Really Unnecessary

Ten minutes later.

The intensity and chaos of the battlefield reached a peak.

After the initial rout and panic, the blood and pride of these students were finally completely ignited.

They were the elites, the future pillars of Great Xia, not lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

"Roar!"

Li Ran's eyes were bloodshot. Without dodging, he let the claws of a wind wolf scratch three bloodstains on his chest. In a more ferocious manner, he punched a "Flame Fist" hard into the wind wolf's head.

The scalding blood splashed all over his face, but he didn't care at all. Instead, he licked his lips, and the fighting spirit in his eyes burned even more vigorously.

"Want to kill us? Come on!"

He let out a crazy roar and no longer held the defensive line. Instead, he charged head - on against the tide of beasts!

One person charged, and ten responded.

More enraged students were no longer satisfied with passive defense.

The source energy in their bodies burst out without reservation, turning into sword lights and shadows, thunder and flames, and ice storms, converging into an irresistible torrent that crashed into the beast horde.

The defensive line became a spearhead.

Passivity turned into initiative.

The overwhelming attacks made the source beasts, which had an absolute advantage before, show a momentary stupefaction.

They obviously didn't expect that these two - legged beasts, who were chased and fled in all directions before, would dare to launch an active attack.

A seventh - rank Earth - splitting Bear had just smashed a student's shield and was about to enjoy the pleasure of tearing flesh and blood when it was greeted by a huge ice cone falling from the sky.

The ice cone accurately pierced its eye socket, and the violent cold instantly froze its brain.

Its huge body crashed to the ground without even having time to let out a mournful cry.

Scenes like this were staged in every corner of the battlefield.

The students declared their dignity to these beasts in the most tragic and direct way.

Blood dyed the grass red.

The strong smell of blood mixed with the burnt smell after the energy explosion filled and rose above the camp.

Yun Huang stood on the edge of the battlefield and didn't participate in this fanatical charge.

Her position was very delicate. She wouldn't be affected, and at the same time, she could have a panoramic view of the whole battlefield.

There was no trace of ripples in her cold eyes, only absolute calmness and analysis.

She looked at those source beasts.

She looked at the same ominous blood - red light in their eyes as in the forest before.

She looked at their fearless attack mode that completely ignored the biological instinct.

She looked at how they left wounds on the students with their last breath even if they were seriously injured.

These source beasts were here to kill everyone.

This was a trial.

But it wasn't an exercise.

It was a real life - and - death massacre.

Yun Huang's gaze swept across those crazy source beasts and finally landed on the three seventh - rank late - stage source beasts that were the core of the beast horde.

The blood - red light on them was the strongest and they were the most crazy.

They were the source of this chaos.

She moved.

Without warning.

Her figure was like a ghost, quietly melting into the shadows on the edge of the battlefield.

No one noticed her leaving. Everyone's mind was firmly occupied by the bloody battle in front of them.

A seventh - rank Shadow Leopard had just torn a student's shoulder with its claws and was about to bite his throat.

Suddenly, all its fur stood on end. A fear from the instinct of life made it abandon the prey within reach and leap backward suddenly.

However, it was too late.

An invisible flame had wrapped around its limbs without anyone noticing.

The flame wasn't intense. There wasn't even a bright fire. It only presented an almost transparent and distorted form.

The Shadow Leopard let out a shrill scream.

Its proud speed became the most vicious curse at this moment.

It ran wildly, trying to shake off the flame like a maggot attached to the bone, but the flame burned more and more vigorously.

Finally, it silently turned into a handful of flying ashes while running.

Yun Huang's figure appeared at the position where it originally stood, as if she had never moved.

Her goal was clear.

It wasn't to save people.

It was to clear.

To clear a path to the three seventh - rank late - stage source beasts.

Every time she made a move, it was precise and efficient.

She didn't waste a single bit of energy.

She didn't say a single redundant word.

She was like the coldest god of death, quietly reaping lives on the edge of the battlefield.

Those source beasts targeted by her didn't even have a chance to react and were instantly wiped out in their most crazy moments.

