If Yu Hongchen could truly let go and devote herself wholeheartedly to cultivation, her cultivation at nineteen would have reached at least Soul Douluo. Even if she fell short of Yun Ming, the gap would not have been too great.
It was as though heaven would not allow anyone capable of threatening Shrek Academy's position to appear.
Just like decades ago, when Pluto Douluo Ha Luosa had emerged out of nowhere. He had beaten the Sea God Pavilion Master of that time-Yun Ming's teacher, Elder Bei, the Heavenly Favored Douluo-until he could barely hold his own.
Yet within a few years, Yun Ming had grown into his strength. Without even reaching the ultimate level, he had beaten Ha Luosa so badly that he was scrabbling across the ground for his teeth.
Over thousands of years, such things had happened quite often.
A supreme powerhouse would suddenly emerge from a faction hostile to Shrek and defeat Shrek Academy's leading figure. Within a few years, an even greater genius would promptly spring up at Shrek Academy and defeat that powerhouse across the gap in their levels.
And a hundred years after this new Shrek genius defeated their opponent, even those whose talent the world considered no less than anyone else's would find their cultivation unable to advance an inch for all manner of reasons, or even perish.
In principle, the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad's poison could be recovered from by stopping cultivation and spending a great deal of time recuperating with spiritual treasures.
But it was as though heaven had played a joke on Yu Hongchen.
Yu Hongchen's talent was too great, so much so that the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad's ice and fire attributes had both reached the pseudo-ultimate level.
Precisely because of that, the poison produced by mixing these two