"Quickly get down! Everyone get down! "Li Yao screamed as he threw himself on the ground and held his head.
It was too late. Before everyone could react, the shockwave from the explosion was like a stormy sea, blowing the tortoise shuttle three to four hundred meters away. It fiercely smashed into a four-story building and then rolled down to the ground!
Although the tortoise shuttle was installed with buffer array glyphs, most of the people were still knocked dizzy and disoriented. Quite a few of the weaker freshmen simply fainted.
Most of the people who had not fainted had blood all over their faces. Their bones were broken, and their screams were incessant.
Li Yao was one of the few students who was not injured. He used his snake form to crawl to the side of the drive and listened for a while. After confirming that the drive array glyphs had been completely destroyed and that there would not be a series of explosions caused by the overflowing spiritual energy, he crawled out of the broken window and looked at the sky in a daze.
In the sky, the right side of the floating mountain had a big hole with a diameter of several dozen meters. It was still spurting out green flames and emitting a pungent burnt smell.
A series of muffled noises were still coming from inside the floating mountain. It was like hearing muffled thunder while hiding in bed. The explosion was still going on.
Not long after, billowing black smoke gushed out from every window and crevice, condensing into a fierce beast baring its fangs and brandishing its claws in the sky.
The anti-gravity array glyphs underneath the floating mountain were extinguished one by one.
Under the pull of gravity, the floating mountain tilted to the left and fell to the ground little by little.
Because a part of the anti-gravity array glyphs were still operating, the two sides of the garbage floating mountain produced different gravitational forces. Under the powerful tearing force of gravity, a small part of the floating mountain was forcibly torn apart.
Countless fragments fell down, mixed with a few dancing figures. Some people tried to fly on their swords to escape, but they were swallowed by the ensuing explosion. The scene was too horrible to look at.
After a stalemate for half a minute, the main body of the floating mountain finally smashed to the ground, raising dust all over the sky like a volcanic eruption.
Boom! Boom boom!
In the middle of the sandstorm, three green flames soared into the sky. It was an even larger series of explosions inside the floating mountain.
Just when Li Yao was dumbstruck. Yuan Manqiu also crawled out of the flying shuttle with great difficulty.
Her face was covered in blood and her expression was uglier than a ghost. She stared at the empty sky.
"Old Mo!"
A moment later, Yuan Manqiu let out a heart-wrenching scream and desperately ran towards the place where the floating mountain had fallen.
…
Seven days later, there was a rare drizzle in the Wild Waves City. The rainwater carried a hint of sourness.
The area where the floating mountain fell had been cleaned up.
In order to prevent the Floating Mountain from falling, not too many houses would be built below each Floating Mountain. The surrounding houses would also be set up with extremely powerful defensive array glyphs.
Therefore, this accident did not cause too many casualties to the residents on the ground. Only a few dozen buildings were on the verge of collapse due to the shockwave. They were listed as dangerous and were directly demolished.
However, the floating garbage mountain was completely scrapped.
After the investigation of more than ten high-level cultivators, this accident was determined to be a test accident.
According to the reconstruction of the accident scene, at that time, Professor Mo Xuan was leading the entire team to install the high-pressure crystal reactor.
The Crystal Reactor was the power core of the Crystal Suit. It could compress crystals that contained powerful spiritual energy by a hundredfold and store them into a palm-sized reactor. It could drive the Crystal Suit to fight for a long time.
As one could well imagine, once the Crystal Reactor had a problem. The crystal that had been compressed to the extreme would instantly expand back to its original size and release an incomparably violent spiritual energy, destroying everything within a radius of several hundred meters.
This accident was precisely such a situation.
What was even worse was that due to a serious lack of funds, the scale of the Refining Department's floating mountain was too small. The crystal storage warehouse and the refining room were too close to each other.
The moment the explosion occurred, the shockwave penetrated through seven layers of walls. The walls made of metal, together with the defensive array glyphs embedded inside, were torn to pieces like paper. The violent spiritual energy tide swept through the crystal storage warehouse in a flash, triggering a world-shaking series of explosions!
The entire floating mountain was almost destroyed in the big explosion. Countless precious materials and magical equipment had been reduced to garbage. The invaluable experiment files and data had been buried in the debris. Even the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, which was 90% complete, had turned into a cluster of melted iron slag.
The Project Mystic Skeleton returned to its starting point in a second.
And this was only 1% of the total loss.
The Project Mystic Skeleton was the only hope of the Refining Department. All the elites, including the dean of the department, Professor Mo Xuan, the majority of the teachers of the Refining Department, and the senior students with rich experience, were gathered in the refining room to refine the Crystal Reactor.
They were all killed in the big explosion.
The spiritual energy tide swept through everything like a hurricane. Every cell, every strand of soul was torn to shreds.
Let alone living people, even saving a few strands of soul and transforming them into ghost cultivators was impossible.
Even the teachers and students, who were not in the refining room, were all affected by the spiritual energy tide as long as they were inside the floating mountain. If the injuries were light, their souls would be shaken and they would be seriously injured. If the injuries were serious, they would die on the spot. The scene was too horrible to look at.
Only Yuan Manqiu and a dozen or so seniors, who were not very good, went to welcome the freshmen and were lucky enough to escape the disaster.
