Peerless: Tang San, this time Huo Yuhao is the attacker.

Chapter 78 The greatest Soul King of this century makes his appearance!

"The footprints here are fresh, and judging from the direction they're coming from, they don't seem to have been left by patrolling soldiers."

Wang Yan led the group forward, following the footprints on the ground, deeper and deeper into the Mingdou Mountains. They continued on their way and soon arrived at a hillside.

Standing on high ground, the group looked down and saw dozens of tents below the hillside, with several Soul Masters gathered around a bonfire in the open space.

Huo Yuhao activated his mental detection, and judging from the soul power fluctuations that were fed back, these people were only Soul Venerables.

The number of tents decreased as you went deeper, and at the deepest part was the entrance to a cave. This scene confirmed Huo Yuhao's suspicions.

This group of evil spirit masters were clearly not very good at hiding themselves; even Wang Yan, a teacher who taught martial spirit theory, could easily find them.

Dai Hao was indeed intentionally keeping this group of evil soul masters alive.

"There are twelve people in the open space. Xixi, you go and deal with the two who are alone down there. Chen Zifeng, you take care of the three on the left. The rest are for me and Dai Yueheng."

"Try not to make too much noise, Xixi, you go first, then provide support as needed."

After observing for a while, Ma Xiaotao gave the three instructions, and Xixi took the lead and slid down the hillside.

She moved with incredible speed, her watch swirling with faint purple electric light, making her extremely difficult to spot even in the pitch-black night.

"There's definitely something wrong with Xixi's speed. Look for yourselves, she was never this fast in battle before!"

Facing a group of Soul Masters, the group felt no pressure at all, and Chen Zifeng even had the leisure to observe Xixi's assassination process.

"It is indeed much faster." Dai Yueheng frowned. He thought Chen Zifeng was making excuses during the last battle, but now it seems that he was not lying that day.

The expressions of the others were much the same as Dai Yueheng's; doubts arose in their hearts. They had all been fighting together for so long and knew each other's strength very well.

Aside from Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao, one of them knew the inside story, and the other had only recently returned to the team.

As she experienced the scene unfolding in her mind like a god's-eye view, Xixi was filled with joy and excitement. Her purple, round pupils narrowed, and a short blade appeared in her right hand.

With a swift stroke, a demonic master was decapitated, and another enemy nearby met the same fate.

The reason for not using soul skills is to avoid making too much noise and alerting the enemy.

Seeing that Xixi had succeeded, Ma Xiaotao and her two companions quickly rushed down the hillside to find their respective opponents. Xixi waited for her teammates to approach and then worked together to kill the several squads.

Seeing this, Ling Luochen and his two companions quickly joined up with Ma Xiaotao and her group of four, while the rest of the reserve team also followed behind.

Upon reaching the deepest part of the cave, the seven members of the main team became serious and focused, proceeding according to the most classic Soul Master lineup.

Ling Luochen, a pure control-type character, stood in the center of the team, with Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng on his left, right, and front sides respectively, and Xi Xi and Chen Zifeng on his right and left sides respectively. Finally, Gongyang Mo and Yao Haoxuan were at the back.

Huo Yuhao and his seven companions maintained a distance of fifteen meters from the regular team, and their positions were similar to those of the regular team.

After turning the corner, the seven members of the main team rushed out instantly. Gongyang Mo unleashed several enhancement-type soul skills on them, and the soul masters responsible for attacking immediately charged out fiercely.

Before the evil spirit master inside the cave could react, he was reduced to fragments by the group's attack. Ma Xiaotao and her three companions were all aiming for vital points, targeting either the head or the heart.

The girls in the reserve team subconsciously pursed their lips, avoided eye contact, and their faces turned pale.

Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei frowned slightly, but He Caitou's expression remained unchanged.

The images transmitted back by the mental probe are of extremely high clarity, enough to give people a sense of immersion.

Coincidentally, the battle scene at that moment was extremely bloody and brutal, which is why the four girls reacted in that way.

The fight between Chen Zifeng and Xixi wasn't particularly bloody.

The former's martial spirit is the Soul-Chasing Sword, and its combat involves piercing vital organs such as the heart, throat, and brain, which does not give people a strong visual impact.

Although Xixi possesses a beast spirit, she is an agility-based spirit master who focuses on clean, swift, and instantaneous kills, so her battles are not overly bloody.

Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng are completely different.

Both are offensive-type beast spirits; the former leans towards energy attacks, while the latter leans towards physical attacks.

Wherever Ma Xiaotao went, the enemy was reduced to charred remains.

Dai Yueheng's tiger-like paws caused victims to either have large dents in their heads or large sections of their torsos, with blood splattering everywhere and other things occasionally flying out of their heads.

The deaths of their opponents were so gruesome that they were enough to make one feel physically uncomfortable.

This feeling became even more pronounced when the seven members of the main team entered deeper into the cave and the seven members of the reserve team arrived at the battlefield they had just been on.

The mental detection only provides visual feedback, but in addition to the visuals, there are also various mixed smells at the scene.

With both sight and smell being affected simultaneously, most people would probably have already started vomiting.

Fortunately, the reserve team members were all Soul Masters. Although they had never killed a human, they had killed Soul Beasts, so they only felt a little uncomfortable and did not experience any physical reactions.

Huo Yuhao calmed himself down and continued to focus on mental detection, but his self-spotting light did not fall on the main team members, but on their opponents.

Huo Yuhao captured the reactions of each evil soul master before their death and their tragic state.

Whether or not he had awakened his innate wisdom, this was the first time he had witnessed a murder. He had anticipated the discomfort, and what he needed to do was to become immune to this feeling as soon as possible.

The main team ended the battle again and headed to the next battlefield, with the reserve team and others following them.

Faced with the combination of two Soul Emperors and five Soul Kings, this group of evil Soul Masters known as the Hand of Death had no ability to resist and were dealt with by the regular team as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

"They don't even have the strength, yet they dare to call themselves the Hand of Death?"

Chen Zifeng decapitated the last evil spirit master, shook the blood off his blade, and spoke with utter disdain.

"Another inspection team mission completed, one step closer to graduation." Yao Haoxuan chuckled, his giant ape form sitting cross-legged leisurely beside the fallen corpse.

"That's strange. I remember the intelligence said their leader was a Soul King, but I haven't seen him. Did any of you kill that Soul King?"

Gongyang Mo looked around, his expression somewhat puzzled.

"He probably ran away. There might be some secret passage in this cave. We didn't even know that he escaped when he saw the situation."

Chen Zifeng shrugged and said nonchalantly, "As long as we can complete the inspection team's mission, it doesn't matter how many people run away."

Gongyang Mo didn't dwell on it after hearing this. Evil Soul Masters were a group of cold-hearted and ruthless people. It was good enough if they didn't kick someone when they were down, let alone come out to protect their companions.

"It seems the mission has been successfully completed."

Dai Yueheng released his martial spirit possession, his face beaming with a smile. Now he only needed one more inspection team mission to graduate from the inner academy, and he would finally no longer be used as free labor.

Actually, he originally planned to join the army directly instead of entering the inner court, but his father disagreed, saying that he was still too young and should be trained in the inner court first.

Dai Yueheng estimated that if he were to exchange the evil spirit masters he had killed over the years for military merits, he wouldn't even know what rank he would have.

It's definitely better than this lousy inspection team's honor.

hiss~

"Then let's go first—" Before Ma Xiaotao could finish speaking, strange sounds suddenly rang out around them.

It was the sound of something being inflated, and with that sound, the fallen corpses changed.