Tianshui, Divine Wind, and Blazing Fire Three Elements Academy (2)

Tianshui Academy's arrival instantly balanced out the overwhelming male-to-female ratio on Blue Tyrant Academy's side.

After traveling for less than two hours,

the hunting teams from Blue Tyrant Academy and Tianshui Academy successfully crossed the Star Dou Mountain Range.

However, judging by their numbers, they should have been called a hunting corps instead. Blue Tyrant Academy had over fifty people, while Tianshui Academy had President Shui Feng, along with three Soul Emperor instructors. Together, the group was approaching sixty people.

One Title Douluo hidden in the shadows: Dugu Bo.

Two Soul Douluo with exceptionally strong combat abilities: Liu Erlong and Shui Feng.

Three Soul Saints: Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Shao Xin.

And a group of Soul Emperor instructors.

"With this lineup, I'd believe it if you said you were hunting eighty- or ninety-thousand-year soul beasts..." Shui Feng did not know about Dugu Bo, just as Dugu Bo did not know about the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King flying overhead. Though this was merely her inner thought, her outlook was still somewhat limited. "Erlong, you've been hiding things well. Since when did Blue Tyrant Academy recruit three Soul Saint instructors? One of them is even a food-type Soul Saint?"

The upper limit of Support Type Soul Masters was widely acknowledged to be low.

Among all Support Type Soul Masters, food-type Soul Masters were widely recognized as having the lowest ceiling.

Ninety-nine percent of food-type Soul Masters were stuck around levels thirty or forty, with fifty being their absolute limit. Only those with exceptionally strong talent could become the extremely rare Soul Emperor or Soul Saint.

Looking over the history of the Douluo Continent, there had never been a food-type Title Douluo. Even food-type Soul Douluo had to be traced back more than three thousand years.

A food-type Soul Saint was a prized treasure.

Even Spirit Hall would scramble to recruit one.

Blue Tyrant Academy had an instructor lineup that even Heaven Dou Royal Academy lacked?

Sisters were supposed to be close, yet she was playing mind games with her sister?

Liu Erlong was rather troubled by this matter as well.

This was not humblebragging.

It was a problem with her interpersonal relationships.

However, in front of Flender, Yu Xiaogang, Qin Ming, Dai Mubai, and the rest of Shrek, it was inconvenient for her to tell her close friend Shui Feng the truth.

She could only offer a vague explanation, then gave Shui Feng a look that said, "I'll come find you tonight," postponing the matter until that evening.

There was not much to say about the process of hunting soul rings.

Kill soul beasts → absorb soul rings → continue hunting.

If there was anything worth mentioning, it was the shock of the Tianshui group and the Shrek group. Their mouths had remained open from the moment they first gaped.

"A hundred-year first ring is only natural."

"Why is the second ring already a thousand years?"

"The third ring is five thousand years? Six thousand?"

"There's even someone absorbing a seven-thousand-two-hundred-year one?"

Aside from Blue Tyrant Academy's students, everyone looked as though they had never seen the world before. Even Dugu Bo, hidden in the shadows, was deeply shaken. Yu Xiaogang, even more unable to understand it, tore apart his manuscripts. "Following this pattern, shouldn't the fourth ring be ten thousand years?"

Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and the others who knew about Stellar Martial Arts thought even further ahead, their thoughts racing like runaway alpacas.

"He... wasn't telling the truth, was he?" Xiao Wu instantly recalled that miserable day a week ago, a day that had felt like falling into hell. Holding Ning Rongrong's hand, she whispered, "Can he really absorb a 100,000-Year Spirit Ring without needing anyone to sacrifice themselves?"

"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?" Half annoyed and half sympathetic, Ning Rongrong tapped Xiao Wu's forehead. She looked at Ye Qingcang walking at the head of all the students. The golden Vertical Sword Mark gleamed brilliantly against his black-and-gold cloak, impossible to miss, like sunlight piercing the night. "Want me to ask him for you? See whether he's still interested in you?"

