"I finally found a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Everything's going smoothly so far. Haha, I'll definitely give Teacher a surprise when I get back this time. Then I can return to my position as dean."
Looking at the hundred-thousand-year soul beast not far away, Yan Shaozhe clenched his fists in excitement.
"Hm? Is that Xuan Zi's aura?"
Yan Shaozhe suddenly sensed a familiar aura and hurried forward to intercept him.
If Xuan Zi startled this suitable hundred-thousand-year soul beast into fleeing, all their efforts over the past few days would go down the drain.
"Xuan Zi, wait! There's a hundred-thousand-year soul beast up ahead. Whatever you do, don't startle it."
Yan Shaozhe appeared in front of Xuan Zi to stop him.
He looked around, unsure why Xuan Zi was alone.
"By the way, where are the others? Why did you come alone?"
"Uh... the others are absorbing soul rings somewhere safe. Since everything was fine over there, I thought I'd see whether you needed any help here."
Xuan Zi spoke with a guilty conscience.
He had searched along the way without finding even a single teammate's corpse, seeing only a few traces of explosions.
But that was good news! After all, if soul beasts had killed them, they would probably have left remains behind.
There were only traces of explosions, without even a scrap of a corpse. That meant they had all escaped with their lives and were now recovering somewhere safe.
"That's wonderful!" Yan Shaozhe said happily. He hadn't expected Xuan Zi to be so efficient, finding soul rings for that whole group so quickly.
"I originally only had a fifty percent chance of capturing this soul beast. Now that you're here to help, Xuan Zi, it's a hundred percent."
Yan Shaozhe immediately shared this inspiring news with everyone present.