Unforeseen Disaster

"Yu Yuan!"

Having absorbed her soul ring, Dugu Yan immediately wanted to celebrate with Yu Yuan.

Instead, she saw Yu Yuan standing nearby, holding the Miasma-Scaled Nether Dragon's spinal bone.

"Is that... a soul bone?"

Dugu Yan had not expected to be so lucky. She had actually gotten a soul bone from killing a soul beast.

"Yes, and it should be a rather special external soul bone."

Yu Yuan raised the soul bone in his hand to show her.

Well, it was artificial, but there was no way to tell.

"An external soul bone!"

Dugu Yan vaguely remembered Yu Yuan mentioning one when he had discussed how to resolve the toxins in their bodies.

But since neither she nor her grandfather needed it now...

"Yu Yuan, you should absorb the soul bone."

"Give it to me?"

"Of course. Hurry up—we'll go home after you absorb it. Your big sister is moving!"

Dugu Yan did not care about a soul bone at all, not even an external soul bone capable of evolving.

Right now, she only wanted to hurry home, move in with Yu Yuan, and maintain their debauched lifestyle until school started.

Then she would drag Ling Ling along and continue being debauched!

Dugu Yan's mind was already full of lewd thoughts.

"No need. This soul bone suits Sister Yan better."

With that, Yu Yuan tossed the soul bone to Dugu Yan.

The soul bone was not particularly useful to him. The ones he needed had to be at least Dragon King-level soul bones.

Using it to earn Dugu Yan's favor was perfect, and it happened to satisfy Xiao Kong as well.

"Hey, be careful!"

Dugu Yan had not expected Yu Yuan to toss the soul bone over without the slightest hesitation.

Seriously, he had clearly said before that external soul bones were precious.

She was a little moved.

So later, she would have to try a few more things with little brother Yu Yuan.

"Then thank you, little brother Yu Yuan. Your big sister will repay you properly."

That was right—repay him in bed.

Dugu Yan was not one to stand on ceremony. Under Yu Yuan's guidance, she began absorbing the soul bone.

Yu Yuan also activated Dragon Eye to collect data from this absorption process. After all, his physique was not entirely the same as everyone else's.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Sunset Forest.

The unlucky members of two academies had met up.

"Isn't this too unlucky? I only came to absorb my third soul ring. Did they really have to chase us for so long?"

Huo Wu fled in a bedraggled state under the guidance of the academy instructor, Huo Yu.

She and her brother had originally come to Sunset Forest merely to obtain soul rings.

Everything had gone smoothly at first. She had acquired Resistance Ring of Fire, her thousand-year third soul skill.

Her brother, Huo Wushuang, had also slain a suitable soul beast under the instructor's guidance.

Who could have known that just as Huo Wushuang was absorbing his soul ring, the soul beasts in Sunset Forest would suddenly become restless for some unknown reason.

To make matters worse, the blood from the soul beast corpse on their side attracted part of the beast horde.

There were even ten-thousand-year soul beasts among them, so the instructor could only interrupt Huo Wushuang's absorption and lead them and the other students in their escape.

As for Huo Wushuang now?

"Stupid brother, you're so heavy!"

That was right, he had already fallen unconscious. After suffering backlash from the forced interruption, he could only be carried on Huo Wu's back as they ran.

"Cough—ah!"

"Teacher Huo Yu!"

In order to save a student who had fallen behind, the instructor had just charged into the soul beast pack and pulled the student out.

The price was taking attacks from two ten-thousand-year soul beasts head-on.

"I'm fine. Everyone, hold on!"

Huo Yu was only a Soul King in his fifties.

He had thought bringing a few students here to find thousand-year soul rings would be no problem at all.

Who the hell knew they would be surrounded by ten-thousand-year soul beasts?

What was worse, the two ten-thousand-year soul beasts behind them were Gale Demon Wolves, accompanied by a wolf pack at the thousand-year level. They even coordinated with each other.

He truly could not hold them off alone!

But he had no choice. The headmaster's son and daughter were here. Even if he could not survive, he had to make sure they did.

Gritting his teeth, he unleashed his fourth soul skill toward the rear.

A massive fireball shot straight out.

Unfortunately, before it could get close, it was scattered by wind blades spat from the demon wolves' mouths.

"Everyone, hold on a little longer. Someone has already gone for help."

After all, two students had escaped. Hopefully, they could bring reinforcements.

Though by then, I, Huo Yu, would probably already be wolf shit.

After being driven back some distance, Huo Yu once again moved to rescue a student whose soul power had run dry. Unfortunately, one ten-thousand-year demon wolf tangled him up while the other seized the chance to continuously launch wind blades from afar.

He had no choice but to keep squeezing out his soul power.

"Teacher, I'll help you!"

Flames gathered between Huo Wu's hands as the third soul ring she had just acquired flashed.

Third soul skill! Resistance Ring of Fire!

The flames rapidly spread, forcing back the nearby thousand-year soul beasts.

At the same time, the two ten-thousand-year demon wolves seemed to sense something and immediately gave up entangling Huo Yu.

They warily stared behind Huo Wu and the others, low growls continuously rumbling from their throats.

"They're afraid?"

Huo Wu had not expected her soul skill to work so well that it could actually make ten-thousand-year soul beasts fearful.

Am I about to soar? This soul skill is incredible.

Unfortunately, she was overthinking it.

Because another group of fleeing students suddenly appeared behind them.

After exchanging a glance, the two groups quickly chose to join forces.

"Which academy are you from? Where is your leading instructor?"

Huo Yu spoke first. He needed to understand the situation before deciding how they could cooperate.

"We're from Blue Tyrant Academy. The one who brought us here was the headmaster. She's behind us, holding back the soul beasts chasing us."

The one who answered was a student who had been using a healing scepter to release soul skills and treat injuries.

Jiang Zhu anxiously used the third soul skill she had just obtained, but the injured people's wounds still would not stop bleeding.

"Behind you?"

Huo Yu realized that they had been surrounded from both sides. If so, they had to deal with one side first.

Judging by the students' lineup, the group facing them should be weaker.

That meant he could deal with their trouble first.

"Huo Wu, you..."

He had been about to arrange for Huo Wu to lead the students in holding off the wolf pack for a while.

But then he suddenly remembered something.

Blue Tyrant Academy?

The academy founded by someone from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

In that case, that girl said the headmaster had led them here.

If he remembered correctly, Blue Tyrant Academy's headmaster...

Was a Soul Sage, wasn't she?

Just then, accompanied by a roar in the distance—

A red figure rapidly approached and crashed down near them.

"Jiang Zhu! Why haven't you left yet? Cough—ah."

Before Liu Erlong could finish speaking after landing, she spat out a mouthful of blood and immediately dismissed her martial soul.

Her aura rapidly weakened as well.

"Headmaster!"

Jiang Zhu immediately used her soul skill to begin treatment, but the difference in their levels was too great, and the healing effect was not obvious.

"Teacher, what should we do? Should we take them with us?"

After handing her brother over to another student, Huo Wu came to Huo Yu's side and asked.

She wanted to help them, but they could barely protect themselves as it was. Still, bringing them along might give them a chance to break through the wolf pack.

Just as she thought that, the wolf pack had already dispersed on its own.

"Huh? What's going on?"

"Huo Wu, take Huo Wushuang and run for your lives."

"Wh—"

Roar!