Xiao Wu, Fifth on the Douluo Talents Ranking (Part 1)!

[The Fire Phoenix was far more powerful than the Evil Fire Phoenix.]

[In what way was it powerful?]

[Its potential!]

[The owner of a Fire Phoenix martial soul only needed the inner core of a Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Serpent to achieve Martial Soul Evolution in the future.]

[Not a single evolution, but multiple evolutions!]

[Upon becoming a Seven-Ring Soul Saint?]

[The martial soul would evolve into a Seven-Headed Fire Phoenix!]

[Upon becoming an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo?]

[The martial soul would evolve into an Eight-Headed Fire Phoenix!]

[Upon becoming a Nine-Ring Titled Douluo?]

[The martial soul would evolve into a Nine-Headed Fire Phoenix!]

[Even without the inner core of a Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Serpent, even if the Fire Phoenix could not evolve, it was already immensely powerful. The Phoenix Flame it wielded could be called the foremost flame beneath Ultimate Fire!]

[It was precisely because of the sufficiently powerful and immensely promising Fire Phoenix that Ma Hongjun, who became a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor at fourteen, could rank above Shui Bing'er on the Douluo Continent Prodigy Ranking.]

[Seventh place on the Douluo Continent Prodigy Ranking: Ma Hongjun of Shrek Academy. Introduction complete!]

[The corresponding opportunity is being issued.]

[Opportunity issued successfully.]

[Opportunity Name: Green Lotus Core Flame!]

[Opportunity Description: The Green Lotus Core Flame was a genuine Ultimate Fire. It could only possibly be born after spending hundreds or thousands of years within extremely scorching magma. Its power was astonishing. If driven with all one's strength, it could even be used to awaken a dormant volcano. On Douluo Continent, no flame could rival it. Water restrained fire? Before it, that was as good as meaningless.]

Once again, a red meteor streaked toward Shrek Academy in the Heaven Dou Empire.

This was already the third red meteor to fly toward Shrek Academy.

The red meteor quickly arrived before Ma Hongjun and entered his body.

Boom!

The instant the red meteor entered his body, cyan flames of incomparably scorching heat erupted from Ma Hongjun and blazed fiercely.

Without question, those cyan flames were Ultimate Fire—the Green Lotus Core Flame.

After the Green Lotus Core Flame appeared, Flander the Four-Eyed Cat Eagle and Zhao Wuji the Unmoving King, who stood beside Ma Hongjun, immediately felt a wave of heat wash over them.

The heat wave was extraordinary, intensely hot. The moment they sensed it, Flander and Zhao Wuji did not hesitate in the slightest and simultaneously retreated again and again.

"What terrifying flames. Without even touching them, just being a little too close made the temperature this high."

Flander spoke as he watched the flames on Ma Hongjun's body, his eyes filled with wariness, shock, and envy.

After Flander finished speaking, Zhao Wuji immediately added, "Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun—three of the seven students of Shrek Academy have already made it onto the Douluo Continent Prodigy Ranking. Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Oscar are the only four who have yet to make it, while six slots remain. I imagine it won't be long before they make the ranking too."

After hearing Zhao Wuji's words, Ning Rongrong, standing on the upstairs balcony, said, "I hope I'm not the next person to appear on the Douluo Continent Prodigy Ranking. The later I make the list, the more outstanding I am!"

After saying that, Ning Rongrong looked to her side.

Ning Rongrong looked for Xiao Wu beside her.

Wanting to find Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong wanted to ask what she thought.

However, when Ning Rongrong turned her gaze over, she discovered that Xiao Wu had somehow silently left her side.

Xiao Wu had already run away.

Whenever she decided to do something, she never dragged her feet.

Especially when it concerned her own life and death.

Ning Rongrong looked toward Zhu Zhuqing on the other side and asked, "Where's Xiao Wu? Zhu Qing, have you seen Xiao Wu?"

Faced with the question, Zhu Zhuqing thought for a moment before finally shaking her head. "I don't know. I didn't see her."

Just as Zhu Zhuqing finished answering, a voice that carried natural authority rang out.

