Terrifying Ice-Fire Elemental Reaction Damage

Terrifying Ice-Fire Elemental Reaction Damage

Wu Feng's Dragon Fire possessed an incredibly high temperature. If it touched human skin, it would cause burns within a second or two. Yet to her surprise, when her Dragon Fire struck the lingering ice and snow left behind by Ice Star Barrage, it melted only a very thin layer. Even after increasing her Soul Power output, she could only melt the surface. She could not thaw it at all.

As the saying went, fire melted ice, and water extinguished fire. That was the principle of elemental restraint and generation. Yet now, fire could barely melt ice?!

"Use Dragon Fire while in the Dragon's Wrath state!"

Su Qingfeng reminded her at that moment. It seemed he had overestimated Wu Feng's Fire Element power—or perhaps underestimated his own Ultimate Ice. Not just any Fire Element could melt it.

Extreme attributes stood above all attributes beneath them. Even elemental suppression would be greatly weakened, with barely any effect.

"Dragon's Wrath!"

The next moment, Wu Feng activated her Second Soul Skill. Red light blazed around her, and her Second Soul Ring lit up. The Dragon Fire rising from her body abruptly turned dark red, while the half-body scale armor she wore suddenly became much thicker. As the red light in her eyes intensified, her left hand had completely transformed into a dragon claw.

In the Dragon's Wrath state, both her offensive and defensive strength surged instantly, and it could enhance all her other Soul Skills. The heat of Dragon Fire rose by nearly a hundred degrees in an instant, reaching five or six hundred degrees and violently distorting the air around her.

Just imagine it: ordinary ice would melt quickly in boiling water approaching one hundred degrees. At the current temperature of Dragon Fire, ordinary ice would melt instantly, and even iron could be heated red-hot within dozens of seconds.

Yet even at such a high temperature, it only slowly melted those ice blocks, while consuming an enormous amount of Wu Feng's Soul Power.

Su Qingfeng's decision once again left the spectators and Yan Shaozhe confused. Some even thought he was simply fooling around.

Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao had just protected Su Qingfeng, and now Su Qingfeng was turning around to save them instead. He clearly had a chance to secure victory, yet he had thrown it away to rescue them.

"Using fire against ice—if the ice melts, they live. Is this Specially Selected Student trying to save them? Or does he just lack combat experience and not understand this principle?"

"This is the most childish match I've seen since coming to Shrek Academy. They're all fighting blindly."

However, a scene that shocked everyone soon unfolded.

Su Qingfeng controlled the power of the Ice Element, dispersing the ice layer and breaking down the structure of the Ultimate Ice. Dragon Fire began melting the ice at a visible speed.

Human skin was quickly revealed, but due to the freezing effect of Ultimate Ice, Huo Yuhao, Tang Wutong, and Xiao Xiao's skin had stiffened, leaving them unable to react immediately.

Then, a layer of white mist appeared over the surfaces of their bodies. It was scorching white mist, swirling around them with no way to evade it.

After being frozen by Ultimate Ice, their skin had become extremely fragile. Then, the ice coating their bodies melted into water and evaporated, creating not only high temperatures but also continuous physical damage.

Even melting the Ultimate Ice that Su Qingfeng had weakened was exhausting. Before long, Wu Feng had nearly depleted all her Soul Power.

But on the other side, Huo Yuhao, Tang Wutong, and the others began displaying abnormal symptoms.

When the Ultimate Ice had just melted, they were practically uninjured. Yet three seconds after regaining consciousness, their delicate skin began to redden and dry out.

Soon, a tearing sensation spread through their bodies, and their skin actually began to crack.

All three rolled on the ground, crying out in agony as they struggled to endure the Resistance-Reducing Evaporation Reaction caused by ice, water, and fire.

Su Qingfeng hurriedly used the Ultimate Ice Element again, covering Huo Yuhao, Tang Wutong, and Xiao Xiao once more. A suitable amount of Ultimate Ice could ease their burns, prevent their skin from continuing to split, and numb the pain with an ice compress.

