Inside the examination room, it was as quiet as a grave.
Until the prompt sound from the Shen Yan AI rang out again, snapping everyone out of their daze.
[Candidate Shen Yunxi and Shen Yunling have been eliminated]
[Remaining candidates: Su Fu, Jiang Qingyu, Lin Mingxi]
[Estimated remaining time for the exam: 10 minutes]
“Th-this…” a young invigilator stammered, “so fast?”
The two sides were evenly matched, yet the battle ended in the blink of an eye?
And the ones who lost were actually the Shen siblings?!
“It’s not a matter of being fast or not.” The teacher sitting next to him shook his head, “The key point is… how dare she?”
They were children of prestigious families.
If Su Fu and Jiang Qingyu failed to enter the provincial academy, they would surely face the wrath of the family elders.
Want to climb up the social ladder?
Of course, you can.
But if you offend the powerful families, when you can’t climb any further, you’ll face a reckoning.
It’s not that retribution won’t come, it’s just that the time hasn’t arrived yet.
This is the predicament of the commoners.
After a moment of silence, everyone tacitly changed the subject, “Su Fu’s new skill [Nirvana’s Light] is also a dual skill like [Buddha’s Light]?”
Not only does it have a healing effect, but it also has purification and control immunity!
Everyone was a bit envious.
This was simply a skill chosen by the heavens for support roles!
Once she gets into a powerful family’s good graces later on, wouldn’t she just soar to success?
Being a support role doesn’t require you to charge into battle yourself, and many powerful families are always recruiting, with extremely good talent.
When Su Fu enters the provincial final, if she finds a family stronger than the Shen family, her current situation will be directly solved.
“Speaking of which, what level of deity is the Phoenix…?”
Everyone was envious.
This skill was just too overpowered, wasn’t it?
Wang Mingde, however, seemed to be thinking deeply,
“The key point is not this. Haven’t you guys noticed? Her deity completely counters this raid!”
“The biggest feature of the Ghost Crow raid is the large number and strong corruption, but look at her skills “
“Commanding ghost crows, purifying corruption, healing injuries… it’s simply a natural counter to ghost crows!”
They had previously thought that Shen Yunling’s Apollo and Chen Tian’s Garuda were more effective in countering the raid, but now it seemed a bit too one-sided.
Apollo counters corruption, Garuda counters ghost crows.
Only Su Fu can counter both ghost crows and corruption.
It’s as if… it’s a skill tailor-made for her!
Everyone’s hearts were shaken.
In the previous exam, the deity Su Fu summoned also seemed to be a natural counter, and this exam was the same.
Was this a coincidence, or…
Jiang Yuqing had another question, “In theory, most beast deities are subsidiary deities, right? Like Odin’s crows in Norse mythology…”
“But this phoenix is clearly an independent main deity level.”
She looked at the golden-red figure on the screen, “It feels on par with the Mayan feathered serpent deity.”
Her words immediately elevated the status of the phoenix.
After all, the feathered serpent deity is a representative deity of the Mayan pantheon, with an extremely high status.
Could this phoenix also be one?
Jiang Yuqing continued to analyze, “Here’s what I think. The skills granted by the feathered serpent deity are prophecy + protection + wisdom connection, while the skills granted by the phoenix are healing + purification + command, all extremely rare skills.”
At this point, someone raised a question,
“Actually, the Mayan pantheon is not considered powerful among the seven major pantheons, but it is special enough to be irreplaceable.”
“What about the Chinese pantheon?”
“How does Shen Yan AI evaluate the Chinese pantheon?”
Everyone subconsciously looked at the screen, but Shen Yan AI, contrary to its usual behavior, remained silent.
After a long while, it responded in a mechanical voice:
[Insufficient data, unable to assess]
Everyone looked at each other.
Well, that was an expected answer.
But now, no one thought that the phoenix’s title of King of Birds meant that it commanded a hundred birds.
If it was just an ordinary deity in the Chinese pantheon, how powerful would the top deities of the Chinese pantheon be?
No one dared to imagine.
Because the answer was too terrifying.
Zhou Nanyuan, however, thought deeper and more.
Not just the phoenix.
His gaze lingered on the golden cudgel in Su Fu’s hand, feeling that the seemingly ordinary stick also had a mysterious origin.
