Suppressing Ma Xiaotao! Extreme Fire Attribute Seed-Save It to Awaken a Second Martial Soul? (Please Follow!)

Late at night.

The shore of Sea God Lake outside Shrek City was illuminated as brightly as day.

Surging waves of heat swept in like an avalanche, instantly turning the surrounding vegetation yellow and withered. Some curled up, while others even burst into flames.

The air twisted and warped, as if even space itself were about to melt under the terrifying heat.

"What overbearing Evil Fire."

Dai Yu, transformed into Iron Tiger, stood a hundred meters away. Feeling the scorching heat rushing toward him, he slightly furrowed his brow.

Even from this distance, the Soul Power within his body was being rapidly depleted as he resisted the corrosive force.

At the center of the sea of flames, a slender red figure was struggling in agony.

She was an exceptionally beautiful woman. Her blood-red dress had already been torn to shreds,

revealing large patches of snow-white skin. Yet under the eerie red light, it gave her a breathtakingly bewitching appearance.

Her long hair whipped wildly, her eyes were as red as blood, and she let out beast-like growls,

while the dark-red flames swirling around her seemed to possess a life of their own, frenziedly devouring everything nearby.

She was none other than the number-one maniac of Shrek Inner Court, Ma Xiaotao!

"Hot... So hot..."

"Kill... Kill you all..."

Ma Xiaotao's mind was clearly on the verge of collapse. The pain caused by the backlash of the Evil Fire made her want only to destroy every living thing she saw.

"Roar—!"

Suddenly, Ma Xiaotao whipped her head around. Her utterly irrational, blood-red eyes locked firmly onto Dai Yu.

The next moment, she shot into the air and transformed into a gigantic fire phoenix. Carrying an aura capable of destroying heaven and earth, she dove toward Dai Yu!

"So you're attacking already?

What a crazy shrew!"

A cold glint flashed in Dai Yu's eyes, but he did not retreat even half a step.

If an ordinary Soul Elder faced this attack from Ma Xiaotao, who was at the Soul Emperor level, they would probably turn to ash in an instant.

But Dai Yu was different.

He possessed Extreme Gold, and he also had the "divine artifact" he had just obtained!

"Perfect. I'll use you to test this stone!"

Dai Yu gave a low shout and abruptly tightened both hands around the basketball-sized Dark Gold Ore Mother ore.

The Soul Power within his body surged wildly, pouring into it without reservation.

"Buzz—!!"

The originally dull-gray stone instantly erupted with a heart-pounding dark-gold radiance under the stimulation of Extreme Gold Soul Power.

An aura of extreme sharpness and heaviness shot into the sky!

The Dark Gold Claw Bear was known as an existence capable of tearing dragons apart.

Its associated ore mother was indestructible and also carried an icy, murderous aura originating from the earth!

"Suppress!"

Dai Yu advanced instead of retreating, raising the Dark Gold Ore Mother high with both hands,

and, as though wielding a gigantic hammer capable of splitting the heavens, smashed it viciously into the incoming fire phoenix!

Boom—!!!

Red and gold—two extreme powers collided violently in midair.

A terrifying shock wave instantly swept across the surroundings, destroying every tree within dozens of meters.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—"

A grating frictional sound rang out.

Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, powerful enough to melt gold and iron, was actually stopped dead the moment it touched the Dark Gold Ore Mother!

Not only did the Dark Gold Ore Mother fail to melt, it instead acted like a bottomless pit, frenziedly absorbing the heat around it.

At the same time, Dai Yu's eyes widened. Behind him, the phantom of a White Tiger threw back its head and roared.

An ancient holy beast's "killing" will, mixed with the sharpness of Extreme Gold, transformed into an invisible Spiritual Shock that stabbed viciously into Ma Xiaotao's mind!

"Wake up!!"

This furious shout, infused with Spiritual Power and Martial Soul pressure, was like a basin of ice water poured violently over Ma Xiaotao's frenzied Sea of Awareness.

"Ah—!!"