They simply could not support a department. It could be said that the Grand Desolate War Institution's Refining Department — was completely destroyed!
Seven days after the disaster.
The place where the Refining Department was located had turned into a complete ruin.
Originally, the school was going to clean up this area and refine the resources that could be used in the ruins. If they could not be used anymore, they would just drag them away and bury them. However, Yuan Manqiu forcibly stopped them.
She insisted that there were still a lot of precious experimental data and equipment buried under the ruins, which were the hope of rebuilding the Refining Department. She absolutely did not allow anyone to touch them, not even a rivet.
Yuan Manqiu was like a crazy mother elephant. She did not give an inch of land and defended her territory. Even the dean could not do anything to her.
In the middle of the ruins, a small statue was placed on a pedestal. It was like a half-melted skeleton of a war god.
Its bare arms opened towards the sky, and its pitch-black mouth let out a furious roar towards the boundless blue dome of heaven.
This was the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit under development.
It was the condensation of the blood, sweat, and tears of all the teachers and students of the Grand Desolate War Institution's Refining Department. However, it had turned into slag in the big explosion, losing the meaning of continuing to refine it.
It could only be poured into a monument. To commemorate those who had sacrificed themselves on the road of cultivation.
A solemn memorial meeting was being held in front of the statue.
Iron Fist Club, Chaos Edge Hall, Lancet, Ghost Character... The student unions of each department had sent representatives to mourn.
Most of the school's teachers and management were also gathered here.
Although the Refining Department was the most insignificant and trashy department in the Grand Desolate War Institution, and many teachers and students had even thought of disbanding the Refining Department.
However, to make the Refining Department completely disappear in this way was too cruel!
"Today, we are gathered here to commemorate some incomparably great scholars and cultivators. In order to defend human civilization, in order to explore the endless mysteries of the world of cultivation, they studied and cultivated day and night. They paid with all their sweat and blood. They even paid with their most precious lives and souls! "
Under the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit statue, the Grand Desolate War Institution's dean, Xiong Baili, said with incomparable grief.
Xiong Baili was also a legendary figure in the Grand Desolate War Institution. It was said that when he was young, he was a battle-type cultivator whose strength had broken through the peak of the Core Formation Stage. In the Demon Beast Wasteland, he was all-powerful and swept through the wastelands. He was known as "Volcano"!
However, during a beast tide outbreak, he fell into a siege and forcibly clashed with the beast tide for a day and a night.
Although he had killed thousands of demon beasts, he had also overdrawn his spiritual energy. He had also been poisoned with more than thirty kinds of demon poisons. His eight extraordinary meridians had been corroded, and his strength had plummeted. He could no longer participate in battle.
However, he did not give up. Relying on his astonishing perseverance and talent, he had actually transformed from a battle-type cultivator to an admin-type cultivator. Furthermore, his strength had been restored to the middle level of the Core Formation Stage!
Because of this legendary experience, Xiong Baili had a very high prestige in the Grand Desolate War Institution. Even the experts who were stronger than him were convinced that he was the principal.
It was said that Xiong Baili was full of ambition. He wholeheartedly wanted to build the Grand Desolate War Institution into one of the top three super universities in the 'Nine Elite Universities'. At the very least, he wanted to get rid of the predicament of being at the bottom of the 'Nine Elite Universities'.
His idea was to strengthen the four major departments, weaken or even disband all the trashy departments, and invest all the resources into the development of the four major departments.
Nevertheless, in the face of such a tragedy, Xiong Baili could not help but feel sad.
Beside the principal. Yuan Manqiu was dressed in black. Her complexion was ashen as she stared at the wreckage of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. It seemed that she wanted to forcibly pull the wreckage from the pedestal.
In the past seven days, she had practically not slept or rested. She had been digging in the ruins like a madwoman. Her entire person had become a lot more haggard and thin. One could vaguely see traces of the "Deep Sea Goddess" from several decades ago.
Looking at her completely different appearance from seven days ago, Li Yao was somewhat absent-minded.
In the past seven days, he had practically not slept or rested. He had displayed the specialty he had cultivated in the Artifact Graveyard. Together with Yuan Manqiu, he had cleaned up the ruins and rescued a lot of precious jade chips, books, cultivation equipment, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures from under the dilapidated walls.
Even though Li Yao had been tempered a thousand times in the memory fragments, at this moment, he was somewhat unable to endure and was on the verge of collapse.
"The Refining Department only has one associate professor and several dozen mediocre students left. How should I go about my future?"
Li Yao pondered.
At this moment, someone gently poked him from behind. When he looked back, he found that it was the freshman "Huang Tong".
Huang Tong was an active member among the freshmen. He was very extroverted. In just a few days, he had already mingled with the seniors. He had also made a lot of friends from other departments. He was very well-informed.
Huang Tong winked at Li Yao: "Li Yao, have you thought about which department you will transfer to? The Iron Fist Club or the Chaos Edge Hall?"
Li Yao was surprised: "What do you mean?"
Looking at Huang Tong's side, the remaining freshmen and seniors of the Refining Department were gathered together. Although they looked very sad, they could not hide the longing in their eyes.
Huang Tong raised his eyebrows:
"Don't tell me you don't know? Right, you have been collecting resources from the ruins for the past few days. You might not have heard that the Refining Department is going to be abolished! "
Chapter 133: Skeletal War God
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