area51novel Chapter 175 Emergency Evacuation
Chapter 175 Emergency Evacuation
No, that's absolutely wrong.
The defensive aspect is relatively easy to explain, since these two aren't using a monstrous skill like a Soul Fusion Technique. Therefore, their ability to use and control this large-scale, domain-like ability must be because those two annoying guys have completely immersed themselves in it.
In this situation, any attack or interference that exceeds a certain threshold could cause those two guys to lose control and suffer a backlash that could harm themselves.
Backlash is inevitable; reduced defense and slower reaction times are unavoidable. I've observed that your combined attacks with Dai Yueheng's are essentially equivalent to the attack power of two Soul Saints. If that kind of attack power were to hit those two annoying guys head-on, who didn't have time to react and were already suffering backlash, it's perfectly normal for them to be severely injured.
What's unusual is that those two didn't demonstrate any other combat methods throughout the entire battle. Even if their main ability lies in that Soul-Sucking Blood Mist, they shouldn't have relied solely on controlling and trapping their opponent with no other means.
Are you sure? Wasn't the previous battle always shrouded in blood mist, preventing us from detecting detailed information?
"I didn't detect any detailed information, but look at the marks on the ground where the attacks missed. They were all the work of the senior students. There was no trace of the two evil soul masters."
Are all of these two evil spirit masters' attacks designed to target the mental level?
"It's hard to say. You should ask them and confirm. If those two annoying guys really didn't use any methods other than the Soul-Sucking Blood Mist during the entire battle, you'll need to be much more cautious when probing that lair."
The exchange between Long You and Da Bai took two minutes. During these two minutes, Bei Bei set off to pick up Huo Yuhao and Song He, while He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, and Tang Ya worked with Zhang Lexuan to begin treating the seven members of the Inner Court's elite team who had lost their fighting ability.
After Long You left the Soul-Guided Powered Mech, Da Bai, the professional healer, joined the rescue team.
However, Ling Luochen, Gongyang Mo, and Dai Yueheng recovered relatively well, while Ma Xiaotao, Xixi, Chen Zifeng, and Yao Haoxuan did not.
These four people, including Ma Xiaotao who could barely control herself at the end, were all severely corrupted by the Soul-Seizing Blood Mist. Not only had they completely exhausted their soul power, but their meridians and sea of consciousness had also been damaged, and even their martial souls showed signs of mutation and corruption.
Damage to the meridians is within the Jade Swan's healing range, but damage to the sea of consciousness is beyond the help of Da Bai, who only has ten thousand years of cultivation, not to mention the problem of the martial soul's mutation and degeneration.
After temporarily stabilizing the condition of the seven members of the inner court's regular team, Long You transferred them into the luxury sphere and followed Zhang Lexuan away from the battle area, returning to the small valley where they had been lying in wait that morning.
It was already late at night, but the weariness on Zhang Lexuan's face could not be concealed by the darkness.
Elder Xuan suddenly lost contact, the Inner Academy's main team suffered heavy losses, and there might be even greater dangers lurking in the evil soul master's lair. The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament is about to begin. All these matters now rest on the shoulders of Zhang Lexuan, the senior sister of the Inner Academy.
"Rest first, Senior Sister. Your condition is our greatest guarantee of safety. I will have He Caitou give you a comprehensive health scan to ensure that the previous Soul-Sucking Blood Mist has left no hidden dangers."
"Yes, Senior Sister, your condition is the greatest guarantee of our safety right now. You don't need to worry about Elder Xuan. With his strength, there may be beings on this continent that he can't defeat, but there is definitely no situation where he can't escape."
Yuhao and Songhe are already setting up the elevated signal tower; we'll be able to contact the academy soon. Given the level of flying soul tools that the academy's higher-ups can operate, whether it's support or rescue, they should be here by tomorrow morning. There's no need for us to be overly anxious.”
