Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 15 Teacher, you don't want to lose this job either, do you? (Two chapters combined into one)

Human nature is the most vulnerable thing. In Zhou Yi's mind, how these students fared didn't really matter to her. After all, the best student in her class had already been sent to her husband as a student. These students were just tools for her to win the promotion competition at the beginning of the next semester. If she wasn't satisfied with the tools, she could just raise a new batch.

Despite the constant criticism of her teaching methods, no one can deny that her students have the highest rate of entering the inner academy, even after sending some promising students away.

"How pathetic," Qian Renxue thought to herself.

At this point, Zhou Yi was no longer able to threaten Qian Renxue, so she simply enjoyed watching the show. After running away for a while, she returned to the same tree she had started from and quietly observed the group.

However, Zhou Yi's next move surprised her slightly.

"These guys seem to have completely gone mad," she murmured.

Her ability to observe the battle situation far surpasses that of ordinary people, so she could see that although Zhou Yi was directing the students to launch a counterattack and break through, the students actually had their own ulterior motives. On the surface, they obeyed Zhou Yi, but in fact, they were holding back their strength and only wanted to ensure their own safety. They were even intentionally directing the threat towards their teacher and other teammates.

Qian Renxue twirled her fingers. Her plan had been half-ruined. Her original idea of ​​luring them into a fight and then finishing them off was now completely useless, because these people seemed capable of killing themselves.

"Hmm? What is this?" Qian Renxue pondered slightly.

In the midst of the fierce battle, she saw an unfamiliar weapon appear in the hand of Old Woman Zhou Yi. It was a small, uniquely shaped object with ranged attack capabilities, resembling a concealed weapon.

Qian Renxue immediately recognized the unusual nature of this thing. As Zhou Yi injected her soul power into it, the thing continuously spewed out tongues of fire. The sound was far more ferocious than any hidden weapon, as if it had no intention of hiding itself, but was telling the enemy that it was going to use this thing to riddle them with holes.

The continuously erupting soul-guided rays created a rain-like effect, causing the leading soul beasts to struggle and scream in agony. A serrated tiger's head was instantly shattered, spurting out blood. The other soul beasts were also injured, some rays leaving holes in their skin. Even a scaled beast with extremely high defense had sparks flying from its skin.

The soul beasts roared in anger. These creatures felt pain emanating from their nerves, but this pain, along with that of the other dead soul beasts, was not enough to deter them. Instead, it fueled their ferocity.

"This thing... is quite interesting." Qian Renxue narrowed her eyes, like a child who had discovered a new toy. She had never seen such a weapon before. After analyzing it for a while, she found that this weapon required soul power to control. If a soul master were hit by it, their body would undoubtedly be torn apart, because most soul masters did not have the defensive power of a soul beast.

However, it seems that the weapon's destructive power is not enough for them to overcome this difficulty. The powerful rays have hindered the progress of the soul beasts, but this is only temporary. After two minutes of shooting, the weapon seems to be running out of power. The number of soul beasts killed is less than ten. Moreover, the other students do not seem to have this weapon. They are still using their own martial souls to fight.

A spirit beast suddenly descended from the sky, falling from above the cave entrance and killing an exhausted student, Zhao Bing, who had been kissed on the corner of his mouth by the ghost tiger's saliva at the beginning.

The formation was instantly thrown into disarray again, and Zhou Yi was even starting to lose control of the students. The students began to fight independently, while the support girl hesitated, unsure of who to support.

This is the tragedy of support-type Soul Masters. You are indeed the buff to the team and, under normal circumstances, a key target for protection. But at the same time, you are also the first to be abandoned when danger arises.

"Calm down! Calm down!" Zhou Yi shouted, but her voice was quickly drowned out by the roars of the soul beasts and the explosions of their soul power. The situation was completely out of her control, and her best option now was to abandon the students and escape.

But she couldn't do that, because it violated professional ethics and was not permitted by the academy. She even unleashed her soul-guided weapon in her attempt to lead the students out, but the students only wanted her dead.

"What do you mean by 'disobedient disciple'? How much of a failure must this teacher be?" Qian Renxue shook her head.

