26: Chapter 26 The Gluttonous Beast is Overeaten! It Even Eats Its Teammates?!

"We're screwed! It's all over!"

"We're definitely going to lose!"

Watching their absolute main force get wiped out in an instant, the thirty-some geniuses on the opposing side turned ashen, sinking into utter despair.

The remaining rabble weren't even enough to fill the gaps between Baize's teeth; they couldn't stir up any trouble at all.

Once the enemy's main force fell, Taotie immediately opened its abyss-like maw.

A super suction force, impossible to resist, erupted from that pitch-black mouth which was hundreds of meters wide.

Millions of low-level units on the battlefield instantly lifted off the ground, as if swept up by a tornado, flying densely toward the giant mouth in mid-air.

Millions of lives fell into the giant maw simultaneously.

The scene was grand to the extreme!

The total volume of what was sucked in was even slightly larger than Taotie itself.

Yet, this pitch-black maw was like a bottomless pit; no matter how much it ate, its stomach didn't appear to bulge.

"Lin Feng! My Spirit Dragon! My little deer!"

Tang You stomped her feet in anxiety.

Taotie's suction didn't distinguish between friend and foe at all.

As long as it was within range, even the rocks and tree bark on the ground were all sucked in.

"Er... Taotie, don't touch the souls of my teammates' units."

Lin Feng quickly gave the order.

This was all he could do.

Preserving the souls meant they wouldn't drop in rank; their physical bodies could be rebuilt.

Under Tang You's aggrieved gaze, the Sprite Dragon and fairy deer army she had worked so hard to accumulate spun in the air a few times before flying straight into Taotie's mouth.

It really was blinded by the slaughter; it didn't even spare its teammates.

"Er... I... does this count as a win?"

Lin Feng unplugged the data cable, pushed open the cabin door, and walked out.

The entire central plaza was silent as a grave.

Tens of thousands of eyes were fixed squarely on him.

Lin Feng: "..."

Just as the atmosphere reached the peak of awkwardness.

A roar that could overturn the clouds suddenly erupted from the entire arena.

"Awesome! One versus thirty-six!"

"This battle of gods will definitely be written into the textbooks of Xinghai City!"

"Lin Feng! The eternal god!"

Listening to the mountain-shaking, sea-roaring cheers around him, Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

He had thought he might have gone too heavy-handed and caused trouble.

"Ding! Taotie has accumulated sufficient flesh and blood essence and is about to begin its fifth-rank evolution!"

The system's notification sound popped up suddenly in his mind.

"It can evolve?!"

These five words made Lin Feng ecstatic.

This big glutton had finally made it!

Just now, while clearing the field, Lin Feng had specifically instructed Taotie to secretly absorb five percent of the soul fragments from each of the millions of troops.

Although it was only five percent individually, the base number was simply too large.

Coupled with the super-high replenishment from previously swallowing the fourth-rank Xinghai Divine Dragon and Flame Dragon,

the million-level intake instantly filled the massive experience bar needed to reach the fifth rank!

Just as Lin Feng was feeling excited about Taotie's upcoming upgrade.

The door of the simulation cabin was pushed open forcefully, and Tang You walked out, looking puffed up with anger.

She rolled her eyes at Lin Feng.

"You guy, why did you even eat your own people?"

Hearing this, Lin Feng smiled sheepishly.

There was really no help for it; once the abyss-like maw was opened, it was an indiscriminate, full-screen area-of-effect attack.

He couldn't just force the fierce beast to close its mouth halfway through eating.

"This year's team melee! The final winner is—No. 3 High School! Lin Feng!"

The host announced the result with a megaphone amidst the deafening cheers.

He didn't mention the others in the team at all.

After all, today's massive brawl was entirely Lin Feng's personal crushing show!

With hundreds of thousands of people present, no one could find a single fault with that!

Gu Ze and Chu Yun also crowded over with smiles.

