Evil Devour

"You bastard, who told you to absorb an Evil-attribute first soul ring?"

At Shrek Academy, in the student dormitory, Flender was berating a young man, his face flushed with rage.

The boy's name was Su Ming.

A transmigrator.

After arriving on the Douluo Continent, he had awakened the same Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul as Ma Hongjun, also possessing innate level nine soul power.

The appearance of two geniuses at once had delighted Flender to no end.

Consequently, he had enrolled both into Shrek and taken them under his personal tutelage.

He had devised identical growth plans for both: tap into the fire attribute of the Evil Fire Phoenix and follow the path of the strongest fire-attribute assault-type soul master!

But today, just as he was preparing to take Su Ming to hunt for a soul ring, Su Ming informed him that he had already absorbed one.

And it was a four-hundred-year-old Evil-attribute ring at that?

This was enough to make Flender cough up blood in fury!

"Su Ming, how many times have I told you? Your martial soul is a mutated top-tier Fire Phoenix. Although it carries evil energy, its foundation is fire!"

"You must develop and strengthen your fire attribute to have a bright future!"

"By ignoring my guidance and acting on your own, you are completely ruining your own prospects!"

Facing Flender's wrath, Su Ming remained remarkably calm.

He explained, "Dean, I have already explained to you: compared to the fire attribute, I believe the Evil attribute is more powerful."

"Absurd! Utterly, completely absurd!"

Flender laughed in anger, his voice booming with the frustration of a teacher seeing a student waste his potential. "In the entire soul master world, who doesn't know that the Phoenix is the master of flame? Throughout history, Phoenix martial souls have always burned the world with scorching fire! You possess a top-tier Fire Phoenix, yet instead of training in fire, you're researching some evil energy?!"

Facing Flender's spittle-flying tirade, Su Ming's expression remained unruffled. Instead, he asked calmly and firmly, "Dean, then why can it not be an 'Evil Phoenix'?"

"Because the fire attribute makes up a larger portion and is stronger!" Flender snorted dismissively, hands clasped behind his back, projecting the majesty of a Soul Saint.

Hearing this, Su Ming remained indifferent.

"Dean, if the fire attribute is truly stronger, then why, every time we cultivate, are we constantly disturbed by the evil energy within our soul power, to the point of agony and loss of control?"

"If fire is stronger than evil, why can the raging flames not suppress the evil energy?"

"Doesn't this inversely prove that 'evil' is stronger than 'fire'? That even the top-tier Phoenix fire is being enslaved and influenced by it?!"

"You..."

Flender's mouth fell open, and he was left completely speechless.

He had lived for decades and prided himself on his extensive knowledge, yet when had he ever heard such heretical, yet eerily irrefutable logic?

He opened his mouth, wanting to use his wealth of theoretical experience to refute the boy, only to find his tongue tied, unable to find a single word to respond.

For a moment, Flender's face shifted between shades of green and white, looking wretched to the extreme.

Flender simply flicked his sleeve violently and said coldly, "Stubborn and self-righteous!"

"Su Ming, I tell you, this is the first and last time!"

"If you dare to ignore my guidance and act on your own again, don't blame me, Flender, for disowning you as a student! Shrek Academy does not accept hopeless trash!"

Having delivered this harsh ultimatum, Flender turned his head and shouted at the fatty who was cowering nearby, watching the show: "Hongjun, let's go! Follow your teacher to hunt for a soul ring—a fire! soul! ring!"

The last three words were directed at Su Ming.

"Coming, teacher!"

Ma Hongjun hurriedly trotted along on his short legs.

Before leaving, the fatty turned back and made a comical grimace at Su Ming, his small eyes filled with mockery and schadenfreude.

He looked at him as if he were an idiot ruining his own future.

"Bang!"

The door was slammed shut.

Watching their retreating figures, Su Ming chuckled, completely unbothered.

Those with different paths cannot make plans together.

As a transmigrator who knew the original plot, his understanding of the Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul far surpassed everyone in this era.

Including Yu Xiaogang, who was hailed as invincible in theory.

In the original story, Ma Hongjun spent his whole life playing with fire. To purify the fire attribute of his martial soul, he had to frequent brothels to vent his evil fire, losing all his dignity in the process.

But what was the result?

Even after consuming immortal herbs and struggling to reach the pinnacle of soul masters, he couldn't even obtain the inheritance of a first-tier god, the Fire God.

He ended up with only a second-tier god position, unable to even bring his beloved into the God Realm.

That was the limit of playing with fire.

"But the Evil attribute... that is a completely different story." A fanatical, dark glint flickered in Su Ming's eyes.

In the ancient chronicles of the Douluo Great Universe, "Evil" is not only mysterious but powerful.

Furthermore, high above in the distant God Realm, there exists an unspeakable and terrifying legacy—the throne of the Evil God, which is far older and more powerful than the God of Fire!

Of course, Su Ming's decision was not purely reckless.

It was because, after his Martial Soul awakened, he conducted a meticulous study of the Evil Fire Phoenix and discovered an innate instinct inherent to the Evil attribute—Evil Devour!

That's right, it was the same devouring instinct possessed by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!

Upon this discovery, Su Ming's mind immediately became active.

Assuming he did not resist the Evil attribute, but instead utilized its devouring ability to consume the fire, would the problem of him being disturbed by the evil fire not be resolved?

Evil fire, evil fire; it requires both evil and fire to become evil fire.

Remove the evil, or remove the fire, and it no longer constitutes evil fire!

Ma Hongjun consumed immortal herbs to remove the evil, while Su Ming used the evil to devour the fire; essentially, it was the same principle!

Therefore, Su Ming immediately made an attempt, and over the course of three months, he discovered that this path was indeed viable.

Thus, when he broke through to level ten three months after awakening, he did not hesitate to absorb his first soul ring for the Evil attribute!

With this, the Evil attribute within his body grew even stronger!

Su Ming immediately sat cross-legged, and the soul power within his body began to circulate.

He manifested his Martial Soul, then guided the evil energy of the Martial Soul to nibble away at the origin of the fire, bit by bit.

"Ugh..."

The moment the devouring began, extreme cold and scorching heat intertwined and collided frantically within his body.

Su Ming's entire body trembled violently; his skin surface flashed with an eerie dark purple one moment and ignited with a blazing red glow the next. Veins bulged on his forehead, and blood even began to seep from his seven orifices.

Pain!

A bone-deep, excruciating pain!

It felt as if something was being forcibly stripped away!

Yet, Su Ming did not even let out a muffled groan; his gaze remained as steady as a needle in the sea.

The Evil Fire Phoenix was, by nature, a mutated Martial Soul born from defects.

What he was doing now was defying the heavens to change his fate!

He was using Evil Devour to thoroughly erase the impurities of the fire and complete a second, total mutation of his Martial Soul!

He would refine this false god of flames into a pure, absolute master of taboo and destruction—the Evil Phoenix!

"To vent is to become a slave to desire; to purify is to castrate one's own power! Only by devouring can one achieve absolute dominion!"