23: Chapter 23 Devouring Souls Through the Internet Cable! Ye Chen Cries His Eyes Out!

Ye Chen on the opposite side clearly also realized this fatal problem.

As the young dragon on the simulation sandbox fell.

The young dragons in his real plane also lost their vital signs one after another, dropping dead completely.

Every creature with dragon blood was worth a fortune, and countless resources had been poured into raising them.

Now, Ye Chen had completely lost his mind.

"My hard-earned assets!"

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"

"I'll fight you to the death!"

Ye Chen's eyes were bloodshot, and he roared like a madman.

He ordered the Flame Dragon, the Twilight Dragon, and the Xinghai Divine Dragon—three high-tier combatants—to surround and suppress the Taotie together.

The Flame Dragon spewed a column of magma fire at thousands of degrees.

The Xinghai Divine Dragon waved its incredibly sharp claws, digging them fiercely into the Taotie's mountain-like back.

It finally managed to scratch out a bleeding wound.

"Ding! The Taotie has sustained minor external injuries and is rapidly self-healing."

The system's notification sound rang in Lin Feng's ears.

As the totem of the Great Xia Alliance, the Xinghai Divine Dragon's attack and armor-piercing capabilities were certainly nothing to scoff at.

It was just a pity that it had run into an ancient glutton that was hacking.

If one were to summon the Xinghai Divine Dragon's ancestor, the Yinglong, it might have been able to go head-to-head with the Taotie.

"Taotie, swallow all these bugs flying in the sky!"

Lin Feng coldly ordered.

"As you command! Great Master!"

The next second, the Taotie got serious.

It slowly stood up straight from the bottom of the canyon.

With this movement, the entire virtual battlefield shook violently.

Ever since it reached Tier 4, its size had grown ridiculously large, and it usually just slept lying down.

It relied entirely on its clones to catch food.

This was the first time it had truly stood up.

Its towering body, several thousand meters high, seemed about to pierce through the virtual ceiling.

The dozens-of-meters-long Xinghai Divine Dragon, hovering in front of the Taotie, looked just like a loach.

That's right, just a little loach.

Perhaps in the eyes of other creatures, the Divine Dragon was an inviolable, supreme existence.

But in the eyes of the Taotie, it was just an appetizer delivered to its doorstep!

"Oh my god, what on earth is this?!"

"It's too terrifying. How could such a monster exist in the world?"

The moment it stood up, everyone finally saw its full appearance.

Its body was covered in purple-cyan petrified armor, and a pair of scarlet eyes were actually located under its armpits.

The most terrifying thing was the abyssal mouth, hundreds of meters wide, above its head, as if it could bite a chunk out of the entire sky.

Compared to it, the giant dragons in the sky were practically just flies.

"Don't stop! Keep breathing fire and burn it!"

Ye Chen was also terrified by the Taotie's appearance.

He feigned calmness and continued to issue orders.

The column of magma fire spewed by the Flame Dragon was completely blocked by the Taotie's hard stone skin, not even leaving a black mark.

The Taotie opened its bloody maw, jerked its head, and swallowed the Flame Dragon whole in one bite.

The movement was simply too fast!

The audience didn't even see an afterimage before the Tier 4 Flame Dragon simply evaporated.

Who said that being large meant being clumsy?

This big guy's hunting speed was even several times faster than Baize's flight speed!

Before everyone could react, the Taotie reached out and swallowed the Twilight Dragon into its belly.

In Ye Chen's exclusive plane, these two dragons turned directly into dried corpses, dead completely.

"No! My dragons!"

Ye Chen's heart bled with pain.

Being devoured in soul meant real, tangible death.

Not to mention the massive drop in plane combat power, the deity's main body might even suffer backlash and drop in rank on the spot.

After finishing off two giant dragons, the Taotie was clearly not full yet, and it turned its head to stare intently at the last Xinghai Divine Dragon.

The Xinghai Divine Dragon darted frantically in the sky, at extreme speed, but it still couldn't escape the Taotie's suction range.

In the blink of an eye, half of the Xinghai Divine Dragon's tail had already been sucked into the boundless dark maw.

