111: Chapter 111: He packed his bags and left, his terrifying record scaring the second-year student to tears.

Silver Tier insects instantly turned to ashes.

Gold Tier insects' carapaces shattered, and they fell to the ground, twitching.

Lin Yuan strolled leisurely through the sea of insects, taking hundreds and thousands of insect lives with every punch and kick.

He finally experienced firsthand how disgusting these creatures were.

They were endless.

There was simply no end to them.

They had no fear, no hesitation.

The Pain Link turned them into a completely unified whole.

And most fatally, with the skyrocketing number of deaths, the surrounding Void Realm fluctuations had grown intense to the extreme.

The spatial barrier became as hard as iron.

Lin Yuan felt the consumption rate of the Divine Power in his body rise exponentially.

In this kind of environment, an ordinary demigod would have had their Divine Power drained long ago and been devoured by the sea of insects.

"That's about enough."

Lin Yuan estimated the remaining reserves of Divine Power in his body.

The test of his Physical Body strength was complete, and the combat effectiveness of the [Wither-Bloom Mark] had also been thoroughly tested.

There was no need to keep fighting to the death here.

He summoned his star key.

"Initiate extraction protocol."

"Beep. High-intensity spatial interference detected. Forced extraction requires three seconds of charging," a mechanical voice chimed from the star key.

Three seconds.

In a normal battle, it was but the blink of an eye.

But in this desperate situation of being besieged by a sea of insects, three seconds were enough to be fatal.

Tens of thousands of insects spread their jointed limbs simultaneously, spitting highly corrosive acid from their mouthparts, raining down and blotting out the sky.

Lin Yuan's gaze sharpened.

"Get the hell away from me."

In his Sea of Consciousness, the divine fire blazed, and the power of destruction erupted without reservation.

With Lin Yuan as the center, the space within a three-hundred-meter radius collapsed.

Acid, the insect race, and bone spurs were all crushed into nothingness the moment they touched the edge of the collapse.

He forcibly carved out a vacuum zone amidst the dense sea of insects.

Three.

Two.

One.

The star key shone brilliantly, and a spatial channel forcibly pierced through the blockade of the Void Realm fluctuations.

Lin Yuan's figure vanished in a flash of white light.

Having lost their target, the insect swarm rampaged wildly in the rift valley, letting out unwilling screeches.

Starry Sky University, edge of the Dead Star.

Launch Pad 3.

A spatial vortex emerged, and Lin Yuan's figure was spat out heavily, landing steadily on the metal platform.

His standard-issue combat uniform was in tatters, covered in green insect blood and foul-smelling mucus.

Yet through the torn fabric, his skin underneath could be seen completely unharmed, without even a single white mark left behind.

"Yo, back alive?"

In front of the fortress window, the fat logistics officer was still clipping his nails.

He looked up and glanced at Lin Yuan, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

"Not missing any arms or legs, not bad. The return fee is two hundred thousand faith points, swipe your card yourself."

Lin Yuan walked to the window and swiped two hundred thousand faith points using his star key.

He glanced at his balance.

Ten million to buy the coordinates, two hundred thousand for the outbound trip, and two hundred thousand for the return.

On the very first day of school, without bringing back even a single hair from the foreign plane, ten million and forty thousand faith points had evaporated just like that.

Lin Yuan let out a cold laugh.

He didn't complain.

All of this was his own choice.

These ten million faith points had bought him a life, and bought him a true understanding of the harsh ecology of the foreign plane.

This was the first lesson Starry Sky University had taught him.

Clearly priced, life and death at one's own risk.

"The problem isn't combat power, but the lack of intelligence and the underestimation of the ecological closed-loop."

Lin Yuan tapped his finger gently against his knee.

The troublesome part of Plane 093 was that the insects were everywhere.

They weren't just combat units; they were a part of that plane's ecosystem.

Even a puddle of mud or a stone could be the lowest-level scout of the insect race.

This kind of numerical suppression and shared perception made conventional infiltration completely meaningless.

"Although the Death Qi disguise of the Wither-Bloom Mark can avoid energy detection, it cannot avoid physical contact."

The scene of stepping on that larva replayed in Lin Yuan's mind.

To break this deadlock.

With his current self, he could either be extremely, extremely careful, or continuously buy coordinates for trial and error.

Meanwhile, Plane 093.

Edge of the rift valley.

After losing their target, the insect swarm rampaged wildly for half an hour before slowly retreating under the command of the main hive.

Under the cover of a concealment formation, the four members of the sophomore squad crept to the center of Lin Yuan's recent battlefield.

Looking at the scene before them, the four of them collectively gasped.

The rift valley had been flattened.

The ground was carpeted with a thick layer of insect corpses.

Not a single corpse was intact; all of them had been brutally blown apart by sheer, violent force.

What made them feel even more terrified was the lingering aura of the Law in the air.

Chen Feng squatted down, stretching out his finger to touch a piece of shattered insect shell on the ground.

Just as his fingertip drew near,

that piece of insect shell turned to powder.

A domineering, destructive will that wanted to return everything to nothingness rushed up his fingertip straight into Chen Feng's Sea of Consciousness.

Chen Feng withdrew his hand, his face turning extremely grim.

"Captain, what's wrong?" the Short-haired Senior Sister hurriedly stepped forward.

"Don't touch it!" Chen Feng barked a warning. "The residual Law here... is extremely dangerous, possessing strong exclusivity and destructiveness."

He stood up, looking around at the mountain of insect corpses, his voice a bit dry.

"Tens of thousands of insects, all beaten to death solely by physical strength and basic divine spells, without deploying a single vassal race."

The Lanky swallowed hard. "Captain, are you sure that was a freshman? A high schooler who just awakened his divine domain less than a year ago?"

"The frequency of the star key doesn't lie," Chen Feng said in a deep voice, suppressing the shock in his heart.

"A monster has appeared among this year's freshmen."

The few of them looked at each other, seeing the bitterness in one another's eyes.

They had spent a whole year as sophomores, and even forming a team to scavenge for scraps had to be done in secret.

Yet a freshman, on his very first day, treated this place like a training ground.

Sometimes, comparing yourself to others really is infuriating.

"Captain, I hope this kid learned his lesson and realizes how disgusting the insect swarm is, so he'll stay away from now on."

The Lanky said with lingering fear, "If he comes back to mess around a few more times, the insects here will go completely berserk 24/7. When that happens, we won't even get to drink any soup."

The other three nodded in agreement.

They were all relying on this plane to upgrade their divine domains.

Chen Feng's heart sank.

"Don't count on others being kind-hearted."

He straightened up, his gaze becoming resolute.

"Since this kid has targeted this place, with the strength he's shown, it's impossible for him to give up easily."

"Quick! Take advantage of the insect swarm's riot just now; there's a gap in the outer defensive line."

Chen Feng mapped out several routes and handed them to his teammates. "Hurry up and gather all the intelligence on the coordinates we are responsible for!"

"Set up the concealment formations quickly too!"

"We must split up and attack the weak points, taking down these sub-hives all at once before this freshman makes his comeback!"

Chen Feng gripped his combat saber.

"The faster, the better. Any delay could lead to unexpected changes!"

The brutal competition of Starry Sky University was on full display at this moment.

There was no warmth, no yielding.

Under this starry sky, even when facing a newly enrolled freshman,

the upperclassmen still had to fight with all their might to seize their space for survival.