The Hundred-Thousand-Year Phoenix Fire Soul Ring

"Ten—ten-thousand-year quality?! Just how heaven-defying would its effects be?!"

"Of course... they're amazing. Come on, Xiao Feng. We're going to Sea God Lake now..."

Ma Xiaotao tore off a fist-sized piece of Whale Rubber and waved it in front of Lin Feng, a mischievous grin on her face that said, "You know what I mean."

"Are we taking another hot spring dip? Sister Xiaotao, we've been at this all week. Give me a break..."

"Be good. We've got a powerful tonic this time. I guarantee you'll feel a hundred times more energetic tomorrow." Ma Xiaotao leaned closer, her voice coaxing.

"All right, then. Let's give it a try." Lin Feng nodded, half coaxed and half dragged along before he knew it.

Ma Xiaotao's eyes sparkled with even more amusement. She slipped an arm around Lin Feng's waist, spread her wings, and flew toward Sea God Lake beneath the night sky.

The night wind howled past their ears.

Once they were high in the air, Ma Xiaotao brought the small, warm piece of Whale Rubber in her hand to Lin Feng's mouth. "Here, eat it while it's warm. That's when it works best."

Lin Feng hesitated, then took a bite from her hand.

The next moment, his whole face scrunched up!

An indescribable stench, as if the briny funk of the entire deep sea had been concentrated into one mouthful, surged into his mouth and shot straight to the top of his head.

"Ugh—"

He covered his mouth and fought to keep from throwing up, tears springing to his eyes.

Seeing his reaction, Ma Xiaotao grew curious and tried a tiny piece herself.

"Ugh—"

Her smile froze, and her brows knitted tightly together.

"T-this taste... It really is worthy of its ten-thousand-year quality," she said, swallowing with difficulty. "It's at least several times richer than the ten-thousand-year kind..."

The Whale Rubber's effects seemed to hit faster and harder than they'd expected.

Lin Feng felt a searing heat explode deep in his stomach, then surge through his limbs and body like a flood.

A strange sensation spread with it. Alongside the burning pain came an indescribable relief, like a withered tree springing back to life or parched earth receiving a long-awaited rain.

Ma Xiaotao was faring no better. The dizzying, almost transcendent sensation of being reborn made her let out soft moans and gasps.

She already possessed the Phoenix Evil Fire, and Whale Rubber was an extremely yang and fierce substance. Now, the two scorching forces collided and mingled within her.

Sweat soaked her dress, which clung to her curvaceous figure. A blush like rouge colored her fair skin, making her look like a ripe red apple.

Biting her lower lip, she struggled to fly Lin Feng over Sea God Lake, and the two plunged into the water to cool off.

Gurgle, gurgle...

Lin Feng's Adam's apple bobbed involuntarily as his vision swayed and blurred.

In his daze, he saw Ma Xiaotao reach for him.

It was as if the heat drew her to him, or perhaps she was attracted by the increasingly powerful, pure yang energy radiating from Lin Feng.

The next moment, something soft and moist pressed against Lin Feng's lips.

Their scorching breaths mingled at once. Between their lips, he tasted the heat she passed to him, infused with the fishy sweetness of Whale Rubber and the aura of the Phoenix Flame.

That touch was like a spark falling into an ocean of oil. It burst into flames in an instant.

Amid the chaos of his struggling thoughts, Lin Feng finally understood the side effect of the Whale Rubber...

A deep-blue Mystic Ice Spirit Flame began to rise around Lin Feng, locking in a fierce standoff with Ma Xiaotao's dark-red Phoenix Evil Fire.

Like kindling catching fire, his reason burned away inch by inch beneath the potent effects...

Like an octopus, Ma Xiaotao wrapped her arms around Lin Feng's neck and her legs around his waist, then pulled him tight against her.

Their lips and tongues entwined as she desperately drew upon the trace of icy power that could briefly ease the fire consuming her from within.

The Mystic Ice Spirit Flame held more than just the power of mystic ice. After being sealed away and nurtured for countless years by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the spiritual power congealed in its depths had become as vast as an abyss.

That spiritual power formed an invisible bridge, linking their surging Seas of Consciousness.

Their divine senses merged, and all boundaries vanished.

Deep within the Sea of Consciousness, Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix Evil Fire went completely out of control. It became a blaze that threatened to scorch the heavens, dragging her through one cycle of destruction and rebirth after another.

