Chapter 81: The Illusionary Battlefield’s Destruction (2/2)

Currently, it was around midnight and many people were already asleep. Suddenly, a loud bang could be heard from the training pit, rousing countless people.

The city governor, Ouyang Cheng, was immediately awakened. He jumped up from his bed as he felt the room shake.

“I need a report! What was that noise?” Ouyang Cheng shouted for somebody outside.

“Sir, it’s not good. Something happened to the Martial Exam’s Illusionary Battlefield array.” Outside, a servant reported swiftly.

“Something happened to the Martial Exam’s Illusionary Battlefield?” Ouyang Cheng was alarmed and jumped off from his bed, swiftly putting on his clothes. He left his room and rushed straight for the stage.

Because it was midnight, there was not a lot of people apart from the security guards and the family of the contestants participating in the Martial Exam. However, everybody in Luosang City could hear the loud explosions reverberating from the stage. This immediately caused some meddlesome people to crawl up from their beds and push open their windows, and they stared in the direction of the City Lord’s residence in shock. Some people even felt restless and rushed there.

The training grounds in the City Lord’s residence was currently in a chaotic mess. When many of the families of the Martial Exam’s contestants saw the Illusionary Battlefield swaying above their heads, they let out shrill screams filled with fear.

“What happened?” When Ouyang Cheng arrived at the training stage, he immediately questioned one of the guards.

“Sir, this subordinate also doesn’t know what happened. Please look at the Illusionary Battlefield. I-it looks like it’s about to be destroyed.” The guard’s eyes were filled with terror as he pointed at the array in the sky.

Ouyang Chen hurriedly raised his head and his face quickly changed.

Inside the Illusionary Battlefield, the earth cracked, the space shattered, and the great hall had fallen into ruins.

“What the hell happened inside? Why is it like this?” Ouyang Chen was stunned, his mind filled with disbelief and confusion.

“Sire, what happened?” At this moment, two men dressed in King City’s clothing arrived on the scene. The two who arrived were precisely the ones sent from King City, who were in charge of the Illusionary Battlefield.

Seeing the two, Ouyang Cheng was overjoyed and asked them hurriedly: “Sirs, how did the Illusionary Battlefield become like this?”

He thought that the two knew what happened inside.

However, the disappointing thing was that when they saw the array in the air, the expressions on their faces were even more exaggerated than Ouyang Cheng’s. Shock, disbelief, confusion, and unease were all clearly shown on their faces.

“Sirs, could it be that you two also don’t know what’s going on?” Ouyang Cheng asked worriedly.

“City Lord, don’t be so impatient. We’ll go up and take a look.” After one of them finished speaking, both of them flew up without waiting for Ouyang Cheng’s response. They stared intensely at the array.

Bang! Bang! Two ear piercing noises echoed in the sky as the mirrors holding up the array shattered and fell on the ground.

“Not good.” The two’s faces instantly turned deathly pale as they stood there, stunned, watching the two mirrors drop right in front of them.

When the mirrors shattered, the grand battlefield above them suddenly warped and disappeared as the booms slowly came to a halt.

The sky returned to normal as if nothing had just happened.

“The Martial Exam’s Illusionary Battlefield disappeared?”

The training ground was quiet for a short moment before everybody finally started to realize what just happened.

“My son, he still hasn’t come out yet? What happened to him, my son!”

A woman’s ear-piercing cries pierced through the night. The next moment, the training ground became a chaotic mess as everybody dashed forward, furiously questioning the two Song and Wu officials about where the contestants were, and if they were dead or alive.

The two had no reply and could only continue to ask everybody not to be impatient. With aid from the City Lord’s guards, they escaped the scene.

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That night, it wasn’t just Luosang City’s Illusionary Battlefield that had disappeared. It was the same everywhere else. In a single night, all the Illusionary Battlefields in Qiongxi Country had disappeared. The disappearance of the Martial Exam’s Illusionary Battlefield stirred huge waves in the country.

The next day, after daybreak, an even more shocking piece of news came. The preselections, the Illusionary Battlefield that was originally scheduled for three months time, disappeared in only one month. This meant that the preselections were over.

But if the preselections were finished, then where did the remaining living contestants go? Were they all dead?

The Martial Exam this time marked the beginning of Qiongxi Country’s destined fate.

Earlier, the death of three thousand already turned Qiongxi Country into a mess. Now, if the only thousand or so left alive were also dead, it would mean that all the contestants of the Martial Exam were dead. Without a single one alive, was this choosing the best of the best, or just genocide?

For a period of time, the whole nation was filled with seething discontent at King City, and at the grand, stately and mighty king. He was Qiongxi Country’s king and was naturally the one in charge of this time’s Martial Exam.

Drawing support from this event, the ones who were secretly scheming to steal power had already begun to stir. Because of this event, the rulership of Qiongxi Country has already become unsteady.

But the small, lucky thing was that after a few days, some good news had finally arrived. Some of the people within the Illusionary Battlefield managed to return alive. According to them, they had been sucked outside by some sort of power when the Illusionary Battlefield collapsed. However, the situation still wasn’t completely safe since where they landed at was all dependant on their own luck.

With their return, the boiling discontent of the people finally eased slightly. However, the families of those who had not returned were still anxiously waiting. Qin Yu’s mother and father were among those anxiously waiting.