Chapter 79

The smoke and dust kicked up by the Butterfly God's Light slowly dissipated, revealing the golden lion's figure.

The spots on its body directly hit by the Butterfly God's Light clearly had large wounds; evidently, even it could not ignore Wang Dong's Thousand-Year Soul Technique.

However, this thoroughly enraged it; it let out an angry roar, its golden fur bristling, and charged at Wang Dong with astonishing momentum. Despite having spiritual detection assistance, Wang Dong momentarily found himself in peril.

Not only was Wang Dong's side at a disadvantage, but the other two battlefields were the same.

If Wang Dong is holding back the golden lion, then the opponents of the other two soul beasts are naturally Zhou Sichen's two summons, but even Wang Dong himself struggles against a thousand-year soul beast, so how could Zhou Sichen's summons, which are merely his solitary soul skill, possibly contend with a living thousand-year soul beast?

Their situation is now extremely perilous; even with Huo Yutong and the Radiant Golden Eagle's aid, they can only barely struggle to hold on for as long as possible.

This can't continue! A fierce light flashed in Wang Dong's eyes.

He and Zhou Sichen didn't know Huo Yutong already had a second martial soul; in their view, even if she became a Soul Elder, as a spiritual-type soul master she was destined to lack frontline combat ability.

So if they wanted to directly change the battlefield, it could only be him.

Wang Dong suddenly shot upward into the sky, breaking free from his entanglement with the golden lion, and at the same time his third soul ring burst with dazzling light.

That strike just now proved that a thousand-year soul technique could injure this lion—even his second soul skill could wound it—so there's no reason his stronger third soul skill wouldn't work.

The golden lion instinctively sensed a strong threat, its muscles tensing as it leapt high, jaws gaping, blowing gusts of foul wind at Wang Dong.

Unfortunately, after such a prolonged tussle, Wang Dong had long adapted to its speed; he swiftly flapped his wings, lightly dodged its bite, and immediately launched the already-formed third soul technique gathered before him at the golden lion.

Intense light instantly engulfed the majestic golden lion, which let out a pained howl.

The Butterfly God Slash, containing a hundred and eight blades of light, began to frenziedly carve its body upon impact, quickly leaving wound after wound across its form.

This sensation undoubtedly drove it mad, yet after being struck by this blow it lost all ability to resist, only able to passively endure the damage.

Wang Dong fell to the ground, face pale, anxiously awaiting the outcome.

He actually had little soul power left; the Butterfly God Slash, as his third soul skill, was currently his strongest attack, sacrificing the usual locking-on ability and range of most ranged attacks in pursuit of ultimate offense.

Even someone like Xie Hanyue, who possesses the Pixie Elephant martial soul, would surely suffer serious injury if hit head-on by this move; its power is not to be underestimated, and it's not impossible for a single strike to slay the golden lion here.

However, when the light faded, the golden lion still stood on the arena.

Its body was covered in countless small gashes, blood pouring out incessantly, looking horrifying; evidently it now had little combat strength left.

Yet it hadn't collapsed, which for a soul beast whose main attack is physical means it still retained fighting capability.

Wang Dong's face turned even paler. His soul power was basically exhausted; he couldn't even sustain another soul skill, let alone maintain his martial soul for long, and Zhou Sichen's side also looked like it was about to give out, so it seemed their class evaluation would end here.

He hoped to score high, so at least fewer classmates would be eliminated; Wang Dong silently prayed in his heart.

But then something unexpected happened: as the golden lion steadied itself and prepared to lunge at him, a jade-green shadow suddenly whipped forward, striking the lion hard.

The already heavily wounded golden lion had no resistance; it was flung away in one blow, rolling several times on the ground before stopping, and though it tried to rise again, it failed repeatedly.

Obviously the golden lion wasn't in mortal danger, but it had lost all combat ability.

"This is..."

Wang Dong was dazed; he instinctively looked toward where the green shadow came from, and saw Huo Yutong extending a long tail from behind him.

Huo Yutong hadn't planned to intervene in this battle, for before the class evaluation Mu En had warned her to try not to act.

Her combat power was far beyond that of her peers; the class evaluation was not only a test but also a tempering of the examinees, and if she personally acted, the evaluation would likely end in an instant, defeating the purpose of training the students.

The problem is that the full-score standard for the class evaluation requires defeating all three thousand-year soul beasts without eliminating any of our own; if she didn't act here, Class 1 couldn't get full marks, which would force some poorer-performing students to be expelled.

Having spent nearly a year with Class 1's students, she naturally hoped no one would be filtered out if possible.

Thus, from the moment she decided to act personally, everything afterward became garbage time.

Huo Yutong stood in place without moving her feet; her long scorpion tail extended again, instantly binding the swift wind wolf, and ice element surged from the tail, freezing it into an ice sculpture.

The fire monkey's performance was even worse than the wind wolf's; seeing the scorpion tail approach, perhaps sensing the intense ice element on it, it let out a shriek, turned and fled, completely ignoring Zhou Sichen's summon that had fought it for half a day.

The three summons that had given Zhou Sichen and Wang Dong so much trouble, under Huo Yutong's hand, couldn't even last five seconds before collapsing or fleeing, instantly leaving everyone present stunned.

Seeing the referee remain silent for a long while, Huo Yutong reminded, "Referee, we're finished."

"Ah, ah... okay."

The referee still hadn't recovered, for the reversal had happened too quickly.

Regardless, his daze wouldn't affect his scoring, since the class evaluation only requires repelling three soul beasts with no one retreating for full marks, and Class 1 naturally earned an uncontested perfect score.

"The first-year Class 1 promotion evaluation is over; score 150 out of 150, officially promoted to second-year Class 1; please continue to strive in your future studies."

(End of chapter)