Blazing Fire Academy

Time flew like a shuttle. Two years passed.

Through ceaseless cultivation, Xiao Yan finally reached rank twenty in Soul Power.

It was time for him to hunt a Soul Beast and obtain a Soul Ring to advance.

Over those two years, Xiao Yan returned to Holy Soul Village every school holiday. Since Tang Hao had already left the village, he always stayed at Old Jack's home and told the kindhearted village chief about his studies at the academy.

Old Jack was delighted to learn that their village had produced a Soul Master.

During this period, Xiao Wu also accompanied Tang San back to Holy Soul Village. Their relationship grew much closer as a result, and, unsurprisingly, they had already become something like a pair of sweethearts.

Although there was some distance between Tang San and Xiao Yan, they had not reached the point of a complete falling-out. They still greeted each other when they met. Xiao Wu, however, always looked as though her anger had yet to fade whenever she saw Xiao Yan, her eyes filled mostly with loathing.

Was all this really necessary just because Xiao Yan had eaten a few of her descendants?

Whenever Xiao Wu gave him that sour look, Xiao Yan merely laughed it off. Yet the idea of making a serving of Spicy Rabbit Head would suddenly spring into his mind.

"Damn it, all I did was eat a few wild rabbits! What's with giving me dirty looks day after day? You're far too spoiled! Am I supposed to stop eating rabbits just because your Martial Soul is a rabbit? Keep pissing me off, and one day I'll turn you into Spicy Rabbit Head too." Sitting in a carriage bound for the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Yan lifted the window curtain and gazed back toward Nuoding Academy. Xiao Wu's face, practically begging for a beating, surfaced in his mind as he grumbled.

Xiao Yan's Martial Soul, emperor flame, was rather unusual. Unlike other people, he could obtain Soul Rings and advance either by devouring heavenly flames or by hunting Soul Beasts.

Since he had not uncovered any clues to the whereabouts of heavenly flames over the past two years, all he wanted now was to find a fire-attribute Soul Beast and obtain a Soul Ring to advance. Of course, if he could find heavenly flames on this trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, nothing could be better.

The journey was quite long, so Xiao Yan had hired a carriage.

Immersed in cultivation, he found that time passed quickly. On the afternoon of the seventh day, the carriage arrived at a small town outside the Star Dou Great Forest.

Night fell. Seeing that he could not reach his destination that day, Xiao Yan instructed the coachman to stop and rest, planning to enter the Star Dou Great Forest the next day.

After entering the town, Xiao Yan discovered that it was much livelier than he had imagined. It was three times the size of Nuoding Academy, and apart from its lack of city walls, it was almost indistinguishable from a small city.

Shops lined the streets, selling all manner of goods.

After taking a closer look, Xiao Yan noticed that almost everything sold in these shops had something to do with hunting Soul Beasts, such as armor, weapons, poisons, and recovery potions.

He came to an inn and walked straight inside.

At that moment, roughly sixty to seventy percent of its seats were occupied.

Xiao Yan found a secluded spot and sat down. Just as he was about to order, he noticed two more carriages suddenly arriving outside.

Seven boys and girls dressed in gold and red jumped down from the two carriages one after another.

The moment the group entered the inn, the people around them turned to look, surprise appearing on their faces. "They look like people from Blazing Fire Academy."

"Among the Five Elements Academy schools, the girls at Skywater Academy are still the prettiest. Every one of them is a fresh, dewy beauty. Blazing Fire Academy only has one girl."

"I hear that girl's a tigress, too."

"..." Everyone continued chattering.

The seven students from Blazing Fire Academy all looked about the same age, somewhere in their teens. The one leading them was of average build and had quite ordinary features, but a blazing light shone in his eyes.

He was Huo Wushuang, captain of Blazing Fire Academy's team. His Martial Soul was a fire dragon, somewhat similar to Liu Erlong's. Liu Erlong's fire dragon leaned toward yin fire, while Huo Wushuang's was a one-horned fire tyrannosaur, following the path of explosive pure yang.

The student behind Huo Wushuang had a fire leopard as his Martial Soul. Behind him were two students with cold expressions and nearly identical faces. They were twins, one named Huo Yun and the other Huo Yu, and their Martial Souls were fire cranes.

The last three were two boys and a girl. The two male Soul Masters were extremely tall and powerfully built, with fierce-looking faces. Their Martial Souls were fire stars, a type of support-oriented fire-attribute Martial Soul.

The last girl was the only female student in the Blazing Fire Academy group. Her name was Huo Wu, and she was exceptionally beautiful. Her dark red hair fell in large waves all the way to her waist. She had fair skin, delicate features, and eyes that flickered with a faint fiery glow.

The gold-and-red team uniform complemented her perfectly. Together with her long, dark red hair, it made her as eye-catching as a blaze. She was tall and exquisitely proportioned, with a faint layer of red light faintly emanating around her body.

Her Martial Soul was extremely unusual: a shadow modeled after her own body, called flame shadow. She could bring the fire element into play to the fullest extent. After Martial Soul Possession, a faint orange-red glow gradually appeared behind her, along with a shadow identical to her own form.

Such a rich fire-attribute aura. Xiao Yan swept his gaze over the seven of them and paused slightly, marveling inwardly.

As Huo Wu's gaze wandered, it suddenly landed on Xiao Yan off to the side. She could not help pausing for a moment before giving him a friendly smile. She seemed to have a vague sense that the boy before her was somehow different.

Yet she could not say exactly what was different about him.

Could this boy cultivate a fire-attribute Martial Soul too? Huo Wu turned back, wondering inwardly as she continued following her teammates farther into the inn.

Huo Wu's brief smile at Xiao Yan happened to catch the eye of her older brother, Huo Wushuang. He asked in puzzlement:

"Sis, why are you being so friendly to him? That's not like you."

"Hehe, I just feel there's something different about him, Brother. He seems to have an even richer fire-attribute aura than our Martial Souls. But I'm not sure. Maybe I imagined it." Huo Wu smiled and spoke casually.

Hearing this, Huo Wushuang shook his head helplessly and continued leading his teammates farther into the inn. They, too, planned to rest for the night and enter the Star Dou Great Forest the next day.

Through his research, Xiao Yan had discovered that to find a fire-attribute Soul Beast, he would first need to pass through the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and reach a desert region in its western portion.

Only in a desert, where the blazing sun beat down all year and fire-attribute energy was abundant, could fire-attribute Soul Beasts with decent cultivation emerge.

This desert also lay within the bounds of the Star Dou Great Forest. However, it stood at the western edge, in a subtropical high-pressure zone with little rainfall. Its location deep inland also made it difficult for water vapor to reach, and so the forest had turned into a desert.

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