Chapter 97

Joint examination of three schools, the third day in the examination room, seven hours later in reality.

As the three days of examination time passed, the number of candidates still in the examination room dropped sharply to only more than 200 people.

Among these more than 200 people, only a very small number are still deliberately hunting down the Nine Nether evil creatures.

Most of the remaining people chose to hide, choosing to survive as long as possible and try to get good scores.

After this period of testing, the strength of most students has been fully demonstrated.

Among them, there are only seven students who are the most eye-catching, namely...

Jiangnan No. 1 High School: Su Chen, Lu Xiaoye, and Bian Shouyi.

Jiangnan No. 2 High School: Chu Gucai and Jin Shanli.

Jiangnan No. 3 High School: Liu Zhaodao, Shen Feiyang.

Among these people, Su Chen was not the only one who accomplished the feat of killing evil creatures in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Two other people also did the same.

Without exception, these two people have awakened their innate magical powers.

They are Lu Xiaoye, who awakened the 'Red Flame Phoenix Tribulation', and Shen Feiyang, who awakened the 'Soul Binding Order'.

The teachers were not too surprised that Lu Xiaoye could defeat an evil creature in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

After all, her Red Flame Phoenix Tribulation is not only powerful but also has a strong inhibitory effect on evil creatures.

Even if a Nine Nether evil creature in the Foundation Establishment Stage encountered her, it would be difficult to deal with her terrifying Phoenix Tribulation Fire.

Not to mention that the Red Flame Phoenix Tribulation can also feedback to the user by burning the enemy's vitality.

It can be said to be a top-level talent specially created for combat.

But Shen Feiyang from No. 3 High School is different.

This guy's rise was just like Su Chen's, far beyond everyone's expectations.

Before the joint entrance examination of three schools, Shen Feiyang was just an ordinary student in the human dao class of No. 3 High School.

Not only is his talent mediocre, but his personality is also very eccentric.

In No. 3 High School, he is almost like an unknown person.

What no one expected was that this child had unknowingly awakened his innate magical power—the 'Soul Binding Order'.

He can forcibly imprison some ghosts in his body and use them for his control.

The most important thing is that this kid didn't know where he got a ghost in the foundation-establishment stage.

Even though he was only at the seventh level of the Qi gathering stage, he possessed a powerful strength comparable to that of an ordinary person at the foundation establishment stage.

This enabled him to easily defeat an evil creature in the Foundation Establishment Stage in the joint examination battlefield.

For a time, he even overshadowed Liu Zhaodao from Jiannan No. 3 High School, who had also awakened his innate magical powers.

In the meeting room outside the examination room, many Taoist Academy investigators were still sitting there.

Many people have already stood up and made phone calls outside the meeting.

The reason why they did this was very simple, which was to contact the Taoist academies behind them and ask what price the Taoist academies could offer to recruit these geniuses.

Especially Su Chen, Lu Xiaoye, and Shen Feiyang, who have a record of killing evil creatures in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

He is also the target they are trying to win over.

Yushan City ruins, East District.

"It's so annoying. No matter how hard I try, I can never kill them all."

"What a shame! The school can't just give each student a map so we can see everyone's location on the map!"

"Asking me to look for someone in such a big place is like looking for a needle in a haystack, isn't it?"

While Lu Xiaoye was complaining about the inhumane design of the joint entrance examination, she saw out of the corner of her eye a giant armored worm ferociously attacking her.

Looking at the disgusting appearance of the giant armored worm, a trace of disgust flashed in Lu Xiaoye's eyes.

"Roll!"

Lu Xiaoye shouted, and the complex red patterns on her right arm suddenly lit up, as if flames were burning.

The next second, she punched the attacking giant armored worm hard, hitting it on the head.

Bang!

This punch was so powerful that it not only made the giant armored worm's head dent.

A visible wave of fire spread out from the center of the fist, blasting the giant armored worm away on the spot.

The terrifying force caused the ten-meter-long giant armored worm to roll on the ground several times, and it finally stopped after knocking down a shop.

However, because the head was sunken too much, the giant armored worm, which was originally ten meters long, was damaged.

At this moment, it was like a thousand-layer pancake, with more than half of its body twisted and folded together.

It turned into a small insect only five meters long.

Lu Xiaoye's strength was evident as she killed a giant armored worm comparable to an eighth-level Qi gathering cultivator with just one punch.

On the street, Lu Xiaoye put her fists away, stood up straight, and brushed the dust off her hands.

Then she bit the hair tie in her mouth, grabbed her hair with both hands, quickly tied up the hair that was scattered in the battle, and took a deep breath.

The next second, all the red flames that were still on the evil creature's corpse returned to her body.

Then, the special red lines that covered her body slowly dimmed and disappeared completely.

Then she looked around at the charred corpses of more than a dozen giant armored worms, and after making sure that no more evil creatures would appear, she curled her lips in disdain.

