In the distance, a golden light shot up into the sky, as if it were a pillar of light that pierced through the heavens and the earth.
As time passed, more and more candidates began to meet and gather, even clustering in twos and threes in the forest.
They watched as the demons not only failed to slow down but became increasingly frenzied as they got closer, their moods deteriorating significantly.
Everyone looked up at the golden light, their eyes filled with both awe and reluctance.
“What’s going on over there?” someone asked urgently, “Who’s causing this trouble?”
“No idea, but all the demons are heading that way,” another girl said through gritted teeth,
“This is bad, we finally found a group of demons, and now they’re all gone!”
“At this rate, by the time the exam ends, I won’t have scored many points.”
“It must be Shen Yunling!” someone blurted out,
“He’s probably up to some new tricks, trying to hog all the points!”
As soon as these words were spoken, complaints began to rise around them.
“How annoying, this is too domineering. Why does he have to do this?”
“That’s just how the scions of noble families are. What can we do if they want it?”
“So frustrating, how are we supposed to take the exam now? This exam seems hopeless.”
“Who can say otherwise, it’s driving me crazy!”
The crowd gradually gathered, with conversations overlapping.
Some speculated, “What if it’s not Shen Yunling, but Jiang Qingyu?”
“That makes sense too. She has the highest affinity. It looks like a new deity, and it’s likely she summoned it!”
“Aaaaah! This exam is definitely hopeless, but I have to go see who it is!”
“Me too!”
Everyone responded, heading towards the center of the golden light outbreak.
However, they encountered Shen Yunling halfway.
Shen Yunling’s face looked extremely bad.
As more and more classmates encountered him, various strange looks fell on him, like a series of loud slaps hitting his face.
They didn’t speak, but the surprise and shock in their eyes couldn’t be concealed.
It was as if they were saying: So it’s not Shen Yunling who’s so strong after all?
He clenched the bow and arrow in his hand, his knuckles turning white, and his face darkening as if it could drip with water.
It wasn’t him.
It wasn’t him who did it.
Then it could only be……………
Jiang Qingyu.
This name instantly turned into a ball of fire in his heart, burning his pride from childhood.
“Why!”
“Could it be that Jiang Qingyu’s deity affinity is really that strong?”
“Why are there always new deities willing to respond to her summoning?”
On the other side, Jiang Qingyu’s situation wasn’t much better.
However, the looks that fell on her were more of relief.
“Thank goodness, it’s not Jiang Qingyu,” someone said sincerely.
“Thankfully it’s not her, otherwise we really couldn’t bear to hate her,” a boy immediately echoed.
The reason was simple: Jiang Qingyu relied on her strength, on her talent that had led her step by step to where she was today, unlike those scions of noble families who relied on their ancestors’ protection and showed off their power.
The fact that she could change her fate by herself was what they admired the most.
They all knew it definitely wasn’t Jiang Qingyu’s doing.
These words undoubtedly reached Jiang Qingyu’s ears.
She pursed her lips but didn’t speak.
As they got closer, the golden light in the distance grew stronger.
“Since it’s not Jiang Qingyu,” someone in the crowd summarized, “it must be Shen Yunling!”
“I guess so, how annoying!”
“Let’s go see!”
“Right, I want to see what trick he’s playing!”
Jiang Qingyu’s speed was extremely fast, the moonlight almost enveloping her entire body.
She ignored the looks from the crowd and just headed towards the center of the golden light outbreak.
But she couldn’t help but think in her heart, could it really be Shen Yunling?
But the fluctuation of this power was just too unfamiliar.
It couldn’t be the Greek deity, nor could it be Shen Yunling’s Apollo deity.
At this moment, the two groups of people chasing each other unexpectedly met at the intersection of the mountain road.
Shen Yunling and Jiang Qingyu almost stopped at the same time, their gazes intersecting in mid-air.
The expressions on both of their faces were somewhat complicated.
It wasn’t him.
Nor was it her.
The people who met were stunned by this realization.
The candidates almost unconsciously gasped, with whispers rising and falling.
“Wait, it’s neither Shen Yunling nor Jiang Qingyu?”
“Whoa! Unbelievable!”
“Mind-blowing! How is this possible!”
