"It truly is a Heavenly Furnace."

From the sidelines, Gustav let out a light sigh.

As a director of the association, no matter how stubborn Gustav was, he had to provide reasons that could explain everything to all contestants.

Why they were eliminated, what they lacked, where they were insufficient, and where they made fatal mistakes.

Or, in order to uphold his own position, everything he did must be explicable in a way that even a glance could make people understand, thus avoiding misjudging his intentions and arrangements.

The starting point of all actions must be fair enough for everyone to accept.

Even if the standards were severe.

Round after round of eliminations and duels were fitting. As long as the winners were strong enough, the losers would have nothing to say. Absolute fairness in the duels naturally produced absolutely precise results.

Even if everyone knew that such cruel eliminations could never compare to reality.

Reality can disregard reason.

The Heavenly Furnace can too.

No more need for lengthy and cumbersome steps, nor for slow-paced duels. The heat was sufficient, the materials fully grown. Since that was the case, one could summon the Fierce Flame and burn it, triggering the real extraction through aggregation!

If the way to select talents was through duels in an environment fair to everyone, then the way to forge the strong was in the absolute desperation where nothing was fair to anyone at all!

Why seek fairness and reason?

Isn't the cruelty of the embers precisely like this?!

Boom!

In the fleeting silence, sudden thunder erupted in the world of Floating Light.

In the brief flash, everyone instinctively looked toward the same direction, at the workshop shimmering with iron light beneath the shattered walls of the mountain hollowed to its core.

And at the highest point of the workshop, surveying the surroundings...

Ji Jue!

"Damn——"

Ji Jue's eyes twitched once, then twitched again.

You wouldn't need to think much to know the deadly situation he was about to face...

There was a rumor that crabs placed in a bamboo basket didn't need a lid. The ones trying to climb up would naturally pull the top one down.

Though the rumor was nonsense, it made sense in certain contexts.

For instance, now...

If the sky fell down, the taller ones had to hold it up first. As the one who had been at the top from the start of this chaotic competition and exam, and with no one being able to pose a threat, he was primarily facing the most desperate situation.

If they didn't take him down first, was everyone supposed to battle to the brink of death and then let him pick them off one by one?!

Thus, in a moment shorter than an instant, all participants reached an undisputed agreement.

——"Blades in hand, kill the Ji dog!"

The moment Ji Jue sensed it, he made a sudden leap, disappearing from the highest point of the workshop, narrowly missing a fierce light rushing toward him.

The fierce light pierced through the mountain, effortlessly breaking out the other side as if ripping through thin paper.

At the same time, on the sky above, dazzling crimson lights began to shine. Through the thick dark clouds, the scorching fire light rapidly expanded, and in an instant, dozens of meteors broke through the clouds and fell from the sky!

Toward Ji Jue's workshop...

Amidst the tremors and roars of the mountain, large rocks shattered, exposing complete or broken steel structures.

There was no room for resistance at all!

"Lou, according to plan, cover for me!"

Ji Jue's frantic shout rang out from the base of the mountain, amplified by dozens of loudspeakers, echoing across Luye Island: "Remember, buy me some time!"

What plan?

In the Crystal Tower, Lou Feng was watching Ji Jue's misfortune, laughing heartily, and now he froze.

When did we make a plan?

Why should I help you…

You son of a !!!

Ji Jue, you won't die a good death!!!!

At the moment of realization, he felt like he had fallen into an ice cave. Especially when the gazes from all around became increasingly dangerous, he didn't even have time to explain.

Nor did he need to explain, no one would believe it.

Everyone just saw the two of them interacting warmly, who knows what they were talking about. Besides, when they were taking pictures arm in arm in front of the Tianshu Gate, they hadn't exactly been secretive!

Now you want to tell everyone you're not acquainted, not on the same team, who's going to believe that?

Who are you kidding!

Even if they weren't on the same team, so what? It's just a convenient matter!

Among the thirteen workshops arranged in a ring, some were too far away to immediately get to Ji Jue's head and deliver two blows, but Lou Feng was right next to him!

Take a shot first...

Better to eliminate early for early reincarnation!

Ji Jue never expected them to believe him. At most, it was just to shatter the illusion of 'shared enemies'.

That was enough.

No beautiful words or promises could change reality, all participants knew it well: From the beginning, they were never friends...

The Crystal Tower, where Lou Feng was located, didn't even have time to respond before being enveloped in a storm summoned out of thin air.

The ruthless white storm appeared without any warning, rising from the ground, sweeping up a massive amount of air, creating an absolute vacuum in its core. In the vacuum, visible frost emerged from the Crystal Tower, climbing upwards, infiltrating everything from the outside to the inside and freezing it...

Even the Spiritual Fire in the core furnace seemed to stutter, and Lou Feng shivered uncontrollably from the cold, cursing: "Damn you Nine Seals! Just because you didn't get a share in the last round, are you this furious?"

The Nine Seals Workshop, the giant in the northern Federation, with its core heritage described in its name—the nine seals, nine unique constructions and blessing sequences, claimed to exhaust all the changes of entropy, filled with inexhaustible mysteries. In terms of utilizing and developing the entropy system, there were few who dared claim to match them.

