971: Mu Yun, the dean, Jiaomang Mountain Range and others

Shield City, Yunyong Academy.

Moyun had arrived at the School several hours earlier.

At this moment, under the gaze of the Dean and the Director, he was giving the unconscious Ning Bing the Medicinal Pill he had refined with huan ling grass earlier in the morning.

After finishing this task, Dean Eboer could no longer suppress the questions in his heart and asked Moyun, "Moyun, why did you come back alone? Where are your other teammates?"

Eboer's tone carried some concern.

From the moment he saw Moyun, he had sensed the negative emotions on his body.

Coupled with the fact that the other party had returned to the Academy alone, this made Eboer's heart generate some bad thoughts.

"They're fine," Moyun glanced at Ning Bing on the bed, then got up and led the Dean and the Director out of the room.

"They're fine?" Eboer breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the others were fine.

Then, judging from Moyun's current actions, he also thought of some possibilities.

Perhaps after these Students found the huan ling grass in the Outer Domain, they had Moyun bring the antidote back first, which is why the current situation exists.

Turning his attention to Moyun, Eboer's eyes flashed with a sharp light as he nodded slightly: "Not bad, in just so many days, your strength has increased so much."

"Wen Xiu Cheng's strength has also reached the point where he can absorb the fifth Soul Card without affecting his Foundation, right?"

Absorbing the next card without affecting the Foundation, in the common understanding, requires raising the Cultivation progress of the current Soul Card to over 80%.

After speaking, Eboer immediately asked about Wen Xiu Cheng, the Student he favored most and who was the strongest.

However, these words caused the always calm Moyun to clench his fists slightly: "Wen Xiu Cheng kicked me out of the team!"

This sentence contained strong anger in its tone, but when spoken, it was expressed calmly and clearly.

"Kicked you out of the team?" Eboer's grizzled eyebrows immediately furrowed upon hearing this: "What's going on? What happened when you were in the Outer Domain? How did it escalate to this point?"

"It was Du Xingchen!" Facing this inquiry, Moyun targeted him and said.

"Du Xingchen?" Dean Eboer didn't understand the meaning.

As his questioning expression showed, he waited for Moyun's subsequent narration.

Moyun naturally didn't hold back, and in his words, he exaggeratedly described how Du Xingchen calculated against him, split the team, and committed numerous evil deeds.

Overall, Du Xingchen was the team's scourge, a spy for the Divine Hall, and a hidden danger with malicious intentions!

Eboer's expression twitched with some ferocity upon hearing this, yet there were also several doubts.

Du Xingchen should know that the Divine Hall is his 'father's killer', so how could he be a spy for the Divine Hall?

This question was unexplainable, but it didn't prevent him from looking at the fact that Du Xingchen split the team.

The entire student group was something he had managed and cultivated for half his life, yet one of the members he least needed to care about had turned all his achievements into this state, which was simply challenging his bottom line!

"Giant Rhino should have reported this matter to me!" Eboer's voice deepened considerably amidst his emotional fluctuations.

"Since I had a conflict with Wen Xiu Cheng and was kicked out, I haven't seen Giant Rhino Teacher again. It's very likely that Giant Rhino Teacher was also deceived by Du Xingchen," Moyun narrated the situation from his perspective.

"Hmph! This Giant Rhino truly has no brains!" Eboer cursed angrily: "I didn't expect there to be such a scourge as Du Xingchen among the Students. As the Dean, I must eradicate him!"

When Eboer said these words, Moyun's heart felt slightly joyful.

It seemed the Dean believed him.

Since that was the case, with the Dean's help and under everyone's gaze, he could personally tear off Du Xingchen's disguise and let people see what kind of malicious person he truly was!

...

Under the clear sky, a desolate Gobi desert stretched as far as the eye could see.

On the scorching land, a team of carriages was moving forward in an orderly manner.

Within the convoy, Du Xingchen and his teammates had all entered a state of Cultivation in their respective carriages.

A warm breeze blew in from outside the carriage curtain, and Du Xingchen slowly opened his eyes.

He placed his hands in front of him.

These were a pair of thick, sturdy hands covered in muscle.