Long You wasn't the only one who noticed the fatigue on Zhang Lexuan's face. Bei Bei might not be able to say anything at this time, but Xu Sanshi didn't care at all and directly joined Long You in persuading Zhang Lexuan, who still refused to rest.
With her eyes slightly closed, Zhang Lexuan sighed softly and said, "Alright, I understand. Is it enough to just use a soul tool for testing? Don't we need to check your martial soul as well, Xiao You?"
"Well, using my martial soul to test it is certainly the safest approach, but I have to admit that my current strength is still quite far behind yours, and my martial soul is simply unable to analyze your physical condition, Senior Sister."
"Hmm? I thought your martial soul could analyze anything! It can only analyze one major level at a time?"
"Yes, when analyzing a Soul Master, you can only cross one major level."
Nodding slightly and sighing softly again, Zhang Lexuan turned and entered the luxury sphere to begin cooperating with He Caitou for a full-body examination.
Zhang Lexuan was quite clear about her physical condition. There were no obvious injuries, but she was severely depleted. She couldn't be sure whether her body had been affected by the Soul-Sucking Blood Mist.
The construction of the ultra-high-intensity signal tower was quite difficult. After Zhang Lexuan entered the luxury sphere, Long You turned around and helped Huo Yuhao and Song He set up the signal tower.
After working for more than an hour, Zhang Lexuan's detailed physical examination results came out, while Longyou had just completed the erection of the ultra-high intensity signal tower.
Seeing the two bars of signal on his phone, Long You reluctantly gave up the idea of making a phone call and instead sent a text message to the college to report the situation.
Watching the little circles swirling around the sent text message, Long You felt a long-lost sense of anxiety. The message, spanning thousands of miles, had finally been sent, but once again, a reply from the academy seemed a distant prospect.
He Caitou quietly approached Long You and asked, "How is it? Any reply? Have you made contact with Elder Xuan?"
"The message has been sent, and I have explained the situation here in as much detail as possible, but we cannot communicate in real time, and we don't know when we will receive a reply from the college."
As for Elder Xuan, I did not try to contact him again. I was unsure of Elder Xuan's situation, and considering that his opponent was likely from the Sun Moon Empire, I could not easily contact him via the communication soul tool.
Doing so would both expose the academy's secret possession of a long-range, real-time communication soul tool and potentially reveal our location.
"That's true. By the way, Senior Sister's health is very good. The mark of 'Immaculate Light' left on Senior Sister, although not enough to break through the Soul-Seizing Blood Domain constructed by those two evil soul masters, nor can it protect more people, it is enough to ensure that Senior Sister alone is not corrupted by the power of corruption."
"It's good that Senior Sister is alright. Senior Sister Ma Xiaotao, Senior Sister Xixi, Senior Brother Chen Zifeng, and Senior Brother Yao Haoxuan will probably be unable to participate in this competition. However, Senior Brother Dai Yueheng, Senior Brother Ling Luochen, and Senior Brother Gongyang Mo should recover soon."
In summary, as long as the academy's support arrives in time, our mission will not fail, and this competition will not have any major mishaps.
"The competition is fine too? The inner academy probably doesn't have many students left to send, right?"
"Indeed, it will be difficult for the Inner Academy to send out suitable participants again in such a short period of time. But according to my understanding, apart from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, the strength of the other participating academies is only average, and their highest combat strength is probably only one Soul King."
A school like ours, with all members being Soul Kings and two Soul Emperors, is definitely not the standard.
Before we set off, didn't Elder Xuan say that our reserve team was strong enough to handle the initial matches? Based on my understanding, there was no need for the main team from the inner court to participate, at least not before the semi-finals.
After the semifinals, Dai Yueheng and his two companions will definitely be able to recover. With their combined strength, entering the finals shouldn't be a problem.
The only one we need to consider is the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. This academy has been competing against Shrek Academy for so long, so its roster depth is definitely comparable to Shrek Academy's.
