The Imperial Capital, National Examination Command Center.

A heavy atmosphere made it hard to breathe.

High-ranking military officials and school leaders who had just received the news rushed over immediately.

They gathered in front of the teleportation Formation, their faces looking grimmer than the last.

The one-eyed old General Zhang briefly recounted the whole story.

“Dawnbreaker Guild!”

“These lunatics! They’re absolutely lawless!”

A vice-principal from the Imperial Capital Academy trembled with rage.

“How dare they tamper with the National Examination! This is a provocation to the entire education system of the Great Xia Country!”

“They must be severely punished! This cancer must be completely eradicated!”

“Right! We can’t tolerate it any longer!”

Inside the command center, emotions ran high.

The one-eyed old General Zhang raised his hand, quieting the crowd.

“Everyone, please calm down.”

“Now is not the time to discuss this.”

He looked at everyone and said in a deep voice.

“You don’t need to worry too much.”

“General Zhang has already personally taken action, tearing open a spatial rift and entering the Chaos space.”

“With his strength, he might have already arrived at Triple Island and started clearing out those scoundrels.”

Hearing this, their taut nerves relaxed slightly.

They still had considerable faith in Zhang Donglai’s strength.

Just then.

“Buzz—!”

In the center of the room, the recently healed spatial rift suddenly vibrated violently again.

A pitch-black crack was torn open from within by a brutal force.

Immediately after, a figure stumbled out of the rift.

It was Zhang Donglai.

His General’s uniform had several tears, his face was pale, his aura was chaotic, and a trace of blood stained the corner of his mouth.

Inside the command center, silence instantly fell.

Everyone’s eyes widened, looking at the disheveled Zhang Donglai.

“Old Zhang!”

The one-eyed old General Zhang rushed forward and supported him.

“What happened to you? Didn’t you go to Triple Island? Why are you back?”

Zhang Donglai steadied himself and waved his hand.

He looked up, his eyes so dark they could drip water.

“Dawnbreaker Guild...”

He gritted his teeth, enunciating each word.

“In the Chaos space, I encountered that madman Mo Hen.”

“He had been ambushing there for a long time, and to stop me from going to Triple Island, he directly detonated the Chaos energy in that area.”

“The spatial coordinates were all messed up, I couldn’t find my way, and almost couldn’t come back.”

“What?!” 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

The one-eyed old General Zhang’s pupils sharply contracted.

The faces of everyone else present also instantly became extremely grim.

“Mo Hen... that traitor also made a move?”

A General sighed.

“It seems the Dawnbreaker Guild’s operation this time was premeditated.”

“Even the Chaos space was accounted for in their plan.”

“The children on the island are probably in danger.”

Zhang Donglai took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing his surging Qi and blood.

He looked at the technical personnel responsible for Formation maintenance.

“The teleportation Formation! How much longer until it’s repaired?!”

The technical personnel was drenched in sweat, his voice trembling.

“General! The Great Masters of Formation are already working at full speed to repair it!”

“But the opponent’s interference methods are too clever, we... we need at least fifteen more minutes!”

“Fifteen minutes?”

Zhang Donglai felt his vision go black.

Too long.

Fifteen minutes was enough for that madman Zuo Daolin to pack up all the examinees and take them away.

“It’s my fault...”

He closed his eyes, his voice filled with pain and self-reproach.

“It was my insufficient supervision...”

“That allowed these lunatics to seize an opportunity...”

“General, you can’t take all the blame.”

A school leader quickly stepped forward to comfort him.

“Who would have thought that the people from the Dawnbreaker Guild would be /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ so audacious as to lay hands on the National Examination!”

“Right! It’s too early to say all this!”

“Everything, let’s discuss it once we enter Triple Island!”

That’s what they said.

But everyone knew in their hearts that hope had become incredibly slim.

...

At the same time, Triple Island.

Inside the circular valley.

The battle between Zuo Daolin and Gandalf continued.

“Hehehe... you really are an interesting Puppet.”

Zuo Daolin’s figure was as fast as a ghost, he circled Gandalf, constantly looking for openings to attack.

Black Soul Power claw marks landed on the Arcane Barrier again and again.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Dull thudding sounds were incessant.

Gandalf’s shield value was rapidly decreasing.

But Zuo Daolin’s heart grew heavier and heavier.

Something was wrong.

Very wrong.

Every attack, he had included a Soul shock.

For any other professional, even a Paladin specializing in mental defense, being continuously attacked like this, their Soul would have long since collapsed, turning into a Puppet he could control at will.

But this mage in front of him...

Aside from his shield being broken, he seemed completely unaffected!

Every time his shield was about to break, he could always instantly cast an Arcane Barrier to replenish it.

Then he would continue to stand there, watching him coldly with those emotionless eyes.

It was as if...

