Inside the Great Xia Nation National Examination live broadcast room, a dead silence lasting several seconds fell.

The two gold-medal hosts currently had their mouths wide open, forgetting what they were supposed to say next.

On the screen, five white lights representing elimination were still slowly dissipating.

That scorched earth, flattened into ruins, silently recounted everything that had just happened.

It was still the female host, Lin Xi, who subconsciously murmured a sentence.

"So... Such a terrifying skill range."

She paused and added,

"And the damage."

The male host, Wei Zheng, abruptly snapped back to his senses. He cleared his throat, trying to use a professional tone to conceal his ungraceful composure.

"Indeed, it is truly an extremely shocking scene."

"It looks like Dongning Province has held back a massive ultimate move this year!"

He looked back at the screen, locking his gaze onto the straight-postured mage wearing the Star-Moon Robe.

"To think there is such a powerful candidate in their team!"

"With just the strength of one person, they wiped out the entire team from Jinchuan Province!"

The amazement in his tone could no longer be concealed.

"You must know that the five members of Jinchuan Province's team this year are all A-Class Classer!"

"Yet in front of this Dongning Province candidate, they couldn't even last a single round!"

"I guess this candidate is very likely an extremely rare S-Class Hidden Professional!"

Lin Xi blinked and put forward a bold conjecture.

"Brother Wei, do you think... Is it possible that he is an SS-Rank Professional?"

"I have never seen any S-Class Professional pull off such an exaggerated performance."

Hearing this, Wei Zheng shook his head with a wry smile.

"Little Lin, you really know how to joke."

"If he were an SS-Rank Professional, then I think this year's National Examination won't need to continue."

"We can just deliver the top scholar trophy straight into his hands."

Meanwhile, inside the official live broadcast rooms of major streaming platforms,

the previously sparse bullet comments suddenly erupted in a blowout fashion!

【Holy shit! Holy shit! What did I just see? Meteor carpet bombing?】

【The fuck is this a freshman? Are you telling me this is a freshman?!】

【Who is that white-robed young man! So handsome! Mom, I'm in love!】

【Get lost, you brainless fangirl upstairs! The focus is on strength, okay? This is definitely S-Class! And it's the absolute top-tier kind of S-Class!】

【S-Class? Hehe, you're underestimating him too much. I bet fifty cents, this is definitely SS-Rank!】

【Bullshit! Do you think an SS-Rank Professional is Chinese cabbage? You have one just because you say so? I think Dongning Province cheated!】

【Regardless of whether it's an SS-Rank Professional or not, Dongning Province is likely going to be a heaven-shaking dark horse this year!】

Heaven's Decree Guild, Guild Master's office.

Sun Tianzheng was leaning back in his spacious executive chair, also paying attention to this year's National Examination.

When he saw that familiar figure on the screen, he couldn't help being slightly stunned.

Isn't that the white-robed mage who showed astonishing performance during the beast tide battle back then?

Seemed to be called Gandalf?

To think this guy was actually a candidate this year?

Recalling how a few days ago he even sent Peng Cang and Hei Ming to invite this mage to sit down at the Heaven's Decree Guild,

but the other party said they were busy recently and it wasn't convenient to visit the guild.

He originally thought that was just a polite excuse for a tactful rejection.

Never expected that he actually had real business.

And it was such a major event as representing Dongning Province in the National Examination.

When seeing Gandalf wipe out the Jinchuan Province team with a mere wave of his hand, a bitter smile couldn't help but appear on Sun Tianzheng's face.

He had originally thought of winning the other party over.

Now it seemed that idea could be completely dismissed.

With the strength Gandalf displayed, wanting to capture this year's National Examination top scholar title was simply as easy as pie.

By then, he would definitely receive high attention from the military's upper echelons and be heavily cultivated as a pillar of the country.

Such an existence was no longer something his tiny Heaven's Decree Guild could accommodate.

Jiangning City, National Examination General Command Headquarters.