After initially fighting individually, the students, as if by prior arrangement, retreated while fighting, gradually moving deeper into the cave, leaving Zhou Yi alone outside.

"These little bastards." Zhou Yi also realized something was wrong. How could she have raised such useless, ungrateful wretches!

"Keep going, Teacher Zhou! We can't hold on much longer!"

"Teacher Zhou, you taught us to feign weakness when the time is right!"

"We've already lost three comrades; we can't afford to fight any longer!"

"Professor Zhou, you don't want us to go back and talk nonsense, do you?"

"Professor Zhou, you probably don't want to lose this job either, right?"

Zhou Yi's eyelids were practically bursting, but this was precisely what she had been taught in class: if faced with an insurmountable crisis, preserving one's strength was crucial. But... but that didn't mean you were going to just sell me out like that?!

"Teacher Zhou, watch out! They're attacking again!"

……

Qian Renxue watched the performance with a cold expression, slowly recovering the power within her body. The battle had been going on for nearly fifteen minutes, and if nothing unexpected happened, this group of people would soon be in trouble.

At this point, there were still about fifty soul beasts left. This was far beyond what a Soul Emperor who was about to collapse and a few students who had lost their will to fight could withstand.

This place is clearly uninhabitable, but she can't leave yet; she has to see these people die here. Besides, she's very interested in that little gadget the teacher has, and if the teacher dies here, she wants to take it and study it.

She took a deep breath and regulated her internal energy.

Zhou Yi was already struggling to withstand the swarm of soul beasts. She was indeed a Soul Emperor, and her martial soul was the powerful Red Dragon martial soul, but her soul power was steadily dwindling. The students weren't entirely lying either; they too were unable to continue resisting these crazed soul beasts.

"ah--!"

With a scream, the soul beast finally tore through their defenses and completely stormed into the cave. For some inexplicable reason, instead of organizing a breakout at this crucial moment, they fought and retreated, ultimately trapping themselves in a desperate situation.

Seeing the group forced into the cave, Qian Renxue slowly stood up, then concealed herself and went to the top of the cave.

She gathered all the soul power in her body into her fist, and then smashed it hard against a huge rock at the top of the cave!

Her punch was perfectly timed; the force she channeled into the boulder didn't shatter it, but instead slowly moved it, causing it to slide gently down the cave ceiling until it finally blocked the entrance with a thud, trapping them and about thirty spirit beasts inside. She had previously scouted the area and knew this was the only entrance; sealing them all inside was tantamount to serving the spirit beasts a delicious meal.

The rocks above the cave shook again, and a huge shadow fell from the sky. It was a rock that had fallen after Qian Renxue slammed it into the ground a dozen times on the mountaintop. It smashed onto the floor of the cave and broke a student's ankle.

All the soul beasts swarmed forward, tearing his body apart and devouring his corpse. "No! No! No!" Wang Jun, a control-type soul master, cried out in despair, as he too was entangled by falling rocks and soul beasts.

……

Half an hour later, Qian Renxue stood on the hillside, completely concealing her presence. She had heard that the sounds inside the cave had mostly ceased, so the hunt for the soul beasts should be over.

Bang—boom—

A tremendous roar erupted, and the boulders that had been blocking the cave entrance were shattered by the shockwave. A disheveled woman burst forth from within. This woman was completely different from her previous aged appearance; if it weren't for the numerous wounds and bloodstains covering her body, she could even be described as quite beautiful. However, almost no patch of her skin remained intact; a sharp wound ripped from her head, and her body was covered in blood.

"Damn it, kids—I'm sorry! I'm the only one who survived this soul hunt, but I killed all the soul beasts at the last moment and avenged you..." Zhou Yi panted, her exhausted body radiating an energy fluctuation.

That was a defensive soul tool given to her by her husband. Fan Yu was an eighth-level soul tool master. He loved his wife very much, so he also gave her a life-saving device that he had carefully crafted. It is said that Fan Yu bought this kind of equipment at an auction in the Sun Moon Empire. After he got his hands on it, he immediately began to study it, but unfortunately, his skills were not enough, and he accidentally broke it. In the end, he was sweating profusely and, together with other researchers in the soul tool department, worked hard to restore a flawed version, which he then gave to his wife.

