Hunting Ground and Safe Zone

Northern Heavens Realm remained the same as ever.

What differed was the overall situation.

Regrettably, with Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy unwilling to reveal that its own Dean, Tai Cang, was an Earth Supreme, it lacked the confidence to compete with the other four spiritual academies for new students. As a result, although quite a few young people who had entered the Spirit Road applied to Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, not a single one of the true geniuses who made it to the end and were rated King-class chose Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.

So, although there were many people—

In truth, there were not many genuine geniuses.

After Lu Yuan made his move and captured several new students from other directions, the new students who had started with Level Three imprints were quickly counted.

There were fewer than twenty in total.

To be exact, there were seventeen.

Most of those geniuses had their own groups.

In other words, their own underlings.

Therefore, during the first wave of turmoil, the vast majority of those geniuses had not encountered any danger. At most, their condition had been worn down by other examinees. The tiny remaining minority were the true Unlucky Ones—either directly eliminated or severely injured, and now being hunted across the mountains and plains by the other examinees.

That was right, some had been eliminated.

After all, not every genius was skilled at interpersonal relationships.

Nor could every genius guarantee that luck would favor them.

Fortunately, not many had been eliminated.

There was only one.

All seventeen had been attacked by other examinees at once.

Only five had been seriously injured.

Along with one who had been eliminated.

In fact, as many as eleven still retained over fifty percent of their combat power. For the Spirit Road, a cradle for selecting geniuses,