Jade Phosphorous Absolute Poison, Sacred Dragon True Form (Part 1)

Ling Luochen only had time to raise her Ice Staff. A streak of golden sword energy flashed past, and a crack appeared at the center of the staff. Half a second later, the crack spread like a spiderweb. The Ice Staff shattered into tiny blue shards that scattered across both their faces and bodies.

Ling Luochen collapsed to the ground with a thud. Her cool, beautiful face stared blankly up at the angelic youth before her and the brilliant golden holy sword in his hand. Illuminated by the light shining from behind him, his expressionless face was breathtakingly handsome.

"Still want to fight?"

At that moment, a fierce wind swept in, whipping his red school uniform like a great banner. The dazzling radiance emanating from the youth, like the blazing sun, stung Ling Luochen's eyes, forcing her to turn her head away as she murmured:

"I surrender..."

"Thank you for your guidance, Senior Sister."

Ling Bai reached out and pulled Ling Luochen, who was questioning her entire life, up from the ground before turning and leaving.

"Ling Bai wins this match! Since a White Badge defeated a Yellow Badge across ranks, his Soul Arena points will be doubled!"

The referee announced the result.

"No... it's over already?"

The situation had reversed in the blink of an eye. Ling Luochen's Ice Sky Fury had made the audience think the battle was already over, yet before they could even finish a yawn, Ling Bai had made short work of her and instantly defeated her!

As they watched Ling Bai's retreating figure return to the Soul Arena resting area, the Inner Courtyard students in the stands fell into dead silence and began considering two questions.

Could I handle Ling Luochen, one of the current official Shrek Seven Monsters?

If it were me, how many moves could I last beneath that Six-Winged Angel sword?

Wu Ming was one of those deep in thought. After a while, she leaned close to Han Ruoruo and said with a complicated expression, "Sister Ruoruo, I'm breaking out in a cold sweat..."

"What, did Junior Brother get to you?"

Han Ruoruo was exceptionally perceptive and instantly got Wu Ming's thoughts.

"Alas..."

Even if she had ten thousand objections in her heart, Wu Ming could not lie to herself. Holding Han Ruoruo's arm, she said bitterly:

"Young people these days are terrifying. Ling Bai is still so young. By the time he's twenty, I feel that no one in Shrek Academy, including you and Eldest Senior Sister, will be his match. He'll make the entire Inner Courtyard unable to breathe!"

Wu Ming was grief-stricken. By then, this Inner Courtyard Living Volcano would probably turn into an extinct volcano. The moment she dared erupt, someone would come knocking with the Angel Holy Sword to put out the fire!

"That's not quite so exaggerated, is it..."

Han Ruoruo did not know whether to laugh or cry, though she understood Wu Ming's roller-coaster emotions at the moment.

A genius who had always looked down on everyone else had suddenly discovered that there was always a higher mountain. The vast disparity in the world was difficult for her to accept.

At this moment, every Inner Courtyard student in the Soul Arena was silent, except for one.

Chu Qingtian!

He grinned from ear to ear as he looked around, revealing a mouthful of dazzlingly white teeth. Don't ask why he was happy.

Think about it carefully. Even Inner Courtyard Senior Sister Ling Luochen had been beaten senseless by Ling Bai, so what did it matter that he had lost to Ling Bai yesterday!

What! Did! It! Matter!

"Student Ling Bai, please wait."

Just as Ling Bai was about to step into the exit passage, a voice suddenly rang out behind him.

The Soul Arena referee!

"What is it?" Ling Bai asked.

The referee held a soul tool screen and showed him the information displayed on it. "A student has issued you a Soul Arena challenge. Are you willing to accept?"

Ling Bai looked baffled. Someone was challenging a new Inner Courtyard student like him? This was absurd!

"The challenger is White Badge holder Du Gu Lin."

"Her?"

Ling Bai frowned slightly. The image of that alluring woman with emerald green short hair surfaced in his mind.

Du Gu Lin had personally witnessed him easily defeat Chu Qingtian and Ling Luochen, yet she still dared to issue a challenge?

Was she asking for a beating...

Or did she have something to rely on?

"I accept."

Others might fear the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, but the Six-Winged Angel did not. With Soul Arena points being delivered right to him, Ling Bai had no reason to refuse.

The referee nodded and announced loudly:

"The next Soul Arena match: White Badge holder Du Gu Lin challenges White Badge holder Ling Bai. Both students, please enter the arena!"

The stands erupted in uproar. White Badges meant freshmen, and freshmen were almost all at the Soul Ancestor level. After seeing a four-ringed Six-Winged Angel effortlessly handle a five-ringed Elemental Ice, they could not help admiring that unfamiliar student named Du Gu Lin!

What a fierce man!

"Du Gu Lin..."

High in the sky, Xuan Zi let out a long sigh. "The sole surviving descendant of the Du Gu family. If the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison had not affected her body, one of the Shrek Seven Monsters would certainly have been hers."

"Even the academy is powerless to do anything about her condition..."

Yan Shaozhe stood with his hands behind his back, his voice filled with regret. The trouble posed by Du Gu Lin's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison was no less than Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix Evil Fire!

From the opposing contestant's entrance passage came a graceful figure. Neither was in a hurry to begin. They stood at opposite ends of the Soul Arena, watching each other from afar. Du Gu Lin slightly raised her delicate chin and was the first to break the silence.

"Ling Bai, we meet again."

Her slender green fingers slid across her swan-like, smooth, beautiful neck. A seductive smile bloomed on Du Gu Lin's face. "Since it's a challenge, there should be some stakes. How about we make a bet?"

"No." Ling Bai refused decisively.

"Why?"

"Someone has bad intentions."

