Chapter 291: The Might of Tianshui

However, when Shen Liu Yu was defeated and walked off the stage, it left Lei Qian and the others quite shocked.

"I didn't expect Tianshui Academy to have not only produced two geniuses like Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, but for the other members to be this formidable as well," Gerald couldn't help but say in a low voice.

Except for Xue Wu, who hadn't stepped onto the stage, the other four were visibly stronger in cultivation than the current members of the Three Elemental Academies.

They all generally possessed soul power cultivation of level 38 or higher, which was generally two or three levels higher than those non-core official members of the Three Elemental Academies.

Most of the other members of the Three Elemental Academies would only reach the peak of level 38 or 39 soul power cultivation two years later at the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

Yet, the five members of Tianshui Academy had already reached a cultivation level of over 38 today.

It was easy to imagine that in two years, they would definitely all break through to level 40 soul power.

In their eyes, Tianshui Academy, with its members all at the Soul Ancestor level, could basically contend for the runner-up spot.

That's right, their thought was merely to contend for the runner-up spot, after all, the Spirit Hall... was invincible in their eyes!

Even though they had just learned that Shui Bing'er was already at level 48 soul power and would likely break through to Soul King in two years.

They still didn't think that Tianshui Academy's configuration of one Soul King and six Soul Ancestors would be a match for the Spirit Hall.

Every batch of contestants from the Spirit Hall had those kinds of off-spec existences, or one or two Spirit Masters who were clearly only Soul Ancestors but could crush those at the same level, invincible among their peers.

Or there were members who could use Spirit Fusion Skills, erupting with combat power at the Soul King or even Soul Emperor level.

Moreover, the strength of the Spirit Hall was never the strength of one or two members, but the strength of all members.

Every single member had at least level 43 or 44 soul power cultivation, not losing at all in cultivation to the core main forces of each of the Four Elements Academies.

Otherwise, why would the Spirit Hall have won three consecutive championships in the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament?

Therefore, the Spirit Hall was invincible, but this team configuration of Tianshui Academy could indeed contend for the runner-up spot...

"Yeah, why did they suddenly become so strong..." Huo Lingfei was even a bit surprised, then looked at Leng Hanxue on the side.

Leng Hanxue smiled slightly and said, "This is also their good fortune. Just two years ago, that Young Master Ning Feiliu visited our Tianshui Academy and became good friends with them. They agreed to go out for training for a year together, and upon returning, they all made breakthroughs."

"Ning Feiliu?!" Hearing this name, Gerald couldn't help but be surprised and said, "Could it be that heaven-gifted genius of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Feiliu?"

"Hmm, but that Young Master Ning doesn't care about backgrounds or anything like that," Leng Hanxue said with a smile.

Then she changed the subject, "Alright, Yue'er is going up, and she is about to face the heaven-gifted genius of your Shenfeng Academy. Let's see how they fare against each other first."

Immediately, everyone temporarily withdrew their gazes and placed them on Shui Yue'er, who was slowly walking into the training field.

She was definitely one of the cores of Tianshui Academy; although she couldn't compare to her sister Shui Bing'er, her level 45 soul power cultivation could definitely look down upon the masses.

Feng Xiaotian was only at level 41 soul power; according to common sense, he would indeed not be a match for Shui Yue'er.

However... Gerald and the other team members of Shenfeng Academy all had a hope, which was... that Feng Xiaotian would challenge above his level and defeat Shui Yue'er!

In their view, it was still possible for Feng Xiaotian to defeat Shui Yue'er.

As for losing, that was also a matter of course, after all, Shui Yue'er was four levels higher in soul power than Feng Xiaotian.

It was a case of winning being a huge profit, and losing being no loss.

"Please enlighten me," Feng Xiaotian immediately said in a deep voice.

However, having already fought Shen Liu Yu before, he wouldn't show any leniency just because Shui Yue'er was a girl.

"Please!" Shui Yue'er also nodded, then shouted, "Spirit Possession!"

Then a layer of bright glaze appeared on her body's skin; this was her martial soul—Glazed Dolphin.

However, on land, her Spirit Possession would only manifest a layer of Glazed Dolphin skin for protection; if she were in water, her Spirit Possession could turn her legs into a fish tail, making it more convenient to move in the water.

In some situations, her martial soul was actually at a disadvantage fighting on land.

Her true battlefield should be like a Sea Spirit Master, falling into the sea.

But she didn't care.

And at this moment, four soul rings swirled up from under Shui Yue'er's feet simultaneously.

However...

"What?" Except for the members and teachers of Tianshui Academy, the teachers and students of the Three Elemental Academies shouted out in shock at this moment.

Because... the four soul rings rising under Shui Yue'er's feet were actually...

