Two days later,
Shrek Academy held a low-key funeral for Zhou Yi,
and Fan Yu, who had returned, could only remain silent.
Huo Yuhao had cried himself into a tearful mess and swore to kill every Evil Soul Master in the world.
Tian Meng, meanwhile, had become pensive after witnessing the power of the so-called Evil Soul Masters for the first time.
Two more days passed,
and White Tiger Duke Dai Hao personally came to Shrek Academy to apologize, explaining the situation to Lu Ran and Yan Shaozhe.
Only then did they learn
that Dai Huabin, the young master of the Duke's Mansion, had actually fled.
It was truly astonishing.
Thinking back on everything that had happened, it seemed they finally had their answer.
A month later.
Lu Ran successfully broke through to the fiftieth level.
He had risen from level forty to level fifty in just five short months—less time than it had taken him to go from the First Ring to the Second Ring.
He owed it all to the Life Gold,
which had helped him surge from level forty-four to forty-nine, leaping a full five levels.
..
Three days later,
at the boundary between the Mixed Zone and the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest,
Lu Ran sat on a branch of a colossal tree, gazing out over the boundless sea of trees. Leaves rustled around him, and the ground lay at least forty meters below.
An ordinary Fourth-Ring Soul Master would certainly be injured by a fall from that height.
Lu Ran had come this time to find his fifth Soul Beast—
one with the Light attribute,
a Heavenly Dragon Horse.
It was one of the top Light-type Soul Beasts, with an exceptionally pure and powerful Bright Sacred Dragon bloodline.
Its support and