Master of Nine Stars

The Eight Little Souls, who were in the middle of self-study in their classroom, suddenly heard a massive BOOM. It seemed to be coming from the far northeast, or maybe the southeast...

The next moment, the enormous roar echoed throughout the school building’s vicinity!

"BOOM! RUMBLE!"

The entire school building began to tremble as if in an earthquake. What’s more, the sound of the explosion was just overhead.

The students scrambled to their feet, their faces filled with terror. They didn’t realize that the true power of the descending Celestial Burial Snow Meteor wasn’t the impact, but the explosion that followed.

"BANG!!!"

"Ah..."

"Help! Help!"

"What... what is this? Teacher... help..."

In the Junior Class classroom, Sun Xingyu’s face was rigid. As she ran toward the classroom door, she yelled, "Teacher Yang, don’t... don’t mess with us anymore... I-I haven’t even done anything wrong!"

"BOOM! RUMBLE!!!"

The dense barrage of Celestial Burial Snow Meteors paid no heed to anyone’s words.

Thankfully, the Junior Class-Soul Class classroom was on the second floor. At this very moment, the sixth and top floor of the school building had already been bombed to smithereens!

"Whatever this is, let’s go! Let’s go!" Jiao Tengda shouted, grabbing ahold of Lu Mang beside him and pulling him toward the door.

Inside the violently shaking school building, the Eight Little Souls stumbled out into the hallway.

Rong Taotao’s expression was grave. Listening to the rumbling sounds overhead, he yelled, "Jump out the window! I don’t care if this is a test from Coach Yang or not, we have to get out of here first!"

"CRASH..." Li Ziyi enveloped his shoulder in Soul Power. Not even bothering to open the window, he turned himself into a cannonball and "BOOMED" straight through it.

The window shattered, and the other students hastily followed him out.

Fortunately, the second floor wasn’t very high, and the students who landed in the snow were all unharmed.

"NEIGH~" Jiao Tengda didn’t land in the snow. As he jumped from the second floor, he directly summoned his Lifebound Soul Beast, a Snow Night Shock, and smoothly mounted its back.

"Everyone, summon your Snow Night Shocks!" Jiao Tengda yelled, riding right up to Rong Taotao and leaning down to offer a hand.

Rong Taotao grabbed Jiao Tengda’s hand and leaped nimbly, landing in front of Jiao Tengda on the Snow Night Shock’s back.

"CRASH!"

"CRASH..."

At the same time, from several floors of windows on the north side of the school building, students started "POP-POP-POPPING" out one after another, like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

"Danger!" Stone Tower shouted. The Snow-made Blade in her hand suddenly assembled, and with a flick toward the sky, it pierced right through a falling piece of rubble.

The remaining lights in the crumbling school building temporarily solved the problem of darkness, but the vast blizzard still raged. This meant Stone Tower’s range of vision was no more than five meters. The split second it took for her to detect and resolve the crisis showcased her astonishing combat instincts.

"Let’s get away from the school building first!" Rong Taotao yelled urgently. "Take the main road! Follow the streetlights!"

Eight people and seven Snow Night Shocks swiftly retreated from behind the school building.

The huge eyes of the seven Snow Night Shocks flickered with a ghostly light, sweeping across the vast blizzard ahead like searchlights.

"Where are we going?" Shi Lan asked hastily.

Rong Taotao made a snap decision. "The Martial Arts Arena!"

’We have to go to the Martial Arts Arena to the north!’

It was the closest building to the school, and more importantly... a Great God was always stationed there: Pine Soul Four Rites - Sugar!

Meanwhile, to the south of the school building, on the statue in front of the main entrance, the Ice Soul Guide youth standing amidst the vast blizzard suddenly spoke. "Let’s go."

Xu Taiping asked, "Where to?"

The Ice Soul Guide youth replied, "The Martial Arts Arena."

Xu Taiping started, "You..."

The Ice Soul Guide youth smiled. "To visit a lucky one. She stole something that belongs to our Snow Realm."

As he spoke, the Ice Soul Guide youth lifted Xu Taiping with one hand, his figure abruptly floating up into the vast blizzard and flying north.

The Ice Soul Guide youth didn’t take a detour. Instead, he flew straight through the dense barrage of Celestial Burial Snow Meteors, crossing over the shattered and collapsed school building, of which only half remained.

Xu Taiping’s eyes widened as he saw the ruins, a scene straight out of the Purgatory of the Human World.

"You see? It will never stand in the way of you going home again," the Ice Soul Guide youth said as they flew past the bombing zone and over the destroyed school building.

The two of them headed north, and below them was a scene of fierce battle between Snow Realm Soul Beasts and humans.

Back in the school building, many teachers and countless students had made the same choice as the Eight Little Souls. They had jumped from the hallway windows at the first opportunity, escaping the heavily bombarded area.

They attempted to advance toward the Martial Arts Arena to the north, but their progress was halted halfway by the ubiquitous Snow Realm Soul Beasts hidden within the deep snow.

In an instant, the flames of war erupted!

After sixteen years of meticulous planning, it seemed the Snow Realm Army had also grown stronger.

Decades ago, over a hundred Huaxia teams had suddenly appeared, sweeping across the northern lands overnight as the flames of war spread to every corner.

Now, at this very moment, under these extremely harsh weather conditions, countless Snow Realm Soul Beasts suddenly appeared here, and the flames of war spread to every corner of Soul Martial University.

All of this,

felt like a cycle repeating itself.

...

