Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 24 Mysterious Guest
Rumble~~~
The earth trembled violently, and a piercing shriek, accompanied by the thunderous crashes of rapidly moving objects, drew closer from the depths of the great rift valley!

Clearly, the dying howls of the five ghost-faced scorpions had already attracted the attention of their companions deep within the nest.

Hugo stared at the dense clusters of red dots on the detector and felt his head explode!
"Oh no! At least fifty Ghost-Faced Scorpions have charged out! Quick, run!"

"What?! Fifty heads!" The guards' expressions changed instantly!

"Quick, protect the master, run!"

Old Wu grabbed Hu Ge and, stepping onto a golden disc-shaped flying telekinetic weapon, began his rapid escape.

Meanwhile, the other guards, including Qi Yuan, were running away frantically behind them!

"squeak!"

"squeak!"

A piercing scream rang out from behind, and one after another, enormous ghost-faced scorpions charged out of the rift like rampaging tanks!

In an instant, they locked onto the enemy in front of them!
"Squeak! Squeak!"

More than fifty Ghost-Faced Scorpions, each of them reaching adult size, were frantically trampling and leaping among the jagged rocks, rapidly pursuing Qi Yuan and his group!

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

A dozen or so strong, demon-faced scorpions, noticeably larger than their companions, broke away from the main group and accelerated instantly—

Strong appendages pounded heavily on the black rocky mountainside, and in just a few leaps, more than a dozen ghost-faced scorpions quickly approached the rear of the group.

Then, without hesitation, more than a dozen ghost-faced scorpions launched an attack simultaneously—

"Swoosh!" "Crack!"
The menacing tail hooks, gleaming with a chilling light, and the enormous scorpion pincers, resembling millstones, slammed forward in an instant!

At this moment, the last group of fleeing guards were Qi Yuan and several other seventh and eighth-level stellar-level guards!

"Poof!" "Poof!"

Two seventh-tier stellar-level guards were caught off guard and instantly had their bodies pierced by the cold scorpion stinger.

The terrifying toxin erupted instantly, and the two guards lost their lives in less than a fraction of a second!
"Oh no! Help!"

Hugo, who was being carried by Lao Wu, was the only one among them who had the leisure to observe what was behind him. Upon seeing this, he immediately sent a loud telepathic message to the three ninth-level stellar-level mentalists!
When a crisis occurs, Old Wu and all the other slave guards naturally prioritize protecting their master, Hugo.

At this point, under Hu Ge's strong insistence, several mentalists had no choice but to spare some of their energy to look after Qi Yuan and the others who were lagging behind.

As Qi Yuan ran, he felt a strong wind whistling behind him. Without thinking, he instantly swung his Force Blade backward, simultaneously infusing it with the power of the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Blade and his domain!

"Pfft!" "Clang!"

A long, thin, black scorpion tail was severed!
The Force Blade, crackling with blinding lightning, continued its momentum, only stopping its attack after clashing heavily with a giant black iron claw once more!
"Chi~"

Qi Yuan was surrounded by electric lightning, and used the recoil to instantly create distance.

At the same time, a gentle yet extremely resilient force acted upon him, pulling him forward at high speed—

However, Old Wu directly used his mental power to pull him to his side.

"Go! Charge into the lower layer of light and shadow!"

Old Wu, with his feet on a disc-shaped flying telekinetic weapon and his hands holding Hu Ge and Qi Yuan respectively, rushed quickly toward the hazy layer of light and shadow shrouding the foot of the mountain!

"Quick, come here!"

"Come on!"

The two Mistweaver Clan mentalists followed suit, each taking their remaining four Stellar-level seventh and eighth-tier guards. Meanwhile, the four Zhalin Clan warriors flew on their own, and the group fled frantically down the mountainside!

A desperate escape that lasted a full three and a half minutes—

The disheveled group finally broke through the dazzling, mesmerizing light and shadow below before being completely surrounded by a swarm of ghost-faced scorpions.

They dared not stop, maintaining a near-ground-level altitude as they continued to fly rapidly forward.

Behind them, the dozen or so enormous ghost-faced scorpions also plunged into the layer of light and shadow below.

Surprisingly—

After only a short while inside the layer of light and shadow, the ferocious ghost-faced scorpions that had been so violent and eager to tear Qi Yuan and his group to pieces suddenly became dazed.

Before long, the ghost-faced scorpions seemed to have forgotten their original purpose. After circling around in a slightly confused manner for a few moments, they turned around and quickly returned towards their nest.
The creatures used for the assessment in the world of the realm master are all 'ferocious beasts' specially raised by the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance.

Ferocious beasts are called ferocious beasts because they have very low intelligence.

Monsters on Earth, or even the most advanced monsters in the universe, are just as intelligent as humans!
The ferocious beasts, though powerful, are extremely unintelligent and do not know how to learn or think.

The Ghost-Faced Scorpion in the World of Erosion is one of the ferocious beasts.

Under the intense hallucinatory effect of the light and shadow layer, the Ghost-Faced Scorpion, with its pitiful intelligence, was instantly captivated and could only act on instinct.
On a hillside covered with black boulders, thousands of kilometers away from the rift valley where the Ghost-Faced Scorpion was encountered.

Qi Yuan and his group carefully emerged from the hazy light and shadow below.

"vomit!"

Spending a long time lurking in the psychedelic light and shadow layers made Hu Ge, a young master with only the second level of the stellar level, feel dizzy, nauseous, and wish he could faint on the spot.

It was only after a long time that he gradually regained some of his strength.

"Damn it, next time I'd rather feed myself to the Ghost-Faced Scorpion than crawl into this layer of light and shadow again!"

He muttered something indignantly before turning to look at Old Wu.

"Old Wu, let's rest for a day and continue tomorrow. I really can't take it anymore!"

"Yes, Master."

And at the same time.

In an extremely luxurious and enormous manor on the planet Lanka.

Hugo's "Sixth Brother" Adona was greeted by several mysterious guests dressed in special black robes.

After a secret meeting, the guests went directly to a separate courtyard in the manor reserved for distinguished guests.

"Brother Anto, do you think Adona of the Ortega family has something wrong with his head? He'd rather be a proper young master than work as someone's lackey, and he's even teaming up with outsiders to fight against his own family."

In the courtyard, three guests dressed in special black robes with mysterious patterns embroidered on the chests were chatting telepathically.

A middle-aged man called An Tuo chuckled and replied telepathically:

"Human desires are limitless. As long as the stakes are right, family and clansmen are nothing more than shackles that hinder one's progress!"

"Heh, humans always pride themselves on being civilized and enlightened, but when they get ruthless, they're far more cold-blooded than us 'barbarians'."

The man who had spoken first revealed a mocking expression upon hearing this, "Unfortunately, this poor fellow probably doesn't know that the powerful figure he finally managed to latch onto is nothing more than a controlled puppet."

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