Chapter 530: Impossible to Take a Single Step

The playground was in chaos.

Everyone was running.

Laughter, screams, and roars overlapped in a cacophony.

Only eleven malevolent spirits were chasing students, and their speed was limited; logically, such a speed disparity should have meant only a few were running, while most others had time to catch their breath.

But among the students, the Student Union acted as a rotten catalyst.

Student Union members joined the hunt, laughing grotesquely as they attacked students; though they did not manifest ghostly forms, mere shoves and scares were enough to exhaust the students into frantic flight.

One of them was a female Student Union member covered in acne.

Like a phantom of the playground, her form flickered unpredictably, often darting behind students to blow a chilling breath at them.

In the soil.

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If the target walks on land, mud pits form; if the target flies, a strange wind arises; if the target swims, water weeds tangle their feet.

Zeng! The curly-haired man’s speed surged; he lunged straight before the acne girl. Though they never touched, she was struck as if kicked in the chest, collapsing backward onto the ground.

The one who ultimately drew the malevolent spirits was Wu Banqing.

The Favored, though hunting Student Union members, would rather avoid open conflict with them if possible.

When using the Shadowy Spring Dragon Beetle, they always first let the insect crawl along walls to another location before attacking Student Union members, to avoid drawing undue attention.

The blood-eyed teaching assistant stood up, spotted a nearby target, and charged forward, slashing with his knife.

Every time she bullied a student, the acne girl let out a sinister laugh.

Students were protected by their ID badges; even if caught by a malevolent spirit, they suffered only wounds and minor bleeding—as long as they didn’t lie on the ground, their lives were safe.

The malevolent spirit, spotting the motionless acne girl, abandoned chasing the pretty girl, its bloodshot eyes fixed on the acne girl now bound by crimson threads.

A malevolent spirit, chasing one, wielding a cleaver, eyes blazing red!

They had no ID badges; if caught by teaching assistants, these assistants would kill them without hesitation! But she realized too late.

Wu Xian ran back to where the acne girl had vanished.

Her eyes turned pale white, malevolent energy oozed out, and her body rose stiffly from the ground, each crimson thread snapping one by one.

Wu Banqing, seeing Wu Xian and others knock down the acne girl, immediately provoked a malevolent spirit teaching assistant and lured it to the acne girl’s side, using the spirit to kill the Student Union member.

One of Hu Shutong’s blessings, granted by the Earth Deity of Fortune, was called [Impossible to Take a Single Step], allowing her to cast [Obstructive Step] once on any target.

But [Obstructive Step] could only affect a target once within a blessing zone; a second use would fail, making it nearly useless against powerful malevolent spirits—but ideal for clearing weak foes. She used this trick to immobilize the acne girl.

The acne girl suddenly saw a pretty girl sprinting toward her in panic.

Wu Xian knocked down the acne girl using the combination of [Invasion Like Fire] and the demonic technique [Cat’s Three Kicks]; the third leg was invisible to others, yet delivered devastating strikes.

At that moment.

He shouted he couldn’t stop, sprinting forward—his size 46 feet crushed down on her face. Perhaps due to his massive weight, the kick drove half her face into the soil.

The group followed the same tactic, trapping several Student Union members in succession.

Looking into the spirit’s eyes, the acne girl suddenly felt inexplicable terror. She realized suddenly that the most dangerous beings on the playground weren’t the ordinary students.

Before she could think it through.

Crimson threads spread out like leeches, wrapping around her body.

The teaching assistant rode atop the acne girl, slashing wildly with his cleaver until she was chopped to pieces, dragged underground by the crimson threads.

The big man shouted “Sorry!” as he skipped away cheerfully. This act earned unanimous approval from the three Favored.

Because the teaching assistant’s cleaver had already sliced into her face!

The girl reached her side, then suddenly turned and sprinted off in another direction.

But the moment she stepped forward, her foot sank into a mud pit.

After all, the Student Union was still hunting anyone who could see the divine statues.

Her action was entirely outside Wu Xian’s plan—an unexpected bonus.

The entire playground was solid earth—why had mud pits appeared?

But she was in better condition than the long-faced man; the crimson threads’ strength wasn’t enough to fully immobilize her.

“Ah, sorry…”

Nodded in satisfaction.

Thus.

The trio—two men and one woman—had the woman running ahead, holding something in her hand. The acne girl swayed, preparing to circle behind her and blow a chilling breath onto her.

The curly-haired man behind the woman suddenly stopped, assuming a strange posture.

Suddenly.

Thus, using malevolent spirits to kill Student Union members was an excellent idea.

She saw three people sprinting toward her, faces filled with terror.

Only one pale-skinned, light-blonde-haired Caucasian Student Union member, when struck by Wu Xian’s flying kick, easily caught his third leg and flung him away.

But the Favored had never had the chance to worship the deity; their innate worship ability, brought in via the constant location, would eventually be exhausted, so they could only rely on blessings to deal with Student Union members.

Su Mi’s final kick was simply pure force and weight.

Students struck by the breath suddenly felt a chilling cold, as if something inside them had gone out, stiffening their movements, increasing their chance of being caught by malevolent spirits, or triggering violations of PE rules through panic.

The previous long-faced Student Union member had been dragged underground by these crimson threads, and when he reappeared, he had become Guo Xiaodong’s “teaching assistant.”

The big man at the back of the trio looked terrified.

Wu Xian had punched the fat man in the classroom only because he had no other choice.

And behind the girl.

“Get out of the way! I can’t stop!”

The acne girl frowned in confusion.

The operation had succeeded.

To increase the number of divine statues, they had to act against Student Union members.

The most dangerous were actually these Student Union members themselves.

If Su Mi hadn’t caught Wu Xian, and Hu Shutong hadn’t used [Obstructive Step] to block him, Wu Xian would have lost at least one red bar here…

Ding ling ling…

The dismissal bell finally rang.

Guo Xiaodong, as he had the day before, asked if anyone would help him carry the PE equipment back to storage; finding no takers, he awkwardly lifted the large box and slowly left the playground.

(End of Chapter)