[Fifth place on the Douluo Continent Prodigy Ranking: Xiao Wu of Shrek Academy!]

The Douluo Continent Prodigy Ranking had revealed its sixth ranked Soul Master.

Upon learning that Xiao Wu had made the ranking this time, Ning Rongrong hurried into the dormitory to look for her. As she searched, Ning Rongrong shouted, "Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu! You've made the Douluo Continent Prodigy Ranking! Where are you? Come out and look! The Golden Ranking is about to introduce you! You're about to become famous throughout all of Douluo Continent and Sun Moon Continent! Don't miss this!"

Ning Rongrong searched round after round, yet she never found any trace of Xiao Wu in the dormitory.

Since she could not find her, Ning Rongrong simply stopped looking. She returned to the balcony, preparing to watch Xiao Wu's introduction.

Under the watchful eyes of countless people, the Golden Ranking soon began introducing Xiao Wu, who had made the ranking this time.

[Xiao Wu, female, came from the Star Dou Forest. Like Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai, she was a student of Shrek Academy.]

The moment the naturally authoritative voice fell silent, countless people across Douluo Continent were left utterly bewildered.

"The Star Dou Forest? Isn't that the territory of soul beasts? How could Xiao Wu of Shrek Academy come from the Star Dou Forest?"

"Four of Shrek Academy's seven students have already made the ranking, and three have yet to do so. There are still four slots on the list, so could all seven students end up making it? Then Shrek Academy would become the number one Soul Master academy on the continent!"

"Exactly! By then, Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, Spirit Academy, Star Luo Royal Academy, and the rest would be nothing worth mentioning before Shrek Academy."

Spirit City, Papal Palace.

"Xiao Wu?"

"From the Star Dou Forest?"

Her beautiful eyes fixed upon the golden screen in the sky. Looking at its contents, Bibi Dong unconsciously murmured those two lines.

The next moment, Bibi Dong fell into her memories.

Bibi Dong had fallen into reminiscence because of the two terms Xiao Wu and Star Dou Forest.

It was something that had happened many years ago.

Bibi Dong had broken through to become a Titled Douluo and led people into the Star Dou Forest to obtain her ninth spirit ring.

Deep within the core region of the Star Dou Forest, Bibi Dong encountered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had taken human form.

She was a woman dressed in a long pink palace gown.

She was also holding a small soul beast in her arms.

That small soul beast's cultivation was close to one hundred thousand years.

Even so, because its original form was a rabbit, that small soul beast possessed little combat power.

Without hesitation, Bibi Dong attacked the woman directly. She desperately wanted a 100,000-Year Spirit Ring.

Facing Bibi Dong, the female soul beast who had taken human form did not choose to flee. After releasing the little rabbit soul beast from her arms, she fought Bibi Dong.

She did not run for any other reason than to buy time for the little rabbit soul beast to escape.

That female soul beast who had taken human form was merely a Six-Ring Soul Emperor and was no match for Bibi Dong at all. Before she died, she said to the fleeing little rabbit.

"Xiao Wu, run! Go find Da Ming and Er Ming."

The instant Bibi Dong's memories reached this point, excitement and agitation surged into her beautiful eyes.

At first, Bibi Dong had intended to send Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Ghostly to Shrek Academy to bring Tang San back. But now, it seemed that she, Bibi Dong, should personally make the trip instead.

After all, Xiao Wu of Shrek Academy was very likely the little rabbit soul beast named Xiao Wu who had escaped from the Star Dou Forest all those years ago, with cultivation close to one hundred thousand years.

Bibi Dong was in no hurry.

Her gaze remained fixed on the golden screen in the sky.

Not in a rush to set out, she wanted to see whether her judgment was correct.

[The five people who previously made the Douluo Continent Prodigy Ranking, including Zhu Zhuqing and Shui Bing'er, had one thing in common.]

[They were all human, wholly and completely human.]

[Xiao Wu was different.]

[Xiao Wu was not wholly human.]

[Xiao Wu was a soul beast who had taken human form!]

[Xiao Wu's original form?]

[Was a Softbone Rabbit.]

[She lived in the core region of the Star Dou Forest.]