Shui Bing'er Remembers the Terror of Being Dominated by the Ice Jade Scorpion Again!

Outside the arena.

Shui Furong slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

She now had a more intuitive assessment of Su Hui's strength in her heart.

It isn't that Shui Bing'er is too weak; it's that Su Hui is too strong.

A fifty-thousand-year spirit ring, combined with thirty-six levels of spirit power, plus a powerful Dragon Martial Soul and that special Ultimate Ice.

This configuration made him a one-of-a-kind monster among all his peers across the entire continent.

However, she also had a strange thought.

Su Hui's third spirit skill is so strange...

How should she put it? It was strong, certainly, but it didn't seem as outrageous as she had imagined.

She wondered if a spirit skill brought about by a fifty-thousand-year spirit ring that merely condensed an ice clone capable only of punching and kicking was a bit unworthy of the ring's age.

One had to know that a fifty-thousand-year spirit beast was already an overlord-level existence within the Star Dou Great Forest, and the difficulty of hunting one was immense.

The corresponding spirit skill's power should, by all rights, be earth-shattering.

Yet, the ice man produced by Su Hui's Extreme Ice Differentiation had, up to this point, only demonstrated the quality of being "thick-skinned and sturdy."

Could it be that I set my expectations for him too high?

Shui Furong rubbed her brow and shook her head secretly.

No, this little fellow Su Hui is not simple; it is impossible for him to have only a mediocre third spirit skill.

He likely hasn't revealed the true power of this ice clone yet.

Her intuition was correct.

The strongest offensive method of the Extreme Ice Differentiation spirit skill was not the ice man's fisticuffs at all.

It was self-detonation.

Once Su Hui actively triggered the clone condensed from Ultimate Ice, the energy compressed to the extreme would be released in an instant, with enough power to blast everything in the vicinity into smithereens.

If Su Hui had let the ice man detonate while it was entangled with Shui Bing'er just now, Shui Furong wouldn't even have had the chance to intervene—because it would have been too fast and too close.

Naturally, Su Hui could not let the ice man detonate.

Are you kidding? He was here for a test, not to force Skywater Academy to replace their captain.

Seeing Shui Bing'er use the Ice Resistance Ring to blast the ice man away and turn her body to charge toward him, the main body, Su Hui moved his mind.

The test for the ordinary Extreme Ice Avatar form is finished; let's switch to a different form.

His spiritual power probed into the ice man's body, reconstructing the structure of the Ice Puppet.

"Hm?"

Shui Furong keenly observed that the ice man's body began to twist and deform.

"Click, click, click!"

Its arms retracted and transformed into pincers.

Its body elongated and lowered, while its tail whipped out into a long, segmented appendage.

The tip of the tail arched upward, shimmering with a cold, ghostly blue light.

Ice Jade Scorpion!

In less than a single breath, the ice man transformed into an Ice Jade Scorpion, nearly a meter long and composed entirely of ice crystals.

Within the Sea of Consciousness, Su Hui's voice rang out: "Xiao Bing, it's your turn to take the stage. Get some practice in."

A pale green spiritual core flew out from between Su Hui's brows and precisely merged into the body of the Ice Jade Scorpion puppet.

The Ice Empress's lazy voice echoed in the Sea of Consciousness, carrying undisguised pride: "Xiao Bing, don't embarrass the Ice Jade Scorpion clan."

"Let this little human girl truly feel what kind of existence a real Ice Jade Scorpion is, and what true despair feels like!"

Su Hui's brow twitched, and he reminded her: "Ahem, don't bully her too much; hold back a little."

The next second, the scorpion eyes of the Ice Jade Scorpion avatar lit up with a verdant green glow simultaneously.

It came alive!

It was no longer a rigid Ice Puppet.

It was a spirit beast injected with the will of a real spirit beast.

"Click, click, click!"

The aura of Ultimate Ice surged from its body, increasing manifold.

The layer of ice on the training ground began to spread wildly outward, using it as the center.

The ice elements in the air seemed to have received an order, converging frantically toward it.

"!!!"

Shui Bing'er's footsteps, just as she was about to charge toward Su Hui, were nailed firmly to the spot.

She felt a hair-raising aura surging from behind her.

