Skywater Academy Teacher Killed
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"Crack! Crack!"
After fending off the Violent Gold Bear's Soul Skill attack, the young married woman's face turned deathly pale. It was the aftereffect of rapidly consuming the Soul Power in her body.
Sensing that she had less than forty percent of her Soul Power left, the woman felt a flash of despair. She looked back at the fleeing students, her heart filled with unwavering resolve. She would perish together with this Soul Beast, this brute, to hold it back and let the Skywater Academy students get farther away.
At that thought, a fierce glint flashed in her eyes, and her expression turned mad. Soul Power surged wildly through her body, forming a pale blue glow around her. She let out a hysterical shout, and the black Soul Ring at the outermost edge shone brightly.
"Sixth Soul Skill, Ice Cutting Storm!"
A pale blue Soul Skill tornado rapidly formed and swept toward the Violent Gold Bear in the distance.
Enveloped by the pale blue tornado Soul Skill, the Violent Gold Bear roared incessantly in place. The whirling winds cut into its body, opening wounds of all sizes.
"Roar-!"
After the pale blue Soul Skill cut into it, the Violent Gold Bear's eyes filled with savagery at the pain. Golden light flashed across its raised claws, and six pale golden claw blades shot toward the tornado Soul Skill swirling around it.
"Rumble!"
The six pale golden claw-blade Soul Skills collided with the pale blue Soul Skill. Sparks of energy flew from the clash, and a piercing grinding sound rang across the battlefield.
After the fierce clash of Soul Skills, the pale golden and pale blue Soul Skills quickly dissipated between heaven and earth, leaving only debris scattered across the ground. Seeing that its innate Soul Skill had succeeded, the Violent Gold Bear bounded toward the woman on its four thick legs.
Watching the Violent Gold Bear charge ferociously at her, the woman felt the will to die rise in her eyes. She no longer had any Soul Power to fend off the Soul Beast's attack. She closed her eyes, recalling the moment she had first awakened Soul Power at six: the warm looks of expectation and concern from her family, and their excited expressions when the family was finally revitalized. But she would never again see her family's kind and loving care.
The Violent Gold Bear quickly reached the woman, raised a massive paw high, and slammed it down on her head. Her head burst like a shattered watermelon, spraying blood and pale brain matter in all directions.
The woman's headless body fell heavily, crashing onto the dry dirt and raising a thick cloud of dust.
Looking at the dead human Soul Master, the Violent Gold Bear sensed that Soul Power still lingered in her corpse. Delight flashed in the small eyes set in its coarse face, and it ran over on its bear legs.
The Violent Gold Bear quickly reached the woman's body. It opened its great, fang-filled mouth and bit into her legs. Chewing sounds came from its mouth, and blood trickled through the gaps between its fangs. The bear gave a joyous, satisfied roar, expressing its approval of the delicious meat.
"What a shame, a young married woman with curves in all the right places."
Su Tianyu watched the Violent Gold Bear tear at the woman's mutilated corpse and shook his head slightly, a trace of regret on his face. He was no saint who would rush to save every woman he encountered in the Soul Beast Forest. That would only get him killed faster.
Take this twenty-thousand-year-old Violent Gold Bear, for example. If Su Tianyu had chosen to save the woman, his fate might well have been much the same as hers. Even if he survived, he would have been severely injured. And even if he had ultimately escaped using teleportation, the time spent recovering alone would have cost him a great deal of time he could have spent cultivating Soul Power.
After one last glance at the Violent Gold Bear, Su Tianyu used the spatial ability he had mastered to slowly lift himself about ten centimeters off the ground. He teleported after the Skywater Academy students in the direction they had fled.
After teleporting less than a few kilometers, Su Tianyu spotted the Skywater Academy group fleeing ahead. At the sight of the five girls in the bloom of youth, his mood improved. Beautiful young girls were always easy on the eyes, after all.
"Sister, do you think Teacher can beat a Violent Gold Bear with twenty thousand years of cultivation? Wasn't it too cold and heartless of us to leave her behind and run for our lives?"
Shui Yue'er asked Shui Bing'er beside her. In her heart, she felt that leaving their teacher behind while they fled alone weighed on her conscience.
"Yue'er, Teacher did it for our sake. If we'd stayed, not only would we have been unable to help, we might even have held her back. Only by retreating and fleeing could we let Teacher fight the Soul Beast without being distracted by having to protect us.
"When Teacher spotted the Soul Master, she told us to run and chose to stay behind and fight the Soul Beast alone. That way, she could hold the Soul Beast back and let us get farther away, giving us a chance to make it out of the Star Dou Great Forest. We mustn't let her good intentions go to waste."
Shui Bing'er's expression was grave as she spoke without looking back. Her beautiful eyes swept over the surrounding woods, missing not the slightest movement from the grass or trees.
"All right, Sister. Can we make it out of the Star Dou Great Forest this time? We don't even know how Teacher is doing now. Did she beat the Soul Beast? Is she following the marks we left to find us?"
Shui Yue'er looked at the dim woods surrounding them in the Star Dou Great Forest, fear on her face. Tears welled in her eyes, and her body trembled slightly.
"Yue'er, we have to believe that good people have heaven watching over them, and that Teacher can beat the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. We'll leave the Star Dou Great Forest, wait for Teacher to return in Star Dou Town, and then go back to Skywater Academy."
Of the three girls walking behind the sisters, one spoke to Shui Yue'er with concern. There was no sign of worry on her face.
She thought to herself, Teacher is a Soul Master at the Soul Emperor realm. How could she fail to beat the Violent Gold Bear, a Soul Beast with twenty thousand years of cultivation? Is that possible?
Not far behind them, Su Tianyu heard what the girl behind the sisters said and nearly laughed in anger. Their teacher had faced the Violent Gold Bear, which had ten thousand years of cultivation, alone behind them, fighting for her life, only to be eaten by it in the end. Yet this girl was still talking big about how their teacher was fine.
Su Tianyu couldn't understand where the girl's confidence came from. How could she believe that a Soul Emperor with only an intermediate Martial Soul could beat a twenty-thousand-year-old Violent Gold Bear Soul Beast with a trace of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's bloodline power? Wasn't that blind confidence?
If the teacher's Martial Soul had been an advanced Martial Soul, then with her Soul Emperor cultivation, even if she couldn't have killed the Violent Gold Bear with twenty thousand years of cultivation, she could still have escaped unscathed. Unfortunately, her Martial Soul was only intermediate, and she had died a gruesome death in the Soul Beast's jaws.