"GRRR..." In the woods, a huge figure lay in wait, staring at the human students hurrying along the road not far away.

"HSSS..." A pained cry!

Before the giant beast hiding in the woods could even strike, a hand made of snow suddenly shot out from the streetlit road, viciously grabbing the hoof of a Snow Night Shock!

In an instant, horse and rider were sent tumbling!

The Snow Night Shock under Lu Mang was caught by the hoof by the sudden snow hand. Under the immense force, the Snow Night Shock couldn’t break free at all. Its forward momentum still carrying it, the creature was dragged directly to the ground.

Lu Mang, too, was thrown forward by inertia, slamming hard into the snow and rolling over and over.

From within the deep snow, a ghostly figure quietly emerged. A pair of long, pale white hands broke through the surface. One pressed heavily on the ground, while the other viciously slammed down on Lu Mang’s head, forcing it deep into the snow.

"Hehehe..." A series of coquettish giggles rang out as the upper half of a graceful, snow-made body appeared before them. Atop that extremely alluring and provocative snow-made body was a snow-white face of devastating, bewitching beauty.

"You beast!" Li Ziyi’s voice boomed like thunder. His snow-made Long Spear, wreathed in dense Soul Power, rode the momentum of his Snow Night Shock and aimed straight for the demoness’s head.

"POP!"

The Snow Charm Demon suddenly shattered into specks of snow, allowing the sharp Long Spear to pierce through her head, yet she remained completely unscathed.

Not only that, but the Snow Charm Demon suddenly extended her arm. Her already slender limb seemed to stretch infinitely as her snow-white hand shot out, grabbed Li Ziyi’s calf, and viciously yanked him off his mount!

"THUD..."

The heavy, muffled sound made everyone’s hearts tremble with fear!

"Ziyi!" Sun Xingyu cried out in alarm, hastily reining in her horse and turning around. She saw the Snow Charm Demon still holding Lu Mang’s head down with one hand, while her other arm stretched out infinitely, her body reaching for Li Ziyi, who had been thrown from his mount and was completely dazed.

"Heehee~" The Snow Charm Demon’s small, cherry-like mouth opened slightly as she moved to bite the back of Li Ziyi’s neck.

WHOOSH... A fierce wind suddenly whipped up!

A Snow Dragon Tornado shot straight into the sky!

’A teacher has come to help!?’

The Snow Charm Demon’s expression froze. This time, she didn’t dare shatter into snowflakes, terrified of having her soul scattered by the Snow Dragon Tornado.

Bracing her snow-made body, the Snow Charm Demon was forcefully blown into the sky by the Snow Dragon Tornado!

"Yaaah!!!" The Snow Charm Demon looked into the distance with a furious pout. From the snow below, another snow hand suddenly shot out. The snow-made arm extended infinitely, grabbing the Snow Charm Demon who had been sent flying by the Snow Dragon Tornado, and flung her out-of-control body into the deep forest by the roadside.

Sun Xingyu clung to the back of her Snow Night Shock with one hand, her body lying horizontally along its side as a snow-made Long Spear assembled in her other hand.

Li Ziyi quickly grabbed the proffered shaft of the Long Spear. As his body was pulled forward, he kicked off the ground, leaped up, and landed steadily on the horse’s back.

The group quickly came to a stop, only to see a teacher arriving from behind with several dozen students, all on horseback.

"Go, quickly! To the Martial Arts Arena!" the teacher shouted, his eyes still warily scanning the woods by the road.

At the edge of the woods, a behemoth silently stared at the main road, as if looking for an opportunity to strike.

Meanwhile, the Snow Charm Demon that had been thrown over by the snow hand was now half-submerged in the snow. Her hand clutched the beast’s foreleg, and her body moved back and forth, crawling restlessly under the protection of the massive creature.

The Snow Charm Demon let out a dissatisfied "whimper, whimper~", as if she were sulking at the beast.

The giant beast, however, did not hunt. Its ferocious eyes were locked onto the newly arrived teacher. It seemed very impatient. It lifted a massive paw slightly and viciously stomped the Snow Charm Demon’s head into the snow...

The Snow Charm Demon, looking utterly aggrieved, ended up with a mouthful of snow. "Oof~"

Seeing this, the teacher’s expression changed drastically. He roared, "Go now!"

「Meanwhile, at the Martial Arts Arena.」

The place where students used to spar and compete had turned into a life-and-death battlefield!

All sorts of snow-colored creatures were rampaging wildly across the Martial Arts Arena. The arena, which had already been hit by a round of Celestial Burial Snow Meteors, was now riddled with craters, and its iron-mesh fences had all collapsed.

Amidst the wind and snow, a white figure exuding an Immortal Aura weaved back and forth. The blade in her hand radiated astonishing Soul Power as she slaughtered creature after creature, saving the lives of the students.

"SHLICK!"

Si Huan Nian’s shoulder-length hair danced in the wind. In her jade-like hand, the snow-white Battle Saber was already stained a deep crimson. Its sharp tip viciously shredded several snow-made vines as she snatched a student’s body out from their grasp.

"Thank... thank you, Coach Si." The student, still in a state of shock, collapsed onto the ground. He clutched his chest, gasping for air, and one could see bloody marks on his face where the crimson vines had constricted him.

"Mm." Si Huan Nian let out a casual grunt. She then suddenly lifted her foot, and beneath her white cloth shoe, a Vortex swirled into existence.

"Eek!!!" A Snow Charm Demon, which had been weaving wantonly through the vines, slammed on its brakes and skidded to a halt at Si Huan Nian’s feet...