102: Chapter 102: The Cruel Competition at Starry Sky University – Genius is Just the Ticket

A few days later, Lin Yuan sat on his bed.

Before Commander Xiao Lie left, he said that the people from Starry Sky University would arrive in a few days.

This time frame was calculated based on the normal progress of a demigod fusing with a high-grade godhead fragment.

Ordinary Geniuses needed several days of secluded cultivation to strip away Impurities and draw the Law into their bodies.

But Lin Yuan had [Creation Extraction].

With the cheat forcibly suppressing it, the taboo godhead fragment had already settled in his divine fire within a single day.

"No rush. This is the perfect time to deduce the divine domain."

Lin Yuan closed his eyes and continued to descend into his divine domain.

What met his eyes was already a living purgatory.

With the unrestricted life-and-death battle having raged for nearly a month (divine domain time), not a single inch of soil on this land was clean.

Dark red blood rain, mixed with severed limbs, splattered wildly in the howling wind.

In the far north.

The thousand-meter-long Abyssal Source Crystal Vein was like a dormant black Dragon, firmly pinned beneath the volcanic crater.

An endless stream of pure energy was being drawn to the surface.

Directly above the vein, the Demon God Altar built of white bones emitted dark Law fluctuations, like a giant millstone.

Grinding down the negative traits [Chaos], [Hunger], and [Aberration] at the bottom of the crater bit by bit.

Eight thousand Calamity Fire Spirits hovered above the lava.

Their transformation was the most astonishing.

The original eerie green, extremely cold toxic fire had already transformed into a deep, dark black.

The remnants of the Divine-Grade negative traits fused into their Origin.

The surviving fire spirits had shrunk to half their size, but dark red Law spikes had grown on their bodies.

Two fire spirits collided violently, fighting for the central position of the volcanic crater.

There was no physical biting.

The fire spirit on the left waved its hand, and the dark black boiling toxic mist transformed into a long whip.

The whip lashed through the air, directly causing a small-scale collapse of space.

The fire spirit on the right neither dodged nor avoided. A huge mouth filled with fangs split open on its chest as it activated the aberration Law of [Endless Hunger].

It actually swallowed the toxic mist whip along with the surrounding space fragments directly into its stomach in one bite.

Then, the fire spirit on the right backhanded a freezing ray.

Freezing its drained companion into black ice, it then shattered it with a single punch and devoured its Origin core.

Law erosion, conceptual devouring.

Shifting focus underground.

The Zerg Broodmother Nest occupied tens of thousands of square meters of underground space.

The Zerg Queen's bulging abdomen writhed rhythmically; with every contraction, it spat out thousands of dark-gold insect eggs.

During the grand exam, the Zerg had swept the battlefield and devoured too many good things.

The liquid metal genes of the Yan Family's mechanical legion, the Holy Light resistance of Su Yueying's angel race, and the mental immunity of the Thousand-Eyed Flesh Tree from the Demon God Plane...

These mixed gene fragments had gone through generations of screening, elimination, and recombination by the broodmother.

Finally, a qualitative change occurred in the new generation of Zerg.

A venomous insect that had just hatched from its egg showed a metallic luster like abyssal cold iron on its shell.

Its compound eyes were covered with a layer of gray membrane, which was a resistance to mental attacks.

Flapping its wings, it rushed out of the ground and collided head-on with an early-stage Silver-rank Demon Vulture.

The Demon Vulture's wings were like blades, slashing down.

The Flying Sickle Venomous Insect did not dodge, letting the sharp blades slice open its metallic shell.

But at the moment of being sliced, black corrosive acid gushed from the wound, directly melting half of the Demon Vulture's wing.

Taking advantage of the situation, the venomous insect wrapped around it, its mouthparts piercing into the Demon Vulture's skull, frantically sucking out its brains.

On the plains, the chaotic battle was even more tragic.

The three major traits bestowed by Lin Yuan.

[Extremely Heavy Water], [Soul Infrasound], and [Gravity Recombination].

After nearly two months of breeding and slaughter, they finally shone brilliantly on the outstanding individuals of the new generation.

A mutated Heavy Armored Crab, four meters in length, was currently being besieged by seven new-generation Bone Blade Bats.

The Bone Blade Bats hovered in mid-air, the sonic resonance sacs in their necks bulging simultaneously.

Buzz!

[Soul Infrasound] erupted.

In the air, only visible transparent ripples swept across in a fan shape.

