Chapter 292: The Weakened Version of Great Xia

"How dare you, how could you dare!"

A low, furious roar echoed throughout the entire gloomy wooden house; he screamed, collapsing onto the floor covered in black dust, his body rolling about, while deep within his cold, sharp eyes lay a violent malice.

Chen Yan swept a faint glance at Ma Tianyin:

"I am curious, just how deep are your family's pockets that you dare to secretly harm a Third-Rank General Star of the Great Xia in front of everyone?"

Inside the wooden house, everyone's expression trembled as they all looked toward Chen Yan.

Indeed.

Everyone had seen Ma Tianyin's attempt to harm Chen Yan just now.

Ma Tianyin was truly too bold.

On the ground, Ma Tianyin's eyes were extremely venomous as he looked at Chen Yan:

"Where did I harm you? I was clearly opening the door for you!"

Yet, at this very instant.

Boom!

Chen Yan lifted a foot and stomped fiercely toward Ma Tianyin's head.

In an instant.

A powerful sense of oppression slammed into Ma Tianyin; this kick contained a ferocious force, like a muffled thunderclap, erupting with golden light and rolling booms.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Ma Tianyin shrieked.

"You dare!"

A low roar sounded, and Lu Guiwen, who was to the side, struck instantly, never having expected Chen Yan to be so decisive.

Ma Tianyin had only attempted a secret attack, yet Chen Yan was going straight for the kill.

Yet, at this moment.

Flames erupted all over Ma Tianyin's body; he jumped up as if he were a frog suddenly dropped into a pot of oil, using every ounce of his strength to dodge Chen Yan's kick.

Boom!

Crack!

A low rumble echoed, and a spray of blood splattered out.

With Chen Yan as the center, a fierce golden light mixed with flames exploded, striking the examinees in the vicinity and tearing through the entire wooden house.

"Ahhh!!!"

Some examinees were injured by the instantly erupting flames and screamed out.

Everyone looked on in horror.

On the ground, one of Ma Tianyin's legs had been directly crushed by Chen Yan; mangled flesh and shattered bone were scattered across the floor, and blood splattered inside the wooden house like a spiderweb.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes; Ma Tianyin had actually dodged his strike.

The next moment, he was about to strike again.

Hum!

A crimson curtain of Qi and blood blocked Chen Yan's path, and Lu Guiwen appeared with a gloomy expression, his eyes still filled with shock.

Chen Yan, what powerful strength!

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

Lu Guiwen, eighth on the Heaven's Pride Ranking.

He wanted to test him.

Yet, at this moment.

Boom!!!

A surge of black Qi suddenly swirled from the roof, and a pitch-black giant hand reached out to grab Chen Yan.

This was the hand of Xue Qi.

Chen Yan's gaze flickered.

The giant hand, containing terrifying force, appeared just like that, and the fingers wrapped in black mist were about to touch Chen Yan's neck in an instant.

In the distance, a villager wearing rags shouted out:

"Fighting is not permitted inside the wooden house."

The next instant, the pitch-black giant hand suddenly vanished.

Chen Yan frowned; if he were to strike, this black-mist giant hand would continue to come and kill him.

A sense of dread instantly rippled through the entire wooden house.

All the examinees watched this scene and gasped in unison.

Chen Yan was too ruthless.

Ma Tianyin at least tried to put on an act, but Chen Yan didn't even bother to pretend; if he wanted to kill, he killed.

If not for the rules within this wooden house, Chen Yan would likely have continued his attack even with Lu Guiwen present.

Audacious!

Moreover, Chen Yan had a valid reason for acting.

He was a General Star, a Third-Rank General Star at that, a Heaven's Pride of the Great Xia; since Ma Tianyin had secretly harmed him, even if he had acted well,

if Chen Yan killed him, the Aristocratic Family Alliance wouldn't dare to say anything.

After all, everyone knew about that incident at the Heaven's Cage Boxing Tournament.

