159: Chapter 159 Heading Towards the Core Area

"More guests?"

Hearing Wang Pingan's lazy yet playful voice,

the movements of all the Xuanyuan University team members, who were happily "dividing the loot," suddenly froze.

One by one, they looked up, expressions of bewilderment and doubt on their faces.

Guests?

Where were there guests?

Subconsciously, they spread their spirit out into the surroundings.

But all they sensed was still silence.

Aside from the sound of the wind and the occasional distant roar of some unknown demonic beast, there was nothing.

"Cap... Captain... are you... are you joking again?" Shi Lei asked uncertainly, clutching a pile of bottles and jars.

By now, his admiration for Wang Pingan was absolute.

But he still felt the captain's joke was a bit... frightening.

"Do I look like I'm joking?" Wang Pingan curled his lip, his face wearing a "are you stupid?" expression.

Then he pointed his finger toward a seemingly ordinary, dense thicket of bushes about two kilometers to their left.

"One is hiding there."

He pointed again, this time toward the shadows of a steep cliff hundreds of meters high to their upper right.

"The other is crouching there."

"Both are Fifth Rank Mid-Stage."

"Moreover, they are both spirit specialists who excel in stealth and assassination."

"Judging by their practiced coordination and that faint scent of blood clinging to them,"

"if I'm not mistaken, they must be those lunatics from 'Pantheon Academy' who believe in the 'Law of the Jungle'."

Wang Pingan's voice was nonchalant.

It was as if he wasn't talking about two top-tier assassins capable of posing a lethal threat to them,

but rather two "delivery men" crouching in the grass waiting to be harvested.

"..."

Every team member gasped when they heard these words.

Two kilometers away?

spirit specialists?

Assassins from Pantheon Academy?

How could they not sense a single thing?!

Just how monstrous had the captain's perception abilities become?!

"Then... what do we do now?" A solemn expression appeared on Lei Qian's face.

He knew that assassin-type opponents were the most troublesome,

especially in a complex environment like the jungle.

Once they caught an opening, it would be absolutely fatal!

"What do we do?" Wang Pingan smiled.

That smile was cold and filled with a hunter's cruelty.

"Naturally... we release the hounds."

Having said that,

he lightly snapped his fingers at the air once more.

Snap.

A crisp snapping sound echoed through the silent canyon.

In the next second,

a sudden change occurred!

Two kilometers away, within that dense thicket of bushes,

a black-clad assassin was carefully blending his body perfectly into the surrounding environment, preparing to launch a lethal strike.

Without warning, his vision went black.

He found that the familiar jungle scenery around him had vanished.

In its place was a vast, boundless sea of stars filled with an eerie purple glow!

In the very center of that sea of stars,

an indescribably massive, terrifying purple eye, filled with indifference and a downward gaze, slowly opened!

"No—!!!"

The moment that black-clad assassin saw that eye, his spiritual sea of consciousness felt as if it had been hit head-on by a supernova!

He let out one final, shrill scream filled with despair and terror!

Then his body suddenly stiffened.

Dark red blood flowed simultaneously from his seven orifices.

He fell straight to the ground.

He was as dead as could be.

Meanwhile, on the other side, atop that cliff hundreds of meters high,

the other top-tier assassin, also waiting for the perfect moment,

fared no better.

The moment Wang Pingan snapped his fingers,

the hard cliff rock beneath his feet, which he thought was absolutely safe, turned without warning into a... soft, viscous, foul-smelling swamp!

He didn't even have time to react.

With a "plop," his entire being was swallowed whole by the swamp that had appeared out of thin air!

Not even a single bubble surfaced.

Senluo Illusion Realm!

This was the terrifying power of Wang Pingan's god-tier illusion technique, which fused the Star Sea Contemplation Diagram and the Phantom Gods Eye!

Killing invisibly!

He didn't even need to move a single finger!

"Done."

Wang Pingan clapped his hands, a "dull and uninteresting" expression on his face.

"Two of them."

"Now we can continue our journey in peace."

He turned around to look at the forty-nine team members behind him, who were so terrified by his unpredictable methods that they had collectively petrified, unable to speak a word.

That warm, harmless smile returned to his face once more.

"What are you all standing there for?"

"Hurry up and strip everything off those two 'delivery men' as well."

"Then it's time for us to head out and find that source of creation."

...

After experiencing this series of shocks that could be described as a "dimensional reduction strike,"

this Xuanyuan University team had finally, completely united as one.

No one dared to question any of Wang Pingan's orders ever again.

Under Wang Pingan's leadership,

they began to advance at full speed toward the core area of the Star of Creation!

Along the way, they encountered many other competing teams and powerful local mutant behemoths.

But without exception,

under the combination of Wang Pingan's bug-like Eye of Truth for long-range reconnaissance and the unpredictable illusions of the Senluo Illusion Realm,

all enemies became "experience packs" and "mobile treasure troves" waiting to be slaughtered in their eyes.

Like a group of top-tier players with a full-map hack, they began a frenzied journey of "mob grinding" and "looting" on this primitive planet full of danger and opportunity.

Their points were skyrocketing at an unbelievable speed!

In just three days,

they had jumped from an initial "zero" to a commanding first place on the entire leaderboard!

And they left second place so far behind that they couldn't even see their taillights!

This left the teams from other academies, who were still fighting to the death for a few third or fourth rank life crystal cores, staring in stunned confusion.

They truly couldn't figure it out.

Just what kind of medicine did this bunch from Xuanyuan University take?

How could they be so ridiculously fierce, as if they were cheating?!

After the initial excitement and feverishness, the Xuanyuan University team members

gradually became numb.

They felt as though they were no longer here to participate in a competition.

They were just a group of professional... tools, following behind their "whale" captain to clean up the battlefield and shout "666."

"Sigh, being invincible is so lonely."

Wang Pingan sat on the corpse of a Fifth Rank Peak "Sabertooth Dragon-Tiger Beast" that had just died of a heart attack from a single look from him.

He looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle.

A faint sadness of "the loneliness of a master" appeared on his face.

Not far away, Shi Lei and Lei Qian were nimbly extracting the crystal core from the dragon-tiger beast's corpse.

Seeing their captain's punchable "acting cool is like the wind, always by my side" appearance,

the corners of their mouths couldn't help but twitch in unison.