Suotuo City, Shrek Academy!
On the dilapidated playground.
A chubby figure was curled up on the ground, his round face screwed into a tight ball, his forehead covered in fine sweat, and his entire body slightly numb.
It was none other than Shrek Academy's genius student, the future Evil Fire Phoenix Ma Hongjun.
At this moment, his whole body was tingling and itching.
He howled at the top of his lungs, his tone full of supplication.
Brother Yun, I beg you!
Quickly detoxify me!
If this goes on any longer, this leg of mine is going to be ruined!
I was wrong, I'll never dare do it again!
Not far in front of him stood a teenager with a tall, straight posture and a handsome face.
The teenager looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, with delicate eyebrows and eyes and a clean disposition.
A simple white martial arts suit set off his neat and upright figure, and faint fluctuations of soul power lingered around his entire body.
The teenager was named Qin Yun.
No one knew that he actually did not belong to this Douluo Continent at all.
He came from Blue Star, and in his past life, he was a chemistry major at a key university.
An unexpected accident brought him here.
Eight years ago, six-year-old Qin Yun shone brilliantly at the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony.
The children at the scene awakened their martial souls one after another, mostly ordinary and unremarkable martial souls like sickles, hoes, and flowers and plants, and there was even no shortage of waste martial souls with zero cultivation value.
Yet when it was Qin Yun's turn, the atmosphere at the scene instantly froze.
An illusory chart, its entire body lingering with a translucent white faint light and its surface engraved with dense and mysterious patterns, quietly floated above his palm.
It turned out to be a complete periodic table encompassing one hundred and eighteen chemical elements in the world!
The Spirit Hall deacon present had never seen such a bizarre martial soul and had no idea about its specific abilities.
However, the vast and mysterious aura emanating invisibly was enough to make everyone conclude that this was definitely an ancient and rare heaven-defying martial soul.
What was even more shocking was that Qin Yun actually possessed Innate Full Soul Power!
Subsequently, he was discovered by Shrek Academy's headmaster Flender.
He was forcibly brought back to Shrek Academy.
Qin Yun at that time was young, with a tender and weak physique.
In this Douluo world where the weak were prey to the strong and the strong were respected, he had not the slightest room for resistance or choice, and could only obediently follow Flender away.
Eight years of time slipped away in a flurry and passed in the flash of an eye.
Fairly speaking, Flender's teaching level was not top-tier, and could even be described as rough and rudimentary.
He had spent his whole life studying the cultivation system of conventional martial souls, and had never seen a baffling martial soul like the Periodic Table of Elements, making it completely impossible for him to provide Qin Yun with the slightest bit of systematic cultivation guidance.
Over the past eight years, Qin Yun's cultivation, martial soul development, and exploration of element ratios could only rely entirely on the chemistry knowledge from his past life to study and grind through step by step on his own.
Yet undeniably, the money-grubbing and fault-shielding Flender treated him fairly well.
He escorted his cultivation and helped him run around everywhere to search for matching soul rings.
Through eight years of painstaking cultivation, Qin Yun thoroughly grasped the basic mysteries of the Periodic Table of Elements Martial Soul step by step.
Just moments ago, his long-dormant soul power finally broke through the shackles once more, successfully passing the bottleneck and steadily stepping from the thirty-ninth rank peak Soul Elder into the realm of the Level 40 Soul Ancestor, welcoming a qualitative leap in his own strength.
As for Ma Hongjun, he was naturally also brought to the academy by Flender.
When he first entered the academy, he held the top-tier beast martial soul Evil Fire Phoenix, possessing an arrogant and flamboyant temperament.
At that time, he considered himself invincible with a top-tier martial soul.
Seeing Qin Yun, who had a mild temperament and seemingly not the slightest bit of aggressiveness, his heart was filled with utter contempt, so he proactively provoked and taunted him in public.
He felt that Qin Yun's martial soul was flashy and simply could not compare to his Phoenix True Fire.
