Chapter 23: Rebirth in the Fiery Inferno, the Instance Collapse (2/2)

It’s simply outrageous!

An E-level candidate directly caused the collapse of the examination room?

The proctoring room was filled with a deathly silence after the initial shock, as everyone stared intently at the scene filled with golden-red flames on the screen.

Their pupils reflected the flickering firelight.

No one spoke, but each person’s mind was in turmoil.

They were all experienced proctors who had seen countless geniuses, but none had ever seen someone so decisively and thoroughly aiming to destroy the examination room from the start.

How dare she have such intentions?

She was even setting up traps and starting fires from the beginning of the exam!

The key point is, she actually succeeded in blowing up the examination room!

The most important thing is, the Phoenix deity from the Chinese mythological pantheon, is it really that powerful?

Up until now, the situation has become very clear.

From the moment Su Fu summoned the Phoenix deity, she had quietly received a large amount of divine power infusion.

But she didn’t use it immediately, instead waiting until the very end, at the most critical moment, to directly summon the Phoenix deity and with one move, blew up the examination room!

The crowd’s expressions were complicated.

Su Fu was just too cautious, wasn’t she?

She took the biggest advantage in the entire examination room, yet she was still afraid of accidents?

The ones who should be afraid are the other candidates!

But when you think about it, it makes sense.

Su Fu had no way of knowing how much divine power the other candidates had received, not to mention that the children of influential families were all eyeing her hungrily.

“……”

A flash of amazement crossed Zhou Nanyuan’s eyes.

“The King of All Birds, the Divine Bird of the Nine Heavens, the Immortal Divine Bird, the Immortal Phoenix………………”

All the titles were certified by the Shen Yan AI, what does this mean?

It means that these titles are real.

It means that her deity truly possesses these powers.

It means……her deity is far more powerful than they had imagined.

If it weren’t for the change in the divine power system 【Total Amount System】, he might never have had the chance to witness this scene.

He suddenly realized the true significance of the Ministry of Education’s reform at this moment.

If the divine power were fairly distributed, the ones standing here now would be the children of influential families, banding together.

What a pity.

Someone curiously asked: “I wonder how much divine power infusion she received this time to release such a powerful force.”

“Yes, and since she blew up the examination room, there should be extra points added during the settlement, right? The rewarded divine power definitely won’t be little either!”

The divine power obtained in these two stages should be considerable.

“So,” someone muttered quietly, “what level will her divine power break through to?”

Before entering the examination room, Su Fu was just an E-level candidate, but what about now?

Just the performance in the examination room alone should be enough to break through to the D-level, right?

Plus the rewards after the exam, could it……directly break through to the C-level?

As soon as this guess was made, everyone gasped.

This is a direct leap across two levels!

If this is the case, then Su Fu would be the biggest winner of this exam!

“Unfortunately,” Wang Mingde sighed, his gaze fixed on the sea of golden-red flames, “the Shen Yan system is still performing spatial repair now, and it’s impossible to conduct the settlement.”

Everyone nodded.

They were genuinely curious, but there was nothing they could do but wait.

At this moment, the ShenYan AI issued a province-wide notification——

[Notification: The preliminary rounds of the Four High, Five High, and Six High competitions have ended]

[The list of qualifiers is as follows:]

Four High:

1. Lily Waters (Female)

Indian Pantheon – Kali

Divine Power Level: D+

Lingxiao Province Ranking: 213

2. Sam Verma (Male)

Indian Pantheon – Ganesha

Divine Power Level: D

Lingxiao Province Ranking: 223

Five High:

1. Ming Yue Shuang (Female)

Egyptian Pantheon – Horus

Divine Power Level: D+

Lingxiao Province Ranking: 214

2. Shan Yue Hua (Male)

Egyptian Pantheon – Anubis

Divine Power Level: D

Lingxiao Province Ranking: 224

Six High:

1. Pi Chu Xi (Male)

Greek Pantheon – Odin

Divine Power Level: D+

Lingxiao Province Ranking: 215

2. Fang Bo Han (Male)

Greek Pantheon – Hermes

Divine Power Level: D

Lingxiao Province Ranking: 225

As soon as this list was announced, many proctors began discussing excitedly.

“As expected, apart from Seven High, this year the other high schools all adopted the tactic of a main attacker plus an auxiliary support.”

“All three high schools without exception had a strong main attacker, plus a suitable auxiliary support, from the start to the end, they dominated all the way.”

“I knew for sure that Four High would definitely be Lily Waters!”

“The ferocity of Kali combined with the wisdom of Ganesha, both offense and defense are covered. When Lily is in a rampage state, with Ganesha’s blessing, she can both stay rational and unleash her full power.”

“It’s like giving Lily a cheat code, she just took off directly.”

“As for Five High……I have to say, as always, they are very stable. The combination of Ming Yue Shuang and Shan Yue Hua has never lost, right?”

“But this year’s Six High is quite special. The divine might of Odin paired with the trickery of Hermes? It’s quite an interesting combination.”

Everyone analyzed the characteristics of each list, and finally concluded:

“Four High is the violent aesthetics of the Indian Pantheon.”