“Then who is it?”
“Goodness, is there some hidden expert?”
“My goodness, what’s going on? Pretending to be weak and then showing true strength?”
A boy wearing glasses was stunned for a moment, then his gaze quickly swept over all the candidates, comparing each face with the list of examinees in his memory.
The other candidates also came to their senses and began to communicate.
“I remember Li Xiuyuan’s divine power level was pretty good.”
“It can’t be him. I just saw him avoiding demons.”
“What about Zhao Mingyue? Can’t she summon Athena?”
“Don’t joke around. She can’t even maintain the most basic divine power shield.”
“……Han Yuxuan?”
“I’m right here!”
At this moment, the boy with glasses suddenly lit up his eyes:
“Wait, now that we’ve ruled out everyone else, only three people are left unseen.”
“Chen Hao, Wang Qi, and…” He paused for a moment, then slowly pronounced the last name, “Su Fu.”
Everyone’s gaze focused over.
Jiang Qingyu’s eyes flickered slightly: “I saw Chen Hao. He’s hiding from demons in the valley to the east.”
Shen Yunling gritted his teeth and sneered, “Wang Qi has already been eliminated.”
He paused for a moment and added, “I defeated him myself.”
The whole scene fell silent.
If Chen Hao was in the east and Wang Qi had been eliminated, then only…
“Su Fu?” someone said the name in disbelief,
“That… the only one from the Chinese deity system?”
As soon as the name was spoken, everyone looked at each other in astonishment.
“How could that be?”
“Are you kidding me?”
“She couldn’t even summon a deity, could she?”
“Yeah, what does she know about Chinese deities?”
Although everyone was saying they didn’t believe it, they were all shocked inside.
By the process of elimination, the answer was only this one.
The fact was right in front of them, whether they wanted to believe it or not.
Shen Yunling’s face turned extremely ugly.
He stared intently at the golden light in the distance.
The power contained within made him shudder.
If it really was Su Fu……
“Whether it’s her or not, we’ll know as soon as we get there,” someone said.
Everyone fell silent and continued forward.
The golden light was now within arm’s reach.
The surging power fluctuation became clearer, and faint chanting could be heard from the golden radiance, as if the whole world was resonating.
Was this the power of a deity summoned by a D-level exam paper?
The candidates glanced at Shen Yunling, comparing in their hearts.
But he cast a fierce look over the crowd, with divine power surging behind him, outlining the majestic silhouette of Apollo.
“If it really is that good-for-nothing,” his voice was cold and full of malice, “then we’ll take her out and redistribute the points!”
As soon as these words were spoken, the candidates around him became restless.
That made sense.
If Su Fu had summoned the golden light from the start, she must have used a lot of divine power and would be at her weakest now.
Their restless thoughts were uncontrollable.
Yes, as long as they defeated her before the assessment ended, all the points would be redistributed.
This was their only chance.
Their gazes met, clearly understanding each other.
At this moment, the end of the mountain road suddenly opened up.
Even though everyone had already had some expectations, when they saw the scene in front of them, they were still stunned on the spot.
In the clearing enveloped by the golden light, countless demons surged like a tide, densely packed and endless.
And that once very familiar figure stood in front of the golden light, holding off a thousand troops alone!
It was Su Fu!
She had actually summoned a Chinese deity!
Her figure appeared particularly small in the tide of demons, yet it seemed to possess infinite power.
Four sacred shadows flowed around her, each radiating an awe-inspiring pressure.
She wielded the golden cudgel, her movements smooth and effortless, every move was executed with ease.
Fighting against a thousand troops alone, yet it seemed like a leisurely walk in the courtyard, calm and composed.
“Impossible…” someone muttered.
“How can this be? She actually summoned four deities?!”
“..!!!!!..”
“It’s simply mind-blowing!”
They looked at Su Fu in shock, their eyes filled with disbelief.
Summoning four deities at once, her affinity was even higher than Jiang Qingyu’s!
Everyone turned their gaze to Jiang Qingyu.
When it came to deity affinity, Jiang Qingyu had always been the undisputed number one.
But now, her rare dual-moon deity resonance seemed so… dull in comparison to Su Fu’s.
Two against four.
“How high is her deity affinity? 70%? Or 80%?”