"I just accidentally killed your boss. Is it necessary for you to keep biting me?"

Perhaps it was to facilitate combat and prevent her clothes from being burned by the Phoenix Fire.

As a result, Lu Xiaoye was wearing a pair of black shorts and a vest similar to those worn by track and field athletes, revealing her well-proportioned, tight long legs and well-defined abdominal muscles.

Combined with the corpses of giant armored worms all around her, the scene was very shocking.

Lu Xiaoye, with her ponytail tied, turned around and looked at the eight candidates from various schools standing more than ten meters away.

She said calmly, "If you don't want to die, don't follow me."

Hearing this, the eight candidates subconsciously stood up straight and nodded obediently.

They have to be well-behaved; after all, they are afraid that if they say something wrong, they will offend Lu Xiaoye.

With their skinny arms and legs, they are not strong enough for Lu Xiaoye to punch.

It is hard to imagine that Lu Xiaoye, who usually behaves like a sweet girl in front of Su Chen and can't even open a mineral water bottle, is so wild in private.

Indifferent, sharp, and arrogant...

The words that were used in the past to describe a domineering woman are not an exaggeration at all when applied to Lu Xiaoye at this moment.

Even...very appropriate.

Su Chen has never understood why the students of No. 1 High School are so afraid of Lu Xiaoye.

After all, in his eyes, Lu Xiaoye has always been the little girl who followed him around and cried when she was eight years old, with no deterrent power at all.

But he had no idea that Lu Xiaoye had always maintained that false "soft girl" persona in front of Su Chen.

Otherwise, how could a physical cultivator who had awakened top-level innate magical powers not even have the strength to open a bottle cap?

Let alone the bottle cap, as long as Lu Xiaoye wanted, she could even easily pry open the skull of an evil creature without even breathing.

Her so-called gentleness was only towards her childhood sweetheart, Su Chen.

For other students, especially when Su Chen is not present.

She has always been the undisputed domineering physical trainee in No. 1 High School, and she always has the final say.

Lu Xiaoye was able to become the well-deserved top student in the grade at No. 1 High School, and that was the result of her punching!

[Innate Magical Power: Scarlet Flame Phoenix Tribulation]

[Effect: A special flame containing the power of the ancient phoenix that can burn everything and absorb the pure energy left after burning.]

Top-notch talents, wild personality, domineering fighting style...

This is how Lu Xiaoye is seen by teachers and other students.

As for Lu Xiaoye in Su Chen's eyes...

All he can say is that the prettier a girl is, the more likely she is to lie.

On the street, Lu Xiaoye looked up to the west of the ruins of Yushan City.

After thinking for a moment, she walked in that direction.

Although she didn't know where Su Chen was now.

But she knew that Su Chen was never a content person.

After all, how could a peaceful person dare to fight against powerful evil creatures with a knife at the age of eight?

So her intuition told her that she just had to go west to the base camp of the Nine Nether creatures.

Then she will most likely meet Su Chen.

After Lu Xiaoye left, the eight candidates finally couldn't help but walk forward and came to a huge, charred corpse.

It turned out to be a giant snake with a body length of more than 20 meters.

Although he is dead, they can still feel how powerful this guy was when he was alive.

And it is the leader of the giant armored worms, the evil creature in the foundation-establishment stage—the black armored worm.

But it is such a powerful creature.

But not long ago, Lu Xiaoye held his head and beat him to death with punches one after another.

Recalling the scene when Lu Xiaoye stepped on the opponent's head and punched continuously.

The eight students present couldn't help but shiver.

Then a student from No. 3 High School couldn't help but look at the only student from No. 1 High School among the eight and ask with a complicated expression, "Has your No. 1 High School student Lu always been so wild?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the candidate from No. 1 High School who was asked the question seemed to think of some bad memories and trembled subconsciously.

Then he looked at Lu Xiaoye leaving and said with a little fear, "If we only look at her style of doing things... then she has always been like this."

"After all, in our grade, except for one person, most of the others have been beaten by her, and they were beaten very badly."

"hiss..."

Hearing this, the seven of them took a deep breath and then looked at him with sympathetic eyes.

After all, they could imagine what would happen if they were asked to fight against someone like Lu Xiaoye.

A bruised face and nose is considered minor. If they get hit by a punch, they might have to stay in the hospital for a while.

However, they heard that someone could survive Lu Xiaoye's iron fist teaching.

He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is that person who hasn't been beaten by Lu Xiaoye very strong? How come even someone like Lu Xiaoye can't defeat him?"

A high school student gave him a strange look, then said in a complicated tone, "No, he is not strong. At least I don't think he is as strong as Lu Xiaoye."

"Then why didn't he get beaten?"

"Because he's... handsome."

"And he and Lu Xiaoye are childhood sweethearts, do you understand?"

"I understand, brother. No need to say more."

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