It was as if he had no Soul at all!

How was this possible?

Without a Soul, what was he fighting against right now?

A rock?

The more Zuo Daolin thought about it, the stranger it felt.

He even felt that this guy named Gandalf in front of him was even more bizarre than himself, a Soul Controller.

It was this momentary Divided Soul.

Zhou Huai, who was observing from the sidelines, accurately captured it.

An opportunity!

He immediately commanded Gandalf to counterattack.

Buzz—!

An invisible fluctuation instantly spread out from Gandalf, radiating in all directions.

Forbidden Spell: Gravitational Field!

Heavy pressure descended again.

Zuo Daolin’s figure suddenly paused, his speed sharply reduced.

The rocky ground beneath his feet cracked inch by inch.

“Hehe... this move again.”

From beneath the mask came his hoarse sneer.

“Although your moves are powerful, in the face of an absolute disparity in strength, they are nothing to me...”

His words were cut short.

The magnificent star moon magic robe on Gandalf’s body suddenly erupted with dazzling light.

Countless runes of stars and crescent moons flowed and converged on the robe.

It was the set effect of the star moon magic robe.

Arcane Dual Manifestation!

Consumes 500 Mana, ignores cooldown, instantly casts two identical skills.

Buzz—!

Another Geocentric Gravity Field, ignoring cooldown and incantation, descended out of thin air.

The effects of the two Gravitational Fields instantly stacked!

“What?!”

The smile on Zuo Daolin’s face completely froze.

He felt as if two invisible mountains were pressing down heavily on him.

Ten times gravity?

No!

It was twenty times!

“Crack!”

The bones in his knees let out a crisp sound, unable to bear the weight.

He could no longer maintain a standing posture, and with a “thud,” he heavily knelt on the ground on one knee.

The ground instantly collapsed into a deep pit.

He tried to struggle to his feet, but found his body was as if filled with lead, making it incredibly difficult to even move a finger.

In his eyes, for the first time, a look of astonishment appeared.

He was actually suppressed by a mage who was only level 20?

Now!

Gandalf seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

He held nothing back, the Mana in his body surged like a bursting flood.

He raised his staff high, pointing it at the sky.

He began to chant.

It was an ancient, obscure, and destructive incantation.

As he chanted, the entire valley began to tremble violently.

The sky darkened.

Dark clouds gathered, lightning flashed, and thunder roared.

A hurricane of extreme ferocity formed out of thin air in the valley.

The wind howled, like thousands of demons screaming.

Sand and stones flew, the sky and earth turned dark.

Within a radius of several kilometers, all trees were uprooted, swept into the air, and instantly torn to shreds.

Countless wandering mutated beasts let out terrified wails, unable to escape before being caught by the terrifying wind force and churned into a sky full of flesh and blood.

Among them, there was even a level 20 Elite BOSS—the Earth-Rending Demon Bear.

Its massive body was as fragile as paper in the face of the storm, turning into dust before it could even let out a cry of agony.

“Forbidden Spell: Bladewind Storm!”

With the last syllable falling.

The world-destroying storm took shape.

Countless green wind blades, highly compressed from wind elements, spun madly within the hurricane, slicing through everything in their path.

Zuo Daolin, tightly suppressed in place, struggled to raise his head.

He looked at the world-destroying scene, at the storm that dyed the sky green, and his eyes beneath the mask erupted with a morbid fanaticism.

“Hahahahaha!”

“Interesting! So interesting!”

He laughed wildly.

“The surprises you give me are truly endless!”

“I must! I must take you back with me!”

However, the next second.

His laughter was completely drowned out by the terrifying storm.

His figure was swept into it, instantly disappearing.

...

Not far away.

Behind a hidden hillside.

Ye Xi, Yuan Kai, and Shen Fuhai stared dumbfounded at the enormous storm that reached the heavens and earth, their minds blank.

“What is that?”

Yuan Kai’s voice was trembling.

Shen Fuhai swallowed hard, speaking with difficulty.

“That wouldn’t be the Big Shot and that masked man fighting, would it?”

“This scene is too exaggerated...”

Ye Xi covered her small mouth, her beautiful eyes wide.

Could this... be the true strength of that Big Shot?

...

Further away.

Some provincial team examinees who had luckily not been controlled by Zuo Daolin and were still unclear about the situation also stopped what they were doing.

They looked in horror at the green apocalyptic scene in the distance, each feeling as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

“What in the world is that?”

An examinee asked blankly.

“Is it a skill released by some BOSS?”

“What a joke!” His teammate beside him immediately retorted, “If a BOSS’s skill had this much power, why would we bother participating in the National Examination! We might as well lie down and wait to die!”

“Then tell me, is it possible that this is a kind of trial on Triple Island?”

“Heh heh, in that case, I choose to withdraw from the examination.”