In the assessment space within the Seven Star Treasure Pagoda, used to evaluate Universe-level geniuses from the Giant Axe Dojo's Elite Training Camp.
Inside a circular cavern over a hundred kilometers in diameter, Chen Daolin stepped out of the spatial teleportation from the second level and arrived here. Raising his head, he saw countless black cocoons hanging throughout the vast, honeycomb-like cavern.
Each black cocoon was over ten meters long and shaped like a taper. The moment Chen Daolin appeared, they began to tremble violently.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack... Crisp breaking sounds rang out from the cocoons. One black cocoon after another rapidly split and shattered amid violent tremors, and pitch-black, mantis-like monsters crawled out. Their bodies were still covered in the fluid from breaking free of their cocoons, but once exposed to the air, the fluid quickly hardened.
In the blink of an eye, the cavern walls were filled with these monsters.
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
Earth-shaking roars erupted from the mouths of the black mantis monsters. At the same time, they raised their two incomparably sharp blade-like arms, spread their hard black wings, and surged toward Chen Daolin like an overwhelming tide.
"A total of ten thousand!" Chen Daolin swiftly estimated the number of gatekeeper monsters in the third-level assessment space. Gripping his dark golden spear, his eyes beneath his black hair gleamed coldly.
The two sides clashed instantly.
Screech—
Chen Daolin's spear shot out fiercely, and golden currents of energy surged wildly forth, churning the surrounding space into continuously expanding distorted ripples. For a moment, its momentum even overwhelmed the tide-like army of black mantises rushing toward him.
With no time to evade, the triangular, vicious heads of the two foremost black mantis monsters were instantly blown apart by the spear carrying golden energy currents. Their enormous bodies