"Not even a trace of beast fire. Just as expected of you, Fantasy-Genre Floor Tile."
On the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, the ground was strewn with splintered trees, clear evidence of a fierce battle. A handsome young man in blue cursed as he stood before the corpse of a Soul Beast, a white Soul Ring floating above it.
The boy's name was Lin Feng. The Soul Beast he had just hunted was a ten-year-old Blazing Fire Ape with fire attributes.
Lin Feng had only just transmigrated from Blue Star. He had thought that, with his intimate knowledge of Douluo I's plot, he could dominate the Douluo Continent. Instead, he'd discovered that this was a new world, ten thousand years after Tang San had become a god.
His plan to bully Tang San in the early story had fallen through. He could only put it off until later.
(The male lead has no spoilers or cheat from Douluo II; he only knows the plot of Douluo I.)
Heavenly Flames were hard to find, but beast fire was plentiful. Who knew how long it would take him to devour enough to evolve the Burning Art to the Heavenly Tier?
He'd heard that one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts of the Douluo Continent had fire attributes. The beast fire in its body should be pretty good quality...
Muttering to himself, Lin Feng sat cross-legged and began to recover. He didn't absorb the Soul Ring right away.
He had hunted the Soul Beast this time only to test the Burning Art's power. His Water Lotus Martial Soul had water attributes, after all, so it wasn't compatible with a fire-attribute Soul Beast.
More importantly, the Blazing Fire Ape's cultivation was pitifully low. It hadn't even formed the beginnings of beast fire.
Just then, a flock of birds burst from the depths of the forest, and the earth began to quake violently.
A Ferocious Beast?!
But then he saw someone fly past overhead in a panicked rush.
Lin Feng looked up. The sight before him was so breathtaking that his nose nearly started gushing blood.
The woman wore her red hair in a bun and looked about eighteen. Her curvaceous, voluptuous figure, paired with a red dress embroidered with fire phoenix patterns, was alluring indeed.
Unfortunately, a mask hid her face.
Before Lin Feng could properly admire the view...
The forest behind her began to fall in swaths. Then a Three-Headed Red Demon Mastiff, as enormous as a mountain, burst through...
The Scarlet King?!!
One of the legendary Ten Great Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, ranked eighth, with a terrifying three hundred thousand years of cultivation...
Th-this couldn't be right, could it?
Who was trying to set me up today?!
Lin Feng froze where he stood. It wasn't that he didn't want to run; the Scarlet King's terrifying pressure was more than a ten-level Soul Scholar like him could withstand. At least he hadn't wet himself on the spot—that was something.
"Run!" the red-haired woman shouted at Lin Feng. Behind her, the Scarlet King unleashed a furious blast of fire. All three heads spat flames at once. It had clearly been driven to desperation: they were already at the edge of the forest, and Shrek Academy wouldn't tolerate it crossing the line to provoke them.
How the hell was I supposed to run?!
The Evil Fire came first, followed by the Scarlet King's flames, swallowing Lin Feng whole.
Was this it?
I can't accept this! I've only just transmigrated, and I haven't even met a single beauty...
Scarlet King! Retreat!
At the same time, the terrifying will of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Di Tian, rang out.
The Scarlet King hadn't yet understood what he meant when a terrifying explosion engulfed it. It couldn't react in time and was blasted several miles away, leaving vast, horrifying burns across its body.
A black Fire Lotus?!
How terrifying! Was it a Martial Soul Fusion Skill?
Di Tian, what in the world was going on?!
As the Scarlet King beat a hasty retreat, it asked in shock.
Di Tian didn't answer. Instead, the mysterious Lord in the Lake of Life suddenly awoke and teleported the Scarlet King away.
Even Di Tian was wary of the black Fire Lotus, whose origins he couldn't identify. It was the ultimate creation of the Burning Art, fused with the Phoenix Evil Fire and the Three-Headed Red Demon Mastiff's Hellfire.
Lin Feng himself was stunned. The Fire Lotus was actually this terrifying.
In the end, what had truly hurt the Scarlet King was its own Hellfire. The Phoenix Evil Fire had done little damage.
"I'm Ma Xiaotao from Shrek. Save—"
Before Ma Xiaotao could finish, her body went limp, and she crashed without restraint onto Lin Feng.
So round, so hot, so springy, so heavy...
Pinned beneath that massive pair of breasts and the Phoenix Evil Fire, how could a vigorous young man like Lin Feng withstand it?
Lin Feng immediately circulated the Burning Art and began devouring the Evil Fire.
So full!
Had his Soul Power broken through level 10?!
