Douluo Continent II: The Dragon Breaks the Nine Heavens

Chapter 130 Yan Laodeng was envious and greedy.

Xie Huanyue quickly completed the assessment.

As the person with the highest cultivation level in Class Two, Xie Huanyue's soul power cultivation level has increased from level 31 during the freshman assessment to level 34 in one year, an average of one level every three months over nine months.

This speed is already very fast; it's within the normal range for a genius's soul power enhancement speed.

Beibei is in fourth grade and is only at level 37. Tang Ya is in fourth grade and has just broken through to the third ring. Xie Huanyue will be able to break through to the Soul Master level by fourth grade.

The improvement in soul power level doesn't mean that Xie Huanyue improved faster or that he was more talented than Bei Bei. It's just that Bei Bei spent more time building a solid foundation.

But this is enough to prove Xie Huanyue's talent.

For the assessment, he also chose a thousand-year-old soul beast, a Shadow Leopard of the agility-attack type. It was extremely fast, even faster than a normal agility-attack type Soul Master. Xie Huanyue relied on his powerful defense to exhaust most of its stamina before successfully defeating it.

After all, leopards, whether they are Soul Masters or Soul Beasts, are the kind of creatures that are fast but also quick to die.

In the end, Xie Huanyue's assessment score was 125 points. The judge's evaluation was that he was good at defense but not good at offense. He only chose to take the attack and missed many opportunities to counterattack, which gave Ji Ying Mo Bao a serious injury and caused him to suffer many injuries for no reason.

Yes, Xie Huanyue's defenses were breached by Ji Ying Mobao. Although the wounds were not deep, there were many of them, and the wounds were dripping with blood.

The smell of blood is extremely noticeable in the Soul Beast Forest, just like sharks in the ocean can smell blood from a great distance. Soul beasts are also attracted by the smell of blood.

Being injured in the Soul Beast Forest could easily attract an attack from the Soul Beasts. In addition, Xie Huanyue wasted a lot of time, resulting in a deduction of 25 points from her skill score.

Xie Huanyue then realized just how difficult it was to get a perfect score.

The next test was for the students of Class One. Xiao Xiao stepped forward without hesitation and also chose a thousand-year-old soul beast.

It must be said that the evolved Nine Dragon Cauldron is very powerful. Xiao Xiao's opponent is an ice-type wolf-like soul beast, which is a strong attack type and is also fast. Its weakness is that its defense is very low.

Xiao Xiao first divided the Nine Dragon Cauldron into nine parts, and used the fire-resistant rings formed by the swaying of the cauldrons to play with the ice wolf like a push-and-pull game, bouncing it around in the angles formed by the nine cauldrons until it was dizzy and disoriented.

Then, they found the Ice Wolf's weakness, used the Cauldron Seal to control it, and finally used the Cauldron Tremor to completely defeat it.

The battle was incredibly smooth and captivating. Even after the battle ended, Xiao Xiao still had 40% of her soul power, enough to protect herself.

Xiao Xiao's assessment process was almost impeccable in terms of both combat ability and timing. Even Yan Shaozhe could not find fault with her, thus creating a second student who received a perfect score.

"Brother Yun, how did he perform?" Xiao Xiao winked playfully at Lin Yun after returning to the class's line.

"Great job, as expected of my Xiao Xiao!" Lin Yun did not disappoint the girl, praising her with a smile.

"My Xiao Xiao..." Xiao Xiao blushed, feeling a little shy but mostly joyful.

The words are divided into two parts.

A group of people in the queue watched Lin Yun and Xiao Xiao show their affection. Even Mu Jin didn't bring up the ridiculous rule that "outer academy students are not allowed to date" to spoil the mood. Yan Shaozhe on the other side was completely dumbfounded.

Yan Shaozhe remembered Xiao Xiao; she was on the same team as Lin Yun during the freshman assessment, and he had even watched their match. Back then, Xiao Xiao's martial soul was the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, not the Nine Dragons Cauldron she possessed now.

With Yan Shaozhe's seasoned eye, he could quickly tell that Xiao Xiao's martial soul had become much stronger, far surpassing the strength of the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, and had even reached the boundary of a super martial soul.

Since there has been no specific testing, Yan Shaozhe can only give the evaluation that it is close to a super martial soul. If he were to test it seriously, Xiao Xiao's martial soul would only be more powerful.

So, here's the question.

What could possibly cause a person's martial soul to undergo such a leap in development, evolving from an ordinary top-tier martial soul to one that is now close to a super martial soul?

A spirit is an innate ability of a spirit master, which is basically impossible to change throughout their life.

Perhaps some people can change their martial soul and mutate it for a better way after absorbing a high-quality soul ring, but Xiao Xiao's third soul ring is clearly not a particularly powerful soul beast soul ring.

Because the spirit rings lack the oppressive bloodline aura of powerful spirit beasts!

Like Lin Yun, all of his spirit rings are top-grade: Berserker Behemoth, Titan Snow Demon, Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, and Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Even excluding his Golden Dragon King Martial Soul and the age of his spirit rings, his spirit rings themselves still carry a strong aura. It's just that these spirit beasts are not as good as his own Golden Dragon King bloodline, so they are overshadowed by the greater power.

But this power has always existed, and any seasoned expert can see it.

But Xiao Xiao didn't!

This means that her martial soul was not mutated by the soul ring, but rather due to a different reason!

In addition, her soul power level increased by leaps and bounds...

Yan Shaozhe felt his heart was about to jump out of his throat, his mouth was dry, and he was dizzy.

A magical herb...?!

Besides immortal herbs, what else can drastically change a Soul Master's Martial Soul, even making their appearance more perfect and their Soul Power level advance by leaps and bounds?

As the dean of Shrek Academy and a once-famous genius on the continent, Yan Shaozhe had naturally experienced the continent. He was very proud of himself and believed that he was no worse than anyone else. He even thought about searching for the traces of immortal herbs so that he would have the capital to become a god.

Having grown up listening to stories of the Seven Monsters, how could he not have such thoughts?

But the truth is, no matter how hard Yan Shaozhe tried, he couldn't find those divine objects from the ancient books. And yet, these divine objects appeared before his eyes in this way.

Yan Shaozhe felt like he was going crazy.

His mental state, which had lasted for over a hundred years, was almost shattered, and the fluctuations of his soul power became somewhat unstable.

"No, that's not right. That little girl couldn't possibly have had this opportunity, nor could it have been given to her by her family. Otherwise, she would have taken it long ago; she wouldn't have waited until now."

"So it's... Lin Yun?"

Yan Shaozhe's mind raced, and he quickly locked his attention on a name, turning to look at the most eye-catching person in the crowd.

Although it was just a guess, Yan Shaozhe was sure he was right; Lin Yun definitely possessed the immortal herb!

The seed of greed thus took root and sprouted deep within the heart.

(End of this chapter)