"Is there really no room for negotiation?" Cha Huan sighed.

"Negotiation cannot make you face reality, only despair can." The smile said calmly: "Not pain, not sorrow, true despair will calm your heart, make you humble, make you bow, make you kneel."

"What you can choose is not fate, but dignity."

Cha Huan: "I'm very regretful, after all, this might be my only chance to be remembered in history."

"Don't worry, you will be remembered for centuries." The smile said proudly: "As the first martial pillars to lose to me, your deaths are not meaningless, but the chimes of a new era, waking humanity from the dream of being the spirit of all things."

"Come, as the shining martial pillars, face death with honor and dignity!"

However, Cha Huan shook his head and spoke strangely to the other two:

"I'm ready, how about you?"

"Principal, you're indeed still going strong." Yu Ke wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, waved his twin guns, and laughed: "I'm ready too."

"If not for waiting for you, do you think I'd be chatting with this demon race?" Xie Chenyuan said lightly.

"Since we're all ready, let's discuss strategies," Cha Huan said, moving: "Do you remember Chapter Sixteen of 'Military Strategy Theory'?"

"How could I forget, that's your class, Principal." Yu Ke laughed: "But I studied the 2067 Ninth Revised Elegy Edition, Xie Chenyuan, what about you?"

"Coincidentally, I studied the 2070 Tenth Revised Elegy Edition." Xie Chenyuan said: "I wonder if there were any major changes."

"Don't worry, I oversaw the tenth revision, only corrected a few typos." Cha Huan said: "And I never follow textbooks in class, since you were all taught by me, you definitely learned the same things."

"Teaching needs to keep pace with the times, Principal," Yu Ke clicked his tongue and shook his head: "But in the current situation, isn't Chapter Six or Twenty-Three better? What do you think, Xie Chenyuan?"

Xie Chenyuan wiped the dirt off his face: "I have no objections, anything works, I'll follow your actions and won't fall behind by a bit."

"Hmm..." Cha Huan thought for a moment: "Yu Ke, you indeed commanded troops in Youyun for a few years, Chapter Six is indeed better, let's use Chapter Six. Sigh, really getting old, my brain doesn't turn as fast as the young ones."

The smile looked at the three of them babbling nonsense, without the slightest anger.

"The reason you still have hope is that you cannot see death." The smile pressed both hands down: "Be careful, despair is coming."

An invisible vast spiritual power, like ten thousand tons of deep sea, pressed down toward Xie Chenyuan and Yu Ke!

Finger Zen Sword Technique: Thousand Threads Transform!

Twin Gun Liaoyuan Technique: Wind and Fire Wheel!

Xie Chenyuan flicked his ten fingers, sending thousands of ghostly blue sword lights to slaughter upward!

Yu Ke danced his twin guns, creating explosions of flame light, cutting a path of Liaoyuan!

"Finally saw through?" The smile sneered: "But only to prolong your last breaths a little longer."

The smile's divine ability is named "Transforming Myriad."

"Transforming Myriad: You can record the properties of any material and replicate them onto substances controlled by your spiritual power."

"Currently recorded substances: Blood Essence Stone, refined steel, water..."

Ordinary spiritual attacks simply aren't so powerful, and there's a certain delay in reality warping with spiritual power, like when Li Ying clashed with Leyu using spiritual power, being easily overpowered, her spiritual force couldn't even touch Leyu's sleeve.

The reason the smile could unrestrainedly assault the three martial pillars was actually because he added the physical properties of refined steel to the air, remotely controlling the impact of several cubic meters of steel; if not for the various defensive techniques of Cha Huan and the others, they would have long been crushed.

But this move is not invincible because ultimately the smile uses spiritual power to manipulate air, so as long as you destroy the spiritual power attached, the air naturally loses the steel enchantment. Direct contact is suicidal, the only way is to gather spiritual power into explosive light for long-range attacks, dissolving the spiritual power in the air!

"Why are great scripts great?" The smile looked back at Cha Huan, who was attacking from behind, and said sinisterly: "Because they cannot be changed, cannot be altered!"

Clang!

Cha Huan's sword finger halted in mid-air, as if it encountered a city wall forged of refined steel, not able to cut in even an inch!

Just when the smile's thought moved, and the air transformed into countless steel spears stabbing toward Cha Huan, Cha Huan dodged the attack a step ahead, saying: "Retreat."

"Advance!"

