Xu Xiaoyan often wonders to herself, what did I get myself into? She always repeated that same line of thought for the last couple of hours, plus the six months of training she did in the Battle Hall room.
Seriously, what in the hell did she get herself into? All what she ever wanted to do was enjoy her childhood, grow stronger as a soul master in the process, enter a great academy, find herself a husband and start a family; relax and enjoy the rest of her life, and hoped that she would be able to reach the Titled Douluo realm during her lifetime.
Was that too much ask? No, right?
Right?
'So why?'
"RAAAAAAGHH!" Several deathly pale, blood dripping, zombies barrelled through the meter tall ice wall that had replaced the glass windows and auto sliding doors, which was also broken down by the zombies some time ago.
It was the only thing keeping them away from the group of survivors huddled up in the far back of the supermarket.
"Ahhhhh! They broken through!"
"I still haven't seen my family! I don't wanna die yet!"
"I want my mommy! Ahhh!"
"I want my daddy! Waah!"
"Zombies! No! I don't want to die yet! I still haven't touch any tits! Wait, fuck! I forgot to delete my browser history!"
"...Bro, you don't use incognito?"
Their cries of help, despair, regret and unacceptance sounded out through the entire supermarket and quickly attracting the horde of undead.
They were about a hundred or so undead, and they were all hungry!
The zombies quickly shoved and teared through the shelves of various products as they try to get to the group of survivors but all of them suddenly halted in place.
The zombies were confused and looked down to see that the entire lower part of their body is completely encased in a thick layer of blue sheen of ice.
'Why?' Xu Xiaoyan frowned as she took a step forward, standing between the horde of undead and the human survivors. She faced the former with a complete look of disgust on her face.
She looked the same as ever with her blue twin-tailed hair, porcelain jade like skin which made her looked like she was a doll. She had a change of clothes however, out of her Eastsea Academy's uniform and now sporting a white cloak that covered her from neck to her knees. Under it was black clothing that Mu Xi and Gu Yue wore.
She held her Ice Staff in her right hand tight and frosty air surrounded her. Beneath her feet were two yellow soul rings. One of the yellow soul rings lit up with a yellow glow that spread around the ice on the floor that trapped the undead.
It was Xu Xiaoyan's second soul ring ability, Ice Field: within a five meter radius, she freezes the entire ground around her which encases anyone caught within her range. She has the ability to manipulate the ice formed around her into anything but it would
The strength of this soul skill of hers was strong enough to freeze anyone with an entire major realm of cultivation above hers solid for three seconds. In other words, it was the ice version of her Starwheel Ice Staff 1st soul ring ability: Starlight Shackles.
Unlike the soul skills in ancient times where soul masters would sometimes get random skills, soul masters can get their soul skill from their soul rings according to their desires.
If one desired to have a assault power related ability, then they get a powerful soul skill capable of either one shotting or severely injuring their opponents.
In Xu Xiaoyan's case, she desired a control soul skill.
A sigh left her mouth. Her cold pair of eyes stared at the undead.
"...Why did it have to be zombies?"
"Raaaaaaghh!"
She narrowed her eyes and spun the Ice Staff in her hand around and tapped its end on the ground, "Shut up!"
Suddenly, every zombie caught in the ice field froze in an instant. Xu Xiaoyan snapped her fingers like a certain fucking mad titan and every frozen zombie shattered into tiny ice crystals.
In just a single moment, Xu Xiaoyan annihilated a horde of a hundred undead like it was a walk in the park.
Although zombies has superhuman strength that equals a assault system Soul King, but their soul power is almost nonexistent so her soul skill would worked perfectly against them with absolute suppression.
"....Eh?" The survivors muttered out, shocked at the sudden turn of events. First was that the horde of undead had teared down the ice wall that a mysterious little girl had conjured up, then she used some ice type soul skill to freeze the floor around them, and then the zombies froze and crumbled to pieces!
"We're... saved?"
"Did that little girl saved us again?"
"..." The survivors looked at each other before tears appeared in their eyes and they all started cheering out in joy.
Xu Xiaoyan looked at the scene in front of her with a little smile on her face.
This is why she was fighting out here. Despite the fear, the uncertainty and the rotten flesh of zombies that she absolutely did not want to get near one ever again for the rest of her life, seeing the smiles of relief and joy on these people's faces had put her heart at ease.
What was the point of living your life in happiness when the guilt of having it is by leaving all of these people behind?
Xu Xiaoyan knew, that she could not lived with herself when knowing that.
"Teacher Wu, I found another group of survivors here in the Xie district. Honestly, Xie Xie can not stop talking about this district, despite it not being named after him. Yeah, they're in the ZellMart supermarket–huh? Yeah. Uh-huh." Xu Xiaoyan communicated with teacher Wu with her earpiece. Her eyes stared unblinkingly at the entrance of the supermarket. She was prepared in repelling another horde of undead if they came across the supermarket.
Her eyebrows rose, "Eh? Both elder sister Xinglan and fatty are heading this way? But what about the Zhao district? Didn't they get assigned there with two groups of Battle Hall agents?"
Xu Xiaoyan continued on listening in to her teacher and her expression turned into disbelief.
"Huh? What do you mean that the Zhao district has already been recaptured? Its been only a few hours since they were sent there!"
....
Xiao Li had thought that he had saw everything that there was. He's already thirty-five years old, a purple agent of Battle Hall and has been on many missions that most consists of fighting against evil soul masters after all. He's seen many horrors those bastards did to further their cultivation base and longevity.
Although a fucking zombie apocalypse happened, it had only surprised him for a moment before shrugging it off and asked what to do to fix it.
That's how much he's seen over the years, that a zombie apocalypse could only surprise him for a moment.
But this?
Xiao Li rubbed his eyes with his fingers and looked back up at the sight in front of him before tilting his head back down to rubbed his eyes again, again and again before he finally stopped and just stare.
In front of him was hundreds of zombies and some ghouls flooding the entire street of Zhao district, making anything that was alive caught up in there either becoming an undead or just a pool of blood and bones.
But this wasn't the most surprising part, it was the part where a little girl by the age of ten was cutting down said horde with her sword that releases a stream of starlight while being accompanied with a fatty by her side, who's constantly supplying her with steamed buns which recovers her stamina and increases her speed.
She was relentless and great. Every slash she did with her sword, a dozen of undead would be cut down. Her Sword Aura and Sword Will would constantly surged to cover her entire body. It looked little twinkling stars had covered her entire body, protecting her from harm while also functioning as an attack; bursting out to decapitate more of the undead around her.
She killed more undead then even he, a Soul Sage with a two-word battle armor, all the while being a Soul Grandmaster! Though that would be because he was busy gawking at how a pair of Soul Grandmasters charged through the horde of undead, while also protecting them against any powerful ghouls that they couldn't take on.
Though, the strangest thing, is that the fatty running besides or behind her was still alive despite panting like a dog.
'Just how is that fatty still alive?'
Xiao Li let out a sigh and squished the head of a ghoul tight, it had a cultivation base of a Soul King, before popping it like a balloon.
"It is as they say; the new generation would always replace the old. Man, I'm still in my thirties here. Kids with monstrous talents like them, I wonder when will they reach the peak of this world. Will it be in twenty years? Ten? Heh, I can't wait to see new stars like them take the world in a storm."
Within a few hours, the Zhao district was captured. While the two youths, Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi, headed off somewhere to help retake another district.
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