That night, everyone from Shrek Academy camped outdoors. Foam Metal Cabin No. 1 had three small rooms.
The girls occupied one. Among the boys, after drawing lots, Dai Mubai and Tang San shared one room, Oscar, Austine, and Ma Hongjun shared another, and Cowen slept in the living room.
Flender and Zhao Wou-ji lived in Foam Metal Cabin No. 2.
Throughout the night, nothing unexpected happened. All eight students focused on recovering their physical strength and spirit power.
After another three hours of flight the next morning, everyone smoothly arrived at the entrance of the Star Dou Great Forest.
After landing, they replenished hamburgers and sausages, restored spirit power, and once Oscar and Austine's spirit power fully recovered, everyone prepared to enter the Star Dou Great Forest.
Before entering the forest, Dai Mubai, being the oldest student, naturally became the team captain and arranged the formation for the upcoming movement.
Because they had Cowen, who possessed exceptionally sharp perception, there was no need for scouting ahead; they only needed to proceed forward.
Of course, necessary vigilance still had to be maintained; they couldn't rely entirely on Cowen.
Taking everything into consideration, Dai Mubai — who had the highest spirit power — walked at the very front as the path-opener.
Behind him were Oscar and Ning Rongrong. Tang San and Xiao Wu were positioned on the right side; Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing were on the left side; Austine covered the rear.
Cowen moved ahead of the team to scout the path.
Flender and Zhao Wou-ji simply watched all the arrangements without any intention of interfering.
After confirming once again that his mecha was functioning normally, Austine followed the teammates in front and began advancing deeper into the jungle.
Up front, Dai Mubai maintained his Spirit Possession state, his hands extending tiger-claw blades to clear away branches blocking the path, while Tang San used his Blue Silver Grass to remove obstacles near the ground.
For the next two hours, the eight people followed behind Cowen, continuously moving deeper.
Their target was thousand-year spirit beasts, so they had to reach the mixed area between the outer circle and the middle circle before they could start horizontal searching.
Actually, Austine still had some concerns: could Xiao Wu really communicate with the Titan Giant Ape and make it avoid appearing before the Shrek group?
Unfortunately, that was something Austine couldn't ask Xiao Wu directly — he could only keep it to himself. Honestly, this feeling of uncertainty was truly unpleasant.
Throughout the entire morning, under Cowen's lead, the group didn't encounter any spirit beasts daring to challenge them.
So with Dai Mubai and Oscar alternating in clearing the way, the team never stopped moving.
Until they entered deep into the outer circle of the Star Dou Great Forest, where everything around them belonged to hundred-year spirit beasts, Dai Mubai finally stopped at a relatively open area.
On the road ahead, both the density and strength of spirit beasts would increase greatly. Even with Cowen leading, they couldn't avoid every spirit beast.
Battles could occur at any moment, so everyone had to adjust their condition beforehand. After rushing around all morning—Not to mention Ning Rongrong, who had the weakest physical condition— even Dai Mubai himself already felt fatigued.
Cowen and the agility-type Zhu Zhuqing dutifully circled around the temporary camp, scouting and placing detection soul tools.
Dai Mubai and Oscar cleared the obstacles in the camp area.
Tang San and Austine circled around the camp, scattering some medicine to repel small spirit beasts.
Picking up a pinch of the medicinal powder Austine had scattered, Tang San used his understanding of medicine and his sharp senses to analyze the ingredients and deduce its effects.
What surprised Tang San was that the effectiveness of Austine's medicine wasn't inferior to the formulas passed down through generations in the Tang Sect.
Just as he was zoning out, a faint voice drifted over:"There's no rule that says only you can understand pharmacology, right?"
Tang San turned his head.
Austine, who had removed his mecha mask, was looking at him with a meaningful gaze.Then Austine didn't wait for Tang San to say anything. He put his mask back on and walked back to the cleared camp area, took out a foldable stool from a storage soul tool, sat down, and began restoring spirit power.
Tang San's eyes dimmed. Ever since learning that the Five-Animal Exercises were taught by Austine, Tang San had felt a faint intuition that Austine seemed to share many similarities with him.
