Destruction God Thunder

Zhang Lexuan stared blankly at the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion before her, scarcely able to believe her eyes.

As one of the three rulers of the Far North, this Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion certainly could not be real, yet the terrifying aura she radiated was fully on par with a genuine four-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast.

This figure was simply a perfect, one-to-one replica, without a single flaw to be found.

The Blood Moon Wolf King had also been bluffed into submission. It backed away a little, its scarlet eyes fixed on the Ice Jade Scorpion.

The restless Soul Power within the wolf king settled slightly. The oppressive presence of a four-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast filled it with instinctive dread.

Just as the two sides faced off in a stalemate, Huo Yuhao's voice rang out in Zhang Lexuan's mind again.

"Sister Lexuan, use your skills to disrupt it. This won't keep it intimidated for long."

Zhang Lexuan abruptly came to her senses and suppressed her shock. Moonlight power gathered in her hands, and several bright Moon Blades shot toward the wolf king in unison. Then she continued retreating.

Humiliated and enraged, the Blood Moon Wolf King could no longer contain its fury. It abandoned its standoff with the false figure and roared, circling around to charge at Zhang Lexuan.

How could Huo Yuhao let it succeed? He continued activating his Simulation Soul Skill, controlling the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion to keep changing her movements while constantly adding his own ice-attribute Soul Power to confuse the wolf king's judgment.

The wolf king was already exasperated by the stubborn resistance of Zhang Lexuan and her group. Now, with a Ferocious Beast that had appeared from who knew where blocking its path, the last of its reason wore away.

The savage gleam in its eyes intensified, and a faint blood-colored mist rose from its body. At once, it concentrated its lifetime of cultivation into a desperate lunge at the Ice Jade Scorpion.

Its sharp claws passed straight through the Ice Jade Scorpion and struck the stone wall beside her, blasting a deep hole into it.

It looked back, only to find the Ice Jade Scorpion slowly dissolving into the air like flowers in a mirror, like the moon upon water.

?

The Blood Moon Wolf King instantly realized it had been fooled. Fury surged to its head, and it let out a piercing howl.

Disregarding its exhausted body, it began burning its Soul Power and lunged madly toward Zhang Lexuan's position.

While retreating, Zhang Lexuan had already spotted Huo Yuhao. She said nothing and did not ask how he had conjured the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion. She scooped him into her arms and kept running.

"..."

Huo Yuhao wanted to get down and run himself, but after squirming a few times, he found that his feet could not touch the ground at all. He gave up resisting and let Zhang Lexuan carry him as she continued fleeing.

"Teacher, are you ready yet?"

Within the Sea of Consciousness, the God of Destruction had already awakened and learned that Huo Yuhao was being chased by that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

He immediately said that fighting back was possible. As long as Tian Meng released some of his sealed power, he could unleash a move once he finished gathering and converting it.

"Almost. Little bug, give me a little more energy."

"I can't! You're going to drain this big sister dry~"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm looked utterly drained. Had she known, she would not have sealed away so much power; now she had to undo it bit by bit.

The Ice Empress could not offer much help either, so she could only encourage the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. "Hurry, Tian Meng. If that stray dog catches up, little Yuhao will die before his campaign even begins."

Was that really a stray dog? Sensing the Blood Moon Wolf King pursuing them like a lunatic outside, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gave the Ice Empress an incredulous look, then increased the rate of extraction.

Outside, Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao had already fled deep into the dense forest, hoping to slow the wolf king's advance. But against such a mad beast, everything was futile.

Seeing that the wolf king was about to catch up, Zhang Lexuan wanted to throw Huo Yuhao away from her and stay behind to cover his retreat.

Suddenly, a powerful aura of destruction erupted from Huo Yuhao's body, and he moved Zhang Lexuan directly behind him.

Huo Yuhao now stood on a branch, his left eye, the Eye of Annihilation, shining bright purple as he regarded the Blood Moon Wolf King as though it were an ant.

The powerful aura jolted the wolf king back to its senses and made it stop. Yet its restored reason also told it that this might be an illusion, just like before.

So it seized an opening and instantly lunged at Huo Yuhao with its enormous, razor-sharp claws.

"Hah, trash. You still think you can defeat a god? Destruction God Thunder!"

Seeing how bold his opponent was, the God of Destruction naturally did not indulge it. Without needing to activate a Soul Skill, a wisp of pure destruction origin burst from Huo Yuhao's palm and blasted straight toward the Blood Moon Wolf King ahead.

Terrifying lightning struck the wolf king viciously. With just one hit, its body instantly went rigid. Then large patches of its fur and skin charred and split, blood gushing out rapidly. Worse still, the wound could not even heal.

The Blood Moon Wolf King crashed heavily to the ground, barely able to breathe.

"Tch, how is it still clinging to life?"

The God of Destruction grumbled, then immediately switched Huo Yuhao back in.

The moment Huo Yuhao returned, he felt pain throughout his body and dizziness in his head. His body pitched straight forward.

Zhang Lexuan, who had been staring dumbfounded, instinctively rushed forward and caught Huo Yuhao in her arms again.

"Quick, Sister Lexuan, finish it off."

Zhang Lexuan nodded firmly, overwhelming grief, fury, and towering rage instantly welling up in her eyes.

The tragic deaths of her junior brothers and sisters, the blood-red earth, and her earlier despair all exploded through her mind.

She gently supported Huo Yuhao in her arms, letting him lean against her shoulder, then condensed the very last trace of her Soul Power into a Moon Blade, severing the wolf king's head from its body in a single stroke.

Watching the hundred-thousand-year Blood Moon Wolf King die by her hand and a blood-red Soul Ring emerge from its corpse, Zhang Lexuan felt little satisfaction. Instead, only desolation remained.

Then her taut nerves abruptly relaxed, and her overdrawn body could no longer hold out.

She slowly turned, rested her back against a tree trunk, and held the equally weakened Huo Yuhao tightly in her arms before losing consciousness completely.

Huo Yuhao was enveloped in Zhang Lexuan's embrace, his cheek pressed tightly against the soft, warm front of her clothes. The young woman's distinctive scent mingled with the smell of blood in the air, completely surrounding his nose.

Held securely in her arms, the soft sensation and that fragrance made Huo Yuhao's muddled consciousness clear a little despite himself.

Huo Yuhao's ears burned, and a flustered heat rose within him. He wanted to struggle free, but he did not have the slightest strength.

The more helpless he was to move, the clearer the delicate fragrance at his nose became, and the stronger the sensation of contact.

Thus, Huo Yuhao could only obediently hold himself stiff and huddle in Zhang Lexuan's arms.

Meanwhile, Xuan Zi was still on his way.

"Xuan Zi, eldest senior sister lured the wolf king away along this route!"

With no time to tend to the students lying on the ground, Xuan Zi unleashed his Martial Soul and continued charging along the trail.

He truly had not expected a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in this area. He had thought that, with these twelve being the academy's Golden Generation, and Zhang Lexuan an unparalleled genius seen only once in three thousand years, securing Soul Rings would be as easy as turning over his hand.

So he had not concerned himself too much and had wandered a little farther away. As luck would have it, he had also caught a nearly extinct delectable chicken Soul Beast along the way.

Who could resist that?

A bite of roast chicken leg, a sip of liquor-he had been in absolute bliss.