Chapter 207: Chapter 133: One Against Three, the Most Monstrous Rookie

But at this moment, all his fantasies were ruthlessly shattered by the figure that had descended before him like a demon god!

SHHHNK!

The long spear pierced through his body without the slightest resistance.

Skinny’s abdomen was run through by a single strike from the Star-Piercing Spear!

A tide of excruciating pain washed over him, but Lin Ye’s eyes remained utterly calm.

He hadn’t aimed to kill with that strike, deliberately avoiding any vital organs.

Then, with a flick of his wrist, Lin Ye twisted the spear’s tip!

PFFT! PFFT!

Two more sprays of blood burst from the tendons of Skinny’s feet!

"AHHH—!!"

Only then did a gut-wrenching scream finally erupt from Skinny’s throat.

He collapsed to the ground, completely limp, and lost consciousness.

「Command Center.」

Through the real-time high-definition footage sent back by the drone, everyone clearly saw the scene that unfolded in a flash.

From the moment Lin Ye was bound by the sand hands to his sudden burst of power, crossing over ten meters to disable Skinny with a single spear thrust.

The entire process took less than a second!

In the conference room, some officers had subconsciously shot up from their seats, their faces filled with disbelief.

"Such an explosive burst of speed!"

"That incredible speed just now... is that a spatial-type Martial Arts Spirituality?!"

"No! That’s not right! You can still see a faint afterimage!"

"It must be some kind of... martial technique? A burst of Qi and Blood from a Vein Opening Realm Martial Artist could never achieve that kind of instantaneous speed!"

For a moment, a flurry of different opinions filled the room.

...

Seeing her companion incapacitated in an instant, Li Xinyue was both shocked and enraged.

With a sharp cry, her body erupted with a strength that completely betrayed her physique. She swung her Flaming Warhammer in a huge arc, charging at Lin Ye with a heat that seemed to burn the very air!

’She would avenge her companion!’

However, Lin Ye turned, his gaze meeting hers.

That cold, indifferent look made Li Xinyue feel as if she had been plunged into a ten-thousand-year-old ice cavern, her very blood on the verge of freezing.

A fear stemming from the depths of her soul caused her swinging motion to falter.

DONG!

The sound was a heavy, muffled clang!

This time, Li Xinyue’s heavy hammer slammed solidly against a purple crystal wall that had appeared out of thin air!

The crystal wall showed not a single crack under the hammer’s assault, completely blocking the powerful blow.

The next moment, the crystal wall dissipated.

The Star-Piercing Spear in his hand blurred into two afterimages, moving at extreme speed.

PFFT! PFFT!

Two sprays of blood blossomed on Li Xinyue’s slender shoulders!

The sharp, excruciating pain and the sudden loss of strength made it impossible for her to hold her weapon.

The heavy warhammer crashed onto the sandy ground.

Lin Ye didn’t show the slightest bit of mercy just because his opponent was a woman.

When facing enemies, he never differentiated by gender.

Two more spear thrusts, as fast as lightning, flashed past.

He severed the tendons in the woman’s ankles with unerring precision.

"AHHH—!!"

Another shrill scream rang out.

The agony of having the tendons in one’s limbs severed was unbearable for any ordinary person.

Li Xinyue collapsed to the ground, her face contorted in agony, her eyes filled with terror.

Lin Ye’s expression remained utterly impassive.

He hadn’t forgotten that just a few minutes ago, this group had planned to do the same to him.

What he was doing now was merely giving them a taste of their own medicine.

"Xinyue!"

The last one remaining, Yv Chuang, saw his two companions incapacitated one after another in just over ten seconds. His eyes instantly turned bloodshot, his reason consumed by fury.

"I’ll kill you!!"

He roared, hefting the broadsword that was as large as a door panel, and charged at Lin Ye like a maddened beast.

Lin Ye didn’t understand the relationship between the three of them.

But that didn’t stop him from being ruthless.

He knew very well that this last man possessed a high-speed regeneration spirituality. A simple method like severing his tendons wouldn’t be enough to decisively restrain him.

Therefore, a simpler and more effective method was needed.

Facing the furious downward slash, Lin Ye neither dodged nor evaded.

Purple crystal armor materialized on his body. As he took the blow head-on, he thrust his spear forward.

A direct thrust!

The spearhead pierced straight through Yv Chuang’s abdomen, pinning him firmly in place!

