Shui Binger

"Binger, what's wrong with you?"

The teacher holding Shui Binger was the first to notice that something was wrong.

Shui Binger's body temperature was dropping rapidly.

In just a few seconds, it felt as though she was holding not a living person, but a block of ice.

"Binger?"

As the temperature around Shui Binger continued to fall, the teachers began to panic as well.

She was Shui Qingxuan's precious granddaughter. No one dared bear responsibility for this.

"Move."

Seeing this, Su Chen pushed through the crowd and went straight in.

"Is it the chill caused by her martial soul?"

Taking Shui Binger from the terrified teacher's arms, Su Chen immediately realized something was wrong.

A faint amount of Soul Power was radiating from Shui Binger's body.

"This doesn't look good."

He placed his hand beneath Shui Binger's nose. Her breathing was weak.

When he took her hand, a bone-piercing cold instantly swept over him.

Shui Binger's martial soul was likely of an extremely high quality, but it had not reached the level of Ultimate Ice.

Because she had only just awakened it and struggled to control it, her entire body was filled with ice-attributed Soul Power.

There was no choice. He could only take a gamble and try it.

Ignoring everything else, Su Chen directly pulled out an Ice Lotus Pill from his clothes.

This pill had originally been meant to suppress ice-attributed Soul Power, so it would naturally have an effect here as well.

"So cold..."

After the pale blue pill entered her stomach, Shui Binger's complexion improved slightly.

Her hands tightly clutched Su Chen's sleeve as fine beads of sweat seeped from her forehead.

"Still not enough..."

He checked her pulse. It was still weak. The symptoms had only been temporarily relieved.

"I'm going all in."

Taking a deep breath, Su Chen made a bold attempt.

He would use the Soul Power Shui Qingxuan had introduced into his body to help Shui Binger suppress this surge of Soul Power.

"Relax. I'm here."

Looking at the pained Shui Binger in his arms, Su Chen tightly held her hand.

He began releasing the Soul Power Shui Qingxuan had infused into him, using it to help Shui Binger.

"It's working!"

The moment the two streams of Soul Power came into contact, they began to merge.

The originally uncontrolled Soul Power in Shui Binger's body gradually began to stabilize.

But a new problem arose on Su Chen's side.

As he mobilized that Soul Power, the Heterogeneous Soul Power within his body once again descended into chaos.

"No, I have to keep holding on."

Seeing the little girl in his arms gradually regain her color, Su Chen ignored the rampaging Heterogeneous Soul Power in his body and continued increasing his output.

Screech—

A clear, piercing phoenix cry rang out from nowhere. A phantom phoenix formed of ice crystals appeared behind Shui Binger.

A top-tier ice-attributed beast martial soul—the Ice Phoenix. Innate Full Soul Power.

"They finally made it through."

Seeing the scene before them, the teachers finally let out sighs of relief.

"Big Brother Su Chen?"

Opening her eyes, Shui Binger looked at the man holding her.

"It's all right now. Your Martial Soul Awakening went smoothly."

Forcing out a smile, Su Chen fell backward.

"Are you all right, Su Chen?!"

"What happened this time?!"

When he woke again, he was in the school infirmary.

The one examining him was the school's vice principal.

She was Shui Qingxuan's confidant, and one of the few people in the school who knew about Su Chen's Heterogeneous Soul Power problem.

"No matter what, thank you for what you did for Binger."

"It was nothing. The Heterogeneous Soul Power acted up again, right?" Su Chen got off the bed and asked calmly.

The Heterogeneous Soul Power issue had plagued him for nearly a year.

There was no need to say it. This incident had clearly been caused by his extensive use of Shui Qingxuan's Soul Power.

"Your guess was quite accurate. I suppose a long illness really does make one a good doctor."

The vice principal rolled her eyes at Su Chen and reminded him again.

"This time was a special circumstance, so I won't say anything more. But you still need to be careful in the future. After all, this will definitely affect your cultivation."

Thinking of this, the vice principal felt a wave of regret.

Innate Full Soul Power. Such talent was exceedingly rare across the entire Douluo Continent.

The only other person she had heard of was the legendary Spirit Hall Pope, Bibi Dong.

If not for the trouble caused by his Heterogeneous Soul Power, Su Chen would probably have already broken through to Soul Elder.

"I'm already level twenty-nine, at least. There's no rush."

After that great battle, Su Chen had not immediately broken through.

But after recuperating and gradually adapting to Shui Qingxuan's Soul Power,

Su Chen's Soul Power Level had still risen from level twenty-eight to level twenty-nine, leaving him only one step away from Soul Elder.

"That may be true, but cultivation isn't as simple as you think."

The vice principal pushed up her glasses and explained to Su Chen.

"For young people like you, this is the fastest period of cultivation in your entire lives. And as your level rises, the difficulty of cultivation increases exponentially."

"I learned all that long ago. But there's something I've always wanted to ask."

"What is it?"

"From Martial Soul Awakening at age six to entering an academy at the usual age of twelve, there are six whole years. And that should be the period when children are growing the most. Why is cultivation so slow during that time?"

Back when he read the novel, Su Chen had never been able to understand this question.

From Tang San's Martial Soul Awakening at age six until he entered Shrek Academy at age twelve,

he had spent six whole years cultivating his Soul Power to only level twenty-nine.

For Tang San, who had cheats all the way through his cultivation, such a speed seemed completely out of place.

"The answer is actually very simple."

The vice principal raised a finger and waved it in the air as she explained.

"Do you remember Binger's situation?"

"Mm."

Awakening her martial soul had nearly cost her life. Of course Su Chen remembered that.

"Martial souls of high quality like hers often produce Soul Power that a six-year-old body cannot withstand."

"But aren't there martial souls of average quality?"

Su Chen pressed.

"Expecting a six- or seven-year-old child to systematically understand meditation is probably unrealistic."

"I see."

Su Chen nodded and did not ask any further questions.

But the doubt in his heart had not disappeared.

Fine, perhaps other people's physical constitutions could not handle it. But Tang San learned blacksmithing from his father every day, so how could that have been a problem for him?

Could it be that in the Douluo world, Tang San was still obsessed with all those Tang Sect secret arts of his?

Out of nowhere, Su Chen thought of an absurd possibility.

The reason Tang San's cultivation speed during that period had not greatly surpassed everyone else despite having the Mysterious Heaven Skill

was probably because he had put all his attention on those so-called Tang Sect Hidden Weapons and had not focused on cultivation at all.