Where does that wicked woman get her conscience?

Ling Moyan got up from the ground, the pain in his chest making him groan. The kick was not light, and he coughed several times before he recovered.

is her?

He clutched his chest and found his hands trembling uncontrollably.

This familiar feeling... is Guan Xun the girl who snatched his jade pendant and kicked him?

what……

No wonder she looked so strange when they first met at the academy.

Ling Moyan stared up at the water toad, his face as pale as paper. Last time, that kick was meant to kill him, but this time it saved his life...

He almost, just a hair's breadth away, he clearly held her hand!

"Ling Moyan!" Lu Shenqu stepped forward and pulled him away from the vicinity of the water toad. "The teachers will be here soon, let's go."

Ling Moyan slapped the other person's hand away, filled with resentment: "Leave? Guan Xun has been eaten!"

Lu Shenqu's expression turned solemn. He frowned and was about to speak when a huge black shadow loomed over them. When he looked up, he saw the previously self-excited water toad staring at them with its tongue hanging out.

He was shocked.

"Ah..."

"...Quack quack."

But the water toad only let out a few low cries, its eyes looking at it as if it were some worthless trash, and then it turned around and leaped away into the inner circle.

Lu Shenqu breathed a sigh of relief, only then realizing that his back was already soaked with cold sweat.

-

"All trainees, assemble!"

The students sensed a serious atmosphere and didn't know what was going on. In previous years, the number of crystal cores would be counted and the rankings would be determined as soon as the competition ended.

It's truly baffling that it ended so early this time.

"Quiet." The teacher waved for everyone to be quiet, his expression serious. "Due to some minor troubles, the ranking of the crystal cores will be postponed for a few days. Students from each academy will be led back to their academies by their seniors."

After saying that, the trainees all got to work.

The teacher vanished into the forest in a flash.

"What happened?" Qiu Chuan was the first to run out, and he knew nothing about what happened afterward. Seeing everyone's serious expressions, he couldn't help but ask.

"Now we can only leave it to the teachers. Let's go back to the academy first," Zeng Qianxue said, looking at Ling Moyan who was still standing there.

Seeing that he was stiff all over, his tightly clenched fists loosened slightly. After turning around and walking towards the carriage, he looked at Qiu Chuan and said, "Guan Xun and Ye Qingchi have both been swallowed by the monsters."

"what?!"

-

In the fantasy forest.

Several teachers landed at the spot where the accident had just occurred.

"Has it been found?"

Faced with Teacher Fa's anxious question, all the teachers shook their heads.

"Based on the direction the student just described, this beast has probably already returned to the inner perimeter, where miasma permeates the area. Take the medicine first before going in."

"An eighth-tier demonic beast inexplicably rushed out of the inner perimeter and into the outer perimeter, even devouring two students. What on earth is going on..." The gray-robed teacher examined the damaged trees and said in a deep voice.

"The water toad is fond of gold and silver jewelry. The two girls it swallowed were female students. This is a dereliction of duty on our part. No matter what, we must bring the students back."

"Time is of the essence, so we'll split up and find the jade slip to make contact."

Teacher Fa stared intently at the inner perimeter, hoping that everything would be alright in time...

-

The inner perimeter is a swamp of rotting corpses.

"Cuck!"

"Gugua!!!"

The water toad's enormous body rolled around on the surface of the swamp, smashing the already dead trees and bushes to pieces.

Plump, white maggots were scattered all over the ground, splashing mud and attracting birds to rush to feed on them.

"Gah?" The water toad's behavior puzzled the bird.

"Caw caw!" another bird rambled on.

"Caw caw caw caw caw!" The two birds laughed in unison.

Normally, the water toad would have dragged them into the swamp and drowned them, but it didn't care at the moment because it realized it seemed to have an upset stomach.

My abdomen was cramping in waves, like someone was practicing boxing inside me, each wave more intense than the last.

It tried to reach out with its claws, but several strips of meat on its claws were chopped off. After several attempts, out of the eight strips of meat on its four claws, only two remained.

It was her! It must have been that woman who did it!

With no other choice, it could only roar and swallow the swamp mud beneath it, along with some unidentified garbage and foul-smelling rotting corpses.

Drown her, drown her...

"Burp," it burped.

Realizing that there was no more movement in its belly, it cried out again, leaped upwards, and plunged headfirst into the swamp, creating a huge crater in its middle.

The silt flowed and quickly filled the deep pit again, filling the air with a stench. Miasma once again enveloped the swamp, restoring its original eeriness.

Inside the water toad's body, Guan Xun looked at the sludge and decaying corpse that kept flowing downwards, bypassing her, and asked with some disdain, "Where are you now?"

Chi Rong circled around inside the spiritual energy barrier, its eyes fixed on the location of the demon beast's core below. When it heard the question, it paused and tilted its head to listen carefully.

"He was humming a song, saying he was going back to his old lair to count his treasures."

"Uh... I cursed a few times." Chi Rong suddenly raised his tail and slammed it heavily against the spiritual energy barrier.

"What?" Guan Xun asked, puzzled.

"That beast even said it would vomit you out and whip your corpse!" Chi Rong was so angry that he jumped up and down. "Outrageous! A mere demon beast, I'll dig out its beast core right now!"

"So, did it reach its hiding place?" Guan Xun remained calm, pinching Chi Rong's body to calm it down.

Chi Rong listened intently: "It's not talking anymore."

A moment later, it darted in front of Guan Xun and mimicked him perfectly: "Master! It said, 'Little Toad~ I'm back~'"

Ugh, that's disgusting.

"Alright." A greedy glint flashed in Guan Xun's eyes. Now that they were in its lair, it was of no use anymore. He patted Chi Rong's head, his tone filled with indescribable pleasure, "It's time for you to become a big guy."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chi Rong's figure swayed, and his body suddenly swelled up, reaching several zhang in just one breath!

As soon as the water toad stepped into its lair, it felt its belly swell violently, and a tearing pain spread throughout its body.

Its screams startled the surrounding little toads, who tried to rush forward to check on it, but were unable to get close because of its massive, rolling body.

"boom!!!"

With a loud bang, the screams stopped abruptly. Dark green slime and mangled pieces of flesh flew everywhere, and the small water toads that were nearby were also blown to pieces.

The silt and decaying corpse inside its belly were blasted into mist, and for a time, murky fog filled the black rock wall.

The eighth-tier demonic beast thus perished.

Sharp bone fragments kept piercing Guan Xun's spiritual energy barrier, causing ripples to spread across the barrier before the fragments fell to the ground with a thud.

What a chaotic scene.

But it won't bother her.

Ignoring the falling debris, she walked straight into the depths of the nest.

Seeing this, Chi Rong quickly wrapped the falling beast core with his tail, shrank his body a little, and leisurely followed.

It was in a great mood.