Martial Soul Periodic Table of Elements, Testing Toxicity on Ma Hongjun
Suotuo City, Shrek Academy!
On the dilapidated playground.
A chubby figure was curled up on the ground, his round face scrunched up, his forehead covered in a fine layer of sweat, and his whole body slightly numb.
He was none other than the talented student of Shrek Academy and the future Evil Fire Phoenix, Ma Hongjun.
At that moment, his entire body tingled and itched.
He raised his voice and wailed, his tone full of supplication.
"Yun-ge, I'm begging you!"
"Hurry up and cure this poison for me!"
"If this drags on any longer, this leg of mine is going to be completely ruined!"
"I was wrong, I'll never dare do it again!"
Not far in front of him stood a youth with an upright posture and a handsome visage.
The youth looked to be around fourteen or fifteen years of age, with delicate eyebrows and a clean demeanor.
A simple set of white fitted martial attire set off his neat and upright figure, and faint fluctuations of Soul Power lingered around his body.
The youth was named Qin Yun.
No one knew that he actually did not belong to this Douluo World at all.
He came from Blue Star, and in his past life, he was a chemistry major at a key university.
An accidental mishap 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, most of which were ordinary and unremarkable martial souls like sickles, hoes, and flowers and plants, and there was even no shortage of trash martial souls with zero cultivation value.
However, when it came to Qin Yun's turn, the atmosphere of the entire audience instantly froze.
An illusory chart wrapped all over in a glowing white micro-light, its surface engraved with dense, mysterious patterns, quietly hovered above his palm.
It turned out to be a complete periodic table encompassing one hundred and eighteen chemical elements of the world!
The Spirit Hall deacon present had never seen such a bizarre martial soul and had no idea about its specific abilities whatsoever.
Yet the vast and mysterious aura intangible emitted between them 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 Flender, the headmaster of Shrek Academy.
He was forcibly brought back to Shrek Academy.
Qin Yun at that time was young and tender, his body frail and weak.
In this Douluo World where the law of the jungle prevailed 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 passed in a hurried blur, flashing by in an instant.
Fairly speaking, Flender's teaching level was not considered top-tier, and could even be called 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, completely unable 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 reconcile little by little on his own.
Yet it was undeniable that the money-loving and short-tempered Flender treated him quite well.
He escorted his cultivation and helped him run around everywhere to find a suitable soul ring.
After eight years of dedicated and bitter cultivation, Qin Yun stepped by step thoroughly understood the foundational mysteries of the Periodic Table of Elements Martial Soul.
Just moments ago, his long-dormant Soul Power finally broke through the shackles once more, smoothly crossing the bottleneck and steadily stepping from the peak Level 39 Soul Elder into the realm of a Level 40 Soul Ancestor, welcoming a qualitative leap in his own strength.
As for Ma Hongjun, he naturally was also brought to the academy by Flender.
Upon first entering the academy, he held the top-grade beast martial soul Evil Fire Phoenix, and his temperament was arrogant and flamboyant.
At that time, he fancied himself invincible with a top-tier martial soul.
Seeing Qin Yun, who possessed a mild temperament and seemed to lack the slightest aggressiveness, his heart was full of contempt, and he provoked him publicly, uttering sarcastic remarks.
He felt that Qin Yun's martial soul was flashy and simply could not compare to his own Phoenix True Fire.
Ma Hongjun took the initiative to challenge him.
As soon as he struck, it was with full force, and the crimson Phoenix Flame burned fiercely, sweeping across the entire arena.
Facing the oncoming lie yan, Qin Yun's expression was calm and unhurried, neither dodging nor evading, and the martial soul within his body quietly awakened.
With a slight lift of his fingertips, 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 pouncing Phoenix Flame right into it.
The violent flames dashed left and right within the Nitrogen Barrier, attempting to incinerate everything, yet nitrogen was inherently extremely inert. No matter how high the temperature climbed, it could not ignite this barrier by even a fraction.
In the end, under the suppression of absolute inertness, it shrank back step by step, and within a mere three to five breaths, the Phoenix Flame turned into a wisp of blue smoke and dissipated.
Ma Hongjun's eyes widened in disbelief. Was the evil fire he took pride in actually extinguished so casually?
Yet before he could recover from his stupefaction,
Qin Yun had already completed the precise ratio of a new round of elements.
Soul Power flowed between his fingertips, precisely blending trace amounts of fluorine element and phosphorus element free in the air into a wisp of transparent, formless, odorless, and faint mist.
It did not manifest its form and left no trace, quietly seeping in along the pores of Ma Hongjun's exposed skin, then surging backward along his meridians to block several key acupoints all over his body within a split second, clogging his Soul Power tightly.
Ma Hongjun only felt a chill on his back, as if a few ice needles had pierced into his bone marrow, followed by a wave of soreness and numbness spreading through his limbs and bones, and the circulation of his Soul Power abruptly stagnated.
He staggered forward half a step, hitting the ground with a heavy thump as he fell to his knees, followed by plunging face-first into the dirt, leaving only heavy panting echoing across the empty drill ground.
From the challenge to defeat, it took no more than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.
A clean and neat suppression instantly shattered Ma Hongjun's arrogance.
Of course, in private, Ma Hongjun invariably mumbled incessantly.
Qin Yun had already known like the back of his hand about this bit of Ma Hongjun's revilement.
This fatty always had a sharp tongue and bullied the soft while fearing the hard; this punishment today could also be considered giving him a small lesson so he would learn to remember it.
Most importantly, he wanted to find someone to test out the poison he had most recently explored.
Listening to Ma Hongjun's exaggerated wailing,
Qin Yun glanced at him.
"Shut up."
Ma Hongjun, who had been chattering endlessly just a moment ago, instantly fell silent, obediently closing his mouth.
He could only pull a wry face as he lay flat on the ground, silently enduring the bizarre numbness inside his body.
Right at that moment, a thin and tall figure slowly walked over.
Flender walked with his hands clasped behind his back, his gaze sweeping over the mess on the ground and landing first on Ma Hongjun with a slight twitch of his brows.
Then his gaze turned toward Qin Yun, yet without revealing any trace of anger.
Strangely enough, ever since he brought this youth back to the academy that day, Flender had a vague feeling that Qin Yun was vastly different from his peers.
Other youths, possessing good talent, always wanted to be a bit flamboyant, either eager to make a name for themselves or indulging in the surprise of martial soul awakening;
Yet Qin Yun was not like that. He spoke little, his eyes were calm, and he handled matters with extreme method.
Flender had traveled across the continent for many years and knew countless people; he trusted his own insight—this child always measured his actions with propriety.
Ma Hongjun was merely poisoned and had not suffered severe injuries.
Flender said, "Tomorrow the academy will have a new round of student recruitment, Qin Yun, you will be in charge of the final round of assessments."
Qin Yun nodded and said, "Understood, Headmaster!"
Judging by the timing, Tang San and the others should be arriving for this Shrek recruitment.