Who Can Stop Me, Ma Xiaotao

"There's actually a freshman in the academy who possesses an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul?!"

The moment Ma Xiaotao heard the news, she became extremely excited. Like Yan Shaozhe, she had spent all these years searching for someone with an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul, but had never found one.

She had been tormented by the evil fire of her Evil Fire Phoenix for a long time, and suppressing it was extremely difficult.

When she heard that someone with an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul had appeared, she became so excited that golden-red flames burst from her entire body. Beautiful wings spread from her back, and she shot into the sky.

She was heading out to find Lin Yu.

"Junior Brother Lin Yu, where are you? I'm coming to find you."

At this time, Lin Yu and a group of freshmen had officially enrolled and come under the tutelage of a teacher from the Outer Academy. They had begun taking classes at Shrek Academy in the classroom.

His performance over the past few days had also reached the ears of the teachers and students. Everyone now knew of this genius who possessed the Ice Snow Empress Martial Soul and two Thousand-Year Spirit Skills.

The treatment given to a genius was extraordinary. In class, the teacher showed him special consideration, while his classmates were extremely polite. Every person who saw him would nod and greet him.

Shrek Academy respected the strong. Although Lin Yu was a little older, his Martial Soul and Spirit Skills were incomparably powerful, and that had thoroughly won them over.

After all, not everyone possessed an Ultimate Elemental Martial Soul, much less two Thousand-Year Spirit Skills as their first two Spirit Skills.

Huo Yuhao had been bullied repeatedly in class back then precisely because he had revealed a Ten-Year Spirit Ring, making him a weakling everyone wanted to step on.

But Lin Yu was different. The freshmen knew they were inferior and all hoped to serve as stepping stones for Lin Yu, so that this big shot might teach them how to absorb Thousand-Year Spirit Rings as their first two Spirit Rings.

However, Lin Yu was extremely aloof. He had no interest in these worthless people and usually could not even be bothered to say a word to them.

This only made him seem more mysterious, and the freshmen held him in even greater awe.

Snow Empress praised him, "I didn't expect that you went to Sea God Lake every day to release your Spirit Skills so that the freshmen and teachers would learn about you. You wanted to become as popular as you are now."

"That isn't bad either. Everyone fears you, and you've avoided a lot of trouble."

Lin Yu said, "No. These are only minor aids, not what I truly want."

Snow Empress let out a curious sound. "What other scheme do you have? Tell me about it."

Lin Yu said, "Isn't all this meant to attract Ma Xiaotao's attention? Think about it. If she happened to hear news about me, wouldn't she be unable to resist coming to find me?"

Snow Empress's eyes lit up. "What a great plan. Once news of your Ultimate Ice Martial Soul spreads, Ma Xiaotao will surely be frantic with worry and unable to resist coming to find you."

However, over the next few days, Snow Empress never saw Ma Xiaotao come to find Lin Yu. Everything around them remained peaceful and calm, and nothing happened at all.

Snow Empress: "Why hasn't she come?"

Lin Yu: "It's not that she isn't coming. She's been stopped. Someone as mysterious as me, with suspicious points all over me, would never be allowed near Ma Xiaotao by those people from Sea God Pavilion."

Snow Empress: "So we still have to wait? Wait until they decide there's nothing wrong with you before allowing Ma Xiaotao to approach you?"

Lin Yu laughed. "Why wait? I did all this to disrupt their plans. Ma Xiaotao isn't someone who follows the rules. The more they try to stop her, the more pressure they'll face from her."

Just as Lin Yu had expected, Ma Xiaotao had actually already come once, but Yan Shaozhe had intercepted her halfway.

Ma Xiaotao said unhappily, "Teacher, why did you stop me? That Lin Yu possesses an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul. He can suppress the evil fire in my body. We've searched for so many years before finding just this one. Do you know how difficult that was?"

