Alpha Power Xixi Li

The vast Furnace Desert was being ravaged by a Death Storm.

Under the threat of the Grand Duchy's Radiation Weapons, the royal families of the duchies had set off a nationwide craze for scholarship, all eager to obtain the power to destroy an entire city with ease!

Against this backdrop, the scholars' temples of the Xilan Duchy and the Grand Duchy competed, and for the first time, the Grand Duchy gained the upper hand across the board.

The Grand Natural Sciences Academy had become the temple of truth every scholar aspired to enter.

Three scholars hoping to earn an Extraordinary Scholar Degree Certificate had left Starveil Land in accordance with the requirements of the degree examination, searching for clues to ancient ruins.

Night fell.

They had been wandering the Furnace Desert for a month, yet had found nothing.

The Furnace Desert was more dangerous at night than during the day. With a day-night temperature difference of over 70°C, the Death Desert, which had felt like a furnace by day, instantly became a land of bitter cold.

Using their scholarship in Natural Law, the three had built a temporary sandcastle shelter between the dunes.

Whoosh...

The nails on this female natural scholar from the Xilan Duchy were engraved with bizarre runes. They writhed with each fluctuation of energy, making for a truly uncanny sight.

She casually crushed an energy crystal.

The crystal powder became high-quality fuel, blazing in the center of the shelter, which was less than ten square meters in size. Its light cast the group's shadows across the walls.

"Ailan, try to conserve the energy crystals. We don't know how long we'll have to search here."

The elderly male scholar took a felt blanket and some pieces of meat out of his Space Box, along with a small can