After all, his wife had provided him with a lot of talent over the years.

"When I get back, I'll report this to the academy," Zhou Yi said viciously. "Although I don't know who that girl is, it's definitely safe to pin the label on an evil spirit master."

Evil Soul Master?

Qian Renxue listened quietly to the term. She had never heard of what an evil soul master was before, but the Spirit Hall had suppressed many "fallen" individuals. Speaking of which, would her other self be considered an evil soul master or a fallen one? Probably not, right? Or perhaps her abilities were somewhat similar.

Zhou Yi ran far away, exhausted, and failed to spot Qian Renxue, who had hidden herself. However, Qian Renxue did not choose to pursue her, because she could sense that this woman possessed a life-saving "treasure," and it was this very thing that had saved her life.

It's a bit of a pity, I was originally planning to take that magical weapon off her and study it.

Qian Renxue did not reveal herself directly, but stayed there quietly for about half an hour before revealing herself from the darkness.

After she blocked the cave entrance, the remaining twenty or so soul beasts outside the cave scattered and ran away. She went into the cave, casually flicked her wrist, and a ball of flame appeared on her fingertip before she stepped inside.

Everywhere were broken soul beast corpses and floating soul rings. It seemed that the teacher had really run out of options. She must have pushed herself to her limit to break through the encirclement of dozens of soul beasts, and was seriously injured in the end. Qian Renxue had noticed before that the teacher's arm was almost torn off and that she had been bitten by a venomous snake-like soul beast.

Alright, let's spare her life for now; she's probably going to lose her arm.

She spent some time searching the group of soul beasts, but found no soul bones. It seemed she was truly terrified of poverty; she was penniless this time, something she had never imagined before. How could a young lady like her be short of money?

With a sigh, she gathered the students' corpses together and then took all the storage soul tools from their bodies. She'd see what was inside after they got out; she'd been here too long, and those Shrek students might come back to kill her soon. Originally, she'd wanted to absorb some of the resentment here to see if she could awaken the Little Devil.

"Tsk, how pitiful." Qian Renxue clicked her tongue lightly. "This is the new generation of faith on the mainland, and then faith abandoned you, leaving you to die in the wild."

She narrowed her eyes and set all the corpses on fire.

Enduring the stench of the smoke, Qian Renxue returned to the cave entrance, pounded on the rock face, poured her soul power back in, and blocked the entrance again. Then she turned and left.

……

As dawn broke, Qian Renxue arrived at the outer area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest, following her previous plan.

She took out a map from her bosom, which she had previously scavenged from a student. Looking around, if she remembered correctly, this should be the part of the Star Dou Great Forest closer to the Star Luo Empire. She checked the map; everything seemed correct.

Where should I go?

To be honest, she originally wanted to visit the Spirit City, but judging from the markings on the map, the Spirit City no longer existed in this era. Instead, a new place name appeared in the original location.

That place is called Shrek City.

You guys really treat taking over someone else's place like it's your patent, huh? I originally thought that the fact that my first small stronghold was taken over after I was reborn was just a coincidence, but I didn't expect that these people would even take over my hometown.

She took a deep breath, temporarily calming the killing intent in her heart. She knew exactly what Wuhun City was. If these people had indeed established their city in the location of Wuhun City, then this place would definitely be one of the top metropolises on the continent. If she could infiltrate it, it would be of great help in gathering information about this era.

However, she also had her own selfish motives. After discovering this, she secretly resolved that when she arrived at that place, she would definitely begin her plan to reclaim Wuhun City.

Let's go check out other places first.

If she had to choose, then Heaven Dou City would be her second choice. After all, besides Spirit City, the place she was most familiar with in her previous life was the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire, or now it should be called the capital of the Heaven Soul Empire. However, that place is now too far away from her. If she were to go there now, it would probably take her at least ten days to half a month to get there.

Finally, her gaze fell upon Xingluo City.

"Qianrenxue, let's go!"

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