Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is the Ten Ferocious Heavenly Horned Ant

"Make way, make way, the elder is coming."

Suddenly, a shout rang out from outside the crowd, and a small path was quickly cleared. In the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, the elders on each floor held the highest status.

Anyone who offends them here will definitely suffer the consequences. They can easily use their positions to trip you up and leave you in tears.

At this time.

As the crowd parted, a simply dressed, kind-faced old man walked over, his smiling gaze lingering on Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning, who were frozen in place.

A while passed.

The old man laughed and said, "These two are really ignorant little brats. They didn't even report their strength to the elders before entering the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower. They've suffered a bit unjustly."

He was only halfway through his sentence.

The old man shook his head, stroked his chin, and continued, "You are only at the Dou Shi level. You should be cultivating on the second level. Why did you rush to the fourth level all at once? This is a place that only Dou Ling level cultivators can set foot in."

That's all.

The old man slowly stepped forward, placed his hands on Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning's heads, and began to use his powerful Dou Qi to dispel the nameless inner fire within their bodies.

"Wow, what a powerful physique! It's almost comparable to that of the Little Demoness!" The old man's Dou Qi had just probed into Xiao Yan's body when he discovered a physique comparable to a Dou Huang demon beast.

However, he wasn't surprised. Canaan Academy was never short of geniuses. Although Xiao Yan's physical body was powerful, it was still slightly weaker than that of the little demon girl.

"Hilarious! Every year there are reckless freshmen who can't wait to enter the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower. They don't care about their strength and just rush down. They deserve this suffering..."

"Indeed, there's an interesting scene like this every year."

"They were all in a hurry, as if if they were a step too slow, someone would take their place."

Some gloating laughter erupted from the crowd. Although the cultivation speed inside the tower was quite fast, it was still somewhat tedious. Now that a newcomer had come in and provided some entertainment, the senior students were naturally happy to see it.

Just as everyone was laughing at Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning, the two brothers...

“New students entering the inner courtyard for the first time are naturally unfamiliar with the rules here. What’s so funny? You’re laughing now, but weren’t you the ones being laughed at back then?”

A soft, cool voice suddenly rang out, and everyone looked in the direction of the voice. They saw a young woman in a silver dress standing not far away.

The woman was tall and slender, with a slightly thin face, but she was a rare beauty with fair skin and exquisite features.

What surprised people the most was that the woman's waist-length hair was a rare silver color, which matched her silver dress.

Such a combination.

This woman exuded an aloof and unapproachable aura, giving people the feeling that she was someone to be admired from afar but not to be trifled with.

just.

When everyone's eyes fell on the woman in the silver dress, a hint of the usual male admiration for a beautiful woman flashed in their eyes. However, behind that admiration, there was also a deep fear in the depths of their pupils.

It was around this time.

As soon as the woman in the silver dress spoke, the gloating laughter immediately disappeared. Many of the older students, whose sore spots had been touched, were muttering things that others couldn't understand.

This can be seen.

This woman in the silver dress must have considerable prestige and strength within the inner courtyard; otherwise, in a place where strength reigns supreme, mere beauty would not be enough to instill fear in others.

"So it's Yueya who's here. I didn't even see her. These are a bunch of idle idiots who are happy to see freshmen suffer. What's the point of talking to them?"

Upon hearing the voice, the old man looked up at the woman in the silver dress and muttered a curse about those idle upperclassmen who only knew how to seek validation from the freshmen.

"Elder."

As for this kind-faced old man...

The woman in the silver dress did not remain indifferent; a faint smile, like a fleeting ephemera, appeared on her face, causing the surrounding students to be slightly mesmerized by it.

"Little Yue, which level of cultivation do you plan to enter this time?" The old man glanced at Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning, who were stiff all over, and then asked the woman in the silver dress with a smile.

And it's quite obvious.

The old man's attitude towards the woman in the silver dress was noticeably kinder than towards the other students.

"The fifth floor, I suppose."

The woman in the silver dress hesitated slightly; she herself had only just entered this realm.

"The fifth level? You need at least the cultivation level of a Dou Wang to go down there to cultivate. Could it be that Senior Sister Han Yue has already reached that level?"

The woman in the silver dress's reply immediately caused a stir among the surrounding crowd, who couldn't believe that she was already a Battle King.

"Five floors?"

The old man was slightly surprised by the woman in the silver dress's answer. His aged, cloudy pupils slowly swept over her, as if he were probing her strength.

After a while.

The old man sighed softly, "It seems that in a few years, Yue'er, you will be qualified to run for an elder position in the inner courtyard. Such talent and speed in cultivation are truly astonishing."

"Elder, you flatter me. It's all thanks to the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower. If I were to cultivate alone, I'm afraid I would only be at the Dou Ling level by now."

The woman in the silver dress shook her head knowingly, then turned her gaze to Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning, whose bodies were stiff.

"Elder, let's get these two out of the scorching heart fire first. Being scorched by the heart fire for too long will cause considerable damage to their bodies," the woman in the silver dress said calmly.

