All the examiners had already rushed out at this moment.

The worst-case scenario had really happened; someone dared to target the Ultimate Gate.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Rumble!!!

The scarlet blood veil surged up to the sky, covering the entire examination hall, engulfing the fifteen Ultimate Gates along with all the students and gatekeepers.

Cheng Tian arrived at the outskirts of the examination hall as fast as possible.

Powerful martial artists were already waiting there, their faces solemn as they looked at the blood-red veil.

They were the martial artists responsible for examination security, each with formidable strength, but at this moment, they seemed utterly at a loss.

"What's the situation now??"

Cheng Tian asked anxiously, his eyes revealing rare panic as they swept over the veil.

This wasn't just about the Ultimate Gate; more importantly, the students within the veil were the elite of this martial exam.

If anything happened to them, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The leading guarding martial artist was called Cong Yun, his eyes narrowed, and his expression was extremely grave as he looked at the veil.

"The blood veil reaching the sky, concealing everything, is the handiwork of the Heart-faced Beast; we can't force through his blood veil."

Cong Yun spoke each word with weight.

"Isn't the Heart-faced Beast supposed to have been wiped out fifteen years ago?"

"How can it be appearing here? Damn it, why must it be at this very moment."

Ming Yuan's voice was also very urgent, and his eyes were full of panic.

The Heart-faced Beast, resembling a human heart but bearing a gruesome ghostly face, was once classified by the Federation as one of the most threatening beasts.

Its species characteristics allow it to merge with the 'Life Core' of any living being, like the heart of a human, the roots of a plant, etc. Once fused by the Heart-faced Beast, no scanning or detection methods can discover it.

The Heart-faced Beast invisibly influences the consciousness and actions of its host, and the host completes the instructions of the Heart-faced Beast without knowing it.

Therefore, even a Great Divine Power User cannot determine if a Heart-faced Beast is parasitic.

Once, the Federation suffered a near-collapse from a Heart-faced Beast invasion, and due to the erroneous orders given by them, the Federation repeatedly lost in battles and suffered heavy losses.

Thus, the Federation's Supreme, along with the Elder Council and the human sage ancestors, simultaneously took action to completely eradicate the Heart-faced Beast, spending a long time and expending massive manpower and resources to wipe out the entire Heart-faced Beast species.

But just now, they saw through the surveillance that the creature in Su Tu's hand was clearly the Heart-faced Beast, long believed to be extinct!

The Heart-faced Beast's physical body cannot be battled with, but in return, they possess an extremely terrifying power of the heart and spirit; even a juvenile Heart-faced Beast has the heart and spirit height of Tier Three, while an adult Heart-faced Beast can grow to the level of a Divine Techniques user.

Moreover, the Heart-faced Beast has masterful and bizarre innate divine techniques, such as the current blood veil!!

Once unfolded, the Heart-faced Beast's blood veil integrates with the heart and spirit of all living beings within the covered area, setting a boundary based on the life hierarchy of the internal beings; those exceeding this boundary upon entrance would cause the entire blood veil to immediately dissipate.

And along with the dissipation, all the heart and spirit forces in the entire area would vanish.

This boundary is determined by the average life hierarchy of the entire area, and the students in the exam hall are on average in the Mingtiao Realm, meaning only those in the Mingtiao Realm can enter the blood veil; if anyone beyond this realm tries to step in.

All the heart and spirit forces of all living beings in the entire area would be instantly obliterated.

This is why Cheng Tian and others dared not enter.

Furthermore, the weight of this blood veil is exceedingly high, even a Daoist Master or someone beyond cannot break the rules of the blood veil.

During the previous siege against the Heart-faced Beast, to prevent them from threatening the Federation in this manner, a Daoist Master deliberately concealed their cultivation with the divine flesh of a god, blending into the crowd, only revealing their cultivation after the blood veil unfolded, thus raising the veil's boundary and breaking the crisis.

"Has Li Liang been found?"

Ming Yuan looked at the blood veil, frowning as he spoke.

Captain Cong Yun shook his head helplessly and said, "We've lost track of him, as well as the team of martial artists escorting him."

"What is the order from above?"

Cheng Tian was more concerned about the situation inside the blood veil, while Cong Yun glanced at his watch and said, "The Ultimate Gate is personally left by the Martial God, its importance to humanity is self-evident."

"What do you mean??"

Cheng Tian heard the peculiarity in Cong Yun's tone.

"Thirty-five minutes." Cong Yun spoke coldly, "The Daoist Master Cong Yun set up a barrier over the Ultimate Gate on the Celestial City Star, which can conceal the Ultimate Gate for fifty minutes if an abnormality occurs."

"And I need to enter it fifteen minutes early to ensure the safety of the Ultimate Gate."

"So, I can only wait another thirty-five minutes!!"

Cong Yun's voice was very calm, indifferent.

Upon hearing this, all the examiners' expressions drastically changed, as they realized Cong Yun's implication that if they couldn't find a solution within thirty-five minutes, they would enter the blood veil directly.

Even at the cost of all the students, they must ensure the safety of the Ultimate Gate!!

Theoretically, there is only one way to break the blood veil; it's both simple and difficult, which is to kill all the Heart-faced Beasts constructing it from within.

It's simple because the Heart-faced Beast only has the power of the heart and spirit; once the heart and spirit height is equal, the Heart-faced Beast is just a mere toy to a martial artist.

But the difficulty lies in... the heart and spirit height of the Heart-faced Beast is absolutely crushing to the students inside at this moment..

How could a group of teenagers, facing beasts born at Tier Three, compete in heart and spirit...

Unless...

