When Yang Xing appeared again, he had arrived at a Soul Beast lake marsh outside Skywater City.
He hovered in midair, looking down at this Soul Beast forest specially cultivated by Skywater Academy. Water- and ice-element Soul Beasts dominated the area; whether animal-type or plant-type, they thrived and multiplied within this unique environment.
Skywater Lake Marsh lay amid the mountains behind Skywater Academy. It consisted of a natural alpine lake and the vast marshlands surrounding it.
The lake spanned roughly ten li, while the surrounding marshlands stretched for several more li before connecting to a dense forest. The entire area was divided into three sections: the lake, the marsh, and the forest.
Yang Xing made a quick calculation with his fingers, and in the next moment, his figure vanished from the spot.
Shui Bing'er of Skywater Academy was eighteen this year. She possessed the top-tier beast Martial Soul, the Ice Phoenix, and had been born with rank-nine Soul Power. As the most gifted genius of Skywater Academy's current generation, she had spent the past few years being groomed as the team leader for the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
She had lived up to expectations, breaking through to the rank-forty Soul Ancestor level at seventeen. Now, at eighteen, she had already reached level forty-two. Her cultivation speed was unmatched throughout Skywater Academy.
Yet precisely because of this, Shui Bing'er bore immense pressure. With the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament fast approaching, she desperately wanted to raise her Soul Power a little further, so as not to disappoint her teacher, Skywater Academy's dean, Lan Qinghua, and achieve a good result in the tournament.
However, haste made waste, and her Soul Power advancement instead ran into a bottleneck.
One day, after the frustrated Shui Bing'er told