Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 877 Unexpected Border Troubles
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The senior student nodded solemnly: "During this period, the soul beasts in the Star Dou Forest have not only begun to gather spontaneously, but they are also restless. The closer we get to the core area, the more obvious this trend becomes."

"Many of us went into the core area to explore the situation under the guidance of senior students from the inner academy, but we all returned empty-handed. Once the soul beasts in the core area discover the traces of soul masters, they will roar continuously, attracting nearby soul beasts to attack us in groups."

“The Star Dou Forest is now fraught with danger. Many Soul Masters who originally planned to hunt Souls have canceled their plans to go to the Star Dou Forest to hunt Souls. Even the Ten Thousand Year Steel Fang Rat can fight alongside the Storm Eagle against human Soul Masters. Who would dare to go into the Star Dou Forest?”

“We thought this unrest would only last a short time, but now half a month has passed and the situation has become increasingly serious. Therefore, Director Du Weilun, who is also responsible for the mining area, asked me to ask you what you think.”

Chen Ping fell silent. The Steel-Toothed Rat and the Storm Eagle were natural predators and hunters. For these two soul beasts to join forces to attack humans under these circumstances, there must be something he didn't know about inside the Star Dou Forest.

This made Chen Ping feel uneasy, but he couldn't figure out what had caused this situation.

At this moment, Chen Ping wasn't entirely without suspicion. When the soul beasts showed signs of rioting, Chen Ping's first thought was that it was a sign that the beast tide was about to begin.

The problem is that Shrek Academy, needless to say, is well aware of whether or not they have organized a team to hunt down 100,000-year-old soul beasts. After all, even though he has been relaxing at the academy for the past two months, he is very clear about all the affairs of the academy, and nothing can be hidden from his eyes.

However, if we're talking about the Body Sect, their people are currently helping the Heavenly Soul Empire's army defend against the Holy Spirit Cult's evil soul masters. There's no way they'd have time to go to the Star Dou Forest and slaughter high-level soul beasts.
Just as he was thinking this, Chen Ping suddenly felt a sense of foreboding.

Holy Spirit Religion!
This super evil soul master organization, whose number of titled Douluo within its ranks cannot be counted on two hands, has not appeared in front of the public for a very, very long time.

Ever since Chen Ping orchestrated a massive border explosion at the border of the Heavenly Soul, exposing the despicable act of the Holy Spirit Cult devouring the souls of the Soul Master Corps members to the entire Sun Moon Empire with the Soul Manifestation Lamp, the Holy Spirit Cult seems to have completely vanished without a trace.

Ju Zi was executed in public by Xu Tianran for secretly colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult and betraying the army. However, Xu Tianran never mentioned the Holy Spirit Cult's punishment.

Counting the time, more than three months have passed since that explosion. Having suffered such a great loss, how could the Holy Spirit Cult not try to devise a way to retaliate against Chen Ping?

Chen Ping is elusive and impossible to catch, but Shrek Academy can't just grow legs and run away. Besides, the Star Dou Forest is right next to Shrek Academy.
"This is bad. Go and inform City Lord Shixing right now to prepare defenses in case the beast tide is about to break out. I will convene a meeting of the Sea God Pavilion immediately."

Chen Ping's expression changed, he gave a few instructions to the senior in front of him, and left in a hurry.

Although the senior student didn't know how Chen Ping came to this conclusion, just hearing the words "beast tide" made his head feel like it was about to explode, and he didn't dare to delay and headed out of the city.

Inside the Starry Forest.

One after another, figures exuding powerful auras rose into the air, bursting out of the tree canopy and taking flight from the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest.

They come in all shapes and sizes, but each one exudes an unparalleled aura of terror.

The closer one gets to the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, the more pronounced this becomes. Those who dare to fly out of the Star Dou Great Forest are all top-tier beings from the strongest spirit beast colony on the entire continent. A man in a black robe silently hovered in the air above the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest. Around him, although every aura was extremely powerful, no one dared to hover higher than him.

The man in the black robe had a resolute and cold appearance, with long black hair that hung down his back to his heels. Not a hair more, not a hair less.

Among his full head of black hair, two strands of golden hair stood out, hanging quietly in front of him.

At this moment, he was looking up at the blood-red sky when he suddenly raised his right hand and made a grasping motion towards the sky.

An extremely terrifying aura suddenly erupted from his body; that single grasping motion seemed to tear the sky apart. The entire Star Dou Great Forest trembled slightly, and the sky itself twisted violently.

A black rift, hundreds of meters long, appeared in the air. The black void seemed to have endless suction, causing other powerful beings around to retreat in panic, fearing that they would be sucked in.

However, after a long while, nothing happened in the huge black crack. Even after it closed again, nothing emerged from the black crack.

Just then, a streak of emerald green light swept in from afar and flew toward the black-haired man.

As if traversing space, the emerald green figure stopped in front of the black-haired man in an instant.

This is an absolutely stunning beauty, with long, flowing emerald green hair cascading down her back, and eyes that are also emerald green. She has a slender figure, and a light green dress perfectly accentuates her graceful body.

The stunningly beautiful woman's eyes revealed obvious worry. She quickly flew to the black-haired man and stopped. "Di Tian, ​​what's wrong? What happened?" she asked softly.

"Another 100,000-year-old soul beast in our Star Dou Forest has died."

Di Tian's tone was calm, but everyone could feel the chilling, terrifying killing intent emanating from him.

"This is a blatant provocation."

Brigitte's expression turned extremely pale: "Do these humans really think we're made of clay?"

At this moment, a man with a long, thin, blue body and a horse-like face said in a gloomy voice, "Including that 100,000-year-old soul beast from earlier, our Star Dou Forest has already hunted down more than five 100,000-year-old soul beasts in just half a month."

"Damn humans!" A burly middle-aged man with short, needle-like hair and unusually long arms spoke with a fierce glint in his eyes: "It seems that the beast tide last time didn't teach these humans a lesson enough."

At this moment, Brigitte calmed down slightly and said, "Could there be something fishy about this? As far as I know, the war in the human world has entered a white-hot stage. What benefit would it bring them to start a border conflict at this time?"

(End of this chapter)