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"Otherwise what?" Zhou Ye didn't even look up, concentrating on assembling the parts. "Am I supposed to personally step in, slap this idiot, and tell his classmate that he's been tricked and that there's a trap ahead?"
He picked up a tiny part and blew off any non-existent dust.
“Sha Yan, you must understand one thing. Stupidity is a sin in itself. Especially stupidity when one possesses power is an even greater sin. This Hua Ye did not die because of Karl’s schemes, nor because of Keisha’s tacit approval, but because of his own arrogance and greed.”
Zhou Ye attached the head to the model and examined it with satisfaction.
"And don't you find this interesting?" He smiled at the sand swallow. "These guys who call themselves gods all believe in genetic determinism, thinking they are born superior. But what happens when faced with the real unknown? Their first thought is not to solve the problem with their own wisdom, but to send out a genetically superior member of their race to be cannon fodder."
He pointed to the screen: "This in itself is the greatest irony of their sacred gene theory."
The windswallow seemed lost in thought.
"But...they keep mentioning your name, could it be..."
"Shh." Zhou Ye made a shushing gesture, a mischievous smile on his face. "The name of God should not be spoken lightly. They are clever; they know that you can't just talk to the teacher in the classroom, or you'll be called on to answer questions. So they put forward Hua Ye as the class representative, to ask me the first question of this class on behalf of the whole class."
He placed the assembled Gundam on the table and clapped his hands.
"I'm really looking forward to seeing how this class representative performs. I hope he... can ask some interesting questions."
Zhou Ye's gaze drifted to the starry sky outside the window, seemingly traversing endless distances to land on the gleaming golden "coffin" sergeant speeding towards the solar system.
Chapter 421 Welcome to the Examination Hall
The outer edge of the solar system, the Kuiper Belt.
Space was torn open like a curtain, revealing a massive and luxurious fleet. Led by a gilded flagship with an extravagant design, the fleet sailed into the solar system.
"Hahahaha! Can you feel it? This desolate land is about to welcome its true master!"
Hua Ye sat imposingly on the flagship's throne, feeling the surging power from the black hole engine within his body, expanding like never before.
He spread his arms and, through the wide-area channel, issued what he believed to be an incomparably majestic declaration to the entire galaxy:
"I, Hua Ye, the King of the Heavenly Palace, have returned! That bitch Keisha, wash your neck and wait! And that crazy woman named Morgana, after I deal with Keisha, you'll be next! As for this broken planet called Earth, all the men on it will be enslaved! And the women... hehe, they'll all be added to my harem!"
His declaration was clearly transmitted across various wavelengths to every corner of the solar system with signal reception capabilities.
The command center of the Juxia was deathly silent.
"Where...where did this idiot come from?" Liu Chuang stared dumbfounded at the arrogant "667" men on the screen.
“Hua Ye…the ancient Angel King, a tyrant exiled after being overthrown by the Holy Keisha.” Dukao’s face was extremely grim. “How could he appear at this time? And with such a fleet?”
Lena's eyes, however, were filled with solemnity and confusion: "His flagship's energy reaction... is wrong. The nature of that energy is somewhat similar to... Karl's void technology, but it is more violent and more unstable."
No one could understand why such a troublemaker would suddenly appear at this critical juncture.
On the demon's wings, Morgana watched Hua Ye's foolish appearance and laughed heartily.
"Ato, quick, record this for me! This is a one-of-a-kind video! An ancient idiot bravely storms the Honkai Beast exam hall, hahaha, it's fucking hilarious!"
Angel Nebula, in He Xi's laboratory.
She simply watched all of this calmly, and said to Angel Yan beside her, "Record all the data. Especially the changes in his black hole engine every millisecond after it makes contact with the target. We can't let this open lesson go to waste."
The "good students" all pulled up their little stools, ready to enjoy this "classroom practice" they had co-directed.
Hua Ye, the protagonist, was completely unaware of this.
His fleet, like a flock of flashy peacocks that had stumbled into a hunting ground, swaggered toward Earth.
Soon, they reached the vicinity of the moon's orbit.
"Your Majesty! What do you see there?"
A celestial being pointed to the far side of the moon, his voice filled with astonishment.
All eyes were turned in that direction.
Against the dark backdrop of the universe, a colossal spatial rift, resembling the open eye of a Cyclops, floated silently.
Surrounding the rift were thousands of enormous creatures flashing with an ominous red light—the activated Temple-class Honkai Beasts.
Directly in front of the rift, an Emperor-class Honkai Beast, larger than all of them combined and resembling a moving skeletal fortress, stood motionless like a statue.
Further away, the silenced Judgment-class Honkai Beast Benares, like a giant dragon bound by chains, hovered in the air, purple lightning occasionally flashing across its body, filled with resentment.
The eerie and deathly silence caused the clamor of the Fallen Fleet to involuntarily subside.
“A bunch of… bizarre-looking beasts?” Hua Ye frowned, a disdainful look on his face. “This is the biological weapon Karl was talking about? It doesn’t look very impressive. We don’t even dare to move.”