The Heavy Armored Crab's shell was not damaged in the slightest, but its internal organs suffered a terrifying tearing sensation in an instant.

In the past, it would have already been dead.

But in the next second, an earthy yellow light flashed across the Heavy Armored Crab's body.

[Gravity Recombination] activated!

The gravity parameters within a ten-meter radius around it were tampered with, increasing by a full fifty times.

The terrifying gravity field disintegrated and crushed the incoming infrasound waves.

At the same time, the Heavy Armored Crab waved its giant claws, spraying a hair-thin blue water line from its pincers.

[Extremely Heavy Water].

The water element was compressed to the extreme, carrying a sharpness that could cut through anything as it sliced through the air.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

The three Bone Blade Bats didn't even have time to react before their bodies were sliced in half by the high-pressure water line, the cuts as smooth as a mirror.

The collision of embryonic Laws, the strangulation of gravity and sound waves, and the ultimate cutting of the water element.

And in the Blood Abyss Sea at the center of the divine domain.

Although the million Tyrant Demons had been ordered by Lin Yuan to be benched and not allowed to interfere in the external battlefield.

The internal competition was equally brutal to the extreme.

The Tyrant Demons beat each other up in the thick blood.

The Extreme Gravity Field stacked layer upon layer, compressing the surrounding space until it warped and deformed.

Severed limbs flew everywhere, only to be quickly reattached.

They were like a pack of perpetual motion machines, constantly raising the limits of their physical bodies through tearing and reconstructing.

The entire Wasteland Divine Domain was like a Gu jar.

The mortality rate was as high as seventy percent.

But as long as they were among the thirty percent that survived, they would all trigger [End and Origin] on the brink of life and death.

At the end of destruction came new life, and their potential was forcibly raised.

In one month's time.

The overall strength of the Wasteland Divine Domain was forcibly raised by a whole major tier.

Silver rank became the bottom-tier cannon fodder, Gold rank became as common as hair on an ox, and Platinum-rank elites began to emerge in batches.

Lin Yuan hovered in the sky, quietly watching all of this.

As a few days passed in reality, his comprehension of this taboo godhead became increasingly profound.

Every death of life in the divine domain, and every near-death outburst of power...

...would turn into a thread of Law comprehension, feeding back into his Sea of Consciousness.

Lin Yuan spread his palm.

A clump of dark-gold divine fire danced in his palm, and at the center of the flame, there was an extra touch of deep grayish-black.

He could feel that even a casual strike of his carried the destructive property of stripping away life force and annihilating matter.

"Destruction is for the sake of better reconstruction."

Lin Yuan clenched his fist, and the divine fire went out.

The temperament around him became increasingly restrained; beneath his gentle appearance hid an abyss capable of devouring the starry sky.

His consciousness returned to reality.

Ding-dong.

The doorbell downstairs rang right on time.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes, a dark grayish-black glow flashing across them.

He stood up, tidied his clothes, and pushed open the door to head downstairs.

He opened the door.

Standing outside was a middle-aged man wearing a light gray Zhongshan suit.

The man had a thin face, wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and had a badge of a sword surrounded by stars pinned to his chest.

"You must be Student Lin Yuan, right?" The middle-aged man showed a professional smile, his voice warm and gentle. "I am a teacher from the Starry Sky University admissions office, Director Su Changfeng."

"Hello, Teacher Su. Please come in." Lin Yuan stepped aside, politely making way.

Director Su Changfeng stepped into the villa, quietly sweeping his gaze over Lin Yuan.

As a teacher in the admissions office of Starry Sky University, although Director Su Changfeng leaned toward clerical work...

...he was still a genuine ninth-turn demigod powerhouse, only a step away from igniting his divine fire and condensing a godhead.

Before coming, he had looked over Lin Yuan's profile.

Born a commoner, his initial Awakening was the well-known F-rank Wasteland Divine Domain.

Relying on his brilliant performance in this grand exam, the outside world generally speculated that he had triggered a rare talent mutation.

But in Director Su Changfeng's eyes, this was really nothing unusual.

A talent mutation might cause a sensation in ordinary cities or among the lower-class commoners.

However, in a place like Starry Sky University where Prodigies gathered, the last thing they lacked was Geniuses.

The military high-ranking Commander Xiao Lie had personally stepped in to protect him, clearly wanting to use this kid as a hidden blade to counterbalance the noble families and financial magnates.

But for a commoner with no background, even if they were stunning for a moment, once they entered an environment like the university, they could easily fade into mediocrity.

