18: Chapter 18 I alone will surround you all.

"Lin Yuan, don't blame us for crippling you."

"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being too arrogant! The tree that stands above the forest is the first to be broken by the wind! Today, the eighteen of us have joined forces; even if we each just spit on you, we could drown you! Everyone, together! Hack him to death! If anything happens, the Zhao family will take responsibility!"

Meanwhile, Su Yurou, who was "tied" to the pillar, shouted at the opportune moment, her voice filled with a hypocritical anxiety:

"Lin Yuan! Hurry up and admit defeat! Hand over your points and apologize to Young Master Zhao, and they will let you go! I'm doing this for your own good; you can't fight this many people!"

Listening to this coordinated act, Lin Yuan stood in the center of the encirclement and slowly lowered his head.

"For my own good? Hack me to death?"

Lin Yuan suddenly looked up, his pitch-black eyes instantly transforming into scarlet beastly pupils, and a suffocating, violent aura erupted from within him!

Boom—!

His terrifying 25.0 blood energy was released without reservation, whipping up a visible red shockwave around him, causing the concrete ground beneath his feet to instantly crack and gravel to levitate!

The C-grade black moon battle blade was unsheathed, its black blade reflecting a soul-chilling cold light in the sunlight.

Lin Yuan surveyed his surroundings, pointing his battle blade at everyone:

"Admit defeat? Sorry."

"In my dictionary, there is only winning it all!"

"Also, get the situation straight. It isn't you who have surrounded me..."

Lin Yuan took a step forward, his momentum surging like a rainbow:

"It is I alone who have surrounded all of you!"

"Arrogant! Kill him!!"

An elemental martial artist holding a staff roared and launched the first attack.

"Fireball!" "Wind Blade!" "Ice Spear!"

In an instant, colorful long-range attacks came pouring down like a torrential rain, sealing off all of Lin Yuan's evasion space.

[System Notification: Dense attack coverage detected.]

[Gods Insight fully activated... Calculating optimal evasion path... Calculation complete!]

"Too slow."

Lin Yuan moved, weaving through the dense web of attacks.

At that moment, he was like a ghost dancing on the tip of a blade, or a swallow darting through a rainstorm.

Fireballs exploded at his feet, wind blades grazed his clothes, and ice spears embedded themselves into the ground behind him.

It looked perilous, but in reality, he was completely unharmed!

"How is this possible?! How did that not hit?!" The few who had cast the magic nearly had their eyes pop out of their sockets.

Before they could react, Lin Yuan had already broken through the long-range blockade and charged into the crowd of melee fighters.

"Stop him!!"

A burly man who had awakened the Earth-type defensive talent roared, his body covered in thick rock armor, wielding a hundred-pound alloy war hammer, and brought it crashing down on Lin Yuan's head!

"Die!!"

Facing this powerful and heavy blow, Lin Yuan did not dodge.

[God-Demon Body Forging Technique, activate!]

The blood in his body surged like a rushing river, emitting a roaring sound, and a faint golden light appeared on the surface of his skin.

"Get lost!"

Lin Yuan held the blade in one hand and actually chose to meet force with force!

Clang!!

A deafening sound of metal clashing rang out.

The hundred-pound war hammer was actually deflected by Lin Yuan's blade!

The massive recoil force traveled up the handle, causing the burly man's thumb web to instantly split open, blood streaming down.

Before the burly man could even scream, Lin Yuan backhanded him with the spine of his blade.

Bang!

The burly man's pride-and-joy rock armor shattered like a biscuit; he flew over ten meters away, his life or death unknown.

One slash, defense broken, instant kill!

"Is this your tank? Too fragile."

Lin Yuan sneered, not stopping his pace, and charged straight into the thickest part of the crowd.

"Surround him! Don't let him move!"

Seeing this, the remaining five melee fighters immediately swung their blades from five directions simultaneously, attempting to trap Lin Yuan to death using a human wall tactic.

"You want to surround and kill me?"

A sharp glint flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes.

"Perfect, I'll use you to test out a new move."

He lowered his black moon battle blade slightly, his entire being seemingly merging with the surrounding shadows.

Ultimate Skill—[Shadowless · Instant Kill Slash]!

Swish!

