I only have passive skills, so I'm extremely cautious

Hu...Hu...

The cold wind whistled past like a cry, and many drones flew in the air, capturing wonderful pictures for live broadcast.

The black earth, the gray sky, the barren grass, and the dry and cracked gravel formed this ancient battlefield.

All the dust in the past was buried underground, becoming the so-called ancient demon treasure.

With the naked eye, thick black smoke can be seen floating out from the cracks in the ground. The surroundings are so quiet that it seems that there are no living creatures.

The transport plane landed, and the imperial soldiers neatly formed a circle to guard the flowers of hope in the middle.

"Once you want to quit, crush the identity jade card and gather here in seven days." An officer said seriously.

After that, several transport planes rose on the spot and flew away.

There is more than one landing point, and Chen Zhong and the others are only one of them, with about two or three hundred people.

In order to increase the difficulty of the competition, students from dozens of colleges were randomly deployed, and because they could not use mobile phones, students from one college could not meet in time.

"Senior, we..." Behind him, more than a dozen students from Tianyan Academy came close and quickly hugged Yuan Wusha's thighs.

As a powerful person, Yuan Wusha said frankly, "Follow me, but remember to unite and don't make trouble!"

After thinking for a while, Yuan Wusha added, "Think twice before you do or say anything, don't make a big mistake because of your momentary negligence, remember to be cautious and steady!"

Chen Zhong on the side nodded secretly, very pleased. It seems that under his influence, everyone has gradually found the direction and essence.

"Survive for seven days, and all the gains belong to you!"

This is the rule of the first round of the game.

Looking around, plains, hills, valleys, all terrains are covered with black stones, bare.

This reality dispelled Chen Zhong's plan to hide for seven days.

"Implement a guerrilla strategy and test the edge first." Chen Zhong said.

To be honest, he was very reluctant to follow a large group of tails, but it was nothing just after entering. It would not be too late to separate after a little understanding of the terrain.

Students from other colleges saw that there were more than a dozen students from Tianyan College gathered here, and they left without saying a word. Several students from the Imperial College wanted to take action to deal with some of them, but when they saw Yuan Wusha, they immediately became weak.

"Want to leave?" Yuan Wusha blocked the way first, "I saw your eye contact just now clearly."

"You... it's all a misunderstanding." The leading boy softened and signaled the people behind him to retreat.

"Whether it's a misunderstanding or not, let's fight first."

Yuan Wusha rushed out and punched the boy in the first level of the small success realm.

He was like a wolf rushing into a flock of sheep, fighting ten people alone and beating the other party without any ability to fight back.

Whoosh!

Several imprisonment talismans were thrown from Chen Zhong's hands, and rune chains burst out directly, catching a few who had escaped far away.

"Be more conscious." Chen Zhong smiled friendly.

"It's impossible for us to hand over the jade card! Don't dream!" The students of the Imperial College were ready to die and held their storage magic tools tightly.

Chen Zhong laughed even more happily, took out a corpse melting talisman, and threw it on a black stone.

Chi Chi Chi...

A series of sharp erosion sounds accompanied by a strong pungent smell, and the black stone half as tall as a person melted in half!

Chen Zhong was a little surprised. This black stone was a bit special. If it were other objects, it would be directly melted into a sticky liquid, and there would be no half left.

"You should know that life and death can be determined in the ancient battlefield." Chen Zhong took out a few more corpse melting talismans.

As soon as the words fell, the talismans fell out of his hand.

More than a dozen people were so angry that they took out their identity jade cards in a hurry and crushed them.

Buzz buzz buzz——

The jade cards turned into a ball of spiritual power, which wrapped them up, forming a 360-degree defense shield with no dead angles.

What's more considerate is that there is a line of text rotating on the surface of the defense shield: "This contestant has withdrawn from the competition. Continuing to attack will violate the rules of the competition. Those who violate the rules will be severely punished!"

Chen Zhong felt it and found that these defense shields were carefully designed. They have two principles, talismans and machinery, and can probably block the full-strength attack of a strong man in the early stage of the Soul Tempering Realm.

Puff.

A few talismans fell and were burned by the defense shields. There was no corrosion effect. These were actually a few ordinary white papers.

After all, there was no grudge against them. With Chen Zhong's temper, how could he make enemies everywhere?

After the false alarm, the Imperial Academy looked at each other, feeling a little bit like surviving a disaster.

But Chen Zhong's gentle face always made them feel a little chilly, and their hearts couldn't stop twitching.

However, several people still endured their temper and said earnestly, "Thank you for your mercy. We are not as skilled as others. Dear classmates... Let's go first."

