A Word with You Is Like a Word Heard

"However, Brother Bei Bei, although I don't know the properties of herbs, I can sense that this herb doesn't contain much Ice Attribute power. Its effect on treating Fire Attribute injuries wouldn't be very obvious."

Although Huo Yuhao did not recognize herbs, he could sense the elemental attributes within them, especially the amount of Ice Attribute they contained.

"When treating Fire Attribute injuries, the important thing isn't the herb's medicinal properties, but the Ice Attribute power contained within the herb," Huo Yuhao explained further.

Naturally, he explained this to avoid making Bei Bei think he was toying with his feelings.

After hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Bei Bei did indeed believe him, and hope rose in his heart.

He thought for a moment, then said, "In other words, what we're looking for isn't some fixed kind of herb, but herbs that contain a large amount of Ice Attribute power?"

"That's not completely accurate, but yes, you can put it that way. The goal is to use the Ice Attribute energy within the herb to offset the Fire Attribute energy remaining in the injury. After that, the remaining injury will be much easier to handle," Huo Yuhao said honestly.

Then Huo Yuhao began giving Bei Bei a basic explanation.

"Actually, what we need isn't limited to herbs. If we can come across a high-quality Ice Attribute treasure, or even an Ice Attribute soul beast, they could achieve a similar effect. It's just that using treasures and soul beasts is more troublesome to handle than using herbs."

Bei Bei's eyes lit up.

"Little Brother Huo, you mean treasures and soul beasts would work too?"

Suitable herbs were hard to find, but suitable treasures and soul beasts had to be more common than herbs, right?

"Theoretically, yes. If we use a treasure, there are requirements for the treasure's quality, and we'll need a powerful expert to cooperate and guide the attribute out of the treasure."

"As for using a soul beast, that would require the soul beast's cooperation. But you know as well as I do that getting a soul beast to obediently cooperate is almost impossible. And if the soul beast dies, its power will dissipate, making it worthless."

Xuan Zi was also secretly listening to the conversation between Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei. Because it was all ice and snow, even his chicken leg had frozen solid, and he couldn't eat it, so he could only find something else to do.

But as he listened, Xuan Zi suddenly felt that the method Huo Yuhao was talking about sounded rather familiar.

"Using treasures to cooperate and guide attributes... wasn't that how Xiaotao used to cultivate?"

Back when Ma Xiaotao's strength was not yet that high, she had used Ice Attribute treasures to suppress her Evil Fire.

It was just that as Ma Xiaotao's strength increased, ordinary Ice Attribute treasures became useless to her. High-quality Ice Attribute treasures were rare as well, and every one used meant one fewer left.

Fortunately, Ma Xiaotao's teacher was Yan Shaozhe. Yan Shaozhe had also been working hard to help Ma Xiaotao collect Ice Attribute treasures, even taking part of the cultivation resources of some Ice Attribute Inner Court disciples.

As for whether that was fair to the other Ice Attribute Inner Court disciples? Ma Xiaotao was the dean's disciple, all right? You were just an Inner Court disciple. What were you saying? What did you dare say?

And yet it was still a drop in the bucket.

Because there were truly too few high-quality Ice Attribute treasures!

In the end, Yan Shaozhe could only have Shrek Academy use its connections to recruit soul masters with Ultimate Ice attributes from across the entire continent, as well as have high-quality Ice Attribute and Water Attribute soul masters within the academy use their Soul Power to help Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire.

After all, treasures were difficult to regenerate, but soul masters could recover their Soul Power.

It was just that the process of helping Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire was not pleasant for the soul masters. There was even a possibility of damaging their own foundation. Moreover, after helping Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire, the soul master would inevitably be weakened for several days, affecting their own cultivation.

Currently, in Shrek Academy, the soul master helping Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire was Xu San Shi from the Outer Academy.

Xu San Shi's Xuanming Turtle martial soul possessed the Xuanwu Bloodline and had dual water and earth attributes. The quality of his water attribute was very high, enough to help Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire, while his equally high-quality earth attribute could also resist the damage the Evil Fire did to his foundation.

