men were just whispering,

discussing how to slip away in the chaos,

when a ghostly shadow appeared silently behind them.

"Playing hide-and-seek with me?"

Instructor Ying Wuhen, an assassination-type instructor, concealed his presence,

and with a flick of his blade, easily reaped them.

...

The remaining ordinary Blood Disciples were even less worth mentioning.

The brave examinees rushed up to help,

and cleaned them up in a few strikes.

It took less than two minutes in total.

The remnants of the Tongyuan Society, who were so arrogant just a moment ago,

were swept away like fallen leaves by this group of long-frustrated instructors! ...

While they were cleaning up the aftermath in the arena,

at the entrance of the Martial Arts Arena,

a large number of military elites filed in.

Commander Qin Luo drew his combat saber and walked at the front,

followed by a full-strength assault team.

Commander Huangfu Jing held her silver Space-Breaking Spear,

her crimson ponytail fluttering in the wind, her entire body radiating Killing Intent.

They were here for war.

Everyone was prepared to fight to the death against the legendary "Tier 7 giant bug."

Commander Qin Luo had even prepared a battle damage estimate of "sacrificing thirty percent of the troops."

However, the moment they stepped into the Martial Arts Arena,

the two sides looked at each other across the chaotic ruins.

The military personnel were serious, filled with Killing Intent.

The instructors and students, who had just finished their work,

looked exhausted and dazed from surviving a catastrophe.

The atmosphere was momentarily somewhat awkward.

Commander Qin Luo was dumbfounded.

He held his saber, looking left, then looking right.

There was no expected mountain of corpses and sea of blood.

There was no King-level poison covering the sky.

There was no Tier 6 Beast Seal User Scorpion King, famous on the wanted list.

The ground was full of scrapped machine wreckage, emitting black smoke.

A few Tongyuan Society captives were tied up and stacked together.

Some were frozen into ice sculptures,

some were beaten black and blue and knocked unconscious,

and others were charred black as if struck by lightning.

The most conspicuous person in the entire arena,

was the lean youth standing in the middle of the ruins, shirtless, tenderly stroking the fragments of his battle armor.

His bare upper body,

with smooth and explosive muscle lines,

shimmered with a faint metallic luster in the sunlight.

Commander Huangfu Jing's gaze paused slightly,

professionally scanning the body that had no Source Energy fluctuations.

What a strong physique!

Withdrawing her gaze, her deep red phoenix-like eyes were filled with question marks.

This... what is going on?

Did I not enter the wrong exam hall?

Where was the promised city-destroying level crisis?

Commander Qin Luo walked quickly to the blood-covered Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng.

"Where is the Scorpion King? What about the Tier 7 King-level poison we monitored from the outside?!"

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng's expression was strange; he held it in for a long time, then pursed his lips toward Su Ming's direction.

"Isn't that him right there?"

"Under that kid's feet!"

Commander Qin Luo and Commander Huangfu Jing looked in the direction he pointed.

Under Su Ming's feet,

there was a large puddle of congealed dark purple blood,

and a lump of... something...

"That is the Scorpion King."

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng sighed,

"But right now, I doubt you two would recognize it."

Commander Qin Luo: "..."

Commander Huangfu Jing: "..."

Officer Lu Chen leaned over,

and asked with disbelief:

"Madman, stop joking, what the hell happened?

A Tier 7 Beast King, just like that, gone?"

Everyone pricked up their ears.

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng looked at him, his expression serious.

"Do I look like I'm joking?"

"A passing Space Element expert,

couldn't stand the arrogance of the Tongyuan Society,

and killed it with a single slash.

Even that Tier 8 Weaver had an arm cut off,

and ran away with its tail between its legs."

The whole place was quiet for two seconds.

Officer Lu Chen opened his mouth:

"Do I look like a fool to you?"

Lieutenant Colonel Chu Feng shook his head.

"Not really... You're definitely more than just a fool."