Revelation

Looking at the ravaged ground nearby, where the rain of ice swords had struck, Shui Xinrou nodded.

"In terms of speed, power, and penetrating force overall, the ice swords may still fall a little short of a Soul King-level area-attack Soul Skill, but you're only a level 26 Soul Grandmaster. To launch an attack on such a scale at your level, no defense-type Soul Master below level 40 could possibly withstand it."

I really have taught a monster of a student. No, he was a monstrous genius to begin with.

After marveling a little longer, she seemed to suddenly recall something. "Huh? You just said a dragon claw also appeared on your right hand? That's Dragon Transformation. As far as I know, after Martial Soul Possession, an outward Dragon Transformation is a trait unique to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, one of the Upper Three Sects and known as the strongest Beast Martial Soul on the continent. It seems I was right. Although I had doubts about your name from the start, your Martial Soul was a dragon, but not the lightning-attribute Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, so I thought your name was only a coincidence. After all, a Martial Soul is the clearest indication. Perhaps, like Bing'er, you had undergone Martial Soul Mutation. But considering your Martial Soul's Dragon Transformation, I can say for certain now. Tianshuang, you're from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, aren't you?"

Though Shui Xinrou had phrased it as a question, her tone was certain. Yu Tianshuang pondered for a moment before slowly saying, "Yes, teacher, I am from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. But I didn't live in the sect as a child. I grew up in Hagen-Dazs City with the grandfather my parents entrusted me to, and my other Martial Soul was inherited from my mother."

"A top-tier ice-attribute Tool Martial Soul? I've truly never heard of one. But there is a sword that is also a top-tier Tool Martial Soul on the continent, one that can rival the Clear Sky Hammer: the Seven Kill Sword. Your sword looks extraordinarily like it. Don't tell me your Sword Martial Soul is also a mutation?"

"Teacher, it really is. My sword mutated from the Seven Kill Sword."

The Seven Kill Sword, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon...

Shui Xinrou propped her rounded, jade-like chin on her delicate hand and murmured to herself. Then, as though recalling something, she raised her gentle face toward Yu Tianshuang and said, "Eight years ago, Jian Suxin, the Slaughter Sect's inheritor, and Yu Xiaoruan, a direct descendant of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, mysteriously vanished without a trace. Not long afterward, Yu Luomian of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan announced that Yu Xiaoruan had been expelled from the sect and struck from its rolls.

"Sword Douluo, Sword Chen Xin, now of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, fought Spirit Hall's Porcupinefish Douluo outside Spirit City, and was later injured by Qian Daoliu, the grand priest of Spirit Hall's Worship Hall. Fortunately, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, another priest elder of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, arrived, and the two joined forces to leave Spirit City."

"I think Yu Xiaoruan and Jian Suxin are your birth parents, aren't they?"

Grandfather expelled Dad from the sect and struck him from its rolls. I suppose he didn't want Father to involve the sect. I really didn't expect my maternal grandfather to go to Spirit Hall alone to cause trouble. That was beyond my expectations.

"Teacher, you're right. My parents are indeed Yu Xiaoruan and Jian Suxin. As for what happened to them, I'll get to the bottom of it one day."

"You must make yourself stronger. Only when you're strong will you be able to do those things, so for now, you must bury this matter deep in your heart."

Yu Tianshuang clenched his fists and looked toward Spirit Hall in the distance, his eyes flashing.

"I will."

After returning to Skywater Academy, Yu Tianshuang saw the familiar surroundings and the bevy of girls who passed by from time to time, chattering, laughing, and playing. The heaviness he had felt along the way eased considerably.

Sensing the change in the boy beside her, Shui Xinrou spoke in her uniquely gentle voice.

"Go to the Mimicry Training Ground. They should all be there at this hour."

"Third Soul Skill, Freezing Ray."

From afar, they saw an Ice Phoenix soaring through the sky with its wings spread, spraying an ice-blue beam of light down at the ground.

"Second Soul Skill, Dolphin Charge."

A pure white dolphin rode the waves straight toward Shui Yue'er below the Ice Phoenix.

"Naive. First Soul Skill, Ice Seal."

The two had just reached the entrance when they saw Shui Yue'er standing before Shui Bing'er, transformed into an ice sculpture.

Sensing their arrival, everyone's faces lit up, and they came over to Shui Xinrou and Yu Tianshuang.

"Teacher, you're back."

"Little fellow, you've broken through to Soul Grandmaster! Have a fight with big sister in a bit."

"He's only a Soul Grandmaster who just broke through. Wouldn't he still end up frozen into an ice block by me? Hmph."

"Hey, hey, let me out! I missed Auntie too!"

Looking at the people by the entrance, Shui Yue'er shouted from inside the ice.

Shui Bing'er waved her hand and released her from the ice. Watching Shui Yue'er run over as soon as she could move again, Xue Wu teased, "I don't think it was Dean Shui you missed. You missed a certain someone, didn't you?"

Her intentions exposed, Shui Yue'er's pretty face reddened. She lowered her head and said quietly, "Nonsense. Who would miss this blockhead? He's like a sealed gourd every day."

After speaking, she raised her head and stole a glance at Yu Tianshuang, then quickly turned back to Shui Xinrou.

"Yue'er, did I say it was Tianshuang? Haha~"

"Oh, I'm not talking to you anymore."

"All right, Tianshuang has broken through to Soul Grandmaster too. Bing'er, Xue Wu, you two spar with Tianshuang in a bit, so you can get familiar with one another's new abilities."

Shui Bing'er's sapphire-like eyes widened, and she said in disbelief, "Xue Wu and I are both sparring with him?"

"Yes."

Hearing the firm answer, which did not sound like a joke, Shui Bing'er lowered her pretty face and silently walked into the arena.

He's only just broken through to Soul Grandmaster, yet Auntie is so confident in him that she thinks he can take on both Xue Wu and me, two Soul Elders, at once.

"Sit enthroned in the frosty heavens." Yu Tianshuang completed his Martial Soul Possession in an instant and said to the two of them, "Martial Soul: Frost Dragon. Level 26 Power Attack System Battle Soul Master. Please advise."