Chapter 152: Embracing Death Fearlessly

Chen Mo was getting serious!

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

The fivefold fusion of fire and thunder erupted with immense power, instantly obliterating a Skeleton Mage!

"Captain, watch out!" Ye Zhiyan lifted both hands, condensing hundreds of leaves into a leafy shield to block Chen Mo's back.

Bang!

A Skeleton Executioner swung its axe down onto Chen Mo's back, only to be stopped by the leaf shield.

Chen Mo gave a thumbs-up. "Great job!"

Praised, Ye Zhiyan's fighting spirit burned even brighter. "Leaf Bind!"

The leaves on the ground tangled around the Skeleton Executioner's legs.

Chen Mo infused his Phoenix Claws with fierce flames and executed Jeet Kune Do—One-Inch Punch, Certain Kill!

Skree!

Chen Mo's hands, blazing like twin phoenix fire claws, emitted the cry of a phoenix as they struck with lightning speed!

Bang, bang!

The Skeleton Executioner was hit by the one-inch punch. To the naked eye, nothing seemed to have happened, but three seconds later, the skeleton's entire body fell apart into pieces!

Young Master Wei's team was no slouch either, slaying three Skeleton Warriors in rapid succession.

From the Affiliated High School of Normal University, fifteen-year-old Mu Xiaoyi's Poppy Team consisted of ten members.

Mu Xiaoyi played her guzheng, and the notes transformed into visible sound waves that continuously crashed against the skeletal monsters, preventing any melee skeletons from getting close.

The vice-captain, Zheng Haonan, wore B-grade Purple Flame Dragon Armor and wielded a greatsword in both hands, slashing back and forth. Together with the other members, they protected Mu Xiaoyi, who was the absolute DPS core of the entire team!

Chen Mo recognized Mu Xiaoyi. Wasn't she the one who had deliberately feigned injury in the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds instance and lured him into their encirclement to eliminate him? He hadn't expected to run into them in reality. While Mu Xiaoyi couldn't recognize Chen Mo, Chen Mo recognized them instantly.

However, Chen Mo would not carry grudges from the instance into the real world.

Representing Changjun High School, Shen Yifei's team was the most eye-catching. All five members were mages, though specializing in different elements: fire, thunder, ice, wind, and support wood magic. A dazzling array of spells filled the air. Although individual damage wasn't massive, their spell coordination and crowd control were exceptionally synchronized, leaving the skeletons with no room to counterattack and slowly wearing them to death.

Watching these outstanding student squads, Jiang Ye sighed with mixed emotions. "I really was looking at the sky from the bottom of a well. I never imagined the students in the Evolution Schools had already grown this strong. No wonder the higher-ups place such high importance on the Evolution Schools!"

In truth, Jiang Ye did not know that these students were already the absolute elite of Changsha City; many others with weaker abilities couldn't even reach this place.

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While blasting skeletons with magic, Chen Mo忍ed through the pain to harvest the wisdom particles.

Emotions are contagious. Seeing the students and shadow warriors fighting bloody battles and falling all around him filled Chen Mo with profound sorrow and righteous anger!

"If we keep killing like this, sooner or later we'll all die! Ningxian! Your power is the greatest, protect the team outside while I go inside to check things out!" Although the red spatial rift looked terrifying, Chen Mo's heart was overflowing with grief and fury, entirely beyond his control. At worst, he would expose his identity, but he was determined to turn this place upside down.

Chen Mo charged toward the devastating rift.

Two skeleton archers took aim at Chen Mo and unleashed a barrage of arrows.

To hell with you!

Chen Mo grabbed a bundle of fire and thunder in each hand, wielding them like a pair of long swords, and thrust them straight into the chests of both skeleton archers!

Boom!

The fire-thunder exploded, shattering the two skeleton archers into dust.

The true strength of the Phoenix Claws lay in their ability to convert magical damage into physical damage, and even more miraculously, magic could be grasped in the hands as if it were a physical weapon.

