The last time he had seen such an exaggerated scene was with that terrifying woman.

Charlene...

Charlene was even more exaggerated than Fang Heng.

"Are all these freaks specialized in mental strength...?"

Benny murmured softly to himself.

In fact, this was going to be troublesome.

The difficulty of unlocking for them would be dozens or even hundreds of times higher than that of a normal person.

For example, Charlene still hadn’t completed her unlocking until now.

"Report! Environmental energy has dropped below 50%, now below optimal absorption state!"

Benny said in a low voice, "Continue increasing energy level."

"Instructor, our currently exchanged Black Fog crystal core reserves are running low. If we continue to increase the energy diffusion level, the effect duration may not exceed 10 minutes."

"Is that so... Swallowed all of it in one go, this deal is a total loss..."

Benny muttered to himself, feeling that in terms of devouring energy, Fang Heng was even stronger than Charlene. He let out a chuckle, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes, then raised his head and said, "Increase the energy level, and also raise the intensity level every 30 seconds. Let’s test his limit."

Let’s see how long you can hold on!

"Yes!"

In the space, after realizing that the shadow creature was rapidly getting stronger, Fang Heng quickly readjusted his tactics.

He suddenly realized that since the mission target was merely to absorb Black Fog energy, it meant he might not need to actively attack—he just had to avoid being hit and survive.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!!!"

The shadow creature’s lust for attack was growing stronger, and its movement speed was increasing rapidly.

After dodging several attacks, Fang Heng was forced into a corner.

Trouble!

The reality was not as simple as he had thought—once he stopped attacking, a new shadow creature would appear every 30 seconds or so.

More and more shadow creatures appeared, and the space left for him to dodge became smaller and smaller.

Fang Heng quickly leaped a short distance to the side while checking the game hint.

The current absorbed Black Fog energy point had reached 4.87%.

Whoosh!

A sound suddenly came from behind his head out of nowhere.

He couldn’t dodge it!

"Pa!!!"

Fang Heng was forced to turn and punch forward, gathering his mental strength onto a single point on his fist.

"Boom!!!"

The shadow creature was shattered instantly under the heavy punch.

At the same time, another shadow creature on the right took advantage of Fang Heng’s brief pause and transformed a black long sword in its hand, sweeping it across Fang Heng’s body.

"Chi!!!"

The tip of the long sword sliced a narrow wound across the lower right side of Fang Heng’s abdomen.

Huh?

Fang Heng immediately sensed something was wrong.

The wound didn’t bleed but instead emitted a Black Fog-like aura form, and his HP dropped sharply.

That much damage?

Not good!

What’s worse, his "undead" effect had failed!

Though his HP was still recovering, the speed was extremely slow.

Compared to his long health bar, the recovery speed of just a dozen points per second was a drop in the bucket.

"Whoosh!!!"

Fang Heng leaped back again, murmuring, "Spiritual body..."

In the special game world, it existed in a form similar to a spiritual body, so the damage it received was also in the form of spiritual damage.

Even though there was HP, the HP was actually a converted display of spiritual state.

The slowly recovering HP was actually just his slowly healing mental strength.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!!!"

The shadow creature’s speed increased again and was rapidly closing in on Fang Heng.

Fang Heng didn’t think anymore and quickly dodged.

The power of the shadow creatures was increasing at an alarming speed!

Fang Heng frowned deeply. He dared not trade HP with the creature and quickly moved along the edge of the space, teleporting.

He couldn’t dodge!

Fang Heng’s pupils shrank.

Secondary space projection!

Dots of spatial strength enveloped him as Fang Heng quickly entered the spatial projection.

The shadow creatures inside the entire space lost their target and simultaneously paused.

Using the projection, Fang Heng quickly escaped the encirclement of the creatures, his brows still furrowed.

Inside this special space, using spatial projection came with pressure hundreds of times greater than in the outside world. At the same time, his HP began to drop slowly, and the absorption of Black Fog energy was also suspended.

No, he couldn’t stay in the secondary space projection too long!

Fang Heng stepped out from another side of the space.

Several shadow figures immediately locked onto him and rushed over.

Looks like this trial could only end here for now.

Although he still had his two big moves—Everlasting Moon and Tree Realm Descent—both ready to be used, he didn’t want to waste the cooldown here.

Besides, he could guess that using such moves would drastically consume mental strength—his HP.

No need.

"Exit!"

Fang Heng took one last glance at the mission completion rate, then quickly closed his eyes and shouted loudly.

Whoosh!!

In the next instant, Fang Heng directly disappeared from the special game environment.

"Ka!"

In the hall, the game cabin opened with a clack, indicating the player had exited the trial.

For a moment, the entire hall fell silent.

Trial difficulty as high as Level 36.

A terrifying guy.

He almost broke Charlene’s monster record of Level 40.

The test personnel gathered around immediately rushed up to help.

"I’m fine."

Fang Heng reached out and climbed out of the game cabin, jumped in place twice, and stretched his body.

He was still more used to his own physical body.

Thinking this, Fang Heng closed his eyes again to re-sense the state he was just in during the game.

This trial had been an experiment. Besides improving proficiency and energy absorption, his control over mental strength seemed to have become more condensed.

It was his first trial, and he didn’t yet fully understand the trial environment or the shadow creatures.

If he were given another chance, he was sure he could last longer.

Fang Heng opened his eyes again and suddenly found everyone in the hall staring at him—with that same kind of "looking at a monster" expression.

"What?"

"Gulp..."

The assistant instructor swallowed hard, looking at Fang Heng in disbelief. He stuttered, "Y-You... how do you feel?"

"Pretty good."

Fang Heng shrugged, then asked with some doubt, "What’s wrong?"

The atmosphere in the hall was eerily silent.

Everyone looked toward Benny.

Benny said, "What are you all standing around for? Begin physical status check."

"Yes!"

Several researchers immediately came forward to conduct a basic scan on Fang Heng, and expressions of shock gradually appeared on each of their faces.

This... was actually...

His body showed no anomalies?

His state was so good that he could immediately begin the next round of trials!

"Report, all of Fang Heng’s indicators are normal."

A member of the teaching group looked at the report, eyes full of surprise, and handed it to Benny.

Benny was equally shocked in his heart. He took the report from his subordinate, glanced at it, then looked up and stared closely at Fang Heng.

Just what was this kid’s background?!

When the spiritual structure entered the game, the damage received in the game was returned to the body in a multiplied form when the player exited the game.