“No, it might be even higher…..”
“Jiang Qingyu’s throne as a commoner genius is in danger……”
On the clearing, another wave of demons swarmed over.
Su Fu moved, and the figure of Sha Wujing appeared behind her.
The flowing sand wove into a net in the air, enveloping all the demons that rushed over.
The shadow of Zhu Bajie followed closely, his nine-toothed rake unstoppable.
The power of the four deities perfectly coordinated, tearing open one crack after another in the demon horde.
Everyone could see that this was not an assessment.
It was a one-sided crushing slaughter!
“It really is…” Jiang Qingyu whispered softly, it really is her.
She turned to look at Shen Yunling, curious about his current mood.
At this moment, Shen Yunling suddenly moved.
“What are you all waiting for?” he suddenly bellowed, “Look at the progress bar! The exam is about to end!”
Everyone was taken aback and instinctively glanced at the exam data projected in the sky.
The remaining number of demons had already dropped below 10%.
The numbers were still plummeting at a breakneck speed.
At this rate, it wouldn’t take long before they hit zero.
And once that happened, the exam would be over!
Shen Yunling’s roar jolted everyone out of their daze.
He was already preparing to launch a surprise attack.
In the span of a moment, he had analyzed a great deal.
These demons were mindlessly surging towards the golden light, which was clearly some kind of attraction skill.
And the four deities summoned by Su Fu, although they looked impressive, it was evident that her divine power was insufficient to sustain them.
In other words, she wouldn’t be able to hold on for much longer.
It was very likely that she was already nearing her limit.
This was his best chance.
“Now!”
The divine bow in Shen Yunling’s hand instantly solidified, with Apollo’s golden divine radiance converging on the bowstring.
This was his strongest attack, integrating 90% of Apollo’s divine power that he had accumulated so far.
“Die!”
The golden arrow pierced through the air, carrying a force powerful enough to tear everything apart.
The crowd’s charge towards the demons paused as they all sensed a deadly threat.
They looked up at the golden arrow, their eyes filled with horror.
With this arrow, Su Fu would surely die!
But just as the arrow was about to hit Su Fu, she suddenly turned around.
Faced with Shen Yunling’s surprise attack, everyone noticed that she didn’t even flinch.
She spun around abruptly, and the golden cudgel in her hand swept out horizontally.
“Heaven has a path, but you refuse to take it….”
“Hell has no gate, yet you insist on breaking in….”
“Great Sage!”
The golden cudgel collided with the arrow in mid-air, producing a deafening roar.
Then, the golden cudgel vibrated sharply, and the arrow was instantly knocked away, dissipating into specks of golden light.
Shen Yunling’s expression changed.
He hadn’t expected Su Fu to so easily block his attack.
But it wasn’t over yet.
The golden cudgel spun in mid-air and swept towards Shen Yunling.
It was released!
In the next moment, the golden cudgel was right in front of Shen Yunling.
Under Shen Yunling’s horrified gaze, the golden cudgel struck down fiercely.
Instantly, Shen Yunling was knocked flying and crashed heavily onto the ground.
The ground cracked instantly, with a spider-web-like pattern of fissures spreading outwards.
Everyone’s movements froze.
They unconsciously swallowed their saliva.
Shen Yunling, who had the strongest attack power, was actually knocked flying by just one cudgel blow?
Shen Yunling struggled to get up, a trace of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
He forced himself to stand, his face flushed red, and glared at Su Fu,
“You… you this…………………..”
Before he could finish, Su Fu beckoned to the sky, and the golden cudgel instantly returned to her hand.
Golden light flowed around her, and the shadows of the four deities became more and more substantial.
She looked down at the disheveled Shen Yunling from above, her tone flat.
“So this is the extent of your abilities.”
She had almost been deceived by his act of being some kind of genius.
Shen Yunling’s head buzzed, and he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
How dare she, a good-for-nothing, say such words?
How dare she say them to him!
But Su Fu didn’t even glance at him.
She turned around directly, with a slight upturn at the corner of her lips.
“Generations of noble lineage, a family of the nobility, calling yourself a genius——”
She paused for a moment, then let out a soft laugh, “Nothing more than that.”
A killing blow!