Chapter 499: Chapter 224: Terrifying Performance, Complete Domination!

Just then, the entire space began to subtly twist and fold.

Amidst a myriad of shifting lights and shadows, the broken walls began to rapidly restore themselves to their original state.

Within the Dubhe Cube, the powerful space-folding architecture resealed the two independent testing sites in the shortest possible time.

An announcement rang out at just the right moment.

"Examinee Han Zhiping, please be advised. Due to site damage from unknown factors, your test will be paused for five minutes. Please calm yourself, adjust your condition, and prepare to resume the examination shortly."

Immediately after, an announcement also sounded on Lin Ye’s end.

"Examinee Lin Ye, please wait where you are. The system is calculating the value of your explosive punch force."

...

In the observation hall, all hell had broken loose.

Sounds of discussion and gasps of amazement rose one after another, merging into a tumultuous wave of noise.

"My God... He obliterated the target. How are they even supposed to calculate his score?"

"Calculate my ass! Just give him first place and be done with it! Is there even any point in competing?"

"I’m starting to think all those so-called top geniuses were just here to be his foils..."

"That ’once-in-a-century prodigy from the Imperial Capital’? The one who ’burst onto the scene as Great Xia’s number one’? Looking at it now, he doesn’t seem all that impressive..."

Beside Li Kai Nian, an Education Bureau official from another province shook his head with a bitter expression and remarked self-deprecatingly,

"I wonder how many of me he could kill with that one punch... It’s just too damn ridiculous."

"I’m in the Late Stage of the Gang Condensation Realm, at least. If I gave it my absolute all, my peak punch force would max out at 3,000 tons, and that’s pushing it..."

"How can the gap between people be this enormous?"

Everyone who was here to observe the competition was powerful and held a high rank.

But their personal strength wasn’t necessarily exceptional.

Those like Li Kai Nian, who had reached the Divine Realm, were considered about average.

There were also some in the Late Stage of the Gang Condensation Realm.

Those who had entered the Celestial Human Realm were truly few and far between.

Behind Zhu Mingyi, his aide was holding a personal terminal, sweating bullets as he urged the technical department and the proctoring team to calculate the final number as quickly as possible.

Just as the entire hall grew restless with anticipation.

Lin Ye’s final score at last appeared on the main screen, fashionably late.

The moment that number became clear, the uproar in the hall came to a dead stop.

[Examinee: Lin Ye]

[Explosive Punch Force: 215,789.4 tons (Estimated Value)]

The next moment, Li Kai Nian saw the person beside him suddenly laugh.

When one is left speechless by something utterly absurd...

...they do indeed laugh.

Two hundred and ten thousand tons!

And on top of that, it was just a goddamn estimate!

Because the target was completely destroyed, the equipment was unable to measure the precise peak value!

After a brief silence, an uproar erupted, more violent and more frenzied than any before!

"Holy shit...!"

"Doesn’t this make him the strongest in the history of the Gang Condensation Realm?"

"You’ve got to be kidding. I’m in the Early Stage of the Divine Realm, and I don’t think I could take a punch like that..."

Li Kai Nian sat in his seat, feeling the blood coursing through his veins boil with excitement. He clenched his fists so tightly his nails dug deep into his palms, yet he felt no pain.

The muscles in his face twitched from the sheer excitement, but he still struggled to maintain his composure.

’I can’t laugh!’

’I have to keep a straight face!’

But the corners of his mouth, twitching upward in a grin he couldn’t suppress, had already betrayed his ecstatic joy.

Just then, without warning, the main view and the two secondary views on the large screen merged into one.

「The scene switched.」

A massive, stadium-like circular running track appeared before everyone’s eyes.

The track seemed endless, stretching infinitely into the distance with the aid of spatial technology.

There were eight lanes in total.

Onscreen, Xia Lianxue and several other top examinees who had completed the static and punch force tests were already standing at the starting line of their respective lanes.

And Xia Lianxue, of all people, was standing right in the centermost lane, number four!

She seemed to have been waiting for some time, her cool gaze fixed on the entrance tunnel in the distance.

As the crowd watched in confusion, Zhu Mingyi’s voice slowly echoed through the speakers.

"Please, everyone, be patient."

"This is a special arrangement I’ve made."

"The space inside the Dubhe Cube is more than sufficient to accommodate tens of thousands of examinees testing simultaneously, allowing each to have their own independent site."

"However, I believe that direct competition is, without a doubt, the best way to stimulate these children’s ultimate potential and their will to win."

He paused, a hint of surprise creeping into his tone.

"I just never expected the system would be so coincidental as to assign this year’s two top contenders for the number one spot to the same venue."

As Zhu Mingyi finished speaking, a figure slowly emerged from the entrance.

It was none other than Lin Ye.

He walked slowly toward the last, unoccupied lane.

And at that very moment.

Xia Lianxue’s glacial gaze, like an invisible blade, instantly locked onto him!

It was a look of scrutiny—more than that, it was the look of a superior examining an inferior who had finally managed to approach her level!

Lin Ye felt that gaze.

He slowly raised his head, his own calm gaze meeting hers.

There was no scent of gunpowder from a head-on clash, nor the tension of drawn swords.

Their gazes met in mid-air, as if they were simply confirming something they both already understood.

’Only you are worthy of my attention.’

The massive, straight track was vast and desolate. Aided by spatial technology, it resembled a long white ribbon stretching to the end of the world.

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