Condensing Water into Ice, Flying Phoenix Transforms into True Phoenix

Shui Xinhan continued, "From the moment I returned to Skywater Academy over twenty years ago, I have been striving for this very day."

"Skywater Academy is currently at its most prosperous point in history, but this is by no means its true peak, because after me came Bing'er, and now, there is you!"

"Yun Tao, don't you want to know why Bing'er has such exceptional talent and works so hard, yet her soul power is still only at the twentieth level?"

Su Yun Tao nodded. He had indeed been puzzled, though now, a faint answer was beginning to take shape in his mind.

"That is because Bing'er was born into poverty and had a very frail constitution. Although she underwent a period of recuperation after arriving at Skywater Academy, she told me that she felt immense pain during her martial soul awakening."

Shui Xinhan's face was filled with pride. "At the time, I felt that Bing'er was a gift bestowed upon my Skywater Academy by the heavens; her martial soul had to be incredibly powerful! Her talent had to be monstrous! Because with her physical condition back then, testing showed that even my Ice Dragon martial soul could have been awakened perfectly!"

"There was only one reason she felt such pain: her martial soul was even more powerful than the Ice Dragon! She suffered because the attribute bonuses her martial soul granted her exceeded the limits her body could withstand at the time."

"So, I stopped her from continuing the awakening. Even if she had succeeded at age six, it would have damaged her meridians. From then on, I attempted to awaken it for her every month, until she was seven and a half years old, when she finally felt no pain at all."

Shui Xinhan grew more animated as she spoke. "And the result! She awakened the unprecedented Ice Phoenix martial soul! And her innate soul power was so high that it caused the crystal ball to crack significantly!"

"Bing'er is a peerless genius rarely seen on the Douluo Continent in centuries! Her talent has surpassed Innate Full Soul Power! She is the Tang Chen of our Skywater Academy! Given time, she will surely reach the pinnacle of soul masters—the ninety-ninth level Titled Douluo! Under her leadership, our Skywater Academy will ascend to an unprecedented altar!"

Su Yun Tao's heart was in turmoil. Although he knew he held many trump cards, Shui Bing'er's talent made his scalp tingle.

In theory, it was impossible for a soul master to reach the ninety-ninth level; this was a consensus in the Douluo world. Even peerless powerhouses like Golden Crocodile, relying on his proud talent, struggled for nearly one hundred and fifty years only to be blocked before the ninety-ninth level threshold.

For a soul master, cultivation beyond the Spirit Douluo level is the Path to Heaven. What is the Path to Heaven? A Titled Douluo is the sky, and a ninety-ninth level Limit Douluo is the sky beyond the sky!

No matter how much heaven-defying talent, resilience, or resources you possess, you will ultimately stop before the sky beyond the sky.

Golden Crocodile was a generation of prodigies; his talent, resources, and resilience were all at the ceiling of the continent. Yet, even this old man, who was a generation senior to Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu, ultimately stopped at the peak of the ninety-eighth level!

To reach the ninety-ninth level, one must be like Tang Chen, with talent that pierces the ceiling, or possess world-shaking opportunities—such as the god trials of Bo Saixi and Qian Daoliu, the Dragon Core of Mu En, the Heaven and Earth Creation Pill of Xuan Zi, or the pile of immortal herbs currently in Su Yun Tao's hands.

Tang Chen, Long Xiaoyao, and Mu En were able to reach the ninety-ninth level on their own! Their talent, like Shui Bing'er's, transcended Innate Full Soul Power. If Innate Full Soul Power is an S, then they are S+, and Qian Renxue is an SS!

Su Yun Tao let out a long breath, calming his emotions. "Dean, Bing'er's Ultimate Ice should be innate, right?"

The realm of the ultimate also has varying strengths. For instance, the Heavenly Snow Woman clan possesses innate ultimate attributes, whereas the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion clan had to abandon their venomous attributes to allow their ice attribute to cross into the ultimate realm.

