At the gangplank connecting the two ships, countless West Mansion powerhouses and masked Martial Artists were locked in a fierce battle.
Several hundred people were fighting in a chaotic melee, a truly spectacular sight.
The area was littered with corpses. Blood stained the entire gangplank and the deck of the Void Warship, creating a scene of utter carnage. The air was thick with the overwhelming stench of blood, a testament to the battle's ferocity.
SWISH!
Upon arriving, Tang Yi's Shadow Remnant Sword became a dazzling blur. Countless masked Martial Artists fell to his blade. In just a few passes, a whole swathe of them had been cut down, greatly reducing the pressure on the West Mansion's powerhouses.
At first, when Tang Yi arrived, the people from the West Mansion were terrified. His speed was so incredible that their powerhouses thought another of the enemy's Battle Kings had arrived.
But when they saw he was wearing the examinee uniform issued by Fengyue City, they realized he was one of their own.
Everyone had assumed that an examinee joining the fray was just asking for death.
But they never expected an examinee like Tang Yi to be so powerful. He had only been there for a moment, yet he had already slain a large group of the masked Martial Artists. Such strength was simply astonishing.
Examinees, after all, were required to be under twenty years of age. How could someone so young possess such immense power!
Even for seasoned veterans of the West Mansion like them, fighting the masked Martial Artists was an arduous struggle. Yet in this examinee's hands, it was like slicing through melons and vegetables—incredibly simple. A single, casual swing of his sword could reap a life.
'His sword strikes are so fast.'
To the West Mansion's powerhouses, Tang Yi's sword strikes were impossibly fast. Before anyone could even see how he moved, his Broken Sword had already sliced through an enemy's head.
Most of the masked Martial Artists were killed by Tang Yi before they could even react, their heads lopped off.
'He's just too strong!'
'Is he really just an examinee on his way to the West Mansion?'
'With this kind of power, does he even need to take the exam for the West Mansion?'
Of course, the West Mansion powerhouses didn't know that Tang Yi was only fighting casually with his Battle King strength. He wasn't using any Martial Techniques. If he had, the result would have been even more terrifying.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Just like that, under Tang Yi's overwhelming assault, the countless masked Martial Artists who charged across the gangplank died one by one, turning into Experience Value.
In an instant, the West Mansion's powerhouses, along with Tang Yi, drove the masked Martial Artists back onto the gangplank. The deck of the Void Warship was once again under the West Mansion's control.
All the examinees inside the Warship were now in a safe zone—provided, of course, that the Battle Kings in the sky didn't attack.
After driving the masked Martial Artists back to the gangplank, Tang Yi stood with his sword at the ready, holding his position on the gangplank alone.
Without needing any help from the West Mansion powerhouses, Tang Yi faced them by himself. No matter how many masked Martial Artists charged at him, he would simply sweep his sword and cut them all in two. No one could resist his strike.
No one could even get close to him.
As long as he stood there, he was like an insurmountable mountain.
His aura, his posture—it gave off the feeling of one man holding a pass against ten thousand. He was utterly incredible.
Everyone was stunned by this scene.
'This is a one-man army, isn't it?'
'So strong!'
'He's just way too strong!'
'Not even a Battle King Powerhouse could do something like this!'
Behind Tang Yi, the jaws of every West Mansion powerhouse dropped in utter shock.
They already thought Tang Yi was incredibly powerful when he was killing the masked Martial Artists earlier. But now, this scene of him standing alone with his sword, holding the gangplank against a hundred foes, was so unbelievable it made their eyes pop.
What they found hardest to believe, however, was that the person before them was not a Chief Examiner from the West Mansion, nor one of its powerhouses, but merely an examinee on his way to take the entrance test!
While the battle raged on the deck with constant shouts, the inside of the Warship was terrifyingly silent.
You could have heard a pin drop inside the Warship. No one said a word; they had even forgotten to breathe.
They were all completely dumbfounded.
To be precise, they were dumbfounded by Tang Yi.
From his clothes, the examinees could tell that Tang Yi was just like them—an examinee from one of the thirty-six cities of the North District. But his strength was worlds apart from theirs; there was simply no comparison.
Right now, Tang Yi was like a God of Slaughter. No matter how many masked Martial Artists charged the gangplank, he killed them with ease. Not a single drop of blood touched him, and his clothes remained pristine, giving him an air of effortless grace.
'This kind of power... he seems even more terrifying than the Chief Examiner!'
"That's... that's the guy from before!"
"Just now, when our situation was critical and we were about to be killed by the masked Martial Artists, this person suddenly appeared beside us, and then all those masked Martial Artists just dropped dead! I wasn't sure it was him before, because he's an examinee too, and I didn't think he could be that strong. But now I'm sure of it! It was him! He was the one who saved us!"
At that moment, an examinee recognized Tang Yi and cried out, his face flushed with excitement as if he had just witnessed something incredible.
"Yes, yes, it was the same for us! A moment ago, several hundred of us were trying to resist a dozen masked Martial Artists. While our situation wasn't quite as dire, we were still pinned down. It was only a matter of time before they broke through. But then this examinee suddenly showed up, and afterward, the masked Martial Artists seemed to just weaken and we were able to kill them. I'd be damned if he didn't have something to do with it!"
Hearing that examinee's words, another one spoke up as well.
"It was the same for us."
"I saw that examinee in my area too."
"I saw him as well."
An uproar swept through the crowd.
"So it was him! He's the one who saved us!"
"He's our savior!"
"He's a hero!"
"I was wondering! The situation inside the Warship was critical, with countless masked Martial Artists breaking in. How did they all suddenly die just a moment later? It turns out he was the one who dealt with them in secret."
They hadn't realized it before, but once people started speaking up, the revelation was shocking.
As the examinees shared their stories one by one, everyone learned that it wasn't just the first group who had experienced this. It had happened to all the examinees, in every corner of the Warship.
Tang Yi's figure had appeared right when the masked Martial Artists died their strange deaths.
Only then did they understand. It wasn't that the masked Martial Artists had weakened, nor that some peerless powerhouse had come to their aid, and it certainly wasn't that the masked Martial Artists had died mysteriously on their own. It was the examinee, the one now standing on the gangplank, who had struck them down and saved every single person inside the Warship.

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