Scorching agony and ultimate pleasure intertwined, leaving her lost in their depths, unable to escape.

Meanwhile, Lin Feng activated the Profound Rank Burning Technique, trying to devour the rampaging Phoenix Evil Fire.

But the endless flames and submerged thoughts in Ma Xiaotao's divine sense crashed against his like towering waves.

He was a lone boat on a raging sea, struggling between devouring the flames and holding fast to his true self, his consciousness on the verge of being lost.

The chain reaction triggered by the hundred-thousand-year Whale Rubber had become a runaway horse, impossible to rein in.

"Oh no! Something's happened!"

The astonishing energy fluctuations instantly alerted Yan Shaozhe on Sea God Island.

He shot toward them like lightning.

When he arrived, he saw the raging Phoenix Evil Fire blazing like an out-of-control sun, turning the surrounding waters into a furnace. He couldn't make out the two people at its heart.

Yan Shaozhe's expression turned grave. He used his tremendous Soul Power to erect a barrier, temporarily sealing off the area.

At the same time, he tried to send his voice through his Soul Power, piercing the sea of flames to wake Lin Feng.

He understood that only Lin Feng, who was inside the flames, might still have a chance to pull Ma Xiaotao back from her completely uncontrolled Nirvana.

An hour passed, yet the flames didn't weaken. They only grew more violent.

Lin Feng's aura remained silent in the depths of the sea of fire, and he couldn't wake him. Yan Shaozhe was frantic, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

His mentor, Mu En, was asleep, while Xuan Zi was completely and utterly unreliable. He couldn't count on him at all...

Just as the crisis reached its peak, the towering Golden Ancient Tree at the center of Sea God Island suddenly shone with a gentle yet magnificent golden radiance.

A supreme force pierced straight through the rampaging Evil Fire and reached out to Lin Feng's sinking divine sense.

"Bzzzt—!" Lin Feng's whole body shuddered, and he suddenly opened his eyes.

"Oh no!" The moment he regained consciousness, Lin Feng sensed the state of Ma Xiaotao in his arms. The Evil Fire Origin within her had burst its banks and was completely out of control.

Even his body, strengthened over and over, was now ravaged by the uncontrolled Phoenix Evil Fire, every inch wracked with piercing pain.

If not for the immense vitality left behind by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, which was frantically repairing his body, he would already have been reduced to ashes.

There was no time to hesitate, and no time for regrets.

A look of resolve flashed through Lin Feng's eyes. He held the scorching figure in his arms even tighter as the Profound Rank Burning Technique surged into motion at unprecedented speed.

This time, he would devour it, guide it, and bear its burden.

He channeled the destructive flames toward his Body Martial Soul, using his body as a scabbard to contain the blazing sword that threatened to burn everything to ash.

One hour, then two...

As the last trace of the violent Phoenix Evil Fire Origin was completely devoured and refined by the Burning Technique, a deep-black Soul Ring condensed around Lin Feng's Body Martial Soul.

It was an Exotic Flame Soul Ring formed entirely from the Evil Fire Origin, with a lifespan of fifty thousand years—the limit that corresponded to a Soul Saint's Soul Beast cultivation.

Only the purest Phoenix Fire Origin remained within Ma Xiaotao.

A clear, ringing phoenix cry resounded above Shrek Academy as the last shadow of the Evil Fire Phoenix vanished.

Her Martial Soul completed its ultimate transformation through Nirvana, evolving into a higher existence—the flawless Fire Phoenix!

The ascension of her Martial Soul brought a frenzied surge in Soul Power.

The instant Ma Xiaotao's aura reached the bottleneck at level seventy, Lin Feng circulated the Burning Technique and, using himself as a conduit, carefully guided the newly born Phoenix Fire Origin within her.

She began ravenously absorbing the dense natural energy above Sea God Lake, swallowing it like a whale gulping down the sea.

The morning sun blazed to life.

An unprecedented Soul Ring slowly gathered and took shape beneath her feet.

Born entirely from her own Origin Flame, it had astonishingly reached the hundred-thousand-year level!

Ma Xiaotao successfully advanced to Soul Saint!

This self-condensed hundred-thousand-year "Phoenix Fire Soul Ring" was enough to shake the entire Soul Master World.