Ma Xiaotao let out a shrill scream, and the blood-red color in her eyes scattered for an instant.

Her originally berserk offensive also stalled.

Now!

[Beep! The Host has successfully suppressed rampaging Ma Xiaotao (for an instant), achieving the "Level-Crossing Suppression" accomplishment!]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a reward: Extreme Fire Attribute Seed!]

[Additional reward: Stealth Talisman!]

[The rewards have been delivered to the system space.]

Hearing the system's notification, Dai Yu felt greatly relieved.

But he knew very well that with his current strength, he could only block this attack by relying on attribute suppression and the advantage of the divine material.

Once Ma Xiaotao recovered, or the Evil Fire erupted again, his small body would never withstand a second blow.

"Retreat!"

Dai Yu used the force of the rebound to shoot backward.

Just then, several extremely powerful auras were rapidly approaching from the distance.

"Xiaotao!"

"Stop!"

The elders of Shrek Academy had arrived.

A sly curve appeared at the corner of Dai Yu's mouth.

He glanced at the Dark Gold Ore Mother, which was still faintly hot in his hand, then at Ma Xiaotao, who had collapsed on the ground and was temporarily unconscious,

and lowered his voice, leaving them with one final sentence in his rough voice:

"Little girl, your temper's too hot. I helped cool you down.

No need to thank me. Remember, my name is genuine and unchanged...

I'm the creditor of the Soul Tool Department's Qian Duoduo!"

With that, Dai Yu crushed the Stealth Talisman without hesitation.

His figure instantly turned into an afterimage and vanished into the boundless night.

A moment later.

Several figures descended from the sky and landed on the wrecked lakeshore.

Leading them was Yan Shaozhe, dean of the Martial Soul Department. Close behind him was Qian Duoduo, Vice Dean of the Soul Tool Department.

"Xiaotao!"

Seeing Ma Xiaotao lying on the ground, Yan Shaozhe's expression changed drastically. He hurried forward to examine her.

"She's fine. She's only unconscious. The Evil Fire inside her seems to have been forcibly suppressed by some kind of power."

Yan Shaozhe breathed a sigh of relief, then tightly furrowed his brow and swept his gaze across the surroundings:

"A battle took place here just now...

What a terrifying metallic aura!

It actually managed to withstand Xiaotao's Evil Fire without losing ground?"

He picked up a fragment left on the ground. It was a small piece of stone skin blasted off the Dark Gold Ore Mother during the collision.

"This is... the aura of a Dark Gold Claw Bear?"

A trace of shock flashed through Yan Shaozhe's eyes.

Beside him, Qian Duoduo twitched his nose, looking suspicious:

"Old Yan, did you smell something... strange?"

"What smell?"

"It smells like... some kind of high-grade ore being scorched."

Qian Duoduo scratched his head. Suddenly, he noticed what appeared to be a line of writing carved into a tree trunk in the distance.

He walked over for a closer look, and his entire body instantly stiffened.

Several large characters had been gouged into the tree trunk with finger force:

[Qian Duoduo's creditor was here.]

"Holy crap!!"

Qian Duoduo's eyes nearly bulged from their sockets. A strange cry echoed across the night sky:

"What bastard dares pretend to be my creditor?!

When did I ever owe anyone money?!

And to an expert capable of suppressing Ma Xiaotao?!"

Yan Shaozhe turned his head and looked at Qian Duoduo strangely:

"Old Qian, did you... offend some hidden powerhouse outside?"

"I offended his ass!"

Qian Duoduo was on the verge of tears. This was truly a case of sitting at home while disaster fell from the sky!

Elsewhere.

Dai Yu, who had already slipped back to his dormitory, was hiding beneath the covers and inspecting the rewards in his system space.

[Extreme Fire Attribute Seed:

After fusion, it can grant the Host's Martial Soul the Extreme Fire attribute.

However, it is not recommended to coexist with Extreme Gold and Extreme Killing.

It can be kept for later use when awakening a Second Martial Soul.]