That was why Tang San unconsciously paid close attention to Austine's every action in daily life, trying to find clues that might assist his judgments.
What Tang San didn't know was that Austine — who looked like he was already cultivating — was also thinking about something.
**"Did I do something strange? I don't think so… So why does it feel like Tang San keeps watching me?
Other than the soul tools and the Five-Animal Exercises, I haven't done anything that could expose me as a transmigrator.
If Tang San is really suspecting me just because of the Five-Animal Exercises, then there's nothing I can do.
Forget it, things will sort themselves out. Thinking more about it is useless."**
After sorting out his thoughts, Austine focused on restoring his spirit power and stamina.
After finishing his patrol, Cowen naturally laid down next to Austine and began resting.
Half an hour later, Austine — fully recovered — opened his eyes. He exchanged a look with Ma Hongjun, who was standing guard. Ma Hongjun immediately went to rest, and Austine took over.
Within the next twenty minutes, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Tang San also woke up one after another.
Austine checked the time and realized it was already lunchtime.
So he had Oscar keep an eye on the soul tool display screen, which showed the live feed from the detection soul tools placed around them.
Austine himself took out a soul tool shaped like a microwave oven — which indeed functioned exactly as a microwave.
He put several foil-wrapped lunch boxes inside, pressed the button representing a three‑minute heating cycle, and the microwave began operating.
While waiting, Austine suddenly noticed that Xiao Wu — still sitting on his right side and maintaining her cultivation state — seemed to give him an unusual feeling.
He tried sensing her for a long while but couldn't pinpoint what was wrong.
He poked Cowen, deciding to get help. Austine typed a few lines on his visor using mental input and sent the message to Cowen's helmet.
"Cowen, can you sense whether Xiao Wu's current state feels a bit strange?"
Seeing the message, Cowen lifted his head and sensed carefully for a long time before replying uncertainly:
"Xiao Wu feels… more like a spirit beast right now. And her aura seems to be fluctuating in some special way."
Staring at Cowen's reply, a thought appeared in Austine's mind:
**"Could Xiao Wu be sending a message to the Titan Giant Ape?
But isn't this distance way too far? What's the principle? Pheromones?
But can pheromones transmit specific information?And we're moving deeper this afternoon — leaving a message here would be pointless."**
Unfortunately, even after discussing it for a long time, he and Cowen couldn't come up with any reliable conclusion.
"Ahh, forget it. Let's eat."The frustrated Austine gave up on uncovering the truth and decided to satisfy his stomach instead.
This feeling of seeing clues yet being unable to uncover the truth was as painful as facing a math problem that simply couldn't be solved.
After waking the teammates still resting, everyone enjoyed the microwave‑heated lunch boxes. While eating, Austine suddenly tilted his head in thought.
**"Hey, where do you think the two deans are right now?
Ever since we entered the Star Dou Great Forest, we haven't seen them at all.
The high‑precision detection radius of my mecha's detection soul tool is 500 meters — but I haven't detected anything.
I even had Cowen pay attention to any movement or scent — also no findings.
Sure, the soul tools the two deans carry are higher level than mine, but that only gives them longer range.
Within 500 meters, their detection precision can't match mine, nor can they block my detection.
I'm almost certain the two deans are not within 500 meters of us.
Unless they have some advanced soul master method to hide themselves.
But if they're really staying more than 500 meters away, isn't that too far?If something happens, they won't be able to help us in time.
Are we being completely left to fend for ourselves?"**
"That's hard to say," Ma Hongjun responded after Austine's question."Can your detection soul tool detect Cowen's invisible soul tool?"
**"Heh, whether the deans' anti‑detection soul tools can match the precision of Cowen's invisibility soul tool is one thing.
But even if they could match it, as long as I set my detection soul tool to maximum power, I can still detect them within 500 meters.
Otherwise how do you think I always beat Cowen? You don't really think Cowen goes easy on me, right?"**
Austine wasn't annoyed by Ma Hongjun's question. Instead, he used real examples to prove that he was indeed ahead in soul tool crafting technology.
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