The military's calculations were loud and clear, but whether this blade was sharp enough remained to be seen.

Out of habit, he released a thread of his ninth-turn demigod Mental Energy.

Attempting to probe Lin Yuan's divine domain fluctuations to see what this so-called "mutation" was actually made of.

This was a routine practice of the admissions office, and also an invisible show of authority.

However...

The moment Director Su Changfeng's Mental Energy touched Lin Yuan's body...

...it met no resistance whatsoever.

His Mental Energy was like a clay ox entering the sea, sinking into an endless, dark void.

At the end of the void, Director Su Changfeng vaguely sensed a terrifying will filled with destruction and rebirth.

That will merely rolled over slightly.

Boom!

A clap of thunder exploded in Director Su Changfeng's mind, and a sharp pain shot through the depths of his Soul.

His expression changed dramatically, and he instinctively severed the mental link, taking half a step back.

Cold sweat instantly drenched his back.

Director Su Changfeng pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses to hide the shock in his eyes.

How was this possible?

As a grand ninth-turn demigod, he actually couldn't even see through the Realm of a student who had just finished the grand exam?

Even at that moment just now, he had felt a fatal threat from this gentle youth.

How the hell could they call this an F-rank talent mutation?!

What kind of mutation could bring such a ridiculous foundation?

Inside this kid, there was clearly a monster that even a True God would be wary of!

Where on earth did the military find such a freak?

"Teacher Su, what's wrong?" Lin Yuan poured a glass of warm water and handed it to Director Su Changfeng, his smile still gentle and clean.

"It's nothing. I just didn't rest well yesterday." Director Su Changfeng took the water glass, his attitude undergoing a subtle shift.

He sat on the sofa, crossing his hands over his knees, and went straight to the point.

"Lin Yuan, your grand exam results are very dazzling, and the military has also given you an extremely high evaluation. Starry Sky University has decided to grant you a special admission spot."

Director Su Changfeng took out an admission letter and placed it on the coffee table.

"However, as the Director of the Admissions Office, I must remind you of one thing." Director Su Changfeng stared into Lin Yuan's eyes, his tone solemn.

"First place in the Tianhai City grand exam is seen as supreme glory by the outside world. But at Starry Sky University, it is merely the most basic ticket."

"The Federation has eighty-six major districts, countless Hidden Families, and top financial magnates. The most monstrous Prodigies of the entire human race are gathered there."

"Some are born with epic-grade divine domain structures; some have slaughtered Abyssal Lords while still at the demigod stage; and some start with a divine domain ten times the size of yours."

Director Su Changfeng tapped on the table, his voice low.

"At Starry Sky University, there are no rules, only plundering. The school controls the stargates leading to countless alien planes and abyssal battlefields."

"What you need to do is to snatch, to kill, and to devour others' Laws to strengthen yourselves."

"In previous years, there have been many first-place winners like you who entered with grand ambitions, only to not even make a splash in the end, their divine domains shattered, reduced to crippled individuals."

"Are you prepared?"

Director Su Changfeng thought this warning would make the eighteen-year-old youth show a solemn or uneasy expression.

But he was disappointed.

Lin Yuan listened quietly, picked up the admission letter from the coffee table, and rubbed his fingertips over the patterns of stars and the sword on it.

He did not argue, nor did he say any harsh words.

He just smiled faintly.

A gathering of Geniuses? Epic-grade structures? Ten times the divine domain area?

In Lin Yuan's mind, the image of the demonic tree surfaced—the one stuck at the Extraordinary rank, desperately needing external Laws to break through its status suppression.

"That's great," Lin Yuan raised his head and said softly.

Director Su Changfeng was taken aback: "What's great?"

"Nothing." Lin Yuan stored the admission letter into his terminal, his eyes clear. "Thank you for the reminder, Teacher Su. Is there anything I need to prepare?"

Director Su Changfeng took a deep look at Lin Yuan, suppressing the strange feeling in his heart.

"I'll give you one day to handle your personal matters. We set off tomorrow morning at eight."

Having said that, Director Su Changfeng did not stay any longer, rising to bid farewell.

The door closed.

Lin Yuan walked to the French window, looking at the sky outside.

First place in the Tianhai City grand exam?

Not worth mentioning.

Lin Yuan clenched his fist, feeling the Divine Power of intertwined destruction and rebirth within his body.

His motivation was higher than ever before.

"A Wasteland of three hundred thousand square kilometers is indeed too small."