Chapter 49: Innate Awakening

  Liu Feng, who misjudged the direction, became the team's first casualty.

  Because she was blinded by the safety in front of her, she made the same mistake as Hu Si Ming and hastily dodged into a dead end. As a result, when five consecutive flame traps sealed her inside, it was already impossible to escape. The one-second burst frequency left almost no gap for Liu Feng, instantly engulfing her.

  Battle Alert: Team Tianhui has lost a member!

  The flames bursting in the Flame Temple shook the eardrums, completely drowning out the hint of the school emblem. Hu Siming's field of vision was also filled with scarlet flames, and only when the bursts stopped for a moment could he catch a glimpse through the gaps. Under such immense pressure, he had no time to worry about his teammates' situation, and could only use all his strength to protect himself.

  Countdown 25 seconds!

  Zhaofeng and Yanshao were cornered by the continuous flame traps, forced to the same landing point. Looking at each other's disheveled appearance, the two, who were almost exhausted, didn't have any intention of mocking each other. According to Huximing's discovery of the firing pattern, flames would erupt from under their feet in the next moment. The two had to seize the brief gap and charge forward from the front.

  One step slower is death!

  The repeater who was summoned to the battlefield to confront the nightmare, the two of them were also among the strongest in the new students. They accurately grasped the gap and rushed out from the countless flames that didn't exist. However, the damage from the remaining flames still reduced their already low health points to rock bottom. Yan Shao's life halo had turned a deep red. Zhao Feng's was even worse, directly turning into black blood.

  And both of their treatments have also been used up.

  It has come to this, and it's all about luck now. Zhao Feng and Yan Shao were desperately running away while counting down the time with bated breath, silently hoping for the end of the Flame Temple!

  Similar to their situation, Hu Siming, who was also separated by the flame trap on the other side, had reached the time of testing his luck. As the last twenty seconds began, the Flame Temple's traps started a frantic explosion. From sixteen simultaneous jets, it suddenly turned into a crazy twenty jets. Hu Siming only felt that there were scorching flames everywhere around him, and he couldn't even find a foothold.

  It was just one misstep, and he himself fell into the sea of flames, his blood volume dropping by 100 points in an instant!

  The previous scattered burn damage, combined with this fatal blow, left Hu Siming's remaining health value less than sixty points. Just one more time and he would be dead for sure.

  Since the unified exam began, Hu Si Ming felt the closeness of death for the first time!

  Battle Alert: Team Aurora has suffered casualties!

  Only a few seconds had passed since the last prompt, and the bad news of the reduction came again. The twenty flames that burst out together were really too terrifying. Zhao Feng, who was covered in black blood, had nowhere to escape and was killed by the remaining flames.

  Almost at the same time as the prompt sounded, Hu Shiming was once again forced into a dead end.

  An exaggerated sea of flames surrounded him from all sides. The scorching heat waves, increasing exponentially, almost made him feel like he was going to be roasted alive into a mummy. With no way to escape, Hu Si Ming had a premonition that unless his luck was as good as last time, the next second would be his death!

  A person's luck can't always be full.

  With a slight tremor, fierce flames burst out from under Hu Siming's feet and enveloped his entire body in an instant. His blood volume plummeted to one point. Although he was unwilling, faced with such a desperate situation, Hu Siming could do nothing.

  "Is this the first real death?"

  Watching the flames engulfing his entire body, Hu Si Ming couldn't help but close his eyes. But at this moment, the chest of his attribute-ized body began to rapidly become transparent.

  A mutation has occurred!

  The extremely dense flame energy around him awakened the mysterious talent that had been dormant in Hu Si Ming's body. Feeling its host's unwillingness, the flame law that had briefly appeared during the physical examination began to vibrate slightly with his heartbeat and emitted a red light. This light seemed to have an endless attraction force, instantly absorbing the flame energy around Hu Si Ming. At that moment, he only felt a scorching energy flowing into his body. But unexpectedly, he didn't feel any burning sensation.

  After being absorbed, the originally fierce flames became unprecedentedly docile, penetrating into the body's muscles and bones, and were finally swallowed up by the law.

