106: Chapter 106: The Birth of an Exclusive Divine Technique: A Single Thought Determines Life and Death!

The next day.

The star key placed beside the meditation cushion emitted a low-frequency hum.

A beam of light projected into mid-air, displaying the countdown for "Freshman Assembly."

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

Deep within his pupils, a vortex of gray-black light swirled, taking a full three seconds to fade away completely.

He looked down at his hands, where a layer of extremely faint dark cyan patterns appeared on the surface of his fair skin, then quickly merged into his flesh.

A whole night of Physical Body simulation.

In his Sea of Consciousness, he had experienced tens of thousands of shatterings and reformations.

The pain of walking on the edge of life and death countless times was exchanged for his initial mastery of the forbidden Law of [End and Origin].

Furthermore, he had successfully materialized this comprehension of the Law into a practical combat method.

Divine Ability.

This term popped into Lin Yuan's mind.

In high school textbooks, records about Divine Ability were extremely scarce and usually just mentioned in passing.

Because the time for humans to undergo Awakening of their Divine Domain was uniformly set in the third year of high school, a mere one year was barely enough for most students to stabilize their Divine Domain space and cultivate low-level dependents, let alone have extra energy to touch upon higher-dimensional powers.

A more core reason was that the essence of Divine Ability was for a deity to invoke their own Divine Power and combine it with the Laws they had mastered to tamper with the rules of the real world.

This was similar to the innate Divine Ability of the abyssal alien races.

To cast a Divine Ability, the lowest threshold was the Demi-God Realm, and one must have a very deep comprehension of a certain Law.

For high school students to force themselves to learn it, the only outcome would be a backlash from the Law, causing their Sea of Consciousness to collapse on the spot.

Only when reaching a place like Starry Sky University, which gathered Prodigies from the entire Federation, would Divine Ability become a compulsory course.

Lin Yuan raised his right hand, joined his index and middle fingers, and gently swiped through the void.

Where his fingertips passed, space trembled, leaving a gray-black trajectory.

Divine Ability: [Withering and Flourishing Mark].

This was an exclusive Divine Ability he had tailored based on his own Physique and the characteristics of the Wasteland Divine Domain.

Its effect was simple and brutal, divided into two aspects: "Withering" and "Flourishing."

Casting the "Withering" Mark could forcibly strip the vitality and energy from a target, converting it into Death Qi.

Once a target was hit by the mark, their defensive power would plummet, wounds would be unable to heal, and if they were in a near-death state, it would directly judge them as dead, without even giving them a chance to self-destruct.

Casting the "Flourishing" Mark involved taking the stripped-away vitality, or consuming his own Divine Power, and pouring it into the bodies of his own units.

It could not only forcibly lock in the last breath to complete limb regeneration but also significantly boost the target's Physical Body strength and Law resistance in a short time.

Lin Yuan looked at the flickering gray-black light on his fingertips and nodded with satisfaction.

The Divine Ability one comprehends might not be the strongest, but it must be the most suitable for oneself.

With the [Withering and Flourishing Mark], he would no longer rely solely on stacking dependents when fighting in reality or descending into the Divine Domain; he now had a trump card that could truly decide the outcome.

The humming of the star key intensified.

Lin Yuan calmed his mind, got up, and pushed open the villa door.

Following the route projected by the star key, he arrived in front of a ring-shaped building on the surface of the dead star.

The building was entirely constructed from some unknown deep-sea sunken silver.

Walking into the building, it was an extremely spacious lecture hall with an estimated thirty seats.

Lin Yuan walked into the classroom and glanced around.

There were already over twenty people sitting in the classroom.

The atmosphere was surprisingly quiet.

No one was whispering to each other; everyone sat in their own seats like lurking Vicious Beasts, with dangerous Law fluctuations faintly emanating from their bodies.

Lin Yuan saw two familiar faces in the crowd.

Sitting in the third row on the left was the girl with black-rimmed glasses he had met on the spaceship yesterday.

She was currently looking down at her terminal, the reflection on her lenses making it impossible to see her eyes.

Sitting in the second to last row on the right was that flashy white trench coat.

Bai Ye.

Seeing Lin Yuan enter, Bai Ye immediately straightened up, a bright smile spreading across his face.

He raised his hand without reservation, waved vigorously, and pointed to the empty seat beside him.

Lin Yuan's expression was calm as he walked up the steps and sat down next to Bai Ye.

"Brother Lin Yuan, morning!" As soon as Lin Yuan sat down, Bai Ye's characteristic lowered-voice tone came over.

"How did you sleep last night? Are you used to the gravity field on the dead star?"

"It's alright," Lin Yuan replied casually.

Bai Ye didn't care about Lin Yuan's coldness at all, leaned his body toward Lin Yuan, and continued to ramble:

"I told you we were fated."

"Look, those two guys, Su Yueying and Xu Xingyan, aren't in the same class as us."

Lin Yuan turned his head and glanced at him.

Bai Ye chuckled and whispered an explanation: "I used some connections to ask around last night."

"Freshmen at Starry Sky University are not grouped by region or grades, but by the 'danger rating' and 'aggressiveness' of their Divine Domain."

"Su Yueying's Angel Divine Domain leans towards order, while Xu Xingyan's Starlight system leans towards long-range positional warfare. They were both assigned to the conventional tactics class."