"Brother, I really didn't expect that I, the dignified number one genius of No. 3 High School, would actually get to experience what it's like to ride someone's coattails today." Gu Ze rubbed his hands in excitement.

Riding these coattails was so sweet.

"Ahem! It's all Gu Ze's fault for leading the charge blindly and insisting on dragging me forward."

Chu Yun quickly shifted the blame, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have been taken out right at the start."

Listening to the two bickering, Lin Feng smiled and shook his head.

Leaving early was pretty good, too; it saved them from ending up as dessert in Taotie's stomach.

On the leadership platform.

Principal Liu of City No.1 High School looked like a wilted eggplant, his face full of dejection.

The undefeated myth of City No.1 High School, which had lasted for decades, was completely shattered today.

Even Ye Chen, the trump card of City No.1 High School who was most favored this year, had been swallowed into a cripple by Lin Feng.

However, old man Liu didn't dare to show even a hint of temper.

The potential Lin Feng displayed was too terrifying; whether it was the Chamber of Commerce or the military, they would definitely protect him like the apple of their eye.

He could only swallow this bitter pill.

"Old Liu! Don't be discouraged, keep working hard next year, right!"

Principal Qin laughed heartily, his mood at its peak.

Back then, he had withstood the pressure to protect Lin Feng at all costs; that move was truly brilliant.

"You Qin, just you wait!"

Principal Liu of City No.1 High School snorted coldly and walked off the high platform with a dark face.

The major exam had completely ended, and the various big shots left one after another.

The richest man, Tang Tianchen, sat into his luxury hovercar and disappeared into the horizon.

The military bigwig General Yan Xiao whispered a few words into Mayor Zhao Tingfeng's ear, then vanished into thin air; no one even saw how he left.

Only the miserable Mayor Zhao Tingfeng was left, having to stay at the scene and organize the aftermath of the conference.

Logically speaking, now that the competition had reached this point, the audience should have dispersed.

Everyone should have gone home to their respective mothers.

But today, the situation was completely different.

Even though the event had long since ended, the millions of spectators in the city were like they had been injected with adrenaline, refusing to leave no matter what.

This gave Mayor Zhao Tingfeng a massive headache.

The same slogan kept echoing over the plaza.

"Lin Feng! The eternal god!"

It wasn't just the central plaza.

The entire Xinghai City was boiling over.

This exam had been broadcast live throughout the city.

Which meant that almost all the citizens had witnessed today's battle of gods with their own eyes.

Beating a fourth-rank Flame Dragon to a pulp, and devouring a Great Xia totem alive.

A one-versus-thirty-six team battle, clearing the entire field of bosses with one skill.

This achievement could no longer be described as terrifying; it was completely monstrous!

From this day on.

The name Lin Feng would definitely carve the deepest mark in the history books of Xinghai City.

Meanwhile.

At a roadside stall near Lin Feng's home.

"Damn! I'm telling you all, I really saw Lin Feng this morning!"

"I even handed him a pancake myself!"

The guy selling pancakes turned red in the face, shouting at the top of his lungs to brag crazily to the surrounding diners.

"Tch! Give it a rest, you."

The customer eating breakfast looked full of disdain and curled his lips, "A top-tier genius like that would come here to talk to a bottom-tier loser like you?"

Hearing this, the guy immediately got agitated.

"Bullshit! Not only did he eat here, he finished every last bite!"

"Maybe it's because he ate my secret-recipe pancake that he fought so fiercely!"

"Yo, yo, yo, he's getting mad!"

"Everyone look, he's mad!"

The customers burst into laughter, and the air was filled with a lively atmosphere.

"Believe it or not!"

The guy got angrier the more he thought about it, "I can't be bothered to talk to you bunch of mediocrities!"

He grabbed a piece of cardboard, picked up a marker, wrote a few large characters on it, and hung it in the most conspicuous place on his food cart.

[Designated Dining Spot of Xinghai's Number One Genius]