In the assessment hall, the battle on the virtual ocean battlefield was still continuing across the giant light screen. Up on the dais, the four examiners had watched Lu Yuan slay a fourth-stage Star Core Realm Deep Sea Ice-Armor Turtle and all believed the limits of this assessment had already arrived.
After all, among this year's candidates, anyone who could withstand a fourth-stage Star Core Realm vicious beast head-on was already at the very top level.
The white-haired elderly examiner slowly loosened his clenched hand and stroked his beard, just about to comment on Lu Yuan's performance, when the calm in his eyes froze in an instant.
The rugged middle-aged examiner had just sat back down. His motion of lifting his water cup suddenly stopped dead in midair.
The refined young examiner's fingertip hovered above the virtual screen, unable to move even an inch farther.
The refined middle-aged female examiner's slightly relaxed brows knitted tightly once more. The four of them locked their gazes onto the light screen, their breathing instantly stopping.
The reason was very simple.
In the ocean battlefield, before the lingering chill of the Mystic Ice Strangling Array had yet dispersed, a heaven-destroying, earth-shattering pressure suddenly erupted from the seafloor. The seawater churned wildly, and an ink-black shadow swept across the entire sea. A fifth-stage Star Core Realm vicious beast—the Abyssal Sea Serpent—made its ferocious entrance!
This sea serpent was more than ten thousand meters long, its body pitch-black and covered in scales, its vertical pupils scarlet. It spewed venomous black mist from its mouth, and with a sweep of its tail, it could shatter the reefs on the seabed. Its speed was as fast as lightning as it charged straight at Lu Yuan to tear into him.
Lu Yuan's gaze remained steady. The Mystic Ice Strangling