Once their condition eased, the way Huo Yuhao and the other two looked at Su Qingfeng held not only admiration and affection, but also reverence.

Su Qingfeng's strength and creativity were unmatched among people their age.

Fortunately, Brother Qingfeng still cares about me. He didn't truly intend to seriously injure us. Brother Qingfeng is just too strong. Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth against the pain and thought to himself.

Wang Dong turned pale with fright. "I'm dying, I'm dying! My face! My face mustn't be ruined! Brother Qingfeng, don't hit people in the face! T^T"

Yan Shaozhe immediately stood up. While the other teachers and students were still trying to figure out why this had happened, he had already understood. If they were not treated in time, the three members of Freshman Class One would suffer widespread skin splitting. Not only could they be disfigured, but their lives might be at risk.

At last, he understood what Su Qingfeng had meant by an experiment.

This idea was far too bold. In the past, Soul Masters had only considered elemental restraint. They knew to use water to extinguish fire and fire to melt ice, but they had almost never considered using fire to evaporate water and inflict clinging combination burns.

"The victor has been decided. Quickly, send the healing-type teachers up to treat the injured!"

Once the dean gave the order, the academic director and teachers below immediately sprang into action, not daring to delay.

This sudden change left the Outer Court students completely bewildered.

On one hand, Tang Ya stamped her foot in anger over Huo Yuhao and the others' defeat. On the other, she touched her head, unable to understand the principle behind it.

"What exactly happened? When ice and fire meet, the damage should be greatly reduced. Why were Yuhao and the others injured even more badly instead?"

Beibei noticed something unusual and said solemnly, "There is indeed something strange about it. I think it's because of the water vapor."

"Water vapor?"

Xu Sanshi also walked over then. Folding his arms, he said calmly, "You're fairly smart. The damage was indeed caused by water vapor, but that wasn't the only reason. That Specially Selected Student's Ice Element isn't simple. After that Ice Star fell, it had already injured Huo Yuhao and the others. His Ice Element must have begun numbing their bodies then and making their skin fragile. That was what allowed the water vapor's power to be maximized."

"But the water vapor was ultimately created when Wu Feng's Dragon Fire burned the ice. There was energy loss in between, so wouldn't it be better to deal damage directly with Dragon Fire?"

Tang Ya voiced her doubt.

Beibei nodded as well. By ordinary reasoning, that was indeed correct.

Xu Sanshi shook his head and sighed. "That's why this trip to watch the Freshman Competition wasn't wasted. If you only look at the direct damage of water vapor and flames, then yes, that's correct. But he combined it with the freezing effect of the Ice Element and even discovered the Ice Element's resistance-reducing principle.

"That makes it completely different. Most people would think he was wasting Soul Power on pointless effort, but this Specially Selected Student did the opposite. He fully utilized the principles of mutual generation and restraint between the Ice Element and Fire Element to inflict the greatest possible damage."

"You have to understand that while the Ice Element's freezing can render people unable to move, it also protects them like a layer of hard armor. Even shattering it with brute force cannot produce very noticeable damage. Therefore, Soul Masters who control Ice Element Soul Power either use the sharpness and hardness of ice to create highly lethal Soul Skills such as ice cones, ice spears, and ice swords, or they use control-type Soul Skills like freezing. But he actually played with reactions between two elements. What a genius. Even I, with my affinity for Water Element attributes, never thought of such an idea."

Xu Sanshi sighed in admiration. It was precisely because his Martial Soul was the Mystic Tortoise and he had an affinity for Water Element attributes that he could understand it more clearly than Beibei and Tang Ya.

On the field, Ning Tian and Wu Feng could no longer speak as they stared at Su Qingfeng's back.

First came Ice Star Descent, stunning everyone. Then came Ice-Fire Evaporation, creating one of the Elemental Reactions.