Chapter 98: Chapter 98: Yuwen Tuo's First Encounter with an Evil Soul Master
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"We've fallen into a trap, retreat quickly!" Zhou Yi shouted in despair.
Clearly, before the plan began, she had laid it out perfectly. She hadn't expected to fall into the opponent's ambush so easily, getting caught in the evil soul master's corpse explosion formation.
Although she was a teacher, she was only a Soul Emperor, and her combat power wasn't even as strong as Dai Yueheng, who was also a Soul Emperor.
When even strategy was useless, what could her power accomplish?
Now, Xixi and Yao Haoxuan were poisoned and lightly injured, Dai Yueheng was severely injured, Chen Zifeng and Gongyang Mo were crippled. Although Ling Luochen was temporarily unharmed due to wearing a defensive spirit tool, her spirit tool had no offensive capabilities and was only the type that could protect herself, unable to deploy a large-area protective shield for others.
If this continued, they might all be wiped out.
All of this had happened too suddenly. Whether it was the seniors from the inner courtyard or the reserves from the outer courtyard, they were all dumbfounded.
They hadn't expected their first mission to be so tragic.
"Bastard!" A roar suddenly erupted, shaking the entire cave violently. Golden brilliance instantly filled the entire cavern, and all the corroding poisonous blood was evaporated in an instant.
That irresponsible, slovenly figure had finally arrived. Xuan Zi raised his right hand and sucked towards the cave ahead. Instantly, a powerful suction force emanated from his palm. A figure within the cave was pulled out, flying towards Xuan Zi.
Xuan Zi's current mood could not be described by grief and indignation alone.
Under his personal leadership, such massive damage had occurred once again.
Moreover, this time, those injured were all the current and next generation Shrek Seven Devils of Shrek Academy! In a few days, they were supposed to represent the academy in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Combat Tournament.
He had merely watched Yuwen Tuo go deeper into the cave, ensuring he wouldn't get out so easily, then immediately rushed here. In just a few short minutes, such a tragedy had occurred.
Could this be retribution? Retribution for Shrek Academy repaying kindness with enmity, persecuting a child for six years?
"Titled Douluo!" The evil soul master in the shadows was about to be sucked out by Xuan Zi's powerful soul power. He knew he couldn't fall into the hands of this Titled Douluo, or he would definitely be dead.
Immediately, he threw out all the remaining elemental spirit tool bombs on his person in one go.
"Elder Xuan, be careful!" Huo Yuhao exclaimed in alarm.
Xuan Zi's perception was by no means weak. Compared to that evil soul master, it was clear that the disciples were more important at this moment! With such tragic losses already, how could he tolerate any more casualties?
He channeled his full soul power, his hands transforming into the arms of a Taotie, gathering the power of the elemental bombs in his palms.
In the end, those elemental bombs only exploded under his hands and did not spread too far. They merely blasted Xuan Zi's hands until they were bright red, but left no wounds.
It had to be said, as expected of a level 98 Super Douluo, mere elemental bombs couldn't harm him.
However, that evil soul master took this opportunity to flee deeper into the cave.
"Hehe, Titled Douluo, don't think that just because you saved the people here, there won't be any more casualties. We'll see!"
His voice still echoed in everyone's ears. This time, this fellow didn't grab Huo Yuhao as a hostage like in the original story, because in his perception, another person was already within his usual sacrificial ritual formation.
Rather than risk capturing someone under the nose of a Titled Douluo, it was better to pick up the ready-made one.
"Wait, what does this guy mean?" Ling Luochen was startled. "Could it be Little Tuo? Little Tuo must be in the cave right now too. Elder Xuan, let's hurry and save him."
She didn't know about the academy's machinations; her heart was just naturally worried about Yuwen Tuo.
Xuan Zi said, "Rest assured, I will naturally go save him. But the most important thing now is all of you. I don't know if there are any other dangers in this cave. I'll send you all out first."
"We... I understand. We'll have to trouble Elder Xuan." Ling Luochen originally wanted to say they were fine and ask Xuan Zi to save Yuwen Tuo first.
But when she saw Chen Zifeng and Gongyang Mo with their severed arms and legs, the unconscious Xixi, and the poisoned Yao Haoxuan, she could no longer bring herself to say they were fine.
Yuwen Tuo's life was a life, and their lives were, of course, lives too.
Elder Xuan was right. It was unknown if there were any other dangers in this cave. Now, they had almost no combat power left, even her. Although she wasn't injured thanks to the defensive spirit tool, continuously freezing corpses just now to prevent corpse explosions had also greatly consumed her soul power.
If any more enemies appeared, they really might be completely wiped out.
She couldn't be so selfish as to put these classmates and junior students in danger for her own sake and Yuwen Tuo's.
Therefore, the only thing she could do was to get out as soon as possible and then have Xuan Zi hurry back to save people.
Stepping forward, she picked up the unconscious Xixi. Ling Luochen called for everyone to follow Elder Xuan and quickly ran towards the cave entrance.
And at this moment, that evil soul master had finally arrived at the altar where he usually cultivated.
"Hehe, the people from the Shrek Inspection Team are actually so stupid as to voluntarily come to my altar. Do you wish to become my sacrifices so much?" The evil soul master chuckled sinisterly. "You've caused me heavy losses this time, actually sending a Titled Douluo to deal with me. I've lost over ninety percent of my corpse slaves, and my elemental spirit tool bombs are all used up. However, I'm not in a hurry. With this emissary's cultivation method, in ten years, even a Titled Douluo will only be able to bow down before this emissary."