Chapter 71: Soul beast?

The ultivehicle landed in a place. And in this place, a little below a hundred people could be seen.

This large number of people consisted of both young boys and girls who were of the ages between fifteen to seventeen.

These students were from seven institutions in the state. These institutions were the Skywalker academy, Crimson Phoenix academy, Golden Lion academy, Southern Roar academy, Greenwood academy, Victoria Girls academy and Kings academy.

Including Alex's academy, there were eight schools in total.

When everyone were fully gathered. They were told to look everywhere for the water dragon egg in this area individually or in groups and anyone that was able to discover where the egg was should give a signal by shooting an energy beam into the sky from the location they were in.

Also, anyone who was able to produce the location of the egg could exchange it for something from any of the eight academies.

It would be like an auction between that student and any of the eight academies. Any of them that could produce an item of more value would get the egg. That was what the instructors from the academy decided upon.

This was to boost the battling atmosphere between the students.

And so, they began their search.

This area they were in was a lush green mountainous valley.

Many kilometers away could be seen a large forest. It had tall trees that had tall canopies which blocked out sunlight from reaching the forest floor. So the forest was partially dark as light from the sun couldn't fully penetrate through.

The boys from Alex's academy formed their own group. As Alex was someone they disliked so much all because of instructor Jennifer chose him over them, they formed their own groups and left him to be on his own.

They didn't want to explore this region adventurously with him in their group.

Alex didn't mind this. The only that he minded which gave him fear was that he could sense something evil was lurking around and looking at him.

....

Jennifer was still thinking about Alex's safety when the ultivehicle she was in stopped in the middle of nowhere.

Nowhere meant it was an isolated region far from the inhabitation of any race.

Jennifer's brows furrowed.

She asked "Why are we stopping here?"

"I don't know what happened. Something is wrong with the engine. Let me go check it out" One of them said.

Then they began to come down from the vehicle one after the other.

Jennifer was surprised.

"Why are they all coming down?" she asked inwardly.

"Or are they planning something against me? They want to lure me to come down too as they would feel I would become suspicious of their questionable activities. Hmm. I would remain here" she said in her mind.

She didn't come down from the ultivehicle. She wanted to see what these people wanted to do.

The people who came down began to work on the ultivehicle.

Many minutes later, nothing happened.

But Jennifer remained alert. She readied herself for any thing that was going to happen as she could detect something fishy was going on.

She listened and prepared herself. At the moment, she could hear sounds coming from where the people worked on the ultivehicle.

Many minutes later...

Twelve people suddenly appeared in the air. They had shot over at extreme speed from different nearby places.

The instant they arrived at that altitude in the air, they discharged enormous energy-attacks at the ultivehicle she was in.

Jennifer saw the attacks shooting towards her at great speed. Then she tried to come out of the ultivehicle. But she discovered there was a barrier of light that prevented her from doing so.

This barrier was emitting from an array that had been set up by the people that came down from the ultivehicle.

Her eyes burned with fury when she thought in this direction.

Bastards!

Then she tried punching to break out of it, but just before her fist could connect to the ultivehicle, the massive energy-attacks rained in on the ultivehicle.

Boom!!

Boom!!...

Several massive explosions occurred.

When the ultivehicle was first impacted by the attacks, a huge mushroom cloud of orange fire appeared when it exploded and abruptly, a wave of destructive power erupted from the blast.

The huge cloud of fire rose to the sky and bathed everywhere in the light and heat emitting from it.

The energy-attacks unleashed carried hundreds of millions of tons of force.

Several large craters could be seen in the earth and and blackened tiny fragments of the ultivehicle laid about on the ground.

The people who launched offensives at Jennifer remained afloat in the air with their brows furrowed.

"She didn't die?" they asked in a perplexed tone inwardly.

As powerful cultivators at the saint emperor stage, they also had powerful physical senses.

They could hear her heartbeat and that it was beating normally. It didn't sound like a heartbeat that was slowly fading away. Instead, it had a steady and strong rhythm that made it seem she was confident.

Then they waited.

They wanted to see what would remain of her from that terrifying explosion.

A moment later, Jennifer flew out of one of the craters she was in.

The people looked at her and saw her fully covered in a grey armor.

The armor glowed in a dark grey light for sometime before it dimmed.

Then it vanished off her body appearing in the storage space of her spatial ring.

This was one of the items Alex gave Jennifer that morning. It was a treasure-armor that would protect the wearer from the energy-attacks of experts in the sage stage.

When she came out of the crater in the glowing grey armor, the experts were shocked.

They quickly regained their seriousness and sent out another round of attacks at her.

"Sky Immolating fire"

"Heaven shattering Saber strike"...

They launched barrages of powerful energy-attacks at her. These attacks moved with the force to shatter mountains.

