Chance Encounter

When they heard Tang Wulin's words, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Xie Xie were filled with envy. With their two-ring cultivation, it would be very hard for them to obtain a Thousand-Year Soul Spirit. Tang Wulin, because his cultivation was lower, actually had a chance to achieve a Thousand-Year first ring just like Lin Xingyu! Though Tang Wulin was still a little short, he was not short by much! He might be able to make up the difference when school started next semester!

"A Thousand-Year Soul Ring!" Xie Xie sighed with emotion. This classmate who had seemed so unremarkable at the start of school seemed about to surpass him in just one semester.

Seeing that the others had more or less recovered, Lin Xingyu said, "Let's go. The Man Faced Demon Spider's deadly poison has been almost used up. We should change places."

Because of the butterfly effect Lin Xingyu had caused, the cultivation of Class Zero's members was a little stronger than in the original timeline. Even if Lin Xingyu usually did nothing, his mere existence was enough to make the members of Class Zero work even harder.

Gu Yue said coolly, "What we should be more careful of now are Soul Masters. At this point, the Soul Masters should all have arrived."

Lin Xingyu nodded. "Right. The spiritual power on us is enough to make them take risks. We have about enough spiritual power, so from now on, we avoid fighting and try not to come into contact with anyone."

"If you feel your body has reached its limit, withdraw immediately. It doesn't matter if it's not the assessment time yet. Teacher Wu won't care about small things like that."

Hearing Lin Xingyu's words, Tang Wulin and the others nodded.

Over the next half hour, the group absorbed the spiritual power around their bodies while carefully avoiding the soul beasts and Soul Masters in the Spirit Ascension Platform.

With Lin Xingyu's Magnetic Field Control, he could easily sense living beings over a wide area and accurately point out the positions of other life forms to Zhang Yangzi. Relying on Lin Xingyu's guidance, Zhang Yangzi could carry out precise observation from high in the air.

Lin Xingyu and the others could easily avoid other presences. For those they truly could not avoid, Lin Xingyu and the others chose to deal with them directly, then leave quickly afterward.

"Captain, two hours are up," Xie Xie, who had been responsible for keeping time, said.

"Change of strategy. Start hunting soul beasts and collecting spiritual power! This time, let's try to raise all our Soul Spirits to their limits! We only enter together once every half a year," Lin Xingyu said.

"Yes! Captain!" Zhang Yangzi said excitedly.

Excitement also appeared on the faces of the others. In the past, when they were alone, they often had to rack their brains just to face a single Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Now, they could run rampant inside the Spirit Ascension Platform!

Their Soul Rings could even reach their own limits! How could they not be excited?

Once the plan was decided, all of them were people with explosive execution power, and they immediately began to move.

After a hunt ended, Lin Xingyu sensed the situation around them. Unexpectedly, he discovered that not far to the left, a battle was taking place.

"Yangzi, there's a battle five hundred meters to the left. Take a look at what's going on."

"Understood!" Hearing the order, Zhang Yangzi immediately closed his eyes and communicated with his Soul Spirit, having it head there from high above to observe the specific situation.

Before long, Zhang Yangzi's Soul Spirit had already reached the sky above that place. Looking down from above, everything that was happening was clear at a glance.

Zhang Yangzi opened his eyes and said, "It's a Soul Master team fighting a group of Flame Winged Snakes. The Soul Masters probably aren't their match. When I looked over, one Soul Master had just been beaten out of the Spirit Ascension Platform. There are three Soul Masters left. The Flame Winged Snake leader is a Thousand-Year soul beast. There are thirty-two in total, with a dozen or so hundred-year ones."

"Let's go! We'll head over and take a look!" Hearing Zhang Yangzi's description, Lin Xingyu's eyes lit up, and he immediately made his decision.

From the look of it, there was clearly a bargain to pick up!

As Lin Xingyu and the others slowly approached the battlefield, the movements coming from there grew louder and louder, and the sounds of fighting became clearer and clearer.

From afar, Lin Xingyu and the others could see three Soul Masters fleeing in a sorry state while continuously throwing out Soul Skills to deal with the encirclement of the Flame Winged Snake swarm.

The Flame Winged Snake was a pure Fire Attribute soul beast. Ordinary Flame Winged Snakes had a pair of wings on their backs. After breaking through to a hundred years, their backs would become four-winged. After breaking through to a thousand years, they would grow another pair of wings and become six-winged.

This soul beast swarm had one Thousand-Year, sixteen hundred-year, and the rest were all Ten-Year Soul Beasts.

Seeing the Soul Masters being chased by this group of Flame Winged Snakes, Lin Xingyu gave a rather unkind laugh at once.

Among the remaining three Soul Masters, the strongest attacker was a female Soul Master. Her martial soul was also a mass of flames floating above her head! She continuously fired streaks of flame at the group of Flame Winged Snakes. Although Flame Winged Snakes were not very outstanding in other aspects, in terms of fire resistance, they were absolutely top-tier. The flames she fired could not be said to have little effect; they could only be said to be better than nothing.

As for the remaining Soul Master, he should have been a Control System Soul Master. His martial soul was Ghost Vine. With a wave of his hand, strands of Ghost Vine grew from the ground and tried to block the Flame Winged Snake swarm's path, only to be directly burned to ashes by the flames shot out by the Flame Winged Snake swarm.

The last Soul Master was also a plant-type Soul Master. Judging from the martial soul, it should have been Green Leaf Vine. One could say that after encountering an even stronger fire type, the three of them had been completely countered to death.

