Chapter 296: I Grant You Death!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Inside the wooden house, the sound of heavy breathing echoed throughout.

"Honorable examinees, the second round has ended. Now, please write the questions you wish to ask on the parchment, and I shall answer them."

Everyone looked at the tablet in front of them; indeed, a piece of parchment and a charcoal pencil had appeared.

Chen Yan pondered for a moment and wrote down his question.

【Where is Youlan?】

"Examinee number forty-seven, I do not know the answer to this question," the little boy said.

"Please change your question."

Chen Yan's expression remained unchanged as he continued to write:

【Why is there no Qi and blood within your bodies?】

"Examinee number forty-seven, I do not know the answer to this question. Please continue to ask."

Chen Yan frowned. This time, he pondered for a long while before writing again:

【In the story of the rabbit and the white bear, what does the honey represent?】

At this moment, the little boy walked to Chen Yan's side, took the charcoal pencil, and wrote:

【Youlan】

Chen Yan's pupils constricted. The next moment, he stood up and rushed into the basement, unleashing his internal force to envelop himself.

Afterward, Chen Yan opened his communication array disk and coughed once.

Immediately following, the sound of two sets of footsteps rang out from within the array disk.

"What is it?" He Youtong's cold voice sounded.

"The question for the second round, did you ask it?"

"I asked it," He Youtong said.

Chen Yan spoke again:

"Did you ask it, Jiang Yuan?"

"What do you mean by that!" He Youtong said in a low voice.

"As for me, I haven't even started the second round yet," Jiang Yuan's laughing reply rang out.

Chen Yan's expression tightened slightly:

"If you pass the second round, ask who the rabbit that discovered the honey is."

"Oh?" Jiang Yuan sounded surprised:

"What question did you ask?"

Chen Yan said:

"You ask your question first, and we will exchange answers later."

"Chen Yan, the Venerable One said we must cooperate," He Youtong snapped in a low voice.

Chen Yan directly shut off the communication array disk.

One could imagine that He Youtong on the other end was already furious.

Chen Yan returned to his seat in the wooden house.

At this moment, that pitch-black hand on the ceiling had already vanished.

Time seemed to grow quiet.

Chen Yan sat there, while the expressions of Ma Tianyin and Lü Guiwen beside him flashed with malice from time to time.

"Everyone, get some good rest; it will be dawn soon.

Tomorrow night, the final assessment will take place."

The little boy spoke, then bowed deeply to everyone:

"Please, if you can kill more ancient beasts during the day, our lives will be a little easier after you examinees leave."

Everyone remained silent.

Anyone could see that Slaughter Forest was just a miniature version of the Great Xia.

The living beings of Slaughter Village lived even more miserably than those in the Great Xia.

The second round of the assessment did not take long.

Xue Qi would appear in turn above each wooden house, acting as the punisher for the assessment.

Gradually.

A wisp of morning light pierced through the gaps in the wooden door, spilling into the dark, dim wooden house.

Like a golden thread, it was brilliant yet thin.

Chen Yan closed his eyes, enjoying a brief moment of quiet.

Sometimes, a moment of rest can truly be intoxicating.

Beside him, Ma Tianyin was constantly sending voice transmissions to Lü Guiwen.

"In a moment, as soon as Xue Qi disappears, we strike!"

A venomous light erupted in Ma Tianyin's eyes:

"I will erupt with all my Qi and blood in an instant to suppress Chen Yan, and you use your strongest combat power to kill him."

Lü Guiwen remained silent and low.

"Lü Guiwen, the chance to change our lives is right before us; we will leave immediately after we kill him.

If outsiders ask, we will say we were injured; those examinees who have already left can also testify that Chen Yan was fine and it was us who were severely wounded.

Lord Chen Changyuan will come to pick us up immediately, and from then on, I will go to the Ji Clan, and you can come with me!"

Ma Tianyin kept sending voice transmissions:

"The Ji Family also has a bounty out there; if we kill a Third-Rank General Star, we will gain immense merit. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change our lives!"

Lü Guiwen remained silent, his pupils gradually shrinking, and the sweat on his forehead was about to flow uncontrollably.

He had always wanted to kill Chen Yan through underhanded means.

But to kill him openly?

That was too suicidal.

Yet he had already lost a leg; with one leg gone, could he still defeat Chen Yan?

His breathing became somewhat rapid.

Even though Chen Yan was sitting right beside him, he dared not make too many movements.

To kill a Third-Rank General Star and defect to the Five Clans' Ji Family!

He opened his mouth wide, and tears inadvertently flowed from the corners of his eyes.

