Ordinary

Making it into the top 100 is already the limit.

Another mentor echoed this sentiment, his words filled with regret.

Old Freak Wang from the Ancient Martial Arts School let out an undisguised cold snort.

"What a waste of resources! A fickle mind is unlikely to achieve great things!"

How did Lin Xuanqing teach him?

Only Lin Xuanqing remained expressionless, but a hint of expectation flickered in the depths of his deep eyes.

Just after Chen Fan had walked several hundred meters at a leisurely pace.

A scorching wave of heat suddenly rushed in from the dense forest ahead, instantly burning the fallen leaves at his feet to ashes.

A young man dressed in a bright red outfit, seemingly engulfed in invisible flames, strode out and blocked his path.

The young man was tall and handsome, with flames dancing in his eyes. He unabashedly released a powerful aura, clearly a top expert at the Mid-Stage Sixth Grade Undying Realm.

"The New Martial Arts School, Huo Ling."

The young man introduced himself, his fighting spirit high as he stared at Chen Fan's youthful face, his voice booming like a bell.

"You're the Federation Top Scholar, Chen Fan? I've heard of you. Come, let me see what makes you so special!"

Before he could finish speaking, Huo Ling had already made his move!

Without the slightest hint of testing, he thrust both hands forward forcefully!

"Heaven-Burning!"

Boom!!

A crimson sea of fire, formed from the purest and most potent Undying Divine Fire, appeared out of thin air and swept towards Chen Fan like a raging, reversed tide.

Wherever the flames passed, the space sizzled under the strain, and even the light was distorted.

Its power was so great that even the Chief Instructors in the spectator stands nodded slightly in approval.

"Huo Ling's control over the laws of fire has improved considerably. This attack would probably not even last a single breath for an ordinary mid-stage Undying Realm."

Chen Fan is in grave danger.

Faced with this raging inferno powerful enough to burn mountains and boil seas, Chen Fan's steps did not falter even for a moment.

He maintained his leisurely strolling posture, simply raising his right hand calmly.

Then, she extended a fair, clean finger, as if it were carved from mutton fat jade.

He gently tapped the air above the surging flames.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

The crimson sea of fire, which seemed poised to devour the entire world, crashed into an invisible dam just three feet in front of Chen Fan's fingertips.

No, it wasn't a collision.

Instead... it went out.

It was as if an invisible hand had suddenly gripped my throat, or as if all concepts of burning had been stripped away from the very source.

The towering flames, silently and gradually, starting from the very front, were extinguished, disintegrated, and finally vanished into nothingness, completely disappearing into the air.

It was as if it had never existed.

The tens of thousands of students watching the battle through the Law Projection were all momentarily stunned into silence.

Why did that raging Undying Divine Fire become so docile... and vanish?

Chen Fan slowly withdrew his finger, still maintaining his calm and composed demeanor.

He stared ahead at Huo Ling, whose body was stiff with shock and whose pupils had shrunk to the size of pinpoints. A hint of pure curiosity even appeared on Huo Ling's youthful face.

He tilted his head and asked softly in a clear, crisp voice:

Why did your fire go out by itself?

"Shall we... continue?"

This extremely plain question was like an invisible, massive hammer, slamming heavily into Huo Ling's Dao Heart!

"Puff!"

Huo Ling suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, not because of injury, but because his Qi and Blood were attacking his heart!

"Ahhh!!"

His eyes were bloodshot, and he let out a hysterical roar of resentment.

"I don't believe it!!"

He suddenly slapped his chest, forcing out a drop of golden Origin Source blood, which merged into the flames surrounding his body!

"Roar!!"

In an instant, a Fire Qilin, hundreds of feet long and entirely formed from the essence of flames, roared and soared into the sky from behind him, carrying a destructive pressure several times stronger than before, and charged towards Chen Fan, who was still standing in the same spot.

The entire Lost Divine Domain trembled at the sight of the fiery Qilin, which was powered entirely by its Origin Source blood essence and whose aura was several times stronger than before.

The terrifying pressure even penetrated the Law Projection, making the atmosphere in the spectator stands extremely tense.

"This attack is already very close to the late stage of the Undying Realm."

One of the Chief Instructors looked serious.

"Huo Ling is risking his life."

Old Freak Wang practitioner of Ancient Martial Arts School, instinctively straightened his body, his eyes fixed on the screen, so tense that he even forgot to breathe.

He's going to win!

Such a desperate attack would be something that even some late- Undying Realm students from his Ancient Martial Arts School would not dare to take head-on, let alone a freshman who has only been enrolled for a year!

However, Chen Fan, who was at the Center of the Storm, remained completely calm on his youthful face.

He didn't even adopt any defensive stance, but simply watched the roaring beast charging towards him with a hint of inquiry in his eyes.

Just as the fiery Qilin's claws, burning with the blazing flames of law, were about to touch its face...

Chen Fan slowly raised his right hand again.

This time, a wisp of crimson-gold light quietly appeared from his fingertip.

Then, it floated lightly towards the world-destroying fiery Qilin.

The crimson-gold light spot gently touched the center of the Flame Qilin's brow.

The next moment, time seemed to stand still.

The raging fire-breathing Qilin, along with the blazing flames on its body capable of incinerating everything, suddenly froze in mid-air.

Immediately following, starting from the spot of light touching his brow, fine black cracks spread across his hundred-foot-long body like a spider web.

Everything crumbled and vanished into nothingness before that single point of crimson-gold light.

Under Huo Ling's gaze, his pupils dilated to their maximum by extreme fear, his ultimate killing move, a desperate gamble, silently and piece by piece, disintegrated into countless specks of light, ultimately vanishing completely.

It was as if it were just a soap bubble that had been gently popped.

"Puff!"

The ultimate killing move was dismantled at the conceptual level, and an unimaginable backlash instantly descended.

Huo Ling suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, the light in his eyes quickly dimmed, and the life force in his body was completely drained away.

He fell straight backward, crashing to the ground, and then fell silent.

[Points +1800]

A cold, mechanical voice rang in Chen Fan's mind, and a considerable amount of points were credited to his Student Badge.

Chen Fan slowly withdrew his finger, looked in the direction where Huo Ling had fallen, and shook his head slightly. His youthful face seemed to still carry a hint of dejection.

He turned away, ignoring the still-warm corpse, and continued his leisurely stroll, leaving behind only a light, soliloquy that echoed clearly in the deathly silent forest.

"Is this... the mid-stage of the Undying Realm?"