"You're awful!" Xiao Wu jumped in fright, only realizing afterward that Ning Rongrong was teasing her. She slapped Ning Rongrong's arm irritably, then looked at the students whose second rings were all thousand-year and whose third rings approached ten thousand years. Her voice carried several traces of melancholy. "At this rate, their fourth rings will start at ten thousand years, their fifth at thirty thousand, their sixth at fifty thousand, and their seventh at seventy thousand. There might even be eighty-thousand-year, ninety-thousand-year, or even hundred-thousand-year soul beasts that fall victim to human hands..."

"So, have you never eaten grass?" Ye Qingcang's voice suddenly rang out in Xiao Wu's mind, transmitted directly into her ears. "Tang San's mother is Blue Silver Emperor A Yin. At least humans allow soul beasts to live for tens of thousands of years. But you? You've cruelly eaten countless little Blue Silver Grass plants that lived for less than a year. Doesn't that count as them falling victim to your hands?"

Xiao Wu stumbled and fell to the ground.

She nearly dragged Ning Rongrong down with her.

"Xiao Wu!" Tang San, whose attention had always been on Xiao Wu, immediately noticed her fall. He made a fuss and shouted before trying to rush over to help her up.

However, Xiao Wu did not want to come into contact with Tang San.

She waved her hand to indicate that she was fine.

She brushed the dust from her knees and got back to her feet.

It was not exactly directed at Tang San. At the moment, she did not dare trust anyone. Moreover, compared to Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, she was more willing to communicate with friends she got along with in daily life, such as Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing. Even approaching Violet, or wandering around in front of Ye Qingcang, that tiger, only required her to worry about her own life.

She, Xiao Wu, would never be stupid enough to help count the money after someone sold her!

Xiao Wu silently swore.

She looked exactly like an old general on an opera stage, with all kinds of flags planted behind her back.

"The area ahead is where Enchantresses live."

"According to the optimal soul ring configuration age chart, the first soul ring should be four hundred and twenty-three years, the second seven hundred and sixty-four years, and the third one thousand seven hundred and sixty years. As for the fourth soul ring, the range is broadened to between three thousand and five thousand years."

Before they reached the Enchantresses' habitat, Huo Wushuang carefully explained things to his younger sister Huo Wu. He glanced at Feng Xiaotian, who was fussing over her helplessly, then at the unmoved Huo Wu, and let out a deep sigh. "Enchantresses are a special kind of soul beast born from Elemental Spirit Mines. Their exact attribute depends on the attribute of the Elemental Spirit Mine that nurtured them, and they are immune to damage of that corresponding attribute. Little sister, since your martial soul is Fire Shadow, you should choose a three-thousand-to-five-thousand-year Fire Enchantress. However, Fire Enchantresses are immune to fire. Let Xiaotian make the move. His wind blades can effectively harm Fire Enchantresses..."

Feng Xiaotian silently gave Huo Wushuang a thumbs-up.

Huo Wushuang was not pleased by the praise at all.

Instead, his face was full of faint sorrow.

I know you're praising me, but do I need your praise?

Brother, get the situation straight, will you?

I'm setting you up so you can show yourself off, so you can show my little sister Huo Wu what you're capable of—not so you can show her how close you are to her future brother-in-law!

Why can't you take a hint?

"No need." Huo Wu had no particular fondness for Feng Xiaotian and rejected him outright. "I insist on trying it myself. Besides, who says a Soul Master with a fire-attribute martial soul can't defeat a Fire Enchantress that's immune to fire?"

The two middle-aged men at the front of the group both smiled bitterly.

"You girl..." One of them, a middle-aged man in a blue-green robe, sighed deeply. "If those two really end up together, my foolish son will probably be completely controlled by your feisty girl."

"Boys take after their mothers, girls take after their fathers..." The other middle-aged man, whose presence was imposing, whose short red hair stood like steel needles, and whose eyes seemed to burn with flames, had barely begun speaking when both he and his prospective in-law's expressions changed. They quickened their pace and simultaneously instructed the younger generation behind them to prepare for battle. "Hurry up! Someone is fighting in the spirit mine area ahead. We don't know whether they're after that Fire Enchantress!"