Ning Rongrong, seeing Zhu Zhuqing awake, hurried to her side.
"Zhuqing, did you just obtain an External Spirit Bone?"
The Little Cat looked at her right hand in confusion, where something indeed seemed to have appeared.
A terrifying claw popped out, fully thirty centimeters long.
"Are you talking about this? Is this the External Spirit Bone?"
Zhu Zhuqing, who didn't know much about this either, held out the claw to Ning Rongrong, wanting her to help identify it.
Ning Rongrong curiously touched the tip of the claw with her finger, and soon a bloody mark appeared on her finger, slowly oozing blood.
"Wuwuwu, it hurts so much, this is too sharp!"
Looking at Ning Rongrong, who was sucking her finger with a aggrieved expression, everyone found it very amusing.
"Rongrong, you haven't said whether it's an External Spirit Bone or not?"
Xiao Wu came to her little sister's side with a worried face and asked.
"That's right, this must be an External Spirit Bone."
"Zhuqing, your luck is too good!"
Zhu Zhuqing contentedly retracted the claw on her right hand, looking at everyone beside her with gratitude.
"This is all thanks to everyone's help, otherwise I couldn't have dealt with this Shadow Demon Wolf alone."
"What are you saying? We're all teammates, helping each other is what we should do."
Just as the girls were modestly giving way to each other, a gloomy voice rang in everyone's ears.
"Hehehe, little kids, should I say you're lucky or unlucky?"
The sudden voice made all the little ones tense up, anxiously looking around.
"Who's there, come out!"
As soon as the words fell, the jungle not far away parted, and a figure slowly appeared in everyone's sight.
It was a middle-aged man with a head full of silver hair, about 50 years old.
"Who are you? What do you want to do?"
Ning Rongrong looked at the man in front of her with displeasure and asked.
"My name is Shi Nian, a teacher at Canghui Academy. I didn't expect that bringing students out for Soul Hunting this time would allow me to encounter little kids with Spirit Bones."
"Are you going to hand them over yourselves, or do I have to take them by force?"
The arrogant words seemed to have the measure of all the little ones, causing them to frown.
Ning Rongrong directly rolled up her sleeves and started cursing. My brother is right above me, how could I let you bully me?
"Where did this old geezer come from, spouting nonsense here? If you have the ability, come up and try to snatch one for this grandma to see!"
"That's right, that's right, what kind of thing dares to come and freeload."
Xiao Wu came to her little sisters' side and nodded in agreement, looking at the middle-aged man with an unkind expression.
Shi Nian looked at the two girls in front of him with a gloomy expression, then revealed a cruel smile. He had not intended to spare the lives of these children in the first place.
"Then don't blame me. Pay attention when you reincarnate next time. A Soul Sage is not someone you can afford to offend."
Shi Nian, who thought that announcing his cultivation level would shock the other party, was slightly stunned by the disdainful expressions on the group's faces.
"Soul Sage? I thought you were an enshrinement from the Spirit Hall. How dare you come in front of your grandma and shout."
Ning Rongrong looked at Shi Nian with a disdainful expression.
Then, without saying any more nonsense, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was released, adding three layers of buffs to her partners.
Everyone understood and released their Spirits one after another, intending to besiege Shi Nian. They didn't think that an opponent of this level needed Ning Bei to come down and help.
Shi Nian looked at the Spirit Ring configurations of the little ones and felt his heart sink. He had only seen Zhu Zhuqing's Soul Grandmaster level in the dark before, and thought that the other party was just an ordinary academy's Soul Hunting Team.
Now that he saw that there was actually a Soul King in the team, and that three of them had ten-thousand-year Fourth Spirit Rings, he immediately thought of the other party's terrifying background.
After hesitating for a moment, Shi Nian gritted his teeth and revealed a hideous smile. If he didn't leave all these children behind, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Little fellows, don't blame me for being cruel. I don't want to be hunted down by the existence behind you."
After receiving Ning Rongrong's assistance, Long Nianbing's kitchen knives began to condense in his palm. Seeing that the other party intended to attack, he directly launched an attack first.
"Arrogant Sky Blade, Whisper of the Wind."
The Fourth Spirit Ring on his body lit up, and countless kitchen knives shot towards Shi Nian with the force of breaking wind, leaving obvious marks in the sky.
A'Dai didn't dare to neglect when he saw this. The Third Spirit Ring surged, disappearing from everyone's sight and merging with the earth.
Zhu Zhuqing used her Spirit to constantly wander around Shi Nian, intending to seize the opportunity to act.
Xiao Wu did not step forward to attack, but stood in front of Ye Yinzhu and Rongrong.
Countless kitchen knives pierced through Shi Nian in front of him, and A'Dai also drilled out from the ground, activating his Fourth Soul Skill and entering Shi Nian's body, with a scythe floating above his head.
Seeing an opportunity, Zhu Zhuqing in the distance quickly came to Shi Nian's side, and the Third Soul Skill Nether Slash was activated.
A terrifying wound was cut out on Shi Nian's back.
A'Dai, who had sucked up his Soul Power, also controlled the scythe to chop down, beheading Shi Nian on the ground.
"Tch, is this a Soul Sage? He's not even as difficult to deal with as those Soul Devouring Beetles."
Ning Rongrong looked at the fallen Shi Nian with a speechless expression and complained.
Everyone also returned to her side with a relaxed expression.
It's just that everyone didn't see that Shi Nian's head on the ground was trembling slightly, and the corner of his mouth curled up into a strange smile.
"Next, we'll just help Rongrong and Little Yezi find Spirit Rings, right?"
"That's right, but it's too late. Let's find a place to rest for the night and continue tomorrow morning."
Ye Yinzhu put forward his suggestion, and everyone did not refuse.
Just as everyone was about to set off to find a place to rest.
The surrounding scenery shattered like a mirror.
The little ones were immediately startled and hurriedly looked around.
"You guys are still thinking about resting? You're about to be wiped out, don't you think a Soul Sage is so easy to deal with?"
Ning Bei's familiar voice reached their ears, filled with blame.
"Second Young Master?"
"Brother!"
The little ones were all delighted to see Ning Bei's figure, followed by deep confusion, wondering why he said that.
"Who are you? How dare you interfere with this old man's business."
Shi Nian's figure reappeared in front of everyone, causing the little ones to be slightly stunned. Looking back, there was no sign of Shi Nian's corpse. It turned out that everything before was a dream.
Ning Bei ignored Shi Nian's clamor and continued to lecture the little ones.
"This guy's Spirit is Lingering Dream, which can create illusions within a certain space. If I hadn't come out, you would have been caught by this guy."
The little fellows lowered their heads in shame after hearing Ning Bei's explanation. It seemed that they still had a long way to go.
Shi Nian was furious when he saw the young man in front of him ignoring him and talking to himself.
"Boy, do you want to die? This old man is a Soul Sage."
Shi Nian observed Ning Bei for a while, seeing that he looked to be at most in his early twenties, and thought that he was just a Soul King like the little girls in the team at best.
As for why the other party was able to break his illusion, he assumed that the other party had special means and did not take Ning Bei seriously.
Ning Bei glanced over irritably when he saw that the old boy dared to chatter on and on.
"Soul Sage? You dare to yap in front of me with this level of strength? Are you in such a hurry to be reincarnated?"
"Even if the Spirit Hall's Pope comes, he has to lie on the ground!"
Shi Nian only thought that the boy in front of him was making fun of him, how would he know that it was true!
Even the little ones beside him showed strange expressions after hearing Ning Bei's words.
"Boy, you're asking for death."
The furious Shi Nian directly released his Spirit, intending to torture this ignorant boy properly.
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