Sun Moon Academy's Great Purge

"What was the name of that move you used to enlarge your arm just now? Is it your newly acquired fifth soul skill?"

Meng Hongchen leaned over to Xiao Hongchen to ask.

"I haven't decided yet... Hmm, let's call it Idle Death Gamble."

This move of Xiao Hongchen's allowed him to enlarge any part of his body through metal, thereby achieving a change in form. It reminded him of a certain notorious cursed spirit; although the operating principle was completely different, the manifestation still had some similarities.

"Idle Death Gamble? It sounds like it has a mysterious feel to it."

Meng Hongchen wanted to ask something else, but a voice interrupted her.

"Next, Meng Hongchen."

As the student second only to Xiao Hongchen in the fifth grade, Meng Hongchen naturally went up second.

Her opponent was a student from the graduating class, Chen An.

Chen An's martial soul was the Flash Bird, a type of bird with extremely fast speed. He specialized in close-quarters combat and was a speed-type fifth-level soul engineer.

As the words "The match begins" fell, Chen An transformed into a streak of silver light and lunged straight at Meng Hongchen.

The pair of lightning short swords in his hands were both sixth-level soul tools. The left sword was fast and carried paralysis, while the right sword had high attack power and armor-piercing capabilities. If she were to be cornered by him, she would likely be killed by a single combo.

In fact, without the ability to use soul tool shields, no soul master of the same level could withstand Meng Hongchen's Ice Toad Poison for more than a minute. If they could not finish her off within a minute, they would undoubtedly lose.

And what Chen An wanted was to seize this one minute.

But sadly, Meng Hongchen's third soul skill, Ice Refraction, completely shattered Chen An's hopes.

Meng Hongchen generated an ice surface about four meters in diameter beneath her feet, and she could reach any position on the ice surface through light and shadow refraction.

Chen An's swift and violent attack actually landed on empty air.

"Why don't you look behind you?"

A cold voice came from behind him.

But Chen An no longer had the chance to turn around, because a thin sword was already resting against his neck.

The outcome was decided.

Chen An's luck was indeed poor. If his brother, Chen Fei, had made the move, he might have brought some trouble to Meng Hongchen, because Chen Fei was a speed-type long-range attacker who could at least cover the entire ice surface with large-scale firepower.

Afterward, Ye Guyi's assessment opponent was Li Yan, a student from Class 2 of the fifth grade. His martial soul was an impure fire element, Separation Fire.

He himself was also a level 47 soul master, and he had a good chance of becoming a soul king in a year and entering the main team of the Sun Moon Team.

However, because only one soul tool could be used, the advantage of his martial soul was amplified without limit.

After the several fifth-level high-explosive shells launched by Li Yan, which were imbued with his Separation Fire, were blown up by Ye Guyi's Holy Spirit Slash, he no longer had any offensive means that could threaten Ye Guyi, and in the end, he was taken down by her in close quarters.

The subsequent assessments were not worth mentioning...

"Assessment concluded."

As Lin Jiayi's voice fell, the surrounding noise suddenly became chaotic. They could finally go on vacation; having stayed in the academy for several months, who wouldn't want to go home and go wild?

Moreover, the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy did not have a bottom-tier elimination system. Those who could make it to the fifth grade were all fourth-level soul engineers. Assessment results were only linked to the monthly rare metal quota, and only by linking them directly to their own interests could the students be prompted to continuously improve themselves.

Just when they thought the vacation had begun, a broadcast spread throughout the entire academy.

"Please have all students and teachers gather in front of the plaza."

This was the voice of the dean, Jing Hongchen.

"Is it finally starting?"

Xiao Hongchen stood in the crowd, his voice extremely low, so low that only he could hear it.

On the plaza.

Thousands of students poured in from all directions, whispering and discussing, most of them wearing expressions of confusion on their faces.

The joy of the vacation hadn't even begun before it was disrupted by a broadcast, leaving them feeling baffled.

Jing Hongchen walked in from the direction of the main gate, followed by several teachers. His pace was not fast, and his expression was as usual, as if he had only come to announce a routine matter.

Jing Hongchen stepped onto the high platform, scanned the plaza, and spoke, his voice steady, spreading across the entire plaza through the amplification soul tool:

"I have summoned all students today because there is a matter that needs to be dealt with in public."

The noise on the plaza gradually died down.

"After months of investigation, the academy has discovered a group of personnel with questionable identities. Starting from today, they will be cleared out."

As soon as his voice fell, the silence on the plaza was broken, and small commotions continued to emerge.

Then, the action began.

Almost at the same moment, those teachers closed in from the edges of the crowd. Their movements were neither hurried nor slow, yet they locked onto their targets quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly.

One, two, three...

The people being taken away were of all kinds; some wore ordinary student uniforms, others wore faculty badges, and they looked no different from the people next to them.

The people beside them did not understand what was happening, but the people being taken away understood.

One person's hand moved, as if wanting to touch something, and was then calmly cuffed by the teacher next to him with his wrist. It was a sixth-level restraint soul tool; even a soul emperor could not use their martial soul after being cuffed.

The only way to break the situation was to avoid being shackled or to possess a Level 7 or higher Soul Tool.

Meng Hongchen had approached him at some point, her voice laced with confusion.

"Brother, who are these people?"

"Irrelevant."

Xiao Hongchen withdrew his gaze, his expression languid, as if he were watching something that had nothing to do with him.

"They are just people who ought to leave; it is better that they are gone."

Meng Hongchen looked at him, then at the figures being led away in the plaza, and frowned thoughtfully, but she did not ask again.

Ye Guyi stood on the other side, her expression calm, revealing nothing.

However, Xiao Hongchen turned his head and lingered on that direction for a moment.

Guyi, you do not know yet.

But once these people are all gone, this place will finally be truly clean.

On the plaza, the last person was led away from the line.

Jing Hongchen stood on the high platform, his expression unchanged from start to finish, as if he were handling the most mundane of affairs.

He swept his gaze across the plaza one last time and spoke:

"The investigation is concluded. I wish you all a pleasant holiday."

He then turned and walked down from the platform.

The plaza erupted into chaos once more, this time with genuine clamor. No one understood what had just happened, and they speculated and gossiped in a cacophony of voices, the waves of sound rising higher and higher.

Just then, Xiao Hongchen's keen attention caught the girl at the very back of the group being led away.

The girl had long, pale pink hair and healthy-looking wheat-colored skin. She appeared to be no more than thirteen, yet she stood over one meter seventy tall, and her deep blue eyes were currently filled with panic.

Is this Ghost Nana?

Xiao Hongchen silently recited the name in his heart.

He certainly knew of her. Her Martial Soul was Ghost; her mother had been manipulated by an Evil Soul Master into killing her husband before committing suicide. Afterward, the souls of both her parents were enslaved by the Holy Spirit Cult, and she had been forced to enroll in Sun Moon Academy under the cult's arrangements.

Someone who had suffered the same fate as Ye Guyi should not be treated as an Evil Soul Master.