Each step that Feng Luotian took towards Cai Long and Cai Hu seemed to weigh heavily on their shoulders, sending a shiver of fear down their spines.
The mere sight of the crimson Evil Cyclones that hovered around his body was enough to instill dread in their hearts.
Refusing to back down, the two materialized their weapons, a long saber for Cai Long and a heavy hammer for Cai Hu, and charged towards Feng Luotian with a battle cry.
However, not even one minute later, both of them were nowhere to be seen. They were both sent out by Feng Luotian.
With a chuckle, he observed his bloodied hands, impressed with his newfound strength. "My current strength is enough to seriously injure those under Six Fangs within just a couple of attacks. If I activate Underworld Physique, I should be able to one-hit-kill those under Seven Fangs."
Cai Long and Cai Hu had been nothing more than mere lab rats for Feng Luotian's experiment.
His eyes turned serious as he made the decision to chase away all the dogs before cleaning up the biggest shit in the area.
Before leaving the scene, Feng Luotian turned towards the party of nine: "You guys can go in and hunt the low-level clones as you wish. Goodbye."
With a flash of movement, Feng Luotian disappeared from the scene, leaving the remaining party in complete awe and bewilderment.
"Was that really him? The GCS?"
"I don't know. But if it's really him, then this piece of news is going to be huge!!"
Then the strongest guy in the party reminded: "Anyway, since he opened the path for us, let's go and hunt the clones before the time period is ended."
Without hesitation, the rest of the party agreed, their voices ringing out in unison as they charged towards their objective.
———
Another fifteen minutes had passed.
All of Mei Hongli's men were sent out of the exam site without the young master himself noticing.
With a bam, Mei Hongli took down another clone with his punch while complacently counting: "Ninety-two."
His current score was 920 points, yet still not satisfied with what he had, Mei Hongli said: "This is not enough. I need at least 1,500 points to secure the top position."
He looked to the right and found a group of fifteen clones clustering on an ancient ruin about a quarter-mile away. All of them are at Four Fangs.
"Another one-fifty points for me to take!!" Mei Hongli quickly moved toward them while grinning from ear to ear. An easy meal was in front of him, yet …
A streak of lightning flashed past the aforementioned clone group. Subsequently, all fifteen clones fell down to the ruin's floor and disappeared into light particles even before Mei Hongli could make half the distance.
One second after Mei Hongli was confused about what was happening, a figure garbed in purple gaseous flame and a golden lightning aura suddenly appeared before him.
Mei Hongli was startled at first, but right after he noticed the guy's face, he became furious instead: "Feng Luotian!!"
He automatically called out the name upon seeing that figure, but after a close inspection, he turned serious and had a hard time believing what he was seeing.
Although Mei Hongli still did not sense any Theríon from the guy, the pressuring gaseous flame aura Feng Luotian gave off could tell his cultivation right away, and it was at Six Fangs.
"No, you are not Feng Luotian. Who are you?" He instantly rejected all possibilities of that figure that might really be Feng Luotian because it was just impossible.
Feng Luotian sniggered: "Why does everyone from your group have to ask the same question? There is nothing impossible in this world, you know?"
"No, it's just not possible!! Wait! What happened to my men?" Upon realizing some implicative meaning within Feng Luotian's words, Mei Hongli quickly asked.
Feng Luotian gave a friendly smile as he answered: "They are all waiting for you outside."
"What?! How can—" Mei Hongli was shocked.
"Stop wasting time. Let me flush out the main cheater from this place." Feng Luotian cut the conversation short before Mei Hongli saying anything else.
———
Fifteen minutes ago.
Outside the exam area, Mei Hongyi was sitting in front of the scoreboard and waiting for the exam to be over. He did not seem to care so much about what happened to the scores behind him.
Currently, there were already more than twelve hundred people from about two thousand applicants getting sent out from the exam site due to serious injuries.
After the participants were teleported out, the disciples from Alchemy Center would cure all of their injuries.
And after they had recovered, they all tried to complain about how difficult this exam was, but that was it.
Everyone already knew that the Peacock School's exam would be difficult. It was just that they did not think that it would be THIS difficult.
Mei Hongyi turned a deaf ear to any complaint.
On the scoreboard, there were less than eighty people who obtained some scores.
As for the rest, even though they were still inside the exam area, their points remained at zero, including Feng Luotian.
The one in the top position right now was Mei Hongli 760 points.
The second rank was Ying Lizhua 410 points.
The third rank was Mei Yue'er and Sun Wuji. They got 395 points each.
Although the number of clones Mei Yue'er's party defeated was more than Mei Hongli, they had to share points between two people. Also, they had to face Illusion Clones randomly, while Mei Hongli had only been taking down low-level clones, so the point gap was getting wider and wider.
Right at this moment, a figure was sent out like any other twelve hundred before him, but the appearance of this guy drew some attention from Mei Hongyi.
He was Cai Lang, one of Mei Hongli's men.
He was lying on the ground. His face was so bloodied that anyone could hardly recognize him, but from his Theríon and presence, Mei Hongyi immediately recognized him.
The second elder quickly flashed down from the stage and took Cai Lang away from the crowd to heal him personally.
A minute later, Cai Lang slowly opened his eyes. His mind still blurred, and he did not have much reaction. Until he saw Mei Hongyi, he promptly got up and knelt down.
"Cai Lang, what happened? The area I notified you lot shouldn't have any clones that could beat you up this badly." Mei Hongyi said in a low voice.
"…" Cai Lang stayed silent because he did not know what to say. Even he himself had a hard time believing and did not have any proper explanation for it.
"What's wrong? If you have something to say, then say it out!!" Mei Hongyi was impatient and sternly asked.
"I wasn't beaten by your clone, milord. It was someone, a person." Cai Lang responded.
Mei Hongyi frowned: "A person? Who was it? Is there anyone else who can beat you that I don't know? I have made sure that the top candidates among the participants were teleported to other areas, but not the west one."
He was very confused as he had already prepared everything and made sure that his son would be able to take the top.
With a shaken voice, Cai Lang slowly answered: "Milord, it was … Feng Luotian."
"Luotian?" Mei Hongyi was surprised by the answer, but before he said anything further …
Pah!
He slapped Cai Lang so hard that his face almost became as bloodied as before: "You think I'm a fool?!"
Even being beaten to such a state, Cai Lang still tried to explain: "I didn't trick you, milord. It was someone who looked exactly like him."
"You!! Still persisting on your lies!!" Mei Hongyi was only getting angrier by that response and raised his hand trying to slap the poor guy again, however—
"Milord!!" Before Mei Hongyi delivered another slap, two of Alchemy Center's disciples came running with anxious expressions. They also carried two men with them.
Mei Hongyi turned to them: "Cai Long? Cai Hu?"
Their faces were in the same state as Cai Lang's when he was sent out. Mei Hongyi hastily healed both of them. Once they had woken up, Mei Hongyi started giving the same question as he did to Cai Lang.
"Milord, it was someone who looked like Feng Luotian."
"Yes, Milord. We don't dare to lie to you. There were also nine witnesses when it happened. Milord can interrogate them when they are out."
Both Cai Land and Cai Hu honestly answered while kneeling next to Cai Lang.
Hearing what the three brothers said, Mei Hongyi began to contemplate on the situation. He frowned with a darkened face. No one knew what he was thinking right now.
After that, within fifteen minutes, all of Mei Hongli's remaining men were sent out one after another. And everyone reported the same thing that it was Feng Luotian who completely beat them to the ground.