The Peerless Tang Sect: Possessing Huo Yuhao at the Start

Chapter 79 Heading Home

"The explosion came from here, so Huo Zhanji and the others must have come from this direction."

The group traveled rapidly through the Star Dou Great Forest. Li Yongyue continuously wielded his moon blade to clear the way. Following behind Li Yongyue were Zhang Lexuan, then Han Ruoruo, Mo Xuan, and at the very back, Vice Dean Cai Meier, whose face was slightly pale.

After passing through a grove of trees, Li Yongyue, who was at the front, exclaimed in surprise, "Huo Zhanji and Wang Qiu'er are here!"

The Shrek team approached the two and saw Huo Zhanji leaning against a tree, and Wang Qiu'er with her head resting on his lap.

Cai Meier finally breathed a sigh of relief. She had finally found Huo Zhanji. As long as Huo Zhanji was still alive, everything would be much easier. As she spoke, she quickly took out a bottle of pills from her bosom, poured out two white pills, and put them into the mouths of Huo Zhanji and Wang Qiu'er respectively.

After a brief observation, everyone immediately saw the corpse of the three-headed wolf ape. Everyone was very surprised, as this was a completely different kind of soul beast they had never seen before. Three mutated soul beasts at the ten-thousand-year level had actually been killed by Huo Zhanji and Wang Qiu'er. How could this be?

At night, Cai Meier, Zhang Lexuan, and Han Ruoruo took turns keeping watch.

When Huo Zhanji regained consciousness, he felt extremely weak: "This girl almost killed me. You almost drained my soul power."

When Huo Zhanji stepped out of his tent, he saw a crowd gathered around it and asked, "Is everyone alright?"

Cai Meier smiled and asked, "How are you feeling?"

Huo Zhan asked urgently, "His soul power is completely exhausted, and he's still quite weak. What about Qiu'er?"

Cai Meier asked, "She's still asleep. What exactly happened to you yesterday?"

Huo Zhanji then recounted to everyone what happened after he killed the three evil soul master brothers and encountered three mutated soul beasts, the ten-thousand-year-old wolf apes.

Cai Meier gasped, "You guys are incredibly audacious. Even in a one-on-one situation, I wasn't confident I could keep them alive, and you just killed them like that."

"In times of emergency, we must act expediently. If we don't eliminate them, it will cause trouble for both human soul masters and soul beasts," Huo Zhanji said with a sigh of relief.

As if struck by a sudden thought, Huo Zhanji unsealed the two Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears from the extreme ice, then used the Life Gold to revive them. He also treated the female Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and stabilized the male Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's soul before returning it to the female, binding them together. As long as the female Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear didn't die, her soul would be fine.

Just then, Wang Qiu'er slowly walked towards the crowd, her gaze already fixed on Huo Zhanji. When Wang Qiu'er woke up in the morning, she noticed the clothes she was wearing, and then she began to recall what had happened yesterday. For a whole hour, Huo Zhanji had used his own blood to save her, and her eyes reddened, tears swirling around them before finally sliding down her pale yet still stunning face.

It took Huo Zhanji and Wang Qiu'er a full day and night to recover. There were almost no wounds on their bodies, and even their soul power had been fully restored.

Early the next morning, Huo Zhanji purified a beast soul from the level-eight soul tools of the three evil soul masters and attached a ten-thousand-year-old lion eagle soul spirit to Li Yongyue. After the soul spirit was absorbed, Cai Meier immediately ordered a retreat!

Their retreat continued until late at night, only stopping after they had penetrated deep into the mixed zone. After resting for half a night, they set off again early the next morning, moving away from the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest as quickly as possible. In less than two days, they had left the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Ah, finally out!" Li Yongyue shouted.

Cai Meier smiled slightly and said, "While it's still early, let's hurry back to the academy so I can relax a bit."

"Yes!" everyone answered in unison.