On the other side of the battlefield.

Lin Xiao finally slowly turned around.

Something was wrong!

The grilled sausage he just ate did have a strange smell.

But it wasn't the stench of the source beast's breath...

His pupils stared at the eyes of those source beasts.

What burned in them wasn't the ferocity of a wild beast, but a blood - red light full of madness, pollution, and ominousness that he was extremely familiar with!

This was exactly the same as the aura of that strange flower he sensed in the Black Forest before!

The beast horde he arranged had been hijacked!

The goal of these source beasts wasn't any trial at all. It was to turn everyone here into the nourishment for that strange flower!

But it wasn't a big problem.

Although it was beyond the control of these students.

It wasn't beyond his strength.

It wasn't difficult to control the situation.

He saw Li Ran's crazy charge.

He saw Liu Feiyu and others holding on with gritted teeth.

He saw how these students, who were usually arrogant, were using blood and wounds to defend their last pride at this moment.

Good.

This was what he wanted to see.

Flowers in a greenhouse could never grow into towering trees.

Only after experiencing the baptism of blood and fire could they shed their greenness and forge a truly iron will.

The beast horde he arranged was originally a hammer.

A hammer used to smash their vain self - esteem and strike their fragile nerves.

Now, this hammer had been tampered with. It became heavier, sharper, and more deadly.

But it didn't matter.

Iron had to go through thousands of temperings.

He slowly raised his hand, and an invisible wave spread out silently from him, covering the entire camp.

This wasn't to intervene.

It was to set a bottom line.

A bottom line of death.

As long as there was no real fatal injury, he wouldn't make a move.

He wanted to see where the limit of these little guys was.

...

"Roar!"

In front of Li Ran, a giant magic ape over five meters tall was smashing the ground hard with its fist as thick as a stone pillar.

Boom!

The ground cracked, and the violent shock wave directly blew several students around him away.

A seventh - rank late - stage Mountain - splitting Magic Ape.

One of the three leaders of the beast horde.

Each of its strikes carried the terrifying power to split mountains and rocks.

Li Ran just ran into this toughest opponent.

Li Ran roared. The muscles all over his body groaned under the excessive force.

Several energy attacks of different attributes shot from a distance and hit the thick fur of the Mountain - splitting Magic Ape.

But it was only like a few pebbles being thrown into a lake, merely stirring up a few insignificant ripples.

The defensive power of the demonic ape far exceeded their imagination.

Its huge eyes, burning with blood - red flames, were firmly fixed on Li Ran, who was shouting the loudest.

In its simple logic, as long as it killed this most flamboyant one, the others would naturally collapse.

It let out a deafening roar, and its huge body charged towards Li Ran with an agility completely inconsistent with its size.

It was like a moving mountain.

Wherever it passed, whether it was trees or rocks, all were crushed into powder.

"Be careful!"

Liu Feiyu roared and suddenly pressed his hands on the ground. One thick earthen wall after another rose from the ground, overlapping and blocking the demonic ape's path.

However, it was useless.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The earthen walls were like paper in front of the demonic ape's charge and were easily torn apart.

"Good! Come on!"

Instead of retreating, Li Ran stepped forward, his eyes burning with crazy fighting spirit.

"Flame Dragon... Break!"

Li Ran gathered all the soul - power in his body onto his right fist.

A ferocious dragon's head made of pure flame took shape on his fist tip, and with the momentum of incinerating everything, it smashed head - on into the charging "mountain".

This was the most powerful blow he could currently master.

Flame and great force collided violently the next second.

There was no earth - shattering noise.

There was only a dull, teeth - grating cracking sound.

The moment Li Ran's Flame Dragon touched the demonic ape's chest, it was forcibly crushed by the invincible great force and turned into flying sparks all over the sky.

And the demonic ape's sharp claws followed closely.

Pfft!

The claws easily tore through the source - energy shield on Li Ran's body surface and deeply embedded into his left shoulder. The sharp claw tips almost tore off his entire shoulder.

"Ughhhhhh!"

