Suppressing the Evil Fire

Half a day earlier.

Inside a dormitory in the Inner Academy, a fiery-red figure was engulfed in deep crimson flames, streaked with wisps of black.

Ma Xiaotao was drenched in sweat. Her legs were pressed tightly together, rubbing against each other as she endured her discomfort and tried to cultivate, but she simply couldn't calm her mind.

Before long, her condition grew worse. Feeling she was on the verge of losing control, Ma Xiaotao had no choice but to stop cultivating and gasp for breath.

Her Soul Power still hadn't improved at all, leaving Ma Xiaotao extremely agitated.

Although her teacher's Light power had previously suppressed the Evil Fire, and she had also used all kinds of heavenly treasures with ice and fire attributes, her Evil Fire was becoming harder and harder to control. As a result, the time she could spend cultivating had been drastically reduced. Now that she was stuck at Rank 59, she was growing increasingly frustrated.

She was also somewhat depressed. Her Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul had been passed down from her ancestor, Ma Hongjun, who had ascended to the Divine Realm ten thousand years ago.

But unlike her ancestor, she couldn't rely on help from the opposite sex to vent her fire. In Ma Xiaotao's eyes, only a peerless genius could be worthy of her.

But where could she find someone like that? As for the other solution, the legendary Immortal Herb was even more impossible to find.

The last option was to seek out a Soul Master with an Ultimate Attribute. An ice attribute could suppress the Evil Fire, perhaps even remove it, while Ultimate Fire could help purify her flames.

Ma Xiaotao sighed, got dressed, and headed outside.

She hadn't gone far when she bumped into someone. Who else could it be but her teacher, Yan Shaozhe?

"Teacher, you're here." Ma Xiaotao was clearly in low spirits; even her voice sounded weak.

Seeing his disciple like this pained Yan Shaozhe, but when he thought of Xiao Yi, he couldn't help the corners of his mouth from lifting.

"Xiaotao, there's hope for your Evil Fire." At his words, Ma Xiaotao looked up in delight.

Following behind him, Ma Xiaotao felt a jumble of emotions.

Remembering what her teacher had said, she couldn't help cursing inwardly.

"There's a new student in the Outer Academy. His Martial Soul is very special, and his talent is exceptional. He reached Rank 39 at just twelve years old." Ma Xiaotao was startled, but even so, she still didn't want to vent her fire that way, no matter how talented the other person was.

But when she heard Yan Shaozhe's next words, she could no longer keep her composure.

"He's also an ice-attribute Soul Master."

And so, the two of them ended up in the scene before them. According to Yan Shaozhe, Ma Xiaotao should try to get along with Xiao Yi. That way, he could help solve her Evil Fire problem and aid her cultivation, while she could gain a handsome, talented husband. The Academy would also acquire a genius with boundless potential. It was a threefold win.

Ma Xiaotao felt a little embarrassed, and her face turned faintly red. She glanced at Xiao Yi again. He was indeed handsome, and his talent was exceptional too.

When Xiao Yi looked over, Ma Xiaotao quickly and awkwardly averted her gaze. She appeared perfectly composed, but inside she was panicking like crazy.

Xiao Yi hadn't noticed anything unusual about Ma Xiaotao. He was busy calculating how, after getting his hands on that piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue that was being passed off as a thousand-year-old one, he'd bag a Radiant Flood Dragon of around nine thousand years, then use the Whale Glue to improve his physique and trigger the Soul Beast's evolution, thus obtaining his first true dragon.

He had no idea he was walking straight into a tiger's den. That was why boys had to protect themselves when they went out—especially handsome boys like Xiao Yi, who was almost at the Reader Realm.

They boarded a small boat. After Ma Xiaotao showed her Inner Academy identification, she rowed Xiao Yi across Sea God Lake to Sea God Island, where the Inner Academy was located.

Xiao Yi looked curiously at the enormous Golden Tree, which constantly radiated life energy. This was a real treasure, practically the Life Core of the Douluo Plane. It gathered the energy of heaven and earth, making the surrounding area exceptionally rich in energy.

If Xiao Yi cultivated here, he could progress even faster.

Before long, Ma Xiaotao led Xiao Yi into a room.

Once inside, Xiao Yi looked around curiously. Only then did he finally realize that something seemed a little off.

The room before him had a decidedly girlish style. It wasn't decorated with much, and it looked neat and ordinary, but anyone could tell at a glance that it belonged to a girl.

A soft thump came from behind him as the door shut. The room had only a small window, and even that was covered by a curtain, leaving the place dim. Xiao Yi swallowed. Why did everything feel so strange?

When he turned around, he met Ma Xiaotao's somewhat dazed gaze. She had been able to keep a clear head at first, but she'd been lost in her thoughts the whole way there. And after years of suppressing her Evil Fire, she was feeling a little overwhelmed now.

Ma Xiaotao slipped off her outer garment, gazing at Xiao Yi with unfocused eyes.

She wore a red dress that accentuated her already voluptuous figure, making her look even more alluring.

Xiao Yi felt a strong sense of alarm. This didn't seem to be how things were supposed to go.

"Senior Xiaotao, release your Martial Soul. I'll try to use my ice-attribute Soul Power to suppress it," Xiao Yi said calmly. He could tell that the woman's Evil Fire had flared up and she was having trouble holding it back.

"Mm..." Ma Xiaotao replied in a husky voice. Then she slowly walked past Xiao Yi, taking his hand as she went.

Xiao Yi had already activated Martial Soul Possession. The ice attribute of his Nether Cold Ice Python finally countered the discomfort caused by the room's sudden rise in temperature.

Feeling her small hand holding his, Xiao Yi was led by Ma Xiaotao to the bed. Once they were both sitting on it, they first faced each other. Then Xiao Yi tried to move around behind her.

Suppressing the Evil Fire required physical contact, and Soul Power was usually transmitted from behind. He couldn't exactly do it from the front, could he...

But the moment Xiao Yi stood up, Ma Xiaotao turned around too. She even pulled down her clothes as she did, and from his angle, Xiao Yi caught sight of a broad expanse of snow-white skin.

Who said Ma Xiaotao wasn't great? She was amazing.

Xiao Yi steadied himself and stopped his mind from running wild. A sight he'd only ever seen on his phone was just too stimulating.

Xiao Yi placed his hand against her smooth, fair back and sent a remarkably pure, condensed stream of ice-attribute Soul Power into Ma Xiaotao's body. Because he often deliberately suppressed his cultivation, the quantity and quality of his Soul Power were far beyond what a Soul Master of his rank should possess.

"Mm..." The instant Xiao Yi's palm touched her, Ma Xiaotao couldn't hold back a soft moan. Her whole body trembled, and her tightly pressed thighs rubbed together involuntarily.

Even Xiao Yi blushed despite his self-control. But before he could think any further, terrifying red-and-black flames began to rise from Ma Xiaotao's body, furiously pushing back against the ice-attribute Soul Power he had sent into her.

The two energies erupted inside Ma Xiaotao, making her let out a muffled groan. Xiao Yi quickly steadied his mind and did everything he could to suppress the Evil Fire.