Evil Fire Flaring Up, Impossible to Suppress

Evil Fire Flaring Up, Impossible to Suppress

Although the Soul Ascension Pill's primary effect was to increase Soul Power, like the Profound Water Pill, it could also stimulate one's potential. However, the potential it could draw out was extremely limited.

Moreover, one could take an additional Profound Water Pill, but a person could only consume one Soul Ascension Pill in their lifetime. Taking more would affect their future cultivation potential.

Fewer than twenty Soul Ascension Pills were produced across the entire continent each year, which showed just how precious they were.

That was why Wang Dong had found it so unbelievable that Huo Yuhao had managed to win three Profound Water Pills from Xu Sanshi.

She found it unbelievable both that Huo Yuhao had won three Profound Water Pills and that Xu Sanshi possessed so many of them.

What Huo Yuhao had said earlier to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao had not merely been for the two of them. He had said it to himself as well.

Without strength, he was nothing but a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, fish on the chopping block.

Just as in his previous life, when Tang San had freely toyed with his fate.

In truth, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao did not know that while they had been unconscious, the leading white-robed elder had been Ma Xiaotao's teacher, Yan Shaozhe, the dean of both the Inner Court and Outer Court of Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department.

Yan Shaozhe's identity was quite a melodramatic matter in itself.

He was Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao's great-grandson.[1]

Back then, Ye Xishui had played Long Xiaoyao and Mu En around in circles, but the one she truly loved was Long Xiaoyao.

Later, Ye Xishui drugged Long Xiaoyao unconscious, fled far away, and gave birth to her first child.[2]

Yan Shaozhe was a descendant of that child.

After a day of classes ended, Huo Yuhao once again took Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao out for barbecue.

This time, the two remained silent and merely helped Huo Yuhao with the prep work.

After witnessing Zhou Yi's cruelty and the Inner Court teacher's "silencing," they had clearly gained a new understanding of Shrek Academy.

Coupled with Huo Yuhao's earlier words, they unconsciously began to defer to his judgment.

Meanwhile, inside a secret chamber on Sea God Lake's central island.

Ma Xiaotao gradually woke from her unconsciousness.

Her eyes were a faint pink. The blood-red color from her daytime rampage had completely faded, and now they were filled only with confusion.

"Strange... Why isn't it hot anymore?"

Ma Xiaotao swiftly flipped herself upright and tore off the mask on her face, revealing a face that looked barely twenty years old.

Simply standing there, she possessed a breathtaking figure, like a ripe peach.

After looking around, Ma Xiaotao immediately confirmed that this was the ice chamber built to suppress her rampages.

Ma Xiaotao walked to the chamber door, reached out, and pressed something on the wall. The door then opened completely.

"Xiaotao, you're awake." An aged voice sounded at the same time the chamber door opened.

"This time, you nearly committed a terrible mistake! Yet perhaps by some fortunate coincidence, when your rampage carried you to the edge of Sea God Lake, a force of Ice Attribute from outside entered your body and suppressed the Evil Fire within you."

"Xiaotao, do you remember encountering anything after you rushed out of Sea God Lake?"

Ma Xiaotao was only eighteen years old, yet she was already a six-ring Soul Emperor.

She had become a Soul Emperor even two years younger than the First Generation Shrek Seven Monsters had.

That achievement was nothing short of terrifying.

Upon hearing that aged voice, Ma Xiaotao looked slightly bewildered.

"I... don't remember. I only remember that everything before my eyes was red. Then some kind of fatal threat seemed to appear, and afterward, I... uh, I didn't even manage to resist before I passed out. When I woke again, I was here."

The aged voice drew closer and closer. A white-robed elder strolled up before Ma Xiaotao and said gravely, "How could you not tell me that the Evil Fire in your body was becoming impossible to suppress?"

"Do you know that several Outer Court students nearly died to your Evil Fire this time?"

"I..." Ma Xiaotao was at a loss for words. She knew this truly was her fault, yet she could not help defending herself. "I thought I could control it, but..."