Bai Ye lifted his chin and pointed at the men and women with deep auras in the classroom.

"And this class of ours, all thirty people, are all troublemakers. Their Divine Domains are either extremely chaotic or born for slaughter."

He leaned in slightly and lowered his voice to point out: "Do you see that girl with black-rimmed glasses in the third row on the left?"

"Don't let her quiet appearance fool you; I've asked around, and she awakened the rare [Mechanical Plague] Divine Kingdom."

"She can turn living creatures into semi-mechanical infected bodies; she's a totally dangerous element."

"Look at that melancholic guy in the corner playing with a coin; he follows the [Curse Killing] system, which is impossible to guard against."

Bai Ye smacked his lips when he said this: "I heard that in previous classes like this, the survival rate upon graduation is less than half."

"So the moment I saw you come in, I felt at ease."

"With your mutated dependents leading the charge, Brother, I can just hang back and release undead, and our survival rate will definitely skyrocket."

Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze without responding.

This guy Bai Ye had very broad information channels and had figured out the class's background in just a few words.

However, Lin Yuan didn't care about the "half survival rate" or whatever.

As long as he could get enough credits to exchange for resources, it was the same wherever he killed.

Just as Bai Ye was about to continue sharing the gossip he had dug up.

Tap, tap, tap.

A crisp sound of high heels stepping on the floor came from the corridor outside the classroom.

Everyone's gaze converged on the door at the same time.

A woman walked in.

She was an extremely beautiful woman.

She was wearing a well-tailored dark black professional suit and had a tall figure.

Her long hair was casually tied behind her head, and she wore a pair of silver earrings.

Her features were extremely delicate, and between her brows and eyes, there was a gentleness and intellect unique to mature women.

Just looking at her appearance, she was a beauty who would make countless people turn their heads on the street.

But her temperament was the exact opposite of her appearance.

Cold.

A coldness that went deep into the bone marrow.

She walked onto the podium and looked at the whole room, as if she were inspecting thirty inanimate objects.

The visual discrepancy between this cold goddess vibe and her intellectual appearance left many in the classroom stunned.

A few boys in the front row had excitement flash in their eyes.

In a place as iron-blooded as Starry Sky University, there was actually such an eye-catching instructor.

But more people frowned, their eyes revealing a glimmer of doubt.

Lin Yuan noticed that the girl with glasses in the front row quickly swiped on her terminal, then knitted her brows tightly.

"Instructor."

The girl with glasses stood up, pushed the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose, and said politely and respectfully:

"According to the public information we obtained from the academy in advance, the head instructor in charge of this year's High-Risk Class 3 should be Instructor 'Space Breaker' Chen Lie."

"May I ask, has the academy made temporary adjustments to the teaching arrangements?"

Once this question was asked, many people in the classroom nodded secretly.

Prodigies were not fools; before coming to Starry Sky University, the families or forces behind them had long since turned everything they could find upside down.

Chen Lie was a famous practical instructor at Starry Sky University, and his mastery of the Space Law was incredible.

How could it suddenly be replaced by an unfamiliar female instructor right before the start of the semester?

The woman on the podium looked at the girl with glasses who had stood up and extended her finger, tapping lightly on the control panel of the podium.

The projection behind the podium lit up, displaying her name: Instructor Wen Muxue.

"My name is Instructor Wen Muxue."

The woman's voice was very pleasant, the timbre crisp, but the tone was as flat as a dead straight line.

"As for the Instructor Chen Lie you mentioned."

Instructor Wen Muxue raised her eyes, looked at the thirty people present, and said lightly:

"The day before yesterday afternoon, while leading a team to explore a type of Abyss Insect Nest plane behind the Seventh Star Gate, he was ambushed by a Void Mother Insect at the half-step Main God rank."

"His Divine Domain was completely crushed, and his Godhead shattered. He has already fallen."

When the words fell.

The entire ring-shaped classroom, there were no exclamations, no screams.

But the thirty people sitting there, almost at the same time, had their breathing rhythms thrown into chaos.

Fallen?

Who was Chen Lie? That was an official instructor of Starry Sky University!

Not one of those half-baked True Gods from the outside world who relied on stacking resources and were old and decrepit.

In the common knowledge of deities, there was an insurmountable chasm between True Gods and Demi-Gods.

True Gods condense a complete Godhead, lift their Divine Domain to the Star Realm, and turn it into a Divine Kingdom.

As long as the Divine Kingdom does not perish, even if the True God's Physical Body is destroyed in reality, they can be reborn in the Divine Kingdom through the Power Of Faith.

True Gods represent the high-level combat power of the Human Federation and represent existences that are extremely difficult to kill.

However, such a True God instructor teaching at Starry Sky University was preparing to welcome freshmen the day before yesterday.

Today, he had already become a black-and-white death notice.

He died so lightly.

He died so silently.

Not even his corpse could be brought back, only earning a simple oral report.

An unspeakable sense of oppression quietly enveloped the entire classroom.

Before they came to Starry Sky University, their elders had repeatedly warned them that it was very cruel here.

They had also killed monsters on the Abyssal Defense Line with their own hands and thought they were mentally prepared to face life and death.

But when they truly stepped into this academy.

When they heard that a once high-and-mighty True God had died in the depths of the unknown starry sky just like cannon fodder.

The impact that struck the Soul was still something they were caught off guard by.