Fate Reignites: My Rampage in a World Where Time Stops

June 14th, the warm breeze gently blowing.

This was the fifth day after the end of the high school exams.

In previous years, the intense work of grading the exams would have just begun around this time, but this year was different.

The special high school exams had special requirements.

Many more experienced teachers participated in the grading process, required by their superiors to complete it within five days to start the process of checking scores.

The acceleration of the grading process was to avoid the possible social disturbances caused by updates that could affect the fairness of the exam grading.

This change was for no other reason.

Today was the 59th day since the version 2.2 update of Blue Star.

Nearly two months of waiting, the upcoming fourth update had countless people on edge, and the Special Affairs Group had already prepared numerous contingency plans to be as ready as possible.

Seven days ago, a massive Demon Beast disaster occurred in the east area of Changxing City, ending with the killing of a Fifth Rank Demon Beast. Leaderless, the tide of Demon Beasts waned, with countless being slain in the process.

This event was reported in the news and did not cause much stir in Changxing City. The damaged city defenses were quickly rebuilt; apart from a few written records, everything seemed as if it had never happened, affecting only a few.

Ji Huai was among those affected.

As the first player in Yanhuang Country to master Spirit Descent, he was summoned immediately to the Special Affairs Group Headquarters in Yanjing following the battle, which put an end to Qin Chuan's plans to continue learning skills with him every noon.

Perhaps it was the aftermath of the battle—with all Fourth Rank Demon Beasts perishing—that the Demon Beast groups around Changxing City completely quieted down. For seven consecutive days, there were neither special task invitations to Qin Chuan nor even minor Demon Beast disturbances.

However, learning from that battle, under Zhou Zixiu's leadership, the combatants of the Special Affairs Group became more proactive; if their enemies wouldn't come to them, they would go after them.

Thus, Qin Chuan had a lot of free time, while the Special Affairs Group was very busy.

With no one disturbing him, he could only use his daylight hours to practice the Unnamed Breathing Skill.

The time quickly reached 10 a.m., and the score-checking portal opened.

A few minutes later, Xiao Pang excitedly phoned, sharing the great news that he had passed the second-tier university admission line.

With this result, Xiao Pang's admission to Modu's University of Science and Technology was secured.

Feeling happy for his good friend, Qin Chuan's thoughts couldn't help but wander to an unknown location in Yanhuang Country, wondering how a certain girl had fared in her exams.

Fortunately, in just over ten hours, he could ask her in person.

Over the past nine days, Qin Chuan and Yue Li had traveled across various game zones mounted on Xiao Qing, like heroes out of a legend.

During the past few days, Snow Cone and Little Red had both reached the Hall Rank and, after being exposed in reality causing further uproars, most people recognized that Luo and Yue Li must possess some ability uniquely attuned to Hall Crystals. But with absolute power in front of them, even guessing did not change the facts.

And the consecutive breakthroughs of four Spiritual Beasts into Hall Rank obtaining new Active Skills had also given Qin Chuan and Yue Li a certain understanding of this stage.

Compared to Elite Rank, the Hall Rank Spiritual Beasts indeed did not have too much of a qualitative change.

However, the newly acquired Active Skills seemed to surpass the previous skills in strength.

Following Water Flower's Star-Sky Water Clarity and Xiao Qing's Star-Residual Wind Shattering Dome, Snow Cone and Little Red gained new skills named Star-Residual Frost Domain and Star-Bone-attaching Inflammation respectively.

[Star-Residual Frost Domain: Active Skill, generates a domain centered around oneself. Every 3 seconds, adds "Frost Freeze" to targets within the domain. Each "Frost Freeze" target provides a 10% attack increase, up to 60%, with a duration of 12 seconds]

[Star-Bone-attaching Inflammation: Active Skill, upon activation, increases Attribute Power and attack by 20%. During the skill activation, each attack adds a layer of "Burning" to the target, with the skill lasting 10 seconds and a cooldown of 20 seconds]

[Burning: Each second, each layer inflicts additional damage equal to 5% of the attacker's damage, lasts for 10 seconds per layer, with stacking layers having no upper limit.]

Under the enhancement of these two skills, Ice Cream's strength remained formidable, and Little Red, who usually chose to act cute and cuddly, surpassed Little Green and became the strongest output among Yue Li's pet beasts.

Today, they were going to cross another thirty zones in the Dream World.

This time, it was Silver Horn who was breaking through to the Hall Rank.

According to Qin Chuan and Yue Li's estimation of Hall Level players, Qin Chuan would also officially be promoted to a Hall Level player after Silver Horn's breakthrough.

With a large number of Special Points saved up, he had already prepared 60,000 Experience Gems required for three Spiritual Beasts to go from Hall Level Lv30 to Lv40.

As the sky gradually darkened, Qin Chuan casually browsed through some news, and soon, the night fell.

The summer breeze was refreshing as he gradually drifted into a dream.

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"How did the exam go?"

Upon seeing Yue Li again, Qin Chuan asked immediately.

"Not bad." The girl's lips unconsciously curled up, her mood seemed good, but then she seemed to remember something and asked with insinuation, "Have you paid attention to the top scorers in the national college entrance examination in various places?"

"Not really." Qin Chuan shook his head, but then suddenly remembered a piece of gossip he had come across on the forum today, "However, I heard that this year's science top scorer in Yanjing went to the exam center in a wheelchair."

"Persisting through the college entrance exam with physical difficulties and still topping it, that's really impressive," Qin Chuan genuinely marveled, "It seems to be a girl too."

"What's wrong with being a girl?" Yue Li's lips unconsciously shaped into a smile.

"Nothing." Qin Chuan looked at the girl beside him, slightly feeling guilty and added, "Whether it's a boy or a girl, they're all the same in my eyes."

Yue Li's eyes smiled, her shoulders slightly trembling as she tried to suppress her laughter.

Seeing Yue Li's eyes brimming with laughter, Qin Chuan couldn't help but ask again, "Have you already submitted your university applications?"

"Yes." Yue Li's eyes slightly drooped, "Apparently, this time, the university admissions process will also be very fast. Maybe in a few days, I'll receive the admission notice from Yue Mountain University."

Yue Mountain University...

A strong sense of regret and loss surged in Qin Chuan's heart, as if something precious was moving away from him, making him feel restless and powerless.

Seeing the dim expression in the young man's eyes, Yue Li couldn't help but divert her gaze aside, then she changed the topic, "We're here."

The thirty zones had already been crossed.

Next, it was time for Silver Horn's breakthrough.

After Yue Li applied a Luck Attribute to herself, Qin Chuan came back to his senses, took a deep breath, suppressed the various thoughts in his mind, and placed the Hall Crystal into Silver Horn's Advanced Array.

Accompanied by a burst of dazzling light, Silver Horn broke through the Hall Rank.

[Congratulations, player's Extraordinary Value has exceeded 40500 points, Player Level promoted to Hall Level!]

Hall Level, huh...

Qin Chuan lifted his hand and used up all the prepared Experience Gems.

As the three Spiritual Beasts reached Hall Level Lv40 simultaneously, he officially ascended to the pinnacle of this version.

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