Chapter 8: Escape

Meanwhile, in the previous camp...

After the noises coming from outside the tents in that area, all five of Cheng Tian and Lin Long's companions soon left their tents one after the other.

However, to their misfortune or luck, Cheng Tian could no longer be seen in the vicinity, and Lin Long and the teacher responsible for them were already dead!

Lin Long had died a cruel death after having his martial soul destroyed, and spirit rings absorbed by Cheng Tian. His formerly tall and robust body had withered away, and his face had a terrifying expression, capable of causing insomnia to the weakest who saw him at the moment.

As for the middle-aged teacher, he died with a cut on his neck, while he had a terrified look on his face, looking in the direction from which Cheng Tian had fled.

Seeing that situation, Shen Mei immediately spread her fern around the surrounding area, trying to understand the presence of enemies nearby.

She was shocked to find this situation after waking up 30 seconds ago because of the noises from earlier, 'How did this happen? How can an enemy appear so quickly and disappear like that?' She wondered in awe.

"Teacher!" The young woman with the unicorn martial soul said in a terrified tone as she fell to her knees on the ground.

Her boyfriend went to support her, also fearful of the situation, but already with his martial soul active, ready to act if necessary.

On the other hand, Mo Jiayi was looking at Lin Long's corpse with a pale expression on his face, shocked to see his most faithful servant fallen in this place.

'What happened? How? Who did this?' He clenched his fists in frustration.

After a moment's thought, he suddenly noticed Cheng Tian's absence and asked. "Hey, where is Cheng Tian?"

"Hmm, I'm not sensing him in the vicinity either..." Shen Mei said in a worried tone, already imagining that that poor fellow had met a similar fate to the two dead ones there.

Gong Xiu then frowned, looking from one side to the other, "What are we going to do? Something has definitely happened, and this training cannot continue."

"You are right. We have to flag the leader of this training. Then, maybe the academy can chase down the person responsible for this and find out what happened to Cheng Tian."

"You two," She said to the couple near the teacher's body. "Look at our teacher's belongings."

"I believe there must be something for us to use to contact the person responsible for that training."

After that, the young man next to the woman in tears did as his leader directed, quickly finding a small item with an academy seal on it.

Boom!

After triggering such a thing, a blast rose into the sky, creating a luminous effect in the sky that could be seen from dozens of miles away.

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Seeing the emergency signal from a distance, the third teacher participating in this training looked in the direction of the light source in the sky and felt a bad omen.

He then used his emergency item, calling back the other group and teacher and alerting the academy that something had happened.

He moved quickly through that forested area, not taking long to reach that group's location.

"Teacher, something happened while we were sleeping..."

After promptly seeing that person approaching them, Shen Mei let her guard down a little and began to tell him aloud what her group had seen.

After a few seconds, that man approached the bodies in the area, completely shocked that such a tragedy had happened in the middle of an academy training session.

'Damn it!'

'They're dead!' He clenched his fists, regretting that such a situation had developed on his watch.

He then looked at Lin Long's corpse, unable to explain how it had perished, and asked himself, 'Who could have done that? Such a person cannot be normal...'

'To make matters worse, even one of our students is missing.'

"Sigh!"

"You five, go back to the academy immediately and lock yourselves in your rooms. I will talk to you when the situation becomes clearer."

"Teacher..."

"Go, quickly!"

"I won't be around for long, so you'd better get back while it's safe."

"Yes, teacher!" The five finally left their positions, departing back to the academy.

They were all scared, but as only students with little power or influence, they could only do that for the moment.

'I wonder what happened to Cheng Tian?' Gong Xiu thought about this in silence, worrying about him but also feeling relief.

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She obviously did not wish he would die the same way as those two. After all, she had once had good feelings for him. But as someone who already had a life without him in mind, Gong Xiu could not help but feel the relief of not having him around.

On the other hand, Mo Jiayi enjoys that the 'rock' in his path was finally gone. But not as much as he would like. 'Damn!'

'How am I going to explain this to my family? Lin Long was a subordinate, but he had many prospects!'

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In the blink of an eye, many members of Cryptid Academy joined the two remaining teachers in that training area to go ahead with a pursuit.

Today's events had been terrible, something that even in the violent Douluo Continent was not something that happened often. And considering that it had all happened in their backyard, investigations soon moved forward in pursuit of the many tracks in the area.

'Damn it!'

'They're closing in on me!' The red-eyed young man said this in his mind, feeling frustrated at being in such a bleak situation.

'There's no other way! I'll have to enter the Star Dou Great Forest! Only then will I be able to escape those pursuers!'

After deciding to follow that dangerous path, Cheng Tian rushed into that area, constantly with his Sharingan activated to avoid, as much as possible, trouble on his way.

Heading south of Soutuo City, he used the treetops to move around, sometimes leaving false clues in the surroundings to throw off his pursuers.

In doing so, soon more than an hour had passed since Lin Long's death, by which time Cheng Tian had moved several kilometers from his previous point and entered the outermost part of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Arriving at that place, home to several powerful beasts, Cheng Tian could not appreciate the magnificent scenery given the worry in his mind and physical fatigue.

However, he could still feel a sensation in his body as if he was still affected by the absorption of Lin Long's spirit rings.

'Looks like I'll have to cultivate for a while to recover my cultivation base...' He pondered as he carefully moved through the thickets.

'This ability to absorb spirit rings... Does it steal the energies of my targets as well? Or is this energy increase due to my martial soul's maturation?'

'But I didn't even make it from level 26 to level 28... Isn't that too little?'

'Maybe it's because of my three martial souls?' As he thought about this, he remembered that beast-type martial souls could raise the physical characteristics of their cultivators when used.

With that, he immediately summoned his earth-beast-type martial soul.

Upon doing so, Cheng Tian's body underwent some transformations; with a light gray layer appearing on his skin, his strength and endurance increased significantly.

'Oh?' He looked down at his hands, feeling better prepared to run around that area.

Unfortunately, luck was not on his side that day.

After running for another few hundred meters, three large scorpions, which Cheng Tian soon identified as Giant Earth Kings, appeared in his vicinity, targeting him.

After noticing this with his Sharingan, his eyebrows furrowed as he made a seal, making three shadow clones.

Then, his fan and two purple rings appeared around his true self, while each clone had a different martial soul activated.

One looked like the mixture of several different living creatures, while the other had long purple tentacles.

With that done, before the three beasts even jumped toward him, one of Cheng Tian's clones used his long and powerful tentacles to chase the three enemies.

At the same time, the other clone made a series of hand seals, activating the most powerful offensive technique he could use at the moment.

Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!

Ssss!

Flames burst from his mouth, while the three enemies already had parts of their bodies trapped by the tentacles of the other clone.

With that, the original Cheng Tian swung his large black and white fan while his second spirit ring glowed intensely.

"Second Skill: Chaotic Winds!"

He attacked one of those beasts, but his fingers formed a different seal before his attack even hit that opponent.

Wood Style: Nativity of a Tree World!

Some wooden branches began to emerge from the ground like snakes, running towards those beasts, intent on piercing them decisively.

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