Level 11!
Level 12!
It was still rising!
Level 20!
Whoosh—
Lin Feng finally succeeded in devouring the Phoenix Evil Fire. Legend said this flame was the boundless karma fire born when a male phoenix and a female phoenix merged in the flames of rebirth.
He also gained his very first Soul Ring: an Exotic Flame Soul Ring formed from endless Phoenix Evil Fire.
"Mm..." Ma Xiaotao's body trembled, and she instinctively tightened her arms around Lin Feng beneath her.
"So comfortable..."
The sensation of the Phoenix Evil Fire fading from her body felt wonderful.
Wait, that seemed to be the boy's doing!
What the hell was this kid doing?!
"Big sis, you're finally awake. You're so heavy. Could you get up?" Lin Feng's strained voice sounded beside Ma Xiaotao's ear.
Ah—
I'm going to kill him!
Ma Xiaotao scrambled off Lin Feng and quickly pulled clothes from her storage device to cover herself.
Forget it. It had all started because I led the Scarlet King here...
"You'd better... You'd better pretend nothing happened. Otherwise, I'll... I'll hunt you to the ends of the earth."
After weighing her options, Ma Xiaotao spoke hurriedly and tossed a set of clothes to Lin Feng.
"Thanks!" Lin Feng swiftly put them on, then added, "Your Evil Fire hasn't really been purged. I might be able to help you..."
Before Lin Feng could finish, Ma Xiaotao's face lit up. She interrupted him excitedly. "Did you just say you can help me get rid of the Evil Fire?!"
"Yes. My constitution is special. I can devour all kinds of flames in the world."
Lin Feng didn't reveal the secret of the Burning Art. After all, a man is not guilty for owning a treasure, but only for exposing it. This was the same kind of protagonist cheat as the Flame Emperor next door had.
"That black Fire Lotus—was it your Soul Skill?"
"Yes and no. My original Martial Soul was the Water Lotus. After coming into contact with the flames from you and the Three-Headed Red Demon Mastiff, it mutated, accidentally causing a terrifying explosion."
As he spoke, Lin Feng released his Martial Soul. The originally snow-white Water Lotus had turned into a crimson Fire Lotus.
"Good, good. A Fire Lotus is good."
Ma Xiaotao praised it three times in a row. She reached out to touch the Fire Lotus without thinking, and discovered that it felt unusually close to her.
"Big sis, be careful!"
Seeing this, Lin Feng hurriedly warned her and dispersed the Fire Lotus, afraid it might hurt Ma Xiaotao.
"It's fine. My Martial Soul is the Evil Fire Phoenix. I'm the kind that's reborn from the flames."
Ma Xiaotao withdrew her mischievous hand and waved it dismissively, boasting.
"I haven't asked your name yet. Do you have anywhere to go?"
"My name is Lin Feng. I don't have anywhere to go. My parents passed away a long time ago. I wanted to join a Soul Master Academy, but my Innate Soul Power was only level one. My talent was too poor, so nobody would take me."
"Then would you be willing to join Shrek? I can recommend you."
"Really? I'd love to. That's where every Soul Master dreams of going. There's no reason to refuse."
"Then from now on, your senior sister will look out for you. Shrek will be your second home."
"Thank you, Sister Xiaotao!"
"You're a sweet talker. Oh, right, Lin Feng, what's your cultivation level now? I need to report it to the academy in advance."
"Level twenty, a One-Ring Soul Master. Thanks to my Martial Soul Mutation, I just broke through from level eleven to level twenty."
"What the hell, how many levels did you gain?" Ma Xiaotao blurted out, then hastily tried to regain her composure. "Very good. You meet Shrek's admission requirements."
As a talented Soul Master herself, she too had benefited from a Martial Soul Mutation, going from an ugly duckling straight to a phoenix.
But blessings and disasters went hand in hand. Ma Xiaotao now suffered constantly from the Phoenix Evil Fire. She had hit a bottleneck in her attempt to reach Soul Saint, and her uncontrollable Evil Fire had turned her into a walking "powder keg."
Next, the Soul Ring Configuration on Lin Feng became visible.
It was actually a black... Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring!
Ma Xiaotao froze on the spot, at a loss for words. This was beyond anything she knew.
Even Lin Feng had no idea what was going on. He hadn't noticed the Soul Ring's age earlier.
Unprecedented!
Everyone knew that the age of a Soul Ring a person could absorb was directly linked to the strength of their constitution. Even an unparalleled genius couldn't have a first Soul Ring older than a thousand years.
Not even the legendary God King Tang San could do it.
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