It was just that the gap between Xu San Shi's strength and Ma Xiaotao's was too great. In front of Ma Xiaotao, Xu San Shi could not hold out for long. Every time Xu San Shi helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire, he would be drained for several days.

In truth, it was not as if Shrek Academy had no other high-quality Ice Attribute soul masters, and some were even closer to Ma Xiaotao in strength.

Then why did Ma Xiaotao still end up seeking out Xu San Shi, while the Xuanming Sect that Xu San Shi belonged to had not come knocking for an explanation?

One had to know that Xu San Shi was the Young Master of the Xuanming Sect. His cultivation was being delayed, and there was even a possibility of his foundation being damaged. It was impossible for the Xuanming Sect to have no objections.

The truth was naturally an exchange of interests between factions.

As the parties involved, neither Ma Xiaotao nor Xu San Shi knew, but Xuan Zi, a high-ranking member of Shrek Academy, knew it very clearly.

Only sufficient benefits could make the Xuanming Sect stop pursuing the matter.

However, the higher-ups of Shrek Academy also knew what the Xuanming Sect was planning.

While the Xuanming Sect gained benefits from Shrek Academy, it was not as if they did not harbor the thought of having Xu San Shi win over Ma Xiaotao.

Ma Xiaotao was Yan Shaozhe's disciple. In the future, she would inevitably become one of Shrek Academy's higher-ups. If Xu San Shi could get together with Ma Xiaotao, the Xuanming Sect would have a chance to interfere in Shrek Academy's affairs in the future as well.

A sect that relied on women to awaken its own bloodline naturally would not mind such methods. They might even feel no shame, but take pride in it instead.

Shrek Academy was equally well aware of this.

Besides, if the Xuanming Sect wanted to interfere in Shrek Academy's affairs, how could Shrek Academy not have thoughts of swallowing up the Xuanming Sect?

The Xuanming Sect had quite a few good things as well, such as the Profound Water Pill that could improve a soul master's aptitude.

It was just that the Xuanming Sect was not something they absolutely had to swallow up, so Shrek Academy merely allowed the two to come into contact. They did not actively matchmake them, nor did they do anything else.

Under the circumstances where the Xuanming Sect was willing to let its Young Master "sacrifice" himself, Shrek Academy naturally had no need to let the outstanding disciples of the Inner Court sacrifice themselves as well.

It was just that this time, the situation after Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire erupted was very serious. Xu San Shi's strength could no longer help Ma Xiaotao. Shrek Academy had no choice but to have Inner Court disciples, and even pavilion elders, take action to help maintain Ma Xiaotao's condition.

Whether Ma Xiaotao could be saved could only depend on whether Yan Shaozhe could find a treasure of sufficient quality.

Or...

Have Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice Martial Soul fully awaken!

When they left, Mu En had specifically instructed Xuan Zi about this matter.

Naturally, Xuan Zi had to pay more attention to Huo Yuhao.

Now that Huo Yuhao had mentioned a method similar to Ma Xiaotao's former cultivation method, Xuan Zi became curious as well. At the same time, he pondered inwardly, Little Huo said treasures aren't the only things that can offset Fire Attribute. Soul beasts are also an option. Then could soul beasts help Xiaotao?

After understanding the situation, Bei Bei asked Huo Yuhao, "Little Brother Huo, then what quality of treasure exactly do we need to obtain? Or what kind of soul beast do we need to find? Only then can we treat Xiao Ya's injury?"

"Mm." Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, then said, "The flame that injured Sister Xiao Ya is comparable to Ultimate Fire, so naturally, we need to find a treasure or soul beast comparable to Ultimate Ice."

Bei Bei froze, then gave a wry smile and shook his head. "Ultimate Ice? How could that be so easy to find?"

Xuan Zi also snorted irritably. "Saying that is the same as saying nothing."

A word with you was like a word heard.

If they knew where to find Ultimate Ice, would there still be a need to have Huo Yuhao bring Bei Bei out treasure hunting?

Yan Shaozhe would have gotten his hands on Ultimate Ice for Ma Xiaotao long ago, all right?

"I know," Huo Yuhao said directly, blinking, his expression sincere.

"Huh?" Bei Bei was dumbfounded.

Xuan Zi was stunned as well.