Blood-red light poured across the flagstones of the Central Plaza as five thousand examinees hurried out of the written exam hall toward Stage Three.
At the center of the square stood the Academy’s oldest landmark: the Hundred-Foot Destiny Crystal Pillar.
Carved from a single piece of Rank 8 Astral Spirit-Quartz worth fifty billion Spirit Stones, the monolith was supposed to measure a student’s luck and talent. Today, however, veins of pulsing black-red light writhed beneath its crystal surface like angry earthworms, letting out a low, hungry hum that made the air taste like rust.
Gu Changsheng walked out onto the terrace steps with his hands in his apron pockets. Inside his coat, [Dad’s Plot-Spoiler Notebook] flipped open by itself, the parchment hissing as another chunk of original text dissolved into black smoke.
[WARNING! FOREKNOWLEDGE DECAY ESCALATION!]
[Current Original Script Accuracy: 65% -> 61%!]
[Heavenly Script Will Intervention: Because Gu Nian passed Stage One with S+ Morality and Ye Xiao invalidated Stage Two, the Script Will has forcibly mutated the Stage Three Destiny Crystal Pillar!]
[Mutated Effect: The pillar is now a Rank 8 Parasitic Luck-Devouring Altar! The moment the youngest Gu children touch the crystal, barbed soul-hooks will latch onto their dantians and drain their lifeforce dry in three seconds!]