Zhao Tian had truly slaughtered his way through for Chen Yan's sake.

"Ah..., my leg, my leg..."

The wailing sound was still echoing; Ma Tianyin's body was rolling on the ground, his face deathly pale, and lingering terror remained in his eyes.

"That's enough. Acquire Dao-Slashing Points and exchange them for a Morning Star-grade healing elixir; you can regrow a severed limb."

Lü Guiwen spoke gloomily, took a Green Vault-grade healing elixir from his storage ring, and threw it to Ma Tianyin.

Ma Tianyin swallowed the elixir with a venomous expression, and the bleeding stopped.

Lü Guiwen looked at Chen Yan and took a deep breath:

"It must have been a misunderstanding; everyone saw it, Ma Tianyin was indeed opening the door for you."

Although he had received orders from Yu Changsheng, he still had to put on a show on the surface.

"Oh."

Chen Yan nodded:

"Then I truly misunderstood you all."

He did not want to explain anything; if there was an opportunity, he would kill, and if there wasn't, he didn't care to bother.

He looked at an injured examinee not far away and said:

"This is the examinee who was burned by the Qi-blood technique he unleashed; you must provide a healing elixir."

As Chen Yan's voice fell, the examinee sitting on the ground with a pained expression looked over.

"Chen Yan!!!"

Ma Tianyin was completely enraged.

But Lü Guiwen shook his head and took out an Earth Vein-grade healing elixir and tossed it over:

"It is the fault of our Aristocratic Family Alliance."

He stopped speaking, though he felt immense wariness in his heart.

Just a moment ago, the instant Chen Yan erupted with combat power to blast Ma Tianyin to death, he was actually controlling his force to avoid hurting the others.

But Ma Tianyin hadn't thought that much through.

Therefore, that examinee really had been injured by Ma Tianyin.

He cursed inwardly, what kind of monster was Chen Yan exactly?

To be able to maneuver under Xue Qi for so long and still consider so much while fighting.

What kind of brain is this?

Troublesome!

Extremely troublesome.

Dealing with Chen Yan really seemed very difficult.

"Many thanks, General Star."

The examinee received the healing elixir and looked at Chen Yan with immense gratitude.

If it weren't for Chen Yan speaking up, he really would have suffered a loss.

Having been injured, his performance afterward wouldn't have been very good.

Inside the wooden house, hundreds of examinees watched quietly.

Their hearts were also trembling.

In the short exchange, the strength Chen Yan displayed was suffocating.

Ma Tianyin, that was an examinee who had taken the college entrance exam twice, one of the top ten prodigies famous in Qinzhou.

In Chen Yan's hands, he was like a toy.

Now, having lost his combat capability, things would be even more difficult later.

Chen Yan walked into the interior of the wooden house.

The ceiling of the wooden house was a full ten meters high, covering over a thousand square meters.

On the walls, the mottled paint peeled off like scales of time, and the mortise and tenon joints emitted creaking sighs from time to time.

In the middle of the wooden house, there was a huge round table capable of seating two hundred people; the tabletop had many scratches and looked extremely dilapidated.

It was just such a wooden house that had blocked the onslaught of an existence like Xue Qi.

Xue Qi.

Chen Yan frowned.

Xue Qi had clearly been blocked outside the wooden house, so why did she appear inside the wooden house just now?

Could it be that this was also part of the college entrance exam rules?

Also, the old man seen in the Slaughter Forest earlier.

All of this presented itself as individual clues in Chen Yan's mind.

"Examinee lords, Xue Qi has already been blocked outside the house."

The owner of the wooden house spoke; this was a little boy only fourteen years old.

His face was dirty, dust mixed with sweat, blurring his original features.

Under the gaze of everyone, the boy said:

"But as long as there is fighting inside the wooden house, Xue Qi will appear.

And the assessment will begin shortly.

During the assessment, Xue Qi will also appear as a punisher; I hope everyone can succeed."

The boy bowed respectfully to the crowd, his eyes full of panic.

