The old man rotated his wrist.
The next second,
a massive surge of Soul Power shot forward.
"Ah!"
A scream followed.
"Sir, if you intend to bully people in the Great Soul Arena, then I'm afraid I can't serve you."
Just then,
a beautiful woman who handled Soul Badge registrations at the front desk stepped forward.
She had a head of golden hair.
She was slender and graceful.
Her figure was full and curvaceous.
"You won't register us?"
The white-haired old man leading Blue Sunshine Academy looked up at her when he heard this.
A sinister look appeared on his face.
It was dangerous.
Lucia remained unafraid. "That's right, sir. Please do as you wish. Everyone is equal here. You can't become an exception in our Great Soul Arena just because you refuse to follow the rules!"
"Well said, miss..."
"Exactly! Beautiful and kindhearted, too."
"That old man is a real piece of work."
"..."
When everyone saw the beautiful woman step forward,
she immediately won their approval.
Seeing this,
the white-haired old man's lips curled up. "Fine. We'll wait in line."
Only then did Lucia return to her place.
Watching Lucia's retreating figure,
Yu Xiaolong looked at her, somewhat taken aback.
A beautiful, kindhearted woman like her
was truly a rare sight. She was actually willing to stand up for ordinary people.
"We'll register for an Iron Soul Badge."
Yu Xiaolong and Shui Bing'er joined the queue.
After quite a while,
it was finally their turn to register.
"Here you go."
Lucia continued working as she sat at her desk.
Her chest pressed against the tabletop, her curves full and proudly rounded.
Yu Xiaolong gave her a casual glance.
Then he took Shui Bing'er into the area set aside for the badges.
They were preparing for battle.
At the separate arena,
they would start at Iron Soul Rank.
"Bing'er, your goal this time is to climb from Iron Soul Rank to Gold Soul Rank."
"Are you confident?"
Shui Bing'er followed her teacher's instructions obediently.
She clasped her hands together. "Teacher, don't worry! I'll do my very best."
Yu Xiaolong studied Shui Bing'er's condition.
He nodded faintly.
Heaven Dou Imperial City.
The Great Soul Arena
was divided into four sides and eight sections.
Each section had dozens of Soul Fighting Arenas.
It was an enormous place.
Every arena had its own presiding host.
The atmosphere inside the venue was spectacular.
In the stands, some spectators watched the Soul Fighting matches while eating popcorn.
By the afternoon,
Shui Bing'er returned from the arena where she had been competing.
"How did you do?" Yu Xiaolong asked from the stands as he waited for her.
Shui Bing'er opened her palm, as white as jade. "Teacher, I earned a Silver Soul Badge."
"Not bad. In one afternoon, you went from Iron Soul Rank to Silver Soul Rank."
She had crossed from Iron Soul Rank to Silver Soul Rank, leaping over the major rank of Iron Soul Rank in between.
The only explanation for such speed
was that Shui Bing'er was simply too powerful at the moment.
She had won every match.
"Teacher, I fought twenty matches this afternoon and won every one!"
Shui Bing'er was surprised, too.
During the fights,
she hadn't even needed to use her First Martial Soul.
Her Ultimate Ice and Ice Phoenix Martial Soul alone
had been enough to sweep the entire field.
"But I think someone just died in the arena next door."
Suddenly, Shui Bing'er changed the subject.
Yu Xiaolong's gaze sharpened at her words.
He looked toward the elevated platform above them.
"It was someone from Blue Sunshine Academy!"
Shui Bing'er couldn't help speaking up.
She stood behind Yu Xiaolong.
All afternoon,
the Soul Fighting Arena had been full of reports of their victories.
What was unsettling, though,
was that the Soul Masters who fought against the people from Blue Sunshine Academy
mostly vanished without a trace after defeating them.
Shui Bing'er couldn't help saying, "Teacher, I don't like the person leading Blue Sunshine Academy."
