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"Boom!"
A loud explosion jolted Lin Xiao awake. As his eyes slowly opened, he found himself sitting in a.....
"Classroom?"
The familiar layout of the room, desks and chairs strewn every which way, and numerous teenagers wearing blue and white school uniforms were crowding around the door and windows, their faces filled with panic as they looked outside.
Lin Xiao looked down at his own body, also clad in an oversized school uniform, with a pair of tattered sneakers on his feet. The blue color on the frequently washed uniform was somewhat faded.
"So, I’ve been assigned the identity of a student?"
He tried to extend his hand, his immense strength was still there, but it had all been compressed within his body. Once released, he would become that all-destructive black hole.
But the premise was to regain control of that power.
His own Black Hole Talent and the Rules he had mastered were still there, but as Tongtian had said, all these Talents and Rules had been transformed and sealed in the form of Talents. He needed to re-understand them.
In summary, most of his powers were retained, but Lin Xiao felt no joy, for his physical body was too weak.
Simply put, although he had withstood the disintegration of the Chaos Territory and retained most of his powers, the Fundamental Laws of the true Chaos Territory were far too powerful. All of his powers were sealed within him, all his divine anomalies were sealed, and he was now just a human, in need of some time to reacquire his former strength.
Before that time, he was extraordinarily weak.
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This was also what Tongtian had warned of: to never be arrogant or careless. If he thought he still retained his powers and could rise quickly, dying at the hands of a commoner would be a disgrace.
The students around him paid him no attention, as there were many injured, unconscious, or even dead classmates on the classroom floor; he was inconspicuous among them.
Against the wall at the back, he stood up to see a gloomy sky outside, with dense clouds blanketing his entire field of vision, occasionally streaked with lightning that burst across the clouds, briefly illuminating the world. In the clouds, massive shadows could be seen moving back and forth.
Beneath the thick clouds, in the dim stretches of the Vault of Heaven, many dark spots darted about. They were all brutal predators. Looking outside through the gaps between the crowd, he could see he was on a school campus with several school buildings surrounding a central athletic field. However, that field was now covered with coagulated, blackened blood and corpses, along with monsters feasting on them.
These monsters were about the size of wolves, with fluffy fur. Their heads were larger than those of wolves, their mouths wider, teeth longer, and claws razor-sharp, easily tearing apart the bodies.
Gazing forward, what lay beyond the toppled school gates wasn’t the expected road or plaza but an unexpectedly dense forest.
If he wasn’t mistaken, it seemed that the entire school had been forcibly moved here.
According to Tongtian, the participants of this so-called journey of evolution were a vast number of ordinary people or members of Other Races, pulled from various time periods across billions of Crystal Wall Universes in the Chaotic Void Sea by the Chaos Territory. The school had been transported in its entirety. From the clothing of the students and the architectural style of the school, it resembled the Earth Lin Xiao knew before his traversal.
He now wasn’t even sure if the Earth from before he traversed and the current human Gaia Main World were the same. The differences were just too great, and he had searched historical texts from the ancient Earth era, failing to find anything similar to the era he had lived in.
He once searched earnestly, but eventually, not being able to find anything, he simply stopped looking.
After all, having traversed was a done deal, and he had lived in this new world for such a long time there was no point lingering on the past.
This school must not have been in this unknown world for long, with many students looking outside in terror. After the initial fear, someone with courage finally stood up. A tall student with a defiant look, clearly the type to lag behind in class, whispered,
"We can’t keep going like this. Although it’s temporarily safe inside the classroom, it won’t stay safe forever—and we still need food and water. The cafeteria isn’t far from here. Will anyone come with me to look for food?"
At this, a slender young man with glasses said,
"Levi is right; count me in."
The burly student looked surprised at the bespectacled young man and remarked,
"I didn’t think you had it in you. Alright, count you in. Anyone else?"
Soon after, a few other bold students stepped forward. They took a broken desk and chair, snapped off the legs for each to hold one, cautiously opened the door, and left. The other students looked on with expectation, and several female classmates came forward to cheer them on.
A pretty girl with glasses then addressed the remaining twenty or so students,
"Folks, we don’t know what’s happened, but we can’t just sit here waiting for doom. Levi took a risk to find food for everyone; we can’t just stand by and do nothing. Let’s pull the curtains down, lock the windows tight, and use desks to barricade the door. Try to keep it down and don’t alert the monsters outside."
"Also, I’m planning to gather a couple of students to contact other classes. There’s strength in numbers. If we can bring together all the students, we won’t have to fear even if we encounter a few monsters."
"If anyone is willing to go, raise your hand."