Lin Ye had no reservations about this strike, because he knew that with his high-speed regeneration, the man wouldn’t die.

The brawny man’s forward momentum came to an abrupt halt. He looked down at the spear piercing his body, his eyes filled with disbelief.

However, this wasn’t the end.

Lin Ye raised his left hand and clenched it in the air.

VMMMM—

Four crystal spears, shimmering with an eerie purple light, materialized beside him, radiating a dangerous aura.

THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK!

Four muffled thuds of sharp objects sinking into flesh sounded in quick succession.

The four crystal spears precisely pierced the brawny man’s wrists and ankles, pinning him spread-eagled to the bedrock beneath the yellow sand!

Even more terrifying, under Lin Ye’s control, the surfaces of the crystal spears embedded in the man’s body sprouted countless small, sharp, purple crystal branches, which rooted themselves in his flesh like barbs.

Only the Doctor and Bilok’s symbiote had experienced this move before.

"Urk... AAAAAHHHHH!!"

The brawny man, in unbearable agony, let out an inhuman roar.

The regeneration spirituality within him worked frantically to repair the wounds, but the crystal barbs simultaneously destroyed his body tissue, causing even more intense pain.

The more he struggled, the deeper the barbs dug in, and the more agonizing it became.

The battle was over.

From start to finish, it had taken less than two minutes.

The still-conscious Yv Chuang and Li Xinyue stared at the figure standing with his spear, their eyes filled with nothing but a thick, undiluted terror.

They finally understood what kind of monster they had provoked.

They had originally thought that by joining forces to challenge the top-ranked contestant, even if they couldn’t win, they could at least escape unscathed with their well-practiced teamwork and hidden trump cards.

But in the face of an absolute gap in strength, all their schemes and struggles seemed utterly laughable.

Lin Ye didn’t waste a single word on the three of them.

He bent down and, without expression, removed the bracelets from each of their wrists.

The instant the bracelets came off, the point total on Lin Ye’s own bracelet began to jump wildly.

Finally, it settled at a new high.

Total points: 72,891!

A single plunder had netted him over fifteen thousand points.

Lin Ye casually tossed the three bracelets next to them.

Then, he turned and walked back into the howling sandstorm without giving the trio a second glance.

The three of them lay on the ground.

The wind was picking up.

Sand baked hot by the sun whipped against their faces, bringing a sharp, stinging pain.

Just then, out of the corners of their eyes, they caught glimpses of strange, distorted shadows gradually appearing in the distant, dusky sandstorm.

The shadows were slender and agile, with an inhuman strangeness to them.

This was the heartland of the Shadow Scale Race’s territory!

The thought of the brutality of those humanoid lizards finally filled the trio’s eyes with absolute terror.

’To lose our ability to move in a place like this... our fate is destined to be worse than death!’

In the end, it was the brawny Yv Chuang, pinned to the ground, who endured the excruciating pain of the crystal barbs tearing his flesh, and used his last ounce of strength to lift his speared right hand, painstakingly pick up the bracelet Lin Ye had tossed aside, and send out a distress signal.

The bracelet shattered, and a red beam of light shot into the sky, exceptionally conspicuous against the dusky heavens.

What they didn’t know was that the rescue team was, in fact, already nearby.

「Provisional Camp Command.」

Everyone’s eyes were wide.

Materializing a crystal wall from thin air to block a heavy hammer.

Materializing crystal spears from thin air to pin an enemy to the ground.

They had seen it all with their own eyes.

"Is that... Dual Martial Arts Spirituality?"

Finally, someone voiced the somewhat absurd speculation that was on everyone’s mind.

"Didn’t he just enter the Vein Opening Realm?! How could he possibly awaken two completely different types of Martial Arts Spirituality?!"

"No wonder he dared to face a level-one insect swarm alone! No wonder he could slaughter his way through over ten thousand Iron-Eating Beetles!"

"This kid really knows how to hide his strength! In his personal file, the entry for Martial Arts Spirituality actually says ’None’!"

Countless discussions and gasps of amazement erupted at that moment.

Those who had previously harbored doubts about Lin Ye’s record of killing over ten thousand beetles now had their suspicions completely dispelled.

A three-on-one fight, and he easily turned the tables and crushed them!

This Lin Ye...

...was without a doubt the most monstrous rookie in this year’s selection trials!