As a special envoy and chief inspector, he had seen too many divine weapons.
But the more he observed the golden cudgel, the more he couldn’t see through its mysteries.
It seemed… completely different from other divine artifacts.
After hesitating for a moment, he still took out his terminal and sent a message to Dean Zhang.
Dean Zhang had seen a lot and should be able to see something.
After sending the message, he shifted his attention back to the battlefield.
He couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
Everyone thought that Su Fu had used all her strength to deal with the Shen siblings, but in fact she only used four ghost crows.
The other two were flying around with the flock.
It seemed to be… setting fires everywhere?
Zhou Nanyuan frowned, a bit puzzled about what Su Fu was trying to do.
From a physical perspective, the trees in the corrupted forest were already flammable and explosive.
But…
What about after the explosion?
With such a large-scale explosion, even with her healing skills, she wouldn’t survive, would she?
[Nirvana’s Light] is not an invincible skill, it can’t block all damage.
Wait……
He stared intently at the golden-red figure, his pupils slightly contracting:
“Does this so-called phoenix also grant her other divine skills?”
At that moment, a series of prompts flashed crazily on the screen in the examination room:
[Chairman of Shen Group, Shen Mo Shan exited the observation room]
[President of Jiang Group, Jiang Chengxuan exited the observation room]
[Chairman of Chen Group, Chen Yunfeng exited the observation room]
[……]
Zhou Nanyuan raised his eyebrows and said,
“The powerful families all exited?”
The invigilators looked at each other in surprise.
No one expected that none of the powerful families would advance in this preliminary contest.
Why exit?
With no candidates from their own families left, what was the point of watching further?
Wang Mingde’s terminal suddenly vibrated.
He looked down and said in a low voice, “The Shen siblings… just asked for leave to go home.”
Everyone was silent.
What leave?
They were clearly called back by the family elders for a scolding.
Losing so badly in the exam, and losing to two commoners, it was as if the powerful families had lost face.
The powerful families were going to be furious.
The excitement they felt because of Su Fu dissipated in an instant.
Jiang Yuqing’s face was the most unpleasant.
With Jiang Yu’s elimination, the Jiang family… would definitely not let it go easily.
Sure enough, her terminal vibrated.
It was a message from Jiang Chengxuan.
The message was quite brief: “Su Fu, Jiang Qingyu, all information.”
Jiang Yuqing looked up and saw that many people were looking at Su Fu and Jiang Qingyu in the exam paper with serious expressions.
Obviously, other powerful families had also issued similar orders.
Even the invigilators responsible for recording the top six seed candidates had given up on recording.
No way, the geniuses of the three powerful families didn’t even pass the preliminary contest, who would these records be for?
Jiang Yuqing looked at the two figures on the screen with a complicated expression.
She sighed softly.
To climb up, whatever you do, don’t stop.
At this moment, the news of the Shen siblings’ elimination quickly spread to other high schools.
The teachers of each school were shocked and frantically inquired through the joint exam communication.
“Whoa! What’s with the speed at Seven High? How did two more get eliminated and turned gray?!”
“Wait… the Shen siblings were eliminated?!”
“Am I seeing things? The children of powerful families were completely wiped out?”
“Your Seven High… this preliminary contest, isn’t it a bit too fast?”
The most shocked were the teachers of the fourth, fifth, and sixth high schools.
The top seven high schools were generally considered the basic disk of the powerful family alliance, that is, all the children of powerful families were in these seven high schools.
Never expected that this year, Seven High… didn’t have a single child of a powerful family advance?
Three high school teachers: “???”
You, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, actually quietly betrayed?
Seeing the education bureau’s reform, you Seven High… quietly and without a sound, just like that, with a set of moves, you flattered your way up?
This was the only reason they could think of.
Only the Ministry of Education could shake the powerful family alliance.
Wang Mingde numbly wiped his face, which was full of sweat.
He now shouted: “I’m wronged, we really didn’t do anything!”
Would anyone believe him?
In the ninth high school, the internal group exploded.
“My goodness!” Liu, the teacher in charge of the preliminary contest at Nine High, was extremely excited,
“The Shen siblings, Chen Tian, Jiang Yu… all eliminated!”