That aura was cold, violent, and filled with the pure pressure of a predator.

She turned around abruptly, her pupils shrinking violently.

An Ice Jade Scorpion!

An Ice Jade Scorpion made of ice was moving its six scorpion legs, closing in on her.

Every step it took on the ground emitted the crisp sound of ice shattering.

Its tail hook was raised high, with emerald green light gathering at the tip, radiating a sense of threat that made her scalp tingle.

Images from her time in the Far North surged uncontrollably through Shui Bing'er's mind.

That day, if not for Su Hui's appearance, she would have already died under the pincers of a fifty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion.

At this very moment, the pressure this Ice Puppet gave her was almost identical to what she had faced against that fifty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion!

Shui Bing'er was once again reminded of the fear of being dominated by an Ice Jade Scorpion!

"This is impossible!"

Shui Bing'er bit the tip of her tongue hard, using the pain to force back the fear welling up from the bottom of her heart.

The three soul rings on her body lit up simultaneously.

Ice crystal wings fully unfurled behind her back, Ice Ring Armor covered her entire body, and the Ice Resistance Ring was ready to be unleashed.

But Xiao Bing's speed was faster than she had imagined.

The Ice Jade Scorpion puppet turned into an afterimage, its scorpion tail whipping horizontally as the hook smashed toward Shui Bing'er's waist.

"Crack!"

Shui Bing'er blocked the strike with her ice crystal wings, but the ice wings shattered upon impact.

She was sent flying several meters away.

Upon landing, her feet dragged two deep furrows into the ground.

"How can this be? Its strength, speed, and agility have all improved so much!"

Shui Bing'er had no time to catch her breath before Xiao Bing's follow-up attack arrived.

The Ice Jade Scorpion's massive pincers attacked from both sides.

The force of every strike forced her arms into numbness, and the cracks in her Ice Ring Armor were expanding rapidly.

Even more lethal was the harassment from the scorpion hook on its tail.

Every time Xiao Bing whipped its tail, it didn't aim for her vitals.

However, the power of the Ultimate Ice attached to the tail hook would conduct through the armor, freezing her soul power and making its circulation increasingly sluggish.

Her own ice-attribute soul skills were being suppressed!

An overwhelming gap in strength.

Shui Bing'er finally understood what despair felt like.

She was the captain of the Skywater Team.

Among soul masters of her age, she had always been the one crushing others.

Yet, facing the Ice Jade Scorpion puppet controlled by Xiao Bing, she couldn't even manage a counterattack.

Xiao Bing's massive pincers shattered the Ice Ring Armor on Shui Bing'er's arms.

It immediately followed up with a horizontal sweep of its tail, striking the back of her knees.

"Ugh!"

Shui Bing'er's legs went weak, and she lost her balance, falling to the ground.

If Su Mu hadn't told Xiao Bing to pull its punches, Shui Bing'er's legs would have been crushed by that blow.

She was just about to roll over and scramble up.

"Clang!"

The Ice Jade Scorpion's massive pincer was already hovering above her head, the tip less than ten centimeters from her forehead.

Emerald green light swirled at the tip of the pincer, and the chill of the Ultimate Ice made her forehead ache.

Shui Bing'er's soul power was completely exhausted.

Her Ice Phoenix martial soul automatically dissipated.

The light of the soul rings on her body dimmed until they were almost invisible.

She collapsed onto the ground, gasping for air in ragged, heavy breaths.

Her ice-blue hair was dampened by sweat, clinging to her cheeks in a state of utter disarray.

"I... I lost."

She bit her lip tightly, her chest feeling stifled and congested as she forced the words out.

To lose so thoroughly—this was a first.

"Xiao Bing, that's enough, come back."

Su Hui's voice drifted from behind the Ice Jade Scorpion puppet.

The emerald light within the eyes of the Ice Jade Scorpion puppet flickered twice, docilely.

It retracted the massive pincer that had been hovering over Shui Bing'er's head.

Its six scorpion legs took small, quick steps to turn around, then it obediently returned to sit behind Su Hui, its tail resting lightly against its own carapace.

That obedient demeanor was a stark contrast to the ferocious beast that had just moments ago beaten Shui Bing'er until she was completely unable to fight back; it was as if they were not the same entity at all.