"So that means there are at least two Soul Emperors?"
"It's possible that there's more. My grandfather told me that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy doesn't prohibit the use of drugs that overdraw potential when training students."
In other words, while students at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy might have issues with fluctuating soul power, their soul power levels are always incredibly high.
Although Long You couldn't remember who the captain of this year's Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy was, he did remember that the captain had already broken through to the Soul Saint level. Moreover, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy also had a pair of siblings, the Hongchen siblings, who could unleash a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Technique.
That's why, while comforting the reserve team members who had unknowingly gathered, Long You also gave them a heads-up, reassuring them that they didn't need to lose confidence.
In fact, Long You had made a lot of efforts to avoid the casualties and broken formations that occurred in the original work, but he did not expect that the Shrek Academy team would have to deal with an even more difficult situation this time. Ma Xiaotao, a super fighter, was actually defeated in this round.
Although Dai Yueheng was strong, Long You didn't think he could take down a Soul Saint on his own. After all, in the original story, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Captain that Ma Xiaotao eliminated at the cost of turning evil had already been weakened by Dai Yueheng.
The academy's reply, traversing countless spaces, appeared on Longyou's phone through a difficult-to-connect signal.
Don't concern yourself with Master Xuan's problems, don't appear where Master Xuan knows, and don't continue to contact Master Xuan.
Also, don't explore that discovered hideout. Find a safe place to rest for the night, and Dean Qian and I will come to pick you up tomorrow morning.
——Fan Yu
"Is Dean Qian coming in person? But it would be difficult for Dean Qian alone to handle the problem that has caused Elder Xuan to lose contact."
Long You projected the information, and after seeing the reply from the academy, the reserve team members breathed a sigh of relief, but were also somewhat worried about whether Dean Qian alone could really solve this problem.
"Now is not the time to worry about whether Dean Qian can solve this problem. We need to change our location as soon as possible. This location is already known to Elder Xuan. Even if we all shrink into the luxury sphere, we won't be able to hide once we know the exact location."
"Then let's hurry up. You should have brought another set of these signal towers, right? Never mind that set of signal towers. We overlooked the possibility that Elder Xuan might be controlled. We must remedy this situation immediately."
Without further ado, everyone in the reserve team except for Long You and He Caitou entered the deluxe sphere. Long You and He Caitou became invisible and began their journey.
None of the locations along the route we took from the Star Luo Empire's military camp are places we should be considering now.
After setting off, Long You and He Caitou immediately deviated from the direction they had taken that morning. After five minutes of flight, with their flight soul tools at full power, the two of them had arrived at a place fifty kilometers away from their original base, carrying the luxury ball.
The spot where Long You and He Caitou stopped was not a good hiding place, whether viewed from afar or up close. It was a rocky beach in a continuous mountain range, where a stream rushing down from a nearby mountain made a very sharp turn.
Under the influence of gravity, the water in the bay is deep and swift, and a small area beside the bay is completely filled with debris and silt carried down from the mountain peaks by the current. It can be said that this place is one of the few in the entire mountain range that would attract attention and then be overlooked if viewed from the sky.
(I was attracted by the lack of trees, but ignored it because the place was obviously not a place to hide people, with only large rocks and a thin layer of mud and sand.)
"Let's do it here. Elder Xuan doesn't know about the Luxury Ball. We'll just dig a hole in the riverbed of Deep Water Bay and fix the Luxury Ball inside. With the current flow rate and the amount of silt in the water, it will be buried very quickly."
Even if someone comes with a ground-detecting soul tool to scan this stream, they'll only think the luxury sphere is a rock.
"Okay, go dig a hole, I'll bury some pinhole cameras in the mud and sand."
In He Caitou's view, the hiding place chosen by Long You was perfectly fine. The only problem was that they needed to maintain a means of observation. To prevent a situation where a large number of detection soul tools were deployed, only to have their location exposed because of these devices, the arrangement of this means of observation required some skill.