The Sky Screen did not stop.
After Su Mo released his Soul Rings, the image slowly shifted to the other side of the Great Soul Arena. The host's voice carried far through the night wind, yet remained crystal clear.
"Now, please welcome Su Mo's opponent! Xiao Wu, seventeen years old, Level 77 Soul Saint!"
The gate at the other end of the Soul Fighting Platform slowly opened.
A pink figure emerged from the shadows. She had fully grown into her height, her scorpion-tail braid swaying gently behind her. Her features were finer than in her youth, and colder too.
She did not look at the camera, only at Su Mo across from her. Then she suddenly smiled. Seven Soul Rings rose from beneath her feet as well.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black.
A standard top-tier configuration. Not as astonishing as Su Mo's, but still terrifying.
The seven Soul Rings circled one after another, suffocating everyone beneath their pressure.
In the Original-Work World, Shrek Academy was the first to explode.
"Xiao Wu?!" Ma Hongjun whipped around and stared at Xiao Wu, who was crouching in the corner, his eyes wide as bells. "That's you? A Soul Saint at seventeen?"
Xiao Wu herself was stunned.
Her mouth hung open as she looked up at the Sky Screen, then down at her own hands, repeating the motion several times.
The person on the Sky Screen, identical to her, stood upon the arena with seven Soul Rings circling her, her aura calm and steady, as though she had walked out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
"Me?" She pointed at her own nose, her voice cracking. "I can become a Soul Saint in five years? How is that possible? I've never even thought about becoming a Soul King!"
"You're asking