Evil Souls on the Prowl
At the foot of the Mingdu Mountain Range, there is a large crater. Legend has it that it was created by a meteorite that fell from the sky and hit the earth. In the very center of that crater, there is a small village called Spirit Star Village.
Although the village is located near the border between two great empires, its unique geographical location means that outsiders have to cross many steep cliffs to reach it, and it has little strategic value. As a result, the village has not been affected by war, and its inhabitants have always lived a peaceful and carefree life.
This continued until a few months ago, when several injured young men dressed in black wandered into the outskirts of their village and were taken home by the Kindness village chief for treatment.
After their injuries were treated, the men in black thanked the village chief and asked if they could stay there to recuperate for a short time.
The hospitable village chief did not refuse their request. After all, it had been so many years since their village had finally received a group of guests, and they couldn't let it go untreated.
He even kindly offered to be their guide for the day, letting them take a good look at their beautiful village. However, what the village chief didn't notice was the strange look they gave him when he looked at the stone tablets that introduced the names of the village chiefs throughout the ages, which they were so proud of.
From that day on, strange things began to happen. Some of the animals kept in the village began to disappear without a trace, and there were signs that the crops in the fields had been disturbed.
Many villagers believed that the outsiders were responsible and wanted an explanation. Therefore, the village chief had no choice but to send people to check if there was anything wrong with the outsiders.
But every time those people came back, they would say there was no problem. After several inquiries, the village chief could only conclude that something like a weasel had entered the village.
However, the situation worsened a few days later; what started as just a few small animals and some crops had now turned into people disappearing.
This made the village chief increasingly uneasy, and he began to feel that rescuing those outsiders was a mistake.
After much deliberation, the village chief decided to personally investigate that evening to see what those people were up to, and whether the criminals responsible for so many disappearances were really the young people he had rescued out of a moment of kindness.
Around dawn, the village chief walked toward the young people's homes, and to his astonishment, there was a long line of people queuing in front of those small houses.
Those people, their eyes vacant like puppets, clutched some stone artifacts in their hands as they slowly walked toward the small house, which was like a bottomless pit, allowing only entry and no exit.
Looking at the crowd that seemed possessed, the village chief was overcome with fear. He only wanted to escape and never return. But after several attempts to calm himself down, he finally mustered the courage to investigate what was going on.
What happened next was unforgettable. After the people entered the house, the three young men in black he had rescued sat down in chairs with mocking expressions.
At this point, the team was divided into three rows, with one person in each row.
Whenever someone approaches one of the men in black, they would put down what they were carrying, hand it to that man in black, and then immediately die.
The way they died terrified the village chief. In that moment, he saw a person being eaten alive, a person being drained dry and turned into a skeleton, and another being cut into countless pieces.
As for the remaining scraps, they were all cleaned up by the man in black who had directly devoured the person.
It was at this moment that the village chief finally realized that the people he had saved were actually Evil Soul Master!
Watching the other person eat with such relish, as if it were a grand feast, the village chief's stomach was so nauseous that he couldn't take it anymore and finally vomited involuntarily.
Because he managed to stop vomiting, the Evil Soul Master noticed the village chief standing nearby. They originally wanted to let him die a painless death out of consideration for the fact that he had saved them, but the village chief actually ran away!
The three Evil Soul Master hurriedly chased after the village chief, fearing he would inform him of the situation. After knocking him off the cliff, they assumed he had died and stopped paying attention to him.
What they didn't know was that the village chief survived, and then desperately escaped the village, eventually reaching the Star Luo Empire's military camp to deliver a message.
As for why he was able to escape from the three Evil Soul Master and survive after being knocked off the cliff, it was mainly because his Martial Soul was a Tool Martial Soul called Wind Fire Shoes. This Martial Soul had extremely low attack power, but its speed was very fast, making it a Martial Soul that was completely designed for escaping.
As he fell off the cliff, he immediately used his second Soul Skill, Nine Heavens Thunder Double Foot Kick, and teleported away just before he was about to die from the fall.
Because the cliff was too steep, it was difficult to check if there were any corpses below, so the three Evil Soul Master assumed that the village chief was dead and his body was not intact.
As for why a teleportation Soul Skill is called "Nine Heavens Thunder Double Foot Kick," the village chief can only say that he came up with the name during his chuunibyou (adolescent delusions of grandeur) phase.
After the village chief informed the Star Luo Empire army, they immediately began to send people to kill these Evil Soul Master who were committing crimes. Little did they know that those Evil Soul Master had other accomplices.
A large group of Evil Soul Master repelled the Star Luo Empire army and completely occupied Spirit Star Village.
Unfortunately, White Tiger Duke, the head of the Star Luo Empire military camp, could only notify the Shrek Inspection Corps to resolve the matter, and Star Luo Empire would assist if necessary.
Xu Xingyu is currently reading a report about this Evil Soul Master gang. It's safe to say that Shrek's choice of this kind of event for the Inner Court exam is highly questionable!
Does Shrek Academy really care about its students? It seems like sending less than ten Outer Court students who haven't even reached the Inner Court and five or six Inner Court seniors to participate in this ambush is just suicide.
Some students with sharp minds immediately began to question Xuan Zi's so-called exam, because it didn't seem like something they, as candidates for the Inner Court, could handle.
Fortunately, Xuan Zi had his own explanation: their team was just a small detachment, and the main force was led by Zhang Lexuan, the Grandmaster of the Inner Court.
Although some Evil Soul Master will need to be killed during this period, the main task is to rescue the remaining people in the village.
Of course, during this period, everyone except those in the support class must kill at least one Evil Soul Master or their subordinates in order to obtain a passing score.
Upon learning of this incident, the trainees present were relieved. Although they were willing to join the Shrek Inspection Corps to rid the people of evil, it did not mean that they were willing to do something that would lead to their deaths!
However, Xu Xingyu was not paying attention to this issue at the moment. He was looking at the report on Evil Soul Master with a solemn expression, seemingly lost in thought.