Chapter 405 - 375: Mister Driver

Chapter 405: Chapter 375: Mister Driver

As he watched the colossal skeleton, standing fifty to sixty meters tall, emerge from the cavern holding a massive blade nearly forty meters long, Li Qian felt his whole body go numb.

"Do you really have to go this hard? I’m just a freshman! With a setup like this, are you hunting down a prince or some president’s son?!" Li Qian couldn’t help but retort.

Hearing this, Li Kun and Ferich, who were beside him, exchanged a look. They both wondered if Li Qian already knew their identities and was deliberately making a backhanded comment.

But they quickly dismissed the thought. The security around their identities was quite high. Aside from the deliberate leaks to a few Cult Organizations, none of the actual student participants should have known.

Even among the instructors involved in this freshman challenge, the ones who knew could be counted on one hand.

"Ahem..." Realizing this, they both coughed lightly, a hint of almost imperceptible embarrassment on their faces.

’Qizai, full sprint!’

Li Qian couldn’t bear to look back at the enemy they were facing, so he issued a command directly to Qizai through their Soul Contract.

Qizai’s Potential was as high as a Tier Five Dominator, and it was also a Dragon-type Pet Beast, making speed its specialty. So, even though its Power Level wasn’t the highest on the field, it was still ridiculously fast.

At least, among the fleeing group, it was one of the fastest.

As they picked up speed, the distance between them and the others widened. Li Qian, leading the pack, was at the very front, but a conflicted expression appeared on his face.

He closed his eyes and shook his head, trying his best not to think too much. This went on for about another ten minutes.

BOOM!

Just then, a massive explosion erupted behind him, grabbing his attention. Li Qian subconsciously glanced back, and what he saw made his pupils instantly contract.

The Skeleton Monarch had launched a long-range attack. A massive Energy Ball came blasting toward them.

Fortunately, the attack wasn’t subtle; the wind-up was obvious. The Energy Ball was fast, but with that prior warning, everyone managed to dodge it, narrowly avoiding disaster.

The explosion Li Qian had just seen and heard was from the Energy Ball slamming into a small hill not far away.

The earth-shattering blast sent a tremor through everyone’s hearts.

If you were hit by an explosion like that, you’d be obliterated without a trace.

So the wisest choice right now was to run as fast and as far as possible.

That’s what Li Qian thought, too. It’s what his logic told him. And then, in the very next moment, he ordered Qizai to turn around and head back.

"Shit, Old Lu, have you lost your mind?!" Lu Tianjiao, who was right behind Li Qian, shouted. He was riding the Five-Colored Swan, with the driver seated behind him.

"You think I want to go back? If I don’t, those five poor bastards are going to meet King Yama!" Li Qian shot back as he passed Lu Tianjiao.

’Damn my conscience!’

He thought he could just run away with a clear conscience, but in the end, he couldn’t just stand by and watch fellow students die, even if they weren’t from his university.

"You five slugs, can’t you move any faster?! If I die here today, I swear I’ll come back and haunt you!" Li Qian roared as he brought Qizai up alongside the Cloud-piercing Goose and Double-headed Vulture. He had come back with the best of intentions, but what came out was a harsh reprimand.

Though Li Qian was cursing up a storm, his words brought a surge of warmth to the hearts of Dongning and the four other students on the backs of the Cloud-piercing Goose and Double-headed Vulture.

These days, a person’s character isn’t judged by what they say, but by what they do.

At that moment, in Dongning’s eyes, Li Qian was like a great hero. No, he *was* a great hero!

His figure, though not exceptionally tall, filled her entire view, even stealing its way into her heart.

"That friend of yours is really brave," the driver, sitting on the Five-Colored Swan, said with an admiring thumbs-up.

"He’s not brave, he’s a goddamn idiot! He must’ve gotten his head slammed in a door! Going back now... he can’t save those five, and he’ll just get himself killed for nothing!" Lu Tianjiao’s face was flush with anger, and he didn’t hold back his cursing.

The driver heard him, smiled, and then said meaningfully, "That’s not necessarily true..."

With that, he performed a nimble flip and leaped right off the back of the Five-Colored Swan. His movements were so swift that Lu Tianjiao barely had time to react.

"Driver, what are you doing—" By the time he processed it, Lu Tianjiao could only watch in shock as the driver plummeted straight down.

But just as he was about to hit the ground, a dazzling light suddenly flared to life beneath him. It was the light of a Summoning Array!

Immediately after, a pair of pure white wings materialized from thin air, emitting a soft, pearlescent glow.

While Lu Tianjiao was still baffled, the light of the Summoning Array faded completely, and the owner of the white wings revealed its true form.

It was a Pet Beast with the body of a lion, the face of a human, and a pair of wings on its back. Its entire body was covered in silver Scale Armor.

"That’s a Cloud Immortal Beast!" The Pet Beast was so distinctive that Lu Tianjiao recognized it the moment it appeared.

Of course, the other reason Lu Tianjiao reacted so quickly was that this particular Pet Beast was extremely famous at Shazhou Beast Taming University.

One of the vice deans of their Combat Academy at Shazhou Beast Taming University—Congming Mountain, also known as the Ming Mountain Monarch—had a Cloud Immortal Beast as his ace Pet Beast.

So upon seeing the Cloud Immortal Beast, a wave of wild joy surged through Lu Tianjiao. He had already guessed the driver’s true identity.

Without a doubt, the driver was almost certainly Congming Mountain, the vice dean of their Combat Academy at Shazhou Beast Taming University.

Discovering that the driver who had been hiding in plain sight was actually a powerhouse with a Power Level as high as Emperor, the weight on Lu Tianjiao’s heart finally lifted.

But just then, a clear, resounding voice called out, "All of you, escape now! I can only hold it off for a short while."

It wasn’t that the Ming Mountain Monarch was incapable of destroying the Skeleton Monarch. He possessed more than one Emperor-level Pet Beast, and in a one-on-one fight, defeating the Skeleton Monarch wouldn’t have been difficult.

However, the hundreds of thousands of Skeleton Beasts and Flame Corpses nearby were a powerful force that could not be ignored.

Enough ants can kill an elephant.

If he were to get bogged down, even the Ming Mountain Monarch would be in danger of perishing.

Therefore, he could only hold the line as long as possible, creating an opportunity for Li Qian and the others to escape.