80: Chapter 80 No one knows forbidden spells better than you.

"Heh..." Upon hearing this, Li Zhenhai did not become anxious; instead, he chuckled. His laughter was filled with amusement and disdain.

"Sacrifice-type Forbidden Curse?" Li Zhenhai shook his head.

Li Murou was his own daughter! Although he was often busy with the war, frequently traveling back and forth to the border to suppress fierce beasts, he didn't have much time to accompany his daughter. However, as her father, how could he not know his own daughter's personality?

That girl hadn't even dared to kill a chicken since she was little; her personality was as simple and kind as a blank sheet of paper. Let alone some evil Forbidden Curse that sacrificed living people, even if she were asked to sacrifice a rabbit, she would probably cry for half a day.

Furthermore... Li Zhenhai had witnessed Li Murou's only move during that battle from start to finish. That was pure musical resonance. Compared to that kind of gloomy, terrifying, blood-reeking Sacrifice-type Forbidden Curse, it could be said that they were worlds apart!

"This is truly interesting..." Li Zhenhai's fingers gently tapped the armrest of the sofa, his gaze becoming deep. He knew the situation like the back of his hand. This was clearly someone playing tricks behind the scenes. Not only did he know that this news was a smear campaign intentionally orchestrated by some people with ulterior motives, but he could also guess who this person was with near certainty.

"I didn't expect this..." Li Zhenhai's gaze swept intentionally or unintentionally over the sweating Zhou Hanguang beside him, and a chill gradually rose in his heart.

"As a dignified university Professional, instead of looking for reasons within yourself after losing the match, or thinking about how to improve your own strength, you are quite good at playing dirty tricks and using public opinion to spread rumors..."

"Is this the elite that our Jiang University has cultivated?" A trace of disappointment flashed in Li Zhenhai's eyes. It seemed that the atmosphere at Jiang University really needed to be rectified. If he didn't find time to educate these people from top to bottom and clean up these foul and messy methods, these students would become a real scourge once they graduated and entered the military!

Thinking of this, the smile in Li Zhenhai's eyes faded, replaced by an unquestionable majesty. He calmly instructed Luo Hong on the other end of the phone: "Alright, I know." "There is no need to let this kind of nonsense continue to pollute the environment." "Have someone delete the post. By the way, investigate the source of those internet trolls and ban all their accounts."

Although Li Zhenhai's voice was not loud, it sounded exceptionally clear and powerful in the silent office. Luo Hong on the other end of the phone did not have any unnecessary chatter or questions. As a trusted aide who had followed Li Zhenhai for many years, he knew the Li Zhenhai's temper well. "Yes, Li Zhenhai! I will handle it right away!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Zhenhai placed his phone casually on the coffee table. He raised his head again, his gaze like a torch, casting it once more toward the big screen. There, Chen Xi was spreading his arms, shouting the four words "Sovereign Judgment."

Li Zhenhai's eyes narrowed slightly, and a curve of anticipation tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Alright, the little intermission outside the arena is finished." "Watch the match carefully; it seems another climax is coming!"

Meanwhile, at the southern border of the Dragon Kingdom, in the wasteland Outside the Border. This was a true forbidden zone for humans, where the sky was shrouded year-round in an unmoving blood-colored haze, and the air was filled with the nauseating scent of rotting flesh and sulfur.

Under a sheltered, hidden rock wall, a nondescript military tent was pitched. Inside the tent, the light was dim, with only a military handheld device emitting a faint blue glow. Two young figures were sitting cross-legged on a simple moisture-proof mat, staring intently at the flickering images on the handheld screen—the live broadcast of the Jiang University Freshman Challenge Tournament.

"Tsk, this year's freshmen are kind of interesting." One of the boys, wearing a black eye patch over his left eye, had a right eye that was as deep as an abyss, revealing a sense of vicissitudes and coldness that was extremely inconsistent with his age. He commented while nonchalantly chewing on a compressed biscuit in his hand.

Just at this moment. "Roar—!!!" In the wind and sand outside the tent, a shrill and ferocious beast roar suddenly rang out. Immediately after, with a "rip" sound, the special military tent was torn open by a sharp claw as if it were made of paper!

A 【Black-Eyed Wolf】, huge in size, covered in black fur as hard as steel, and with eyes emitting a faint green light, brought a fishy wind as it opened its blood-red mouth and pounced fiercely toward the two people inside the tent!

