“Don’t be so smug, you bastard! I, Gui, will challenge you!”
“I, Mu, will challenge you!”
One by one, the wood elves jumped out.
Soon, they all self-destructed.
“Oh my god! Gui is dead. Mu is dead. They’re all dead! How could this be?”
In every corner of the Illusory Arboretum, the wood elves were even more shocked.
Their friends that went to take revenge for Fei were all wiped out. Not a single one survived.
Did a monster come and take the test? How could someone outsmart all of them?
They were utterly shocked.
A wave of uneasiness and grief spread throughout the entire Illusory Arboretum.
“Sigh, a monster has come! I’ve never seen anything like this after living for so long!”In the depths of the Illusory Arboretum, an old wood elf who had lived for hundreds of years sighed.
“This is a disgrace to our clan. We must defeat him convincingly!”
Another old wood elf cried out in grief and indignation.
The wood elves were born with the knowledge of herbology and had always prided themselves for it. Today, they were outsmarted by a human, which was a great disgrace.
“Everyone, go! There must be someone who can defeat him! Avenge our dead companions!”
In various corners of the Illusory Arboretum, wood elves emerged one after another and rushed to a certain location.
Some of the wood elves that were in the middle of their assessment abandoned the candidates and answered the call for revenge.
“Hey! Where are you going? I’m only one question away from winning. Come back! At least leave the token for me!”
The other candidates did not know what was going on.
They tried searching around the place for wood elves, but they could not find a single one. It was as if they had all disappeared.
“What’s going on? Where did all the wood elves go?”
“F*ck! What the hell? How am I going to pass the test?”
Everyone cursed in frustration.
Meanwhile, it was very lively at Tang Hao’s side. Almost all the wood elves in the Illusory Arboretum were there. He was surrounded by wood elves, and there were even more hanging from the trees.
“F*ck him over!”
They gnashed their teeth as they glared at Tang Hao.
Tang Hao stood in the middle, calm and composed.
He accepted the challenges from the wood elves one by one, then turned around and challenged them until they were forced to self-destruct.
He picked up big and small pieces of origin crystals.
At first, the wood elves were still shouting and cheering, but eventually, they became silent.
The immense knowledge that the guy had displayed was causing them to feel fear. There was nothing in herbology that he did not know, no matter how rare the herb might be.
That was not the strength of a level one candidate. He might as well be a level four or five master pill maker.
A level one pill maker only needed to master ten thousand types of medicinal herbs. That guy, on the other hand, knew at least seventy to eighty thousand types, perhaps even more.
Logically speaking, he should not have appeared in the level one certification test at all.
“All of you, stand down. Let us do it!”
The old wood elves stepped forward.
However, they were unable to stop Tang Hao at all. After dueling for a while, they were finally forced to self-destruct.
“Heavens! The seniors are dead too!”
The wood elves finally broke down. They trembled and no longer dared to come forward to challenge Tang Hao.
If the oldest and most experienced among them could not do it, they had no hope at all.
“We’d better run!”
They fled in all directions and hid, not daring to show themselves again.
“Hey! Don’t go!” Tang Hao hurriedly shouted.
Hearing his voice, the wood elves fled even faster. In the blink of an eye, they were all gone.
“Forget it! I’ve earned enough!” Tang Hao felt a little better when he thought of that.
After collecting so many origin crystals, it was time for him to stop. If he continued, all the wood elves would be wiped out, and the academy would go crazy.
Then, he looked at the pass tokens on the ground.
“I can’t take all of these. Never mind, I’ll just leave them here!”
He dusted his hands and left in satisfaction.
Meanwhile, the other candidates were walking around the illusory realm trying to look for the wood elves. They could not find a single trace of them.
“What happened? Where did they all go?”
Everyone was extremely puzzled. They had taken the test many times, but they had never encountered such a situation.
“Sigh, guess I’ll have to leave!”
They could not do anything other than walk toward the exit.
Meanwhile, the young man from Wood Cauldron Mountain was walking around the Illusory Arboretum with two pass tokens hanging from his waist.
He was looking for the wood elves and was prepared to win a few more.
Although only one token was enough to pass this stage of the test, he wanted to show that he was a prodigy! One token was not enough for a prodigy; he had to win ten tokens to show that he was superior.
He walked around, a little confused. He did not see a single wood elf.
“This is strange!”
He muttered and continued walking.
Suddenly, his eyes focused at a certain point in front of him, and his eyes widened in disbelief.
Not far in front of him, there was a huge pile of pass tokens the size of a small hill.
He stood there in a daze, unable to comprehend what was going on.
A few seconds later, he rushed forward excitedly.
“Mine, mine! They’re all mine!”
He put all the tokens into his pocket.
His face was flushed with excitement, and his entire body was trembling.
What a spectacle it would be when he emerged from the Illusory Arboretum all decked out in pass tokens! Everyone in the academy and even the pill-making world would be impressed. At that time, he would become famous.
His junior sister might even like him by then!
Just thinking about it made him extremely excited.
“Right, I’ll stay here for a while and go out later. That’ll be even more convincing!” He sat down and leisurely hummed a little tune.
Outside, as the candidates came out empty-handed, the people from the academy were extremely shocked.
“Let’s go in and take a look!”
Under the leadership of Grandmaster Cang Yun, the people from the academy rushed into the Illusory Arboretum.
When they found the surviving wood elves and asked about the situation, they were all dumbfounded.
Someone had challenged about a hundred wood elves and forced them to self-destruct. Oh my god! What was going on?
How could such a freak appear in a level one certification test?
They were incredibly frustrated and angry.
The wood elves were incredibly precious treasures of the academy, and they had spent countless amounts of effort to nurture them. In the blink of an eye, they had lost half of their entire wood elf population.
Grandmaster Yun Cang’s face was ashen. He was so angry that his entire body was trembling.
“This is outrageous!”
He gritted his teeth so hard that they were about to break.
He thought that an enemy of the academy must have disguised himself as a candidate to steal the origin crystals.
“Guard the exit immediately. I’ll inform the dean to seal off Channel Mountain. No one can escape.”
He flicked his sleeves and led his men to the exit.
