Slaughter

Lei Ao snorted coldly, stood up, his eyes flashing like lightning, and began to issue commands.

"Gao Peng, you lead a team from the Ancient Martial Arts School to be responsible for the cleanup operation in the eastern district!"

"Li Yue, you will lead the second team of the New Martial Arts School and be in charge of the West District!"

"..."

He quickly divided the more than sixty people into several small teams, each led by a powerful fifth-grade Golden Body Peak Martial Artist.

However, Chen Fan was in the corner, was overlooked.

Only after everyone had been assigned tasks did Lei Ao seem to remember there was still this one person. He waved impatiently toward the corner, his tone full of condescension.

"You, just follow behind and don't die and hold us back."

After saying that, he ignored them and shouted loudly.

"Set off!"

"Yes!"

Dozens of Stream of Light, like arrows drawn from their sheaths, shot out from the opened hatch and hurtled towards the planet shrouded in darkness below.

The clearing operation has officially begun.

Chen Fan slowly opened his eyes, stood up unhurriedly, and was the last to leave the cabin, following at the very back of the huge group, like an insignificant shadow.

He gazed at the magnificent sight of countless black dots surging like a tide deep within the planet below, and a barely perceptible hint of... excitement finally flashed in his usually calm eyes.

The surface of the Huangzhe Star resembled a powder keg that had been set ablaze, and it exploded the moment dozens of Prodigies arrived.

Gao Peng, Ancient Martial Arts School, took the lead. He was physically strong, and his Qi and Blood were boiling like a moving furnace. Every punch he threw carried the power to shatter mountains and split rocks, instantly turning several Devouring Locusts, which were harder than refined steel, into a mess of minced meat.

While he was fighting with great enthusiasm, he didn't forget to glance at the rear of the battlefield out of the corner of his eye.

The kid Chen Fan followed at the very back, still at a leisurely pace, as if he were taking a stroll in his own backyard.

A more intense sneer curled at the corners of Gao Peng's mouth.

Chen Fan was indeed taking a walk.

He ignored the deafening fighting around him and strolled leisurely along the edge of the battlefield.

But his perception had already spread like an invisible and intangible net, instantly covering an area of hundreds of miles.

Within this network, the energy flow trajectory of each Devouring Locusts, the weak points of its carapace, the location of its Life Core... everything was meticulously constructed in his mind into an absolutely precise three-dimensional picture.

"Hmm? This energy reaction... is a little stronger."

Just then, Chen Fan paused slightly.

A Devouring Locusts leader, nearly twice the size of its kind, shimmering with a metallic sheen, and possessing an aura comparable to the Peak Golden Body Realm, discovered this cub, wandering outside the main battlefield.

Driven by its thirst for chaos and carnage, it instantly abandoned its opponent, letting out a shriek as its massive body transformed into a blurry black lightning bolt, carrying a pungent, foul-smelling wind as it hurtled straight towards Chen Fan!

"Ha, this is going to be interesting!"

"Even Gao Peng had to put in some effort to deal with that Devouring Locusts leader!"

"Look! Look! That kid's going to be torn to shreds!"

Gao Peng and the others immediately noticed this scene and cast gloating glances at each other during a lull in the fighting.

In their view, this Devouring Locusts leader was enough to make any ordinary Golden Body Realm cultivator flustered, and they could take this opportunity to see the top scorer in the College Entrance Exam Top Scorer in a sorry state.

However, the expected panic did not occur.

Faced with this deadly attack that could tear apart his Golden Body, Chen Fan didn't even turn his head.

He simply raised his right hand casually, as if shooing away an annoying mosquito, and flicked it lightly behind him with his finger.

A tiny, almost imperceptible, yet exquisitely condensed golden spark silently flew from the fingertip.

The aggressive leader of the Devouring Locusts suddenly froze in mid-air, a moment of confusion flashing in its huge compound eyes.

In the next instant, its indestructible carapace, its ferocious and sharp mandibles, and even the Divine Soul hidden within its body, were like an old painting ignited by an invisible fire, silently annihilated and decomposed from the very core particle structure, turning into the most primitive ashes.

The entire process took less than a second.

Where it was, only a fist-sized, dark green crystal core, radiating a rich life force, remained, silently floating in mid-air, having lost its supporting structure.

As if he had eyes in the back of his head, Chen Fan swiftly caught the crystal core with a backhand motion.

A powerful and pure Life Origin flowed into his palm.

Deep within his Dantian, the newly formed Undying Divine Fire, like a gluttonous Taotie smelling an unparalleled delicacy, suddenly began to leap joyfully.

The "Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture" within his body was instantly activated, emitting a greedy desire that urged him to immediately throw this piece of excellent Kindling into it.

Chen Fan paused slightly.

He remembered the rules of the mission.

All spoils shall be turned over to the public and distributed according to contributions.

"What a pity, those who wanted to immediately reach the Fuel-Adding Realm are all dreaming now..."

He forcibly suppressed the instinctive urges of the cultivation technique and the Divine Fire.

With Divine Thought, the Life Core in his palm disappeared and was directly stored in the storage space of his Student Badge.

[Ding! One Peak Golden Body Realm Life Core has been captured, Contribution Points +1000.]

A cold, inaudible notification sound came from the badge.

After doing all this, Chen Fan's detached and lazy demeanor vanished instantly.

Instead, it adopted a hunter's posture devoid of any emotion.

He no longer goes for walks.

His figure suddenly transformed into a faint golden streak, tracing a path completely defying the laws of physics, without any acceleration, and directly plunged into the densest and most ferocious swarm of insects ahead.

Gao Peng and his companions, who were engaged in a fierce battle with the insect swarm and feeling immense pressure, suddenly realized that the attack from their flanks had abruptly ceased.

They turned to look in astonishment.

Within the once dense, ink-black Insect Tide, a bizarre vacuum suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

A blurry golden Stream of Light was rapidly moving through it, like an invisible eraser. Wherever it passed, swarms of Devouring Locusts, regardless of their strength, were silently dissolved and turned into dust.

That wasn't a battle.

That's... the harvest.

What filled the air was not flesh and blood, but dark green Life Cores, like a sudden, glistening rain, all of which were precisely captured by the golden Stream of Light.

Gao Peng's eyes instantly became bloodshot, and his chest heaved violently.

"Playing tricks!"

Gao Peng let out a deafening roar, his crimson eyes fixed on the figure. "He's definitely using some powerful, one-time-use secret treasure! That thing consumes a huge amount of energy; it won't last long!"

His voice was like thunder, exploding in the ears of every arrogant genius who had lost his Prodigies.

"Yes! It must be a secret treasure!"

"Those bookworms from the Life School love researching these unorthodox methods!"

"Damn it, don't let some good-for-nothing steal all the credit! Everyone, give it your all and let's see who can kill them the fastest!"