His arrogance made him completely unaware of the terrifying territory he had entered.
"Your Majesty, what should we do?"
"What to do? Of course, we'll teach these rude beasts a lesson!" Hua Ye waved his hand lazily. "Let them know who's the master here! Use the main cannon, aim at the biggest one, and give this king a little appetizer!"
"Yes!"
The flagship's gunner excitedly aimed the cannons at the distant Emperor-class Honkai Beast Parvati.
The black hole engine began warming up, and a chilling force of spacetime distortion gathered at the muzzle.
"emission!"
A jet-black energy beam, devouring all light along its path, instantly traversed a vast distance and precisely struck Parvati!
This single shot was enough to structurally erase a small asteroid.
However, a strange scene happened.
The black energy beam, powerful enough to distort spacetime, did not explode or cause any visible damage the moment it touched Parvati.
It was like a drop of ink falling into a boundless black sea, silently being absorbed...
The entire battlefield remained deathly silent.
Hua Ye's smile froze.
"What...what's going on?"
In the instant he was stunned, the countless flashing red lights on Parvati's statue-like body suddenly shone brightly.
Immediately afterwards, a cold "concept" that did not belong to any known language but could be understood by all intelligent life was directly projected into the minds of everyone in Hua Ye's fleet.
[Class quiz begins.]
[Title: Purge.]
[Requirement: Eliminate all non-Honkai units within the examination room.]
Time limit: 24 hours.
This chilling command sent a strange shiver down the spines of all the fallen celestials.
"You're playing tricks!" Hua Ye snapped out of his daze and roared angrily, "Keep firing! Blast them to smithereens!"
But it was already late.
The Emperor-level Honkai Beast, Parvati, merely glanced at them indifferently before falling silent again. It seemed utterly disdainful of taking action itself.
Instead, there was a huge, eye-like spatial rift behind it.
Deep within the rift, that chaotic imaginary space began to churn violently.
Immediately afterwards, a completely new being, slightly smaller than Parvati, but with an even more eerie and terrifying aura, slowly emerged from that "eye".
It lacked the fortress-like, heavy armor of Parvati, its form more closely resembling a gigantic humanoid. It had four arms, its skin a sickly bluish-green, and its body etched with intricate and ancient golden patterns. Its face had no features, merely a smooth plane, but at the center of that plane, it seemed as if a pair of invisible eyes were scrutinizing all things in the world.
Emperor-class Honkai Beast - Vishnu.
In Zhou Ye's setting, this is a Honkai Beast with the characteristics of "evolution" and "devouring". It can absorb the energy and information of the enemy, constantly optimize itself, and eventually it can even evolve into a Honkai Beast of the End of Dharma level that is capable of destroying a star system.
It is the real examiner of this "pop quiz".
After Vishnu appeared, he did not immediately launch an attack. He simply hovered quietly in the air, his four arms slowly spreading out.
The next second, a new "concept" was branded into Hua Ye's consciousness.
[New regulations have been detected. Entrance level tests will be initiated.]
"What kind of bullshit test is this?!" Hua Ye felt an unprecedented humiliation. He, the King of the Heavenly Palace, was actually treated as a student by a bunch of beasts?
"Kill it! With the Black Hole Engine, at maximum power!" he roared madly.
The flagship's main cannon began charging again, this time with a full-force, unreserved attack.
However, Vishnu simply raised one hand towards Hua Ye's fleet.
There were no energy fluctuations, no spatial ripples, nothing at all.
However, the black hole engine on Hua Ye's flagship, which was running wildly, suddenly trembled, as if an invisible hand had gripped its throat. Inside the engine's core, the forcibly distorted spacetime data chains instantly became chaotic.
"Warning! Warning! Engine overload! Energy backflow! Out of control!"
A piercing alarm blared throughout the flagship. 1.
The madness on Hua Ye's face was instantly replaced by terror.
He discovered that his prized black hole engine not only failed to harm the other party, but it seemed to have been "reverse-crashed" by the other party in a higher dimension!
Vishnu is "reading" his black hole engine, "learning" his technology!
"No...impossible!"
Vishnu's other hand clenched in mid-air towards the vanguard of Hua Ye's fleet.
Those incredibly sturdy Fallen warships, forged from void matter, along with the Fallen soldiers inside, vanished from the universe in an instant, like pencil drawings erased by an eraser.
It wasn't an explosion, it wasn't decomposition, but rather... it was "deleted".
Those faces, still bearing traces of arrogance and astonishment before they disappeared, became the last images in Hua Ye's eyes.
"Do not!!!"
Hua Ye let out a heart-wrenching scream. He finally realized that the path he had stepped onto was not the smooth road to regaining the throne at all.
This is the examination room.
And he was that first piece of scratch paper, the one used for the exam pens, that was torn open first.
Chapter 422 Hua Ye's Struggle
Hua Ye's eyes widened in disbelief. He rubbed his eyes incredulously and cursed, "Damn it, what is that? What happened to the biological weapon?"