Upon hearing this...

The old man shook his head and smiled, "Wait a minute, no rush. I have already taken action to dissipate most of their inner fire, leaving only the second level of intensity. The inner fire will not damage their foundation."

Speaking of it.

The old man asked curiously, "Little Yue, when you first entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower to cultivate, how long did you endure the scorching heat of the heart fire?"

Regarding this issue...

The woman in the silver dress frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and said, "Seventeen minutes, and that was only because someone woke me up before I entered the tower; otherwise, I could have lasted longer."

She is confident.

If someone hadn't woken her up, she could definitely have lasted for more than thirty minutes.

"Seventeen minutes, that's pretty good."

The old man nodded slightly and continued, "One can actually judge a person's potential upon entering the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower for the first time. Under the scorching heat of the Heart Flame for the first time, almost all the new students do not know what to do to dissipate the inexplicably emerging Heart Flame."

"Therefore, the longer one can endure the scorching heat of the heart fire, the stronger one's resistance to the heart fire becomes, which is of great benefit to future studies in the tower."

"Of course, nothing is absolute. This testing method isn't absolutely precise, but it can be used as a rough estimate..."

Before he could finish speaking...

The old man looked at Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning again, stroked his beard, and sighed, "These two seem to have lasted for almost three minutes now, right? Hmm, that's not bad."

"Elder, do you want to test their limits?" the woman in the silver dress asked.

"Well, if the old man's guess is correct, the handsome young man on the left should be Xiao Yan, who has been making a name for himself in the outer courtyard."

"He led this year's freshmen to defeat all the senior students, including the Black and White Fiends, in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition. We old guys often talk about him."

The old man glanced at Xiao Yan, his tone full of admiration.

"Xiao Yan? A clansman of Dong Qing, that unscrupulous instructor from the outer courtyard?"

The woman in the silver dress, with a cold expression, had a flash of anger in her beautiful eyes.

"An unscrupulous mentor?" The old man was taken aback.

He had naturally heard of Dong Qing, but he was quite popular. Whenever they met, Dong Qing would give him a handful of pills. This old man had also received several bottles of life-saving pills from Dong Qing.

"Isn't that right? He doesn't care about anything, does nothing, and just hangs his name on the college's website. I don't know why the college would allow such an unscrupulous tutor to hang his name on the college's website."

The woman in the silver dress spoke with great indignation, revealing her deep resentment towards Dong Qing, her nominal mentor, whom she even labeled as unscrupulous.

"Mentor Dongqing is alright, he's kind and charitable," the old man said gently.

"Another elder he bribed with pills." The woman in the silver dress gritted her teeth.

She longed for someone to agree with her, even just to join her in cursing Dong Qing, but these people, having accepted Dong Qing's pills, refused to utter a single curse word.

What a bunch of spineless cowards!

"Uh, cough cough! Well, Yue'er, if you need anything, go cultivate on the fifth floor. I can manage here." The old man coughed a few times.

He was bound by the principle of "he who eats another's food is bound to him, he who takes another's money is bound to him," and having received a considerable amount of pills from Dong Qing, he simply couldn't bring himself to speak ill of Dong Qing behind his back. He wouldn't be so ungrateful as to do so.

As for why the academy allows a nominal instructor like Dong Qing who does nothing to exist, we have to mention how he used pills to feed that little vixen in the inner courtyard until her belly was round and chubby every day.

seriously.

The old man sometimes felt sorry for her, wondering how many pills this little vixen had wasted. She treated pills like food; he had certainly seen his share of the world.

"Elder, it's alright. I also want to see how long these new students, who haven't even entered the inner courtyard yet but already have quite a reputation, can last. Will they not even be able to last five minutes?"

The woman in the silver dress shook her head slightly, her cool eyes sweeping over Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning.

She wanted to see just how talented and potentialy the people who followed that despicable man really were.

Chapter 858, You're Not Allowed to Lie to Me!

Fifteen minutes later.

"Indeed excellent..."

The old man casually tugged at his beard, then nodded with a smile, a hint of admiration in his eyes.

Time continued to pass.

At the sixteen-minute mark, Xiao Ning's body began to tremble slightly. Seeing this, the surrounding students knew that Xiao Ning was probably about to reach his limit.

Upon seeing Xiao Ning's reaction, the old man suddenly stretched out his withered right hand, which resembled an eagle's claw, and aimed it at Xiao Ning, whose body was already trembling slightly.

A few breaths later.

On the old man's fingertips, wisps of invisible flame slowly emerged, condensing at his fingertips and finally forming a small, constantly rotating fire vortex.

He flicked his finger lightly at the swirling fire, and the fire quickly left his hand, finally hovering about a foot away from Xiao Ning's heart.

"Come out!" the old man called out softly.

The invisible and colorless vortex of fire spun rapidly, emanating a powerful suction force.

At last.

Within this invisible suction force, an unseen and intangible flame was forcibly pulled from Xiao Ning's heart and finally sucked into the invisible vortex of fire, slowly assimilating into nothingness.