A Minute of Heartache for the Goddesses

The battle on the Soul Fighting stage continued, and Huo Wushuang proved worthy of being the captain of Blazing Fire Academy.

With the help of his second Soul Skill, his attacks struck with tremendous force. His level-thirty-six Soul Power let him sweep through the other Skywater Academy team members, who were all level thirty-one, as though no one stood in his way.

Watching her teammates suffer defeat one after another, Shui Bing'er had no choice but to use her second Soul Skill, Ice Ring Armor, once more. Only then did things become a little easier for them.

But because of Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu seemed to find Shui Bing'er somewhat unpleasant to look at.

How could I possibly be inferior to you?

And so Huo Wu made her move, facing Shui Bing'er head-on.

For a time, Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er were locked in a solo duel on the field.

Shui Bing'er naturally had no intention of going down so easily. Even while concealing her strength, she would use the abilities she did intend to show to their fullest.

The Ice Seal Soul Skill sealed Huo Wu in place, and scorching flames began to radiate from her body.

But Shui Bing'er's three Soul Skills were either for control or support; she couldn't attack her opponent directly. That meant everything depended on her teammates.

Yet her teammates were all level-thirty-one Soul Elders, and they were no match for the other Blazing Fire Academy members led by Huo Wushuang.

The battle lasted around ten minutes. Everyone on the Skywater Academy team suffered burns from the flames to one degree or another, and even Shui Bing'er's arm was accidentally injured when a small ball of flame struck her. Many spectators cried out in sympathy!

Shui Bing'er and her teammates had already given it their all. Seeing that they couldn't win and that there was no point in fighting on, she said, "We surrender!"

Hearing Shui Bing'er surrender, Huo Wu said somewhat arrogantly, "You should have surrendered long ago. Why get yourselves covered in injuries like this?"

Feng Xiaotian watched the Tianshui Girl Group members, each looking somewhat battered, and felt a minute of heartache for the goddesses.

But this also made Feng Xiaotian realize that this sure as hell wasn't the anime from his previous life.

The way the anime portrayed it, you couldn't see how brutal the battles really were or the injuries people suffered.

"Blazing Fire Academy wins the first match of the exchange competition! Thunderclap Academy and Elephant Armor Academy will compete after the time it takes an incense stick to burn."

The seven girls from Skywater Academy were quite united. They supported one another as they walked down from the Soul Fighting stage, and the Skywater Academy members below the stage all went forward to meet them.

Xue Wu said, "Captain, I told you I should have gone on. If Hairou and I had both fought, we definitely could have beaten them."

Shui Bing'er smiled. "It's all right. It's only an exchange competition. There was no need!"

"Teacher Shui Qing, come treat everyone, quickly," Shui Yue'er called.

Shui Yue'er was calling for the other teacher who had come from Skywater Academy, who had also been one of the referees just now.

Once the match ended, Shui Qing walked over to their team. When she arrived, she released her Martial Soul.

Her Martial Soul was a ball of clear water, though it was unclear exactly what Martial Soul it was. Her Soul Rings were two yellow and two purple. She was a Soul Ancestor, which was just enough to make her a teacher at an advanced Soul Master Academy!

Of the Five Elemental Academies, it was Skywater Academy's water attribute that had the most variations.

Water could turn to ice, so Skywater Academy could be considered an academy with two attributes.

In addition, some water-attribute Soul Masters had Martial Souls with healing properties and could develop into healing-type Soul Masters. This was something the lightning, fire, wind, and earth attributes could not do.

The woman before them, Shui Qing, was a healing-type Soul Ancestor. Perhaps that was also why Skywater Academy had insisted on bringing her.

Shui Qing released her third Soul Skill, and a small cloud appeared above the seven members of the Skywater Academy team. A fine rain began to fall, and when it landed on Shui Bing'er and the others, a pale blue glow appeared.

Their injured areas gradually began to heal. Before long, everyone's external injuries appeared to have recovered, and their skin was as smooth as before, though a closer look revealed a faint redness!

Shui Qing said, "Huo Wushuang's fire-attribute Soul Power has a fairly powerful explosive property. I can't treat that, so the injured areas may need a few more days to recover."

Qiu Ruoshui looked at her skin and said with a smile, "It's all right, as long as our skin recovers!"

The girls all nodded. They all cared about their looks, and as long as their beauty remained, that was enough.

Hearing their conversation, Feng Xiaotian smiled. Their injuries couldn't be completely healed, so wasn't this the perfect chance for him to spend on the goddesses?

He focused his thoughts and looked at the system panel, searching for how to spend on the goddesses and selecting what he needed.

Since he was going to help treat them, he would make sure they were properly healed. He had so many Simp Coins that he could never spend them all, and the more he spent, the more he would receive.

But this wasn't the best time to help treat them. He would have to wait until today's exchange competition was over!

Feng Xiaotian also checked the injured goddesses through the system.

Fortunately, all seven met the requirements for Ordinary Goddesses. Skywater Academy had brought eleven Ordinary Goddesses this time; aside from their teacher Shui Mingyu, ten of the students met the requirements.

And like them, Skywater Academy had brought twelve team members, which meant two of them did not meet the standard for an Ordinary Goddess.

Feng Xiaotian had also checked those two goddesses. One had a combined score of eighty-eight across her three measurements, while the other had eighty-nine, and both were only sixteen.

That meant they had yet to reach their peak. Once they did, perhaps they could meet the requirements for Ordinary Goddesses.

As it happened, all seven who had fought met the standard for Ordinary Goddesses.

If even one of the seven hadn't, he really would have had a hard time. If he treated six of them but left one out, what would people think of him?

But these Simp Coins had to be spent on genuine goddesses. If they weren't spent on goddesses, not only would they have no effect.

The system would also deduct an amount of Simp Coins equal to what he had spent.

That was equivalent to deducting from his own improvement, because the recipient wasn't a goddess!

Afterward, Feng He returned to the team, proving himself a good teacher.

He began explaining the course of the match between Blazing Fire and Skywater Academy, analyzing what they had done well and where they had made mistakes so everyone could learn.

Feng He was also worthy of his role as team leader. He had been a member of the Godwind Academy team more than twenty years ago.

His teaching was excellent, and even Feng Xiaotian benefited from listening to him.

The time it took an incense stick to burn was almost up!

Once again, Feng He served as a referee.

Thunder Academy versus Elephant Armor Academy looked like a match between ordinary academies.

But it could also be seen as a contest between two great sects, with one of the Lower Four Sects challenging one of the Upper Three Sects.

Elephant Armor Academy might have been calm when fighting other teams, but against Thunder Academy, they were extremely excited.

Because it was no big deal if they lost, but winning would bring them great prestige. They just had to give it everything they had!

For Thunder Academy, losing to others wasn't a big deal either. A loss was a loss, but they absolutely couldn't lose to Elephant Armor.

These were the two teams whose rivalry was fiercest among the Five Elemental Academies. Thus, in all the previous exchange competitions, matches between these two academies had been the most intense.

But just as the match was about to begin, a young man from Blazing Fire Academy jogged over to the Godwind Academy group.

"Captain Feng Xiaotian, Dean Huo Yan wants you to go back. He said your vice dean is looking for you."

Feng Xiaotian froze. Huo Yan had sent someone to tell him to go back and see Cheng Cheng?

That morning, he had felt that something was wrong with Cheng Cheng's health, and Cheng Cheng hadn't come to the exchange competition either. Could something have happened to Dean Cheng Cheng?