“These were the seed candidates we’ve always focused on! Never expected they didn’t even pass the first preliminary contest?”
The more headaches they had before, the more excited they were now.
The children of powerful families, who they had always regarded as an insurmountable mountain, had collapsed on their own?
Without doing anything, but the opponent destroyed themselves first?
This feeling is too good!
However, at this moment, Teacher Zhang quietly sent a key message:
“Even such strong Shen siblings were taken down, how strong must the candidates who defeated them be?”
Liu Teacher:”….”
Good news: The big mountain in front of us has fallen.
Bad news: There’s an even bigger mountain behind!
What a disaster!
Similar scenes played out in many schools after Seven High.
On the contrary, the teachers of the first few schools were relatively calm.
The Shen siblings were indeed strong opponents, but their students were not bad either, right?
All children of powerful families, none of them were willing to admit defeat to each other, in fact, they were even stronger than the Shen siblings.
While everyone was discussing the complete defeat of the children of powerful families at Seven High, suddenly Shenyan AI issued a provincial notification.
A golden notification box appeared on the screens in every examination room:
[Notification: The preliminary contests of High Schools One, Two, and Three have ended]
[The list of qualifiers is as follows]
High School One:
Klaus (Male)
Heavenly God System – Michael
Divine Power Level: C
High School Two:
Amano Asuka (Female)
Amaterasu God System – Great Deity
Divine Power Level: C
High School Three:
Ramses/ Zhou Tianlin (Male)
Egyptian God System – Horus
Divine Power Level: C
All teachers of the nine-school joint exam: “???”
What kind of devilish speed is this!
Everyone had the same thought: “They were using the C-level exam papers! And it ended so quickly?”
Wang Mingde was even more shocked.
He originally thought that the pace of eliminating four people in their Seven High was already fast, but the others had directly ended the battle?
This meant that all the candidates in the exam paper had been defeated.
These three first-place winners had, with an overwhelming posture, directly crushed all the candidates.
Jiang Yuqing was extremely regretful: “It’s a pity that we can’t see their exam paper information. Otherwise, I really want to see how they did it. What kind of strength can achieve this level?”
“There’s no need to rush,” Wang Mingde said,
“After the list of all qualifiers is determined, Shen Yan AI will select outstanding exam papers for display. They are of this level, and they will definitely be included.”
“Although we can only see the highlights of the excerpts, the most important skills should be visible.”
This is both a display and a promotion.
It is a special treatment for the children of heaven.
While everyone was still discussing, some people had already paid attention to the ranking changes of the first grade in Lingxiao Province.
“Look, their rankings have been updated!”
[Ranking of the first grade in Lingxiao Province]
[Total number of people ranked: 3,001]
Klaus: 210th place
Amano Asuka: 211th place
Ramses/ Zhou Tianlin: 212th place
“Wait, the top 209… aren’t they all students of the provincial academy?”
That means…
In Zone Twelve, these three people have taken the top three places!
They can be called the strongest high school students in Zone Twelve!
“They are simply three monsters…” someone muttered to themselves.
Zhou Nanyuan thought, these are the real opponents that Su Fu and others will face in the provincial exam.
Far more terrible opponents than the Shen siblings.
The real children of heaven.
Just the divine power level, there is a direct difference of E, D, and C levels, and it is said that each person also has their own special talent.
If Su Fu still has the same level after this exam, what will she compare with these people?
Now it all depends on who the final first place is.
Who will receive a large amount of divine power infusion and be able to compete with these children of heaven!
***
Inside the examination room, the three people who were originally well-coordinated had long been turned upside down.
Three figures formed a triangular position, separated by dozens of meters from each other, and no one dared to make a move rashly.
The one in front was Lin Mingxi.
His face was sallow, and he was surrounded by an emerald green protective shield, which was obviously the [Snake God Protection].
It made his face even greener.
His gaze kept scanning between Su Fu and Jiang Qingyu, for fear that someone would suddenly attack.
Just now, he had made seven consecutive prophecies to barely dodge the pincer attack of the two people, and now his divine power had been consumed by more than half, with fine sweat beads all over his forehead.
He couldn’t hold on for long.
Lin Mingxi was so angry that he couldn’t stand it, and his face was full of grief as he said:
“You are breaking your word!!”