The white-robed elder, Yan Shaozhe, let out a long sigh. "The longer it is suppressed, the fiercer the eruption will be. Xiaotao, it's not as though you don't understand that."

"To prevent you from falling onto the evil path, you should suspend your cultivation for now."

But Ma Xiaotao stubbornly retorted, "Teacher, I can feel it. The sinister heat of the Evil Fire has already been completely suppressed. Continuing to cultivate for a short time definitely won't cause any problems."

"Still, what kind of power was that, to completely suppress my Phoenix Evil Fire?"

After hearing Ma Xiaotao's words, Yan Shaozhe pondered for a moment. "I've already had someone investigate those Outer Court students. At first, I thought they might have been protectors sent by their families."

"But after investigating, we found that was impossible. We also investigated everyone else in the academy. It truly is strange. There are quite a few students and teachers in the academy with Ice Attribute Martial Souls, but none of them match what you encountered."

Ma Xiaotao asked, "Teacher, what are the names of those Outer Court students?"

Yan Shaozhe paused before replying, "Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao. Don't go looking for them recklessly."

"Don't worry, Teacher. I'll just take a look and leave. You don't need to investigate this matter anymore."

Yan Shaozhe immediately flared up. "How can I not investigate? You possess the Ultimate Fire Martial Soul. If you weren't burdened by this Evil Fire, why would things have come to this?"

"If we can find the possessor of an Ultimate Ice Attribute Martial Soul, and he happens to be male, then I will personally arrange a fine match between him and you."

"That way, not only would the negative effects of the Phoenix Evil Fire in your body be resolved, but you could truly soar to great heights in the future. Perhaps the children born from your union would be even more powerful."

"No, Teacher. I will never marry someone I don't like just for the sake of a Martial Soul. This mere Evil Fire—I'll suppress it." Ma Xiaotao's stubborn temper rose as well, and she refuted him directly.

"But the problem is, once the Evil Fire flares up, you can't suppress it!" Yan Shaozhe sighed deeply.

"Don't be willful, Xiaotao. You are so outstanding. You absolutely cannot be held back by the Evil Fire and become unable to make further progress. I've already made my decision on this matter. Feelings can be cultivated. If you continue being willful, I won't acknowledge you as my disciple anymore!"

Ma Xiaotao felt aggrieved, but she did not dare say anything further. She only came to hate the Evil Fire within herself even more.

Note [1]: Based on the ages mentioned in the original text, Yan Shaozhe's most accurate generation would be roughly Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui's grandson or great-grandson. All things considered, great-grandson is more accurate.

Note [2]: Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui's child was born when they were young. Zhongli Wu was born later, after Ye Xishui returned to the Holy Spirit Cult, around the period when she broke through to become a Limit Douluo.

Third Brother's moment of charm: "Didn't expect that, did you? I knew you'd be shocked when you heard it. But not to mention you—even I haven't seen him in over a hundred years. I don't know whether he's still alive. I cannot go see him, because I will never let him know that he has a mother who is the Cult Leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, an Evil Soul Master. I only hope that he can live safely and healthily. Being an ordinary person would be enough. I don't even want him to become a Soul Master. He took the surname I had before joining the Holy Spirit Cult: Yan." "Speaking of which, fate truly toys with people. A descendant of our child actually entered Shrek Academy through his own talent and even became Mu En's disciple. If his Martial Soul had not been my Second Martial Soul, the Radiant Phoenix, I truly would never have known that Mu En had taken a descendant of yours and mine as a disciple, devoted himself to nurturing him, and made him the dean of the Martial Soul Department." "What?" Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong could no longer suppress their shock and cried out together. If Ye Xishui had not revealed this today, who could have imagined that Yan Shaozhe, the dean of Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department, was actually—actually—the son of Death God Douluo Ye Xishui and Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao? Who could have imagined it?

Ye Xishui explicitly said that Yan Shaozhe was a descendant of her child, yet Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong somehow imagined he was Ye Xishui's son. Third Brother's writing here is truly impossible to stomach.