Dark clouds billowed in the sky, oppressing the atmosphere to the extreme. A student exclaimed, "Qiu Xuan is here!"
After struggling in the illusion for so long, everyone was quite excited to finally find the real culprit. Just as they were about to step forward and capture Qiu Xuan, Yu Nian suddenly stopped them.
"Wait. She seems a bit off."
Qiu Xuan slowly turned her head. Her face was already pale, but now it was completely bloodless, looking like a walking corpse.
Qiu Xuan tidied the stray hairs in front of her forehead and showed a sarcastic smile. "Do you just blindly believe Luo Ning's words? She said I'm the culprit, and you just believe it?"
Yu Nian's gaze fell on the scar on Qiu Xuan's palm and slowly shook her head. "There have actually been clues all along indicating that you're the culprit."
"… What?"
"According to what the students said, you were the first one to play the spirit - summoning game. And after the game spread across the whole campus, the book that recorded the game's content suddenly disappeared. Don't you think it's too much of a coincidence? There's only one possibility. You've established some kind of connection with it. You've already merged with the evil spirit and can even use its power for your own ends. The evil spirit absorbs the evil thoughts of the students and becomes stronger and stronger. To avoid attracting our attention, on the first day we arrived at the school, you didn't let the scene of thousands of spirits running amok appear on campus. If I'm not wrong, that book didn't disappear out of thin air. You destroyed it after reading it, right?"
Qiu Xuan sneered with a smile on her lips. Her gaze swept over everyone. "So what if you know? I just want every single person who has ever hurt me to pay the price!"
As her voice faded, her body began to shake violently. At the same time, she hummed a strange tune that no one could recognize.
Several wisps of black qi emerged from her body. The moment the black qi touched the ground, it transformed into tangible monsters.
The monsters were contorted in shape, with long hair disheveled. They had several slender hands and feet densely packed together. Like acrobats, they tilted their heads and crawled on the ground, using both hands and feet to move forward.
The strangest thing was that each monster had a human face, deathly pale and ghostly.
Sun Mingze looked at one of the monsters, shivered all over, and touched his own face in disbelief. "Why does that monster look exactly like me??"
Qiu Xuan grinned ferociously. "Anyone who has made a wish to the evil spirit will have a part of their soul absorbed by it and transformed into a monster for my use. At first, your body may not show any reaction. But as your greed grows and the number of wishes you make increases, your soul will eventually be completely devoured by the evil spirit, and you'll completely merge with these monsters." She paused and looked at Cao He mockingly. "Teacher, you once said that the most untestable thing in this world is human nature. If the students hadn't made wishes, the evil spirit wouldn't have gained such powerful strength, right?"
Cao He subconsciously took a step back, too shocked to say a word.
Xue Yier cursed, "Qiu Xuan is really crazy! Stop wasting time talking to her. Just attack!"
With that, he threw out a stack of talismans. But before the talismans could reach the monsters, Qiu Xuan suddenly caught them and tore them to pieces.
Xue Yier's face instantly turned ugly. "What's going on?? Why aren't my talismans working?!"
Yu Nian stared at Qiu Xuan for a while. Seeing her pupils strangely dilated vertically, she suddenly realized something. Frowning, she stopped them. "The thing they summoned is not a ghost but a demon god. Using these talismans that can restrain evil spirits to attack Qiu Xuan is like adding fuel to the fire. It won't have any effect at all."
As her voice faded, not only were the contestants dumbfounded, but the people on the judging panel also frowned.
"The production crew, get ready. If the situation gets out of control later, immediately forcefully terminate the illusion!"
Xue Jinyan nervously clenched his fists. Xue Yier was the only child of the Xue family, raised in pampered circumstances. There was no way he could let her die here!
The director of the production crew nervously swallowed his saliva. In the previous competition, the Dao Alliance had chosen this theme. But before the contestants could find the real culprit, they were all seriously injured, almost wiped out.
So the Dao Alliance quickly changed the competition theme, which meant the judges didn't know what exactly was in the illusion of Wanjv High School.
Demon gods were different from demons. They were wild gods formed by being worshipped in ancient times. No matter how powerful the contestants were, they had only been practicing for a few decades. The possibility of them defeating a demon god was extremely slim!
All the contestants were a bit desperate. "If we can't use talismans, how can we subdue these monsters??"
Yu Nian thought for a moment and suddenly said, "I have a way. Since there are souls in these monsters, there must be spiritual consciousness."
Fu Sui was suddenly stunned. "You mean... control the monsters with spiritual consciousness??"
Xue Jinyan on the judging panel suddenly frowned. "Yu Nian is just being reckless! Even if her spiritual consciousness is powerful, controlling these demons at the same time is extremely dangerous. One wrong move and she'll lose her life!" As he said this, he slapped the table and stood up, shouting at the production crew, "Quickly terminate the illusion!"
"Wait!"
Old Master Fu slowly opened his eyes. "I trust Yu Nian. If anything goes wrong, I'll take full responsibility."
The judging panel instantly fell silent. Everyone was a bit incredulous.
Just who was Yu Nian that she could make Old Master Fu, who usually ignored worldly affairs, vouch for her??
...
Inside the mysterious mirror, Yu Nian slowly closed her eyes. In the sea of consciousness that no one could see, her spiritual consciousness quickly spread forward.
The world of the demons' sea of consciousness was completely dark, filled with killing intent and malice all around.
Several wisps of resentment rushed into Yu Nian's mind all at once, as if countless knives were stabbing at her at the same time. It was extremely painful.
For a moment, Yu Nian heard many different voices, accompanied by shrill screams, breaking into her sea of consciousness.
"I pray that I can outperform Li Zhi in this exam..."
"I hope that annoying math teacher will disappear forever!"
"I want to get rich overnight. I want to be in the limelight..."
...
Yu Nian showed no expression, trying her best to suppress these turbulent negative emotions.
As time passed by second by second, a surprising scene happened. All the monsters seemed to be controlled and stopped in their tracks.
Suddenly, a smell of gunpowder filled the air.
Yu Nian successfully invaded the sea of consciousness of all the monsters. She transformed her spiritual consciousness into thick demon - binding ropes, firmly surrounding the monsters.
Yu Nian suddenly opened her eyes. Her pitch - black pupils were deeper than the night. She softly uttered two words.
"Strangle."
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Centered around Yu Nian, the golden light of spiritual consciousness quickly spread out in all directions like a tide. One after another, the monsters fell in rows, exploding one by one!
Before everyone could react, thousands of monsters on the playground had all died!
Xue Jinyan couldn't help but excitedly clap his hands. He completely forgot about his doubts about Yu Nian just now and stared without blinking, enjoying this visual feast.
"Brilliant!! This is the most efficient and perfect demon - eliminating scene I've ever seen!"
Qiu Xuan's expression twisted for a moment. She staggered back, seemingly trying to escape.
Yu Nian's cold gaze was cast towards Qiu Xuan. A fallen monster suddenly stood up and stumbled towards Qiu Xuan.
The moment the shadow of the monster enveloped Qiu Xuan, she suddenly reached out to protect her head, closed her eyes, and shouted loudly, "Please, god, save me!"