Shui Xinhan nodded. "Correct. Her Ice Phoenix martial soul has completely surpassed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. Even the most talented soul master in the history of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family, with his flawless Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul, could never compare to Bing'er's Ice Phoenix."

"Bing'er's Ice Phoenix martial soul has transcended the scope of top-tier martial souls and entered the ranks of super martial souls. Unless it is an existence on the level of the Golden Sacred Dragon, nothing else is sufficient to contend with the Ice Phoenix!"

"The phoenix and the dragon are of the same quality. The purest dragon-type martial soul and the purest phoenix-type martial soul are direct counterparts. Bing'er possesses the bloodline of the Water-Condensing Flying Luan. Under the blessing of her terrifying talent, she condenses water into ice and transforms the Luan into a Phoenix; her Ice Phoenix martial soul is the purest phoenix-type martial soul!"

Su Yun Tao nodded. Mu En's Radiant Sacred Dragon, Long Xiaoyao's Dark Sacred Dragon, and Tang Chen's Emperor Heaven Hammer all entered the ranks of super martial souls through the blessing of the soul master's own talent. Tang Hao's Innate Full Soul Power could only bring his Clear Sky Hammer to its most flawless state, but it could not evolve it into the legendary super martial soul, the Emperor Heaven Hammer!

As for Qian Renxue, with her twentieth-level innate soul power, her Six-Winged Archangel martial soul was in its most flawless state! Her Six-Winged Archangel was far more powerful than that of Qian Xunji or even Qian Daoliu.

"Yun Tao, although you have had great adventures and possess an extraordinary temperament, your Gale Two-Headed Wolf martial soul will be suppressed by Bing'er's Ice Phoenix."

"In truth, your Gale Two-Headed Wolf is of excellent quality, but it possesses three attributes: gale, fire, and lightning. If the attributes were equal, these three would form a suppression against the opponent. However, if the martial soul quality is equal, a martial soul with a single attribute will instead suppress your Gale Two-Headed Wolf."

Su Yun Tao gave a wry smile at these words. It was already a miracle that his Lone Wolf martial soul had attributes at all; a few years ago, it was just a blank slate!

Shui Xinhan sighed. "You and Bing'er are both peerless monsters, but time waits for no one. You must grow strong as soon as possible, because Martial Soul Hall also possesses a monster just like you two!"

"Oh?" Su Yun Tao said in a deep voice. "Is it Pope Bibi Dong?"

Shui Xinhan nodded. "Indeed. Pope Bibi Dong's talent is on the same level as yours. Her Death Spider Emperor martial soul not only possesses ultimate poison, but she also has a second martial soul!"

Su Yun Tao's expression turned strange. Although in the original story, the Grandmaster claimed Bibi Dong was calculating and hid her second martial soul from him, looking at the current situation, it was eight or nine times out of ten that Yu Xiaogang, that "Master," had sabotaged Bibi Dong.

Bibi Dong had intended to keep a low profile. Even when she needed to add soul rings to her second martial soul, the Soul-Eater Spider Emperor, she would only take a few elders to hunt soul beasts. Aside from the Grandmaster, Su Yun Tao couldn't imagine where the leak could have come from.

The Grandmaster had turned world-shaking secrets, like the Angelic Divine Armor of Martial Soul Hall, into common knowledge. Su Yun Tao felt that if he were Qian Xunji, he would have subjected him to the ten great tortures of the Douluo world, and after he died, he would have ground his bones to dust and turned him into a public toilet placed on the street for everyone to use for free.

Shui Xinhan sighed softly. "Bibi Dong is actually a pitiful person. Although her first half of life was not like mine, the second half was ruined by this world."

"If she were still the Bibi Dong I once knew, I would even be willing to lead Skywater Academy to join Martial Soul Hall. It is just a pity that she has changed. I do not know what exactly happened to her; I only know that she has become very insane."