The intense pain made Li Ran let out a suppressed roar.

But he didn't take a single step back.

The moment the claws penetrated his body, he used his last bit of strength to smash his almost useless right fist hard into the demonic ape's blood - red eye.

Bang!

The demonic ape's eyeball burst instantly.

The stinky dark - green juice splashed all over Li Ran's head and face.

"Roar!"

The Split - Mountain Demonic Ape let out a more shrill and painful roar than ever before.

It suddenly swung its arm and flung Li Ran away like a rag doll. He hit the trunk of a huge tree heavily and then slid to the ground.

Li Ran struggled to stand up but only spat out a large mouthful of blood mixed with pieces of internal organs, and his vision went black.

He was defeated.

Completely defeated.

Covering its blood - dripping eye socket, the demonic ape pounded its chest frantically, venting all its anger on the other students around.

Fear began to spread among the crowd.

...

On the other side of the battlefield.

There was a huge monster with nine ferocious snake heads.

The Nine - Headed Snake was also a terrifying existence at the late stage of the seventh rank.

The venom it spat could easily corrode steel.

Its nine heads could launch a seamless attack from nine different angles.

Yun Huang stood quietly opposite it, out of place in the surrounding bloody and chaotic environment.

In front of her, there were more than a dozen source - beast corpses lying in disorder.

None of the corpses were intact.

They were all burned to charcoal from the inside by a nearly transparent flame.

The eighteen vertical pupils of the Nine - Headed Snake were all firmly fixed on this tiny human.

It could sense that there was an aura on this human that made it feel uneasy.

But its reason, eroded by the blood - red light, made it suppress its instinctive fear.

The desire to kill took the upper hand.

Hiss!

The nine snake heads opened their blood - filled mouths at the same time, and nine different - colored venoms shot out like nine deadly poisonous dragons, intertwining into a net of death that completely blocked all of Yun Huang's retreats.

Yun Huang didn't move.

She just quietly watched the approaching net of death.

Just before the nine venoms were about to touch her body.

She slowly raised her right hand.

Then, she gently clenched it.

Hum -

There was a slight buzzing sound as if the space itself was vibrating.

Centered around her, an absolute domain made of pure flame spread silently.

The nine venoms that could corrode a small mountain were like ice and snow under the sun the moment they rushed into the domain.

Silently, they were evaporated, decomposed, and annihilated.

Not even a wisp of smoke was left.

For the first time, there was a look of extreme horror in the eighteen vertical pupils of the Nine - Headed Snake.

It wanted to escape.

But it was too late.

Yun Huang's figure disappeared from the spot.

The next second, she appeared above the largest snake head of the Nine - Headed Snake.

She was still as calm as ever.

She stretched out a fair and jade - like finger, and on the fingertip, a small, nearly transparent flame lotus was quietly spinning.

Then, she gently pressed the lotus down.

There was no sound.

There was no explosion.

The moment the flame lotus touched the snake head's hard scales, it directly merged into them.

The huge body of the Nine - Headed Snake suddenly stiffened.

Then, a strange scene happened.

Its body began to emit a bright red light from the inside.

The light became brighter and brighter.

Its huge body was like a lit lantern.

Finally, in the silent stillness, it turned into flying red ashes all over the sky.

With a gust of wind, they scattered.

She withdrew her hand, glanced in the direction of the demonic ape, and frowned slightly.

She felt it was unnecessary for her to make a move.

After all, there were still so many people over there.

Then, she turned around and walked towards the location of the third and last seventh - rank late - stage source beast.

...

Was it really unnecessary?

But the one - eyed Split - Mountain Demonic Ape had gone completely crazy.

It ignored all attacks, and its huge fists rained down. Every time it punched, the ground trembled violently, and a student was sent flying, spitting blood.

The defense line was on the verge of collapse.

On the high platform, Lin Xiao finally frowned.

This shouldn't be.

It still lacked something.

A source beast at the peak of the seventh rank shouldn't be so invincible.

But if the fight continued, there would be real deaths.

Just as he was about to make a move.

A figure moved faster than him.