The crimson-black leaves spread against the soil, their roots sealing several gaps beneath the courtyard wall.
Ji Yuan had already caught that approaching Soul Power.
An eighty-ninth-level Soul Douluo.
The dense Soul Power was wrapped within an Isolation Jade Tablet, making it difficult for even ordinary Soul Saints to detect.
Salas bypassed the main entrance and avoided the Royal Knights' patrol route. He first passed through two narrow alleys east of Shrek Academy's residence, then used the shadows of the rooftops to approach the rear courtyard.
A squad of Royal Knights had just passed outside the courtyard.
The captain stopped and looked toward the empty street corner.
"Did something just pass by?"
The knight beside him observed for a moment.
"No Soul Power fluctuations. It might have been the wind."
"Check again."
The men spread out along the street, using their spears to brush aside the weeds by the walls, but found no footprints.
Salas had already landed behind a rooftop ridge thirty meters away.
He did not hurry into Shrek Academy's residence.
His Mental Power bypassed the courtyard wall and probed inward through several gaps in the windows.
Flender guarded the rear courtyard, Zhao Wuji sat in the front hall, and the other students occupied rooms on both sides.
Tang San's aura was in the middle room.
Blue Silver Grass covered the ground, maintaining links with several neighboring rooms.
"Using Blue Silver Grass to transmit Soul Power for everyone?"
Salas hid behind the rooftop ridge, watching the faint light within the vines.
"No wonder the Shrek Academy people all suffered losses to their origins at the same time."
In his view, Tang San had already hidden that special poison within the Blue Silver Grass.
Tiandou Team Two and Elephant Armored Academy had touched the vines, and both had later