After so many days of training with Beast Tempering Pills, his Physical Body was already a size larger than when he started.

This increase wasn't just the thickness accumulated by muscle, but also the bones that had undergone secondary development!

Beneath the surface fat, the flesh and blood that pulsed slowly like a heart were constantly filled with a fierce, beast-like power that could be mobilized at any time!

After this period of Cultivation, Du Xingchen discovered that, unknowingly, his original main Cultivation system, the Soul Card Master's power system, was gradually being caught up by the pure Body Cultivation power.

"Is this comparable to the protagonist's Yin-Yang Five Elements Body Cultivation?" He muttered to himself, looking at the scenery outside.

Returning to the Academy, in fact, was not very urgent.

The reason he decided to set off today was more because some events from the original work had already begun to unfold, and the plot had started to develop, so he had to lead everyone to go!

Just to mention a key plot point on this trip, it was in the Jiaomang Mountain Range they had to pass through on their way back!

Calculating the time, it was about time to go there.

Before Du Xingchen could space out for long, he suddenly sensed an obscure power emanating from a carriage behind him.

That was the carriage Wen Xiu Cheng was in.

With a slight perception, Du Xingchen sensed that this was the aura of Warrior Armor!

Wen Xiu Cheng had completely absorbed the power of the Storm Bull Demon and condensed his own Warrior Armor!

"Roar!"

A muffled roar made the horses in the convoy restless.

The aura released by the Warrior Armor in Wen Xiu Cheng's carriage made even Du Xingchen feel a bit of pressure!

However, in an instant, Du Xingchen felt a strange power directly acting on him!

"Xingchen, this is the additional skill of my Warrior Armor... Wrath Share! It can provide a 20% recovery speed and 20% attack power boost to three teammates simultaneously!"

Wen Xiu Cheng's voice came from the vehicle behind.

Du Xingchen understood.

Wrath Share, in plain terms, was providing a free buff to teammates after activating the Warrior Armor.

As expected of a Beast King of over thirty thousand years, after the card condensed the Warrior Armor, there was still surplus energy, providing Wen Xiu Cheng with an additional skill.

Looking at the entire Five-Star Soul Card Master Realm, those who could have a skill while possessing armor were few and far between!

Regarding Wen Xiu Cheng's gains, the other teammates repeatedly exclaimed in admiration and envy.

And this was just a small interlude on the journey.

The convoy entered the Jiaomang Mountain Range as scheduled.

Du Xingchen did not let the convoy leave the section of the Jiaomang Mountain Range normally.

He guided the direction, leading the convoy into the interior of the Jiaomang Mountain Range!

Upon entering the territory of the Jiaomang Mountain Range, heavy rain immediately fell.

This mountain range blocked too many warm and cold air currents, and the periods without rain were extremely rare.

Looking at the dark depths of the dense forest in the Jiaomang Mountain Range, Du Xingchen couldn't help but think of the plot point in the original work.

There was actually a Demon Hall stronghold existing within this mountain range!

From the timeline, this Demon Hall stronghold was currently in the Jiaomang Mountain Range, cultivating the Heaven's Chosen participating in the Soul Card Master National College Entrance Examination.

Ostensibly, the Demon Hall was not allowed to participate in this Soul Card Master National College Entrance Examination.

But after the Demon Hall changed its identity to some Academy or force, none of this was an issue.

Their actions were actually seen by the major forces, but they didn't say much, everyone had a tacit understanding.

It was impossible for this session of the Soul Card Master National College Entrance Examination to exclude the participation of major forces, let alone the Demon Hall, a top force on the continent.

If they were to fully suppress and exclude the Demon Hall, they were afraid that if the Demon Hall was cornered, it would directly start a war, and everyone wouldn't be able to take the exam!

Also, because of the cover of their false identities, the Demon Hall truly cultivated four teams of geniuses this time!

Among them, the Demon Hall's Fourth Team was training in the Jiaomang Mountain Range.

It was just... the tragedy was that the Demon Hall's Fourth Team, during this time, due to going too deep into the Jiaomang Mountain Range, provoked a Beast King they couldn't afford to offend, resulting in the entire Heaven's Chosen team being wiped out with only one person remaining!

