311: Chapter 311 An Unprecedented Escape from the Secret Realm

Just as everyone was still immersed in the shock and lingering fear of the time reversal.

"Buzz—"

Above the Forbidden Zone, the extremely rare official highest-authority broadcasting system suddenly emitted a harsh crackle of static.

Immediately following that, the roar of President Xia Yun of the Imperial Capital Martial Arts Academy, carrying a hint of loss of composure, exploded over the Forbidden Zone like a death warrant:

"All contestants, listen up!!! I am Xia Yun!!!"

"Evacuate immediately! Evacuate immediately!!!"

"The upcoming natural disaster will ignore the defensive protection of the death-immunity jade tablets! It will cause real death! All contestants, please hurry and crush your death-immunity jade tablets to be teleported out of the Forbidden Zone!!!"

"Repeating once more! Crush your death-immunity jade tablets and exit the Forbidden Zone immediately! This is not a drill!!!"

President Xia Yun's desperate broadcast echoed through the sky, repeating three full times!

"Boom!!!"

These three death-warrant broadcasts were like three heavy hammers, brutally shattering the last sliver of luck and the pride of being top-tier powerhouses in the hearts of all the geniuses present!

Even a dignified Tier 6 Grandmaster like President Xia Yun was this panicked; who the hell cared about the competition anymore?

Who cared about saving face?

"Run!!!"

Zhao Zhenlei was the first to react. This Northern war machine was now scrambling, decisively crushing the death-immunity jade tablet on his chest into powder!

"Snap! Snap! Snap!"

Helan Que, Yan Qinghuan, Qin Zhuo... these leaders of major teams who were usually high and mighty, regarding their reputation as more important than their lives, were now all deathly pale.

They were crushing their death-immunity jade tablets faster than one another, fearing that being half a second slow would result in them ending up with no bones left.

Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian were crying with snot and tears streaming down their faces. Gou Fugui even almost broke his finger from using too much force as he desperately crushed his death-immunity jade tablet: "Mommy! Brother Jiang, protect me! I want to go home!!!"

"Swish swish swish swish swish!!!"

For a moment, the entire Forbidden Zone No. 009 was incredibly spectacular!

From the center of the basin to the edge of the swamp, from the dark deep forest to the abandoned ancient city...

Hundreds upon thousands of blinding white teleportation lights, like a meteor shower erupting in reverse, shot up into the sky densely, illuminating the entire gray-red alien sky as if it were broad daylight!

A great escape!

An unprecedented great escape from a secret realm!

A few short seconds later.

Outside, at the vast flat plaza of the National Martial Arts Competition Center.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz—!"

Following a series of violent spatial fluctuations, over a thousand contestants who were lucky enough to escape with their lives were "spat out" by the teleportation array like discarded salted fish, lying sprawled across the plaza floor in disarray.

"Huff... huff... I survived... I actually survived!"

Zhao Zhenlei lay flat on his back on the tiles, gasping for air, his clothes already soaked through with cold sweat.

Qin Zhuo, Yan Qinghuan, and the others were also sitting on the ground with absolutely no regard for their image, their faces deathly pale, still shaken.

Just then, someone shouted: "Quick, look at the big screen!!!"

Everyone stiffly raised their heads and looked at the four giant high-definition holographic projection screens above the arena.

On the screen, the real-time footage from inside Forbidden Zone No. 009 was being broadcast.

After losing the suppression of Ji Daixu's Supernatural Ability, the three-minute safety period had finally come to an end.

"Rumble!!!"

Under the terrified and scalp-tingling gaze of all the contestants who had escaped with their lives!

Above the firmament of the Forbidden Zone, those tens of thousands of terrifying red fire tornado vortices poured down once again!

The sky full of mutated Divine Phoenix Fire rain, like a world-ending torrent, brutally baptized the entire secret realm!

With no human resistance left, that alien ruin completely devolved into a roiling sea of molten fire!

Towering ancient trees vaporized in an instant, majestic mountain ranges melted into magma, and even the void was burned into streaks of pitch-black spatial rifts!

Watching this terrifying scene that resembled the true end of the world.

All the competing geniuses in the plaza swallowed a mouthful of saliva with extreme difficulty.

If they had stayed inside for ten more seconds just now...

If it hadn't been for the chief of Yaodu University manipulating time...

They would have already been like those vaporized stones, not even leaving behind a trace of residue!

A thread of extremely deep, indelible psychological trauma was carved deep into the souls of the top geniuses of this generation in the Great Xia.

Immediately after.

Everyone's gaze, with extreme tacit understanding and a kind of ghost-seeing extreme fear, looked collectively toward the other side of the plaza, at the rest area of the Magic City Martial Arts University team!

"What the hell... who can compete with you guys! Magic City Martial Arts University!!!"

I don't know which small academy's captain let out this wail, carrying a thick crying tone, representing the shared inner voice of everyone present!

"This is just too fierce! It's simply not human!"

"What's the point of competing anymore! The monster you guys raised in your team can ignore even the death-immunity jade tablets made by a Tier 5 Grandmaster and kill on the spot with a single ultimate move!"

"Physical hacks are one thing, but you guys are literally using dimension-reduction level save-file-deleting hacks!!!"

"Who would dare to compete with you Magic City Martial Arts University in the future! This is literally life-threatening!!!"

Under the baptism of the audience's extreme horror, the fierce reputation of Magic City Martial Arts University, at this moment, climbed to an absurd, Demon King-level height that all universities looked up to!

Meanwhile.

In the high-level work area of the arena, it was already chaotic.

"Quick! Quickly count the number of people!"

"Check if there's anyone who didn't manage to teleport out! Compare it against the contestant list immediately, count them one by one!"

The staff of the Martial Arts General Administration were sweating profusely, holding tablets and rushing through the plaza, frantically verifying the list.

Because this escape was so chaotic, and on top of that, some people had already been eliminated in advance.

And some of these guys who had been eliminated early, bored of waiting in the plaza, had long since run to the official food stalls outside the arena to eat free deluxe boxed lunches!

This caused the difficulty of the statistical work to skyrocket.

The staff ran all over the place, barely managing to drag those contestants who were still holding boxed lunches with large chicken legs stuffed in their mouths back to the plaza.

Until more than half an hour later.

When the apocalyptic fire rain in the sky finally gradually subsided on the broadcast screen, leaving behind a hellish wreckage that was still burning with raging flames.

Several supervisors in charge of statistics, their faces extremely ugly and even carrying a hint of irrepressible terror, ran quickly to the VIP area.

"President Xia! Principal Pang Ban! Leaders!"

The supervisor's voice was trembling:

"We... we counted everyone who escaped, plus those eating boxed lunches, those who went to the restroom, over and over again for three times..."

Principal Pang Ban's heart "thumped," a sense of extremely ominous foreboding surged into his mind, his old face instantly turning pale: "What's wrong? Did something happen?"

The supervisor swallowed a mouthful of saliva and reported with extreme difficulty: "One person is missing... one person is missing!"

"Buzz!"

Principal Pang Ban's brain instantly buzzed, and he felt the world spinning!

One person missing?

Under that natural disaster capable of burning through the void, not teleporting out meant... they had been completely annihilated, body and soul!