Li Gang looked at the five pillars of white light soaring into the sky in the live broadcast footage, spreading his mouth into a satisfied smile.

"Right! Right, right, right! Just like that!"

"Hahahaha! Our Dongning Province can finally hold its head high for once this year!"

While he was rejoicing, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated frantically.

Call after call came in, completely unable to stop.

"Hello? Old Zhang, what is it?"

"Gandalf? Oh, a candidate from our province, what's wrong?"

"What rating? S-Class."

"Why would I lie to you? We're old comrades-in-arms, you still don't trust me?"

Li Gang hung up the phone cheerfully, and before he could even catch his breath, another call came in.

He continued using that same rhetoric to perfunctorily deal with one anxious inquiring old friend after another.

His mood was incomparably comfortable.

Triple Island, inside the jungle.

Yuan Kai, Shen Fuhai, and Ye Xi were still in a state of massive shock, unable to recover their senses for a long time.

They simply followed behind Gandalf in a daze, unable to even speak a word.

Zhou Huai stopped his steps and glanced back at the three of them.

"Go find the stone."

"Break this trapping array, and we'll go find the next target."

Hearing this, the three of them snapped out of it as if waking from a dream, immediately moving around in a fluster.

Zhou Huai had already figured it out.

Rather than painstakingly grinding monsters to accumulate points, it was better to directly eliminate all the teams.

This was much more efficient.

If they were fast, in five or six hours, they should be able to lock down the top scholar position in advance.

Just right, taking advantage of the fact that other teams were still spinning around in their respective trapping arrays and wouldn't run around blindly,

he could completely compare it with the live broadcast room's map and hunt them down one by one.

Soon, Shen Fuhai found the core eye of this trapping array.

As the stone was crushed, the surrounding scenery changed once again.

Without a single pause, Zhou Huai immediately led the three of them heading toward the next target location.

Just like that, under the gazes of tens of millions of viewers in the live broadcast room,

a bizarre scene occurred.

Dongning Province's team walked as if they were strolling in their own back garden, accurately finding one team after another that was still trapped in place.

They didn't even need to communicate.

The mage wearing the Star-Moon Robe was always the first to discover the opponent.

Then, it was an incomparably smooth combo sequence.

【Forbidden Spell: Geocenter Gravity Field】!

【Forbidden Spell: Meteor Rain】!

One combo to take them away, clean and neat.

In less than an hour's time,

a full ten provincial teams had been sent back to their hometowns by him using the exact same method.

Inside the live broadcast room,

host Wei Zheng's mouth never closed.

He let out an exclamation.

"Good heavens! This year's Dongning Province team performance is too unexpected."

"It can no longer be described as a dark horse."

His voice was dry, and his gaze was dull.

"This is clearly a vicious dragon crawling out of the abyss!"

Lin Xi also covered her mouth, her face full of incredulity.

"Could he... Could he actually be thinking of eliminating all the remaining teams?"

"If he really pulls that off, this will be an unprecedented and un-succeeded feat in the history of the National Examination!"

The bullet comments of the live broadcast room had completely exploded.

【Holy shit! Another team wiped out! What the fuck team number is this?】

【Cheating! This is definitely cheating! Dongning Province sent in a Professional of at least level fifty!】

【Report! Must be strictly investigated! This is simply unfair!】

【If you can't afford to lose upstairs, stop crying! Our Dongning Province won based on true skill, so what?】

【Little big brother is so handsome! Decisive in killing! Loved it, loved it!】

【Magnificent, my great Dongning! This year's top scholar, we've booked it!】

Jiangning City, command headquarters.

Li Gang's phone was still ringing nonstop.

Only, the tone on the other end of the phone had changed from the initial inquiries to frantic, exasperated cursing.

"Li Gang! What the fuck do you mean?!"

"The team from our Anyang Province was completely wiped out by your people less than half an hour after the National Examination started!"

"What kind of monster did you actually bring in?!"

"You Dongning Province folks don't play by the rules!"