No one saw what happened; everyone only felt a blur before their eyes as an ink-black, arc-shaped blade light, centered on Lin Yuan, instantly expanded outward!

The blade light was so fast that even sound couldn't keep up.

A second later, the five elite martial artists surrounding Lin Yuan froze in perfect unison.

Immediately after, their chest armor shattered simultaneously, a neat blade mark appeared on their chests, and blood sprayed wildly.

All five rolled their eyes back and collapsed, instantly losing their combat capability.

One slash, penta-kill!

In less than a minute.

Half of the eighteen-person alliance was already on the ground.

The remaining seven or eight people had hands shaking violently as they held their weapons, looking at the murderous Lin Yuan, their feet involuntarily retreating.

How is this an F-grade?

"Who's next?"

Lin Yuan flicked the blood droplets off his blade, his gaze sweeping indifferently over the remaining people.

"No... I'm not fighting anymore! I want to quit the competition!"

One person dropped their weapon and turned to run; once there was a first, there was a second, and the alliance that had seemed unbreakable instantly scattered like birds and beasts.

"Want to run?"

Lin Yuan didn't go after those small fries.

He turned around and walked step by step toward the figure not far away who was already scared silly—Zhao Tianba.

Zhao Tianba stood on high ground, his legs as heavy as if they were filled with lead.

He watched Lin Yuan approaching like a god of slaughter, looked at his wailing companions covering the ground, and his mind went blank.

"You... don't come any closer!"

Zhao Tianba's voice was shrill and carried a crying tone, the flame battle axe in his hand trembling: "Lin Yuan! Killing is against the law! This is an exam! You can't kill me!"

"When you were shouting to hack me to death just now, you didn't say this was an exam."

Lin Yuan stepped over the gravel, approaching step by step; with every step he took, Zhao Tianba's heart convulsed violently.

"Ahhh! Madman! You are just a madman!"

Zhao Tianba finally broke down; he dropped the priceless C-grade battle axe and turned to run.

"Did I say you could leave?"

Lin Yuan's eyes turned cold.

He threw the black moon battle blade in his hand violently.

Whoosh—!

The battle blade transformed into a streak of black light, flying past the inner side of Zhao Tianba's thigh and embedding itself deep into the concrete ground half an inch in front of him!

The tail of the blade hummed and vibrated, emitting a heart-palpitating buzz.

If it had been off by just one more centimeter, Zhao Tianba would have been a eunuch for the rest of his life.

"Ah!!!"

Zhao Tianba was scared out of his wits, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground ungracefully once again, a warm liquid streaming down his thigh.

He had peed himself again.

"Young Master Zhao, if you have a weak kidney, take more medicine; don't keep embarrassing yourself out here."

Ten minutes later, a bizarre "mountain of people" appeared in the square of the abandoned factory.

Eighteen elite students who had been knocked unconscious or crippled were stacked together like an arhat formation.

And the one being pressed at the very bottom as the base was none other than the battered, bruised, and already unconscious Zhao Tianba.

Buzz buzz buzz—

The drone in the sky happened to fly overhead at this moment, its high-definition camera aimed at this scene.

Lin Yuan raised his head, faced the camera, tidied his slightly messy hairstyle, and then made a big "V" sign.

And in the bottom right corner of the live stream screen, Lin Yuan's points were jumping wildly:

[Current Points: 3500]

This was a number that would drive the second-place Lei Potian (1200 points) to utter despair.

A landslide first place!

"Hello everyone, good afternoon."

Lin Yuan faced the drone camera and actually started an unprecedented "exam site live stream":

"Now it is time for the loot processing segment. Everyone, look at this axe in my hand, Young Master Zhao's C-grade Flame Battle Axe, comes with a burning effect, 99% new, original price three million, now it's not 998, but only 500,000! If you are interested, private message me, or have your parents contact Captain Qin Hu outside to make the payment."

"And this set of B-grade mage robes, although it has a hole, that's the battle-damaged version, which has even more collection value..."

In the observation area outside the square, tens of thousands of spectators watched the young man sitting on the pile of people, seriously "live streaming to sell goods" on the big screen, and were completely petrified.

The cigar in Captain Qin Hu's mouth fell to the ground, and the First High School principal clutched his heart, nearly calling an ambulance.