Ma Xiaotao: Did I Steal Your Man?

Snow Empress said, "???"

Lin Yu laughed. "We discussed this before. Dealing with Ma Xiaotao has always been very simple. We can sign the contract whenever we want. The Evil Fire in Ma Xiaotao's martial soul is like a bone-deep infection. She has no way to escape it."

"But we came to Shrek Academy for more than just this. Our main goal is to increase our Soul Power. Signing the contract with Ma Xiaotao is only secondary."

Snow Empress said, "Secondary? Then why did you go to such lengths to lure Ma Xiaotao out?"

These past few days, Lin Yu had gone to Sea God Lake every day to release his spirit skills, making the entire academy aware of him. Yet after making such a huge commotion to lure Ma Xiaotao out, he still did not sign the contract.

It was truly contradictory.

Lin Yu smiled. "That's because some things can only be done after luring Ma Xiaotao out."

He suddenly put on an innocent expression and said to Ma Xiaotao, "Sister Xiaotao, I agreed to use my martial soul to suppress your Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul. But your cultivation is at the Soul Emperor level, while I'm only a Soul Grandmaster. The gap between our levels is huge. If we rashly begin the suppression, could my Ultimate Ice Martial Soul fail?"

"There is indeed such a problem. I didn't expect you to notice it."

Ma Xiaotao smiled. "But you don't need to worry. Before you, an outer-court junior brother named Xu Sanshi once helped me suppress the Evil Fire Phoenix. We were also dozens of levels apart. At first, I lost control and injured him."

"But after I became proficient at controlling my Soul Power, he was merely exhausted and was no longer injured."

"And that was because his martial soul wasn't an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul. If we used an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul, with its ability to counter the Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, you wouldn't even feel exhausted."

Ma Xiaotao was extremely confident.

But Lin Yu's face turned bitter. "Although that's true, Sister Xiaotao, I'm still afraid. I'm worried that my level is too low. If something goes wrong halfway through, I'll be finished."

Snow Empress thought that this junior brother was innocent and kind, but why was he so afraid of death?

Still, she knew this was only human nature. She smiled unconcernedly and took a medicine box from her clothes. "Junior Brother Lin Yu, you don't have to worry about your Soul Power being too low. I happen to have pills here that can increase Soul Power."

"There's one Mysterious Water Pill and one Soul Ascension Pill inside. As long as you take them, you can increase your level by at least three ranks."

"Are you still worried now?"

The medicine box opened, and the medicinal fragrances of the Mysterious Water Pill and Soul Ascension Pill immediately spread out. Just smelling them made one's Soul Power stir restlessly, as if a breakthrough were about to happen.

The moment Snow Empress saw the two pills appear in Lin Yu's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, how could she not understand his true intention? He had actually wanted to trick pills out of Ma Xiaotao. They were the Mysterious Water Pill and Soul Ascension Pill that they had planned to find an opportunity to obtain in Shrek Academy.

Snow Empress exclaimed, "So this is how you planned it. You intended to use the suppression of the Evil Fire with Ultimate Ice as the price to trick pills that could increase your Soul Power out of Ma Xiaotao."

"Moreover, Ultimate Ice can't resolve the Evil Fire once and for all. It requires repeated suppression, which gives you an opportunity to ask for pills each time and obtain more Mysterious Water Pills and Soul Ascension Pills."

"That, in turn, gives you the opportunity to keep increasing your Soul Power."

"What a plan. Compared to using the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to resolve it all at once, suppressing it with Ultimate Ice can actually bring you even more benefits."

This was Lin Yu's true intention in luring Ma Xiaotao out. Only now did Snow Empress see through it. She immediately felt that Lin Yu's scheme was brilliantly calculated, and that there was an even deeper layer to it.

Unfortunately, Lin Yu couldn't communicate with Snow Empress at this moment, because he had suddenly lost control of his body and was about to be forced.

Snow Empress wore an expression of utter astonishment. After Ma Xiaotao threw the medicine box to Lin Yu, her manner suddenly became forceful. The corners of her mouth lifted into a domineering smile. "Junior Brother Lin Yu, now that we have pills to increase your Soul Power, you have to accompany me tonight no matter what. I won't give you a chance to refuse."

A layer of red light covered her eyes. She had actually entered a state of losing control.

Lin Yu had never encountered such a domineering girl before. Ma Xiaotao pinned him against the wall with her long, fair arm, and with a single exertion of force, she smashed a hole through the wall behind him.

Only then did Lin Yu realize that the person before him was a genuine Soul Emperor. Her strength was countless levels above his, far beyond what he could resist at present.

Golden flames began to burn across her body. Under that suffocating pressure, Lin Yu was forced to release his Ice Snow Empress Martial Soul in resistance.

"First Spirit Skill, Thousand Mile Ice Seal."

"Second Spirit Skill, Blizzard Flying."

A bitterly cold blizzard swept up, enveloping Lin Yu and Ma Xiaotao.

Yet a smile appeared on Ma Xiaotao's faintly red lips. The flames on her body instead found a chance to erupt freely. She embraced Lin Yu, whose body radiated icy power, practically trying to melt herself into him.

The Evil Fire that had been suppressed for years was released to its fullest at this moment.

Her Soul Power surged without restraint.

The domain formed by two Thousand-Year Spirit Skills was as good as nonexistent before Ma Xiaotao, a Soul Emperor.

Instead, Ma Xiaotao felt the Evil Fire within her Soul Power being cleansed, and she hugged him even more tightly.

This was the first time Lin Yu had ever been taken advantage of like this.

The delicate voice, the fiery body pressed against him—countless sensations he couldn't resist threatened to erode him, melting him into increasingly passionate flames.

How could an ordinary Soul Grandmaster possibly resist a Soul Emperor?

Suddenly, when Lin Yu could no longer struggle, he shouted.

"Snow Empress!"

For a moment, Ma Xiaotao furrowed her brows, not understanding why Lin Yu had suddenly called out a name that sounded especially like a girl's name.

He was with her, so how could he call another girl's name?

But at that moment, as if it had received a summons, an overbearing, peerless icy force suddenly burst from Lin Yu's body and spread wildly.

Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire Phoenix Soul Power was actually suppressed. She was forced to release Lin Yu, and an intense sensation of freezing paralysis spread throughout her body.

This was a delightful change. Ma Xiaotao discovered that the Evil Fire of the Evil Fire Phoenix had been completely suppressed in one stroke, without the slightest trace of agitation. At least for a while, it would not flare up again.

"Junior Brother Lin Yu, you're amazing."

Ma Xiaotao had never expected Lin Yu's Ultimate Ice to be so effective at suppressing it. She revealed an expression of immense satisfaction.

However, Lin Yu now stood in the center of the blizzard. His brows and eyes were filled with dignity and majesty as he stared coldly at her.

Whether it was an illusion or not, Ma Xiaotao suddenly felt that Lin Yu seemed to have become a different person. It was a change in temperament, a shift from the bearing of a boy to that of a girl.

Moreover, he seemed to have become a girl who disliked her, harboring deep resentment toward her. His expression was filled with hostility.

He looked as if she had almost stolen her man.