Another ten days passed.
At Shrek Academy, Wang Dong had nearly gone mad with anxiety.
Not only had Brother Qingfeng gone missing, but now even Huo Yuhao had disappeared.
Wang Dong was not the only one worried. On Sea God Island, Xian Lin'er and Yan Shaozhe were also on edge, frequently looking out over Sea God Lake to see whether anyone was returning.
"Dean Yan, when exactly will Qingfeng and the others come back? They've been gone for over half a month. Nothing could have happened to them, right?"
Xian Lin'er asked with a frown. At that moment, they were seated in a pavilion beside the Sea God Pavilion.
Yan Shaozhe sighed. "To be honest, I don't know when they'll return either. But there shouldn't be any major problems. After all, Teacher personally took action. If they encountered Soul Beasts or Soul Masters capable of putting Teacher at a disadvantage, there would be nothing we could do about it anyway."
"That's precisely the problem. Teacher has a serious waist injury. If he encounters danger of that level, what do you think will happen?"
Xian Lin'er spoke seriously. She did not want anything to happen to Teacher, much less for Su Qingfeng to face danger. He was the ideal candidate for an ultimate single-soldier weapon, an unprecedented genius in studying Soul Tools.
Hearing Xian Lin'er's words, Yan Shaozhe froze for a moment. "Little Junior only needs a Second Soul Ring. Surely he won't face a crisis of that magnitude?"
"That's hard to say. Put another way, if it were an ordinary thousand-year Soul Beast, Teacher could settle it with a wave of his hand. They should have returned long ago. But they haven't, which means they may have run into something troublesome.
"Besides, Dean Yan, you can't possibly have failed to