Yu Ke stepped as if on the moon, his twin guns swirling up flames, like phoenixes interlacing to assault the smile, dyeing half the night sky red!

"Petty tricks!" The smile shouted, the air transformed into a boundless wave pouring out, exterminating the flame light!

"Lower attack."

Silently, the scattered ghostly blue sword threads launched by Xie Chenyuan silently ate away at the protective Gang Qi beneath the smile's feet, flying straight at the smile's vital points!

The smile gently stomped a foot, and the sword threads instantly scattered and vanished, yet above him, Cha Huan's voice sounded again: "Upper attack!"

Clang!

The protective Gang Qi above the head was almost instantly exhausted, but with a thought from the smile, nine layers of Gang Qi accumulated and stacked, Cha Huan's sharp sword light dissipated completely by the fifth layer!

"Military Strategy Theory, Chapter Six, Annihilation Array?" The smile was somewhat stunned.

Advance, retreat, upper attack, lower attack, known as annihilation!

"Glad to see you've read books," Cha Huan gracefully dodged the smile's air steel spears, casually tossing off his dirty and tattered gold-edged white robe, revealing the martial artist inner garment beneath: "Now, it's time for Teacher Cha's exam."

Advance?

The smile saw Xie Chenyuan appear before him, but the sword lights he flicked from his fingers were only a few sparse strands, yet waves of coldness emerged atop the head.

No, still an upper attack!

The smile actively struck, Gang Qi entwined around him, rushing toward Xie Chenyuan like a beast of steel, yet the gunlight from behind almost made his hair stand on end!

"Upper attack!" The smile roared, with a palm he obliterated Yu Ke's twin-gun rear attack, and with a foot, he stepped downward, in an instant, the air transformed into a thousand-ton refined steel, crushing down toward Cha Huan preparing a lower attack!

"I have one too." Xie Chenyuan's voice appeared above the smile, slender sharp ghostly blue sword lights cleaved through his nine-layered Gang Qi armor in an instant!

A thought from the smile, and the protective Gang Qi naturally replenished instantly, yet now he had only one thought left in mind:

What's next? Advance, or retreat? Or another upper attack?

Cha Huan stood before him, his sword poised to unleash boundless light in the next moment, yet the spear glow stabbed from behind!

It's a rear strike!

Smiling suddenly plummeted downward to evade Yu Ke's twin spears, exposing his right claw fiercely upwards, the air moving as desired, morphing into five sharp steel claws tearing apart the night sky!

Nonetheless, those tenacious sword threads now came to consume his protective Gang Qi from below!

It's a lower attack!

"Get lost!"

Smiling roared furiously, descending heavily like a thousand-pound weight; naturally, Xie Chenyuan dared not withstand the tens of tons of impact, gracefully evading through, calmly saying, "Finally willing to stand on the ground? Wise choice."

Smiling's expression was extremely hideous and ugly; he never expected to be forced into such a disarray and embarrassment by three Martial Artists, even having to come down from the sky just to defend against fewer attack directions!

Their joint efforts showed no pause or gap, perfectly attacking the spots Smiling had to defend, perfectly timing when Smiling wanted to counterattack! Smiling even felt as if he wasn't fighting three people but trapped among thousands of troops, surrounded and besieged by tens of thousands of elite soldiers!

In the heated battle, lost in the killing, plans clashed in the collision!

"Attention all examinees, only half of the answering time remains, please quickly fill your answers on the answer sheet." Cha Huan spit out a mouthful of turbid blood, calmly saying, "Tiring, isn't it? Though your Spiritual Power is in fact vast, you only have one pen, unable to answer three sheets simultaneously."

A word of revelation.

The Divine Abilities indeed are profound and formidable, the demon blood condensed by millions of the Demon Race indeed renders Smiling's Spiritual Power inexhaustible, yet Smiling ultimately has only one heart.

He can swiftly think up formations, but in the same instant, he can only have one thought!

If it were a real army of thousands, Smiling would be unafraid, because the more people, the more prone they are to mistakes; once the enemy exposes a momentary gap, Smiling can seize the opportunity to annihilate them!

But such gaps were nowhere to be found in the chaos earlier!

In contrast, Cha Huan, Yu Ke, and Xie Chenyuan through their previous pummelings, had grown accustomed to Smiling's attacking style, even predicting his counterattack directions, every dodge perfectly timed down to the slightest!

Cha Huan, Yu Ke, Xie Chenyuan were like three perfectly matched gears, grasping every moment of battle without a millimeter off, even though Smiling could easily crush any one of them, even though they were already scarred and could collapse at any time, the reality was Smiling fell into disadvantage, beaten into helplessness!