The reason Du Xingchen led the convoy deep into the Jiaomang Mountain Range was because of this matter!

The person who remained was one of the most suitable new teammates, because he, like several other teammates, had God Bloodline in him!

"Stop, rest," When the convoy arrived at a relatively open area, Du Xingchen gave the command.

Before long, several tents were set up in the open space, and the people from the convoy successively entered the tents to avoid the rain.

"Captain, we could just go straight to Shield City and back to the Academy, there's no need to stop and rest, right?" Liangcai Sword looked at Du Xingchen with some confusion and asked.

"Do you think Xingchen doesn't know we can go straight back to Shield City? Xingchen must have his own plans for doing this," Wen Xiu Cheng's voice emerged.

Du Xingchen didn't hesitate for long under the gaze of his teammates: "Before going back, I still need to hunt some Beast Kings to experiment with refining pills."

Du Xingchen explained.

Hunting Beast Kings to experiment with refining pills, this was an excuse.

However, facing Wen Xiu Cheng and the others, he naturally couldn't say he came here to find a new teammate.

After all, in the original work, only one person from the Demon Hall's Fourth Team survived, and if he were to say he was looking for a teammate now, and then after the Beast King annihilated the Demon Hall's Heaven's Chosen team, he would go forward to recruit someone.

In such a situation with a clear purpose, it would inevitably make his teammates feel incredible, and even think it was a scheme he had set up.

Although these teammates wouldn't likely care, once the new teammate knew about this, estrangement was inevitable.

Furthermore, the explanation of first setting up camp and hunting Beast Kings here to experiment with his new pill refining method was more suitable.

After all, in this World, killing Beast Kings didn't require any saintly reasons.

And during the time they stayed here, they would definitely discover the commotion caused by the battle between the Demon Hall's Fourth Team and the Beast King, and naturally, they would be able to reasonably go there and then enter Du Xingchen's own recruitment main storyline.

"Hunting Beast Kings to experiment with refining pills? Captain, what new Medicinal Pill are you going to create now?!"

"Captain, what Beast Kings do you want? Wen Xiu Cheng Boss and I will go catch them for you now!" Liangcai Sword said with an excited expression.

Wen Xiu Cheng, Qing Youyu, and Sun Yingying had no objections.

Of course, this was mainly because there were two Grand Sage Master level existences in the convoy.

With those two overseeing things, they would essentially be in no danger in this Jiaomang Mountain Range.

As the conversations among everyone ended, the continuous heavy rain also brought waves of cold and dark gloom to the land.

At the moment when day and night connected and switched, two days passed in a flash.

Under Du Xingchen's leadership, the entire convoy stayed in this area for a full two days.

During these two days, the heavy rain stopped once, but then welcomed a continuous curtain of rain again.

And their area also attracted quite a few ferocious Beast Kings.

However, they were all completely annihilated by the Jiangshan City powerhouses in the convoy.

This wasn't enough, the people in the convoy heard that Du Xingchen was going to use Beast King corpses to refine some Medicinal Pills, and they even went out to hunt many Beast Kings.

The two Grand Sage Masters didn't make a move; they only took orders from Du Xingchen.

"Xingchen, if you don't have any ideas, the new Medicinal Pill isn't urgent, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. How about we return to the Academy earlier?" Wen Xiu Cheng stood in front of the tent, looking at the large area of vegetation completely soaked by the rain in front of him, and couldn't help but say to Du Xingchen beside him.

Before, he didn't have much desire to return to the School, but during these two days, his attitude and mood slowly changed.

In Wen Xiu Cheng's opinion, he really had to face and figure out his family's revenge!

Otherwise, he couldn't face his deceased relatives at all!

Du Xingchen, however, was not impatient about this: "Wait a little longer, I feel it won't take much time."

A simple sentence, but in Wen Xiu Cheng's ears and in Du Xingchen's heart, it had two different meanings.

And just as he finished speaking...

"Hiss!!"

A hoarse, sharp hiss, spanning dozens of miles, slowly spread like frost!