Tutututu——

A helicopter flew from a distance and took more than a dozen people away.

On the square of the Imperial Palace in the imperial capital, the big screen was showing the scene of Yuan Wusha fighting against more than a dozen people, and Chen Zhong's imprisonment talisman catching people.

The high-level seats on the city wall.

"Dean Xu, your new leader of the demon list is very powerful!" Yang Fu, the dean of the Imperial College, laughed.

"Well, it's okay." Xu Xiaodao replied coldly.

Yu Yongren lay in a chair, crossing his legs, "That Chen Zhong, he is quite something, look at his little eyes, full of wisdom."

Xu Xiaodao's eyes condensed, "Just a little trick."

Yang Fu echoed, "Shangshan products, which are very popular in the young people's circle recently, were founded by this kid, right? A lot of students in my college are speculating on those talisman blind boxes."

To outsiders, the three giants are discussing national affairs, such as which student rookie to focus on today, which international criminal to punish tomorrow, and which city to conquer the day after tomorrow...

They don't know that these three are actually chatting about trivial things from all over the world, and only occasionally glance at the big screen when there is a wonderful performance of a good seedling.

This is Dihua!

Audience seats in the square.

"Do you think that senior Yuan Wusha can beat the prince of the Imperial Academy?" Jia Shuangshuang asked curiously. As for why she didn't mention Chen Zhong, it was because in her heart that Chen Zhong represented the word invincible.

"I don't know. Since senior met junior Chen Zhong, he has become... a little wretched, and rarely shows his true strength in front of everyone." A junior student next to him said helplessly.

"Yes," Wu Lan suddenly said, "Senior Wu Sha is very strong. He should have the conditions to break through to the Soul Tempering Realm. He has been suppressed just to build a solid foundation. In comparison, the prince has just reached the peak of the ninth level of the Minor Success Realm, which is a little different from Senior's Half-Step Soul Tempering Realm."

Yan Sui, who was sitting in the back row, also said, "If you want to say who is the most hidden in the Imperial Academy, it should be Sima Xiao. He is smooth and skilled in the control of spiritual power, and should also be at the level of Half-Step Soul Tempering Realm."

Everyone nodded and thought about it.

Yan Sui advanced to the Soul Tempering Realm a few days ago and had a deeper understanding of spiritual power and soul. What he said was authoritative and convincing.

Further back in the audience seats, there was a dense crowd. They sat in the seats prepared by the Empire and looked up to watch the live broadcast. Adults and children were happy and excited.

For ordinary people, real and large-scale official spiritual warrior battles are rare. A lot of people treated it as watching a movie or a football game, bringing snacks and drinks, and they were very happy.

Of course, such a grand occasion cannot be without the guards of the Imperial Army. The armed soldiers and tanks on both sides are clearly intimidating those who have evil intentions.

The big screen jumped and cut to another place.

As soon as it came out, it was Yanyu's little fire dragon, and his hand pierced the chest of a contestant.

A closer look showed that the person whose heart he took out was the one who accidentally bumped into him before.

The other students of this academy hurriedly crushed the jade card, and the little fire dragon stepped on the ground in disappointment and stopped the attack.

In the audience, an old man had a gloomy face and his finger bones were black and blue.

In the end, he could only sigh helplessly. Yanyu was a master he could not afford to offend. He probably had no chance to avenge the intentional murder of his students.

...

Ancient battlefield.

Chen Zhong and his group of more than a dozen people were lying on the dark side of a hill, looking at the creatures on the hillside of the opposite Black Mountain.

Strictly speaking, it was not a creature, the professional term was ancient demon.

A strange creature condensed from a mixture of energy such as demonic energy, corpses, souls, and spiritual power.

It is more like a wild demon soul with a body.

"What is that? A ball of black fog and two bone sticks?" Yuan Wusha took out his halberd and prepared to leave.

"Don't worry." Chen Zhong threw a talisman out.

The talisman turned into vines halfway and quickly crawled towards the area where the ancient demons were wandering.

Puff——

After walking more than half of the way, the black stone under the vines suddenly exploded, and more than a dozen ancient demons emerged from the ground.

These ancient demons have different shapes, but their structures are similar. The overall shape is black and gray fog. There are humanoids, huge spirit beasts, and weird monsters.

The surface of the black fog is erratic, and the free ancient demon gas is like a living microbial colony, but it is very condensed inside, and it is shiny black.

Then, the ancient demons still retained some of their limbs from their lifetime, such as the ancient demon man with a skull covering the black fog, the hen black fog with two leg bones, and the monster black fog with a body of long hair hanging in the air.

These ancient demons could not make any sound, and they could only be seen trying to open their mouths wide until they tore the black fog, but there was no sound at all.

