It seemed she was worried Yu Shuangbai might change his mind.
Shui Rou'er hurriedly took a gold card out of her Soul Tool.
"There are thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins on this card. You can withdraw them at any bank."
"White Lurking Fish-Wolf is of excellent quality and extremely rare. You can consider the ten thousand Gold Soul Coins our token of gratitude."
Yu Shuangbai didn't refuse out of politeness.
He reached out and took the gold card from Shui Rou'er.
He knew the people from Skywater Academy weren't losing out.
Nor was he worried that Shui Rou'er had simply handed him a fake card to scam him.
There was no need.
The dean of the prestigious Skywater Academy, one of the top Soul Master Academies in the Heaven Dou Empire, had no reason to stoop to something so disgraceful.
Did she think every Soul Master Academy was as impoverished as Shrek Academy, or every dean as shameless as Flender?
Yu Shuangbai put the gold card away and waved his hand slightly.
The Ice Rose entwined around the White Lurking Fish-Wolf slowly receded.
"Thud!"
A muffled impact rang out.
The White Lurking Fish-Wolf collapsed helplessly onto the ice.
Its body was covered in wounds carved by the Ice Rose's petals.
Blood still trickled steadily from them.
Even without the Ice Rose's restraint, the White Lurking Fish-Wolf had lost so much blood that it no longer had the strength to stand.
It lay sprawled across the frozen wasteland like a lump of mud, its breathing faint.
What ruthless methods!
Seeing the White Lurking Fish-Wolf's condition, Shui Rou'er was startled.
Until now, she had only seen Yu Shuangbai use the Ice Rose to restrain it.
She had assumed the little blood that trickled down came from the White Lurking Fish-Wolf struggling against the vines.
But now it was clear that wasn't the case at all.
The countless wounds left no doubt: beneath the stunning Ice Rose lurked deadly danger!
Still, Shui Rou'er was no greenhorn.
Having spent most of her life in the Soul Master World, she had seen too much to lose her composure over something like this.
She turned her gaze away and said to Shui Yue'er behind her, "Yue'er, go ahead."
"Okay."
Shui Yue'er nodded, raised her hand, and summoned an ice shard, stabbing it into the White Lurking Fish-Wolf's neck.
Having lost ninety-nine percent of its strength, the White Lurking Fish-Wolf couldn't possibly break free.
A gorgeous purple Soul Ring slowly emerged from the corpse sprawled on the ground.
This was the outer edge of the Far North.
Powerful Soul Beasts rarely appeared here.
With Shui Rou'er, a Soul Saint, keeping watch, there was no need to worry about safety.
So Shui Yue'er simply sat cross-legged where she was, circulated her Soul Power, and drew the Soul Ring into herself.
While they waited, Shui Rou'er struck up a conversation with the two of them.
"Thank you for letting us have it, young sir. Might I ask your name?"
Shui Rou'er was making a casual inquiry.
In the Soul Master World, a person's name often revealed plenty about the power behind them.
"Yu Shuangbai."
As before, Yu Shuangbai's answer was brief.
He made no effort to invent a false alias.
When he left the Far North, he had never intended to hide his identity.
As for whether this might draw the attention of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Shuangbai wasn't worried at all.
He was no longer the helpless child he had been, orphaned and with no one to rely on.
He had the Ice and Snow Emperors behind him.
Although the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was counted among the Upper Three Sects, Yu Shuangbai knew very well that nearly half the reason it still held that position was Thunder Douluo Yu Yuanzhen.
The entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had only that one Titled Douluo.
It had no other combatants at the Titled Douluo level.
If Thunder Douluo fell and none of the younger generation could take his place, it would only be a matter of time before the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan lost its place among the Upper Three Sects.
And even Thunder Douluo was only a Super Douluo.
Although the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's secret techniques could let him unleash far greater strength, he would probably only be evenly matched with the Ice Empress.
Before Snow Empress, a powerhouse at the Limit Douluo level, he was even less of a threat.
With Snow Empress by his side, even if the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan learned his identity, it had no way to force him to do anything.
So Yu Shuangbai had no need to hide it.
"Yu Shuangbai..."
Shui Rou'er softly repeated the name.
Before entering the Far North, Yu Shuangbai had been one of the lowest-ranking disciples in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
He was nowhere near as well known as the clan's Twin Stars, Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin.
Naturally, Shui Rou'er had never heard of him.
But the surname Yu caught her attention.
Yu Shuangbai...
His surname was Yu...
Could he be from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?
Throughout the Soul Master World, whenever people heard of a major power with the surname Yu, almost all of them would immediately think of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Yet the moment the thought crossed Shui Rou'er's mind, she dismissed it.
The ability Yu Shuangbai had just displayed against the White Lurking Fish-Wolf had nothing to do with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's powers.
It was pure ice-elemental force.
It had no connection at all to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, which was renowned for its lightning.
Then there was the stunning woman in the white dress, whose strength Shui Rou'er couldn't fathom.
She had to be at least a Soul Douluo.
But the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had only a handful of Soul Douluos.
Shui Rou'er had some impression of every one of them.
They were all powerful men.
There was absolutely no female Soul Douluo among them.
And if the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan really had a genius like Yu Shuangbai, there was no reason for them to keep him hidden, given how they did things.
Everyone knew how extravagantly the clan promoted its Twin Stars.
Shui Rou'er had even met one of them: Yu Tianxin, who was studying at Thunder Academy, one of the Four Elements Academies.
She was certain that Yu Shuangbai's strength and talent far surpassed Yu Tianxin's.
So in the span of a moment, Shui Rou'er dismissed her first guess.
She decided that Yu Shuangbai's surname was probably just a coincidence, matching the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's inherited surname.
If Yu Shuangbai's ice-blue dragon horns hadn't been absent during his fight with the White Lurking Fish-Wolf, Shui Rou'er might not have so quickly ruled out the possibility that he came from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
What Shui Rou'er didn't know was that her original guess had, in a way, been right.
Although Yu Shuangbai was no longer a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, he had indeed come from it.
Perhaps he was from some reclusive family named Yu, Shui Rou'er thought.
Besides the most famous powers on the continent, there were many powerful reclusive families.
The Star Crown Clan of the Star Luo Empire was one example.
Perhaps Yu Shuangbai was the heir to some reclusive family she knew nothing about.
This continent truly was mysterious and terrifying!
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