One yellow soul ring... two yellow soul rings... one purple soul ring...

And one more... that last soul ring... was actually black?!

A black... Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring?!

And it was the fourth soul ring?!

Some people even rubbed their eyes, thinking they had seen wrong.

They thought they had miscounted the number of soul rings, because how could someone with a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring still be just a Soul Ancestor!

But they looked again and again, only to find that Shui Yue'er... was indeed a Soul Ancestor.

A Soul Ancestor's fourth soul ring... absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring above one's level? They really felt the world had gone mad!

How could anyone be so bold as to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring at the Soul Ancestor stage!

Ning Feiliu indicated that it was not a big problem.

With the Spirit Condensation Technique, as long as one's spirit wasn't broken by the soul shock of the Soul Beast, then one could use the Moonlight Breathing Method to slowly absorb the power overflowing from the soul ring.

And absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring above one's level indeed had many benefits; it was like in a game where everyone is level 4, but the opponent has clicked their ultimate move.

Your strongest skill at level 4 is just a main skill that has been upgraded twice, but the opponent has directly clicked their ultimate, so the intensity is definitely not on the same level.

That was why Ning Feiliu chose to let Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er both try to absorb a Ten Thousand Year fourth soul ring.

Sometimes, blindly seeking stability is not necessarily a good thing.

Ning Feiliu had tried and succeeded himself, and had methods to allow Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to successfully absorb Ten Thousand Year soul rings.

Then why must one seek stability and settle for a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring?

But the Ten Thousand Year fourth soul ring he let Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er absorb truly shocked the teachers and students of the Three Elemental Academies.

Let alone the Three Elemental Academies, even Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er's parents, Leng Hanxue, and the other teachers and students of Tianshui Academy were shocked to the extreme when they first saw their Ten Thousand Year fourth soul rings, and they had broken into a cold sweat for them.

No... sisters, are you all this brave?

Oh, it was Ning Feiliu who insisted on and helped you absorb this ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, then it's fine. However, it was finally the turn of the teachers and students of the Three Elemental Academies to feel shocked.

Leng Hanxue and the other teachers and students of Tianshui Academy, however, felt somewhat amused and proud; were you scared by our excellent Tianshui Academy student?

Shui Yue'er looked at Feng Xiaotian at this moment and said confidently, "Let's begin!"

Her ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring was the Cold Star Dragon Rabbit, which Ning Feiliu had determined after searching through his portable Soul Beast illustrated guide for a long time.

It was an ice-attribute soul beast with a thin dragon bloodline, found in the part of the Star Dou Great Forest near the Extreme North that they had returned from.

The soul skill it bestowed upon Shui Yue'er was a powerful attack-type soul skill—Frost Star Moon Chant Slash.

It gathers the power of frost, increases her own speed by one hundred percent—in water, this bonus can increase to two hundred percent—and then condenses a crescent-shaped frost slash to attack the opponent.

The Enhancement bonuses were already quite good, and as for the remaining attack-type soul skill, since it was a ten-thousand-year soul skill, its power naturally goes without saying.

If it were a Spirit Master with only the cultivation of a Soul Ancestor, being hit by this move would definitely not just mean kicking the bucket, but at the very least, it would result in severe injury.

Feng Xiaotian immediately felt as if he were facing a formidable enemy; originally, he felt that even if Shui Yue'er's soul power was a few levels higher than his, he still had a possibility of defeating her.

As long as he could use that move... it wasn't impossible.

However, the opponent had a ten-thousand-year soul skill, and he didn't know what kind of ten-thousand-year soul skill it would be, so he felt it was somewhat tricky.

After all, in the original plot, when he faced Tang San, it wasn't that Tang San was three levels higher in soul power than him, but that he was three levels higher than Tang San.

Moreover, he had long known about Tang San's ten-thousand-year fourth soul skill; it wasn't a soul skill with massive power, but a Blue Silver Cage that sacrificed most of its power for functionality.

Regarding control ability and protection ability alone, the instant group control effect of the Blue Silver Cage was indeed very powerful.

But it had absolutely no lethality, and since Feng Xiaotian's martial soul could directly tear apart the Blue Silver Grass Tang San had at the time, in a sense, Feng Xiaotian countered Tang San.

Plus, he had his self-created spirit skill that he was very confident in, the "Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes of the Gale Demon Wolf," so he thought, "Just this... how could I lose?"

And then he was taught a lesson by Tang San, who brought out the Clear Sky Hammer and used the "Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique" created by Tang Chen.

Honestly, in this situation, Feng Xiaotian only lost to Tang Chen; after all, Tang San was using a self-created spirit skill created by Tang Chen.