Among the examinees, a girl spoke up:

"Once the assessment is failed, what punishment will there be?"

"It will..." the boy shook his head:

"I hope everyone can pass the examination; the villagers of Zhan Tu are the indigenous people living in this world."

"We are all part of the College Entrance Examination Secret Realm."

He stretched out his hand, making a gesture of invitation:

"The first examination in the wooden house next door has already ended; it is our turn now."

"Will all candidates please take your seats according to your sequence number tags."

He said.

Sss, sss, sss.

On the roof, black mist suddenly coiled, forming a giant hand; the giant hand flicked, and slips of paper recording numbers flew before everyone.

Chen Yan caught a slip of paper, and a number appeared on it.

Forty-seven.

Chen Yan found his seat and sat down.

He looked at the black mist giant hand on the ceiling, lost in thought.

Is Xue Qi the punishment official for the Zhan Tu Forest examination checkpoint?

Is his task to make all candidates enter the wooden house at night?

If any candidate fails to enter, will he kill the candidate?

Chen Yan's expression was somber as he listened to the whispers around him.

He also roughly understood the situation.

The College Entrance Examination Secret Realm is a native world, and its only connection to the outside world is the spatial channel that opens to the outside world during the annual college entrance examination.

The powerhouses of Great Xia have established rules for the native world of the College Entrance Examination Secret Realm.

Therefore, all existences within this world will conduct examinations for Great Xia candidates according to these rules.

But the examination is only a part of life for the native world; once the candidates leave, the living beings within this world will continue to develop.

During the college entrance examination process, the flow of time in this world is the same as in Great Xia.

After the college entrance examination ends, the flow of time in this world will speed up.

For example, in previous years, the villagers of Zhan Tu Forest were all Mind Masters, their souls able to leave their bodies, extremely powerful, causing great trouble for the candidates.

But this year, these villagers are not Mind Masters; instead, they have become weak existences devoured by Ancient Beasts during the day and slaughtered by Xue Qi at night.

Through the conversations of others, Chen Yan also learned what the old man in the Zhan Tu Forest was actually doing.

Because of the Ancient Beasts.

The Ancient Beasts need to eat people, but the number of people in Zhan Tu Village is not enough to feed so many Ancient Beasts.

To prevent extinction.

Human Trees appeared.

Human Trees are trees raised with the flesh and blood of the human race.

After a person dies, they can transform into hundreds of Human Trees, and Human Tree Fruit will grow on the Human Trees.

These Human Tree Fruits became the feed for the Ancient Beasts.

Of course, the people in the village had considered completely exterminating the Ancient Beasts.

But these Ancient Beasts take orders from an ancient divine beast named Fei Yi located within the Dream Abyss.

With the existence of Fei Yi, there will be an endless stream of Ancient Beasts born.

This is the misfortune that belongs to Zhan Tu Village.

Chen Yan collected his thoughts.

This is a dangerous world.

Or even, this is...

A weaker, more helpless, and more cruel Great Xia.

Only true powerhouses will walk out of the College Entrance Examination Secret Realm.

The timid will be eliminated early.

The weak will become fish and meat.

The arrogant will die and their Dao will dissipate.

To stand out in the College Entrance Examination Secret Realm, aptitude, courage, willpower, and intelligence are all indispensable.

Great Xia is starting to use strong medicine at a critical moment of crisis.

They need true, absolute powerhouses to be born.

And it was at this moment.

A bloody scent drifted over, and Ma Tianyin and Lü Guiwen sat down to the left and right of Chen Yan.

Ma Tianyin gritted his teeth, his eyes somber.

Lü Guiwen was quite calm.

Their seat numbers were, surprisingly, forty-six and forty-eight.

The arrangement of the seat numbers was clearly intentional.

Chen Yan remained calm and composed.

All the candidates also sat down quietly.

The little boy who was the owner of the wooden house spoke:

"Now, begin the first round of the examination."