The first ray of sunshine in the morning shines through the lush branches and leaves. The Zeus Academy camp by the lake is already a busy scene. More than a month of experience is about to end. No matter what grades are, it is always good for these half-aged children to come without having to sleep in the open. Think about the soft big bed in the college dormitory, nothing is better than lying on it.

In order to welcome this group of students, of course, for safety reasons, the college specially sent a group of tutors. With so many tutors to protect them, the students were even more at ease and bold.

After a few days of travel, the teachers and students of Zeus Academy have already stepped onto the long-lost square. The huge square is filled with a stone-wood rostrum. Dean Ling Feng has already sat upright in the middle of the front row. Seeing the teachers and students coming over, he stood up and said, "First of all, welcome you back. You have completed your challenge to yourself again." After a pause, Dean Ling Feng continued, "Now, here, I not only want to welcome you, but also tell you one thing, that is, the triennial backbone competition of God is about to begin!"

The students who didn't care much about it suddenly became excited, and all the passions of the students seemed to be ignited by Dean Ling Feng's words.

"Senior, what is the backbone of the Gods?" A second-year junior asked the senior who was excited in front of him.

"You don't know this? The backbone of God is a touchstone for the strong. Anyone who achieves excellent results in the backbone of God will eventually become a super strong person. If any ordinary student can achieve good results in the backbone of God, he can not only use more magic space, but also be noticed by some professors. Professor, do you understand? Those are super strong people." The senior waved his arms excitedly. Despite this, he seemed to be unable to vent his mood.

"Can I participate too?" Seeing the senior so excited and hearing his explanation, the junior was also extremely excited.

"Everyone can participate, but you can participate, but it will be difficult to achieve good results. Let's wait for the next chance." He laughed.

"You are only one year older than me, why didn't I get a good ranking this time? Maybe I'm much better than you." My junior said unconvincedly.

"What are you? Do you want to have a conversation with me?" The senior's tone was filled with a naked threat.

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This situation also happens in many places. As soon as Dean Ling Feng said, the students were destined to be indifferent. When these students were young, most of them were regarded as talented and prodigy by their families. When they came to Zeus Academy, they realized that there were those who were talented and those who were stronger than them. They were just ordinary students. Sometimes, they could only sigh in the corner that they had bad luck and no good opportunities. Now, the backbone of the Gods competition was started, and the opportunity was about to come and everything was about to be solved.

None of them will admit that their talents are inferior to others, and this gives them a chance to prove themselves. As long as they achieve good results in this backbone of God, everything is no longer a problem. Of course, most of them have not participated in the backbone of God. They have just heard some seniors mention it.

After pressing down his hands, Dean Ling Feng continued, "The backbone of God is opened, everyone has a chance, and other academies will also send elites to participate in the competition, so your preparation time is not sufficient. Three months, you only have three months. Three months later, it will be the day of the start of the backbone of God. Don't ask me, what you need to improve, and don't ask anyone, remember, only you are the one who knows you the best."

Ling Feng's words could not extinguish the enthusiasm of the students at all. Seeing the reactions of these students, a smile flashed in Ling Feng's eyes. He did not want to be compared by several old rivals from other academys.

Next, the director of the teaching director Yue Zhen announced the trial, the list of the top ten in each grade, and the corresponding rewards, which naturally had nothing to do with Jing Chen who almost disappeared from the beginning to the end. This welcome lasted for more than a while and ended with the conclusion of the dean Ling Feng.

Jing Chen walked alone on the street of Yuelei City. He turned his head and saw the restaurant called Moonlight Woodland. He remembered the woman who was holding hands with him. He no longer knew where he was.

"Go to the Demon Hunter Guild to have a look, there may be news there." Rios's voice rang.

"Yeah." Jing Chen responded. At the age of love, Yue Yanran's disappearance had a great impact on him.

Soon, Jing Chen came to the Demon Hunter Guild in Yuelei City. It was still crowded here. He walked into the wide hall and came to the consultation desk. There was a young girl on duty here.

"I would like to ask about my friend's tasks. How do I need to check?" Jing Chen asked.

"Hello, sir, if you know your friend's Demon Hunter code, you can go to the query window there to query directly. If you don't know his Demon Hunter code but know the task he needs to complete, you can also go there to query as long as you meet the requirements." The girl explained patiently.

After hearing the girl's words, Jing Chen was slightly stunned. It was the first time he heard something like the Demon Hunter Code. He came aside and took out the Demon Hunter Manual and looked at it. It turned out that it was the exclusive number of every Demon Hunter and his account in the Demon Hunter Guild account. However, Jing Chen had never asked Yue Yanran, so he could only grit his teeth and come to the query window that the girl pointed to, and try his luck.

"Hello, sir, what can I do to serve you?" A gentle voice came from the window, which made people feel particularly comfortable.

"Hello, I want to check if the tasks my friend has done are completed."

"Can you provide his Demon Hunter code?"

"Uh...I don't know his Demon Hunter code." Jing Chen replied with a little scratching his head.

"Well, that doesn't matter. What is the level of the demon hunter you need to query?" The girl didn't care about Jing Chen's answer and asked politely.

