The Demon Locust Army
The figure of the Martial God vanished completely, as if he had never existed.
At that very instant, the boundless fleet of Demon Locusts deep in the starry sky, like a wild beast breaking free of its last shackles, unleashed a piercing scream that shook the entire universe!
"Buzz!!"
That was not just a sound, but a torrent mixed with bloodlust and hunger, transforming into an invisible mental shock that swept over every Prodigies on the platform like a tsunami.
On the platform, nearly a thousand powerful auras suddenly froze.
Lei Pojun, who was charging at the forefront, felt as if his Divine Soul had been struck hard by an invisible giant hammer. He groaned and his body swayed slightly.
Even someone as powerful as Xiao Wuming couldn't help but turn pale, his eyes instantly becoming extremely serious.
This is the real war!
Before even engaging the enemy, a single roar from the enemy troops was enough to shake the minds of even Golden Body Realm expert!
Before they could fully recover from the mental shock, the vanguard of the Demon Locust army moved.
Tens of thousands of cannon barrels, made of twisted flesh and metal, suddenly spewed out a dense barrage of dark green corrosive missiles, interspersed with countless beams of chaotic energy capable of tearing space apart, like a deathly rainstorm, pouring down on the small war fortress platform!
The attack obscured the starlight, swallowed the view, and materialized the aura of death, transforming it into a dark cloud that pressed down on the city, rolling in!
"Good timing!"
Lei Pojun's eyes were bloodshot. Instead of retreating, he advanced, his suppressed fighting spirit erupting completely.
A surge of violent lightning power shot into the sky, coalescing in front of him into a giant shield covered with ancient lightning patterns, crackling and popping!
Luo Shenyue gently raised her hand, and a cool, watery moonlight spread from her palm, transforming into a resilient yet gentle semi-transparent water curtain.
Xiao Wuming, Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and the others also had solemn expressions, and they all activated their Spiritual Power, unleashing their strongest defensive measures.
However, they are ultimately a minority.
Many more Prodigies, those geniuses who grew up in the peaceful Star Domain and were invincible in the virtual world, were completely thrown into disarray when they saw the devastating torrent of attacks and felt the chilling aura of death contained within it.
"Ah!"
"How could this be! This is completely different from the simulated battle!"
"It's unstoppable! It's simply impossible to stop!"
Terrified screams and chaotic roars echoed across the platform.
Some people frantically activated their techniques, but the defensive light shield they had set up dimmed and became riddled with holes due to their distraction.
Virtual glory is worthless in the face of real death.
The attack arrived in an instant.
"Boom!"
The dozen or so prodigies who were too slow to react or whose defensive measures were too Prodigies had their Protective Divine Light crumble at the first touch of the dark green energy beam, like an eggshell being hit by a hammer.
The shadow of death magnified sharply in their suddenly contracted pupils.
It's over.
This was the last thought that flashed through their minds.
It was at this critical moment that...
Chen Fan, who had been half-closing his eyes and with his hands in his pockets, sighed softly.
"It's noisy."
Under countless gazes, he casually raised his right hand and snapped his fingers with a crisp, clear sound.
"Snap."
A soft, insignificant sound.
However, an invisible and intangible golden ripple, centered on Chen Fan, spread out silently like a ripple on a calm lake.
Where the golden ripples passed, time and space seemed to freeze for a moment.
Then, something shocking happened.
Those tens of thousands of corrosive missiles and chaotic beams of light, enough to blast the entire fortress and all the Prodigies into Cosmic Dust, seemed to have been forcibly erased from space and time by an invisible hand.
Just like that, out of thin air, silently... it vanished.
It was as if they had never existed.
The entire battlefield fell into a deathly silence.
Those dozen or so prodigies who had narrowly escaped Prodigies stared stiffly at the empty Void before Gate of Hell, their bodies still trembling uncontrollably, their minds blank.
The lightning shield that Lei Pojun had condensed had not yet dissipated, and the fanaticism on his face completely froze into a blank expression.
The follow-up measures that Luo Shenyue was preparing to launch were also abruptly stopped at her fingertips.
Everyone instinctively turned their gaze to the boy who, after snapping his fingers, lazily put his hands back in his pockets and even yawned.
In this eerily silent atmosphere, Chen Fan's slightly impatient voice slowly rang out:
What are you still standing there for?
"It's the college entrance exam, everyone's scrambling for points."
Chen Fan's casual remark acted like a fuse, instantly igniting the entire silent platform.
The first person to recover from the extreme shock was Lei Pojun.
The blank look on his face lasted only half a second before being replaced by an almost manic heat.
He suddenly turned his head and stared intently at the boy with his hands in his pockets.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Lei Pojun suddenly threw his head back and laughed wildly, his laughter filled with soaring fighting spirit.
"That's right! We've scored points!"
He let out a roar that shook the stars. The violent lightning that had accumulated around him no longer condensed into a shield, but transformed into a purple spear that tore through the darkness. He became one with the lightning and was the first to rush out of the Alloy deck. Like a meteorite moving in reverse, he plunged into the boundless dark green locust plague without hesitation!
Boom!
Lightning exploded, unstoppable!
One man's courage ignites the blood of a thousand.
"War!"
Xiao Wuming's eyes narrowed. His Dao Heart, which had been shaken by Chen Fan, was now being Bone Refinement by Lei Pojun's decisiveness and the bloody atmosphere of the battlefield.
Without further hesitation, a Heavenly Sword formed from boundless Sword Intent swept across the sky, following closely behind.
Luo Shenyue rose, its moonlight like water, and wherever it fell, the bodies of the Demon Locusts stiffened and shattered.
Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, Tuo Bashan...
Nearly a thousand figures, each powerful enough to suppress an entire era in their respective Star Systems, transformed into a thousand dazzling rays of light at this moment, like an unstoppable torrent of steel, colliding fiercely with the army of Demon Locusts that represented death and devouring!
In an instant, the starry sky fell silent.
Explosions of energy, clashes of supernatural powers, tearing apart flesh and blood... countless rays of light and darkness intertwine on this desolate battlefield.
These Prodigies truly deserve to be called elites cultivated by the Federation at great expense.
They formed groups of three or five, spontaneously creating Battle Formations: sword formations, saber formations, five elements formations... all sorts of exquisite combinations that could only be seen in textbooks, which they executed with ease.
In an instant, sword light stretched for 30,000 miles, and divine flames burned across the nine heavens.
They actually managed to hold back hundreds of thousands of Demon Locust vanguard troops outside the battle line with less than a thousand men!