One was a soul skill he had truly created himself, and the other was a peerless technique passed down by an ancestor that he was merely picking up the scraps of.

In terms of creativity, Tang San was indeed inferior to Feng Xiaotian.

Now, things were different; there was no mutual generation or restriction relationship between Feng Xiaotian's wind attribute and the water attribute, and based on cultivation, he was also lower than Shui Yue'er.

Shui Yue'er also had an unknown ten-thousand-year soul skill.

Therefore, he felt as if he were facing a formidable enemy.

"Come!" Feng Xiaotian charged straight up and engaged in battle with Shui Yue'er.

"Well come!" Shui Yue'er was not afraid either.

She fought Feng Xiaotian in close quarters, and then they each used their soul skills, but Feng Xiaotian was clearly being suppressed by Shui Yue'er the whole time due to his soul power cultivation.

Shui Yue'er suppressed Feng Xiaotian using only her first martial soul, the Fluorescent Flame Dolphin, and other soul skills besides her ten-thousand-year soul skill.

However, Feng Xiaotian was worthy of being the leader of the Four Elemental Academies in the original plot; he was always at a disadvantage, but he had not been completely defeated.

Finally, he couldn't hold back anymore and directly used his strongest self-created spirit skill, the "Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes of the Gale Demon Wolf"! However...

"Fourth Soul Skill! Frost Star Moon Chant Slash!"

Shui Yue'er did not hesitate either, directly using her ten-thousand-year fourth soul skill; a layer of white frost condensed on her body, and her speed surged.

At the same time, she condensed a crescent-shaped moon slash with both hands, and with a single soul skill, she shattered Feng Xiaotian's "Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes of the Gale Demon Wolf," which looked incredibly terrifying! From then on, Feng Xiaotian was defeated, and Shui Yue'er vividly illustrated what it means that in the face of absolute strength, everything else is just flashy nonsense.

I will slash your dream of self-created spirit skills to pieces with one blade!

This is also why in this ghost place called Douluo Continent, everyone doesn't like self-created spirit skills and the like.

I absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring, and it's already more powerful than your flashy self-created soul skill; self-created soul skills? Is there any need for that? I have to say, this is very frustrating.

Therefore, the reason why Douluo Continent is the sewer of fantasy, besides the fact that the power system values are expressed too weakly, is also because the soul ring and soul skill system hinders the development of Douluo Continent.

When all techniques and skills rely on soul rings, self-created techniques and soul skills have no room for survival, so what other possibilities for becoming stronger are there? Although self-created soul skills might be weak at first, slowly, relying on the transcendent power of soul power, it is not impossible for a peerless genius to later create peerless self-created soul skills like the Transformation into Freedom Technique or the Heavenly Emperor Scripture.

So one has to admire Tang Chen; although this guy was a bit love-struck, his comprehension was absolutely beyond reproach.

The Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, Clear Sky Array, Great Sumeru Hammer, and Ring Detonation Mystery—these techniques and self-created soul skills are indeed quite strong.

Each one's power is at least comparable to a ten-thousand-year soul skill, and things like the Ring Detonation Mystery and Heaven-Defying Strike are even comparable to hundred-thousand-year soul skills.

In terms of comprehension and talent, Tang Chen was at least definitely stronger than Tang San.

Tang San, on the contrary, has always been picking up scraps; he has never created any technique himself, and all he knows are those peerless techniques he stole from the Tang Sect.

Even when he reached the God Realm, it was still the same; his skills were all things given to him by the Asura God, or the Golden Thirteen Forms combined into one.

Not to mention anything else, Huo Yuhao at least had self-created spirit skills like the Hao Dong Three Absolutes and Little Huo Flying Knives...

It was a bit awkward, but at least there was real substance.

Feng Xiaotian also had some substance, but unfortunately, the experience of Tang God King vividly interpreted what it means that having good talent is really not as good as having good luck, and having good luck is really not as good as being black-hearted and ruthless.

Shui Yue'er is a typical case of having better luck than Feng Xiaotian...

He sighed and walked off the training ground, looking somewhat dejected.

And in this situation, only Shui Yue'er was left on the field; even Shui Bing'er, the strongest Spirit Master of Tianshui Academy on the surface, hadn't even gone up yet.

Tianshui Academy had won.

However...

Leng Hanxue still smiled slightly and said, "This time, it is still mainly for academic discussion, Bing'er... you should also go up and have a match with Yue'er."

"Yes, Dean," Shui Bing'er said, somewhat surprised, but she still nodded.

Finally... a match between Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er?

This was something the three academies hadn't expected, but they just happened to... also want to see Shui Bing'er's strength, and... what other trump cards Shui Yue'er had.

Just at this moment...

Outside Tianshui Academy, three figures slowly walked over.

(End of this chapter)