It was precisely this silent fear that brought greater oppression.

They pounced on the vines and bit and tore them apart.

The ancient demons' fighting style... was very primitive, without any fancy skills and secrets, but only pure attack.

"No!" Chen Zhong frowned and discovered something.

"The ancient demons' attack methods are not that simple!"

"Their power is more inclined to the soul level... Could it be?!"

Chen Zhong suddenly grabbed a handful of black stone gravel on the ground in shock, and at the same time, a strand of soul power was separated and touched the black stone.

Zi... Zi Zi...

The soul power was sensed and responded quickly.

"These black stones contain a lot of energy from the same source as the ancient demons. If I'm not mistaken, the real harm of the ancient demons lies in the soul!"

Everyone was stunned, and the smiles on their faces gradually disappeared.

Chen Zhong blinked his eyes and continued, "I now understand why this Qian Ge Ancient Battlefield has become a forbidden area. What's more terrifying is not the ancient demons, but what's under our feet."

Yuan Wusha was puzzled and pointed down, "These stones?"

Chen Zhong shook his head, "This entire ancient battlefield is a domain, a domain shrouded by special power. Here, the ancient demons can regenerate continuously. Even if we kill them all, their dissipated bodies will flow back to the ancient battlefield and regenerate."

Seeing that everyone was a little stunned, Chen Zhong rubbed his eyebrows, "To put it simply, the ancient demons are only a part of the ancient battlefield, or it can be said to be a manifestation. The real monster is the ancient battlefield!"

"Then is this ancient battlefield dead or alive?" Yuan Wusha's words instantly made everyone shudder.

"There is a 99% chance that they are dead. The birth of ancient demons is a natural phenomenon in this environment, just like storms and tsunamis in the sea." Chen Zhong explained.

"The most suitable force for counterattack is soul power. The corpse melting talisman I just used is very obvious. The ancient battlefield is filled with soul power. Magic must be defeated by magic!"

Finally, he added, "The above are all my guesses. Just listen to them. Don't take them too seriously. We need to observe the details again."

"Oh, there is one more thing. I finally know why the dean said that there is only guerrilla warfare in the ancient battlefield, because the ancient demons are part of the ancient battlefield. When we step into the ancient battlefield, it is equivalent to stepping into their territory. We are now a group of thieves who enter a room full of surveillance cameras, and the owner is watching in the surveillance room."

Chen Zhong said helplessly, while taking out dozens of talismans and throwing them around.

Yuan Wusha instantly understood the meaning of the words. Those ancient demons actually knew where there were people!

Boom——

The talisman exploded and the flames rose.

The ancient demons that quietly rushed around were burned into charcoal.

The ancient demons are not strong in combat, but the scary thing is that they are endless. Killing them is the same as not killing them. Unless you have the strength to blow up the entire ancient battlefield, you will only waste your spiritual power.

This is a difficult rally.

No wonder the theme of the competition is to persist for seven days, rather than collecting items, hunting numbers and other assessment criteria.

The organizer of this competition is really insidious. He didn't tell you anything. The key is that there is very little information about the ancient battlefield on the Internet. It is obvious that he is cheating people and waiting for the contestants to dig it out by themselves.

In this way, it would be strange if the mortality rate is not low!

Little did they know that the venue of this competition was provided by our dear and great emperor.

Tsk...

The flames went out, and the ancient demons did not leave any energy core.

Then there is no need to kill them specifically. It is just a setting to increase the difficulty.

"Retreat!" Chen Zhong ran away without thinking.

The next second, the Shenxing Dun was forced to stop again.

Hundreds of ancient demons emerged from the ground in all directions, and several of them were comparable to the minor success realm.

Suddenly, Chen Zhong paused, and a sense of foreboding emerged in his mind.

Will these ghost things trigger the two great skills of Green Corpse Cold and 100% Barehanded Blade Reception!

Observing the ancient demons, they have no emotions at all, just natural instincts, like a wave hitting over, can 100% Barehanded Blade Reception work?

"Fortunately..." Chen Zhong exclaimed, "Fortunately I have considered this a long time ago, and specially prepared 30% more spiritual talismans than usual!"

There is no way to retreat, and you can't escape alone in a dignified manner, which will have a bad impact on Shangshanmen.

Even if you work alone, you have to find a better reason and time.

"Seniors, I still remind you that once you find that you can't fight, crush the jade card as soon as possible!" Chen Zhong did not forget to turn around and give a warm reminder.

"Thank you for your concern, junior."

"I won't bring shame to our school. This is just a small matter!"

Chen Zhong smiled and said, "Then, fight your way out."