"And furthermore..."
Du Weilun narrowed his eyes slightly, sweeping his gaze over the young Soul Elders in the ranks who were visibly itching to challenge Soul Beasts of greater ages. The warning in his eyes was unmistakable.
"Soul Beasts over two thousand years old already exceed the limits of what the vast majority of Soul Elders can handle. You youngsters had better act within your abilities."
"Although the teachers have plenty of experience protecting students like you, if you underestimate your opponent and carelessly expose a fatal weak point directly to a Soul Beast's jaws, injury or disability is by no means impossible."
Those words immediately dampened quite a few of the young students' enthusiasm.
Xiao Xiao raised her hand and chose to challenge a Soul Beast that had only just reached the thousand-year level.
Clearly, she was among the handful who had intended to fight an older Soul Beast. She had originally only planned to try one around eleven or twelve hundred years old.
Who could have expected the Soul Beasts Du Weilun offered to jump in age by at least five hundred years at a time? Thus, Xiao Xiao, who had not even become a Soul Elder, behaved herself and chose a Soul Beast that had only just reached a thousand years.
Still, it had to be said that, although Xiao Xiao's decision to attach a Soul Ring to her Second Martial Soul so early was a little... dim-witted, it did have its benefits.
Upon stepping onto the beast-fighting platform, Xiao Xiao faced a thousand-year Red Fire Monkey. Of her two tool Martial Souls, one controlled the field and slowed her opponent while the other pursued it with relentless attacks. Alternating between several Soul Skills, she was like a mobile artillery battery, beating the Blazing Fire Monkey until