Chapter 176

"Close your eyes and walk in a straight line based on your senses, and you'll walk out of the illusion!"

With Ye Lin's reminder, Ji Lingyu and the other three followed suit, closing their eyes and starting to walk in a straight line.

Seeing Ye Lin find the trick so quickly, Han Huizhen was astonished; this was much faster than she had been back then. She quickly calmed down and prepared to intervene at any moment.

She figured Ye Lin must have just happened to be blind, and by sheer luck, found the way to break the illusion.

But breaking the illusion was only the first step; the truly troublesome part was the Soul-Devouring Beast hiding in the dark!

They had all closed their eyes, and given the Soul-Devouring Beast's insidious nature, it would definitely take this opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

Sure enough, a black shadow darted out from the darkness like a ghost, silently heading straight for Ye Lin at the front!

It was a snake-like monster, but it had no eyes, no nose, and no ears; its head was bald, with only a massive mouth filled with fangs.

It had no scales on its body, but was covered in transparent mucus, and it had two fleshy wings on its back.

Ten meters!

Five meters!

Three meters!

The Soul-Devouring Beast was getting closer and closer to Ye Lin, and several vines flew out under Han Huizhen's control.

At this distance, Ye Lin clearly wouldn't have time to put up any resistance, as casting a forbidden spell required a certain amount of wind-up time.

As a safety officer, she had to ensure the safety of every student!

Just as Han Huizhen was about to intervene to save him, a scene that left her dumbfounded occurred!

Ye Lin had actually clenched his five fingers into a fist and then punched the incoming Soul-Devouring Beast!

The power of this punch was clearly terrifying; the Soul-Devouring Beast's face began to twist and deform under the blow, and its sharp fangs snapped and fell out one by one.

Accompanied by a sonic boom, the Soul-Devouring Beast was sent flying by the punch, crashing through several stalactite pillars before twitching a few times and falling completely silent.

One punch, instant kill!

Han Huizhen was stunned.

She was the one who had taken Ye Lin to register for enrollment; he was Level 28, a Forbidden Spellcaster. She couldn't have remembered that wrong.

But... was the strength of a Forbidden Spellcaster... this terrifying?

Han Huizhen saw it clearly: just now, there hadn't been any magical fluctuations on Ye Lin's body, which meant that for that punch, Ye Lin hadn't used any forbidden spells; it was entirely the power of his physical body.

The Forbidden Spellcaster profession had appeared many times, but she had never heard of a Forbidden Spellcaster having a powerful physical body.

In fact, due to the toll of casting forbidden spells, the bodies of Forbidden Spellcasters were often much weaker than those of other professions at the same level. Such a profession had killed a Soul-Devouring Beast with one punch?

At this moment, Han Huizhen wasn't the only one who was dumbfounded.

In the monitoring room of You Daxia Academy, a teacher in a plaid shirt spat out the coffee he had just taken into his mouth.

"Holy crap! Dean, come here quickly!"

"What's wrong? Has a student had an accident so soon?" Yan Lanbing walked over quickly.

"No! The situation is even bigger than an accident! Look at this!"

The plaid-shirt teacher replayed the footage recorded by the camera on Han Huizhen's chest.

When she saw Ye Lin kill a Soul-Devouring Beast with one punch, Yan Lanbing was a bit surprised, but didn't react much, as she had seen too many geniuses.

"That's it?" Yan Lanbing was a bit disappointed.

"Dean! You didn't understand what I meant!" The plaid-shirt teacher stood up excitedly. "I've seen this student! His enrollment registration was done by Old Jia; he's a Forbidden Spellcaster!"

"What? He's a Forbidden Spellcaster?!"

Yan Lanbing's breathing quickened. A professional who could kill a Soul-Devouring Beast with one punch was quite good, but not enough to make her go to such lengths.

But a Forbidden Spellcaster who could kill a Soul-Devouring Beast with one punch was a different story!

This meant that this Forbidden Spellcaster could grind levels without exhausting his life force to cast forbidden spells! He had the potential to be cultivated!

As long as they handled it correctly, there was a high possibility that You Daxia Academy could cultivate a super-high-level Forbidden Spellcaster! This was an existence comparable to a nuclear warhead!

Let's put it this way: if a Forbidden Spellcaster's level was similar to hers, Yan Lanbing wouldn't even have the qualifications to fight him; with one look from the opponent, she would have to go to the kitchen and stir-fry two dishes for him.

"Immediately pull all the data on this student for me! By the way, who is his mentor?" Yan Lanbing asked while flipping through Ye Lin's file.

"Uh... Professor Shen..." The plaid-shirt teacher was a bit embarrassed, as he had been the one to suggest Ye Lin seek out Professor Shen as a mentor.

"Professor Shen? Which Professor Shen? Does our You Daxia Academy have a professor named Shen?" Yan Lanbing asked, puzzled.

"It's... the one who researched the Disintegration Technique."

"......"

"You mean that big idiot?!"

Yan Lanbing was furious. In her eyes, Ye Lin was the best seedling! Hearing that Ye Lin had actually chosen Professor Shen as his mentor, she almost had a heart attack from anger.

"Bring people to control him immediately! He'd better not have taught any weird skills to the child Ye Lin, or I'll really skin him alive this time!"

A Forbidden Spellcaster who could be cultivated had strategic significance, even for the entirety of You Daxia.

Ye Lin didn't know that his actions had already caused a stir in You Daxia Academy. After punching the Soul-Devouring Beast away, he followed the sound of the corpse hitting the ground.

After feeling around for the Soul-Devouring Beast's corpse, Ye Lin cut open its head, and a translucent, gelatinous object appeared in his hand.

"Is this a Magic Crystal?"

Ye Lin resisted the urge to activate Endless Devour and stored the Magic Crystal and the Soul-Devouring Beast's corpse into his Great Sumeru Ring.

Once the Soul-Devouring Beast died, the illusion trapping Ji Lingyu and the others was completely broken.

They only then realized that they had been walking in place the whole time, and the ground was covered in dense footprints.

"Damn, this Soul-Devouring Beast is too bizarre!" Ji Lingyu said with lingering fear.

Xu Yu and Lin Wenyu couldn't help but cast grateful glances at Ye Lin; if it weren't for him, they would probably still be fumbling around in the illusion.

Only Duan Ling remained in her "strangers keep away" mode, but given her actions just now, no one dared to strike up a conversation with her.

"Junior Ye Lin, how did you do that? As far as I know, Forbidden Spellcasters shouldn't have such terrifying power, right?" Han Huizhen couldn't help but ask.

"Just luck. Speaking of which, I have to thank Professor Shen; it was his research that allowed me to possess such exaggerated power attributes. As for the specifics... I don't know if Professor Shen would allow me to talk about it outside. How about I take you to ask Professor Shen after we leave the realm?" Ye Lin asked very considerately.

"No need, no need! I don't want to know!"

Han Huizhen shook her head like a rattle. Even if she were to starve to death, die outside, or jump off a building, she must never go find Professor Shen. This was a rule carved into the heart of every You Daxia student.