It was too thrilling!

It was too decisive!

It was too...

Risky!

But this was an opportunity to change his life.

"I have always been in contact with the Ji Family!"

At this moment, Ma Tianyin's voice transmission came again:

"That person is named Ji Feng, and he is right here in Xiaoyang City. I'll lay my cards on the table for you.

I am a mole that the Ji Family has been cultivating all along!"

Lü Guiwen's breathing hitched; he dared not look at Ma Tianyin, but an incredible light erupted in his eyes.

No wonder!

No wonder Ma Tianyin was so ruthless and bold.

So, he was a Ji Family mole.

Killing Chen Yan under the identity of a genius from the Aristocratic Family Alliance would incite conflict between the Military Martial Guard and the Aristocratic Family Alliance.

Damn it!

Lü Guiwen cursed wildly in his heart.

It turned out Ma Tianyin was the one hidden the deepest!

"Are we doing it or not!?" Ma Tianyin barked via voice transmission.

Lü Guiwen's expression was calm, but his heart was beating violently, as if venting something within the silence.

Time passed slowly.

The sunlight outside the wooden hut grew brighter and brighter, and dust danced lightly within the rays of light.

With a creak.

The boy who owned the hut opened it, and the vast morning light was incomparably bright.

One by one, the wooden doors of the huts opened at this moment.

From each wooden hut, examinees walked out one after another.

Some were relieved, some were still shaken, and some were resigned.

They looked at the firmament and took deep breaths.

They had survived.

Shao Hengyang and Shang Yunwu rushed out of their wooden hut at the first opportunity; they were very worried about Chen Yan's state.

After all, in the wooden hut where Chen Yan was, there were Ma Tianyin and Lü Guiwen.

He Youtong walked out of her wooden hut, her eyes filled with rage.

She had been ignored by Chen Yan time and time again.

She had made a decision.

She would use the secret technique Chen Xiyuan had taught her to control the malice within Chen Yan's body and make Chen Yan kneel before her.

From the wooden hut at the very edge, Shi Ziqin walked out.

She swept a faint glance at the wooden hut where Chen Yan was.

If Chen Yan died, it would be better for Zhang Ting and better for Zhang Luobai.

With Chen Yan's appearance, too many old people from Lu Xunyang's generation had emerged.

These old people were the backbone of the Military Martial Guard and the Martial Suppression Division, unwilling to defect to Zhang Ting, yet they hadn't helped Shen Yiwei much either.

After Chen Yan appeared, everything changed.

They didn't even care about Chen Yan's surname.

Because Lu Xunyang was also a member of the Five Clans' Lu Family.

They felt that even if Lu Xunyang was a member of the Five Clans, he still possessed a sincere heart, and that Chen Yan, being a member of the Chen family, was the same as Lu Xunyang.

Once Chen Yan's college entrance exam ended, as long as his results weren't bad.

Those old people, it was estimated, would no longer be able to sit still.

The Qinzhou Martial Suppression Division would be in chaos.

Boom!

A sudden, thunderous roar rang out, and terrifying golden light resounded from within a wooden hut; the entire village trembled violently.

Boom!

A muffled, thunder-like explosion rang out, and the earth trembled.

Amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd, a golden light surged out from a wooden hut, shattering the layers of clouds.

As if the sky itself were about to be blown apart, this golden light eclipsed the morning sun, incomparably brilliant.

Immediately following.

Bang!

A headless human body slammed down fiercely from within that golden light, crashing onto the ground ten meters in front of He Youtong.

The ground shook violently, cracking and caving in as fissures spread and crisscrossed for hundreds of meters.

The crowd stared at the corpse deeply embedded in the ground.

"Ah!!!"

A girl screamed out loud.

He Youtong could not even stand steady, sitting on the ground in extreme terror.

The crowd looked on tremblingly toward the golden light in the sky.

Clad in the General Star uniform, the Fushan General Star stood in the void, aura magnificent, holding a head in their hand that stared with eyes wide in death.

"I am the Fushan General Star of the Great Xia, bearing the might of the Great Xia; since you have repeatedly obstructed me."

The resounding voice echoed, like the wrathful punishment of heaven.

Every word and every sentence fell like axes and halberds from the blue sky, like divine thunder suppressing the vast expanse.

Incomparably magnificent, infinitely murderous, and full of majesty!

"I shall grant you death!"

The crowd watched as those cold, piercing eyes suddenly manifested the divine radiance of the great sun, as if condensing the wrath of heaven.

Boom.

With a single-handed squeeze, Ma Tianyin's head exploded into fragments.