Chapter 41: The Kill

The crowd watched the three Spirit Beasts—a Fire-Swallowing Monkey, a Two-Headed Demon Wolf, and a Mountain-Moving Bear—that Yu Tianheng had accidentally released.

Everyone looked in unison at Yu Tianheng, who stood where he was, a flash of anger crossing their eyes.

"Yu Tianheng, you would have been better off not making a move at all," one student said indignantly.

When Zhou Heng and Yu Tianheng saw the three Spirit Beasts charging out, they flashed backward, distancing themselves from the three beasts.

At this moment, the only person left in front of the large vine net was Dugu Yan.

Originally, Dugu Yan had also wanted to retreat and leave, but the Mountain-Moving Bear seemed to sense something; its crimson eyes glanced at Dugu Yan, and then it charged madly toward her.

Seeing the Mountain-Moving Bear charge at Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng thought about rushing up to play the hero saving the beauty.

However, the other two Spirit Beasts, the Fire-Swallowing Monkey and the Two-Headed Demon Wolf, soon followed suit, crazily charging in Dugu Yan's direction just like the Mountain-Moving Bear.

Seeing these three crazed Millennium Soul Beasts, Yu Tianheng felt a lack of confidence in his heart and dared not step forward again.

"It seems I can only abandon Dugu Yan. Now, Ye Lingling is my target." Yu Tianheng discarded Dugu Yan from his panel.

Watching the three Spirit Beasts charge toward her, one in front and two behind, Dugu Yan swayed her snake tail and prepared to flee backward to avoid the aggro of these three beasts.

The surrounding students saw Dugu Yan being pursued and hurriedly moved away from her, not wanting to be targeted by the three crazed Spirit Beasts.

However, for some reason, Dugu Yan found that these three crazed Spirit Beasts had locked their targets onto her; no matter how she changed her position, these three beasts were set on her and kept charging toward her.

Just as Dugu Yan was about to be pounced to the ground by the Two-Headed Demon Wolf.

A mass of ink-blue Heavy Water splashed onto the Two-Headed Demon Wolf's body; the next moment, a frigid force struck the wolf, and the Heavy Water staining its body immediately began to freeze.

The Two-Headed Demon Wolf's figure immediately became sluggish, and its movements slowed down.

The next moment, Zhou Heng utilized the Xin Metal Power, and long spears descended from the sky, pinning the Two-Headed Demon Wolf firmly to the ground, leaving it unable to move.

Seeing that the Two-Headed Demon Wolf closest to her had been pinned to the ground by Zhou Heng, Dugu Yan felt a sense of relief in her heart.

However, the Mountain-Moving Bear and the Fire-Swallowing Monkey were still pursuing Dugu Yan.

But just as Dugu Yan was fleeing, the Fire-Swallowing Monkey's figure was dodged by her, and because of this, it drew closer to Ye Lingling.

The Fire-Swallowing Monkey originally wanted to get up quickly to continue pursuing Dugu Yan, but suddenly, it smelled the same scent as the one on Dugu Yan and began to sniff around in surprise.

Subsequently, the Fire-Swallowing Monkey fixed its gaze on Ye Lingling; when the monkey stopped, Ye Lingling had already sensed something was wrong and began to run in the direction away from the Fire-Swallowing Monkey.

However, the Fire-Swallowing Monkey had already focused its attention on Ye Lingling and began to pursue her.

Zhou Heng watched the two separated Spirit Beasts, looked to both sides, and then ran in the direction of Ye Lingling.

While running, Zhou Heng gathered Yi Wood Power, and thick vines wound toward the Fire-Swallowing Monkey, while simultaneously, the Water Element was controlled by Zhou Heng.

The Water Element in the air was gathered by Zhou Huan and splashed onto the thick vines controlled by Zhou Heng.

The Fire-Swallowing Monkey heard movement behind it approaching; upon turning its head, it saw the familiar thick vines that had trapped it before. A flash of urgency crossed the monkey's eyes, and as it opened its mouth, clusters of orange-red fireballs were spat out.

They burned toward those vines, but with the power of the Water Element left by Zhou Heng on the vines, these fireballs could not burn the vines at all and were easily scattered by them, turning into broken sparks.

