Chapter 61: Facing the Madman of Time

Jiang He’s previous Doomsday Declaration had been especially effective against high-level Transcendents, while its effect on ordinary people had been mediocre.

Therefore, when the Transcendent Council pinned the blame for 【Doomsday Premonition】 onto the Arc Light Organization, they successfully reversed public opinion and calmed the chaos caused by the Doomsday Declaration.

Although many people still felt lingering fear, they treated it as something like an “April Fool’s joke,” not taking it seriously.

This included the students in the conference hall.

It wasn’t until this moment, when Zhong Honglian spoke those words, that they suddenly realized and fell into panic.

“Last night’s Doomsday Premonition was real?!”

“Wasn’t it the Arc Light Organization’s conspiracy?”

“Could it be that they truly foresaw the end of the world?”

Zhong Honglian looked at the flustered students and spoke.

“Silence.”

It was not a Word-Spirit, but the mental pressure of a top-tier powerhouse.

All the students instantly lost their voices, frozen in place.

When their consciousness slowly returned, Zhong Honglian continued.

“I am not here to negotiate with you, I am here to inform you of the situation.”

“Today’s announcement was only to temporarily stabilize the situation.”

“The truth is, the end of the world is imminent.”

“And the one most likely to bring the end of the world is an existence known as the 【World Destroyer】.”

Under the terrifying mental pressure, the students’ minds raced at high speed.

They were not ordinary people. They quickly digested the information and immediately raised doubts—

Why tell them this?

When the sky fell, taller figures would hold it up.

An existence capable of destroying the world should naturally be handled by the Council’s S-rank powerhouses.

Surely they didn’t expect a group of underage kids to fight the World Destroyer?

Seeing that the students had begun to think, Zhong Honglian continued:

“We are not clear on what kind of existence the World Destroyer truly is, nor the exact form of the Doomsday, nor its precise time…”

“However, according to reliable projections, the end will not come too soon. We still have time to prepare.”

I know, He was 18 years and 8 days old this year, 178cm tall, weighing 66.5kg…

Jiang He grumbled inwardly, quietly positioning himself to shield the others.

Zhong Honglian ignored his little gesture and said:

“So, in order to face the Doomsday and the future crises we know of—”

“The Council has decided to gather the geniuses of each city and conduct joint training…”

The schools the Council had previously established were systems of peacetime education.

Rather than institutions to nurture Transcendents, they were more like large-scale “daycares,” designed to manage and guide freshly awakened Transcendents in a centralized manner to prevent disruption of social order.

Now that the end was near, naturally they could no longer apply the old methods and bury talents within schools.

Gathering geniuses together for collective training, pouring in resources and Professions, subjecting them to combat training, allowing them to quickly shed their childish selves and become “warriors”—this was the true method of facing Doomsday!

Moreover, this wartime training was not limited to schools.

Had Jiang He stayed longer at the Fire Department, he would have noticed that agencies like the Fire Department and Security Bureau had already shifted most of their focus toward training rather than patrols.

If the lower levels were already like this, then the higher-level Transcendents went without saying.

“So fast.” Old Jiang turned his gaze back to Zhong Honglian, sighing in admiration.

In the 【Exotic Beast Rampage】 timeline he had experienced, the Council had eventually made a similar decision.

However, their reaction speed had never been this swift—

Less than a day after last night’s incident, they already had a plan and began consolidating training.

Clearly, the pressure from the 【World Destroyer】 far surpassed that of a few exotic beast rampages.

Old Jiang smiled. “In a crisis-ridden situation, sounding the Doomsday alarm early truly was a good thing.”

On the other side.

Zhong Honglian explained the specific plan for the training.

The nineteen students present in the conference hall were all of Central State City’s talents under eighteen.

They would be brought together to train alongside geniuses from Daze City, Qi City, Dachang City, and others.

As for talents from other cities and even other continents, they would undergo training according to their respective zones.

During the training, resource rewards would be distributed based on performance.

