Chapter 2173 - 2166: I Can’t Hold It Anymore

"Boss, a first grade Transcender? Are you really letting him join our team? Are you out of your mind?" The male deputy examiner was the first to stand up and object.

Among the many Explorer teams, their team was renowned, even ranking in the top 100 in the entire Holy Soul Alliance! Their members were carefully selected, with the weakest being a seventh-order Transcender in terms of strength.

Even if Zhang Menglong is about to pass the Senior Explorer examination, he’s still just a first-grade Transcender!

"Do you think he’s just any ordinary first-grade Transcender?" The chief examiner laughed, "Not to mention other things, just the strength of his body alone has reached at least the level of nearly a seventh-order Transcender; even without using power, he could easily kill a fifth-order or even sixth-order Transcender!"

"That’s easy to say, but there are tons of seventh-order Transcenders who want to join our team; why should we take the risk with this little guy?"

"Who told you that’s his limit?" The chief examiner chuckled softly.

"Boss, are you saying this isn’t his limit?" The two deputy examiners were taken aback.

"Who knows, maybe even the entire Blood Pond isn’t his limit?" The chief examiner said with a joking tone, but the two deputies could feel that his tone might not be a joke!

"Ding!"

With a prompt sound, five minutes passed, and besides Zhang Menglong, two others also met the standard for Senior Explorer!

However, one Transcender chose to end the examination immediately upon completion, his face beaming with excitement. After three assessments, he finally reached the Senior Explorer standard, and he could now venture deeper into the Blood Pond.

As for the other person left, it’s the one called "Leon" by the examiners. He had mentioned that his target this time was the Senior Explorer, and his previous scores were already close to this threshold.

"The condition seems okay," The chief examiner glanced at Leon’s life signs and various parameters, "He should be able to pass the Senior Explorer exam this time."

After saying this, his attention shifted back to Zhang Menglong, whose current status even seemed much better than Leon’s!

"300,000 meters!"

This is already the threshold for Senior Explorer. If you stay at this depth pressure for ten minutes, you can obtain the Senior Explorer license.

Leon wasn’t in great condition; last time he persevered for 8 minutes under this pressure, and although it seemed like only a two-minute difference, the gap between them was vast.

By the fifth minute, his body’s condition had reached over 80%, indicating that he had already used 80% of his capacity to hell this pressure.

"Beep beep beep!"

Suddenly, someone seemed to hear sounds coming from the container where Zhang Menglong was located.

The container’s environmental conditions could almost isolate various energies, including electromagnetic waves, spiritual power, etc., only Soul Energy could spread without interference.

"Such strong Soul Energy!"

The rules of this world are extremely stable; most people’s Soul Energy can’t even leave the body, and some sixth-order and seventh-order Transcenders can only let Soul Power appear in a faint mist form, unable to form an entity.

Only extremely powerful souls can impact their surroundings, and making sounds is also very challenging.

"Zhang Menglong, what do you want to say?" The chief examiner stared at him, "Do you want to stop? Is the instrument malfunctioning?"

The chief examiner’s tone was evidently a bit worried. He wouldn’t want such a good candidate to have an accident due to such a crappy reason, although the probability of the instrument malfunctioning isn’t high.

"No," Zhang Menglong replied, "I’m wondering if I can take the Top-level Explorer’s test? All this dithering is a waste of time; can you directly crank it up to the max pressure? I need to pee!"

"..."

Upon hearing Zhang Menglong’s response, everyone had two black lines appear on their foreheads.

He’s not the only one who’d want to pee at a time like this; could anyone else even think of doing something like this, saying something like that?

But his request was hard to accept.

Even many top-level Explorers couldn’t immediately handle such pressure; they’d need a buffer period.

"Zhang Menglong, are you sure?" The chief examiner asked, "This might put a significant strain on your body!"

In the Blood Pond, pressure doesn’t increase linearly with depth; it grows exponentially, so when becoming an Explorer, each rank increase is exceedingly difficult; sometimes even increasing a few hundred meters in depth requires a lot of time.

"I’m sure," Zhang Menglong replied, "I’m also sure I can hold it in for just a few more minutes, or I’ll pee in here, which would be really embarrassing!"

"Did you think saying it now isn’t embarrassing?" Everyone who heard this felt their toes curl and imagined digging out a three-bedroom apartment.

However, the chief examiner seemed very composed; in his view, some highly capable people have unusual personalities, which distinguishes them from others and highlights their extraordinary nature.

"Alright, then have it your way!"

"Boss is serious?" The two deputy examiners looked at the chief examiner; even they couldn’t survive under such pressure for a few seconds.

"Cut the crap!"

"Fine, after all, he signed the life-and-death agreement, it’s his own choice if something happens," the male deputy examiner directly walked to the instrument and started changing the preset automatic mode to manual mode.

In Zhang Menglong’s container, the pressure continued to increase, and they could vaguely hear the container making cracking sounds, as if it was about to burst at any moment.

But when the number on the screen reached 400,000 meters, it didn’t stop; it began to continue increasing.

"What’s going on?" The chief examiner’s face changed suddenly.

"Damn, the instrument is malfunctioning!" The deputy examiner’s face also turned pale, because usually, no one opts for this skipping mode, so the instrument was long set to automatic pressure increase.

But because of this, the manual mode was seldom used and developed an unknown fault, making it even impossible to manually pause it.

"Hurry, close the emergency switch!"

But the pressure increased too fast; to close the emergency switch, they first need to go through a verification process, and as he started verifying, the intensity had already surged to 800,000 meters!

Under this pressure, even the chief examiner would definitely die!

"Crack!" With a shattering sound, the entire container shattered to pieces, a large amount of liquid vaporized in an instant.

"Zhang Menglong? Zhang Menglong?" The examiner called Zhang Menglong’s name.

"Oh man, why did it explode?"

Only to see Zhang Menglong emerge from the ruins unscathed, not even a blemish on his body, "Oh man, I can’t hold it anymore, where’s the bathroom? I’m really about to explode!"