The Red-Eyed Demon Ape

As they ventured deeper into the camp, the gentle aura of civilization was quickly stripped away, replaced by a cold, chilling, and brutal atmosphere of war.

This place is essentially a frontline War Fortress.

On the towering Alloy building, thick energy lines are intertwined like the veins of a giant beast.

In the distance, several heavy Mecha, some tens of meters tall, were being repaired under their massive mechanical arms, occasionally emitting blinding sparks.

Squads of taxi soldiers clad in black exoskeleton armor, armed with energy rifles, patrolled silently in every corner, their eyes alert.

"The spiritual energy here..."

A hint of shock flashed in Shen Xuan's eyes.

The deeper you go, the richer the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the air becomes.

In the end, it transformed into a pale white mist visible to the naked eye, flowing slowly along the ground like a stream.

With each breath, it felt as if a heavy weight of energy was being drawn into the lungs; those with slightly weaker strength might even feel a sense of pressure as if their meridians were being burst by the energy.

Su Qingyue's icy blue eyes sparkled with excitement, while Tuo Bashan, like a child entering a candy store, looked around excitedly, wishing he could immediately throw a punch.

Only Chen Fan remained calm.

Finally, Zhao Xin stopped in front of an enormous, sunken, circular building.

At the entrance of the building, on a rough Alloy plaque, three large characters are written in a flamboyant style using paint that looks as if it were still wet with blood.

Colosseum!

An overwhelming, pungent stench of blood, mixed with the aura of some kind of ferocious, savage Anomalous Beast, wafted from the dark entrance, assaulting their senses and causing Shen Xuan and his companions to gasp for breath.

Without turning his head, Zhao Xin said, "Welcome to the Blue Star Training Camp."

He went in first.

The moment Chen Fan and his group stepped inside, the scene before them suddenly changed.

Inside the huge circular arena, more than a hundred fierce young men, exuding a violent aura, were undergoing what could be described as primitive training.

Within the gravity zone, someone was fighting bare-handed against a series of ferocious, monstrous phantom Anomalous Beasts, each collision producing a dull, resounding crash.

Some people were even directly engaging in bloody hand-to-hand combat with living Anomalous Beast whose deadly claws and fangs had been removed, right in the area enclosed by energy fences!

Biting, rolling, blood splattering!

A young man was bitten on the shoulder by an Ironback Gray Wolf, but he didn't even flinch. Instead, he swung his elbow and smashed it hard into the wolf's spine, knocking it to the ground with a cracking sound of bones breaking.

Each of them bore scars, some new, some old, but their eyes didn't look human; they looked more like a pack of ferocious beasts who had survived the battlefield!

Zhao Xin's arrival, along with the four little ones behind him whose demeanor seemed completely out of place, instantly drew everyone's attention.

The training session came to an abrupt end.

Nearly two hundred gazes, each carrying a different emotion, instantly focused on Chen Fan and his companions.

The aggressiveness in his eyes was undisguised.

"Everyone, assemble!"

Zhao Xin's voice was as loud and clear as a bell, resounding throughout the entire Colosseum.

The students who were fighting the Anomalous Beasts immediately stopped and quickly assembled into a loose square formation in the arena. Their posture was casual, yet they exuded a fierce aura of having survived countless battles.

Zhao Xin's gaze swept across the entire room, finally landing on Chen Fan group of four.

"These four newcomers want to join your ranks directly."

"According to the rules, they need to pass a test!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of suppressed laughter erupted from the trainees' ranks, the laughter filled with undisguised mockery.

"A newcomer? Transferred directly to the class?"

"Instructor, are you kidding me? These are just a few immature kids who haven't even been weaned yet?"

"The tallest one looks somewhat decent, but the other three... especially the small one, is it a mascot?"

A burly young man, nearly two meters tall, with a hideous Scarface on his face that stretched from the corner of his eye to the corner of his mouth, and muscles as bulging as granite, stepped out from the crowd.

His Qi and Blood fluctuations are already very close to the 300-calorie mark!

As he walked, he cracked his knuckles, making a popping sound. His large, round eyes swept mockingly over Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan, finally settling on Chen Fan was only up to his waist.

"Instructor, let me play with these little brothers for a bit."

The Scarface youth grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth; his smile was cruel.

"I promise..."

"She will be very gentle."

The audience erupted in laughter once again.

However, Chen Fan didn't even glance at him in the face of this blatant provocation.

His gaze pierced through the clamor of the crowd, past the blood-stained barriers, and finally settled on the deepest part of the Colosseum, an area shrouded in immense shadow.

There, dozens of jet-black iron chains, engraved with mysterious runes, were tightly binding a colossal creature that was sleeping soundly.

Even when it was merely asleep, the terrifying aura it inadvertently emitted far exceeded the combined total of all the Anomalous Beasts present.

Chen Fan's eyes lit up.

He withdrew his gaze, finally turning his head to look at Zhao Xin, whose face was cold and hard, and asked in an innocent tone with curiosity:

"Instructor."

"Can I skip fighting him and switch to that big guy?"

He stretched out his little finger and pointed towards the huge shadow.

"It looks... a bit more fun."

Chen Fan's clear and innocent question plunged the entire Colosseum into a deathly silence for three seconds.

Immediately afterwards.

"Puff!!"

"Ha ha!"

Uncontrollable bursts of laughter, like a powder keg exploding, erupted from the formation of over a hundred previous year's students. The laughter was filled with absurdity and contempt, almost lifting the dome of the Colosseum.

"What did he say? Did I hear that right? He's going to hit that big guy?"

"He's insane! Does this kid even know what that thing is? It's Anomalous Beast that our Training Camp instructors specifically captured for us to test. They think they can take it on?"

"That's hilarious! I bet if he got within a hundred meters of that thing, he'd be scared out of his wits by its aura!"

Amidst the rising and falling jeers, the Scarface young man who had volunteered earlier turned from red to green, and finally his face turned a deep liver color.

He felt he had suffered an unprecedented and extreme humiliation.

He, a powerful cultivator with nearly 300 kilocalories of Qi and Blood, was treated like air by a ten-year-old brat, not even qualified to be challenged.

Zhao Xin's temples throbbed with veins, and he barely suppressed the urge to pick up Chen Fan, this troublemaker, and throw him out. He explained:

"That Anomalous Beast is called the Red-Eyed Demon Ape! It's a genuine Mid Second Tier Anomalous Beast!"