The rewards were abundant, even including the rare S-rank resource 【True Spirit of Phoenix Egg】, capable of enhancing the intensity of talents!

When Zhong Honglian spoke those words, everyone’s breathing quickened.

The greatest difference between high-grade talents and low-grade ones was not ability, but “intensity”!

Like Old Jiang’s eraser: in the hands of an ordinary awakener, it could only erase stains; in Jiang He’s hands, with the amplification of an X-rank skill, it could erase Transcendent power!

That was the greatest disparity!

Therefore, something that could increase talent intensity like the 【True Spirit of Phoenix Egg】 was naturally priceless.

It could even forge a “high-intensity talent,” truly a destiny-changing treasure!

The Council actually possessed such a level of resource?

Jiang He had never even heard of it before!

It seemed that in order to face the Doomsday, the Council really was bringing out its most hidden treasures this time.

For a moment, every student in the conference hall had their enthusiasm stirred. They couldn’t wait to begin training and compete for this reward!

Especially those whose talent quality was mediocre but whose abilities were outstanding—they were ecstatic.

If they could obtain an S-rank resource, wouldn’t they also become A-rank, even S-rank geniuses?!

One student couldn’t help but ask: “Principal Zhong, when does the training begin?”

Zhong Honglian said: “Tonight.”

So soon?

The crowd was shocked, yet enlightened.

Of course—what they were facing wasn’t the college entrance exam, but the “end of the world.”

Naturally, every second was precious.

Another student asked: “Where are we going?”

Zhong Honglian said: “Right here in Central State City.”

As she spoke, she shifted her gaze, meeting Jiang He’s eyes. “This place is very suitable for training. Students from other cities will gather here.”

Jiang He’s heartbeat quickened.

Wait, what did Teacher Zhong just say? This place was suitable for training?

She couldn’t possibly mean the Abyss of Demons, could she?!

The Transcendent Council clearly knew that Central State City had already been captured by the Abyss, yet they didn’t evacuate the geniuses. Instead, they wanted to throw them into the Abyss for training?!!

Jiang He’s scalp went numb, while Old Jiang merely smiled and nodded.

“The Abyss of Demons may be terrifying, but compared to the ‘Doomsday Declaration,’ it is nothing.”

“If one cannot even face the Abyss, how could one hope to confront Doomsday?”

“Wouldn’t you agree, Lord World Destroyer?”

Jiang He: “……”

You people really thought too highly of him.

As students continued asking questions, Du Lingwei also spoke, raising her doubt:

“Teacher, regarding the Doomsday, did the Prophet not make a prediction?”

The others also looked curious.

Everyone knew that the Prophet possessed the most mysterious talent in the world—【All-Phenomena True Knowledge】.

With this talent, he could even transcend time itself and glimpse the distant future.

It was said that he had foreseen the Advancement Ritual, and in a world without S-ranks, he had transferred to the first S-rank Profession, becoming the world’s first S-rank Transcendent.

It was also due to the shifts in time that 【The Gift of the Millennium】 had occurred.

Such a legendary figure—could he also not see through the 【Doomsday】?

Facing everyone’s curiosity, Zhong Honglian shook her head.

“I don’t know.”

……

Tianya City, the Temple of Time.

Sunlight filtered through rainbow glass, casting the entire hall in a dreamlike glow.

Deep within layers of bookshelves sat a white-robed figure among scattered tomes.

Beneath the hood of the white robe was no human face, but endless stars.

A caped man stood at his side, watching him hold a pen, endlessly writing on white paper. Yet what remained were garbled, twisted lines—no matter how wise one was, no one could decipher a single bit of information from them.

Any disturbance from the outside, even attacks, could not affect him in the slightest, nor wake him from this state.

No one knew when it had begun.

This man, the first S-rank Transcendent in human history, the founder of the Transcendent Era, the establisher of the Transcendent Council, the first Speaker of the Council, the guide and mentor of countless S-rank Transcendents, the one who could see through the long river of time—

The one the world knew as the 【Prophet】.

Had gone mad.

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