There was no earth-shattering boom, nor the sound of bones cracking. Instead, there was only a silent stillness.
Moonlight pierced through the Black Armored Rhinoceros's head, bleaching its black armor.
Its remaining eyeball glazed over.
"Leino."
Zhang Lexuan transmitted her voice using her soul power.
In fact, even before Zhang Lexuan's warning, Leino, who had been hiding in the shadows for a long time, had already charged out. A sharp spear appeared in his hand, and propelled by the force of his soul guide, he arrived directly in front of the Black Armored Rhinoceros. He thrust the spear forward, piercing its brain.
Before the Black Armored Rhinoceros could even let out a cry of pain, its massive body suddenly collapsed, shaking the ground. Soon, a ring of black soul power condensed from it, hovering a meter above the corpse.
"We did it!" Leino exclaimed with delight.
In the shadows, Li Yongyue licked his lips, a little embarrassed. He hadn't even done anything, and the hunt was already over.
On the other side, Ye Xiaosheng and Huo Yuhao emerged from the bushes, arriving at the Black Armored Rhinoceros's place of death.
Zhang Lexuan clasped her hands together, retracting her soul rings and martial soul. She gracefully walked over to the group, her gaze softening again.
"Absorb it."
"Thank you, Senior Sister, and thank you all." Leino nodded excitedly, then sat cross-legged, releasing his martial soul to begin drawing in the soul ring for absorption.
Normally, a twenty-thousand-year soul ring would be difficult for most people to absorb. However, the inner court students of Shrek Academy had consumed a lot of nourishing food, so their physical qualities were naturally much stronger than ordinary soul masters. Absorbing it wasn't too difficult.
"Looks like I just played a supporting role." Li Yongyue walked over, saying apologetically.
"There's no need to apologize," Zhang Lexuan comforted. "This hunt was very successful. The Black Armored Rhinoceros barely had the ability to fight back, and even its Innate Soul Skill release was interrupted. To be honest, I've led teams several times, and this is the first time it's been so easy."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao and Li Yongyue exchanged a smile. Even the usually stern Ye Xiaosheng's lips curved slightly, though his gaze remained fixed on Huo Yuhao.
He owed his successful shot to Huo Yuhao's soul skill. Without it, finding a suitable ambush point would have been impossible, and alerting the prey would have been disastrous.
"Xiaosheng, Yongyue, have you decided what kind of soul beast you're looking for to absorb?" Zhang Lexuan asked, taking advantage of the downtime.
The two of them exchanged glances and shook their heads.
Seeing this, Zhang Lexuan nodded silently. "It seems we'll have to go with what we find. What about you, Yuhao?"
Asked by his senior sister, Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment before voicing his thoughts. "I hope my second soul ring can be over a thousand years old, and also have a soul skill that helps me better utilize my spiritual power."
"As you know, my first soul skill has no offensive capabilities, so even if the second one doesn't have offensive power, I still want it to have strong control."
Zhang Lexuan was silent for a moment before saying, "Spirit-attribute soul beasts are always the hardest to find. But my biggest concern is, can your body handle a soul ring over a thousand years old?"
"I can." Huo Yuhao said in a low voice. "I won't joke around with my life, and Teacher is here too. Even if I fail to absorb it, he can intervene to interrupt the process."
"Alright."
Zhang Lexuan took a deep look at Huo Yuhao. Actually, she still found it somewhat unbelievable. When she first met Huo Yuhao, he wasn't even a Soul Master. Yet, within a year, he had already advanced to become a Great Soul Master, and his soul skills were so unique.
With the help of Spiritual Probe, the group effortlessly guarded Leino. His absorption process took a full four hours.
The sky had gradually darkened, with only a sliver of twilight remaining on the horizon. Large numbers of birds were visible, soaring through the sky, their 'caw-caw' sounds never ceasing.
The Star Dou Great Forest at night was significantly more dangerous.
"Whoosh."
Leino suddenly woke up from the absorption, his eyes opening. A powerful surge of soul power spread outwards, and six soul rings rose from his body: two yellow, two purple, and two black.
Looking at the soul rings on his body, Leino's expression became excited.
Huo Yuhao and the others immediately offered their blessings.
"Alright, let's find a safe place to rest. It's not suitable to hunt soul beasts at night," Zhang Lexuan nodded with satisfaction.
The group first cut off the valuable parts of the Black Armored Rhinoceros. Then, after Leino retrieved the two Sonic Vibration Bombs that hadn't been triggered, they quickly left the area.
Not long after they left, the soul beasts that had been too afraid to approach because of the Black Armored Rhinoceros's aura were immediately drawn to a delicious buffet. A group of soul beasts of various sizes rushed out from the bushes and began to tear apart and devour the Black Armored Rhinoceros's corpse.
For soul beasts, devouring is also a good way to quickly increase their cultivation.
Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Probe continued to function. Even though it was very dark in the forest, everyone remained unconcerned. However, after nightfall, the number of times the Spiritual Probe's alarm was triggered increased. In just one hour of searching for a safe path, Huo Yuhao estimated that they had encountered no less than three hundred soul beasts, with the lowest age being over two thousand years.
The strongest aura they encountered was even a Six-Eyed Mad Lion, a soul beast with a spirit attribute that was over sixty thousand years old. Although Huo Yuhao was envious, he knew his own limits.
In the end, Yan Shaozhe took action to drive the creature away. In reality, it had been attracted by the Spiritual Probe, as it was highly sensitive to the same spirit attribute.
"Judging by the path we took, the frequency of soul beast appearances has decreased significantly," Zhang Lexuan said, raising her right hand to signal everyone to stop. "Yuhao, expand the range of your soul skill and search back and forth in a straight line."
Huo Yuhao nodded, continuously releasing the mental power within his sea of consciousness, increasing the distance of his Spiritual Probe.
Soon, what appeared before everyone's eyes was a slightly elevated area, surrounded by dense bushes, a perfect spot for camping.
Zhang Lexuan secretly nodded, thinking, "Alright, let's choose..."
Suddenly, just as Zhang Lexuan was about to decide on that location, the Spiritual Probe triggered an alert, a slight fluctuation.
Clearly, Huo Yuhao had scanned soul beasts, and there was more than one.
Zhang Lexuan glanced at Huo Yuhao, and he gently nodded, focusing his gaze on that area, carefully examining it.
Soon, a scene that surprised everyone appeared.
Leino saw five soul beasts, each with an age of roughly a thousand years, standing together. They had a hundred-year-old soul beast in their mouths. These soul beasts weren't even of the same species, yet they stood together in perfect harmony.
This immediately made Zhang Lexuan wary.
As Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Probe moved slightly to the left, everyone's expressions subtly changed.
Not far in front of these five thousand-year soul beasts, a bizarre-looking soul beast was growing.
Yes, growing.
Because this was a plant-type soul beast.
This soul beast was over six meters tall and looked like a combination of a willow and a poplar tree. What was terrifying was that the main trunk of this tree had several crimson eyes, which were constantly turning, just like how people's eyeballs move when they look in different directions.
The countless branches were also wriggling constantly, like living snakes.
"This is a Demon Eye Tree," Zhang Lexuan said, her eyebrows raising.
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