"You're no fun. At least listen to the stakes first!" Du Gu Lin said with a coquettish glare. Her enchanting body exuded endless allure. "If you win, I'm yours. If you lose, I'm still yours...

What do you say? Will you bet with me?"

Hearing that, it seemed as though three question marks had appeared above Ling Bai's head. "You're awfully kind. What difference does winning or losing make?"

"Of course there's a difference. It concerns which of us will be on top from now on."

"...Can you talk to me about something wholesome?"

"Fooling around and joking during the day, kissing, hugging, and lifting each other up at night. You don't like that?"

Du Gu Lin's soft, fragrant tongue licked her red lips. Her seductive manner caused many male students in the spectators' seats with weaker self-control to wear foolish expressions, their eyes turning into bouncing pink hearts.

Noticing the hormone levels around her rising sharply, Wu Ming furrowed her brows and turned to Chu Qingtian, asking bluntly:

"Hey, what's with this Du Gu Lin? I can tell she's no respectable woman!"

"Huh?"

Chu Qingtian's body jolted, like a poor student caught daydreaming in class after being called on by the teacher. He froze for a moment, then said:

"Du Gu Lin, Martial Soul: Jade Phosphorous Serpent. Soul Power Rank 49. She entered the Inner Courtyard this year along with Brother Ling and me."

"Rank 49? Then Ling Bai is guaranteed to win," Wu Ming said confidently.

She did not believe some little Jade Phosphorous Serpent Soul Ancestor could defeat a monster who had crushed Ling Luochen.

"Senior Sister, forgive me for being blunt, but Brother Ling may not have as great an advantage against Du Gu Lin as you imagine. If he is even slightly careless, he could lose." After hesitating for a long time, Chu Qingtian gritted his teeth and revealed the truth.

"Why?" Wu Ming asked curiously.

Han Ruoruo also turned an inquisitive gaze toward him. As the only unlucky fellow who had fought both Ling Bai and Du Gu Lin, Chu Qingtian's assessment held some reference value.

The process of fighting both monsters replayed repeatedly in his mind. Chu Qingtian licked his dry lips and explained:

"Du Gu Lin was indisputably the strongest in the Outer Courtyard. This year, six students entered the Inner Courtyard. Excluding Brother Bai, the four of us together were no match for Du Gu Lin. To her, dealing with one of us or all four made no difference."

Wu Ming said in shock, "As far as I remember, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent isn't an especially top-tier Martial Soul. How did she manage that?"

"The Jade Phosphorous Serpent is a highly poisonous Martial Soul. Could it be the poison?" Han Ruoruo guessed.

"Senior Sister Han is exactly right." Chu Qingtian gave a bitter smile. "Du Gu Lin is extraordinarily gifted in the path of poison. She is completely different from the control-type serpent poison style of her ancestors, Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. She developed another path herself! Her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison is far too potent, and besides...

Du Gu Lin is a lunatic!"

"Kissing, hugging, and lifting each other up?"

In the Soul Arena, Ling Bai slowly stepped forward and finally stopped thirty meters away from Du Gu Lin. The steel shadows cast by the Soul Arena dome, which restricted Martial Soul flight altitude, formed an impassable divide between him and the woman with emerald green short hair. Sunlight fell upon them separately from either side—one alluring as the warm sun, the other cold as frost.

His golden eyes were like frost-covered mirrors. Ling Bai looked at Du Gu Lin and said:

"Has no one ever told you that your perfume can no longer mask the fishy stench of serpent poison? Looking at your hair and eye color, I'm truly curious: what flows through your body now, blood or venom?"

Thirty meters away, Du Gu Lin silently lowered her head. The corners of her rosy thin lips curved into a faint arc, and her exquisite face instantly became filled with a sinister charm. In the next instant, an arrow of glowing purple venom shot violently toward Ling Bai!

Ling Bai dodged to the side. The venom grazed past his shoulder blade and struck the ground. Within mere seconds, the earth was corroded into a pit more than half a meter deep, releasing a nauseatingly fishy stench. Its edges resembled a gaping mouth, continuing to spread outward.

"This is a new uniform."

Ling Bai spoke to Du Gu Lin as though reproaching her. If even a drop of Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison got on his clothes, they would be ruined. Then he would have to waste money buying another uniform from the academy.

"If you walk out of the Soul Arena today with your clothes still intact, I swear I'll never have the surname Du Gu again!"

Du Gu Lin was naturally seductive. After releasing her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, her lower body transformed into a serpent tail, making her even more bewitching. Even while issuing a threat, her enchanting demeanor remained irresistible.

"Getting worked up?"

Ling Bai did not care. Du Gu Lin had been the one with improper thoughts about him first. He had merely stated the truth, yet she had completely lost it!

"Looks like you've guessed some things. Then I can't be bothered wasting any more effort seducing a hopelessly straight man like you!"

Du Gu Lin smiled faintly. Combined with the strange emerald green diamond-shaped pupils she had gained after Martial Soul Possession, she exuded an unusual allure. Her sharp fingertips turned inward and stabbed fiercely into her own chest!

Ling Bai's gaze sharpened. There was no chance Du Gu Lin would commit suicide. There was only one reason she would do this!

Her five fingers pulled free from her body, bringing out mottled blood that dripped down. As if she could not feel any pain, Du Gu Lin said:

"Ling Bai, let me teach you something.

Nothing in this world is more vicious than poison. Like extreme emotions such as wild joy, fear, rage, and despair, once poison enters the human body, it greatly excites the nerves and body. So, put another way, poison is... medicine!"

A horrifying layer of emerald green had already spread across Du Gu Lin's face!

"The effect of my Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison is to gain power beyond the limit! Are you ready?"

Self-Created Soul Skill: Poison to the Bone Marrow!

Effect: All attributes greatly increase!