"Brother! I'm going in with you!" Naturally, Ningxian refused to let Chen Mo go in alone.

Chen Mo barked a command, "Ningxian, listen to me! Right now, we are a team. I am your captain, not your brother. You must protect the other members, do you hear me?"

Tears welled up in Ningxian's aggrieved eyes, streaming down her face. "Okay... I, I heard you!"

Chen Mo's gaze sharpened. Without hesitation, he cast a localized Energy Blast on himself, leaped up, and plunged straight into the red spatial rift.

"Brother!" Seeing Chen Mo jump into the spatial rift and vanish, Ningxian's emotions completely snapped.

Ningxian rushed forward, but Ding Yan hurriedly grabbed her arm. "Ningxian, Chen Mo said we have to stay outside!"

"Roar, get lost!" Ningxian's eyes seemed altered by colored contacts, turning completely crimson, and the white frost covering her body took on a reddish hue.

Ding Yan felt a numbness shoot through his arm as a mere girl shook him off, sending him staggering back several meters. Ding Yan's expression shifted drastically. *Oh no! Her other personality has surfaced.*

Two blade-and-shield warriors blocked the entrance of the spatial rift, holding round shields capable of deflecting any magic.

Ningxian let out a chilling smile. Stepping onto an ice ladder, she vaulted right onto the heads of the blade-and-shield warriors and unleashed a Double Frost Ray!

Previously, Ningxian could only release a single beam of frost ray at a time. After transforming into her beast persona, she could fire two parallel frost rays simultaneously, doubling their lethality.

Hiss, hiss, hiss!

The two blade-and-shield warriors slowly raised their round shields to block the frost rays, but it was already too late; their bodies instantly froze solid.

Then, the most terrifying thing happened. Out of thin air, Ningxian used frost energy to forge an ice hammer larger than her own body, spinning in midair to deliver a ferocious, mighty smash!

Boom, boom!

The two skeletal blade-and-shield warriors were smashed into pieces!

The other students and shadow warriors stared in absolute speechlessness at the sight.

Ke-ke-ke!

Ningxian let out an eerie chuckle, swaggered straight into the spatial rift, and disappeared.

Blood stained the earth, and corpses piled up like mountains!

In less than ten full minutes, out of the 400 students from the four major schools, over 100 had already died, and half of the shadow warriors had perished as well!

The monsters on the outside were already this formidable, let alone whatever lay inside the rift.

Jiang Ye had originally given up on the idea of launching a counter-offensive into the rift, feeling satisfied just holding the line until the main reinforcements arrived to prevent the skeletal monsters from breaking through.

Yet he never expected that one student would actually charge straight into the rift.

And then, a second student followed suit.

Were the students of this generation truly this terrifying?

Young Master Wei figured out the reasoning behind it and said in a deep voice, "The S-grade Evolution Orb is very likely inside this spatial rift. Zhang Shengmo, let's go, kill our way in!"

Zhang Shengmo had long since grown frantic from slaughtering the endless stream of skeletons. Hearing Young Master Wei's command, his spirits instantly lifted. "Haha, I told you we should have charged in earlier, but you wouldn't listen, and now that punk Chen Mo has stolen the spotlight!"

Young Master Wei turned to his remaining teammates. "You guys stay outside. It's too dangerous inside; it's no place for you!"

With that, Young Master Wei and Zhang Shengmo fought side by side, clearing away the skeletons blocking their path and plunging into the rift.

Wei Zheng and Yue Hu exchanged glances. What kind of freaks had they ended up training? How were they getting stronger than the instructors themselves?

Young Master Wei and Yue Hu hailed from ancient martial arts families with special inheritances, so their strength was understandable. But this pair of siblings, Chen Mo and Ningxian, were completely unfathomable.

Yue Hu hesitated. "Wei Zheng, what do we do now?"

Wei Zheng offered a bitter smile. "What can we do? The students have all charged in. As instructors, are we just going to cower outside? Charge in!"