She eyed the students. Most were still stricken with fear, not daring to volunteer. She turned to the remaining male students, who also lacked the courage. Sighing lightly, she said,
"If no one will go, then I will."
Two boys and a girl volunteered to follow her, the boys’ gazes revealing obvious adoration for the girl.
The four silently opened the door and left. Those remaining did as instructed—some secured the windows, others barricaded the door. A female classmate turned to Lin Xiao, who was standing by the window,
"Stop standing so upright. What if those monsters outside see you?"
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Lin Xiao looked at her in surprise and wondered,
"Do you know me?"
The girl gave him a strange look:
"Lin Xiao, have you lost your mind? We’re all classmates; how could I not know you?"
"Hiss!"
Lin Xiao suddenly looked up at the sky, his gaze becoming extremely solemn in an instant.
It was odd; either he had replaced a student, or his existence had been forcibly implanted in these students’ memories. But regardless of the scenario, neither was normal. Lin Xiao grew somewhat vigilant but made no other movements, merely walking away silently from beside the window.
His mind touched upon the sealed power, which had already managed to absorb some strength during this time, fortifying his weakened body and spiritual power.
Unfortunately, his foundation was too weak, and he hadn’t absorbed much in this short time. His physical strength still wasn’t high.
The classroom was quickly tidied up, and the twenty-something students grouped together in twos and threes, whispering among themselves. Many female students huddled together, whispering and crying, their hearts filled with fear and worry about the future.
Just then, a scream suddenly came from outside the window, followed swiftly by a second one.
All the students snapped to attention, nervously craning their necks to listen, and soon a third ear-piercing scream could be heard, seemingly not too far from the classroom. Everyone tensed up, and a wave of panic spread throughout the room.
"What do we do?"
"Don’t make a sound!"
A girl with large black-rimmed glasses and thick bangs covering her face whispered to comfort her classmates in a very pleasant voice, prompting Lin Xiao to take a special look at her.
Just then, a thud of something heavy hitting the wall was heard from outside the classroom, along with a low growling of a beast, causing everyone to freeze in place. The girl with the glasses also wrapped her arms around a classmate, too frightened to move.
The beast seemed to sense something and hovered around the door. The sound of its not-so-large footsteps struck dread into the hearts of the fearful students like the dull thumps of a drum, making their hearts pound loudly.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, a dark figure leapt onto the windowsill and pressed against the window. It was a Long-haired Wolf identical to the one in the large sports field. Detecting people inside the classroom, it lifted its sharp claws, shattered the glass, and countless fragments clattered down. The hearts of the classmates fell like the broken glass, and a frightened scream from one of the girls incited the wolf even more. It lunged through the broken window, directly aiming for the source of the scream.
"Bang!"
A chair hurled in its direction knocked the Long-haired Wolf sideways onto the floor, smashing into pieces upon impact.
Everyone turned in astonishment to Lin Xiao, who had stepped forward heroically. He grabbed another chair and charged, smashing it down on the wolf as it tried to get up. The wolf was knocked down again, and Lin Xiao stomped on its head and punched at its eye. With immense strength, his blows issued a miserable whine from the wolf, which struggled against his power, but ultimately Lin Xiao, who pinned it by the neck, overpowered it and crushed it to death.
As the last punch finished off the Long-haired Wolf, Lin Xiao felt a warm current flow from the wolf’s body into his own. At the same time, a mechanical voice appeared out of nowhere in his mind:
"Killing the Long-haired Wolf, the path of evolution begins!"
Along with that, a barrage of information flooded his mind and an attribute panel appeared:
Name: Lin Xiao.
Race: Human???
Evolution: Tier 0, 3%.
Talent: ???
Skills: None.
It was a straightforward and simple attribute panel, the information clearly presented at a glance.
He took only a brief look before closing the panel and focused instead on experiencing the warm current he’d just received.
It seems that as long as he personally killed these monsters, he would embark on the path of evolution. This Long-haired Wolf had contributed a surge of power to start his evolution, which he estimated to be equivalent to ten kilograms of strength.
This number wasn’t large, but the fact that it could stack indefinitely mattered more. No matter what monster he killed, he could receive a portion of strength based on the monster’s power, with unlimited cumulative feedback. Their strength would grow at an extremely rapid rate.
If a person was like the protagonist of a novel, they might even grow faster than he could by directly absorbing power from his sealed strength.
Lin Xiao once again recalled Tongtian’s warning that underestimating the situation could indeed lead to an overturn.
"Wow, Lin Xiao, you’re so amazing!"
While his mind raced through these thoughts, the other students witnessed him killing the Long-haired Wolf and couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration, crowding around to inspect the wolf’s body with looks of worship and adoration.