Seeing the numerous formidable attacks coming at her, Jennifer quickly produced a pentagon-shaped shield which produced a large shield of energy in front of her. This shield of energy had the same shape as the shield in her hand which was pentagon.

Boom!

The attacks smashed into the massive screen of energy produced by the shield. As soon as the attacks collided with it, a powerful wave of energy was released and it rushed into the distance in all directions wreaking havoc. But it couldn't cause vast degree of damages on the ground as the wave raged high in the air.

With the dozen attacks that impacted the shield of energy, it didn't break. Except when the attacks smashed into the shield, Jennifer was knocked backward by a few feet.

But no damage happened to her. Her bones couldn't shatter from the impact of the attacks. They could resist the shock that transferred to her arm from the collision of the attacks with the shield.

Although the dozen attacks moved with the power to level mountains, as they could deliver hundred million tons of force each. Her bones were durable to the degree only more than billion tons of force could break them as they had been vastly augmented in hardness and toughness to a great degree.

Besides, the shield protected her. It was a powerful treasure Alex saw in one of the numerous spatial rings in his dad's spatial necklace. It was useful for a saint emperor-stage expert.

The brows of these people wrinkled.

How's this possible?

What's making her so strong?

That flurry of attacks should have killed her.

Isn't she in the saint emperor realm?

This?

These questions shot through their minds at the speed of lightning.

Jennifer looked at them and said "Who sent you? If you give me the answer, although am a ruthless person, I may allow you go"

The experts looked at her with a sinister gaze.

Then one said with a smirk "If I were you, I would just run"

Jennifer laughed "Run. To where? To the academy? I am going nowhere until I get to the end of this." she said.

"Then you can just leave your life behind" One of them said.

The moment he finished saying this, lot of expert appeared in the air. They had also shot over from different places they hid in.

Jennifer looked at them and became deeply surprised. There were more than forty of them at the saint emperor stage.

"These people have planned well to eliminate me. What did I do to provoke the ire of a society of murderous cultivators?" Jennifer asked inwardly.

Gazing at them with coldness in her eyes, she asked "How exactly did I summon the attention of you bastards?"

Haha!

One of them laughed "You were warned but you refused to listen. Since you wouldn't listen to live, then you should listen to the summoning call of your death. Kill her" he said looking at his colleagues.

With eyes that radiated nefariousness, they produced powerful treasure-weapons and launched devastating energy-attacks at her.

Jennifer quickly produced the sky-splitting sword and deployed a battle-technique from the battle methodology she studied.

"Twin Killing Lotus"

She shouted and slashed out.

The instant she slashed out, sky blue and crimson-red sharpforce energies (energy of sharpness), produced from arrays in the voidstones, erupted from the sword in enormous amounts.

These energies condensed and shaped into a blue and red lotus that shot towards the incoming attacks.

These lotuses each spanned a size of ten thousand meters. They emitted pulses of power that matched that of the attack of a cultivator in the sage general stage.

As they shot through the air towards the attacks, the air around them and to thousands of feet churned.

It roiled due to the sage general level-power of sharpness emitting from them. It was like the attacks Jennifer sent out were each composed of tens of thousands of large swords that spanned dozens of miles.

Boom!!

The two lotuses collided into the attacks and a ear-splitting boom sound rang out. Then a wave of energy erupted from it and traveled into the distance.

This wave seemed to possess the power to destroy all in it path as it dispersed the clouds in the sky. It swept both Jennifer and her attackers into the distance.

But possessing a powerful skeletal framework, she was knocked by a few feet before she regained her balance. While the others were knocked back by more than forty feet.

When they regained their balance, they looked at Jennifer with astonishment and slight fear in their eyes.

What was that attack?

Is that not an attack of an expert in the sage general stage?

Did that sword in her hand produce the energy-attack?

What treasure-weapon. Where did she get that?

Many more of these questions flashed in their heads as their minds reeled in awe from the powerful dual attacks produced by the sword.

They didn't know the sword only produced the energy while she infused her comprehension of the method she studied into it which was at the sage general level.

Her comprehension had broken through into the perfection realm of the sage general stage.

These people became slightly frightful.

She possessed the strength to use a sage general weapon and she could withstand the aura of power emanating from the sword.

This wasn't what they were told about her.

They prepared to launch attacks at Jennifer when she suddenly flew away.

They were surprised she ran, and when they recovered from this state, they began to chase after her.

Jennifer wanted to attack them too. But then, she thought about Alex. If she could be attacked out here, Alex might not be safe back at the academy.

Then she thought of that one person that would implement these evil designs against her.

Micah!

...

While Alex was on his own in the forest doing his best to look for the water dragon egg, he suddenly heard a roar in the distance.

Roar!!

This roar seemed to come from everywhere. It shook everyone's soul.

Alex's eyes shone.

A soul beast!?