Your Strength... I Acknowledge It. Spirit Academy Welcomes Your True Enrollment!

Lin Xia's commands never ceased.

Bulbasaur let out a low growl, and several emerald roots plunged into the ground like spirit snakes!

The Soul Power fluctuations around its body instantly became steady and enduring. A constant stream of earth vein energy was drawn in, rapidly replenishing its severely depleted stamina and sustaining the poisonous mist domain!

"Now! Sludge Bomb! Venoshock! Vine Whip frenzy—attack!"

A sharp glint flashed through Lin Xia's eyes. Rather than retreating, he advanced, charging directly into the chaotic crowd.

He needed to share the pressure and create a safer attacking environment for Bulbasaur.

"Bulba!"

Bulbasaur's crimson eyes locked onto its targets. The bulb on its back contracted and expanded like a cannon emplacement!

Several clusters of dark purple sludge, foul-smelling, sticky as asphalt, and filled with potent corrosive and neurotoxic properties, shot out like cannonballs toward the students who were still barely conscious and trying to organize a counterattack—especially the Soul Grand Masters!

Immediately afterward, several highly concentrated dark green beams of venom shot forth like snakes flicking their tongues, striking later yet arriving first as they targeted the opponents' vital points!

They were faster and more penetrating!

At the same time, the Vine Whips enhanced by Swords Dance were no longer merely used for binding or lashing. They had become true whips of strangulation!

Six or seven Vine Whips, like emerald steel cables, tore through the air with shrill whistles. They lashed, coiled, and stabbed, covering every blind spot around Lin Xia and brutally forcing back or sending flying any students who tried to approach him!

Lin Xia himself was like a ghost. His speed, strength, and reactions far surpassed those of others at his level. With Bulbasaur's Vine Whips covering him, he darted through the chaotic crowd.

Lin Xia did not rely on soul skills. Instead, he brought the combat techniques he had honed through Yue Hongsheng's poison garden escape and countless life-and-death struggles to their fullest extent!

Just as two Soul Grand Masters endured the effects of Poison Powder and joined forces to unleash powerful soul skills at Lin Xia's back, a sudden change occurred!

The robe over Lin Xia's shoulder blades abruptly tore apart!

Several savage bone spurs, gleaming with a dark metallic sheen and covered in fine purple poison thorns, burst from his body! They were not wings, but more like several thick, sharp extensions of branching spinal bones!

This was his External Soul Bone—Poison Vine Bone Wings!

"What the hell is that?!"

The two Soul Grand Masters' pupils constricted sharply, and their attacks stalled.

The Poison Vine Bone Wings suddenly extended and danced! They were like the fusion of the most agile poison whips and the sturdiest bone shields!

Clang! Clang!

The bone wings precisely deflected the incoming soul skill lights, producing the ring of metal striking metal. The purple poison thorns flashed with deadly brilliance amid the collisions!

Then, the bone wings curled back in a sweeping motion and lashed fiercely at the two men with tearing whistles!

Puff! Puff!

Although they promptly shielded themselves with Soul Power, the tremendous force and the violent poison carried by the bone wings still sent them flying with blood spraying from their mouths. They crashed to the ground, groaning in agony as purple-black poison blotches rapidly spread across the areas where their skin had been struck!

"Mon... monster!"

Every student who witnessed the scene was horrified.

Having a beast martial soul was one thing, but this person could grow poisonous bones from his body too?!

"Growl!"

Lin Xia gave another command. His voice carried a trace of exhaustion, but his gaze remained sharp as a blade.

"Bulba—waaah!!!"

Bulbasaur let out a piercing shriek that carried a powerful mental shock!

Amid the poisonous fog and the sight of their companions collapsing one after another, the sound utterly shattered the remaining students' psychological defenses.

Already listless from the poison and Sleep Powder, they instantly felt their heads buzzing as terror flooded over their reason like a tide.

"Tackle..."

Bulbasaur seemed somewhat drained as well, but it still carried out the command.

Its tiny body erupted with strength utterly disproportionate to its size, and it smashed into the last two students still standing like a cannonball.

Thud! Thud!

With two dull impacts, the pair was sent flying like ragged sacks, completely losing their ability to fight.

In just a few minutes, the once-noisy training ground now held only waves of agonized groans and heavy panting.

More than a dozen young elite academy geniuses lay sprawled across the ground.