Unfortunately, very few could master all nine seals, even among the current participants, it was only scratching the surface. In terms of pure creations, it posed little threat to Lou Feng.

But if they could move their workshop to his doorstep...

Heh, then you would suffer!

In the brief moment, not only did the sudden assault of Nine Seals occur, but even before the cold could spread, the sound of heavenly thunder exploded.

A bizarre blood-flesh mouth extended from the void, and the writhing flesh and blood intertwined to form a grotesque face, showing teeth as massive as boulders in the crimson stream.

——Flesh Engineering·Hundred-Eyed Giant!

Without hesitation, the enormous mouth opened wide, biting into the tower like consuming an ice block.

The sound of the fracture echoed, Lou Feng's expression shifted as he felt the cracks swiftly spreading across the tower!

Not only that, gravity was also crazily escalating.

Under the domineering gaze of the Shadow of the Throne from a distance, the turbulent gravity churned the earth, whipping up waves that spread toward the Crystal Tower.

Seeing Lou Feng on the verge of collapse, the workshops that didn't have the chance to join the fray against Ji Jue immediately began to scheme.

Anyone can pile on when someone's down.

Especially when it costs nothing.

No matter what, eliminate one first!

So much so that Lou Feng started to laugh.

A laugh filled with anger.

His face turned livid.

"Fine, fine, you all want to play it this way!" Lou Feng's hoarse roar echoed between heaven and earth: "Then none of you will have it easy!"

Lin Bei being rammed by Ji Jue's dung cart out there was one thing, but even in craftsman exams, I get ganged up on? Do you take Lin Bei's alchemy for white study?!

Crack!

On the towering Crystal Tower, a deep fissure appeared, then the second, the third, the fourth. Following the interwoven cracks, a dazzling glow emerged.

Under the refraction of the crystals, illusory flashes spread out in an instant, with colors continuously shifting in the flowing light, spreading indiscriminately in all directions like tides.

Enveloping more than half of the workshops!

Then, a crisp sound burst out from the void, reaching each person's ears.

The storm dissipated, the flesh dried up, gravity went chaotic, shadows boiled... The continuous sounds of shattering reached everyone's ears, layer upon layer, endless, connecting together, finally turning into an earth-shattering roar.

Like tidal waves!

But it was not the sound of breaking.

It was the residual sound of crystal proliferation and growth!

Throughout the world, in the realm encompassed by the illusory light, countless tiny crystals appeared out of nowhere, from air, water flow, ground, even from Spiritual Circuits and within the workshops' sequences and modules... even within the blessings!

Regardless of malevolent pollution or superior aura, all were indiscriminately treated.

All substances worthy of being called spiritual condensed into crystals under that illusory light at a perceivable speed, becoming unusable!

In an instant, the entire domain was under a Magic Ban.

Moreover, if numerous dust-like crystals suddenly appeared in crucial equipment and cores within the workshops, the consequences...

Made all the workshops suffering from heavy damage curse aloud!

You damned Lou!!!

This was, after all, a masterpiece jointly perfected by the master Kong Qingyan, integrating alchemy with the Heavenly Element Domain she excelled in, and Lou Family's heritage, specially tailored for her apprentice, [Absolute Spirit Extinguishing Domain]!

Overloading the operations of the workshop to act as an amplifier, applying Lou Family's Spiritual Shaping indiscriminately within the domain.

Not only breaking all spiritual changes and transitions instantly, disrupting blessings, but also infiltrating external blocks and spreading inwardly to erode, causing all insufficiently protected alchemy creations to completely shut down.

Initially, Lou Feng had dedicatedly practiced this special skill with the sole purpose of targeting Ji Jue's Fluid Alchemy, trying to turn the tables on this scoundrel. But he never imagined, just after finishing the workshop, before doing anything, Ji Jue had kicked him into a pit.

Turned into everyone's soft target...

Almost trampled to death!

"Die, die, die, die! Just die already!!!"

Lou Feng roared, endless flowing light converging, shooting straight at the nearest Nine Seals Workshop.

Screw it, kill one first!

Everyone knew, the blessings of the entropy system truly consumed a vast amount of spiritual matter. And the amount of spiritual matter stored in the Nine Seals Workshop, known for its entropy blessings techniques... could only be described as tragic.

In an instant, the thunderous noise erupted, the massive workshop suddenly raised. Countless crystals sprang forth like wild grass from every crevice, unchecked shattering and growing sounds echoed endlessly, a giant crystal tree took root inside the Nine Seals Workshop's sequence and core, quickly rising!

With a vicious grin, Lou Feng clenched his fist.

Die for me!

At that moment, the screams rang out amid the roars.

So heart-wrenching.

The first eliminated appeared not from his front.

But from the other side, afar!

Not even thirty seconds had passed, and already, with the combined effort of almost everyone, Ji Jue's workshop on the mountain was reduced to scorched earth, disintegrated. Raging torrents spread, rubble fracturing, utterly incapable of resistance.

And there was no resistance at all.

Cooperatively letting them help remove the extraneous and shackles obstructing outside the workshop, like shedding old scales, insignificant disguises.

Then, from the darkness beneath the nine lands, silver light surged, raging skyward!

The real monster opened its eyes.

Roaring exultantly!

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