Facing this sudden fatal attack, the boy wearing the eye patch didn't even lift his head, his gaze still glued tightly to the handheld screen. He just frowned impatiently and reached out his free left hand extremely casually to the side. He clenched his five fingers in the empty air!

"Noisy." Hum! A extremely faint explosion seemed to come from the air. The Black-Eyed Wolf, still maintaining its pouncing posture in mid-air, suddenly had its body violently twist without any warning! It was as if it had been tightly gripped by an invisible hand of God.

"Awoo..." It didn't even have time to let out a complete scream. The next second, with a muffled "bang," the massive wolf body instantly disintegrated under the pressure of that terrifying, space-distorting strange force! The Black-Eyed Wolf instantly turned into countless tiny molecular dust particles and dissipated into the turbid air.

The one-eyed man clapped his hands and cursed with an unhappy face: "Damn it, these scum Outside the Border are really annoying!" "Yelling all day long, not even letting me watch the challenge tournament properly! What a buzzkill!"

Beside him, another boy with a crew cut and gold-rimmed glasses seemed long accustomed to the terrifying scene that had just occurred. He pushed up the glasses on his nose, a refined and easygoing smile hanging on the corners of his mouth, and took out another tablet computer from his pocket. He swiped his fingers quickly a few times, then handed it to the one-eyed man.

"Alright, stop complaining." The bespectacled boy pointed to the screen on the tablet: "Instead of getting angry at beasts, you should look at this." "I was just looking at the forum and heard that something big happened in this year's Freshman Challenge Tournament; someone actually openly used a 【Sacrifice-type Forbidden Curse】!" "This post was deleted from the entire internet by a mysterious force less than 5 minutes after it was posted. If I hadn't been quick and cached the video in advance, we probably would have missed this good show."

"Sacrifice-type Forbidden Curse?" Upon hearing this, the one-eyed man finally moved his gaze away from the live broadcast on the handheld device, a trace of surprise flashing in his single eye: "It's just a Freshman Challenge Tournament, is it really worth it?"

He took the tablet and clicked on the saved video clip. The scene was exactly the one in the Echo Gobi canyon where Li Murou played 【Sorrowful Elegy】, using the echo walls to stack it infinitely, eventually freezing the entire field.

When he saw a large wave of Professionals instantly freeze under the shroud of sound waves, the one-eyed man's pupils shrank sharply. His originally lazy sitting posture straightened instantly, and a look of extremely rare shock appeared on his face: "What?!" "Is this... a time-type Forbidden Curse?!" "No..."

After being shocked for only a moment, the one-eyed man frowned, repeatedly dragging the progress bar to carefully observe every detail of Li Murou's spellcasting. Her expression, her actions, and the fluctuations of energy around her. A few seconds later, the one-eyed man shook his head, tossed the tablet back to the bespectacled boy, and said with a firm tone: "This is clearly not a Forbidden Curse." "Although the effect is very similar, there are no signs of life force loss on her, and there is no nauseating abyss aura around her. This is a... very pure innate ability, or a mechanism of some special profession."

"Not a Forbidden Curse?" Now it was the bespectacled boy's turn to be surprised. He held the tablet, watched it repeatedly several times, and asked with some disbelief: "You mean... a freshman Professional, without performing any sacrifice or paying any price, just out of thin air, used this kind of rule-based skill that is comparable to a Forbidden Curse?" "This... this is too outrageous, right?"

"What's so inconsistent about it?" The one-eyed man picked up the handheld device again, his gaze returning to the live broadcast screen. On Chen Xi, who was launching a judgment against the Shenfeng Battle Team: "The world is large, and there are all kinds of wonders." "Especially this batch..." He pointed at Chen Xi on the screen, his eyes flashing with an inexplicable light: "I always feel that this guy has something up his sleeve."

The bespectacled boy looked at the one-eyed man's firm demeanor, suddenly as if he remembered something, and a smirk appeared on his face. He leaned closer, staring at the one-eyed man's left eye covered by the eye patch, and said in a ghostly tone: "Since you are so sure that it is not a Forbidden Curse, then it seems it really isn't." The bespectacled boy pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, and a wise light reflected on the lenses: "After all..." "At least at Jiang University..." "I guess there really is no one who understands what a real 【Sacrifice-type Forbidden Curse】 is better than you." "Am I right?" The bespectacled boy paused, his tone carrying a hint of teasing: "My... Captain Shen Ye."