The Xinghai Divine Dragon cried out to the sky in sorrow, its body erupting with blinding lightning as it struggled desperately.

But it was completely futile; the massive dragon body still couldn't help but slide into the abyss.

Although the released lightning had a paralyzing effect, as soon as it touched the Taotie, it was washed away completely by Baize's purification aura.

"It's over! The Divine Dragon is going to be eaten too."

Ye Chen's legs went weak, and he collapsed onto the ground completely.

He watched helplessly as the totem beast he had spent countless efforts to cultivate had its life force drained away bit by bit.

Yet he couldn't think of any way to stop it.

...

"Good heavens, the Divine Dragon is really going to be swallowed alive!"

The students watching from outside were all dumbfounded.

Swallowing the Great Xia Alliance's totem alive—such a shocking scene was something you wouldn't encounter in eight lifetimes; it was just too thrilling.

Seeing the situation completely out of control.

The various big shots on the VIP stage were also panicked.

Principal Liu of City No.1 High School was so scared his face turned green; he sat in his chair with trembling hands, completely at a loss for what to do.

The top seed he had painstakingly cultivated was actually being unilaterally crushed by someone else, and even the Tier 4 Xinghai Divine Dragon was about to become the other party's rations.

This was practically tearing City No.1 High School's face off and rubbing it into the ground.

Principal Qin's expression also darkened.

After all, the Xinghai Divine Dragon was the faith totem of the entire alliance; swallowing it alive in public had a truly terrible impact.

If someone were to pick a bone over this later, Lin Feng would likely be in big trouble.

"That's enough, let's end it here..."

A long sigh rippled across the sky above the central square.

Immediately after, Lin Feng felt an irresistible pressure descend upon him.

The neural connection of the simulation pod was instantly and forcibly severed.

The Taotie phantom, which had been feasting heartily, collapsed with a boom and turned into specks of light, retreating back into the Chaos Plane.

Someone had forcibly terminated the match!

Lin Feng frowned; the person who had acted was too fast, and he hadn't seen who it was at all.

He pulled out the connection cable and walked out of the simulation pod, looking up at General Yan Xiao in his military uniform on the high platform.

The other party happened to be watching him too.

It seemed this military big shot had made the move.

The foundation of a Tier 7 Deity was indeed unfathomable.

In the opposite simulation pod, Ye Chen scrambled out, rolling and crawling.

He was ashen-faced and shivering all over, clearly having suffered extremely severe backlash.

Except for the Xinghai Divine Dragon, which had barely managed to save its life, the rest of the followers in his exclusive plane had been eaten clean by the Taotie.

"System, scan the opponent's status."

"Ding! Analysis complete!"

"Target: Ye Chen (Tier 2 Deity)"

"Unit: Xinghai Divine Dragon x1 (Tier 2)"

Good grief.

This bite from the Taotie almost ate the opponent into bankruptcy.

Not only was his entire army wiped out, even the high and mighty Tier 4 Divine Dragon had plummeted all the way down to Tier 2.

Ye Chen's own deity rank had also dropped from Tier 3 back to Tier 2.

If someone hadn't forcibly intervened to protect him today, this Divine Dragon definitely wouldn't have had even its bone fragments left.

Facing the sudden turn of events.

The whole venue was deathly silent.

The iron rule of the simulation system was not to harm real lives, which is why a holographic simulation was specially used.

But Lin Feng's Taotie was just too overbearing; it could actually drain real souls directly along the data cables.

This clearly broke the rules.

Several organizers ran to Mayor Zhao Tingfeng, sweating profusely, and asked in a low voice how to handle it.

Mayor Zhao Tingfeng's brows were tightly locked, his expression as uncomfortable as if he were constipated, clearly not knowing how to wrap things up.

Finally, General Yan Xiao, who was wearing a military uniform nearby, spoke up.

It was unknown what this general said, but the organizers were suddenly relieved and quickly retreated.

A moment later, the host raised the microphone, their voice resounding through the sky.

"The 10th Xinghai City Ten-School Joint Exam! Grand Champion: No. 3 High School, Lin Feng!"

"He successfully ended City No.1 High School's 68-year history of dominating the rankings!"