305: Chapter 305 SSS-level Superpower: Divine Phoenix Undying Flame

Silence!

A deathly silence!

In the battlefield where killing cries had just shaken the heavens, even the sound of the wind had now come to a standstill.

Zhao Zhenlei, Helan Que, and Yan Qinghuan remained frozen in their ultimate-move-releasing poses, staring at each other in bewilderment, their faces filled with utter disbelief.

"He... why didn't he block just now?" Zhao Zhenlei swallowed hard, looking at his fist, which had met absolutely no resistance.

"How did the Rank Five aura on him suddenly vanish?" Helan Que was also completely dumbfounded. "Could his strength just now have been an illusion?"

And at the edge of these ruins...

Gou Fugui, the chief financial expert of Magic City Martial Arts University's Class F...

...was currently on his knees, clutching his hair tightly with both hands, not even bothering to pick up his gold-rimmed glasses that had fallen to the ground.

He stared blankly at the white light where Lu Xingye had disappeared, looking as if his soul had been sucked out, completely petrified.

"G-Gone?"

On Gou Fugui's merchant-like face, his features contorted together. His heart ached so much it was practically bleeding!

"I spent two and a half million!!!"

Gou Fugui slammed the ground violently, letting out the most hysterical, agonizing wail of his life:

"Two and a half million! For a ten-minute 'real man' trial card!"

"You're great, aren't you? You were so busy showing off! Did you not even glance at the progress bar?"

"If I knew you'd play yourself to death like this, I would've pocketed the money! Either way, we're getting eliminated. If I pocketed it, I could have bought an oceanfront villa!"

"Old Lu! You goddamn bastard! Give me back my money!!!"

...

Meanwhile.

Outside the secret realm, at the National Martial Arts Competition Center.

In the VIP spectator seats.

*Crack!*

A sharp, crisp snap rang out.

Principal Pang Ban, the principal of Magic City Martial Arts University, squeezed the wooden armrest of his seat into fine sawdust with his calloused hand!

Old Man Pang's face was no longer just dark; it had turned the color of pig liver, and even seemed to glow with a faint green light!

His chest heaved violently, as if he might pass out at any moment!

"Gou Fugui... Lu Xingye..."

Principal Pang Ban gritted his teeth, his voice sounding as if it were squeezed from the depths of the Nine Nether Underworld:

"What was going through Gou Fugui's pig brain? That extremely precious boost opportunity—he didn't give it to Xie Fuyao, he didn't give it to Cong Nanshan or Senior Ji Youyou, but he fucking gave it to Lu Xingye, that hopeless show-off?"

"Fine if he gave it to him! But that little bastard Lu Xingye didn't even check the time, running out of power right in the middle of showing off and getting eliminated?"

"My face! The face of Magic City Martial Arts University! It has all been completely thrown away today by these embarrassing fools!!!"

Mainly, when Magic City Martial Arts University first revealed two Rank Five combatants, Principal Pang Ban thought the first round was already a sure win, and had even wanted to book a whole venue tonight to celebrate.

And then they pulled this on him?

Principal Pang Ban's blood pressure soared with rage. He quickly pulled out a whole bottle of fast-acting heart-saving pills from his robe and poured them all into his mouth without looking, barely managing to avoid a brain hemorrhage and passing out on the spot.

Meanwhile, the two famous commentators at the commentary booth looked at each other, completely at a loss as to how to smooth over this incredibly awkward situation.

"Uh... it seems that Captain Lu of Magic City Martial Arts University has some extremely strict time limit on the cultivation technique he practices..."

"Yes, although Captain Lu has been eliminated, his heroic posture in suppressing the three great geniuses just now remains... remains extremely impressive!"

Just as the audience across Great Xia was frantically sending bullet comments mocking Lu Xingye's "failed show-off"...

The situation inside Forbidden Zone No. 009, however, underwent a terrifying reversal due to Lu Xingye's sudden departure!

Without Lu Xingye's suppressing fire, the university geniuses who had been beaten down by him instantly caught their breath.