"Why don't you like him?"
"He makes me uncomfortable."
Yu Xiaolong nodded at her words.
That white-haired old man—
if he wasn't mistaken,
he was probably the dean of Blue Sunshine Academy, Shi Nian!
"Shi Nian really does like to pull dirty tricks."
"Forget them. Come back tomorrow and keep climbing the ranks."
In just one day,
along with her twenty consecutive victories,
Shui Bing'er had earned Yu Xiaolong fifty thousand gold coins.
"This much isn't enough. We'll fight for another day tomorrow. As her rank rises, she'll be able to earn even more!"
Yu Xiaolong calculated in his mind.
The next day,
Yu Xiaolong met up with Shui Bing'er.
They had just arrived at the Great Soul Arena entrance
when they saw that the person at the front desk was no longer Lucia.
Someone else had taken her place.
"Hello. Are you Mr. Yu Xiaolong?"
"That's me."
Yu Xiaolong accepted the badge.
"Hello. Your team member has won forty-eight consecutive matches in total, counting yesterday and today."
"This is a VIP card specially issued for you by our Soul Fighting Arena."
Yu Xiaolong took the card, puzzled.
Forty-eight matches?
That couldn't be right.
Shui Bing'er had only won twenty straight matches yesterday...
When her teacher looked at her in confusion,
Shui Bing'er waved her hands. "Teacher, I only fought twenty matches."
Her face reddened.
Just then,
Yu Xiaolong turned around
and looked toward a Soul Fighting Arena.
There stood a figure in red.
Although she wore a blindfold,
Yu Xiaolong recognized her at once.
"Huo Wu!?"
Yu Xiaolong's expression turned strange.
Shui Bing'er looked bewildered beside him. "Teacher, you know her?"
Shui Bing'er was strong.
But from a distance, when she watched the girl in red inside the arena,
she felt that the girl would be a formidable rival.
"Yes. She's from our Dragon God Temple."
Yu Xiaolong nodded.
"A... someone from the Dragon God Temple!?" Shui Bing'er's eyes lit up.
She had heard her teacher say that the Dragon God Temple had senior brothers and sisters.
She just hadn't met any of them yet.
Hearing her teacher say this,
she grew even more curious.
She wanted to wait until the girl left the arena
and go introduce herself.
Five minutes later,
Huo Wu came down from the arena wearing a red mask.
With her tall, curvaceous figure swaying, she walked slowly inside.
Whoosh!
The next second,
Shui Bing'er suddenly appeared in front of her.
Looking at the icy-blue figure that had suddenly appeared,
Huo Wu could tell from her cool, striking appearance alone
that she was a beauty.
"Hello!"
Shui Bing'er spoke first.
Huo Wu eyed her warily. "Who are you?"
"I'm Shui Bing'er, from Skywater Academy. I'm also from the Dragon God Temple."
Shui Bing'er was very curious.
Looking at Huo Wu, she introduced herself.
"Dragon God Temple?"
She caught the key information.
She began to look Shui Bing'er up and down, growing suspicious.
Shui Bing'er looked down at her own body, completely bewildered.
She noticed that, compared to the other girl, aside from her chest being smaller,
and not nearly as exaggerated as hers,
there didn't seem to be any other difference.
"Who's your master!?"
Huo Wu demanded.
"Ah... isn't Yu Xiaolong our master?"
Shui Bing'er thought this fellow senior sister was strange.
Why was she asking such a question?
"Just as I thought!"
Huo Wu heard Shui Bing'er's words.
Her lips instantly tightened.
That old lecher—he was obviously a pervert. How could there be such a beauty in the sect, too?!
No wonder he'd groped her chest on the street back then...
Thinking of this,
Huo Wu gritted her teeth in fury.
"Bing'er, what are you doing here?"
Just as Huo Wu was fuming,
from behind her,
Yu Xiaolong's puzzled voice sounded.
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