Some were covered in bluish-purple bruises, deeply poisoned. Some were unconscious in sleep. Some had been lashed bloody by the Vine Whips. Some were grimacing from the corrosion of Sludge Bomb. Others had fallen into a weakened state of poisoning after being struck by the bone wings...

The only ones still standing were the seven-year-old boy in the center of the field, his clothes somewhat torn, breathing lightly and looking a little pale but with eyes still bright, and the small green beast at his feet, equally exhausted yet fierce-eyed and radiating danger.

Lin Xia and Bulbasaur had sustained injuries as well. There were several marks where long-range soul skills had grazed them, parts of Lin Xia's clothes had been scorched, and two tips of Bulbasaur's Vine Whips had broken, leaking green fluid—but compared to the results they had achieved, such injuries were utterly insignificant!

Silence!

Absolute silence blanketed the entire training ground, even spreading to several figures who had appeared at the edge of the field at some point.

Carlson, the guide, stood with his mouth slightly open. His formerly stern expression of examination had long since been replaced by extreme shock.

He knew Lin Xia was extraordinary, but he had never imagined he would be extraordinary to this extent!

Those endlessly emerging and bizarrely effective skills, that flawless coordination, that fearless fighting style, and finally, that terrifying bone External Soul Bone... Was this really an eighteenth-rank soul master?

This combat power was enough to crush most two-ring Soul Grand Masters, perhaps even Soul Elders!

What made his scalp go numb even more was why Bulbasaur had so many skills!

Lin Xia alone had shouted ten of them, right?!

—Toxic, Ingrain, Tackle, Growl, Poison Powder, Vine Whip, Sleep Powder, Sludge Bomb, Venoshock, Swords Dance!

A full ten skills!

This completely defied the common sense of the Douluo Continent!

How could a one-ring soul master possibly possess so many powerful skills with such varied effects?!

The potential of this martial soul... Elder Salas's assessment had still underestimated it!

In the shadows at the entrance to the training ground, a graceful and noble figure stood quietly.

It was none other than Pope Bibi Dong, who had come silently on a whim to observe.

Her flawless face still showed little emotion, but turbulent waves had risen within her deep, abyss-like purple eyes!

Ten skills!

Bibi Dong's senses were extraordinarily sharp. Every detail Lin Xia and Bulbasaur displayed in battle had fallen clearly into her eyes.

The diversity of Bulbasaur's skills, the strength of their effects, and the exquisite coordination between them had completely overturned her understanding of martial souls!

This was absolutely not an ordinary mutation of a beast martial soul that existed independently from the body. It was more like a... nascent new soul beast race with a complete inheritance and limitless possibilities!

Its potential was far beyond what the earlier report could describe, even several times greater than her most optimistic estimate!

Lin Xia's unusual External Soul Bone, along with the tough physique and ruthless combat instincts tempered in deadly poison, made her see a terrifying young talent who had squeezed every bit of his potential to the utmost limit.

"Treasure..."

The word exploded soundlessly in Bibi Dong's cold heart.

As she watched Lin Xia retract the Poison Vine Bone Wings and comfort the exhausted Bulbasaur, her gaze grew incomparably fervent, as if she were examining an unmatched treasure.

This was not merely a weapon that could strike at Yu Xiaogang's theories. It could also become a seed of power capable of changing Spirit Hall, perhaps even the entire continent's balance in the future!

Lin Xia seemed to sense something. He suddenly raised his head and swept a sharp gaze toward the shadows at the entrance, but there was no one there anymore.

Only a faint breeze carrying what seemed like an unusual floral fragrance quietly drifted away.

"..."

Lin Xia frowned and suppressed the strange feeling in his heart. Tiredly, he rubbed Bulbasaur's head.

"You did well. You worked hard."

"Bulba..."

Bulbasaur rubbed against his hand before collapsing onto the ground from exhaustion, though its eyes still vigilantly scanned the defeated opponents groaning around them.

Carlson finally recovered from his shock. He took a deep breath, suppressed his turbulent emotions, and strode into the field. Looking around at everyone, he announced in a loud and solemn voice:

"The assessment is over! Result: Lin Xia wins!"

He looked at Lin Xia, his expression complicated and filled with unprecedented regard.

"Your strength... I acknowledge it. Spirit Academy welcomes your true enrollment!"