"In the mortal world, if one wishes to slay the gods, a price must be paid..."

The decayed eyeball whispered.

"Alright! I understand!"

The youth's expression changed repeatedly, until finally his gaze hardened, and he nodded vigorously.

Then he strode towards the corpse.

"That's more like it~" the rotting eyeball said with satisfaction, its gaze lingering on the youth's body, full of meaning.

Under the night sky...

Aside from the hideous monsters, the chilling sounds of chewing echoed far and wide.

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"It's not..."

Su Tu stood in the middle of a barren land, casually crushing a beast's skull. At that moment, he resembled a moving light source.

Around a radius of three meters, he was bathed in light, and the source of this light was the Exam Number Plate on Su Tu's chest.

On his journey following the causal line in search of the so-called Guardian, Su Tu slain numerous beasts.

Adding to the points gained earlier from defeating Xuan Yan, Su Tu's points reached five hundred. At the same time, the Exam Number Plate which originally emitted a faint light now shone exceptionally bright.

Within the surrounding three meters, even Eternal Night could not invade.

But even in such circumstances, even a hint of light was enough to attract countless monsters to attack, not to mention Su Tu had become a 'small sun' walking around.

Beasts swarmed towards Su Tu like moths to a flame.

Although these beasts could barely withstand a punch from Su Tu, as time passed, Su Tu could clearly feel the monsters attacking from the darkness growing stronger.

Just like the monster whose skull he crushed just now, it endured two moves of Prajna Seven Kills before barely falling.

And this was only the first day of the examination. If this trend continued, the strength of the monsters attracted by Su Tu would be unimaginable.

Apart from that, Su Tu found one more thing rather baffling.

The causal line he followed in pursuit of the Guardian; however, the end of this causal line lay in this wilderness, but upon arrival, there was not a trace of the Guardian.

There were only beasts present.

Indeed, the causal line was here, and had become even more pronounced, but no matter how he searched, he found no sign of the Guardian.

"Su Tu... Tu Shen!!"

Just as Su Tu crushed another attacking monster, a timid voice suddenly rang out.

Su Tu raised his eyes, and amidst the devouring Eternal Night, a figure stood there.

However, it wasn't something he saw, but rather Candle Wisdom sensed it.

Su Tu did not speak but gazed indifferently in that direction, for earlier a monster had transformed into Luo Fan's appearance, and was slain by him.

This made Su Tu cautious.

Soon, a series of scattered sounds were heard, as a young Martial Artist excitedly ran over.

The appearance of the person looked somewhat familiar to Su Tu, as if they were also a candidate from the East Examination District.

Indeed, the Exam Number Plate on that candidate's chest read East-0124. Hearing Su Tu's words, the candidate seemed a bit excited.

"Tu Shen, you recognize me!!"

"My God, I'm so honored!!"

Many candidates were Su Tu's admirers, and the young man before him was one of them. Being recognized by Su Tu made him unbelievably excited.

This put Su Tu in an awkward spot, as he merely found the person familiar and couldn't truly recognize them.

"Tu Shen, have you also received the news that the direction of the Eternal Night Safety Zone might be here!"

The candidate spoke as if presenting a treasure.

While he spoke, he stepped into Su Tu's glow.

"Safety Zone?"

Su Tu repeated the candidate's words in confusion, realizing that during his time of hunting beasts, some rules had already been deduced by other candidates.

Noticing Su Tu's doubt, the candidate quickly explained: "Seeing the bright light around Tu Shen shows you've been busy hunting these night monsters."

"It's normal for you not to know about some information."

Excitedly speaking, the youth could never have imagined he would be explaining something to Su Tu.

During this, Su Tu relaxed his guarded gaze towards the youth.

Not because of the youth's sincerity, but because just as Su Tu uttered the words "Safety Zone," he had already employed 'Error'

altering the other's perception, making them disclose all rules they knew—this was primarily for discerning his identity.

According to Su Tu's experiments during his kills, the monsters under the Eternal Night lacked the existence of Heart and Spirit.

Thus, 'Error' couldn't affect them, which in turn became Su Tu's method of verifying identity.

With the youth's explanation, Su Tu learned the rules now summarized.

The so-called brightness came from the Exam Number Plate, and the more points one had, the brighter it became, eliminating the constraints and concealment of Eternal Night within its radius.

At the same time, the stronger the light on a candidate, the stronger the monsters they attracted.

Under Eternal Night, a Black Tide would erupt, marking the so-called Eternal Night shrink points, where everything perished, and spaces covered by the Black Tide became dead zones.

The eruption of the Black Tide was highly random; it had already erupted once, swallowing many unfortunate candidates, who had to withdraw from the exam for their life safety.

Currently, this wilderness was deduced by a candidate with a special phenomenon as a Safety Zone, unlikely to be swallowed by the Black Tide temporarily.

Su Tu understood; the so-called Black Tide represented rule one, Black Tide shrinking similar to a shrinking circle in a battle royale game Su Tu played in his past life.

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