" Tang San at level fifty-nine could defeat a Titled Douluo using only forty percent of his Soul Power. With a Sky Azure Bull Python Soul Ring and Soul Bone, my strength and configuration already far surpassed Tang San's. Although the dean's strength was no weaker than a Titled Douluo's, I'd only pass if I forced her to use her Martial Soul Avatar!"
"Yuntao's fourth Soul Ring definitely wasn't just a thousand years old! An attack of that magnitude just now would've taken at least a Soul Sage using his sixth Soul Skill to achieve!"
Shui Xinhan's thoughts stirred, and eight Soul Rings appeared: yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black.
Immediately afterward, the First Soul Ring beneath her feet lit up.
"First Soul Skill! Ice Dragon Roar!"
A dragon's roar rang throughout Skywater Academy. The members of Skywater Team covered their ears, and only recovered after several Soul Sage teachers shielded them.
Su Yuntao, whom Shui Xinhan had singled out for special attention, felt as if his eardrums were about to tear apart.
"So this is a dragon's roar? It's practically deafening." Su Yuntao focused intently. Facing an opponent like Shui Xinhan, he couldn't afford to let his guard down!
The Ice Dragon high in the sky spread its wings once more and dived. With a thunderous boom, Su Yuntao's Soul Power surged at full speed in response to the attack, and the aura of his Two-Headed Wolf Martial Soul soared as he pushed his First Soul Skill to its limit.
As the smoke cleared, another crater, over five meters in diameter, had appeared in the ground. Shui Xinhan frowned; Su Yuntao, whose mobility had greatly improved, had once again dodged her attack.
"Fifth Soul Skill! Demon Wolf Storm!" Su Yuntao roared, pouring all his level-sixty Soul Power into his Fifth Soul Ring.
His Fifth Soul Ring came from a fifty-thousand-year-old Storm Bird. Although his Soul Power was far below Shui Xinhan's, aside from her Eighth Soul Ring, even her Seventh Soul Ring might not have had such a high age.
In an instant, countless tornadoes formed around Su Yuntao. After dodging Shui Xinhan's attack, he launched a flawless counterattack!
"Aw!" The Ice Dragon let out a pained cry. Caught unprepared by Demon Wolf Storm, Shui Xinhan suffered wind-blade cuts across several parts of her body, and the Ice Dragon was blown backward.
Everyone from Skywater Academy gaped in astonishment. They simply couldn't imagine that Su Yuntao, a mere Five-Ring Soul King, could beat the peerless expert in their eyes into this state!
"Brother Tao, is he even human?" Shui Yue'er murmured.
Shui Bing'er gazed at the familiar figure before her, a ripple stirring in her heart. "Bing'er, Brother Tao's a monster!"
After flying backward for over a thousand meters, Shui Xinhan finally steadied herself. With her strength, she couldn't possibly have been this battered; she'd only wanted to experience the full power of Su Yuntao's Fifth Soul Skill for herself.
"Impossible! To unleash power like that with Soul King-level Soul Power, the Soul Ring itself would have to be nearly a hundred thousand years old!" Shui Xinhan's scalp tingled, and a chill ran through her.
In truth, although Su Yuntao only had level-sixty Soul Power, his physical strength surpassed that of a Soul Sage. Simply put, his basic attack power was high. That was precisely why his fifty-thousand-year Fifth Soul Skill had achieved an effect equivalent to one from an eighty- or ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring.
Likewise, Demon Wolf Acceleration, his ninety-year First Soul Skill, seemed like a remarkably powerful hundred-year Soul Skill because Su Yuntao himself was extraordinarily fast.
"Yuntao!" Shui Xinhan said solemnly. "Your strength is far beyond your level. I never truly understood you."
Su Yuntao smiled. "Dean, everyone has their own secrets. Now, I'm willing to show you a part of mine."
"Haha." Shui Xinhan laughed. "Yuntao, I'm willing to let you see my true strength, too."
Before her words had even faded, Shui Xinhan's Fifth Soul Ring suddenly lit up.
"Fifth Soul Skill! Bloodthirsty Ice!"
In an instant, a red glow radiated from Shui Xinhan's entire body. This was the sign that her combat strength had fully awakened.
The Ice Dragon, its eyes blood-red, let out one high-pitched roar after another, making the members of Skywater Team below feel their scalps tingle.
"Teacher! Please go easy!" Shui Bing'er hurriedly called out. She knew that, in her memories, her teacher had never gotten angry, but she couldn't help worrying at the sight before her.
"Don't worry, Bing'er. I can tell your Brother Tao still has tricks up his sleeve. Today, I want to see just what kind of monster he is!"
Watching Shui Xinhan's aura and fighting strength rise wildly, Su Yuntao felt his own battle intent surge.
"Good! Dean, today let me see just how high the combat strength of a Titled Douluo really reaches!"
Before Su Yuntao's words had even faded, the thunder coursing through the Gale Two-Headed Wolf surged higher and higher. One of the two Soul Skills attached to the Sky Azure Bull Python Soul Ring, Thunder Possession, activated in full.
With Thunder Possession active, Su Yuntao chose to meet Shui Xinhan's overwhelming pressure head-on.
The Ice Dragon in the sky and the Two-Headed Wolf on the ground stood in fierce opposition. Everyone from Skywater, including the Soul Sage teachers, felt a deep fear. It was the result of their auras crushing everyone around them.
Shui Xinhan narrowed her eyes, no longer able to hide her shock.
"With only five Soul Rings, he can actually stand on equal footing with my Ice Dragon. Could his Soul Rings be..."
The next moment, Shui Xinhan moved. Her Fourth Soul Ring lit up rapidly.
"Fourth Soul Skill, Ice Needle Pillar!"
"Awrooo!" The Gale Two-Headed Wolf roared angrily as countless tiny ice spikes appeared out of thin air across the ground.
"Damn, the dean's Fourth Soul Skill is way too underhanded."
Caught off guard by the sudden ice spikes, Su Yuntao had clearly suffered a serious disadvantage. Before he could say anything else, Shui Xinhan moved again!
"Sixth Soul Skill! Heaven-Extinguishing Frost!" Shui Xinhan cried, pushing her level-eighty-seven Soul Power to its limit.
In an instant, the weather throughout Skywater Academy changed dramatically.
Behind the Ice Dragon, countless blades of ice formed from frost pointed at Su Yuntao in the center of the Soul Fighting Arena.
"Yuntao, can you take this?" Shui Xinhan asked with a smile.
"I can try," Su Yuntao replied calmly.
"Good!"
The next moment, countless ice blades carrying an aura of destruction hurtled toward Su Yuntao, making everyone from Skywater tremble.
Faced with an attack of such overwhelming power, Su Yuntao's mind instead began to grow calm.
"The dean's a seasoned fighter. Faced with a large-scale Soul Skill like this, there's no way I can dodge with both my legs injured and my mobility greatly reduced!"
"If that's the case, let me see just how powerful a Titled Douluo's attacks really are!"
A feverish light burst from Su Yuntao's eyes, and the Third Soul Ring beneath his feet suddenly lit up.
"Third Soul Skill, Nirvana Thunder!"
In an instant, countless ice blades collided with thunder filling the sky, bursting into the most dazzling sparks anyone from Skywater had ever seen.
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