At this moment, Huo Zhanji had a black line on his face. These three Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears were too greedy. Half of the food stored in his system space had been eaten. "They are real money-devouring beasts, and there are three of them. Fortunately, one of them is a soul, otherwise my wallet would really not be able to handle four of them."

The four Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears showed no malice towards Huo Zhanji and even listened to him very well. The two Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear cubs, in particular, were very fond of sticking to him. As for the three soul bones, Huo Zhanji gave one to Wang Qiu'er, another to Wang Dong'er, and kept one for himself in case of emergency.

After returning to Shrek City, Huo Zhanji went straight to the Heaven-Mending Pavilion to settle the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. He also left behind a large amount of gold soul coins to buy food for the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. Although the people of the Heaven-Mending Pavilion were somewhat afraid of these three soul beasts, they felt a little relieved when they saw their sect leader.

After Huo Zhanji left Shrek Academy, Ling Luochen, Ma Xiaotao, and Wang Dong'er moved into Butian Pavilion.

After spending some time with the three of them, Ma Xiaotao seemed to suddenly remember something and said to Huo Zhanji, "By the way, a few people came looking for you a few days ago."

"Are there two men and one woman?" Huo Zhan asked quickly.

Wang Dong'er thought for a moment and looked at Huo Zhanji, saying, "It seems their names are Xuan Ziwen, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan."

"Alright, the Heaven-Mending Pavilion will be busy from now on," Huo Zhanji said, rubbing his forehead.

"What's wrong, Zhanji? Are they enemies of your Sun Moon Empire?" Ling Luochen asked, looking at Huo Zhanji, who had a helpless expression on his face.

"These are important personnel I recruited from the Sun Moon Empire. The first is Xuan Ziwen, an eighth-level Soul Master, and the other two are my friends who see me as their rivals and seek to improve their own strength," Huo Zhanji explained to the three women.

The two people who were fighting in the Butian Pavilion martial arts arena stopped when Huo Zhanji and the other two entered. Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan both showed smiles on their faces.

Jing Ziyan put her hands on her hips and said reproachfully, "What, Huo Zhanji, aren't you welcoming me? You think you're so tough now that you're back on your turf? If you're not happy, let's have a fight first!"

Huo Zhanji put his hands on his hips and said, "Alright, how are we going to fight?"

Jing Ziyan might have been joking, but Ji Juechen took it seriously. No one knew where he found another jet-black iron sword, its blade pointing forward, ready to unleash a torrent of sword energy. The title of "sword fanatic" wasn't given lightly.

"Alright, alright, we'll fight later. We have important things to discuss," Huo Zhanji quickly waved his hand and said.

"Did you drop out of the Royal Academy of the Sun Moon Empire?" Huo Zhanji asked.

Ji Juechen said, "I dropped out of school."

Jing Ziyan said earnestly, "When you were about to leave, we discussed it and agreed that sparring with you each time would help us grow stronger than what we learn at the academy. We both prefer to become Soul Masters. So, we felt that this place might be more suitable for us. That's why we came here. Anyway, we don't have any ties. You just need to find us a place to stay. Then, you can spar with us every day, or if you don't, we'll go wherever you go."

"Just to fight me?" Huo Zhanji said helplessly.

Ji Juechen brandished his longsword and said, "Has everything been explained? Can we begin?"

Huo Zhanji approached Ma Xiaotao and whispered, "Sister Xiaotao."

"Alright, alright, I understand." Ma Xiaotao looked at Huo Zhanji helplessly. There was nothing she could do; the three of them were now Huo Zhanji's men, and she couldn't very well refuse to do what Huo Zhanji asked her to do.

The sudden change of opponent startled Ji Juechen slightly, but he quickly recovered. For him, the opponent wasn't important; the key was someone who could exert sufficient pressure in the areas he needed. He simply couldn't find a suitable person at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy; otherwise, why would he have come here?

Ma Xiaotao is not Huo Zhanji. Huo Zhanji would hold back in a fight, but Ma Xiaotao would show no mercy as long as her opponent was alive and breathing.

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(End of this chapter)