And Qin Zhuo, who had been pinned down by the rest of Magic City Martial Arts University, finally found an opportunity to break the deadlock!

"That madman Lu Xingye is eliminated! Magic City Martial Arts University's formation is in disarray!"

In mid-air, a blinding golden light burst from Qin Zhuo's beautiful eyes hidden behind her sunglasses!

"Did you really think your underhanded tricks could trap this lady forever?"

"All of you, get the hell away from me!!!"

Boom!!!

Qin Zhuo went completely berserk. Directly ignoring Bai Zimo's magnetic interference and Ye Li's man-eating flower venom, her hands rapidly formed an extremely ancient and profound hand seal in front of her chest.

At this moment, she no longer held anything back!

The source fire of her SSS-grade Supernatural Ability, Divine Phoenix Undying Fire, was resolutely and violently ignited by her!

Accompanied by a high-pitched phoenix cry that pierced the clouds!

A wave of pure golden flame, dozens of times more violent than before, resembled a miniature sun compressed to its limit. With Qin Zhuo at the center, it exploded outward in all directions!

*Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!*

In the face of this extreme, source-touching high temperature, Bai Zimo's Rank Four strong magnetic field couldn't even last for a single second. It was instantly burned to distortion and collapsed, and even the microcomputer in his hand emitted a puff of acrid black smoke, completely ruined!

The terrifying, several-meter-tall man-eating flower of Ye Li let out an extremely shrill shriek. Before it could even spit its venom, its massive body was instantly turned to charcoal and ashes under the baking of the golden flames!

"Not good! Retreat! Fall back, quick!!!"

Sensing the terrifying temperature that was enough to vaporize steel, the faces of Cong Nanshan and Gu Changfeng, who were closest to Qin Zhuo, changed drastically!

But it was too late!

The explosion speed of the source Divine Phoenix Fire gave them absolutely no room to react!

"Roar!"

The Mountain-Moving Ape Dharma Image behind Cong Nanshan had only just come into contact with the golden heatwave when it melted away without a trace, like melting snow under a blazing sun!

The protective sword qi Gu Changfeng was so proud of was directly evaporated by the high temperature without even making a sound!

*Crack! Crack!*

Qin Zhuo didn't even need to deliberately attack; it was merely the residual heat spreading from the source sea of fire!

The death-immunity jade tablets on the chests of Cong Nanshan and Gu Changfeng let out ear-piercing fatal alarms, instantly shattering into a flurry of powder!

*Whoosh!*

*Whoosh!*

Two blinding white teleportation lights soared into the sky.

The two core pillars of Magic City Martial Arts University couldn't even withstand a single strike before they were humiliatingly turned into white light and forcibly eliminated!

"Nanshan! Changfeng!"

Xie Fuyao and the others turned pale with fright.

However, what made their scalps tingle even more was the astonishing transformation taking place in the sky.

Under the terrifyingly high temperature of the source fire,

the ridiculously comical large medical mask, oversized toad sunglasses, and the baggy black windbreaker that made her look like a bandit on Qin Zhuo's face and body were instantly vaporized without leaving even a speck of ash!

Stripped of this crude disguise,

the true face of the one hailed as the peerless pearl of Great Xia was finally revealed in mid-air!

This was an incredibly shocking, even artistic scene of nirvana!

Qin Zhuo's gorgeous and proud face appeared sacred and inviolable against the backdrop of the golden flames.

The pure golden flames no longer surged violently, but instead transformed into a substance akin to viscous liquid, flowing smoothly around her body, ultimately condensing on her skin into a magnificent crimson-gold flame armor!

What made it most impossible to look away was her hair.

Her long, originally pitch-black hair had now completely transformed into burning flames, interwoven with flowing, brilliant phoenix feathers!

As the breeze blew, the fiery feathers fluttered!

Qin Zhuo slowly opened her eyes. Her once dark pupils had now completely turned into two burning suns, exuding a sacred pressure that looked down on all living things and held the power of life and death!