When his vision was clear again, Lin Shen found himself in a strange place.

Looking around, the place where he was located was very spacious, with an area of tens of thousands of square meters, larger than a football field, and looked like a large hall.

Beneath your feet is a bluestone slab floor surrounded by high walls, each with a huge portal embedded in each wall.

Behind the door, the clouds were shrouded in mist, and there was no scene in sight.

However, what is more eye-catching is the clouds that linger overhead, and the wisps seem to be covered with a layer of pure white tulle.

"Is this the Fog Array......

Lin Shen muttered to himself, suddenly feeling that there seemed to be a hard object in his palm, and when he looked down, he realized that there was an extra jade talisman in his hand at some point.

There is a number 0 in the middle of it.

Lin Shen instantly understood, this should be the jade talisman mentioned in the rules that has both the recording score and the protective effect.

Carefully put away the jade talisman, Lin Shen chose a random direction and walked away.

The form of this big test is to survive in the formation, not to break into the formation, in other words, no matter which portal you choose, it is the same.

The only difference is that if you're lucky, you might come across the one with the altar.

But Lin Shen hadn't taken a few steps before he heard a whistling from above.

When I looked up, the clouds and mist above were surging violently, condensing at an alarming speed, forming a fierce beast with horns on its forehead, like a tiger and a leopard, and wings on its back.

In the blink of an eye, there were more than a dozen hideous and terrifying beasts in the sky, all roaring like thunder, and swooping towards Lin Shen with murderous aura.

"Mist Beast!"

Lin Shen's eyes froze, and a palm of lightning slapped out, hitting the head of a rushing mist beast, which didn't even snort, and instantly exploded into a mist in the sky.

This blow was somewhat unexpected by Lin Shen, and it was only after killing a few more misty beasts that he suddenly realized.

These fog beasts looked fierce and incomparable, but in fact, they only had the cultivation of the pneumatic layer.

Lin Shen didn't even need to use martial arts, he could be killed with a single blow.

And the candidates who are qualified to take the big exam, the weakest have pneumatic five-layer cultivation, and it is not too easy to deal with this kind of fog beast.

But soon, Lin Shen realized that something was wrong.

Every time he killed a mist beast, the scattered mist would return to the sky, condense into a new mist beast, and slaughter it again without stopping.

Every second, there were no less than ten misty beasts around him.

In less than 100 meters, Lin Shen had already killed more than 20 misty beasts, and there were more than 20 points on the jade talisman.

"This is the rhythm that will forcibly exhaust the candidate's physical strength!"

Lin Shen sighed.

Generally speaking, a pneumatic fifth-layer cultivator could deal with seven or eight pneumatic one-layer opponents at the same time.

A handful of the best can even hit ten at a time.

But in this way, even if the final victory is won, the winner will inevitably become the last of the strong crossbows.

What's more, now he has to face more than a dozen opponents who can be resurrected quickly after death, ordinary pneumatic fifth-layer cultivators, I am afraid that it will not take long to be exhausted by life.

Sure enough, when Lin Shen broke through the encirclement and arrived at the portal at the end of the left side of the main hall, he suddenly felt that the strength of the fog beasts around him had become significantly stronger, almost reaching the realm of the second layer of pneumatics.

At this time, less than five minutes had passed since entering the fog array.

"Isn't this a sudden elimination of dozens of people?"

Lin Shen sighed with emotion, slammed his palm to kill the misty beast that was standing in front of him, and stepped into the portal with one foot.

After a flicker in front of him, and when he came back to his senses, Lin Shen found that he had arrived in a large hall again.

Surrounded by the same high walls, bluestone paving.

The same four portals, cloudy.

Roar!

With a roar like thunder, more than a dozen misty beasts quickly condensed and formed, swooping towards Lin Shen and killing him.

Lin Shen's face remained unchanged and greeted him calmly.

Where others can't see, the talent column has been switched by him to perseverance.

This big test is not only a competition to see who kills the most fog beasts, but also a competition to see who can hold out longer in the fog elephant array.

If you persist for a long time, you will not only get more points, but also have a greater probability of finding the altar.

And once you consume too much physical strength in order to kill more fog beasts in the early stage, and wait until the fog beasts become stronger later, it is likely to be quickly eliminated.

Therefore, Lin Shen did not go all out to kill the fog beast, but tried his best to maintain the consumption and recovery of his physical strength in a balanced state.

With the talent of perseverance, he is confident that he has a huge advantage in terms of physical strength far beyond other candidates.

......

Three minutes after the start of the big test.

Light and shadow flashed on the square one after another, and oval shields appeared on the field out of thin air.

The shield dissipated, revealing dejected and depressed candidates.

These are the people who were defeated in the battle against the Mist Beast and were eliminated and sent out of the Mist Array.

The one with the most points among them was only twenty or thirty points, and it was certain that he had been excluded from the ranks of the Daoist Academy.

"This big test is too difficult!"

"That's right, those fog beasts will come back to life after they are killed, how can this make people fight?"

"I've only scored more than 20 points, let alone the top 200, the top 400 can't get in, and I will definitely be ranked last!"

"It's hopeless now......"

The lamentations came and went, and many candidates sat on the ground with pale faces.

Ke Ya and Cai Zhonggu were stunned, and their expressions were faint.

They have seen similar scenes many times, and their hearts have long been like iron.

The road is vast and the road is difficult and dangerous.

The path of cultivation is already full of thorns, and it is better for those who do not have sufficient qualifications to give up early, which is a good thing for them.

On the water curtain, light and shadow surged, and one by one the candidates were fighting hard with the fog beast.

Some were besieged by fog beasts in place, unable to break through, and could only struggle to support them.

Some of them were like bamboos, brazenly breaking through the siege of the fog beasts and entering portals one by one, searching for the existence of the altar.

Meanwhile.

A leaderboard also appeared in the corner of the water curtain, listing the names and scores of each candidate.

First place, Zhao Xueying, 128 points

second place, Yan Xing, 126 points

Third place, Chongyanhe, 125 points

fourth place, Xue Feng, 123 points

fifth, Wei Cheng, 95 points

......

Over time, the names and scores on the leaderboard have changed dramatically.

Especially the closer you get to the end of the list, the more frequent the changes.

Although the rankings of Zhao Xueying and the four are also constantly changing, they have always firmly occupied the top four on the list, and there is a significant distance from the candidates behind them.

At this moment, Cai Zhonggu suddenly let out a low sigh, pointed to a name on the list and said:

"Who is this man?"

Ke Ya looked at the position he was pointing to, but it was a candidate named Lin Shen, with 85 points, ranking twenty-third.

"Lin Shen? Quite an unfamiliar name. Ke Ya frowned suspiciously.

The children of the family who participated in this year's big exam, he was more or less impressed, but this candidate named Lin Shen was very unfamiliar.

Ke Ya immediately called the disciple next to him and asked him to take out the list and check it.

Soon, the disciple replied:

"The two are in charge, this candidate named Lin Shen is not a child of the family."

Cai Zhonggu and Ke Ya were stunned when they heard this.

The two of them looked at each other, and they could both see the surprise in each other's eyes.

Ordinary students can even squeeze into the top 30?

That's pretty rare!