"Continue."

Yu Ke let out a long howl, twin spears swirling chaotic spear flowers rushed at Smiling, but Smiling already sensed the unparalleled sharpness of the sword light above!

Cha Huan's upper assault!

Smiling deftly dodged, conjured a forest of steel spears striking up at Cha Huan, yet a thousand cold, sharp blue sword threads came from behind!

Xie Chenyuan's rear attack!

Smiling uttered a thunderous roar, an air steel wall instantaneously condensed behind, then he thrust it, the ten-thousand-ton steel wall crushed toward Xie Chenyuan like a cannonball!

Boom!

The ground was pierced by Yu Ke's twin spears, instantly tearing through the protective Gang Qi on Smiling's legs!

Yu Ke's lower attack!

Smiling spun and clapped upward, greeted by Cha Huan's explosive sword light from above!

Boom! Bang!

Smiling's one-eyed lit up with blood glow, face full of uncontrollable fury, hands slapping toward Yu Ke and Cha Huan!

Lower attack against lower attack, upper strike against upper strike!

Yet just as Smiling's spirit focused all on Yu Ke and Cha Huan, his right side's protective Gang Qi was breached again by consuming sword threads, and by the time he responded, a shining foot already kicked his face!

Smack!

Smiling was kicked spewing bloody teeth, face written with disbelief, yet surprise soon turned into rage, his one eye brimmed with grotesque blood threads, the last thread of sanity snapped, leaving only one thought in his mind:

How dare they!? How dare they! I am an Immortal! The sole real Immortal! Manifesting sacredness in the world! Unforgivable! Unforgivable! I want them dead! Immediately! Turn into a heap of sludge!

He no longer resisted, instead, he clasped his hands, exuding a terrifying momentum!

Myriad Transformation·Heavenly Net!

This was the one move even Smiling found somewhat arduous, the principle using the Divine Abilities to instantaneously weave air into millions of steel lines to spread outward, yielding devastating annihilation. He once used this move against a Beiwei Army hundred-man squad, slicing the hundred men into tens of thousands of pieces instantly, so that the Beiwei Army now can't even determine what that squad encountered.

Originally intending to leave Cha Huan, Yu Ke, and Xie Chenyuan with a complete corpse, as they need to be hung on the city wall as live banners tomorrow, but enraged now, naturally everything was disregarded.

Turn into hundreds of chunks of meat, human mongrels!

Yet the instant the Heavenly Net was deployed, Cha Huan, Yu Ke, Xie Chenyuan showed an expression of 'as expected'.

"Now announcing exam results."

In Smiling's shocked gaze, Yu Ke danced a fiery spear flower thoroughly encompassing himself, effortlessly shredding the invisible Heavenly Net, using twin spears to seize the chance to pierce Smiling, penetrating nine layers of protective Gang Qi!

Even if Smiling instantly thought to restore protective Gang Qi, he couldn't help but be jolted back several meters, leaving a mark on the ground!

"Yu Ke, 85.5 points."

Just as Smiling was jolted back, Xie Chenyuan flicked dozens of sword threads, seemingly seeing the invisible Heavenly Net, each thread pinpointing nodes, precisely probing a gap just right for him to pass through.

Watching Smiling retreat, Xie Chenyuan flicked several more threads, each chasing Smiling's knees, each pinpointing the same spot, instantaneously piercing nine layers of Gang Qi, Smiling didn't even have time to recover before feeling sword threads bursting within his knees!

"Xie Chenyuan, 90 points."

Smiling staggered, almost kneeling. At this moment he sensed the sharp sword light from behind, without hesitation, he instantly conjured a steel wall to push crash into!

However, when Smiling turned around, he didn't see Cha Huan's figure, only catching a glimpse of the remnants of flying boots! Simultaneously, he suddenly felt the protective Gang Qi on his head dissolving layer by layer!

"Smiling..."

Cha Huan transformed his palm into a heavy sword, merging the depth of the Universal Combat Technique, the sharpness of the Sword Combat Technique, and the etherealness of the Lingxu Battle Technique, from top to bottom, treading the skies, slashing toward Smiling, instantaneously breaking through nine layers of Gang Qi, one strike cutting toward Smiling's head!

Smiling's knees bent, kneeling to the ground, his head smashed into the earth, shattering the bluestones!

"Failing grade."

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