The domain bore down on the Evil Soul Master like a towering mountain.
It was a fundamental suppression of both his Martial Soul and Soul Power.
The Evil Soul Master dropped to one knee, his forehead covered in beads of cold sweat.
What was with this kid? Why was the pressure he gave off stronger than a Soul Emperor's?
No, his Soul Power was clearly only at level ten-something!
Yu Tianheng was not in the habit of talking too much.
After all, according to the law, once someone talked too much, something was bound to go wrong.
Almost in an instant, Yu Tianheng was in front of the Evil Soul Master.
His hand, crackling with arcs of electricity and already beginning to resemble a dragon's claw, reached the Evil Soul Master.
Boom!
With an enormous bang, it was as though a thunderbolt had exploded in front of the Evil Soul Master.
The force of the explosion sent the latter flying.
His clothes and face had been burned beyond recognition.
He lay unconscious where he landed, completely still.
"Are you all right?"
Yu Tianheng withdrew his Martial Soul and the pressure of his domain, then looked at Ye Lingling.
Fortunately, he had happened to run into her today. Otherwise, with Ye Lingling's strength and Martial Soul,
her chances of survival would have been one in ten.
"I... I'm all right."
Ye Lingling answered with a stammer, as though waking from a dream.
It wasn't as if she had never seen Yu Tianheng fight before, but whether he was dealing with Shi Mo and the others or those upperclassmen,
none of it had been as astonishing as what she had just seen.
By comparison, it seemed that everything before had been nothing more than Yu Tianheng casually fooling around.
As the inheritor of the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul, Ye Lingling had learned about Martial Souls and Soul Power earlier than others her age.
A level ten-something crushing a level thirty-something was something that had never happened throughout history.
"Let's go back to the academy first. There's no telling whether there are more Evil Soul Masters around. Doing something like this near Heaven Dou Royal Academy-these Evil Soul Masters really don't care if they live or die."
Yu Tianheng shook his head and gestured for Ye Lingling to hurry along.
As for the half-dead fellow on the ground, a patrol would probably find him before long.
Hearing this, Ye Lingling hurried to her feet to follow Yu Tianheng.
But the Evil Soul Master had given her such a sudden fright just now that her legs were weak. Ye Lingling had never faced life and death before.
She nearly fell again.
Fortunately, Yu Tianheng was quick to react and reached out to steady her.
"Forget it. I'll carry you back."
Ye Lingling was slender, so carrying her took hardly any effort.
By the time she came to her senses, she was already on Yu Tianheng's back.
Ye Lingling usually treasured her words like gold and had never had contact with the opposite sex.
Two patches of red suddenly appeared on her cheeks.
Her heart silently began to beat faster.
In the still night, Ye Lingling could even hear the thump-thump of her heartbeat clearly.
Yu Tianheng moved quickly, and in just over ten minutes, the two of them were back at the academy.
It was late, so there were few people about.
Yu Tianheng simply took Ye Lingling straight to her dormitory building.
Under the cover of moonlight, he didn't notice anything unusual about her face.
"Go back and get some rest. Don't dwell on what happened. You'll definitely become stronger than that Evil Soul Master someday."
To keep today's incident from leaving a shadow on Ye Lingling's heart,
Yu Tianheng offered her a few words of comfort.
"Okay."
Watching Yu Tianheng walk away, Ye Lingling spoke a moment later, as though she had finally gathered her courage.
"Yu Tianheng, thank you."
"Lingling, why are you only getting back now?"
Dugu Yan asked from her bed, where she had been imagining her future life with Yu Tianheng.
At Ye Lingling's usual pace, she should have been back long ago.
"It's nothing. A lot of the shops had already closed, so I couldn't buy it."
Not wanting her friend to worry, Ye Lingling didn't tell her what had happened that night.
That night, both girls dreamed of the same person.
As the new students gradually adjusted to life at Heaven Dou Royal Academy,
Qin Ming selected several particularly gifted students and prepared to devote himself to training them personally.
After all, Heaven Dou Royal Academy also had quite a few students with lesser aptitude who had been sent there because of their families.
Even if they spent their whole lives cultivating, they could reach the Soul Ancestor realm at most.
For Qin Ming, that wasn't what he wanted.
He had only just become a teacher at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and given the education he had received at Shrek Academy,
he naturally wanted to achieve something.
Just like his own teacher.
Yu Tianheng, the two brothers Shi Mo and his brother, Yu Feng, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan were all among them.
Qin Ming adapted Shrek Academy's teaching methods and applied them to his students.
He even had a unique method for each of them.
Apart from team training, Yu Tianheng devoted all his time to improving his Soul Power.
During his only free time, at meals, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling would gather around him.
Compared with the clingy Dugu Yan,
Ye Lingling was more reserved.
But whenever she looked at Yu Tianheng, there was a faint smile in her eyes.
That had never happened before.
Six months before his eighth birthday, Yu Tianheng successfully reached level 20.
Shi Mo and the others, by contrast, were mostly still only at level 14 or 15.
Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Tianheng immediately prepared to go home.
He had waited a long time for this day.
It was all so he could take over the family and bring the system's abilities fully into play.
When Qin Ming saw Yu Tianheng's leave request, he didn't stand in his way.
He even escorted Yu Tianheng all the way back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan himself.
That way, there would be no chance of an accident befalling this favored son of heaven.
Only a year and a half had passed since Yu Tianheng entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
Seeing his grandson return, Yu Yuanzhen's smile nearly reached his ears.
"Heng'er, you're back! Did you miss Grandpa?"
"Grandpa, do you remember our agreement?"
Yu Tianheng's question caught Yu Yuanzhen off guard.
Then he understood, thinking Yu Tianheng had realized how difficult cultivation was.
He had made a special trip home to discuss extending the deadline with him.
Yu Yuanzhen stroked his beard and said,
"Of course I remember. But Grandpa can't agree to extend the deadline. What level are you now?"
At that, Yu Tianheng's lips curled up slightly. He used Martial Soul Possession, and the presence of level 20 Soul Power spread out.
The sight made Yu Yuanzhen's eyes go wide.
It wasn't that he had never considered the possibility of Yu Tianheng reaching level 20 within two years.
But it had only been a year and a half. Wasn't that a little too fast?
Moreover, both his hands could already undergo 100% Dragon Transformation during Martial Soul Possession.
Even he might not have managed that back in his day.
"Grandpa, what do you think? Can I take over the family now?"
Yu Tianheng's question pulled Yu Yuanzhen back to his senses.