Master of Nine Stars

Chapter 96 - 77: Road to Survival

Standing guard before the Martial Arts Hall, Si Huan Nian’s heart hardened as she watched the sky fill with shattered Cyan Lotus petals.

At that moment, Si Huan Nian could no longer suppress the rage in her heart. Uncrossing her long legs from her mid-air, cross-legged position, she landed steadily on the ground. "Coach Yang, I’m leaving the students to you."

As she spoke, Si Huan Nian waved her hand, pulling a Battle Saber from the vast expanse of wind and snow. The swarm of Cyan Lotus Petals fluttered up and down, following her wind-whipped hair as she charged toward the Ice Soul Guide in the Martial Arts Arena!

RUMBLE...

With a tremendous crash, a giant axe burning with Azure Flame chopped through the layers of surging Cyan Lotus petals!

In an instant, the sky full of petals was ignited. Under the Azure Flame, embers drifted down like scattered stars...

Overpowering and unstoppable!

The giant axe in Li Lie’s hand was domineering and ferocious. He swung it in a crescent arc, viciously cleaving toward the Ice Soul Guide!

DING!

Another crisp clang rang out!

The main body of the Cyan Lotus Petal, no bigger than a palm, had firmly blocked the enormous battle-axe. The sight was incredibly bizarre.

’How could such a small lotus petal withstand such a ferocious blow!?’

The petal blocked the initial strike, but the immense Soul Power Wave from Li Lie’s attack was so powerful it was simply impossible to stop!

The young man with the Ice Soul Guide was sent flying, and even the bewildered Xu Taiping, who was far behind him, was knocked off his feet by the massive wave of power...

DONG!!!

A strange sound suddenly echoed out, shaking the entire Songjiang Soul Martial University... no, to be precise, the entire Songjiang Soul City to its very core!

The sound was exceedingly peculiar, like the ringing of a chime that could shake one’s soul, yet it seemed to come from the heavens, faint and distant...

And the sound came from the library, located in the southern part of Songjiang Soul Martial University, on the right side of First Street.

In the southern part of Songjiang Soul Martial University, before the ruins of the library, a middle-aged man stood expressionlessly by the street. Behind him was a group of Soul Police in pitch-black uniforms, anxiously preparing for battle.

In the man’s right eye, a surge of Soul Power could be seen, swirling in a vortex and emitting a strange light.

In his hand, he held a Zen Staff made of snow, which he once again struck heavily against the ground.

DONG!!!

In that instant, a solemn silence fell over the grounds of Songjiang Soul Martial University!

The middle-aged man looked at the shattered library before him and said in a deep voice, "All Soul Police, search the campus for any Snow Realm Soul Beast carrying a book. If you see one, kill on sight!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Yes, sir!" The large contingent of Soul Police moved out swiftly, fanning out to search for the Snow Realm Soul Beasts that had plundered the library’s collection.

After the Zen Staff struck the ground, the seemingly endless wind abruptly stopped. Not only that, but the falling snow also came to a halt...

This environment undoubtedly made the Soul Police’s search much easier.

’Has time stopped?’

No, it had nothing to do with time. The fires of war continued to spread, and the sounds of battle still raged everywhere.

It was just... just that the ferocious, cold wind had stopped for some unknown reason, and the drifting snowflakes were now all suspended in mid-air, frozen in place.

The scene was utterly bizarre.

Snow Realm Soul Skill: Micro Snow Realm!

And in that same instant, the view across Songjiang Soul Martial University "suddenly cleared up"!

The wild, blowing wind and Shuangxue were gone. The snowflakes, frozen in mid-air, actually began to rise, drifting away into the night sky!

The snowflakes in the air drifted upward, but those that had already fallen, as well as the thick layers of snow covering everything, did not rise. They remained right where they were, blanketing the ground.

’Just what kind of terrifying Soul Skill is this...’

Ever since Songjiang Soul Martial University had entered the Extreme Night, Rong Taotao had never been able to see this clearly!

Even though the sky was still pitch-black, everything illuminated by the streetlights was incredibly distinct.

"Mr. Ren!" A buzz of discussion rose from the upperclassmen leading the way. Even though the booming explosions of the Celestial Burial Snow Meteor were still ringing in their ears from behind, the two peculiar sounds of the Zen Staff striking the ground seemed to have given the students boundless confidence!

"Is that Mr. Ren!?"

"It must be! Only Captain Ju could do something like this!"

"It sounds like it’s coming from the library! Teacher, let’s go to the library!"

"Yes, yes! Teacher, let’s go to the library!"

Aboard his horse, Rong Taotao stared at the slowly rising snowflakes, his face a mask of astonishment. He heard Lu Mang’s voice from the side: "The Deputy Mayor of Songjiang Soul City and Chief of the Soul Police, Huang Kuanren."