Yan Shaozhe advised, "Don't be so impatient. This freshman named Lin Yu is very suspicious. He looks as if he deliberately infiltrated the academy, and he's being so ostentatious, making his Martial Soul and Spirit Rings known throughout the entire academy. Can you figure out what he's aiming for?"

Ma Xiaotao said, "Isn't he just practicing his Spirit Skills? I often practice my Spirit Skills at Sea God Lake too. What other purpose could there be?"

Yan Shaozhe said with a headache, "It appears that way. He goes there every day to practice his Spirit Skills, and becomes more proficient each time. But that's precisely the problem. It's too ordinary."

Ma Xiaotao said, "What's the problem?"

Yan Shaozhe could not answer. Everything Lin Yu did was too chaotic and incoherent. He and several colleagues had secretly observed him at Sea God Lake for several days, yet they still could not piece together a purpose.

If you said that a freshman was practicing Spirit Skills at Sea God Lake, that would be perfectly normal.

But if it was a student with a top-tier Martial Soul and two Thousand-Year Spirit Skills, creating a blizzard nearly a hundred meters wide every day and making the entire academy aware of it, then the matter was anything but ordinary.

It was as if he were setting up a trap, trying to lure someone into taking the bait.

But Yan Shaozhe and his colleagues simply could not figure out whom this trap was meant to lure.

Could he be trying to lure a group of Titled Douluo like them into taking the bait?

What nonsense. A Soul Grandmaster who had only just reached level twenty wanted to harm a group of Titled Douluo like them? If that were said aloud, no one would believe it.

Yet that was precisely why Yan Shaozhe and his colleagues were confused and unable to figure Lin Yu out.

Ma Xiaotao also found it extremely strange. She slapped her forehead and laughed. "I know! He just wants to show off. Hehe, if someone has the ability but doesn't show off, wouldn't that be a waste? He wants to show off in front of the genius-filled Shrek Academy and say, 'What does Shrek Academy count as genius? I'm the true genius.'"

The more Ma Xiaotao spoke, the more convinced she became. She could not help praising him. "Junior Brother Lin Yu really is extraordinary. He has the ability and dares to display it. Isn't he just like me? He's right up my alley."

Her heart blossomed with joy, and a constant smile played at the corners of her lips. As she spoke, she was about to fly off to find Lin Yu again.

Yan Shaozhe hurriedly intercepted Ma Xiaotao. "Stop fooling around. How could that Lin Yu be so simple? I could tell from his face at a glance that he was full of schemes. He must have some ulterior motive."

"What motive?"

"Uh... don't ask. In any case, don't go for now. Let me observe him for a few more days."

"What? You don't even know what his motive is, yet you're stopping me? What are you afraid of? It's not as if he's going to eat me. You should be worried that I'll eat him instead. My reputation as Ma Xiaotao, the Flame Demon, isn't undeserved."

Ma Xiaotao was incredibly excited, and Yan Shaozhe had to use every argument he could think of before finally holding her back.

But the truth could not be concealed forever. Ma Xiaotao was rebellious by nature, and the more Yan Shaozhe tried to stop her, the more she schemed to get close to Lin Yu.

She secretly slipped out five times in a single week. If Yan Shaozhe had not known Ma Xiaotao's personality, she really might have sneaked over to Lin Yu.

But Yan Shaozhe was also having a very difficult time holding her back. Ma Xiaotao was like a phoenix trapped in a cage. The more fire she released, the sooner the cage would eventually melt.

To prevent accidents, he simply locked Ma Xiaotao in a confinement room capable of imprisoning a Soul Emperor.

But Ma Xiaotao laughed inwardly. Old man, the more my evil fire is suppressed, the more powerful it becomes. You never imagined that when my strength erupted, I could break through the Soul Emperor realm.

One evening, Yan Shaozhe suddenly sensed something ominous after returning from Sea God Pavilion. When he arrived at the confinement room, he discovered that it had been melted into slag, and Ma Xiaotao had vanished without a trace.

"We're doomed! Ma Xiaotao went to find that detestable Lin Yu!"