Chapter 5: A clichéd and unexpected plot

Daxia Education Department.

"Director."

"What is it?"

"The warriors patrolling the Xinmao area have lost contact."

The director was stunned for a moment: "Xinmao? What happened? I remember that this martial arts exam was open to the Dinghai area, and before the exam, the Jiazi area to the Dinghai area were cleared in advance. Why would the patrolling martial artists lose contact?"

Humans have divided the secret realm of the Myriad Beasts Mountain into sixty regions, named after the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Generally, martial arts exams are open to the four major regions of A, B, C, and D, while the subsequent regions are provided for higher-level warriors or bounty warriors to train.

The subordinate was sweating profusely and said hurriedly: "We just discovered that the current area number is not consistent with the area number we cleared before..."

The director's face darkened: "What area was Xinmao area originally?"

"Gui, Guisi..." the subordinate said weakly.

“Gui Si?!”

The director stood up suddenly, and his voice rose an octave.

"How could such a big mistake happen? What do you do for a living?"

The director said angrily: "Do you know what the Guisi area represents?! The martial arts examination area is open to Dinghai. Do you know how many students will die because of this mistake?"

"Director, I, we..."

The subordinate broke out in a cold sweat: "This is not our fault! We did clean up the examination area before the exam, but afterwards there seemed to be a very obscure large-scale geological movement in the secret realm of Wanshou Mountain. The positions of the mountainside and the foot of the mountain seemed to have swapped... By the time we found out, the exam had already begun..."

"This is not what I want to hear!" The director's face flushed. If this matter went wrong, he might be removed from this position.

And, most importantly, the lives of those children!

"If you don't deal with the problem, what are you reporting to me? Send more people to the Beast Mountain! Bring the students back and stop the martial arts exam!"

"But……"

The subordinate was a little hesitant, "The number of candidates..."

indeed.

Every time, the number of candidates taking the military examination reaches tens or even millions. It is not realistic to accept all of them in a short period of time.

It is true that the martial arts exam was conducted through a secret realm teleportation device. Under normal circumstances, they only need to reopen the teleportation device to bring all the candidates back at the same time.

However, the secret realm transmission device involves time and space after all, and the interval between two openings must be at least seven days, otherwise it will suffer severe damage from time and space.

It would be better if it was a strong warrior, but a martial arts student...

"What the hell is this time? You're still thinking about this?! Students' lives are the most important!" The director was so angry that he cursed: "Send more people immediately and borrow all the warriors above the Qimai realm from other departments. I want you to gather all the students as quickly as possible... Forget it, I'll go there myself, you send a notice to all the major schools, and then lead all the warriors above the Qimai realm in the department to enter the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain first!"

As he said this, the director didn't even have time to take off his coat, he directly smashed the large French window in the office and jumped down from the 18th floor of the building - although he was an educator, at heart, the director was still a powerful warrior.

"I hope I can be rescued in time, otherwise, I will be a sinner for all eternity..."

The director ran as fast as he could, worried and anxious. At his level, ordinary vehicles couldn't run as fast as him.

More importantly, there is no time to prepare transportation now.

Although the secret realm of Wanshou Mountain is said to be controlled by humans, the actual scope of the secret realm is extremely vast. What humans control is actually only the three million square kilometers from the foot to the middle of Wanshou Mountain.

The four major areas A, B, C, and D are indeed completely under control, but the problem is that now, the secret realm of Wanshou Mountain is experiencing geological changes, and the locations of all areas are in chaos - many secret realms have their own rules, such as the secret realm of Wanshou Mountain, which can undergo geological changes without causing any fluctuations.

However, in the past, large-scale geological changes in Wanshou Mountain occurred once every fifty years, and ordinary geological changes would only occur within the top of the mountain and would not affect the areas under human control at all.

It has only been thirty-six years since the last major geological event...

This was something no one had expected.

If it is not dealt with in time, there is a high probability that there will be heavy casualties in this martial arts exam...

Even the Director of the Education Department was not sure whether the rescue operation could be carried out normally.

Because starting from the Wu Hai area, the signals of electronic equipment will not be able to be completely covered due to the chaotic magnetic field in the area.

The further back you go, the lower the coverage of electronic signals becomes.

The geological changes in Wanshou Mountain will not only change the location of the mountains and forests, but even the magnetic field will change.

Those emergency rescue equipment used in the martial arts exam are useless...

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"Ji Ruo, when did you learn Iron Sand Palm?"

While waiting, Liang Shixian asked curiously.

They have completely relaxed.

There are no monsters here at the moment, and Liu Neng and Zhang Quan have already activated the rescue device, so they just need to wait patiently for the patrolling warriors to arrive.

"Last week."

Ji Ruo waved a small wooden stick and told the truth.

Liang Shixian hesitated to speak, and finally snorted and said, "If you don't want to say it, forget it. Who are you trying to fool?"

He could see that Ji Ruo's Iron Sand Palm was definitely more than just a beginner's skill, but to say that he had mastered the art seemed a little unrealistic.

However, no matter what level it is, to be able to train to the point where your palms are as hard as iron, it will definitely take a lot of time to practice. This process cannot be fast, otherwise even with the help of matching medicines, your hands will not be able to withstand the high-intensity training.

If you train too hard, your hands will become useless.

So when Ji Ruo said that he had only practiced for a week, Liang Shixian didn't believe it at all.

But he didn't say much.

As the class monitor, he was well aware of Ji Ruo's family situation.

Although he was also very curious about how Ji Ruo had the money to buy the formula for Iron Sand Palm to practice it, he couldn't ask.

Because once asked, it will inevitably involve family situation, and Ji Ruo's family situation...

Ji Ruo had lived two lives, so he could naturally see what Liang Shixian was worried about, which made Ji Ruo feel slightly warmed in his heart.

A few of them were chatting idly, waiting for the arrival of the inspecting warriors.

Ji Ruo waved the small wooden stick for a long time without any results, so he tied the small wooden stick around his waist and sat on the ground to think.

Two hours passed.

The light in the sunless Mysterious Land of Wanshou Mountain gradually dimmed, and Liang Shixian and Ji Ruo finally realized that something was wrong.

"Why has it taken so long?"

"Did something unexpected happen?"

The two looked at each other, stood up at the same time and said, "We have to go."

Zhang Quan and Liu Neng were stunned for a moment: "But the examiners haven't arrived yet..."

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