Meng Hongchen Makes the Ranking! The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy's Most Promising Year?

[Ding!]

[Following the Sky Screen's assessment, Ma Rulong's talent ranked eighteenth on the Heavenly Pride Ranking!]

[Rewards for Ma Rulong are now being distributed!]

[Ma Rulong's Soul Engineer rank has been raised to Level 8!]

[Ma Rulong's Big-Headed Spirit Ape martial soul has been enhanced, and the age limit for the Soul Beasts he can subdue has been increased to thirty thousand years!]

The next moment,

A streak of golden energy suddenly shot out from the center of the golden scroll,

Enveloping Ma Rulong.

Ma Rulong instinctively closed his eyes and felt the theoretical and crafting knowledge of Level 8 Soul Tools flood into his mind.

Mental power was especially important when crafting high-level Soul Tools, and his spiritual power had also been elevated by the Sky Screen's energy to the Soul Sage level!

With that,

Ma Rulong had become a true Level 8 Soul Engineer!

One had to know,

Only the Sun Moon Empire possessed Level 9 Soul Engineers.

For Douluo Continent, a Level 8 Soul Engineer already counted as strategic talent.

With the Sky Screen's reward, Ma Rulong had a strong chance of advancing to a Level 9 Soul Engineer in the future.

That would pose no small threat to Douluo Continent.

Elder Ma stood not far away, his eyes filled with gratification and pride as he looked at his son.

For nearly a thousand years, the Sun Moon Team had failed to defeat Shrek Academy.

If they were defeated again this time, it would bring considerable trouble to their family.

Now that Ma Rulong had become a Level 8 Soul Engineer, the Sun Moon Team's chances of victory had increased by a few points.

A moment later,

Ma Rulong slowly opened his eyes,

Then instinctively activated his spatial Soul Tool and summoned the Bloodthirsty Demon Ape.

Everyone froze the instant they saw the Bloodthirsty Demon Ape.

The Soul Power fluctuations emanating from it had clearly reached the thirty-thousand-year level!

"I never expected the Sky Screen's reward to be this generous."

Ma Rulong looked at his palm, unable to conceal the excitement in his eyes as he said to everyone,

"This time, we'll show Shrek Academy our true strength!"

Shrek Academy's Outer Court,

Dai Huabin could not help swallowing as he saw Ma Rulong's reward, muttering,

"What's so impressive about that? The Sun Moon Empire's heavenly prides are nothing special."

"And that Big-Headed Spirit Ape martial soul—so what if it can command ape-type Soul Beasts? It still can't compare to my Evil Eye White Tiger!"

"When my name appears on the Sky Screen, you'll know what a true heavenly pride is!"

As Dai Huabin muttered to himself,

The image on the golden scroll did not disappear as it had before. Instead, it froze on a young woman standing not far from Ma Rulong.

Meng Hongchen had delicate features and fair skin.

Even in the most ordinary academy uniform, her tall figure could not conceal her exquisite curves.

Her wine-red hair glimmered brilliantly beneath the Sky Screen's radiance,

Giving her a somewhat mature charm.

"Why did the image up there change to Little Meng?"

"Could it be..."

Everyone on the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Team turned their gazes toward Meng Hongchen.

Immediately afterward,

The Sky Screen's majestic voice rang out once more:

[Seventeenth on the Heavenly Pride Ranking: Meng Hongchen of the Sun Moon Empire!]

"???"

When the citizens of the former three nations of Douluo Continent saw Meng Hongchen's name appear on the Heavenly Pride Ranking,

A fresh wave of cries erupted.

"Why is it another heavenly pride from the Sun Moon Empire?"

"They've occupied three consecutive rankings already! Why hasn't anyone from our academies made the list yet?"

"That girl looks like she's only a reserve member. How could she rank seventeenth on the Heavenly Pride Ranking?"

"Two consecutive members of the Sun Moon Team made the list. Could this really be their most promising year?"

"..."

