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Chapter 802: Chapter 806: The Third Test 39
The squad leader of the Beast Soldiers felt a jolt in his heart.
He carefully turned around and looked around, discovering that his subordinates were solely focused on retreating and hadn’t noticed the situation that had just occurred.
So, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he had discovered the secret of the Holy Water, he didn’t intend to tell anyone.
He clutched the water bottle tightly, careful not to let a single drop spill out.
He then started to retreat at high speed, mimicking the other Beastmen.
Some of the Beastmen, perhaps finding the water bottles on their backs cumbersome or thinking they could be used as weapons,
Two of the Beastmen threw their water bottles forcefully at the Insect Beasts.
Since the water bottles had no lids, when thrown, the water naturally poured out.
The Insect Snakes scrambled to avoid it.
Such an obvious disturbance was certainly not going to remain hidden; everyone was no fool. When they recalled the Holy Water mentioned by the old Black Mountain demon, they instantly understood everything.
As the leading Beast Soldier passed by these two Beastmen, he cursed with disdain, "What idiots."
He had been gloating about being the only one who knew the whereabouts of the Holy Water.
His glee had lasted no more than two seconds before these fools exposed it.
The leading Beast Soldier no longer hid or hoarded.
He poured water from the bottle and smeared it all over his body.
The two Beast Soldiers who had thrown their bottles were taken aback; they wanted to turn back and retrieve them.
But as soon as they turned around,
The voice of the old Black Mountain demon sounded, full of excitement.
"Three! Don’t move! Whoever moves will be turned into Sand People!"
The expressions on the faces of those two Beastmen stiffened suddenly.
Their outstretched hands froze in midair.
They stopped, but the Insect Beasts kept crawling towards them.
The two Beast Soldiers who had thrown their water bottles were not at the very front; there were two other Beast Soldiers ahead of them.
Thus, they could only pray silently that these Insect Beasts would not come their way.
Unfortunately, the heavens did not hear their prayers.
The Insect Beasts bypassed the foremost two Beast Soldiers and crawled straight toward the two of them.
Of all the people present, after all, these two were the only ones who had not smeared Holy Water on themselves.
One of the Beastmen, mindful of the rules and unable to move, even though he was extremely frightened, silently let the Insect Beasts crawl over him, gnawing at his flesh.
He did not have the squad leader’s superpower of hardening, so he could only suffer through it live.
This feeling was like being slowly dismembered; it was an unbearable torment, worse than death.
The Beastman howled miserably, but no one dared to help him.
Seeing this, the other Beast Soldier who had discarded his bottle was terrified.
With a grieving face, he cried, "I—I don’t want to take the test anymore, I want to go back! I want to go back!"
He shivered and stretched out his hand, groping for a Wooden Token at his waist.
It was the Muxian Order that the steward had given to each of them at the start of the test.
Breaking the Muxian Order would form a small Teleportation Array around oneself, transporting them outside the Wood Immortal Mansion.
His hands gripping the two ends of the Muxian Order, just at the second before it was about to snap,
The old Black Mountain demon spoke again.
"Ah, what a dilemma—caught a competitor who does not follow the test rules. What to do, what to do?"
It was the same rhetoric as before.
The Beast Soldier needed only a bit more force to break the Muxian Order and escape.
But as if restrained, he could not even move.
"A competitor who does not follow the test rules, of course, becomes a Sand Person—"This time, no white light shot out.
But under the gaze of everyone present, the Beast Soldier holding the Order Token still turned into a Sand Sculpture.