"Senior sister!" Once he clearly saw who the two Soul Masters opposite them were, Tang Wulin cried out despite himself.

"Senior sister?" Zhang Yangzi looked at Tang Wulin and imitated Tang Wulin's voice with a strange laugh. "You know that girl over there? I've never heard you had a senior sister. Well? How far has it developed?"

"Don't talk nonsense. She's just my teacher's daughter. We're not close," Tang Wulin said speechlessly.

Lin Xingyu teased, "I heard from Xie Xie that you're pursuing a senior student called Ouyang Zixin. She's the number one beauty of our intermediate division. How come there's also a senior sister? Wulin, I didn't expect you to be so impressive!"

When he heard Zhang Yangzi's teasing just now, Tang Wulin had not reacted much. But when he heard Lin Xingyu's teasing, Tang Wulin's entire face flushed bright red at an extremely fast speed, and then he looked at Xie Xie in fury.

Xie Xie had originally still been happily enjoying the drama. Hearing Lin Xingyu's teasing, he instantly panicked and hurriedly waved his hands as he explained to Tang Wulin, "It wasn't me, I didn't, don't talk nonsense! Wulin, don't believe the captain's nonsense. About you pursuing Senior Sister Ouyang, I've never told anyone. The captain is slandering me!"

Tang Wulin looked at Xie Xie through gritted teeth and said, "Only you knew about this. If it wasn't you running your mouth everywhere, how could the captain know?"

Xie Xie was struck speechless all at once, his whole person seeming somewhat doubtful as to whether he had somehow let this matter slip at some point.

After watching enough of the show, Lin Xingyu said, "All right, stop making things hard for Xie Xie. I get up early to train every morning, and I saw it. You were acting way too obvious. But what's there to be afraid of? A graceful lady is a gentleman's fair pursuit, right?"

After hearing Lin Xingyu's explanation, Tang Wulin finally let Xie Xie off, though he looked at Lin Xingyu rather resentfully.

Xie Xie also looked over resentfully.

"All right. Looks like your senior sister is about to go offline. What do you think? Should we save her or not? This time, you decide."

"Save her! She's still my senior sister, no matter what!" Tang Wulin replied. Although Mu Xi had never treated Tang Wulin very well, no matter what, she was still the daughter of Tang Wulin's teacher. They definitely had to save her.

"Then get ready! Wait for my order," Lin Xingyu said sternly.

Aya, on Lin Xingyu's shoulder, held a small floating sword with a serious look on her face.

"Sister Xi, looks like we can't escape. In a bit, I'll cover you from behind, and you two should leave first!" one of Mu Xi's teammates said to her.

Mu Xi clenched her pearly teeth. She knew this was the best choice. When they could not beat the enemy and could not escape, sacrificing one teammate so the other two could try to break away from the battlefield should have been the best option. But she truly felt unwilling and did not want to give up on a teammate.

As time passed, seeing Mu Xi's situation become more and more dangerous, Tang Wulin looked anxiously at Lin Xingyu. However, he knew the weight of the situation and said nothing, only looking toward Lin Xingyu again and again.

"Move!" As Lin Xingyu's order was given, the little sword on his shoulder, compressed to its limit, immediately shot out. A sonic boom rang out directly in the air!

Immediately afterward, an explosion erupted directly on the body of the Thousand-Year Flame Winged Snake leader! The explosion even affected the Flame Winged Snakes around it, blasting them away!

Tang Wulin and the others immediately made their move.

Besides Lin Xingyu, the first to move was Gu Yue. Before Lin Xingyu gave the order, Gu Yue had been quietly gathering the elements in the air the entire time. She raised her hand and waved, and Ice Cone after Ice Cone shot straight toward the Flame Winged Snakes. At the tails of the Ice Cones, there were also streaks of cyan whirlwinds.

Gu Yue's fusion of two elements was becoming more and more practiced. Only after that did the others move.

In Mu Xi and her teammates' eyes, they were just about to fall into a desperate situation when, all of a sudden, the Flame Winged Snake leader exploded in a bizarre manner! Then came that shout of "move," along with the rolling sonic booms that followed!

Then several people suddenly rushed out from the nearby forest. The one in the lead was fully armored, holding a two-meter-long greatsword in his hand. Carrying the greatsword, he charged straight toward the Flame Winged Snake swarm.

At that moment, a huge pile of Ice Cones suddenly smashed toward the Flame Winged Snake swarm. Some of these Ice Cones flew over from afar, while others appeared directly above the Flame Winged Snake swarm. Thick Ice Cones came smashing straight down from above one after another, pinning the Flame Winged Snakes on the ground directly to the earth.

Just as the Ice Cones ended, the person holding the greatsword had already brought several people to the side of the Flame Winged Snake swarm, and then began slaughtering the Flame Winged Snakes. The Flame Winged Snake swarm, which had just seemed so arrogant and untouchable, was now like a child being bullied. They could not put up any effective resistance at all, and the intruders rushed in and ended the lives of one Flame Winged Snake after another.

Watching this scene, Mu Xi felt a little dazed for a moment. Had they been saved?

Very quickly, the Flame Winged Snake swarm was wiped out. Streaks of spiritual power appeared on the corpses of the snake swarm. After this dense spiritual power emerged, it was directly absorbed by the people who had suddenly appeared.

Only then did Mu Xi notice that all of these people who had suddenly appeared were surrounded by a layer of spiritual power that had yet to be absorbed.

"Senior sister!" Tang Wulin greeted Mu Xi.