"E-level demon hunter."

"Oh, sir, that's right. If you need to query the e-level demon hunter mission, we need you to provide the name of the demon hunter and your original B-level or above demon hunter badge, so that we can help you query." The girl smiled slightly and looked at Jing Chen.

When Jing Chen heard the conditions of the girl, he was stunned. He didn't expect that he would need a B-level Demon Hunter badge to check. Originally, he thought that if he only needed a D-level, he would have exceeded level three now, so he would have changed it. But he didn't expect that the level required was far beyond his imagination.

In fact, Jing Chen didn't know that the Demon Hunter Guild had a basis for doing this. If you just raise one level and you can query the task at a level lower than yourself, it would inevitably lead to malicious damage to the task or being robbed and killed by enemies. Now, only those who are level three higher than the inquired can query, which will also avoid a lot of dangers.

"Is there any other way?" Jing Chen asked with frown.

"Sorry, sir, this is the rule of our guild. If you can't provide it, I can only apologize." The girl replied politely.

"Oh..." Jing Chen responded with some loss and walked towards the door.

"If your level is not much different, you can try it on the task list there. The tasks there are double points, which can help you quickly improve the badge level." The girl reminded kindly.

After hearing the girl's words, Jing Chen was stunned and slowly walked towards the girl's mission list.

When we came to the task list, there were not many people gathered here. After all, although this task list is double points, most of them are extremely complex and difficult tasks that ordinary people cannot complete, so many people have their own knowledge.

Jing Chen looked at the above task. The first one was an ss-level task, looking for the lost statue of the God of Death. With just one sentence, there was no explanation. Jing Chen continued to look down. The second task was also an ss-level task to crack the sanctuary formation. He had heard Rios mention this ss-level task. At that time, Rios told him that the sanctuary formation was a dangerous place. With his strength, there was no need to crack it. Even if he stepped in, he might instantly turn into ashes.

Then he looked down and the fifth s-level mission attracted his attention. The fifth mission was to find the mystery of the demise of the giant beast empire.

Seeing this task, Jing Chen was shocked and couldn't help but feel happy. This was a double-point S-level task, which was enough for him to upgrade to level A, because generally those who can complete such tasks are super strong people, and their points and rewards are naturally incomparable to those ordinary tasks.

When Jing Chen came to the consultation desk, the girl saw that Jing Chen came over again, she took the initiative to ask, "Sir, is there anything else to help you?"

"I would like to ask, where do I need to pick up and submit those tasks on the task list?"

Hearing Jing Chen's words, the girl was slightly stunned. Seeing that this young man of similar age as hers actually asked about the task list, she couldn't help but be surprised. Even some super strong people might not have the chance to complete those tasks, let alone a boy like him, but she still answered politely, "That's right, sir, the tasks on the task list do not need to be accepted. If you complete a certain task, you can go to the special task to complete the channel there, and there will naturally be someone there to contact you."

Looking in the direction of the girl's finger, there was a huge wooden door with gold edges. There was no guard beside the wooden door, and an old man was sitting next to the door.

Jing Chen came to the old man, "Old man, I want to complete the tasks on the task list."

"Hmm?" The old man raised his slightly closed eyelids and looked at Jing Chen, "Young man, are you sure you want to complete the task on the task list?" the old man asked slowly.

"Yes!" Jing Chen nodded firmly.

"Okay, there will naturally be someone to contact you after you go in." The old man stopped asking more questions, his eyes closed again, as if he was asleep.

"How could it be..." Jing Chen said in confusion.

"There is indeed a breath of Yue Yanran in it, and it should be Zheng in that group of people." Rios affirmed.

Jing Chen frowned, and at this moment he was in a dilemma.

"Don't panic, just wait and see what's going on." Rios's voice sounded like thunder in Jing Chen's ears, and Jing Chen shook deep affection.

"I'm..." Jing Chen was also very confused about his condition just now.

"This kind of tree has another characteristic. After being ignited, it can release a gas that can amplify negative emotions. I think those people must not know." Hearing Rios like this, Jing Chen naturally turned to the battlefield again.

I saw that the fire had gone out at this time, and the trees were burned by the fire and burned down, but just a white smoke came out.

At this moment, two waves of people were fighting together. I had seen those men in black who were despised by the soul-loving shadows sneak attacked the members of the Demon Hunter Guild, thinking that they would succeed in the sneak attack as last time and left quietly. Unexpectedly, they would fight hard this time. Seeing this, Jing Chen couldn't help but frown and said in his heart, could it be...

"Look at their eyes." Rios's voice rang.

After Rios reminded me, Jing Chen looked carefully and saw a red light flashing in the gap of the masked black veil. Moreover, the two sides fought fiercely, and there was no law in the battlefield battle. Moreover, many times, whether it was magic or martial arts, they often missed their own people. Seeing this, Jing Chen was shocked.

"It's so amazing?"

"You are so far away, and you almost got hit just now. How good can those of them be in it? Alas." Rios's voice was filled with a hint of heaviness, and he couldn't help but sigh, as if something happened to sound.