Jiao Tengda clearly extracted more useful information from this. A look of joy crossed his face as he said, "Excellent. If people from the Soul Police Chief’s department are here, it means the crises in other parts of Songjiang Soul City have been resolved."

"Watch out! Scatter! Scatter, now!" an instructor up ahead cried out in alarm, and the large group of students hurriedly dispersed.

As the instructors shouted, they threw all sorts of Soul Skills into the sky. Rong Taotao even saw one teacher create a huge Snow Mist Defense Shield and push it toward the night sky with one hand.

At the same time, massive snowball-like meteorites came crashing down from the sky, chasing after the fleeing students in a frantic bombardment...

CRACK!

With a crisp snap, the Snow Mist Defense Shield the teacher had erected shattered just like that. It was clear this teacher was a far cry from Yang Chunxi.

The Epic-grade Celestial Burial Snow Meteor was no joke. It was something that should only appear in the highest-level clashes between the human and Snow Realm armies, not on a university campus.

Under pursuit of this magnitude, even the instructors were willing but powerless, some even cursing under their breath.

’Damn it! Back in the mid-nineties, during the most intense part of that top-tier war, when the Snow Realm Army and the human army clashed on a massive scale, there were only twenty or thirty Epic-grade Snow Monks in the entire battle, right?’

’But since this battle started, judging by the sounds of bombardment coming from all over campus, there have to be at least seven or eight Snow Monks participating!?’

’This is definitely not some minor skirmish or a revenge attack taking advantage of the blizzard and Extreme Night. This is a meticulously planned invasion! A war of aggression the likes of which Songjiang Soul Martial University has never experienced before!’

Helpless, one teacher even began waving his hands left and right, conjuring one Snow Dragon Tornado after another to forcibly blow the surrounding students away.

The teachers and students who had just gathered were once again forced to scatter.

Faced with the Epic-grade Snow Realm Soul Skill, Celestial Burial Snow Meteor, which was like a Natural Disaster, humanity seemed so small and weak at this moment.

Those not from a Soul School would have no way to resist. Then again, even a Soul School probably...

But the eight members of the Soul Class didn’t separate. Their Snow Night Shock mounts displayed astonishing combat discipline, staying close behind the lead horse—Fan Lihua’s uniquely white Snow Night Shock—as they fled frantically from the bombardment zone of the giant Snow Meteorites falling from the sky.

"I see the Martial Arts Arena! Those are the lights of the Martial Arts Arena!" Shi Lan’s voice cut through the deafening explosions of the meteorites and reached everyone’s ears.

The streetlights along the road had been smashed to pieces, though some still provided a bit of light. But in the distance, the brightly lit Martial Arts Arena stood out brilliantly in the dim night.

In fact... Shi Lan was both right and wrong.

The brightly lit place was indeed the Martial Arts Arena, but the light wasn’t coming from streetlights.

The Martial Arts Arena had also undergone the baptism of the Celestial Burial Snow Meteor; the ground, the iron-cage fence, and even the lights were all smashed to smithereens.

The place was brightly lit because of Pine Soul Four Rites: Wine, and the blooming, swaying Cyan Lotus petals...

"Everyone! Snow Charge!" Rong Taotao suddenly yelled.

The group spurred their mounts, casting all other thoughts aside and following Rong Taotao’s command without hesitation.

The seven steeds stomped their hooves, their massive bodies surging forward a great distance.

RUMBLE...

Behind them, a massive snowball crashed down, blasting a deep crater into the ground.

If it had hit them, they would have been, without a doubt, blown to bits.

But... even though the giant Snow Meteor didn’t hit them directly, the ensuing explosion sent the entire group flying...

In an instant, men and horses were sent tumbling!

"Ugh..." Thrown by the massive shockwave, Shi Lan slammed onto her side. A sharp pain shot through her, and she couldn’t help but let out a groan.

Shi Lan shook her head hard, trying to clear it. But the blast wave had been powerful, and through her blurry, dazed vision, she could see her companions scattered nearby.

The students were lying on the ground every which way. Even the huge Snow Night Shocks were on their sides, struggling to get back up...

In her dazed state, Shi Lan suddenly felt something tighten around her ankle!?

"Ah!!!" Shi Lan couldn’t help but scream. Forgetting the pain from the blast, she felt herself being violently dragged toward the pine forest to the west!?

"Lanlan!" Stone Tower was in bad shape too, knocked completely senseless. Being the closest to Shi Lan, she heard her sister’s cry. She fought through the pain and forced herself to turn her head, but just as she was about to move, another vine made of snow had already wrapped around her ankle!

SWOOSH...

The Shi Family Sisters, who had been thrown to the western side of the group, were caught and dragged into the pine forest...

At the same time, deep within the supposedly pitch-black pine forest, a strange light began to twinkle.

"No! No!!!" Fan Lihua’s desperate cry echoed through the night.