The next moment, the vines passed through the falling sparks and reached the Fire-Swallowing Monkey, tightly entangling its body.

After the Fire-Swallowing Monkey was entangled by the vines, Zhou Heng controlled the Xin Metal Power to gather, and seven or eight golden rings condensed in the air, looping onto the monkey's body.

After the golden rings looped onto the Fire-Swallowing Monkey, they contracted fiercely inward; the seven golden rings tightened without mercy.

After a few breaths, the Fire-Swallowing Monkey's body was crushed by the golden rings; its life force had long since dissipated, and it died immediately.

Zhou Huan waved his hand, and the Xin Metal Power dissipated, turning back into Gold Element and Water Element.

Watching the Fire-Swallowing Monkey that had been pursuing her being so easily slain by Zhou Heng, Ye Lingling's eyes shone with brilliance, her expression one of astonishment.

Ye Lingling still wanted to say a few words to Zhou Heng.

However, Zhou Heng went straight to kill in the direction of the Mountain-Moving Bear that was hunting Dugu Yan.

At this time, Dugu Yan had already collided with the Mountain-Moving Bear several times; if it weren't for the fact that the bear's limbs had been frozen by Zhou Heng's Gui Water Power, causing its speed to fail to keep up with Dugu Yan.

And that it had inhaled a lot of Jade Phosphorus Snake Poison, making it unable to even control its own body, Dugu Yan would have long since been pinned under the Mountain-Moving Bear.

Zhou Heng arrived not far from the two and gathered various elemental powers.

Facing the thick-skinned and fleshy body of the Mountain-Moving Bear, Zhou Heng did not use the Xin Metal Power for a frontal assault, but instead gathered Heavy Water.

In an instant, he gathered the Heavy Water into a water ball, and then Zhou Heng controlled the Heavy Water ball to wrap the Mountain-Moving Bear within it; the Heavy Water inside the ball was controlled by Zhou Heng to surge into the bear's mouth.

Following closely was the Gui Water Power; the Gui Water Power scattered onto the Heavy Water ball, freezing it and turning it into an ice ball.

The Mountain-Moving Bear inside the ice ball was still struggling hard, wanting to break free from the freezing of the Heavy Water ice ball.

However, the Heavy Water inside the Mountain-Moving Bear's body was also frozen by the Gui Water Power gathered by Zhou Huan, crushing the bear's stomach and intestines until they ruptured.

Not a few minutes later, the Mountain-Moving Bear was killed alive under the corrosion of Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorus Snake Poison and the crushing of the frozen Heavy Water ice ball.

The crowd stared dumbfounded at Zhou Heng; one person had blocked the charge of five Spirit Beasts and even killed three of them—what kind of combat power was this?

Just as everyone was relaxing, the two Spirit Beasts that had originally been knocked to the ground by Yu Tianheng inside the large vine net had now actually crawled out from the gap Yu Tianheng had broken open and were walking toward their side.

However, the strength of these two Spirit Beasts was less than one-tenth of what it had been; after all, they had first been hit by Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorus Snake Poison, then frozen once by Zhou Heng using Gui Water Power, and then suffered the damage from Yu Tianheng's Leiting Longzhua and Thunder's Fury combined.

Being able to crawl out of the large vine net now was a testament to their thick skin and powerful strength.

Zhou Heng spoke up: "Students, these two Spirit Beasts have already been severely injured. Everyone need not fear them; move directly and kill them."

The crowd looked at each other; many felt that what Zhou Huan said was correct. With two severely injured, nearly crippled Spirit Beasts, and so many of them here, could they still be afraid of these two beasts?

Everyone released their martial souls, triggered their soul skills, and launched attacks toward the Blood-Horned Rhino and the Fire-Patterned Mountain Ox.

There were elemental attacks like fireballs and water masses, attacking toward the legs and feet of the Blood-Horned Rhino and the Fire-Patterned Mountain Ox.

The Blood-Horned Rhino and the Fire-Patterned Mountain Ox, which were walking toward the crowd, could not withstand the crowd's attacks at all; their legs were broken by the soul skills, and their bodies fell heavily to the ground.

Several more attacks struck the bodies of the Blood-Horned Rhino and the Fire-Patterned Mountain Ox; in no time at all, their bodies were pierced through by the crowd's soul skills, and they died instantly.