167: You've messed with the wrong person.

From the moment he landed, Su Ze sent out the Shadow Moon Wolf King and the Golden Feather Phoenix.

A level 90 Lord-rank monster plus a level 98 Divine Beast were simply overwhelming existences for this small-scale battlefield.

So much so that there was no need to send Hanba out; Su Ze also didn't want to expose her so early.

"The battle will be over soon. Let's head out first."

Xu Yao no longer hesitated, and Wang Zi followed suit upon seeing this.

They soon reached the rear of the battlefield, looking at the rows of neat tents before them.

Xu Yao led Su Ze to the very back of the camp, where the tents were clearly different in style, lacking some of the solemn air of war.

Xu Yao introduced, "The ones in front are the Spirit Guard Army's camp. This area is the shared camp for our four Beast Taming Universities."

"Each Beast Taming University sent their top students to the battlefield to temper themselves in life-and-death combat and increase their strength faster."

"You know them all; they're the outstanding students who participated in the Beast Taming Grand Competition."

"Wang Zi and I came on our own to help avenge you, so we pale in comparison to them."

Just as Xu Yao finished speaking, a hearty female voice came from the side: "Sister Xu Yao is too modest. Your Merman Lord's elusive mental attacks are impossible to guard against, and the Azure Phoenix Butterfly's large-scale toxin attacks are enough to influence the situation even if they only paralyze those devils."

"The role you've played in this war is much greater than ours."

Then, Su Ze saw an acquaintance walk up to Xu Yao's side. It was Lin Queer, the number one seed of Vermilion Bird Beast Taming University whom he had eliminated during the Beast Taming Grand Competition.

Lin Queer cautiously shielded Xu Yao behind her, then whispered, "How is it? Have you confirmed it's that lecher?"

Xu Yao nodded, then frowned and said, "Sister Queer, Brother Su Ze did eliminate you in the Beast Taming Grand Competition, but he's no lecher! You can't still be holding a grudge, can you?"

Lin Queer immediately retorted, "I'm not holding a grudge. Do you know what kind of methods he used to eliminate me? He... he..."

Lin Queer stammered for a long while, her face turning red, unable to finish her sentence.

"Ugh, anyway, he's just a lecher! He clearly could have used that phoenix to eliminate me, but he chose not to. Who does he think he's looking down on! Hmph!"

As Lin Queer spoke, she gave Su Ze a fierce glare.

Su Ze scratched his head awkwardly, but his use of Shadow Stab that time had indeed been an accident.

"Are you two... very close now?" Su Ze asked tentatively.

Xu Yao nodded and smiled, saying, "That's right. Because there aren't many girls here, and it's inconvenient to live with others, they put us girls together."

"Besides Sister Queer, there's also Senior Sister Liu Yiyi, Sister Luo Xingyu from White Tiger Beast Taming University, and Xue Yuhe from Imperial Capital Beast Taming University..."

Xu Yao counted them off on her fingers, looking very happy.

She had been grieving because she thought Su Ze was dead, but now that the real Su Ze had appeared before her unharmed, the joy in her heart was beyond words.

Su Ze also nodded; after all, these were all acquaintances he had dealt with during the Beast Taming Grand Competition.

As the frontline battle ended quickly under the intervention of the wolf and the phoenix, they all retreated to the rear.

Su Ze saw Wang Zi eagerly running to the side of the cold-faced beauty Luo Xingyu, who was walking toward them.

He was attentively handing her water and food.

Liu Yiyi and Xue Yuhe were also by her side.

"Is it really him this time?" Liu Yiyi asked.

After Xu Yao nodded affirmatively again, she also came up and patted Su Ze on the shoulder, saying, "Not bad, kid! You actually made it back from Fuso alive!"

Luo Xingyu also nodded expressionlessly at Su Ze and offered her congratulations, though her lips seemed to curl into a slight smile only when Wang Zi pestered her.

"Looks like this kid might have a chance!"

The only one who was a bit awkward was Xue Yuhe. After all, Su Ze had exposed her cheating, which had affected her reputation and that of the entire Xue Family.

Her participation in this war was also to clear her family's name.

In the end, she braced herself to greet Su Ze, and Su Ze didn't give her the cold shoulder either.

Then, the others watched as Xu Yao hurriedly pulled Su Ze to an empty patch of land behind the tents, following them out of curiosity.

Xu Yao rubbed her chin and searched for a moment before finding a small mound of earth and saying, "Found it! It's buried right there!"

Su Ze also hurried over, took the shovel Wang Zi had just brought from the camp, and dug down with a few quick strokes.

Soon, he dug out the Void Spirit Turtle from about half a meter deep.

Fortunately, one of a turtle's greatest strengths was its resilience.

After opening its mouth a couple of times to breathe the fresh air, it fell back into the slumber brought on by evolution.

"Fortunately, nothing went wrong."

As Su Ze spoke, he brushed the dirt off the Void Spirit Turtle and put it into his beast taming space.

Seeing this, the others finally let go of the last trace of doubt in their hearts.

Su Ze then turned to Xu Yao and said, "The war on this side should be over. There's a high probability that the Fuso mainland won't be able to send any more reinforcements. Let's go back."

Luo Xingyu, who hadn't spoken, stepped forward and asked Su Ze, "How do you know no one will come to reinforce them? What did you do on the Fuso mainland?"

From the moment she saw that wolf and phoenix, she had guessed that the real Su Ze would likely show up.

But the combat power displayed by the Shadow Moon Wolf King and Feng Qingyi left her dumbfounded.

It was hard to imagine that Su Ze, who had been forced to go to the enemy's headquarters for a period of time, had not only not died but had returned with a leap in strength.

Could it be that Fuso was actually a charitable organization? That was obviously impossible!

Su Ze didn't hide anything; he simply mentioned that the Fuso Emperor was dead, the three General Commanders were all dead, and the Hidden Guard was leaderless.

This made the others stare in even greater disbelief.

Wang Zi asked directly, "I say, good brother, you're not bragging, are you? You went to Fuso for just a few days, so how did you make it look like they're on the verge of national collapse?"

Su Ze didn't know how to answer, so he could only say, "Probably... because they messed with the wrong person."