With nearly a thousand Red Water Copper Pythons cleared out,

the remaining white snake eggs on the Chaotic Stone Beach were left for the taking.

After the great purge, less than ten percent of the Red Water Copper Pythons remained.

While the Dwarf Warriors and Wood Elf Warriors remained on high alert, venturing onto the Chaotic Stone Beach to hunt down the last of the pythons,

the other Wood Elf Scouts had already begun collecting the pythons’ eggs.

Most of the Mages in the Elf Mage Corps went to rest.

Only a handful of Elf Mages were ordered by Legion Commander Feiyana to stay behind.

They were to wait for the Elf Warriors and Dwarf Warriors to find suitable Red Water Copper Pythons,

and then use Magic to enslave and tame a group of females.

These captured pythons would then be made to hatch the remaining eggs.

This would establish a new enterprise within Zhang Yi’s Divine Realm!

However, the most important thing was the Golden Treasure Chest!

After Elf Legion Commander Feiyana received the Golden Treasure Chest from one of her subordinates,

she immediately brought it before Elf High Priest Shamiel.

Zhang Yi possessed his Holy Believer’s body once more, took control, and opened the Golden Treasure Chest.

[Talent Crystal—Thunder Punishment (0.1%)]: A fragment of the Upper-tier Thunder Law. After assimilation, one can master Divine Punishment and wield Divine Arts to enact Thunder Punishment upon all creation!

When Zhang Yi saw the Talent Crystal inside the Golden Treasure Chest, he was utterly astonished!

It was exactly as he had predicted!

Previously, based on the commonalities between the Black Iron and Silver Treasure Chests, Zhang Yi had speculated,

’Black Iron Treasure Chests contain a fragment of a Lower-tier Law...’

’Silver Treasure Chests contain a fragment of a Middle-tier Law...’

’So, did that mean the Golden Treasure Chests he had never found before contained fragments of Upper-tier Laws?’

’Furthermore, the Talent Crystals from Black Iron Treasure Chests represented 0.01% of a Law,’

’while those from Silver Treasure Chests represented 0.03%.’

’Following a threefold progression, the Talent Crystal in a Golden Treasure Chest would likely be 0.09% or even 0.1%!’

But now that the truth lay before him, proving the threefold progression, Zhang Yi was still thrilled!

’This Talent Crystal from the Golden Treasure Chest has to be my greatest reward from this exam!’

0.1% of an Upper-tier Law.

One-thousandth of an Upper-tier Law!

After all, a single element from the Elemental Laws—such as wind, lightning, water, or fire—was considered an Upper-tier Law at best.

Only by mastering a combination of multiple Elemental Laws could a Top-Level Law possibly emerge.

For example, one who mastered all the Elemental Laws could forge an Elemental Divine Position and ascend to become a Powerful Divine Being.

As for the Talent Crystal—Thunder Punishment—that Zhang Yi had just obtained,

if he assimilated it, it would perfectly supplement his offensive arsenal,

instantly becoming the most powerful offensive Divine Art in his possession!

Lightning was a natural phenomenon feared by all creatures.

At the dawn of the great War, the Divine Beings of the Blue Star Federation discovered that

the Divine Kings and native Divine Beings from the other Pantheons in these Crystal Wall Systems often claimed lightning as one of their domains, making it their Main Divine Position.

This was because thunder tore through the heavens, its searing white light like the wrathful gaze of a god, descending from on high to strike fear into all living things.

Beasts of the mortal world, monsters from the Abyss, or even the lofty Angels—all would instinctively tremble and cower before the roar of thunder.

For this very reason, across countless planes and thousands of Pantheons, lightning has always been one of the most revered symbols of divine authority. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

—To control the thunder is to be supreme!

In the myths from Zhang Yi’s past life, there were prominent figures from both East and West who claimed thunder as their Main Divine Position.

In the West,

in Greek Mythology, Zeus ruled the gods of Olympus, wielding thunder and using lightning as his spear.

In Nordic Mythology, the Thunder God Thor wielded Mjolnir, his hammer, with every strike causing the heavens and earth to tremble.

The East had the Lei Ancestor—the Nine Heavens Responding Origin Thunder Sound Universal Transformation Celestial Venerable.

The supreme being among the Thunder Department True Gods was the Nine Heavens Responding Origin Thunder Sound Universal Transformation Celestial Venerable, also known as the "Lei Ancestor."

He commanded the Thirty-Six Generals of the Thunder Department, presided over the Celestial Tribulation Thunder Punishment, and carried out judgment on behalf of the heavens.

Whether it was demons undergoing tribulation or great evils among mortals, all had to endure the purifying trial of thunder!

Thus, in terms of value, this single Golden Treasure Chest was worth more than all the Silver and Black Iron Treasure Chests Zhang Yi had acquired combined.

The moment Zhang Yi opened the Golden Treasure Chest did not go unnoticed by the other teachers.

After all, it was already the afternoon of the final day of the exam.

At this point, every action a candidate took was magnified and scrutinized.

Many of the homeroom teachers felt a surge of anxiety as they watched their own students.

So when they saw Zhang Yi of Priority Class 1 once again come out one step ahead, becoming the first student in the entire exam to obtain and open a Golden Treasure Chest,

the other teachers and homeroom teachers couldn’t help but murmur amongst themselves.

"That Zhang Yi sure is lucky!"

"Our Huang Yingtian is just about to defeat the Earth Dragon Clan and get his Golden Treasure Chest!"

"The time difference isn’t even that big, half an hour at most!"

The homeroom teacher of Priority Class 2, Xiong Chumo, couldn’t help but sigh at the sight.

’After all, the difference was less than half an hour. If only Huang Yingtian from my class had been the first to get and open that Golden Treasure Chest, the score bonus for the achievement would have been enough to boost my star student instantly past the currently first-ranked Zhang Yi and into the top spot for this exam!’

’It would have also settled, once and for all, which class was superior after the second-year students were sorted—Priority Class 1 or Priority Class 2!’

’Such a pity!’

’Beaten by a single move!’

Now, Zhang Yi, who was already in first place, had solidified his position at the top.

Now, unless someone could open two Golden Treasure Chests before the end of the exam, it was impossible to overtake him.

But if something so difficult could be accomplished so easily, Zhang Yi wouldn’t have spent a full three days on the Broken Continent just to find and claim his first Golden Treasure Chest.

Furthermore, he had only succeeded because Legion Commander Feiyana, in a moment of inspiration, had remembered the knowledge their great God of Nature taught them in the Divine Realm.

She had applied that knowledge creatively to deal with the horde of Red Water Copper Pythons.

Otherwise, if they had fought the Red Water Copper Pythons—which possessed high physical and magical resistance—head-on, even with the Dwarf Corps at the front, the Elf Corps in the middle, and the Elf Mage Corps at the rear, Zhang Yi’s forces would have suffered heavy losses to kill them all.

It would have been nothing like the current outcome, where they had easily enslaved twenty pairs of Red Water Copper Pythons and obtained several hundred of their eggs.

All that was left was to return to the Divine Realm, find a place to house these newly enslaved Red Water Copper Pythons, and have them hatch the eggs.

In the future, they would have another powerful species in their Divine Realm!