Unlike Douluo Continent,

The Sun Moon Empire was still filled with delighted cheers.

Inside Mingde Hall,

Jing Hongchen walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and likewise saw the image on the golden scroll.

He calculated silently.

Xiao's Three-Legged Golden Toad martial soul possessed divine beast bloodline and had been rated the greatest genius in the Sun Moon Empire's history!

His talent far surpassed Ma Rulong's and Meng's.

Now that Meng had ranked seventeenth on the Heavenly Pride Ranking, Xiao's ranking would certainly be even higher!

With three core members of the Sun Moon Team on the list, their chances of claiming the championship had risen greatly.

"Shrek, this time, the championship will definitely be ours!"

All Living Beings focused their eyes on the golden scroll,

As the Sky Screen's voice continued to ring in their ears:

[The person before you now is Meng Hongchen, a core disciple of Mingde Hall at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, one of the reserve members of the Sun Moon Team, and the direct heir young mistress of the Hongchen Family!]

[She is one of the Sun Moon Empire's absolute representatives among its heavenly prides. Cultivating as both a Soul Master and Soul Engineer, she broke through to the Soul King realm at only fifteen years old! She is also an outstanding Level 5 Soul Engineer!]

"!!!"

"A Soul King under fifteen? How is that possible?"

Inside Shrek Academy,

Almost everyone stood up, staring fixedly at the girl in the image.

Xuan Zi snorted coldly and said with certainty,

"That is absolutely impossible!"

"Even Shrek Academy has never produced a fifteen-year-old Soul King, much less them, who specialize in Soul Tools!"

Chen Zifeng stepped forward and said in a low voice, "Elder Xuan is right. She must have consumed some heavenly treasures to forcefully raise her cultivation."

"Meng Hongchen's Soul Power must be unstable. She is definitely all show."

The other teammates instinctively nodded, but none spoke immediately.

After all,

This generation's official Shrek team members possessed stronger talent than any before them.

Even Ma Xiaotao, who had the highest cultivation, only broke through to the five-ring level at seventeen.

How could they believe that the Sun Moon Team had produced a fifteen-year-old Soul King?

A moment after Chen Zifeng finished speaking, the Sky Screen's voice continued:

[She possesses one of the world's top-tier beast martial souls, the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad!]

[The Vermilion Clear Ice Toad's eyes possess the fire attribute, while its body is ice. The alternation of ice and fire creates an extremely potent poison, granting it the three attributes of ice, fire, and poison!]

[The deadly poison produced by the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad martial soul is extremely powerful, possessing strong corrosive, paralytic, and invasive properties.]

[Other than Soul Masters with Ultimate Ice or Ultimate Fire martial souls, the soul ring defenses of Soul Masters below eight rings can hardly withstand it!]

[Soul Masters with Ice Toad Poison suffer backlash from their own martial souls. To reduce the number of times she uses her soul skills and avoid being rendered unable to fight by martial soul suppression, Meng Hongchen learned to use close-combat Soul Tools. She is the strongest close-combat Soul Engineer on the Sun Moon Team!]

Immediately afterward,

The image on the golden scroll began to change.

It showed Meng Hongchen fighting Soul Beasts on an icy plain.

[Vermilion Clear Ice Toad First Soul Skill: Ice Toad Poison!]

[Vermilion Clear Ice Toad Second Soul Skill: Ice Refraction!]

[Vermilion Clear Ice Toad Fifth Soul Skill: Ice Fire Poison Dragon Drill!]

[...]

Only at this moment,

Did everyone from Shrek realize,

Meng Hongchen's Soul Power was that of a genuine Soul King!

In a battle between opponents of the same level, even Ling Luochen would not be her match.

Bad news: The other side had a fifteen-year-old genius Soul King!

Good news: The Vermilion Clear Ice Toad martial soul was countered by Ultimate Ice! Shrek Academy's reserve member Huo Yuhao possessed Ultimate Ice!