“Five High is the steady and solid approach of the Egyptian Pantheon.”

“Six High is the divine might and trickery of the Greek Pantheon.”

In general, each has its own characteristics and strengths.

“The three major pantheons are truly remarkable,” one proctor sighed.

“The Greek, Indian, and Egyptian pantheons are almost always in the top three every year.”

Just at that moment, someone noticed that the rankings had been updated and said,

“Wait! Look at Lily Waters’ ranking, it’s 213rd place!”

“Damn, she’s the top of Ninth High?!”

“No wonder it’s Fourth High!”

“However, if we talk about the fastest improvement, it has to be Pi Chuxi from Sixth High. He soared directly from 265th place to 215th place! That’s a total improvement of 50 places!”

“This guy is the biggest dark horse of this year. He was previously unknown, and now he has directly rushed to the top of Sixth High!”

Someone sighed, “It seems that these people are the strong competitors in this year’s provincial exam.”

As soon as this list came out, everyone immediately felt a strong sense of rivalry.

“Huh?” Just as everyone was discussing the results of each school, a proctor suddenly frowned, “Wait, where is Seventh High?

It was seen that Jiang Qingyu, the perennial first place of Seventh High, still ranked 300th, without any change.

“Wait? No change? Could it be that Jiang Qingyu from Seventh High hasn’t finished the exam yet?”

“That’s strange,” someone said, puzzled,

“Isn’t Seventh High the fastest? They eliminated four candidates at the beginning, and there were only three candidates left. And now?”

It’s a bit outrageous.

Everyone became curious all of a sudden.

They saw a sea of fire in the examination room –

Huh?

A sea of fire?

Isn’t it the exam of the mysterious crows?

Wang Mingde secretly glanced at Zhou Nanyuan and saw that the other party had no intention of explaining, so he could only weakly raise his hand: “Um……………”

The eyes of many teachers focused on him through the screen.

“Um,” Wang Mingde said weakly, “The exam of Seventh High has actually ended…………”

“However,” he paused, “the exam paper collapsed, and the examination room also collapsed. It is now being urgently repaired…………”

Everyone: “???”

What did you say?

“What the hell?!”

“The examination room collapsed?!”

“Wait!”

“Let me get this straight, you mean three candidates blew up the examination room?”

Dude!

I didn’t pay attention to you guys for a while, and Seventh High pulled off such a big move?!

At this moment, the proctors of other high schools saw the monitoring footage of the Seventh High examination room and finally realized.

Damn!

So this is the scene of the examination room collapsing!

The original mysterious crow forest has completely disappeared, leaving only a sea of golden-red flames.

The flames surged in the void, as if to swallow the entire space.

“Damn!” someone gasped, “Who, who did this?”

“It’s too exaggerated……………”

“How much energy does it take to blow up the examination room?”

“No, are you guys from Seventh High usually this fierce……………”

At this moment, the scene changed.

The sea of fire suddenly began to fluctuate, and then slowly receded like the tide.

After the flames receded, the scene that was revealed made everyone present hold their breath –

The entire examination room had been completely transformed.

There were deep, bottomless cracks everywhere, like a spider web covering the entire space.

Charred burn marks spread over every inch of the surface, with a desolate scene.

The sky was gray after the burning, and everything returned to silence.

Only a wasteland after the burning.

No mysterious crows, no candidates, not even a sound.

Four words flashed through everyone’s mind: Dead silence.

Then came the shock.

What kind of power could cause such terrible destruction?

At this moment, the calm and precise voice of the Shen Yan AI sounded:

[Emergency processing completed]

[Spatial data reconstruction completed]

[Basic framework repair rate: 100%]

[Spatial stability: Restored]

[Fault points: Cleared]

[Abnormal values: Corrected]

[Data flow: Reorganized]

[Backup synchronization: Completed]

[Spatial repair confirmed]

[This exam has ended.]

[The examination space is about to close…..]

[Starting settlement]

[Evaluation calculation in progress…….]

[Evaluation calculation completed.]

[The examination space is closing……]

[10……9……8……]

Just as everyone thought the examination room scene was about to disappear, a hint of bright red suddenly entered their line of sight.

A petal?

No, it is not an ordinary petal.

It glows with a golden-red light, and the edges seem to be burning, but will never be consumed.

It slowly and lightly rotated and fell from the charred ruins.

With a kind of rhythm that is hard to describe.

No one spoke.

Everyone was shocked by this scene.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

Through that petal, the broken sunlight fell on the cracked ground, dyeing the dark charred with a gorgeous golden red.

It is a dead silence in the ruins, but it presents a kind of strange……

Vibrant beauty.

Silence and rebirth?

Destruction and new life?

These two completely opposite states have found a balance in this petal.

Just as everyone was immersed in this indescribable shock –

In the void, a crack suddenly opened.

A hand with distinct knuckles passed through the crack and gently, as if dealing with the most precious treasure in the world, caught the petal.

A soft murmur broke the silence.

“Little………………Phoenix?”

Before the words were finished, the countdown hit zero.

The footage suddenly shrank, turned into a thin line, and disappeared in the proctoring screen.

The exam paper ended.