Pure Fire Purifying Evil Fire, Cultivation Power Lost

Three days later, Xiao Tuo had already spent three days cultivating at Shrek Academy.

Just as at the City Lord's Mansion, aside from forbidding him from leaving, they had not made things too difficult for him in other respects.

It was just a little strange. If they truly wanted to nurture him, then logically, they should have taken him to hunt Soul Rings.

He was now level twenty, enough to obtain two Soul Rings in one go.

It always gave him an uneasy feeling.

Sure enough, that night, the unease in his heart came true.

Outside Xiao Tuo's room, Yan Shaozhe stopped at the door with a beautiful young woman. Something seemed off about her expression. She clutched her chest, her face flushed red, clearly enduring something.

"Teacher, I can't take it anymore. Can the person inside really save me?"

"Yes, Xiaotao. From now on, he will be the most important person in your life. Shrek has wronged him, so only you can take care of him." A trace of guilt appeared on Yan Shaozhe's face.

But in his eyes, sacrificing an ordinary person who had no future to begin with for the sake of a true genius who could help the world was worth it.

"Fine, then I'm going in. I really can't hold on anymore." Ma Xiaotao was already on the verge of losing her reason. She could not care less about what her teacher had said and immediately pushed open the door and entered.

Xiao Tuo was cultivating his internal skill at that moment. However, since he was in someone else's territory, he had not entered deep meditation. During such light cultivation, he could notice even the slightest disturbance outside.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a beautiful woman with crimson hair staring intensely at him.

"Big sister, who are you?"

"Help me. Help me, quickly. I can't endure it anymore." The woman did not answer Xiao Tuo. She rushed forward and tightly embraced him. Dense yet strange firelight radiated from her body, seeming as if it would burn both herself and Xiao Tuo to ashes.

"This flame? It's evil fire! You're..." Xiao Tuo immediately guessed who she was. Ma Xiaotao—the madwoman of Shrek Academy's inner court.

She had inherited Ma Hongjun's evil fire. Once it flared up, she recognized neither friend nor family, easily injuring or even killing others.

In the original story, even Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice could only temporarily suppress her evil fire and could not cure it at its root. Later, the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tool, the Sword of Judgment, completely triggered her evil fire. Then she was abducted by the Holy Spirit Cult and became an Evil Soul Master.

She had not even encountered Ultimate Ice yet. This was precisely when her evil fire attacks were at their most severe.

"This is bad. If this continues, her flames will burn me to death. Damn it." Xiao Tuo immediately circulated the Divine Fire Internal Skill, and Fire Elephant Power surged forth.

When his Fire Elephant Power encountered Ma Xiaotao's evil fire—

The power of that evil fire was absorbed into the Fire Elephant Power, then gradually refined and purified.

Ma Xiaotao felt the sensation of raging flames scorching her body gradually fade away. Her entire body became warm and comfortable. Holding the child before her, she felt an indescribable peace and comfort in her heart, and a smile unconsciously appeared on her face.

The flames burned throughout the night, lasting until dawn.

When the rising sun appeared the next morning, the two finally woke up. They had embraced each other for the entire night, and their clothes had all been burned away by the blazing fire.

Ma Xiaotao did not mind. After all, Xiao Tuo was only a six-year-old child.

Xiao Tuo, however, possessed the soul of an adult. Seeing such a beautiful young woman, he instead felt somewhat embarrassed.

"Hehe, you're blushing. Little brother, tell me, what's your name?" Ma Xiaotao took out a short fiery-red dress from her storage Soul Tool and asked as she put it on.

"Yuwen Tuo," Xiao Tuo replied.

"Yuwen Tuo. A compound surname too—not bad. Then, Yuwen Tuo, from now on, you belong to me. I'll take good care of you. Cultivate your Soul Power diligently and completely remove my evil fire. When that day comes, I'll compensate you as best I can." Ma Xiaotao looked at Yuwen Tuo meaningfully.

When her evil fire had flared up yesterday, this child's Supreme Pure Fire had not only suppressed it, but had also removed a tiny portion of the evil fire within her.

Even Titled Douluo like her teacher could not accomplish such a thing.

Though it was only a tiny amount, it allowed her to see hope—the hope of completely removing her evil fire.

The only thing that made her hesitate was that her evil fire would affect this child's Supreme Pure Fire. Once the Supreme Pure Fire lost its purity, it would become even weaker than ordinary flames. Not only that, yesterday she had also felt that when her evil fire merged with this child's flames, Yuwen Tuo's Cultivation Power had continuously weakened.

This undoubtedly ruined the child's future, but she had no choice. According to her teacher, Supreme Pure Fire had no future to begin with. In that case, sacrificing him to save herself was, at the very least, worthwhile for this continent.

After all, if a true Ultimate Fire Phoenix Soul Master emerged, it would be an immense help in combating the Evil Soul Masters of the continent.

Yuwen Tuo's sacrifice could save even more people in the future.

"Compensate me?" Yuwen Tuo froze. He suddenly thought of something and immediately circulated the Cultivation Power within his body. Only then did he discover that his Soul Power was actually only level ten.

Though this woman's evil fire had been purified by his Fire Elephant Power yesterday, her Cultivation Power was simply far stronger than his. When the two of them merged and their Soul Powers connected, it was like a river flowing backward. A massive amount of the Soul Power in his body had all flowed into hers.

The desperate cultivation of the past few years had become useless in an instant. He had even made a wedding dress for this woman.

"Bastards!" No matter how calm Xiao Tuo usually was, he could not suppress the rage in his heart now. "Shrek said it wanted to nurture me, yet this is how you treat me? You destroyed my Cultivation Power. Is this how the number one academy in the world conducts itself?"

"I'm sorry," Ma Xiaotao said. "Don't worry. Once my evil fire has been completely removed, I'll find heavenly treasures to help you restore the Soul Power you lost, even if I have to spend every last coin I own. If I can't find them, I'll give myself to you and take care of you for the rest of my life. As long as you're here, I will certainly become a Titled Douluo. I may even surpass my ancestor, Ma Hongjun. Your martial soul is unusual and had no future to begin with. Trading that for my protection is not a loss for you!"

"Heh, you make it sound so righteous, but I don't care in the slightest. If you truly feel guilty, then let me leave right now. I don't want to remain at Shrek at all. Allowing disciples to absorb another person's Soul Power—how is that any different from Evil Soul Masters?"

Ma Xiaotao's expression changed at those words. With a wave of her hand, she sent out a strand of Soul Power that knocked Xiao Tuo back onto the bed. However, that Soul Power was very gentle. She merely wanted to teach him a lesson and had no intention of hurting him.

"You dare compare my academy to Evil Soul Masters? Do you know how many Evil Soul Masters our academy's inspectors have eliminated? How many people have died heroically in battle against Evil Soul Masters?"

"I naturally respect those people, but what does that have to do with you? Because of your evil fire, you probably haven't fought many real battles even now. How many Evil Soul Masters have you ever eliminated?" Xiao Tuo mocked.

"Not yet, but once you help me remove my evil fire, I will become the greatest nemesis of all Evil Soul Masters." Ma Xiaotao said confidently, "From now on, you will live here. With me around, no one in the academy will dare bully you. As long as you don't think about leaving, you need not worry about food, clothing, or lodging. You can tell me whatever you want."