Ma Hongjun took the initiative to issue a challenge.
As soon as he made a move, he used his full strength, and the crimson phoenix flames burned fiercely, sweeping across the entire arena.
Facing the oncoming flames, Qin Yun's expression was calm and unhurried, neither dodging nor evading, as his internal martial soul quietly awakened.
He lifted his fingertips slightly, and the countless nitrogen elements permeating the air were instantly awakened by his soul power, gathering rapidly with him as the center and constructing a thick and dense Nitrogen Barrier in the blink of an eye.
He completely scooped the incoming phoenix flames right into it.
The violent flames charged back and forth inside the nitrogen layer, attempting to incinerate everything, yet nitrogen was naturally extremely inert, and no matter how high the temperature climbed, it failed to ignite this barrier by even a fraction.
Under the absolute suppression of inertia, it finally shriveled step by step, and within a mere three or five breaths, the phoenix flames turned into a wisp of blue smoke and dissipated.
Ma Hongjun widened his eyes. Was the evil fire he was so proud of actually pinched out just like that in such an offhand manner?
Before he could recover from his astonishment,
Qin Yun had already completed the precise ratio of a new round of elements.
Soul Power flowed between his fingertips, precisely blending the trace amounts of Fluorine and Phosphorus drifting in the air into a wisp of transparent, formless, odorless, and tasteless faint mist.
It showed no form and left no trace, quietly seeping in along the pores of Ma Hongjun's exposed skin, then flowing back upstream along the meridians to seal several key acupuncture points across his body to the exact inch, plugging up his Soul Power completely tight.
Ma Hongjun only felt a chill on his back, as if a few ice needles had pierced into his bone marrow, and immediately a wave of soreness and numbness spread through his limbs and bones, causing the circulation of his Soul Power to suddenly stall.
He stumbled forward half a step, fell heavily to the ground with a thump, and then face-planted straight into the dust, leaving only his heavy panting echoing across the empty martial practice arena.
From the challenge to the defeat, it was barely the time it takes to brew a cup of tea from start to finish.
A clean and crisp crushing defeat instantly shattered Ma Hongjun's arrogance.
Of course in private, Ma Hongjun could not help running his mouth.
Qin Yun had already known all about Ma Hongjun's little bit of verbal abuse like the back of his hand.
This fatty always had a loose mouth and bullied the soft while fearing the hard, so today's punishment could also be considered giving him a small lesson to make him learn and remember the experience.
The most important thing was that he wanted to find someone to test the toxins he had recently explored.
Listening to Ma Hongjun's exaggerated wailing,
Qin Yun glanced at him.
"Shut up."
Ma Hongjun, who had been clamoring endlessly just a moment ago, instantly quieted down and obediently closed his mouth.
He could only lie on the ground with a bitter face, silently enduring the bizarre numbness inside his body.
Right at this moment, a thin and tall figure walked over slowly.
Flender carried his hands behind his back, his gaze sweeping across the mess on the arena, first falling on Ma Hongjun as his brows twitched slightly.
Then his gaze turned toward Qin Yun, yet showed no sign of anger.
Strangely enough, ever since the day he brought this teenager back to the academy, Flender had faintly felt that Qin Yun was vastly different from youths of the same age.
Other youths with good talent would always show off a bit, either eager to reveal their prominence or indulge in the surprise of Martial Soul awakening;
Yet Qin Yun was not like that; he spoke little, his eyes were calm, and he did things with extreme method.
Flender had traveled the continent for many years and knew countless people, and he trusted his own judgment—this child never made a move without measuring the bounds.
Ma Hongjun was only poisoned and had not suffered heavy injuries.
Flender said, "The academy will have a new round of student recruitment tomorrow, Qin Yun, you will be responsible for the final round of the examination."
Qin Yun nodded and said, "Understood, Headmaster!"
Judging by the time, Tang San and the others should be arriving for this Shrek student recruitment.
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