309: Chapter 309 The Jade Token Failed! The Real Fear of Death

The sky... had changed.

At this moment, whether it was the teams hunting demonic beasts in the dark forest, the survivors struggling to climb the jagged cliffs, or the "old sixes" hiding in the depths of the poisonous marshes, preparing to survive until the end...

Across the entire map, a full thousand contestants scattered in every corner stopped their actions in that instant, completely stunned, and looked up!

The sky, which had been grey and dim due to the chaotic battle of various Supernatural Abilities, had now turned a bizarre, blood-red color!

That wasn't just clouds!

That was, in the truest sense, a boundless, inverted sea of fire!

"Rumble!!!"

Accompanied by thunder that sounded like the apocalypse.

Above that blood-red firmament, one, ten, a hundred... thousands of massive, despair-inducing red fire vortexes were slowly taking shape in the sky!

The appearance of those vortexes, that aura of destruction...

It looked exactly like the starting move Qin Zhuo used when releasing "Heavenly Scorching Flame"!

But the difference was that Qin Zhuo's fireballs were only the size of a water vat, while the vortexes currently condensing in the sky were each like an inverted volcanic crater!!!

Bai Lan's ultimate move hadn't been canceled; the phantom that disappeared earlier wasn't a failed illusion at all!

It was because this replicated, upgraded version of the ultimate move had a long wind-up and an incredibly wide range!

It had completely merged into the high sky, directly taking over the laws of this world, and transformed into an ultimate world-ending punishment that covered the entire map!!!

"This... this f*cking... can't be real, right?"

Gou Fugui, hiding on the very edge of the ruins, stared blankly up at this hellish blood-red sky.

The gold-rimmed glasses he had just found and barely managed to perch on the bridge of his nose slid down to the ground in a comical fashion due to his extreme shock.

In a dark corner not far away.

As the culprit behind all of this, the Tier 5 Grandmaster of the Wusheng Divine Sect, Spade J, was also completely dumbfounded at this moment.

Her disguised face was as pale as paper, her Legs were shaking uncontrollably, and she swallowed a mouthful of saliva in despair.

"I... I just wanted to use an illusion to cause some trouble and disrupt the formation of these prodigies..."

"Who the f*ck knew this fox could hand-craft a nuke on the spot!!!"

Spade J felt like dying right now.

She couldn't even care about her infiltration mission; the only thought in her mind was to escape this ghost place immediately.

However, the apocalyptic punishment brewing to its limit above the firmament would not give her, or anyone else present, a chance to breathe.

"Rumble!!!"

Accompanied by a dull roar that seemed capable of tearing the entire world apart!

The tens of thousands of red vortexes in the sky that resembled volcanic craters finally reached their saturation point.

The next second, an endless sea of fire poured down!

The sky full of mutated, crimson Divine Phoenix Fire rain, carrying a terrifying high temperature capable of incinerating all laws, conducted a no-blind-spot, full-map bombardment on this vast Forbidden Zone No. 009 like an apocalyptic meteor shower!

"Run! Run, hurry!!!"

"Hide behind cover!!!"

On the edge of the basin battlefield, a group of small academy teams who had long been scared out of their wits were frantically fleeing in panic.

One unknown small team leader, who had suffered a leg injury in the previous chaotic battle, was running a half-beat too slow.

He looked up and saw a drop of Divine Phoenix Fire rain, basin-sized and viscous like magma, falling precisely towards his head!

A flash of despair crossed the small team leader's eyes, but then he gritted his teeth and tore off the [death-immunity jade tablet] from his chest.

"The worst that happens is I get eliminated! I'm not playing anymore!"

He closed his eyes and fiercely crushed the jade tablet!

According to the rules of the Martial Arts Competition, this jade tablet, personally crafted by a Tier 5 Grandmaster, would instantly erect an absolute defense shield capable of withstanding a full-power strike from a peak Tier 5 expert when it sensed fatal damage or was manually crushed, and it would teleport the contestant out of the secret realm within one second.

"Hum!"

The jade tablet shattered, and a brilliant layer of white spiritual light shield instantly erected on his body surface as expected.

The small team leader let out a long sigh of relief, waiting for the arrival of the white teleportation light.

Other contestants nearby saw this and also let out a slight sigh of relief; as long as the jade tablet was still there, at most they would just lose their qualification for the competition.

However.

The moment that drop of crimson mutated fire rain slammed heavily onto that layer of white shield!

"Crack... Crack!!!"

An extremely harsh, hair-raising cracking sound rang out abruptly on the edge of the battlefield!

Under the terrified gaze of everyone!

That "absolute defense," which claimed to be able to withstand a strike from a Tier 5 Grandmaster, didn't even last for 0.1 seconds when it made contact with the fire rain containing the laws of the Divine Phoenix!

It was like an extremely fragile piece of paper meeting a soldering iron, instantly burned through, overloaded, and shattered!

"What?!"

The small team leader's pupils instantly shrank to the size of pinpricks, and unprecedented extreme terror erupted in his eyes.

No protective shield!

No teleportation white light!

That terrifying fire rain landed directly on the crown of his head without any obstruction!

"Ah!"

He couldn't even let out a complete, harrowing scream.

"Sizzle!"

Under the terrifying absolute high temperature, that living Tier 4 martial arts prodigy was burned into nothingness in an instant, like snow under the scorching sun!

Not even a bone or a trace of ash remained!

He just disappeared, just like that... completely!

"..."

The entire scene was deathly silent.

Only the "boom-boom" roars of the rain of fire falling upon the earth.

The prodigies from various schools who witnessed this scene had their Brains completely freeze at this moment.

A bone-chilling cold rushed up their spines, instantly freezing their souls.

"Dead... someone died?"

"He wasn't teleported out! He was burned to death alive!!!"

Meanwhile, the disaster was spreading across the entire map.

In a misty forest dozens of kilometers away from the core battlefield, dozens of contestants who had long been lost and didn't even know what was happening.

The moment the sky full of fire rain fell, the jade tablets on their chests flashed with blinding red light, attempting to protect their masters.

But immediately after, accompanied by a dense series of "crack" sounds, all the jade tablets collectively failed and shattered!

Dozens of living lives didn't even have a chance to run; they were completely evaporated in the sea of fire!

"The jade tablet failed!!!"

"This fire ignores the protection mechanism of the competition rules! It will actually kill people!!!"

"Help! I don't want to die here!!!"

The entire Forbidden Zone No. 009 fell into ultimate panic!

The team leaders, who had originally been high and mighty and prided themselves on being the pride of heaven, finally shed all their pride in the face of the truly descending death, emitting extremely harrowing wails like frightened ducks.

Zhao Zhenlei, Helan Que, and the three chiefs, including Yan Qinghuan, were also pale as paper, trembling all over.

"Hurry and crush the jade tablets! Even though the defense failed, the teleportation function might still work before the fire rain falls! Hurry!!!"

Everyone was frantically fumbling for the jade tablets on their bodies, their hands shaking so hard they couldn't even hold the tablets steady.

... And at this moment.

Outside, at the National Martial Arts Competition Center, in the hundred-thousand-seat stands.

The audience, who had been cheering and leaping with joy because the chaotic brawl was extremely exciting, were now watching the scene on the big screen, the entire venue silent, everyone frightened silly by this sudden live broadcast of death!