Chapter 43 Searching for the Fourth Soul Ring
After the Messenger of Death brought Huo Yuhao to a deserted place, Huo Yuhao's body was suddenly taken over by Alex.

Under the necromancy of Alex, the Messenger of the Dead finally died at the hands of the corpse puppet he had created.

But then, Huo Yuhao’s body could not bear such a huge consumption of mental energy and he fell into a coma.

Master Xuan arrived shortly afterwards.

Seeing the corpses all over the ground and the unconscious Huo Yuhao, he helped Huo Yuhao up.

Huo Yuhao answered Xuan Zi's question using the words that Alex had taught him, saying that the evil soul master was suppressed by his own Holy Undead Divine Martial Soul, and that the forced activation of his evil soul power caused him to go astray and die at the hands of his own corpse puppet.

Huo Yuhao's safety more or less comforted Xuan Zi.

Then the two returned to the cave.

The fainted inner court disciples have woken up one after another, but Yao Haoxuan has closed his eyes forever.

The Supervisor's mission was indeed accomplished, but such a huge change and such heavy casualties were no longer enough to support the team to participate in the Fighting Spirit Competition.

Then, Wang Yan started to discuss with Xuan Zi.

“Master Xuan, if we return to Shrek Academy now, I’m afraid we won’t have enough time. We need to register for the Soul Fighting Competition in advance.” Wang Yan spoke first.

Xuan Zi stroked his beard, frowned and said, "But now this team can't go to the Fighting Spirit Competition! The entire official team was almost wiped out."

"Master Xuan, isn't there Li Xingyi in the outer courtyard? Xiaotao, Yueheng, and Luochen's injuries are not serious. They should be able to recover in the middle of the race. With Li Xingyi, Beibei, and Xu Sanshi, we should be able to hold on until the middle."

"This……"

Old Xuan was in a dilemma.

In fact, they had no choice from the beginning, because there were no students of the right age and capable of forming a formal team in Shrek Academy.

More importantly, according to the rules of the competition, the list of participants must be submitted in advance.

Only soul masters who die before the game can be replaced. Now only Yao Haoxuan died in the battle, and the other three were seriously injured. Only one person can be replaced, but three positions have been lost, which is just a drop in the bucket.

"Okay, that's all we can do. I'll send them back and you'll be the leader of this team."

"..."

After the discussion, Wang Yan turned and walked towards the crowd, saying:

"The situation is urgent. We can only act separately. Elder Xuan will take the three seriously injured students back to Shrek for treatment. The others will follow me to the Xingluo Empire to participate in the Fighting Spirit Competition."

Hearing this, everyone present was shocked.

An incredible expression appeared on his face.

"Are we the only ones going to participate in the Fighting Spirit Tournament? Is this really possible?"

"The other academies all have elite disciples!"

"Senior Ma and the other three are also seriously injured. Do we really want to let them participate in the competition?"

At this time, Xuan Zi had his back to everyone.

"This is all my fault, but the academy is too late to send students to register. The registration time will soon be up. I can only let you reserve guys take over first. If you hold on until Xiaotao and the other three recover, we still have a chance."

"Children, the honor of the academy depends on you! Victory and glory belong to you! Failure and shame belong only to me..."

After saying that, Xuan Zi took Yao Haoxuan's body and the other three people and set off for Shrek Academy.

The five people from the outer courtyard, the three people from the inner courtyard and Wang Yan who remained where they were all felt tremendous pressure.

"Everyone, don't worry too much. Only the first round of the Fighting Spirit Competition is an elimination round. According to the unspoken rules, the organizers will deliberately not let the two strong schools meet. We will have no problem passing this round. We can delay the remaining non-elimination rounds until the three seniors recover."

"Let's just do our best. Maybe we can even confuse our opponents from other academies."

"That's right! We are the elites of Shrek Academy. How can we be so discouraged?"

After encouraging each other, they headed towards Xingluo City in the east. However, Wang Yan, the leader, was a little flustered.

Li Xingyi had gone to hunt soul beasts, and he didn't know if he would be late because of that. If he couldn't make it in time for the check-in, then this already broken team would be even worse off.

He couldn't change anything and could only pray silently.

“Hey~ I hope Li Xingyi and Lin Lu can catch up with the other two. The honor that Shrek Academy has accumulated over countless years cannot be lost in this class!”

……

The next day.

When the morning light first broke, Li Xingyi and Lin Luyu got up.

But it was not voluntary, but the soldiers' morning training and shouting slogans were too noisy, and I couldn't sleep at all.

The two of them simply washed their faces, ate some leftover barbecue from last night which had now turned into jerky, and then set off eastward.

While searching for a suitable spirit ring, he hurried towards Xingluo City.

Even if you can't find your soul ring, you have to get to Xingluo City in time, otherwise it will be terrible if you miss the check-in.

In one day, the two walked out of the Mingdou Mountains and officially entered the largest soul beast gathering place, the 'Xingdou Great Forest'.

During the two days in the outer area, the two gained nothing, or simply didn't care.

There isn't even a three thousand year old soul beast here.

On the fifth day.

The two of them surpassed the mixed zone and officially entered the periphery of the core area.

Here, they often encounter soul beasts that are 10,000 to 20,000 years old, and occasionally even soul beasts that are 50,000 years old.

Fortunately, Li Xingyi possesses the skill of simulating souls. As long as he does not take the initiative to attack, he will not be discovered by the soul beast and can leave easily.

They searched the mixed area for two full days without encountering a suitable soul beast.

The main reason is that there are too few soul beasts with thunder attributes, and even if you encounter one, you will have to give up because of the unsuitable age.

Until the early morning of the last day of the scheduled plan.

Li Xingyi was about to give up the search for the soul ring and start heading towards Xingluo City.

As a result, I heard the sound of thunder in the tent where I was spending the night.

The sound came from not far away, which ruled out the possibility of it being thunder.

This meant that there was a thunder-type soul beast not far from where he and Lin Lu were resting!
Li Xingyi couldn't be sure whether the age of this soul beast was suitable, but the appearance of a thunder soul beast still surprised him, and the haze in his heart immediately disappeared.

He glanced at Lin Luyu beside him and found that he was asleep, so he walked out of the tent alone and rushed towards the location where the thunder came from.

Standing on a tree.

Li Xingyi saw two soul beasts fighting from afar.

One is a mandrake snake that is about 30,000 years old, and the other is the thunder soul beast that Li Xingyi needs.

Based on its body size, Li Xingyi analyzed that the thunder-type soul beast was about 23,000 years old.

It is seven thousand years away from its absorption limit.

But the fatigue of these days has shattered his faith.

"Twenty-three thousand years is twenty-three thousand years, let's just make do with it..."

(End of this chapter)