Slaying Another Mandala Snake I

Smack!

The door flew open, and the person inside seemed to have been unable to wait any longer.

"Teacher Zhou!" Dugu Lu, carrying a green pack on his back, looked joyfully at Zhou Yi standing in the doorway.

"Mhm, let's go." Zhou Yi nodded without saying much. Clearly, she had already told Dugu Lu about hunting a soul beast.

Dugu Lu glanced at Xu Jie behind Zhou Yi, nodded, and said nothing. The two only knew each other and were not familiar at all. Xu Jie was not particularly outgoing to begin with; asking him to make friends with a group of children was quite difficult.

To put it another way, Xu Jie was not only unfamiliar with Dugu Lu—he was unfamiliar with every student in Class One of the freshmen, except Huo Yuhao.

The three headed east at great speed. In only a quarter of an hour, they left Shrek Academy and arrived at the eastern gate of Shrek City.

Smack!

Zhou Yi suddenly grabbed them both by the collars. "Use your Soul Power to protect yourselves."

Before either of them could reply—

Clank, clank!

The sound of folding metal rang out behind Zhou Yi. A pair of black metallic wings abruptly appeared on her back.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black—rings of soul rings rose from beneath Zhou Yi's feet.

Whoosh!

With Soul Power flowing through her body, Zhou Yi carried the two of them straight into the sky.

"Holy sh—!" Xu Jie had not even finished exclaiming before the fierce wind rushed directly into his mouth.

At dawn, at the entrance to the Star Dou Great Forest, an old woman coldly watched a green-haired youth bent over against a tree, vomiting.

The black-haired youth beside him was only slightly better off than the light-green-haired boy.

Seeing that their complexions had improved somewhat, Zhou Yi said, "For this soul hunt, I'll help you find soul beasts suited to you. But defeating and killing them will be your responsibility. I will not intervene. You may work together."

"Yes, Teacher Zhou." Xu Jie nodded. "Dugu Lu, let's first familiarize ourselves with each other's martial souls and soul skills. My martial soul is the Sun. My first soul skill is Fireball Spell, and I can fire it continuously."

"Uh, my martial soul is the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor. My first soul skill is Snake Bite. Anyone hit by it will be poisoned." Dugu Lu shook his head, clearly not fully recovered from being airsick.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor—Dugu Bo's descendant?

After hearing about that martial soul, Xu Jie could not help but examine Dugu Lu more closely. Light-green hair, plus the surname Dugu—there was a nine-in-ten chance that he was Dugu Bo's descendant.

After the two introduced their martial souls and soul skills, Zhou Yi looked at them and said, "Recover your Soul Power first."

As she spoke, Zhou Yi took out two things resembling Milk Bottles and tossed one each to Xu Jie and Dugu Lu.

"Uh... Teacher Zhou, how do we use these?" Xu Jie stared blankly at the Milk Bottle in his hand. Don't tell me I have to suck on this thing?

"Soul Power guidance." Zhou Yi took out a larger Milk Bottle and demonstrated for them.

Following Zhou Yi's example, Xu Jie and Dugu Lu mobilized the Soul Power in their bodies and directed it into the Milk Bottles in their hands.

Ding!

Guided by their Soul Power, the Milk Bottles emitted a faint white glow. Feeling the pure Soul Power steadily flowing from the Milk Bottle into his body, Xu Jie was stunned.

Holy shit!

This thing can be used as a battery! In an instant, all sorts of novel ideas fluttered through Xu Jie's mind. All kinds of soul master versions of household appliances appeared in his imagination.

Air conditioners and refrigerators would be extremely simple. After all, in this world, refrigeration could be easily handled with a simple ice-element Soul Guidance Array. It was nothing like his original world, where a refrigerator required compressors, condensers, and a whole series of things that could not be made without advancing the technology tree.

When Huo Yuhao went to study in the Soul Guidance Department, Xu Jie had followed him several times. Fan Yu had not stopped him from sitting in, and after several lectures, he had roughly understood the basic structure of Soul Tools.

For Soul Tools, the most important thing was the Core Array. With minor alterations to certain arrays, he could make soul master versions of resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Then, by combining those simple components, wouldn't he have an Integrated Circuit?

Give Xu Jie twenty years, and he would be playing a soul master version of Tetris.

Xu Jie could only keep these ideas in his mind. He had not even told Huo Yuhao. Although the ideas in his head leaned toward civilian use, they could be applied to military purposes with only slight modifications.

Especially that soul master version of an Integrated Circuit. After several generations of optimization, it could be used in a ninth-grade Soul Tool for direct remote guidance. What the hell was a Fixed-Form Soul Guidance Device compared to that?

Miss Qiu is the truth.

"This Milk Bottle is for restoring your Soul Power. Remember to return it to me when we head back." The glow from the Milk Bottle in Zhou Yi's hand gradually faded, and her Soul Power had fully recovered.

Since Zhou Yi had carried Xu Jie and Dugu Lu while flying, they had used some Soul Power, but not much. Thus, they recovered quickly.

"Let's go!" Zhou Yi strode into the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xu Jie and Dugu Lu each put their Milk Bottle away in their Storage Soul Guidance Devices, then closely followed behind Zhou Yi.

The sun had just risen. Its rays shone through the dense branches onto the dew-covered Blue Silver Grass. A breeze stirred, like invisible hands gently brushing the green leaves. Fresh air filled their nostrils, creating an exceptionally tranquil feeling.

After the group of three wound through the forest for a full quarter of an hour—

The old woman walking at the front finally stopped.

Swish!

Zhou Yi pulled a metal sphere from her robes. Soul Power flowed from her body into the sphere, which immediately released an invisible pulse. Holding the sphere in her right hand, Zhou Yi closed her eyes as though sensing something.

Though Xu Jie and Dugu Lu did not know what Zhou Yi was doing, neither rashly stepped forward to ask. They stood quietly in place, waiting without a word.

Clank, clank!

That familiar sound of folding metal rang out, and the black metallic wings appeared on Zhou Yi's back once more.

"Get ready!"

Swish!

Zhou Yi managed only those words before transforming into a black gale and vanishing.

Just as Xu Jie and Dugu Lu were about to react, another fierce gust swept up before them.

Swish!

Zhou Yi abruptly appeared before them and threw a large jade-green snake onto the ground in front of Xu Jie and Dugu Lu.

The great snake was around seven meters long, its entire body jade-green. A flower-like protrusion rose from its forehead. A seven-hundred-year Mandala Snake—an old, familiar serpent!

"Mandala Snake!"

Dugu Lu cried out at the sight of the snake. He immediately summoned his martial soul, and a yellow soul ring rose from beneath his feet. Green snake scales covered the right side of Dugu Lu's face, while his jade-green eyes turned into pale-yellow vertical pupils.