Crossing into Douluo: Shui Bing'er Remembers the Terror of Being Dominated by the Ice Jade Scorpion!

Outside the arena.

Shui Furong slowly let out a breath.

She now had a much clearer assessment of Su Hui's strength.

"It's not that Shui Bing'er is too weak. It's that Su Hui is too strong."

A fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring, thirty-six levels of Soul Power, a powerful Dragon Martial Soul, and that special Ultimate Ice.

Among people his age across the entire continent, that lineup made him a one-of-a-kind monster.

Still, she had another strange thought.

"Su Hui's third Soul Skill is so strange..."

How should she put it? It was strong, but it didn't seem quite as outrageous as she'd expected.

A Soul Skill from a fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring merely created an ice man clone that could only punch and kick.

Wasn't that a little underwhelming for a Soul Ring of that age?

After all, a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast was already a regional overlord in the Star Dou Great Forest, and an extremely difficult one to hunt.

Its Soul Skill should have been earth-shattering to match.

Yet so far, all Su Hui's ice man created by Extreme Ice Differentiation had shown was that it was "tough as old boots."

"Did I set my expectations for him too high?"

Shui Furong rubbed her brow and secretly shook her head.

"No, that little Su Hui is no ordinary kid. There's no way his third Soul Skill is merely mediocre."

"He probably hasn't shown the true power of that ice man clone yet."

Her instincts were right.

The strongest attack of the Extreme Ice Differentiation Soul Skill wasn't the ice man's fists and feet.

It was self-destruction.

Once Su Hui deliberately detonated a clone condensed from Ultimate Ice,

the Ultimate Ice energy compressed to its limit would be unleashed in an instant, powerful enough to blast everything nearby to pieces.

If Su Hui had made the ice man self-destruct while it was fighting Shui Bing'er,

Shui Furong wouldn't have had a chance to intervene and save her—not with the blast so quick and so close.

Naturally, Su Hui wasn't about to make the ice man self-destruct.

What kind of joke was that? He was here to test it, not to make Skywater Academy find a new team captain.

Seeing Shui Bing'er use Ice Resistance Ring to blast the ice man away before turning to rush at him, its real body,

Su Hui's thoughts stirred.

"That's enough testing for the regular Extreme Ice Avatar. Let's try a different form."

His mental power entered the ice man's body and rebuilt the structure of the Ice Puppet.

"Hmm?"

Shui Furong keenly observed the ice man's body beginning to twist and change shape.

"Crack, crack, crack!"

Its arms drew together and transformed into pincers.

Its body lengthened and lowered, while a long, jointed tail swung out from its rear.

The tip curled upward, gleaming with a deep blue light.

An Ice Jade Scorpion!

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

Inside the Sea of Consciousness, Su Hui's voice rang out: "Xiao Bing, you're up. Get some practice in."

A pale green spiritual core flew from Su Hui's brow and plunged precisely into the Ice Jade Scorpion Puppet.

Ice Empress's languid voice echoed through the Sea of Consciousness, brimming with undisguised pride. "Xiao Bing, don't disgrace the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan."

"Show this little human girl what a true Ice Jade Scorpion is—and what true despair feels like!"

Su Hui's brow twitched. "Ahem, don't bully her too much. Hold back a little."

The next moment, the Ice Jade Scorpion's eyes lit up with a vivid green glow.

It was alive!

It was no longer a stiff Ice Puppet,

but a Soul Beast infused with the will of a true Soul Beast.

"Crack, crack, crack!"

The aura of Ultimate Ice surged from its body, growing several times stronger.

The ice covering the training ground began to spread wildly outward from beneath it.

The ice elements in the air seemed to have received an order and rushed toward it in a frenzy.

"!!!"

Shui Bing'er's foot had just lifted to rush at Su Hui when it was suddenly rooted to the spot.

She felt a terrifying aura sweep toward her from behind.

It was cold, savage, and filled with the pure pressure of a predator.

She spun around, her pupils contracting sharply.

An Ice Jade Scorpion!

An Ice Jade Scorpion made of ice was advancing on her, stepping forward on six scorpion legs.

Each step cracked the ice beneath it.

Its tail stinger arched high overhead, a green glow gathering at the tip and sending a threat crawling across her scalp.

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

That day, if Su Hui hadn't appeared, she would have died beneath the pincers of a fifty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion.

At that very moment, the pressure she felt from the Ice Puppet before her was almost identical to what she'd felt facing that fifty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion!

Shui Bing'er remembered once again the terror of being dominated by the Ice Jade Scorpion!

"This is impossible!"

Shui Bing'er bit down hard on her tongue, using the pain to drive back the fear rising in her heart.

All three of her Soul Rings lit up at once.

Her Ice Crystal Wings spread fully behind her, Ice Ring Armor covered her body, and Ice Resistance Ring stood ready.

But Xiao Bing was faster than she had imagined.

The Ice Jade Scorpion Puppet blurred into a shadow, its tail sweeping sideways as the stinger slammed toward Shui Bing'er's waist.

"Crack!"

Shui Bing'er used her Ice Crystal Wings to block the blow, but they shattered on impact.

She herself was sent flying several meters.

When she landed, her feet carved two deep tracks through the ground.

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

Shui Bing'er barely had time to catch her breath before Xiao Bing's next attack arrived.

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

Every blow left her arms numb, while the cracks in her Ice Ring Armor spread rapidly.

More deadly still were the feints from its tail stinger.

Xiao Bing never aimed its tail at a vital spot.

But the Ultimate Ice carried by the stinger seeped through her armor, slowing the flow of her Soul Power more and more.

Her own ice-attribute Soul Skills were being suppressed!

The gap in strength was overwhelming.

Shui Bing'er finally understood what despair felt like.

She was the captain of the Skywater Team.

Among Soul Masters her age, she was always the one who crushed everyone else.

But against the Ice Jade Scorpion Puppet controlled by Xiao Bing, she couldn't even fight back.

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

Its tail swept across right after, striking the backs of her knees.

"Ugh!"

Shui Bing'er's legs buckled, and she lost her balance and fell to the ground.

If Su Mu hadn't told Xiao Bing to hold back, her legs would have been crushed by that blow.

She had just started to roll over and get back up.

"Clink!"

The Ice Jade Scorpion's pincers were already hovering above her head, their tips less than ten centimeters from her forehead.

A green glow rippled across the pincers, and the chill of Ultimate Ice stung her forehead.

Shui Bing'er had run out of Soul Power.

Her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul automatically vanished.

The glow of her Soul Rings had faded until they were barely visible.

She slumped on the ground, gasping for breath.

Her long, ice-blue hair was damp with sweat and plastered to her cheeks, leaving her a complete mess.

"I... I lost."

She pressed her lips together. The words left her chest feeling tight and blocked.

She had never lost so completely before.

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

Su Hui's voice came from behind the Ice Jade Scorpion Puppet.

The green light in the puppet's eyes flickered meekly twice.

It withdrew the pincers hovering above Shui Bing'er's head.

Its six scorpion legs took a few quick little steps as it turned around, then it obediently crouched behind Su Hui, its tail resting lightly on its back shell.

Its well-behaved appearance was so unlike the Ferocious Beast that had just beaten Shui Bing'er into helplessness that it seemed impossible they were one and the same.