  But this amount of energy is still far from enough!

  It had only swallowed a few nearby flames, which was far from enough to satisfy the Heavenly Dao. After tasting the flavor of flame energy, it was like a starving person suddenly seeing countless delicious dishes, and began to absorb all the energy in the Flame Temple with an insatiable thirst. Due to the speed of extraction being too fast, the flames that rushed over from all directions actually formed a one-meter radius energy vortex around Hu Si Ming's body.

  Twenty flames that erupted together were just about to emerge from the magic array when they were forcibly stripped away by the vortex beside Hu Si Ming.

  This exaggerated scene made Yan Shao dumbfounded!

  After Zhao Feng was killed by the flames, his own situation had also become extremely dangerous. But just at this moment, the surrounding flames were suddenly drawn away by an invisible force. In a flurry, he couldn't react in time to what had happened and stood there stupidly.

  "What... is this after all?"

  He muttered to himself, but no one answered.

  Husiming, enveloped by countless flames, had temporarily isolated himself from the outside world. His entire being was focused on the innate talent that automatically emerged in times of crisis, and he tried his best to understand and decipher it as he extracted energy from it. This was undoubtedly a long process, but having only just come into contact with it, he already had a premonition: the innate talent within him was probably not ordinary.

  As the continuous extraction proceeded to a certain extent, the school emblem finally gave out a hint.

  During the awakening of innate talent, it is necessary to continuously collect the power of flames...

  Along with this realization, the innate law of fierce energy absorption was triggered. This naturally formed law in the real world had fallen into a deep sleep due to over 20 years of low magical power. However, in the high-magical world of the academy, after experiencing dangerous stimuli and suitable environments, it was finally reactivated. Along with this epiphany, Hu Shiming's spirit reached its peak, and he vaguely knew that his innate talent was about to be unleashed!

  For the first time, he hoped that the Flame Hall wouldn't end so soon, and even wished it could erupt more fiercely.

  Finally, the last countdown of ten seconds begins!

  The continuous extraction intensified the explosion of the Flame Temple. As the remaining energy was recklessly thrown out, the eruption of the flame trap reached an extreme degree. Under normal circumstances, a student who triggered the trap would need extremely keen reactions and luck to survive such an attack. However, with Hu Sui's innate talent awakening, these uncontrolled flames not only lost their harm but instead became nutrients that accelerated his growth.

  Countdown 5 seconds!

  The long whale sucked in water, and Hu Si Ming's innate law finally had a bit of saturation.

  The flames swirling around him had also been compressed to an almost exaggerated extent. However, due to its thirst for energy, the innate law continued to greedily extract the remaining energy within the Flame Temple. In its awakened state, it was like a bottomless pit that could swallow everything, no matter how much there was.

  The school emblem gives a hint again: 900/1000 points of Flame Power have been collected.

  It's not over yet!

  Yan Shao was thoroughly stunned, and finally realized that he didn't need to do anything anymore. The magic array, which had dimmed due to energy exhaustion, would only spark a little flame before being immediately absorbed by his teammates. Seeing the crisis resolved ahead of time, he let out a sigh and leaned against the stone wall behind him, staring blankly at Hu Si Ming, or rather, at the flame vortex beside him.

  I really didn't expect it, this teammate of mine actually had such a huge secret hidden on him!

  "If it wasn't for this, I might have been done in myself."

  Just as he was thinking this, the thirty-second countdown ended. As the last bit of energy dried up, all fifty-four flame traps subsided, and even the faint red glow disappeared. Accompanied by a dull rumbling sound, the two stone walls that sealed off the passageway also sank back into the ground, clearing the way.

  It's finally... over!

  "There's only a little over ten points of blood left."

  Looking at his own blood volume, Yan Shao's heart was filled with wave after wave of fear. The previous flames, he had only been a moment faster than Zhao Feng, and the result was that he had survived, while Zhao Feng unfortunately got caught in the aftermath of Yu Yan's attack and ended his unified exam ahead of time.

  It's really not easy to get through the fiery hall!