Chapter 496 - 310: Some People...

It was a feeling... of security!

A complete sense of security!

And it came from a student who hadn’t even graduated yet—a rational, intelligent commander.

Yang Chunxi collected herself and crept forward, separating from the small team.

Beside him, Li Lie’s voice sounded. "Not bad."

Rong Taotao, however, looked grave. "Let’s just hope the enemy doesn’t have a Spirit Barrier Soul Skill."

Li Lie clapped Rong Taotao on the back, comforting him. "The competitions you participate in are too high-level and professional."

"So you’ve mostly seen twins who have opened their Soul Slots, but the world isn’t what you imagine. Do you know how low the probability is of opening a Soul Slot on the forehead?"

Rong Taotao nodded silently.

Li Lie: "Do you know how common it is for Soul Martial Artists to only ever have three or four Soul Slots in their entire lifetime? Besides, Spirit Barrier Soul Skills are also extremely rare."

"And even if, in the worst-case scenario, the enemy does have a Mental Barrier, you’re still underestimating Chunxi’s strength. I’ll bet you that he won’t even understand what happened by the time he’s dead." As he spoke, Li Lie clapped Rong Taotao’s back again, his voice filled with confidence. "Just wait for good news from Chunxi."

Meanwhile, Yang Chunxi slowly approached her prey. As she watched the man hidden in the snow, watching his blinking eyes, a faint smile appeared on her face.

For an Illusion Master, the enemy’s eyes were the perfect entry point.

As Yang Chunxi stealthily neared her prey, a strange light glinted in her eyes. In an instant, before the man had any inkling of what was happening, she had dragged him into her Illusion Technique.

The illusion she cast was subtle. The Illusion World was still a dark night, still a mountain forest covered in snow, completely indistinguishable from the real world.

And the prey... he didn’t even notice he had entered another world, still thinking he was on watch.

Vaguely, the man lying in ambush in the snow suddenly thought he heard a noise behind him.

He turned to look and saw a humanoid silhouette with a pair of glowing, crimson eyes.

The man’s expression changed drastically!

’What is that? A Humanoid Soul Beast? How could one be here...?’

The next moment, the man felt a piercing pain in his brain, as if it were being stabbed by needles. He clenched his teeth, not daring to make a sound for fear of alerting the Snow Burning soldiers a kilometer to the south, but he immediately slapped the ground.

WHOOSH...

The man’s slap met with nothing but silence. Before his signal could be sent, a figure had him by the throat!

Without a word, the figure’s sharp nails stabbed through the man’s abdomen, tearing away a large chunk of flesh...

"Hiss..." The man couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath of cold air, but he truly had incredible endurance. He displayed the excellent discipline of a scout; even now, he didn’t cry out, afraid of alerting the Snow Burning army a kilometer away.

And in his hand, a Snow-made Dagger appeared.

"Hehehe, human."

BAM!

The man felt an excruciating pain in his abdomen and was sent flying backward into the forest!

CRACK! CRACK!

His body sprayed blood as it crashed through two small trees before finally coming to a stop.

’So... so fast. I can’t even see it clearly?’

’What the fuck kind of Quality and level is this Humanoid Soul Beast?’

’How could something like this be here? What does this mean? Is the Snow Realm Soul Beast Army going to attack Songbai Town?!’

’A scout running into another scout?’

The man’s heart filled with despair. He had no idea he was trapped in an Illusion World, a world where a certain someone was the omnipotent ruler, a god who could change any rule at will.

The man still thought he was in the real world, which led to his misjudgment. The next moment, his vision blurred, and the humanoid silhouette—with its long, flowing white hair and crimson eyes—WHOOSH—appeared right in front of his face.

"Wait! Please, wait!" the man said in a hushed voice, one hand clutching his stomach and the other held up in front of his face. "Whatever you’re planning, I can help you. You can speak the human tongue, so you must understand what I’m saying."

"Human!" came a sinister voice as the Humanoid Soul Beast licked its blood-stained fingers, a vicious smile spreading across its face. "Hehehe..."

In truth, the moment the man said those words, Yang Chunxi had already confirmed his identity.

For Rong Taotao, Yang Chunxi had only been gone for about five minutes.

But for the scout, it felt as though he had spent a lifetime suffering excruciating torture in that timeless, dark Snow Forest.

’Why isn’t the sun rising?’

’Why hasn’t anyone noticed all this commotion?’

The scout didn’t even have the right to ask these seemingly simple questions.

The Soul Beast’s methods were so cruel. Under the extreme torment, the scout’s consciousness began to fade. The intense pain wracking his body was like ladle after ladle of cold water, forcing his dazed eyes open every time he was about to pass out from the torture.

In such a state, a person loses the ability to even think. How could he possibly have any concept of time?

When Yang Chunxi finally left, the man hidden in the snow was perfectly still, showing no signs of anything unusual.

The only difference was that his eyes were no longer blinking...

No matter how the cold wind blew, no matter how dry his eyeballs became, he just kept staring wide-eyed, lying prone in the snow, as if all signs of life had already vanished.