A miracle truly occurs!!

Just as everyone was in silence.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, the entire blood veil trembled, rippling with a pattern like an old-fashioned TV screen.

"This!!!"

"Someone is hunting the Heart-faced Beasts constructing the blood veil!!!"

Cong Yun's expression changed as he looked at the undulating blood veil; even though he was reluctant, he had already pronounced a death sentence in his heart for these students because, with their heart and spirit height, they couldn't even stand before a Heart-faced Beast.

But the currently wavering blood veil overturned his previous thoughts.

All the examiners who saw this scene visibly trembled, involuntarily whispering a name in unison.

"Su Tu!!"

....

Inside the examination hall.

Su Tu's eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at the blood veil that covered everything.

He knew that this thing was indeed the culprit of being captured in his hand!!

He looked at the heart with distorted features in his hand, and the disgust and aversion in his heart kept growing.

All signs indicated that this thing was undoubtedly a beast.

"Hehehe, I didn't expect to be discovered by a human brat."

"It really is..."

"Embarrassing!!!"

With each word the heart beast said, the red glow on its body became even more enchanting. The moment the entire sentence was finished.

Buzz buzz!!!

An invisible wave exploded from it, and terrifying power of heart and spirit swept and ravaged like a natural disaster.

In an instant, all the examinees fainted directly, their hearts and spirits were shaken into a stupor.

"Lying dormant for so long, finally, the opportunity came, hehehe..."

The heart beast laughed sinisterly.

It tilted its head to look behind, where the ultimate door originally stood, now shrouded in a faint cyan mist, looming and indistinct.

At this moment, the ultimate door stood between reality and unreality.

"Humans are really cunning. Even after so long, they still left a trick on the ultimate door, but it doesn't matter."

"This time, we are well-prepared..."

A hint of ridicule flashed in the pea-sized eyes of the heart beast.

Then, crash!!!

Countless dark red lights seeped from the ground in all directions like a quagmire, surging towards the ultimate door, carrying a strong corrosive breath, entangled in the cyan mist.

That force was devouring the mist, and the red quagmire was slowly creeping upwards. Once it completely concealed the ultimate door, it could directly devour the cyan mist.

This blood-colored quagmire appeared like a signal.

At the same time, at the locations of the other ultimate doors, this terrifying force also erupted.

"Hehehe, the main door devours, the branch doors turn to ashes, humans have no idea what these ultimate doors truly represent, thus wasting them."

"Celestial City Star is just the beginning. When we reclaim all the ultimate doors..."

The heart beast said triumphantly, its swaying body felt quite pleased, but it stopped short as it was about to finish the sentence.

Those pea-sized eyes collided with a pair of clear black and white eyes.

The owner of those eyes looked at it with interest, "After reclaiming all the ultimate doors, what are you going to do?"

"Go on, say it?"

Su Tu spoke inquiringly.

To be honest, Su Tu couldn't understand why this beast started speaking to itself after releasing a meager heart and spirit shock.

Yet, confusion and astonishment were filled in the pea-sized eyes of the heart beast.

The heart suppression of the heart beast clan was extremely terrifying, even beings at the same level would be plunged into immense pain when oppressed, while weaker beings would directly fall into a stupor.

Just like those students.

Therefore, it thought the boy holding it was already in a dizzy state.

But it never expected that the boy would remain fixated on it the entire time.

"How is it possible!!! How can you withstand my heart and spirit suppression!!"

"A mere human, how can withstand my direct heart and spirit suppression."

The heart beast roared viciously.

"You call that heart and spirit suppression, wasn't it just a breeze?"

"If that's suppression, then what do I call this?"

Su Tu said lightly.

The next moment!!!

Rumble!!!

Unspeakable terrifying suppression burst out. This suppression was not in the physical world, but manifested in the inherent world, only felt by beings like the heart beast who were favored by hearts and spirits.

Those were looming figures that overshadowed everything. They tread on all existence, sentient beings, the current world, the other shore, everything was like their playthings.

"Ah!!!"

In an instant of seeing those existences, the pea-sized eyes of the heart beast widened uncontrollably, and then its entire body started convulsing, twisting.

"Impossible... impossible.. how can a human..."

"How is it possible to be above..."

Before the heart beast could even finish, its entire body collapsed, turning into a mess of flesh.

Simultaneously, a few disturbances appeared on the blood curtain high up in the sky.

Su Tu looked at that pile of flesh, as if realizing something.

"If I kill all these creatures, will that thing disappear..."

He extended his hand, as if seeing something; it was a thread only he could see, linking his heart and spirit to the blood curtain in the sky, and apart from himself, every other martial artist had such a thread on them as well.

Mystical heart and spirit connection, forming a shackle.

[You have killed a heart beast, Candle Wisdom proficiency +500]

[Candle Wisdom (Middle Tier): 5480/20000]

The system notification did not draw Su Tu's attention, as his attention was captivated by the Decurion Token radiating a scorching light.

At this moment, a line of words appeared on that token.

[Kill one Void Spirit, gain one hundred battle merits!]

Seeing this line, Su Tu's eyes couldn't help but slightly change. His guess was correct, the so-called Void Spirit was indeed a beast!!

When that heart beast was parasitically attached to that martial artist, Su Tu didn't detect it at all. Neither his heart and spirit nor innate aversion appeared, but this token guided him.

It could even show him the location of the heart beast.

He looked at the blood curtain in the sky, at the students who fainted all over the place, yet a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, though he didn't exactly know what was happening.

Indeed it's like a pillow when you want to sleep... just wondering how to earn battle merits, and it comes right to you!

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