Transcendent Dawn

Chapter 721: Chapter 0721: Supernatural (Please Subscribe)

The controlled mice easily mingled with their kind, scurrying throughout the exam site.

They worked together, some monitoring the exam takers while others passed around the cheat sheets, displaying a well-organized scene.

The majority of the covert and surreptitious activities in the exam site were instantly exposed to Xu Changqing’s view.

‘Hehe… No wonder it is often said in folk tales that during exams, all kinds of supernatural beings emerge. Indeed, it is so…’

Xu Changqing, who was remotely controlling the mice and observing the scene, was marveling at the situation.

Following a group of mice, he arrived at an exam hut and watched them delivering contraband items to an exam taker.

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The exam taker was pale and occasionally coughed. It was the same one who had displayed signs of illness while queuing with him earlier.

Glancing at the name tag outside the exam hut, he was called Zeng Guangli.

“Hehe… My darlings, you have worked hard this time.”

After hiding the cheat sheets, Zeng Guangli laughed softly. Suddenly his stomach swelled up, he fell to the ground and opened his mouth wide, his face twisted in pain.

“Ugh…”

Accompanied by the sound of dry heaving, a pile of bloody flesh scattered on the ground, only to be consumed by the mice.

‘Feeding demons with one’s own body? Stupid… No wonder he looks like he won’t live much longer…’

Xu Changqing instantly understood what was happening.

The city was protected by a large array, but the principle of the array was to deter weaker beings with the powerful breath of supernatural creatures.

Against those manipulated by humans or those with high intelligence, it was powerless.

‘Even so, these rat monsters have unique traits… They should have been specially raised using some obscure and peculiar Daoist methods…’

Inwardly, Xu Changqing watched as the mice squabbled eagerly over the bloody flesh, even licking the blood-stained dirt until it was completely clean.

“Cough, cough…”

It took Zeng Guangli a while to recover from his coughing fit, took a sip of tea, and mumbled to himself, “During this examination, Linfeng Immortal intends to take a disciple. It’s a rare opportunity, and I must win the first place to become his disciple…”

“Hehe!”

At this moment, a cold, mocking laugh came from outside the hut.

“Huh?”

Zeng Guangli was startled. He saw a faint ‘shadow’ walking in and heard a sharp voice next to his ear, “You? A lowly rat controller, worthy of becoming an Immortal’s disciple?”

It was just a thin shadow, but it spoke with a human voice, sounding very eerie in the dark night.

What’s worse, despite its loud talking, the surrounding huts were oblivious, as if the sounds within this area had been ‘shielded’.

Xu Changqing recognized him instantly: ‘I’ve seen this person. Even though he intentionally concealed his face, I can recognize him. It’s Lv Sen!’

“Who are you?”

Zeng Guangli immediately became alert, making a squeaking noise from his mouth. A large number of rats snarled at the shadow, an intimidation stance.

“Hehe, compared to me, your little trick is just not good enough… Linfeng Immortal made great progress in his cultivation years ago due to a fortuitous opportunity. I can’t miss this chance to take him as my master during this disciple recruitment.”

The shadow lunged forward, and suddenly—

Black flames ignited.

These black flames acted in an odd manner, they burned over the desks, inkstones, but without leaving any trace behind, looking like crawling black liquid. As soon as they caught a rat, they devoured it, and it disappeared without a trace instantly.

It was as if they only burned living creatures.

“Yin Corrosion Fire? Ah… you are from the Lv Family…”.

Zeng Guangli’s pupils contracted and he tried to flee. But it was too late.

The black liquid flames burned a large number of rats and immediately grabbed onto Zeng Guangli’s ankles, behaving as though alive, they drilled into his orifices.

The rat controller fell to the ground, his limbs convulsing violently, foam at his mouth.

Sometime after, a ball of flame flowed out of his mouth and transformed into a shadow, it let out several cold, mocking laughs and left the scene of the crime.

What Lv Sen did not realize was that there was one mouse that had sprouted dark green tentacles from its orifices. It was sticking to the wall of the exam hut, silently witnessing the entire process.

“Linfeng Immortal gained a fortuitous opportunity, which greatly advanced his cultivation? Does it have something to do with the opening of the Gate of Immortal Realm last time? Why didn’t he directly Ascend to the Immortal Realm… Where is Shuangxuan? I can’t find his traces, maybe he really did Ascend…”

Xu Changqing murmured to himself.

At this time, Zeng Guangli suddenly opened his eyes below.

“Hehe…haha…”

His eyes were lifeless, drool dripping from his mouth, he had clearly gone mad!

Not only that, the sound he made grew louder, drawing the attention of the surrounding examinees—after Lv Sen left, the barrier he casually set up naturally disappeared.

Before long, the patrolling soldiers reached the examination room, shaking their heads: “Another one has gone mad.”

The stress of the examination field was immense, it was normal for a few to lose their sanity every year during the exams.

Thump! Thump!

But Zeng Guangli was different!

He was desperately ramming his forehead against the wall, quickly turning into a bloody mess.

“Quick! Grab him and drag him away!”

One of the patrol inspectors who came immediately ordered.

Dying outside was a different story to dying in the examination room.

Immediately two soldiers stepped forward.

But they were a bit too late.

With a loud crash, Zeng Guangli forcefully smashed into a wall, his head caved in, and he collapsed lifelessly.

“Sir…he’s dead.”

A soldier stepped forward to check his breath and shook his head.

“Such…bad luck!”

The examiner frowned in disgust.

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Pandemonium broke the silence of the night.

Xu Changqing got up, quietly watching the scene unfold.

“I heard a candidate went mad?”

“And bashed his head against the wall until he died?”

Many of the surrounding examinees empathized with the tragedy.

However, he sighed quietly: “The poison in people’s hearts is even worse than demons…”

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The next day.

Despite the candidate gone mad, even died crashing against the wall in the examination room, the test continued as usual.

The examination paper was handed out, Xu Changqing looked at the question.

His literary skills were mediocre, even after becoming an Immortal, it stayed the same.

However, with his cheat on hand, he let the old grandfather do it for him.

After receiving Su Lu’s ‘answer’, Xu Changqing took a deep breath, slowly grinding the ink.

He lifted the brush, and wholeheartedly wrote down the answers on the examination paper.

Every character seemed to take a lot of effort, making him need a rest after writing for a while.

Yet on the blank scroll, row upon row of brush strokes flowed like a stream, very pleasing to the eye.

However, if you look closely, you will find that the horizontal strokes were still the same horizontal strokes, the vertical strokes were still the same vertical strokes, and the characters were still the same characters, but they gave people a dizzying feeling, as if they had forgotten the concept of ‘text’, leaving only the strange and peculiar ink traces.

This is no longer text, but a talisman!

A giant talisman!

‘This world does not need to transcribe the text for review separately, just look at the original… Even if it needs to be transcribed, with my level, I will be in the top ten, and typically, the original text will need to be reviewed!’ Su Lu looked at this scene and thought to himself.

As the final chief examiner, Linfeng Immortal had to carefully review the top ten articles both emotionally and logically.

When the time comes, the horror hidden in this test paper would be thoroughly unleashed!