After hearing Rios, Jing Chen couldn't help but take a breath of air. Thinking that the tree had such strange and terrible characteristics, those who planted this thing here would definitely not know. Maybe, those people just wanted to let the travelers who accidentally entered the cluster explain it here. The more they thought about it, the more they felt that what they thought was very likely, and a cold sweat broke out on Jing Chen's back.

"This should be the outer periphery of the ancient capital of the Giant Beast Empire. After this forest, you can see some ruins in front of you. I think there must be some leftovers there, so that so many forces can invest in Zheng at any cost."

Jing Chen nodded, "This giant beast empire is so powerful. Planting such strange trees outside the capital must be a barrier. Such a big move is really..." At this point, Jing Chen no longer knows how to describe it. This powerful empire that has rapidly risen and ruled most of the entire Eastern Continent and mysteriously disappeared had to rise to a sense of awe.

"Although this kind of tree was not a rare thing in my time, it still existed after that incident, and I'm afraid this is the last one." Rios also sighed.

"The last piece?" Although Jing Chen had never seen or heard of such a tree, Rios's affirmative tone was still a little puzzled.

"In my era, there was a mythical powerhouse. Because his relatives lost themselves in this woods, they were killed by enemies. Although the strong man killed all his enemies, he still could not calm his anger. He searched for such a tree on the mainland and destroyed one when he saw it. In the end, this tree was on the verge of extinction in my era." Although Rios' tone did not bring much emotion, Jing Chen always felt that the mythical powerhouse seemed to have something to do with Rios.

As if feeling what Jing Chen was thinking, Rios sighed, "That mythical powerhouse is my teacher, and the murdered relative is my junior brother and the teacher's best child." There was a kind of sadness in his tone. I think the relationship between Rios and his junior brother must have been very good. Thinking of the source, Jingchen was unwilling to touch Rios' pain again.

"Old Li, do you think we should now?" Jing Chen changed the topic.

"Don't take any action for the time being. After a while, the white smoke over there will be dissipation. We will find a way to rescue that girl." Rios said slowly.

"Yanran won't...?" Although he knew that he couldn't get through now, Jing Chen was still worried about Yue Yanran's situation.

"Don't worry, she must have been blocked by someone's magic. She is sleeping now and there will be no problem." Rios was full of confidence.

After hearing Rios's promise, Jing Chen felt relieved and lay quietly on the branches, looking at the figure fighting on the battlefield.

At this moment, many of the two groups of people were using large-scale skills to bombard, and the damage was naturally a lot to everyone, so there was not much reduction in staff for a while.

"Will they continue to fight like this and never stop?" Jing Chen couldn't help but think in his heart that if it was as he had imagined, such trees would be a little scary.

"This is not the case. Generally, if no one wakes up, they will be confused for six times. The sixth-level strongman will be confused for three times. Even the seventh-level strongman will be confused for about two times. Only the eighth-level strongman will be confused for less than one time." Obviously, Rios has mastered the effect of this tree very clearly. It seems that the death of his junior brother back then did not harm him.

Jing Chen also knew that now he was betting whether the other party had a level 8 strong man. If so, then everything was empty talk. Don’t rescue Yue Yanran, even if he went there, he would die. Even if he was a level 8 strong master, he was not something that he had just entered level 3, could be provoked by a person like him. This gap in strength could no longer be made up with anything.

On the contrary, if the opponent does not have a level 8 strongman, then after the white smoke dissipates for a while, you can rescue Yue Yanran and leave Cu smoothly.

The waiting time is always long. This time in less than a time is as long as Jing Chen comes.

Finally, the white smoke in the forest had dissipated, and Jing Chen was shocked, "Old Li?"

"Action." Rios said simply.

Jing Chen did not hesitate, and his agile figure was shuttled between the branches like a raccoon cat. Rios directed his direction. In a short while, Jing Chen came to the edge of the battlefield.

The scene I saw in the distance was far less shocking than I saw in this immersive scene. I saw armor parts, broken magic cores, broken weapons, and broken arms all over the ground. That scene was like hell on earth, making people feel a little chill after watching it. At this moment, the warriors no longer attacked and defended properly, the mages were no longer elegant, the dancers and singers were no longer noble and elegant, and everyone was fighting together.

Without looking more, Jing Chen touched the place Rios pointed to. According to Rios's induction, Yue Yanran should still be asleep there.

When he got closer, Jing Chen looked carefully in the moonlight and saw a girl with her eyes closed lying on the ground, with many messy footprints around her. It was probably someone who hurriedly blocked her perception and kept her here. This girl was Yue Yanran who had not seen for a long time.

At this moment, Yue Yanran's eyes were closed and her brows frowned slightly. Seeing this, Jing Chen frowned slightly. Just as she was about to ask Rios what to do next, Rios' voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"Take her with you, there are seventh-level peak powerhouses here." Rios's voice was a little uneasy. I think he had just discovered that there was such a strong man here.

Jing Chen was shocked and hurriedly picked up Yue Yanran and jumped up to an ancient tree, and rushed out of the tree formation. Now the two groups of people have reached such a scene. Even if everyone wakes up, it must be a situation that will never stop.
To be continued...