"Hold on! We'll definitely make it out of the Star Dou Great Forest alive! Besides, I've already sent up the Inner Court's signal flare. I'm sure any academy teachers nearby will receive the signal and come to our aid!"
A conspicuous trickle of blood seeped from the corner of Zhang Lexuan's mouth. Her hands were clenched into fists, her nails digging fiercely into her palms and drawing bloody marks, while her face was exceptionally pale.
Not far from her were the nine Inner Court disciples from Shrek Academy who had come to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for Soul Rings.
Including her, there were ten of them in total. In addition, a Titled Douluo-level Inner Court teacher was supposed to protect them from the shadows.
During ordinary Soul Beast hunts, this Inner Court teacher would not intervene, leaving them to test their teamwork instead. Besides, these students had only just entered the Inner Court and were merely here to obtain Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings for their Soul King cultivation. With Zhang Lexuan, an Inner Court senior already above rank sixty, assisting them, killing a ten-thousand-year soul beast was hardly difficult.
Only when they encountered a genuine crisis, such as having the bad luck to run into a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, would the Inner Court teacher hidden in the shadows step in to protect them.
But... what puzzled Zhang Lexuan was that they really had encountered a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, yet the Inner Court teacher leading the team had still not appeared.
In just their first clash, someone in their team had been injured, and gravely at that-Shao Zhanhong was being carried on another Inner Court student's back, his face deathly pale and a trace of despair showing in his eyes.
The composition of their twelve-person group was