74: The source of pollution, the Abyss King-level creature——[Yin Lord]

South River City.

The torrential rain grew heavier and heavier, and daytime became as dark as night while streaks of thunder slashed across the firmament.

Inside a certain courtroom.

"Bang!"

The gavel landed rhythmically.

The people inside the room sat quietly; the lawyer gestured wildly, and the prosecutor crossed their arms.

No one made a sound.

This was a silent trial.

"Crack!"

A startling bolt of lightning flashed from outside the house, its pale radiance illuminating the interior.

Behold.

The judge and the arbiter, the prisoner and the plaintiff, the relatives and the jury had all had their heads removed, leaving only headless corpses sitting in their seats, carrying out the steps of the trial like a Puppet.

A person sat in the rear jury box, wearing a high-end suit, elegantly crossing their legs, revealing a meaningful smile on the lower half of their face.

"It has begun..."

"What?" asked the tall figure leaning against the wall with folded arms.

The judge at the highest seat raised a palm, the flesh of which wriggled to form a mouth, emitting a girl's crisp voice,

"The prelude to destruction..."

...

Jiang Province Education Bureau Headquarters.

"Beep beep beep!!"

The red alarm sounded endlessly, and staff members hurried about with rushed steps.

On the huge white orb displaying the Dungeon map, a tiny black dot appeared at this moment, and it was continuously spreading.

"This is... the aura of the Abyss?"

Yun Zaiye's expression was extremely ugly.

"How could this happen..."

The white-haired boy seemed to have noticed something, his brows furrowing tightly with a trace of anger,

"Turns out it's It!"

Yun Zaiye: "It?"

"The King Realm creature from the 37th S-Rank Abyss, codenamed [Yin Lord]."

The white-haired boy said with a cold face.

"King, King Realm?!"

Yun Zaiye widened his eyes, his expression shocked.

"There were previous reports of It descending upon South River City through the Void Cavity. I guess It definitely left behind some back-ups from that descent, using the contaminated Clone and the cover of the Dungeon world to bypass the Great Xia borders, allowing Its true body to descend into Great Xia through the Dungeon world."

The white-haired boy's expression grew uglier and uglier as he spoke, as gloomy as water.

"What's even more troublesome is that once Its true body completely takes control of the Dungeon, we won't know which city It will suddenly appear in, and the entire Jiang Province will fall into immense peril."

"How could..."

Yun Zaiye, an Eighth-Turn transferred Martial Artist, turned pale at this moment and couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

If the true form of a King Realm creature were to descend suddenly without warning, I'm afraid an entire city would be destroyed, and the resulting contamination would be unimaginable.

How massive the casualties would be by then.

He didn't even dare to think about it.

"We, we must quickly report this to the general headquarters," Yun Zaiye said with a trembling voice.

"It's too late."

The white-haired boy's tender little face was extremely solemn, exuding thick majesty,

"I'm heading over right now; absolutely cannot let It seize control of the Dungeon world."

"You must immediately announce the end of the College Entrance Examination with highest authority, and let all remaining examinees leave the trial Dungeon."

As the white-haired boy spoke, his body digitized, and accompanied by a blue light, he instantly vanished from the spot.

Yun Zaiye wiped his face, took a deep breath, and immediately gave the order,

"I now announce the end of the College Entrance Examination. Send a notification to the 384 examinees still remaining in the Dungeon, telling them to immediately crush the Teleportation Stone and leave the Dungeon world, otherwise their scores will be treated as zero."

"Ah... Yes!"

"Deu-, Deputy Director, the Sea-Tree Royal Court in the deepest part of the Dungeon has fallen, and we cannot contact the five examinees who entered it," the female staff member turned around and said in a panic.

Yun Zaiye's heart instantly sank to the bottom.

...

Meanwhile, at the Sea-Tree Royal Court.

Swish swish swish swish swish!!

Tens of thousands of black vines came from the sky, densely packed.

"Phantom Body."

Luo Xi cast an illusion, her body splitting into nine, constantly switching between the Phantom Bodies to avoid the vines' attacks.

Her tense and solemn expression showed that she was not relaxed at all right now.

The silver-haired girl Pei Congyun sat on the shoulder of a skeleton knight, and the surrounding skeleton army formed its own territory, but under the erosion and attacks of the vines, the skeleton army was constantly dwindling.

Compared to the two of them,

Jiang Yuan and Lin Qingyan were much more composed.

One kept throwing punches, blasting apart the incoming vines mid-air.

The other uttered divine words, stirring up thunder from all directions, transforming it into a Domain of thunder that surrounded her body, rendering her immune to all spells and laws.

However, whether these black vines were chopped to pieces or blasted apart, they would immediately regenerate and multiply, just like endless locusts.

"Lin Qingyan, isn't he your brother? Make him stop right now!"

Luo Xi shouted at Lin Qingyan while struggling to defend.

"He is no longer Lin Junhao right now; he has been contaminated and parasitized by a terrifying Abyss creature."

Lin Qingyan's tone was unprecedentedly cold, "The real Lin Junhao is already dead! Right now, he is a Clone of that fiend monster!"

"What?!"

Luo Xi and Pei Congyun turned their heads to look at the same time.

"What she said is correct," Jiang Yuan said.

"According to the examination rules, examinees who kill the final boss can clear the Dungeon and be teleported away, but he killed the boss yet still remained here, violating the rules. This is enough to prove that he is no longer an examinee right now."

"Hehehehehehe..."

Lin Junhao stood on the throne of flesh and blood, his flesh squirming and his bones twisting and changing, greedily absorbing power through the black vines inserted into the corpses of Vicious Beasts.

His entire body exuded a thick black fog that surged into the sky, dyeing both the sky and the thunder black while also cracking a blood-red fissure in the sky, which continued to expand.

Lin Qingyan looked at this scene with an extremely ugly expression.

The 37th S-Rank Abyss Lord, codenamed — [Yin Lord].

The disaster that South River City suffered in her past life was because of It!

But how could it be so early?!

In her past life's College Entrance Examination trial, she hadn't heard of any problems arising. No, it was also possible that the news had been covered up.

Watching the blood-red breach in the sky grow larger and larger.

Lin Qingyan also immediately understood what It intended to do.

She immediately turned her head to look at Jiang Yuan and the others, shouting sternly:

"Attack together. We absolutely cannot let him leave this place alive!"

"I know that even without you telling me."

As Jiang Yuan spoke, he slowly drew the silver white fang from his waist.