In the forest, a team of three was walking toward the supply point tower.
"According to the map we got from the supply box, we are probably near the finishing point now, right?"
"Yeap, but we still have a large part of the day. Should we find some more wild sprites to get points?"
"Wild sprites are getting harder and harder to find now. At the start, they actively attacked when seeing us, now all of them ran away when smelling our odor. Unless we get points from other candidates."
"Erm… I think… Nevermind, it's good enough that we are not the ones giving others points."
"Yes, yesterday I saw the sprite of a seeded candidate settling sprites similar to ours in only two moves. We can't afford to offend them, we can only hide."
"After getting the supplies, we shall rush to the finishing line, don't get eliminated in the last minute."
They had already seen the white tower from afar and walked forward carefully.
Suddenly, one of them shuddered.
"Did you guys feel it's getting colder?" He looked down, saw the energy of his bracelet slowly dropping, and he was suddenly shocked.
"Someone is attacking us, who is it?!"
His two teammates looked around cautiously and finally found out what was wrong.
"Over there, why is there ice!?"
"It doesn't make sense, we are at the primordial forest area, not the primordial frosted forest area, right?"
At that moment, a large golden bird flew over their heads, and they caught a glimpse of a man lying on his belly on it.
"That bird seems to be… the bird of a judge?"
"What happened after all?"
Bursts of roars like demons' cries echoed, so the three dared not stay any longer, and escaped.
In the forest…
The ice storm raged.
Wherever the rolling waves of ice went past, trees seemed to be shaved bald, with only bare trunks left in the blink of an eye.
On the golden bird, the leaning judge was stunned, his eyes wide open. "Gosh, this destruction can be caused by an entry-level sprite? Can't those two sprites of Su Hao have been frozen into frozen sprites, right?"
He slapped himself. "Why do none of the candidates I have high hopes in finish till the end?"
A Marionette wrapped Old Chen and itself and floated into mid-air.
Upon seeing the scene in the distance, Old Chen was also immensely shocked.
That Bing Ning… No, are all heirs of sects so strong?
Below, in the frosted forest…
"Achoo—"
Su Hao sneezed.
He looked around, and there were ice sediments everywhere, it wasn't very easy for him to even shift position.
Fortunately, he was relatively far away, and he had a big strong tree to keep out the storm.
In the distance…
The ice storm raged, and sounds of ice awls breaking kept echoing.
"Sprite Commandeering: Persist!"
He had once discussed with Silkworm Baby how large-scale attacks should be dealt with.
They had come up with several different methods of dealing with it.
However, at this time, Su Hao could only trust Silkworm Baby's judgment, and gave Silkworm Baby some brief words of encouragement through the contract, cheering it on.
Two seconds, three seconds…
Su Hao silently estimated the time.
Suddenly…
Swish!
A soft sound of a sharp blade piercing through a tree trunk came.
In the forest, Silkworm Baby's figure leaped amongst the trees. Many roaring ice waves came chasing from the back and got nearer and nearer.
It suddenly stopped. Its mouth bit on a few spat-out white threads, its spiritual force connected onto it and produced a change of its nature.
With the backward momentum of Charging, it forcefully pulled.
The white threads, which had long covered the whole surrounding areas, except for a few broken by the direct impact of the ice wave, all became thread-ropes as sharp as knives, and they were tightened and drawn backward at once.
Stout tree trunks were directly cut through, and the ice awls on the ground were also cleanly broken through.
The White Seal that was just manipulating the ice wave was suddenly shocked. In the next instant, the sharp threads swept across its body.
Pfft…
White Seal and Little Seashell were lifted and thrown up high. Deep wounds appeared on their bodies. Carried by the threads, they flew out backward.
Bing Ning was similarly pulled up and sent flying. A dull yellow glow appeared on her protective shield, but it also allowed her to see the gradually shrinking sharp threads on her body.
"Use Tail Blade!"
While enduring the pain, the White Seal's tail glowed with white light and cut down forcefully.
Clang!
The tail blade cut off the sharp threads. Little Seashell wrapped Bing Ning up with a water current and escaped into the distance without hesitation.
An Energy Ball flew over from the depth of the frosted forest, but the roaring White Seal's Ice Awl intercepted it.
The ice wave, which lost the manipulation, turned into balls of pure spiritual force, dissipating in the air.
The ice storm also dissipated quickly.
Su Hao's head emerged from the back side of the tree. He saw that Silkworm Baby was beating its failing enemy the Seal, and commanded Little Fire Crow to go up and join the attack.
At that moment, layers of halos shrouded White Seal, and within less than a second, the huge White Seal disappeared in the eyes of a human and two sprites.
After being stunned for a moment, Su Hao finally understood.
"This is… Summoning? It can actually be used like this, huh?"
"Gurgle!"
Silkworm Baby, agitated, flew up to the top of the tree with a String Shot, but it already couldn't be seen.
At that time, the big tree that was cut off halfway across the trunk slowly smashed down under the lingering shock waves' ravage.
Bang!
Smoke and dust filled the air.
The monitoring screen went black immediately, along with the face of Heavenly King Zhou.
In the distant sky…
He looked at the forest, which had turned white, and a large area of it was buried in ice.
The two judges hugged the necks of their respective sprites, looked at each other, and eventually asked, "Is this really the examination field of high school students?"
On the first floor of the monitoring center, the resting hall…
There were constant sounds of slurping noodles in the hall.
The candidates who had endured cold and hunger for more than two days in the primordial forest area finished the noodles, and some fell asleep sitting right there.
On the table of a young man eating noodles, there were already five empty bowls. He was even moved to tears, eating. It was spicy.
He looked up toward a familiar student who just sat down opposite him, so he couldn't help but ask, "How's your score? How many points do you have?"
The candidate opposite him was so dejected and upset that he didn't feel the slightest warmth even from eating the hot noodles.
"I was eliminated!" He ground his teeth. "There was a guy who was obviously super strong, yet he liked to ambush and make sneak attacks everywhere. I don't know how many people were eliminated by him! He's pretty much a devil!"
"Devil? Bing Ning or Lin Mingzheng?"
"Certainly not Bing Ning."
Some candidates that had come even earlier moved their lips to gesture toward a corner.
There, beside Bing Ning with a distant and defensive look, lay a White Seal wrapped with treatment bandages. It looked really miserable.
"Then it's Lin Mingzheng. Young Master Lin is stronger, after all."
"No, that devil is called Su Hao, with a sneaky Silkworm Baby."
"Su Hao…?"
The candidates that had not encountered him felt a little disbelief.
Isn't that guy just a student from An City? Not even a seeded candidate!
It must be an excuse these eliminated weak people gave for themselves!
What a shame!
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the hall.
A figure walked in with two sprites.
The young man eating noodles saw the student sitting opposite him freeze instantly, and then pick up his bowl, get up, and leave.
"Hey, why are you—"
He didn't understand.
Then he heard a low exclamation from another table nearby, "Su Hao the Devil! He's here!"