Three days later, in the morning, at Shrek Academy.
Ten days of the month-long holiday had passed. Fewer than a hundred students remained in the Outer Court. Some lived too far away to make the trip home; others were in situations like Huo Yuhao and He Caitou's.
Nearly every building in the Outer Court was quiet, even those where someone was studying or on duty.
The only place that never settled down was the Beast Pen, with its Soul Beasts and the staff who fed them and cleaned up after them each day.
Once Lu Yi returned, he headed straight for the Spirit Arena.
He had planned to spend the holiday wandering wherever he pleased. But the Soul Beasts in his suitcase were already half-dead, so he decided to bring them back to the Academy first and let them recover in the Beast Pen. The rest could wait until their condition stabilized.
During the two days on the road, he had seized every chance to ask Elder Yi how to perform a Soul Spirit Contract, just in case he needed it.
Some of those Soul Beasts looked as though they might die at any moment. Since he had brought them all this way, he might as well turn as many as he could into Soul Spirits. Otherwise, they could only be absorbed as ordinary Soul Rings or go to waste.
A Soul Beast still produced a Soul Ring when it died naturally. Anyone whose body could withstand it and whose attributes did not clash with it could absorb it.
None of the Soul Beast species Lu Yi had brought back were weak. But the holiday was the peak season for Soul Hunting, and most people who needed Soul Rings had already set out. There was no calling them back now,