The Dragon Duke and Snake Matriarch had barely left when a pleasant voice rang out from afar:
"Xiao Yu! Teacher Zhao! I finally found you!"
Everyone turned toward the voice and saw Xiao Wu running over energetically, skipping and bouncing along the way, looking extremely excited.
"Xiao Wu? You're back? That's wonderful!"
Zhao Wuji was overjoyed, and the guilt he had felt over failing to protect his students vanished at once.
Bai Yu put on an excited expression, stepped forward, looked Xiao Wu over, and asked:
"Xiao Wu, are you alright?"
Xiao Wu said with a grin:
"Of course I'm alright! Oh, right, I have something to tell you—I broke through to level thirty!"
Everyone was stunned. Zhao Wuji quickly asked:
"Really? Didn't that Titan Giant Ape capture you? What happened?"
Using the excuse she had prepared long ago, Xiao Wu said:
"After that Titan Giant Ape captured me, a bull's roar suddenly came from the center of the forest. When it heard the roar, it looked around, then suddenly threw me away. It even let out a roar that knocked me unconscious."
"When I woke up, I had already broken through to level thirty. There just happened to be a thousand-year Soul Beast nearby that had also been knocked out by the Titan Giant Ape, so I took its Soul Ring while I was at it."
Everyone: "???"
Damn, that worked?!
Bai Yu knew Xiao Wu was making things up, so he swiftly changed the subject and talked about what everyone had gone through while Xiao Wu was gone.
Seeing the two of them actually start chatting, Zhao Wuji coughed twice and said:
"Alright. It's wonderful that Xiao Wu returned safely. Let's leave quickly."
Oscar immediately grew anxious.
"Teacher Zhao, my Soul Ring."
Zhao Wuji hesitated before saying:
"Xiao