The Test Wasn't Just for the National War Contestants...

Boom!

Boom!

Roar—

Thunder raged across the sky, blue-violet flashes tearing through heaven and earth.

The roars of giant beasts shook the world! The ground trembled, and the source was drawing closer!

Lin Qingyan stood in the villa courtyard, looking up at the blood-red sky with a slight frown.

"Something... is coming..."

Outside Mormans City, a vast icefield split open. The ice heaved as though the earth itself were turning over. Something enormous raced beneath it, exposing a mountain-like ridge as it charged toward Mormans.

Bang!

With a tremendous crash, the underground behemoth slammed into the barrier.

Mormans shuddered violently. Heaven and earth seemed to sway!

Whoosh!

A snow-white aurora shot from the city walls like a divine spear piercing heaven and earth. It punched through the ground in a single strike and gravely wounded the creature below.

An enraged roar followed.

The underground behemoth revealed itself: an Abyss Sandworm ten thousand meters long, its body as thick as a mountain. A single horn rose from its head, and its pitch-black body was covered in thick scales and countless mouthparts. It could devour everything in its path, and its destructive power was terrifying.

Lin Qingyan released her mental power and saw the scene outside the city through Martial Arts Sight.

Mormans's counterattack formation had wounded the Quasi-King Tier Abyss Sandworm. Black blood gushed from its belly as it thrashed in pain, but it only grew more savage.

It roared, unleashing a piercing sound wave to summon more than a dozen Ninth Tier Abyss Sandworms. From every direction, they launched dense waves of vibration against the barrier.

Those vibrations carried terrifying energy. They could easily shake a city of a million people to pieces, tear it apart from within, crack the atmosphere, shatter the ground, rapidly destroy buildings, and split the